Posted on 01/11/2002 3:04:29 PM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
Monday night, January 7, 2002, on the Hannity and Colmes show on Fox News, Pat Buchanan was a featured guest. Sitting in for Alan Colmes, resident leftist, was guest leftist and insignificant member of the U.S. House of Commons from New York’s Sixth Congressional District, Gregory Meeks.
Mr. Buchanan was there to publicize his new book, Death of the West; a more honest book has never been written in this writer’s opinion. Due to the onslaught over the years on Mr. Buchanan’s positions on things American, Congressman Meeks had already drawn his opinion of the new works, and proceeded to criticize the book, implying that Mr. Buchanan was a racist, xenophobe, and opposed to allowing anyone to enter this country from any foreign country. Buchanan insisted on knowing whether Meeks had read his book, and Meeks openly declared that he had not. That did not stop Meeks from openly denouncing what he thought was in the book.
I have never read anything by Pat Buchanan that was not backed up by facts, and this new book is no exception. Pat Buchanan is one of the finest students of history that I have ever had the pleasure of reading, and he has learned that history has a tendency to repeat itself, and that if the lessons of history are not learned, we will have to re-live that history.
Those who, for whatever reason, do not like Pat Buchanan, have probably never read or heard what he has to say. Unfortunately for America, he has been discouraged from seeking public office in the future. I only hope he can find a way to make what he has to say available to more Americans.
By now, many have read reviews of Death of the West, and we even had one in the pages of Sierra Times by Chuck Morse . However, no review of this book can do it justice, and I will not try to do so here. I can only recommend its reading by as many people as possible.
I have heard the word “controversial” bandied about when referencing this book, but the only controversy seems to be in the minds of those who have not yet read it. As I mentioned above, Buchanan’s works are always backed up by facts and he lists all of his sources in the notes in the back of the book. Some may not like what he says, but none can call it false. Facts are facts, and cannot be disputed, and unlike those that would re-write our history, saying it ain’t so doesn’t mean it ain’t so.
I agree with Pat Buchanan, that we are becoming a balkanized country, and are in danger of losing our national identity, and consequently our nation; that our borders are no longer borders and without borders we have no nation; and that the declining birthrate in the western world is not replacing those that are dying off in our culture, and that mass immigration is changing the face of America as immigrants, many illegal, move in to take the place of the vacancies left by that declining birthrate.
I worry that the America I grew up in is fast disappearing, and that my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren will become a minority, Americans, in the country I grew up in.
Whether this is inevitable or not remains to be seen. I get the distinct impression that our leaders in Washington are not in favor of changing the direction that things are taking, and in fact seem to be encouraging it. Mexican Presidente Vicente Fox wants to take back America’s Southwest, including Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, and it looks like he is making great strides to that end. Unfortunately, President Bush is not opposed to Fox’s intentions, or at least he seems willing to go along to get along at this time.
Americans had better prepare for what is about to happen, and reading Pat Buchanan’s new book might just help to prepare. You may like Pat or you may hate him, but you cannot argue with the facts he presents in his books.
Fast forward through this show I did to the second hour.
I felt embarassed for him. He truly looked like The Ugly American.
Pat's interesting like a train wreck is interesting.
He never has anything hopeful to say. Everything is gloom and doom and more gloom.
No wonder he never got much support.
What I don't think is supported is the idea that Mexico, and Vicente Fox, are engaged in an effort to expand Mexican territory into the United States or that President Bush approves of the idea.
Some radical Mexicans do actively promote that idea. But they're radicals, and we have some kooks of our own. That will never happen.
We do face some serious questions about what happens as Mexicans continue to come across the border into America. It does threaten our culture and it does threaten our economy, especially when it comes to health care. The current situation of tacitly agreeing to illegal immigration is nuts.
But there's no danger of Mexico annexing part of America. If anything, they want to be a part of it.
How does that old saying go? Oh yeah, now I remember: Figures never lie, buy liars always figure.
Get real
Sink, that is always said about prophets. They tell you what you don't want to hear. Those that have ears to hear, let them hear. ABOVE ALL THINGS, TRUTH BEARETH AWAY THE VICTORY.
And what's Pat's simplistic solution? Pat wants white people to have more kids.
I had two, Bush has two, most Republicans I know have kids.
Pat has none.
What's wrong with this picture?
Counting by category, however, obscures the deeper story: the social change accompanying this demographic transformation. Intermarriage is rising, and more Americans can identify themselves as multiracial.
So Rand confirms that it's not black and white (excuse the pun) as Pat contends.
There are more muti-racial people. Whites marry Asians, whites marry Hispanics, blacks marry Hispanics, Asians marry blacks...
And these mutiracial people are part of American culture. Not "white" culture. AMerican culture.
You see why some people think Pat's a xenophobe?
One the one hand, racists like Pat argue Hispanics don't "assimilate."
And then when they do (primarily by marrying anglos), racists like Pat print books claiming the white race is disappearing.
What a load of crap.
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