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Thread ID: 7628 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-06-25
2003-06-25 23:54 | User Profile
Original Editorial At: [url=http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/s_141477.html]Pittsburgh Live[/url]
Wow....sometimes it almost seems we are still in America.
This editorial staff seems to acknowledge the problem.
** America last
Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Rep. Tom Tancredo reared up in the House in an exercise of reverse psychology: "Bring a bill before this body that says, 'We will repeal all laws that deal with immigration.'" The Republican from Colorado is a firebrand against massive infiltration of illegal aliens into the United States. Put troops on the border with Mexico, he says.
We agree with him: A country that will not garrison its frontiers cedes its nationhood and invites dissolution of its economy, culture and the rule of law.
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge replies that cultural and political reasons trump the proposal.
But in South Korea, where President Roh Moo-hyun ran an anti-American campaign, 35,000 American troops defend the frontier along a trigger-point. If breached, it could render the war in Iraq, by comparison, a skirmish. In Kosovo, 2,100 Americans help keep the factions apart, despite promises from the Bush administration that they soon would be home.
Our national sovereignty does not bear the same concern.
Why? Cheap labor, the Mexican lobby, and a crowd that equates giving virtual citizenship to illegal aliens with the civil-rights movement.
As long as anyone, anywhere, is suffering, expiation of the sin is due -- in a way that particularly erodes American sovereignty and economic security. Even legal immigration is implicated, and not all of it is from Mexico.
If Americans suffer because their hospitals and schools are inundated, this is the penance owed. And the debt will not be discharged unless we become a shadow of what we were, or nothing at all of the America we once knew.
This outrage must not stand.
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2003-06-26 19:48 | User Profile
I used to live in Pittsburgh. (Great city, by the way, if anyone hasn't been there)
The Tribune is the "conservative" paper in town (the Gazette is your typical lefty rag). Not sure if it's always right, but it actually runs Sam Francis every week.
That surprised me, in a good way!
-Jay