Posted under Immigration
See the sad spectacle here.
Cain said “it is not amnesty”
Umm … Yes it is.
I consider that Marco Rubio got it right.
Yeah, if your plan is to make the Republican Party demographically uncompetitive on the national level even sooner.
Here is proof Cain wasn’t always such a chump.
Hat tip to the Dustin Inman Society.
Posted under Immigration
Roundup of Criticism of Obama-Rubio Amnesty:
Brenda Walker: Amnesty To Cost $2.6 Trillion
Washington Watcher: Rubio’s Ridiculous Immigration Plan: So Bad, It Might Sink Amnesty
Steve Sailer: Obama To Go To Highest Unemployment State To Call For More Immigration To Fill The Jobs Americans Just Can’t Get
James Fulford: Meet The New Amnesty, Same As The Old Amnesty
Brenda Walker: Mickey Kaus Has A Few Items for Amnesty Supporters to Consider
Mickey Kaus: 6 Simple Questions on Immigration
James Fulford: Who Is Marco Rubio Betraying, And Who Is He Supposed To Be Loyal To?
Mickey Kaus: The Rubio Con: Sometimes a political con is just too transparent to fly
Patrick Cleburn: Rubio Swings Left, Supports Amnesty, Open Borders – Wall Street Journal Cheers
Mark Krikorian: Lies, Damn Lies, and Enforcement Promises
Mark Krikorian: They Think We’re Stupid
Updates:
Washington Watcher: Five Reasons Why The Rubio Amnesty Is NOT “Better Than The Status Quo”
Donald Collins: Same Old, Same Old: Comprehensive Immigration Reform (a.k.a. Amnesty) Lies Intensifying Again
Jesse Mossman: End Of The STUPID Party?
Federale: Don’t Believe The Lies— There Will Be NO Enforcement Of ANY Immigration Laws
Tom Tancredo: The Gang of 8 Proposal is Akin to Amnesty
Other stuff:
Steven Camarota: “Immigration’s Impact on U.S. Workers,” “Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children,” and “Who Got Jobs During the Obama Presidency?”
Ann Coulter: “America Nears El Tipping Pointo”
Action:
Read VDare daily, call 202-224-3121 to tell your senators that you oppose the proposed amnesty, and join Numbers USA to send free faxes.
Please add other articles in the comments below.
Posted under Immigration & Political Correctness & Sports
Tonight, Cain Velasquez will have a rematch with UFC Heavyweight Champion Junior Dos Santos. Dos Santos won their first match with a quick knock out. Velasquez was reportedly injured. Velasquez is the superior wrestler. He wrestled in college for Arizona State. Dos Santos is the superior striker. If Velasquez can get the fight to the ground and keep it there, he’ll likely win. If Dos Santos can keep it standing, he likely will. (Some odds have Velasquez the favorite. Some have Dos Santos.)
I will be rooting for Dos Santos. Velasquez sports a large “Brown Pride” tattoo across his chest. I really don’t care the Velasquez, who is Mexican American, has brown pride, although brown is a less precise designation than even white. Caucasoid Arabs and Indians are supposedly “brown,” as are Amerindian and Mediterranean (Spanish and Portuguese) admixture Central and South Americans such as Velasquez and Dos Santos. At least white usually means European. My beef is with the PC double standard that says a “brown pride” tattoo is just fine, but if some white guy had a similar “white pride’ tattoo there is no way he would ever see the inside of a UFC octagon and everyone know it.
I will be rooting against the PC double standard tonight more than I will Velasquez.
Addendum: There was a 1.5 hour wait at the local establishment where I usually watch UFC pay-per-views so I won’t be watching it live.
Posted under George W. Bush & Immigration
Here is more evidence, as if any was needed, that George W. Bush is a blithering idiot.
“America can become a lawful society and a welcoming society at the same time,” Bush said, according to the Texas Tribune. “As our nation debates the proper course of action on immigration reform, I hope we do so with a benevolent spirit and keep in mind the contributions of immigrants.
“Not only do immigrants help build the economy, they invigorate our soul,” Bush added.
Bush has said one of his major regrets about his presidency is that he did not manage to pass immigration reform.
I have said it before, and I will say it again and again as many times as I need to until it sinks in, if you are a Republican and/or a conservative and you are not an immigration restrictionist, then you either have a death wish or you can’t do simple math. It really is that simple. George Bush never has been a conservative. Here he proves he doesn’t care much about the perpetuity of the Republican Party either.
Posted under Immigration & Survival of the West
By Frosty Wooldridge
Will American society, culture and language survive an added 70 million immigrants within 25 years? That will prove the most significant question for the United States in the 21st century.
Writer Sam Francis said, “You cannot separate a culture and its attendant civilization from the genetic endowments of its founding people, nor can you expect to transfer it to another people, i.e. [immigrants.]”
Jesse Washington wrote, “But today, with the world a mouse click away and most every country in the world accessible in little more than a day, globalization is competing fiercely with assimilation. People who have a foot in two strikingly different cultures no longer leave one behind for the other. Now they can move between them easily, fluidly, quickly. Thus it becomes possible for a fanatical few Muslim-Americans, living in the belly of what they perceive as a hostile culture, to feel closer to a bombed Afghan village or a Pakistani madrassa than to the America outside their own front doors.” The assimilated terrorist: An outsider no longer – Welcome to www.Charter.net
Posted under Campaign Strategy & Immigration & Multiculturalism & Third Party
The following was submitted by frequent commenter Savrola. The opinions expressed are his and do not necessarily represent the views of Conservative Heritage Times.
How Conservative Third Parties Can Win Third World Voters.
Communication is key.
Whites and conservatives don’t communicate well because they lead sterile lives.
Americans of European extraction have left their ethnic culture behind and become atomized yet differentiated particles in a sea of adversaries.
A form of racial socialism is prevalent in the U.S. because ethnicity has been nationalized.
Before a blended humanity could be created, our overlords had to oversee the management of all the varying ethnic groups into four major categories based on skin color, white, black, brown and yellow.
Once these categories were established, they began to work towards the creation of a blended humanity.
Multiculturalism not assimilation is the answer to the West’s Third World problem.
Anglo conservatives since WWII have forcibly imposed their culture on European and non-European cultures, alike. Now the shoe is on the other foot.
Whites fear multiculturalism because they have lost control of their own identity. Their culture is controlled by interlopers, their ancestors are forgotten and descendants marginalized.
Why does the White man do nothing? Because he is a White man. More precisely he is not a Teuton, he is not a Celt, Slav or a Gaul. He has no homogeneous ethnic roots, no loyalty to any particular culture.
Europeans have been mongrelized, as Wyndham Lewis suggested in his book, “Paleface.” And why shouldn’t a German-Anglo-Gaul breed with a non white to fulfill their biological imperatives?
To argue that interracial relationships ruin cultures is a waste of time because the entire purpose of the Western Powers That Be is to destroy all cultures and create a blended humanity with a single corporative culture.
Whites are often embittered towards blacks and Amerinds due to these races being used against them in a variety of ways by the contemporary media culture.
The fact is that both these races and their cultures have been under assault by the corporate media for decades and have crumbled sooner due to the fact that they are not as resilient to propaganda as Europeans are.
The answer to the problem in the short-term is to ban Satellite-Media outreach into regions of the country that are still controlled by fairly conservative legislatures.
That’s correct. Ban Clear Channel, FOX, and MTV among others, from the South and Midwest.
The second step is to appeal to minority communities while they remain minority communities.
Encourage Hispanic, Asian (and soon) African immigrants to remain true to their own language and culture.
Assist in the establishment of foreign language radio and TV stations to cater to the immigrant communities.
Posted under Immigration
More than $2 billion was spent on the recent Presidential race, money wasted. The candidates struggled to spend it all. I gave: Nothing.
Which is why I can afford to donate to NumbersUSA, today.
A recent (Nov. 9-12) Gallop poll found that “62% of Americans say stopping illegal immigration should be a top priority“, yet we hear from both parties and the news media that Obama’s victory shows support for the reverse. Obama is maneuvering to grant amnesty.
Continue Reading »
Posted under Immigration & Politics & Race
I’ve seen the Sailer Strategy work in Wisconsin, so I will not say it cannot work at all. However there are many different circumstances which have to be met for it to work and often times those circumstances never come to fruition even in overwhelmingly white areas of the country.
The circumstances included either heavily segregated regions of the country (like the Milwaukee metro area) or areas where there is clear polarization of the racial divide around the two-party system, as one finds in the South. But in areas where there is not a large population of minorities, then other questions and concerns trump race because is not the everyday present reality (such as a state like Ohio where the auto-bailout helped Obama with white voters there). Red asks why white Iowans, Minnesotans, and Wisconsinites don’t vote the same as white Alabamans, Georgians and Carolinians? Well, I think we both know the reason why. Put it this way, you can live in parts of the Upper Midwest your entire life and never meet anyone of different race in person. How do you think that’s going to affect their mindsets as compared to living near county which is in the “Black Belt”?
Now some point out the state’s of the upper South (from West Virginia to Oklahoma) don’t have large minority populations either and voted in huge margins for Romney and Republican candidates, which is true. But in four years you won’t have Barak Obama on the ballot anymore, you may well have Hilary Clinton, you know, Fox News’s favorite Democrat, the woman conservatives turned from a marriage-hating radical into Norma Rae back in 2008. I would be curious to see what those numbers would be if Clinton vs. Romney in Kentucky or Arkansas. In four years we may find out and it may not be pretty for the GOP if there’s a white face on the top of the ballot for the Dems.
Now this is not to say such voting patterns will stay the same. Minority populations have actually grown in many areas that were once all-white due to immigration (which just adds more Democrat votes) which may affect voting turnouts in the future (as they have in Milwaukee). But given the fact the Romney campaign pretty much ran away from any discussion of the President’s birth-certificate, or the Rev. Jeremiah Wright or immigration or any other such items in the campaign which could have increased its percentage of the white vote in theory, why would anyone think any party candidate will make a deliberate attempt to win 70 percent of the white vote in future campaigns (if they had to) given the demographic trends and given the fact the party may very well have a re-think on issues like immigration? Just remember this, when the top ranks of both the GOP and Conservative INC. come to a consensus, they will act in unanimity and cast off those who don’t, just like they did with the Iraq War. And this goes from the think tank leaders down to the talk show hosts to the politicians and as we all know, when you’re on the outside you really are out. Once upon a time publications like the National Review once strongly supported segregation. You can, if you wish, head out to the desert to be a Minuteman and arrest illegals but no longer will Rush Limbaugh laud you publicly or even give you attention on his show.
So the reality is if you really want to see the Willie Horton or the “Hands” ad again from Republican candidates I’m afraid you’ll have to do so on You Tube because you won’t see them from GOP candidates. Will some conservatives object to this and leave the party? Perhaps, until elected officials do so I will not hold my breath because if there’s one thing conservatives know how to do well, it’s to get in line.
Posted under Democrat Party & Election 2012 & Immigration & Mitt Romney & Obama & Political Correctness & Race
Original video can be found here.
Posted under Conservatism & Election 2012 & Immigration & NeoCons & Sovereignty and Secession & States Rights
When I argued that an Obama win would be better for conservatives than a Romney win, I got a lot of angry emails and comments from readers. “Worse IS NOT better!” they yelled.
Of course not. But that’s not what I was saying. I was making two points: Romney’s embarrassing kowtowing before Netanyahu and the predominance of Neocons from the George W. Bush regime in his campaign all but guaranteed a “pre-emptive” war on Iran. And what have the Neocon Wars given us so far? The Department of Homeland Security, citizen surveillance, torture enhanced interrogation, indefinite detention, as well as increased Muslim immigration.
Bottom line: Another war would do even more permanent damage. Continue Reading »
Posted under Election 2012 & Immigration
Because a Romney win will lull rank-and-file conservatives to sleep, that’s why. And when Romney implements policies that would rile voters if Obama did them, people will shrug and accept Romney’s acts as “moderate” compromises.
Who says Romney will enact Obama’s agenda? Willard himself says so:
The GOP nominee ratcheted up advertising in Latino markets, addressed the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and appeared on the leading Spanish-language networks, Univision and Telemundo.
He caught skeptics’ attention when he spoke of immigration in ways that appeared at odds with some of the statements he made during the primaries, including suggesting he’d support the Dream Act – which would give a path to citizenship for those who immigrated as children and attend college or serve in the military – after previously saying he’d veto the measure.
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain,” says the Willard of Oz. “I’m a severe conservative!”
Posted under Immigration
By Peter B. Gemma
On June 10, 2012, Aileen Smith and her husband Zach were on the way from Colorado Springs to San Diego for their baby shower—even though it was three months before her due date of September 5th, they had already named their unborn son Demetri.
But when Ramon Hernandez sped onto Interstate 25 and crashed into their car, he shattered the Smith family forever. She was taken to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe where doctors performed a C-section in an attempt to save the baby. The injuries to the unborn child were too severe however, that he died from massive head injuries just minutes after being delivered. The Smiths never saw him alive. Aileen recalled, “There was nothing they could do. I woke up from surgery and was reaching out asking for my son, and the nurse leaned over and told me that he had passed.” Aileen held him briefly, as did her husband Zach, saying a prayer for Demetri before handing his little body over to the Office of the Medical Investigator. “We buried Demetri two days before my 26th birthday,” she said. “It’s just an incredibly lonely feeling,” Aileen explained, “You know, you can feel so supported by all your friends and family, and yet just feel so alone inside because that thing you were hoping for is gone.”
A state police dashcam video recorded the tragic scene of the accident. It was a car crash that officials said could have been prevented. Court records show Ramon Hernandez had four prior DWI convictions. Hernandez admitted he had “a few beers” when he plowed into pregnant Aileen Smith’s car. Investigators said Hernandez didn’t have a driver’s license for more than a decade. Continue Reading »
Posted under Culture & Immigration & Interventionism & Political Correctness
A prominent neuroscientist argues it’s time to give up “the myth of human equality.” The ramifications would be profound, directly affecting social, economic, and educational policies, as well as foreign policy.
Posted under Immigration & Western Civilization
… is more government surveillance, says Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Why? Because the country is crawling with people like Wade Michael Page:
Perhaps it’s finally time for Napolitano to take this problem seriously and rebuild and strengthen Homeland Security’s intelligence capabilities to face a clearly mounting threat. That might not have prevented the tragedy in Milwaukee, but it could very well save the lives of untold numbers of other Americans targeted by the racist right.
And just who is the “racist right” Potok fears so much? It’s any person or group that opposes open borders.
The SPLC website makes that very clear. Here’s a recent example: In response to two radio personalities who defended the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the SPLC blog counters with this damning indictment:
FAIR’s “suggested reading” on immigration, which includes white nationalist Peter Brimelow’s Alien Nation, a book whose central thesis is that America should remain a country dominated by whites.
FAIR also recommends Pat Buchanan’s State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, which argues that America’s shift away from being white-dominated is “one of the greatest tragedies in human history.”
So yes, John and Ken, FAIR is a hate group. Not because it promulgates “facts” and “truths” its opponents would rather ignore but because it promotes hatred of immigrants, especially non-white ones.
By defending racism, encouraging xenophobia and nativism, and giving its all to efforts to keep America white, FAIR has more than earned its place in the pantheon of hate groups.
So. Wanting to preserve one’s civilization is “hate.” Demanding that the government enforce existing immigration laws is “racist.” And if you don’t embrace open borders and the inevitable demographic upheaval that would follow, you suffer from “xenophobia,” an irrational fear of foreigners.
In other words, the SPLC seeks to demonize and silence any opposition to the open borders agenda backed by big business and big government, and opposed by the majority of the people. Despite the constant and heavy-handed propaganda from the government and its supporters in the media, 78 percent of Americans want to defend their country from illegal immigrants. Like the vast majority of people in Mexico, Israel, or any other country, Americans want to preserve their traditional identity and defend their way of life from invaders who would radically transform their country. That’s patriotism. It’s part of being human. Free debate, the right to dissent, and the right to privacy are essential to republican government.
And that’s what hired guns like Potok want to supress.
Posted under Globalism & Immigration
Who advocates the destruction of traditional society and the nation?
You’d be surprised.
We hardly bat an eye when we read that Neo-Communists, including followers of mass murderer and totalitarian Leon Trotsky, openly gather at the Left Forum at Pace University to promote the Marxist goal of one-world government.
It’s who their friends are that might surprise you.
It’s a well-known fact that leftist billionaire George Soros advocates and financially supports the Open Borders agenda as a means of creating a one-world government. He’s not the only wealthy supporter of the end of the traditional nation-state. It’s not hard to figure out why — with a glut of labor on the market, wages come tumbling down, boosting profits.That’s not just a problem for blue-collar workers, but increasingly for white-collare workers as well, who are seeing their incomes drop, or even losing their jobs, because of the infllux of low-wage H1B immigrants.
It’s a scam, of course, and scammers don’t like to draw attention to their scam. So if the victims yelp in protest, they must be silenced. These days, there are many shills eager to shame those who do not welcome the importation of cheap labor.
For example, here’s Business Insider Magazine featuring an article entitled “Meet The Leaders Of America’s Twisted White Power Movement.” This strange attack piece starts with a reference to Wade Michael Page, who killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, then lists the names of various neo-Nazis and Klansmen who just happen to be in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s files. Included in that list is Peter Brimelow of the pro-immigration-enforcement VDare.
But what’s the real connection between those who advocate and practice violence, and those who, like Brimelow, work peacefully within the system to protect jobs and keep alien criminals from entering this country? Nothing — it’s a blatant smear job.
And check out this whopper from the Business Insider story:
Keep in mind, we are not accusing any of these people of crimes or implying that they might commit crimes. We are simply reporting their inclusion in SPLC’s intelligence files, and why they merited that inclusion.
“Oh, I’m not saying anything bad about these folks — the SPLC made me do it!” How typical of the spinelessness in what’s left of the home of the brave.
Why is Business Insider parroting the SPLC’s fundraising letters? It’s not because big business gives a hoot about “social justice” or equality. What it shares with Marxists is an attraction to big, centralized government, just as ticks are attracted to fattened cows. Check out this quote from I’ll Take My Stand:
Big business has more often taken refuge behind the national government than
behind the state…to the eternal whine of big business for paternalistic and
exploitative legislation such as the tariff, the ship and railroad subsidies.
Historically, the vested interests of industrialism have not had any great use
for state rights. They are the founders of the doctrine of centralization…It
may be suggested as a principle that for the positive exploitation big business
has desired large and sweeping powers for the national government.’ (pages
86,87)
An energetic and principled opposition to bigness in all forms is one of the defining characteristics of the Southern tradition. Anyone who’s really concerned about the middle class and the exploitation by the wealthy will find that tradition is still surprisingly relevant.
Posted under Immigration & Political Correctness & Survival of the West & Western Civilization
Dr. Michael Hill, League of the South President
Eventually, amnesty for millions of non-white illegal aliens will become reality. Many think this is the beginning of the end of Western Christian civilization in North America. Why have the elites sold us out? Why are they committed to the destruction of the West by the promotion of multiculturalism? And why is multiculturalism the poison that will ultimately prove fatal to Western Christian civilization unless an antidote is quickly administered? Unless we understand exactly what we are dealing with when we bring up the subject of multiculturalism, The League of the South and our allies can never hope to successfully combat the enemies who are sworn to our – white Southerners–destruction as a people.
What exactly is multiculturalism (which, for short, I will simply call MC)? Its advocates cast it in innocuous terms, claiming that it is merely justice and the recognition and celebration within the borders of the West of non-Western peoples and cultures. A proposition based on simple fairness, they say. Moreover, the MC crowd claims the superior moral mantle of anti-racism (which is really only a coded term for “anti-white”). The white, Christian West, they posit, bears much guilt for having built its prosperity and civilization on the backs of the poor, dark-skinned races of the world. It is only just, then, that the West share its wealth – including its land and produce – with its myriad poor brothers and sisters from the Third World. Pity and sympathy have become their most potent weapons turned against a West that has lost its ability to think correctly about the question of its very survival.
In our day, virtually every Western institution – church, government, the academy, the media, big business – mimics the cry of left-wing utopian humanism. From the Civil Rights movement in America to the Universal Rights of Man, the demand is the same: “Western man, give up your ill-gotten Kingdom for the good of all.” We Westerners are browbeaten in the name of MC to take in millions from the Third World in order that we not only might share our wealth and way of life with them but also to prove that we are not “racists.” In short, we are asked to sacrifice all we have at the altar of egalitarianism.
But MC is really not about ushering in equality among all races, religions, and cultures; rather, it is about destroying Western Christian civilization, the world’s premier unmitigated evil. And because the South is the strongest enclave of this civilization, it finds itself square in the crosshairs of the MC crowd. Why do you think the Feds are not willing to lift a hand to stop our dispossession by a floodtide of illegal immigrants? It is the continuation of Reconstruction to the ultimate degree. We are being replaced as a people.
Any attempt by Western man to defend himself and his civilization is called “racism,” and is designed to paralyze him completely (even when no malice is shown toward any other group). This agenda points up the fact that the proponents of MC seek not fairness, justice, or equality but demonization and destruction of the white, Christian West. Only whites, and white Southerners in particular, are not allowed to have a country all their own. Asia for Asians, Africa for Africans, but no South for white Southerners!
All indications point to the success of the MC agenda of paralyzing the West through guilt manipulation. Though we never had any sort of debate about whether we wanted to be a MC polity, it has been forced upon us anyway. Anyone who protests is silenced by the usual epithets. Even opposition to illegal immigration is enough to get you called a “racist” or a “xenophobe.” If you don’t believe me, check out the Southern Poverty Law Center’s rants on the subject.
Why do we allow this to happen? I suppose the bigger question is: why are we voluntarily swallowing the poison of MC and committing suicide? Former President Bill Clinton was effusive in his praise for the coming day – around the year 2050–when whites of European descent would become a minority in North America. Well, if getting rid of the white majority is such a good thing, why wait until 2050? Why not just drop all pretence of enforcing immigration law and roll out the red carpet for the Third World? If all men are brothers and America is indeed a Proposition Nation, then what are we waiting for?
If the scenario of the South (and the rest of America) being overrun by hordes of non-white immigrants does not appeal to you, then how is this disaster to be averted? By the people who oppose it rising up against their traitorous elite masters and their misanthropic rule. But to do this we must first rid ourselves of the fear of being called “racists” and the other meaningless epithets they use against us. What is really meant by the MC advocates when they peg us as “racists” is that we adhere to ethnocentrism, which is a natural affection for one’s own kind. This is both healthy and Biblical. I am not ashamed to say that I prefer my own kind and my own culture. Others can have theirs; I have mine. No group can survive for long if its members do not prefer their own over others.
If the South – the most important remaining bastion of Western Christian civilization – is to survive the MC onslaught, then it must fight doggedly against everything that threatens its existence. If we cannot do this, it is proof that we are a dying civilization. To live, we must re-cultivate our common cultural bonds that historically have made us a distinct people, repent of our sins, and pray to God that he will spare us for ever letting things get this bad in the first place.
J. Michael Hill
Killen, Alabama
Posted under Immigration
California: The Road Warrior Is Here
Where’s Mel Gibson When You Need Him?
Victor Davis Hanson, July 29, 2012
George Miller’s 1981 post-apocalyptic film The Road Warrior envisioned an impoverished world of the future. Tribal groups fought over what remained of a destroyed Western world of law, technology, and mass production. Survival went to the fittest — or at least those who could best scrounge together the artifacts of a long gone society somewhat resembling the present West.
In the case of the Australian film, the culprit for the detribalization of the Outback was some sort of global war or perhaps nuclear holocaust that had destroyed the social fabric. Survivors were left with a memory of modern appetites but without the ability to reproduce the means to satisfy them: in short, a sort of Procopius’s description of Gothic Italy circa AD 540.
Sometimes, and in some places, in California I think we have nearly descended into Miller’s dark vision — especially the juxtaposition of occasional high technology with premodern notions of law and security. The state deficit is at $16 billion. Stockton went bankrupt; Fresno is rumored to be next. Unemployment stays over 10% and in the Central Valley is more like 15%. Seven out of the last eleven new Californians went on Medicaid, which is about broke. A third of the nation’s welfare recipients are in California. In many areas, 40% of Central Valley high school students do not graduate — and do not work, if the latest crisis in finding $10 an hour agricultural workers is any indication. And so on.
Guest Worker Applicants
Posted under BookLog & CoffeeTime & Immigration
What Was Once A Nation: John Derbyshire On Derek Turner’s Sea Changes
John Derbyshire, August 1, 2012
Englishman Derek Turner is the editor of Quarterly Review, a transatlantic paleocon magazine with excellent articles on culture, history, and politics, and some contributor overlap with U.S. outlets like Chronicles, Taki’s Magazine, and, yes, VDARE.com.
Sea Changes is Derek’s first book. It is a work of fiction—a novel, written as a straightforward narrative in the third person. Its claim on the attention of VDARE.com readers is that it is a story about illegal immigration into Britain, and about contemporary attitudes to questions of nation, race, and liberty.
At the center of the story is a young Iraqi man, Ibraham Nassouf, born around 1979. Though drawn sympathetically, and obviously a decent sort, Ibraham is undistinguished and ill-educated, an observant but unreflecting Muslim—an Everyman, a traditional novelist’s lay figure.
At age 12, Ibraham lost his father to one of Saddam’s purges. After two decades of struggling to support his mother and sisters in Iraq, through the 2003 U.S. invasion and the years of turmoil that followed, Ibraham decides to head for England. Having no contacts in that country and no claim on a British visa, he must contrive to get smuggled in, after having first somehow traversed all the intervening countries.
Ibraham’s odyssey across the Middle East and Europe forms a separate narrative thread for the first two-thirds of the novel, alternating with chapters set among English people in England. The two threads meet when Ibraham makes landfall on England’s east coast. The concluding nine chapters of the novel deal with our hero’s reception and settlement.
While Ibraham’s adventures are described with realism and sensitivity, at its heart Sea Changes is a commentary on the ethnomasochism and corroded sense of national identity in today’s England—and, by extension, in the West at large.
Most of the people we meet in the book are metropolitan media types, vain and shallow, their heads filled with the vapid cant of multiculturalism. They are contrasted with the very un-metropolitan Dan Gowt, a countryman of old English stock, farming on the east coast near Ibrahim’s eventual landfall.
Posted under Immigration & Pat Buchanan & Republican Party & Survival of the West
Here is Pat Buchanan on US demography and why it dooms the GOP if current trends aren’t halted/reversed. Republicans who support amnesty and increased legal immigration either have a death wish or can’t do simple math.
Someone make sure Unz reads this, although I’m sure he’ll scrawl out some apologia telling us why up is down, black is white, and demography doesn’t dome the GOP.
Posted under Constitution Party & Election 2012 & Immigration & Virgil Goode
From the Constitution Party’s News at a Glance:
Both President Obama and Governor Romney have no solution to illegal immigration. In fact the policies of both will encourage the continuation of the illegal invasion into our country. Obama’s temporary amnesty and work permits for illegals and Romney’s statement that “the status of young people… should be solved on a long-term basis so they know what their future would be in this country” will lead more of those waiting at the border to enter in expectation of a future amnesty.
Goode said, “Unlike Romney, if I am elected President, I will promptly rescind the Obama amnesty order. Amnesty in any form only encourages more illegal entry into the United States.”
A way to reduce unemployment, reduce the deficit, and provide more jobs for U.S. citizens is to end illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration. In recent years about 1.2 million green cards have been issued annually and over 60% go to foreigners who come to the United States and take jobs from American citizens. I have proposed a moratorium (with a few minor exceptions) on issuing green cards until our unemployment rate is under 5 percent. America has one of the most liberal immigration policies in the world and it is time for the citizens of this country to be at the head of the line for jobs. We also need to totally end diversity visas (50,000 per year), reduce chain migration, and dramatically reduce asylees and refugees and their costs to the U.S. taxpayer.
Crossposted at IPR.