Posted on 01/06/2007 8:31:55 AM PST by joanie-f
Ever since the crisis at our southern border was recognized as one, there have been countless meaningless rumblings, and one actual piece of ‘legislation’ (not suprisingly, still unsupported by the funds to back it up) from congress -- all aimed at suppressing citizen outrage regarding our open borders -- none of which is destined to see realization.
When it comes to genuinely and resolutely addressing the crisis occurring across the border, everything that emanates from Washington is simply window dressing. To the majority of opportunistic traitors in our government, the invasion that is destroying our national identity, making a mockery of the rule of law, rewarding insidious parasitic behavior, and putting every American citizen in danger, is secondary in importance to the desire to increase their voting base, the lure of cheap labor, or the vision of a one-world borderless utopia. And don’t tell me the fundamental nature of the above does not fall under the definition of treason (common synonyms: betrayal, disloyalty, duplicity).
Tom Tancredo, in his book In Mortal Danger, writes:
We have the necessary technology, combined with human resources, to secure our borders tomorrow. It is a canard for politicians to say that it is impossible and that we must figure out a different way to defend America rather than defending our borders. What they are really saying is, ‘I choose not to defend and secure our borders because there are political ramifications that I fear.’ It is those fears that put the life of every American citizen in mortal danger.
Every day that our borders remain porous physically endangers every one of us, as a result of the increase in violent crime that invariably accompanies the influx of the criminals, and it drains our economy and our education and healthcare systems because many of the parasites demand and receive the same services that the rest of us have earned. But, much worse, it increases the likelihood (becoming more of a certainty with the passage of time and the inaction of those whose charge it is to ensure our safety and sovereignty) that there is an ever-increasing number of terrorists among us, some of whom have brought with them the means for our destruction.
Jerome Corsi, author of Unfit for Command, discusses the threat that both nuclear suitcase bombs, and dirty bombs, pose in his more recent book, Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians:
... the threat of dirty bombs is real, though we should not assume that a dirty bomb would be the weapon of choice, especially not for a group of skilled terrorists who would have the backing of a nuclear-armed rogue state such as Iran. The mad mullahs and their terrorist associates would, if possible, opt for a much more deadly scenario, one that could truly bring the civilized world to its knees in the space of one day. If serious terrorists are going to spend their time devising attacks, the terror masters directing them will move to the most feasible attack that can cause the maximum amount of damage. Why bother with anything less?
Whatever their eventual modus operandi may be -- future attacks of a nuclear, chemical, biological, or other sort -- the facts are clear: there are already countless islamic cells within our borders. They are proselytizing and recruiting in mosques, schools, and prisons. And we continue to allowing more of them, and additional 'equipment', to enter this country virtually unfettered.
With such an unprecedented, deadly threat staring us in the face, and virtually nothing keeping islamic operatives from simply strolling across our southern border ... suitcase in hand ... with what are the president and congress occupying themselves?
The piously declared ‘new era’ in Washington is being ushered in with significant fanfare and air of self-importance. Will the much-touted ‘new Iraq policy’, an increase in the minimum wage, expansion of embryonic stem-cell research, a tightening of ethics rules (where have we heard that before, and which of the ‘fool-me-once’-challenged among us continues to believe such pap?), and the inexhaustible fountain of nonsense posing as issues of importance, have any relevance when one of more of our cities are reduced to rubble, and our countrymen are suffering in debilitating ways that our minds cannot even begin to comprehend?
Not only is our government reneging on its promise to build a physical barrier to prevent the continuing flood of illegals of all stripes (islamic terrorists surely among them). Our fearless leaders are also stationing our countrymen at the border, putting their lives in extreme danger, and forbidding them to do what needs to be done to fulfill their duties.
Yesterday National Guard troops stationed along the Arizona border were forced to retreat when confronted by hostile criminals intent on crossing. Unable to engage the enemy because their role is bureaucratically defined as not to extend beyond an administrative capacity, members of the greatest fighting force in the history of the world had no choice but to retreat at their own border, when confronted by armed criminals seeking to cross (story).
Every informed American knows that the goal of islamic terrorists is to bring America to her knees, in as brutal and violent a manner as possible. We also know that we have it entirely within our power to at least dramatically reduce the probability that they will succeed. Yet our own leadership is forbidding us to do so, when the single most vital responsibility of our government is to defend our territorial integrity.
When the next, and much more deadly and virulent, terrorist attack occurs here on American soil, upon whom do we lay the blame for the torment and suffering that will befall thousands, if not millions, of our innocent countrymen? Do we hate the madmen who have made no secret of their desire to destroy us? Or do we reserve a more potent brand of hatred for those calculating pretenders among us who claim to be our protectors, while at the same time placing their insatiable thirst for personal power above the very lives and liberties of those whose trust and commission they consistently debase, and deliberately betray?
The American government is as much an enemy of the American people as is any Middle Eastern terrorist organization. And, if wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing deceit contributes to degree of malevolence, then the wickedness of those who claim to represent us, and who claim to have our best interests at heart, is beyond measure.
The American Crisis is worsening by the day, while our leadership continues to turn a convenient blind eye, polishing their primping and posturing skills, and offering up meaningless, toothless, mirage ‘solutions’ to a cancer that threatens to eventually render our individual liberty and sovereignty extinct.
It would appear that the future of our republic rests on the shoulders of the American patriot. We are walking down a path ... certainly not well-lit, nor well-traveled ... that has not existed in our lifetimes, or those of our parents or grandparents. We must continue to keep the Founders’ vision primary in our focus, and always look to Him for guidance.
I believe I hear them weeping, and imploring us to reflect on the glorious history of this republic, the monumental sacrifices that were required to make it so, and the need to assure her future (‘to provide new guards for [her] future security’) ... before the time and opportunity to do so has passed.
~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed
I believe Claire's answer would now be 'no,' but you'd have to ask her. :)
She wrote that quite some time ago, in 1995 or thereabouts. You might find her more recent thoughts on the subject to be of interest. Slaves.
...I do believe that a fight is inevitable, whether that's a fight in the streets or the trenches, or whether that is some sort of confrontation that may not involve arms but may nevertheless involve violence and head-to-head action. I think that's inevitable, and I think more and more people are coming to the conclusion that it is.
April 19th, as you all know, is a day in history when many people _have_ taken up arms, when they have been _forced_ to take up arms. Peaceable people in Lexington and Concord, desperate people in the Warsaw ghetto. Even when they had no hope, or little hope, they took up arms. But here we stand, and although a lot of us have arms with us, or not far from us, we're not ready to "take up arms" yet.
But I hope we're preparing ourselves. I hope we're at least thinking about it.
In the last year and a half, since I originally wrote those frustrated, angry words, things have gotten a hell of a lot worse. And it's almost scary how little the disaster that we're in the middle of has been acknowledged. ...
Although it may be just a drop in the bucket, my husband and I have been impelled to try to do something!! We have posted a petition for all to sign on lawopenforum.com to urge Congress to vote against amnesty, or be voted out themselves.
Well, last estimate I heard was that it was projected to take $20 billion to build the fence, so they would just make it virtual.
It has been said by others that the time has indeed come when it is morally right to begin shooting at least some of the bastards, but that it may not yet be practical to do so.
However, that was said nearly a decade ago. And some of the bastards have indeed turned up shot dead.
The FBI has offered a million-dollar reward, but in five years time, have only managed to round up a few of their favourite scapegoats as suspects.
Well written and so true-thanx.Not long ago i had a conversation with a co-worker(recent graduate of USF).The conversation turned to politics/social issues.I asked him what he thought about the problem of illegal immigration.He looked at me with a straight face and asked "what problem?".This supposedly intelligent(?)and educated young man was totaly clueless.I'm afraid most Americans fit in that catagory.
BTTT for reading later.
Thank you joanie-f....I KNOW this will be another GREAT essay...that will be ignored by some, scoffed at by others, and prayerfully...make others THINK and finally ACT.
One quick question...what exactly did those people in DC do FOR this country's borders when they were in power?
Well...now...that just sounds like a lot of sour grapes.
I think Grammie just pegged you...
She did. An excellent coup de grace without breaking a sweat.
WHAT??? (insert a name here, like you have lowered yourself to), this "so called" fool has the ONLY two state Senators that actually stood up against the Liberals and Rino's in the Senate.
Check you voting records on Alabama senators... 6 years President Bush has hammered them to join him for lowering the border bar on immigration for the republican party
BTW... sir the only reason we have solid true republicans here in bama is because it seems we don't suffer your RINO's down this way. Because we actually stand for something that the RINO's have long forgot.
BTW.. a "fool" to me is someone that can see the truth the Bible puts out about subjects but rejects them. You may vote for a RINO that spits on subjects, but I will not. Catering Homosexuality, encouraging illegal immigration, turning a blind eye to abortion, etc...
Romans 3:8 (King James Version)
And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
Because people like you have turned a blind eye to election people, saying lets support RINO's so that good might come possible later of it, we now have had a Congress that was said to be conservative, but couldn't pass a dang thing to prove it. A last second bill that was dittled with changing the wall into something like a video game "virtual" is not what I call an accomplishment.
Heck, we had an congresscritter that was a known child molestor and because of RINO PCism was allowed to roam free until his damnation was brought to light by the enemy... Just as the Bible said would happen.
I will leave you with a quote...
Excerp from Pilgrim's Progress (Children's version by Tim Dowley)...
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"Thanks to YOU people, THEY run the show now. "
Um, no, I sure did my part to keep them out of power.
It isn't fun to watch the spittle come off someone spewing like you just did.
bump to read later
The fence will be of only modest benefit as long as employers can hire illegals with relative impunity. They will come. Economics is the universal solvent - of borders, and of laws that stand athwart its path.
Guatemalan commandos, Mexican drug cartels and the U.S.We have Nicaragua, soon we will have El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Mexico. One day, tomorrow or five years or fifteen years from now, we're going to take 5 to 10 million Mexicans and they are going into Dallas, into El Paso, into Houston, into New Mexico, into San Diego, and each one will have embedded in his mind the idea of killing ten Americans."
Frontera NorteSur
Mexico was jolted by revelations this week by Defense Secretary Gen. Ricardo Clemente Vega tying elite Guatemalan commandoes to a Mexican drug cartel operating on both sides of the US-Mexico border. In an appearance before the Mexican Senate, Gen. Clemente announced the detention of five Guatemalan nationals in Chiapas state earlier this month on arms and immigration law violations. The defense secretary said a probe was underway examining possible links between the men — all reputed to be members or ex-members of the Guatemalan army's counterinsurgency unit known as the Kabiles — and Los Zetas, the heavily armed enforcers of Mexico’s Tamaulipas-based Gulf Cartel.
My understanding is that he's one of the deditos [*little fingers*] for one of the nastier drug cartels. But you might look for him to turn up *here*, acting on behalf of his old boss again.
In the summer of 1984, Ronald Reagan offered photos of narcotrafficante Pablo Escobar and one of Borges' aides, Federico Vaughan, loading Escobar's coke onto a C-123 cargo plane.
I know that every American parent concerned about the drug problem will be outraged to learn that top Nicaraguan government officials are deeply involved in drug trafficking." "This picture, secretly taken at a military airfield outside Managua, shows Federico Vaughan, a top aide to one of the nine commandants who rule Nicaragua, loading an aircraft with illegal narcotics bound for the United States."
--President Ronald Reagan, 16 July 1986.
Do you really want to declare Mexico an enemy? Haven't we already enough of those?
We aren't the ones invading them. Though it may come to that again, as in 1916. Whether or not I want it is immaterial; there it is.
Goodness please take a course in enemy identification!
Okay! Glad to oblige....
Thank you for the ping, joanie-f. I'll look at this more closely later .... have bookmarked it.
As Larry Elder said yesterday, neither party is really opposed to illegal immigration.
-- The Democrats want them as voters.
-- The Republicans don't want to be perceived as racists.
-- Both Democrats and Republicans are business owners and want the cheap labor.
You have probably already been pinged at least once, but wanted to return your thoughtfulness.
;^)
Thank you,
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