Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (11 page)

       
   
In 2003, the mood in Iraq became exuberant as Iraqis, with help from Americans, toppled a 20-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad’s Firdos Square.

       
   
In 2004, authorities in Bulgaria said at least 40 people were injured, some seriously, in a toxic gas attack on a police station in Sofia.
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While most of the rest of the globe is a cesspool of civil war, revolution, drug dealing, military coups, and assassinations, UPI’s almanac entries for America are things like “first American to circumnavigate the globe” (1790) and “William Hunt of New York patented the safety pin” (1847). Immediately following an entry for 1916—“Professional Golfers Association of America was founded”—is this one: “In 1919, Emiliano Zapata, a leader of peasants and indigenous people during the Mexican Revolution, was ambushed and killed in Morelos by government forces.” And that particular week was short on Muslim entries, thus avoiding any noteworthy beheadings.

That’s how the lists looked until fairly recently, anyway. Lately, the almanac has been acquiring events in America like this one: “In 2006, an estimated 500,000 people protested in Los Angeles against proposed U.S. legislation that would make it a felony to be in the United States illegally.” Thanks to our new we-assimilate-to-them strategy, angry immigrants seem to be in a constant state of protest. After Professor Huntington wrote a book warning that America could not survive the cultural onslaught from Latin America, Hispanics responded with a flurry of scholarly papers and academic critiques countering his thesis. Just kidding! They called for national protests against Huntington, his publisher, and Harvard University.
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These are not the descendants of the Magna Carta.

Edmund Burke, Britain’s most eloquent defender of the American Revolution, attributed Americans’ love of freedom expressly to the dual facts that they were British and they were Protestants: “First, the people of the colonies are descendants of Englishmen. . . . They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles. . . . The people are Protestants; and of that kind which is the most adverse to all implicit submission of mind and opinion. This is a persuasion not only favourable to liberty, but built upon it.”
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As Huntington says, all religions come to America and become Protestant. Catholics, for example, were not fully accepted into American society until the church became less “Roman Catholic” and more “American Catholic.”

EARLIER IMMIGRANTS WERE CHAMPS AT ASSIMILATION

Obviously, members of other ethnic groups can be great Americans, but that doesn’t mean America is an “idea.” It means America’s distinctively British Protestant culture can be acquired. Earlier immigrants were, as a rule, fantastic assimilators. While WASPs seem embarrassed about their own culture, Jewish Americans have taken to it with gusto. Ralph Lauren is the ne plus ultra celebration of WASP style. Harold Koda, curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, called Lauren—
born Ralph Lifshitz to Jewish immigrants from Belarus—“the greatest ambassador of American style.”
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The quintessential American garment, blue jeans, was invented by a Jewish immigrant, Levi Strauss. Another tribute to America’s British roots is the profusion of American Jews with adopted Anglo-Saxon names like Jon Stewart, David Gregory, Lorne Michaels, and, of course, Ralph Lauren himself.

Hollywood is the only major American industry that was largely built by immigrants. Jewish directors, writers, and producers celebrated their new country with wildly patriotic films such as
The Yankee Clipper
;
Rally ’round the Flag, Boys!
; and
Plymouth Adventure
. A big part of their patriotism was the reverence they exhibited for specifically WASP America. Scores of movies were set in Connecticut—
Christmas in Connecticut
,
Holiday Inn
,
The Talk of the Town
,
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
—as well as in other WASP redoubts such as Newport, Boston, Vermont, and Main Line Philadelphia (
The Philadelphia Story
). Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Donna Reed, and Spencer Tracy were all uber-WASP inventions of the Jews. Jewish immigrant Irving Berlin wrote “God Bless America,” “White Christmas,” “Easter Parade,” and “This Is the Army.” Try to imagine an immigrant in La Raza doing any of that.

Nearly all immigrants who arrived before Teddy Kennedy’s immigration act were like this. America used to get “educated, Westernized” immigrants who “assimilated with relative ease,” as Margaret Talbot put it in the
New Republic
, referring specifically to Muslims.
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Today, instead of educated Lebanese and Iranian Muslims, we’re getting Muslim refugees from tribal societies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, thunderstruck by indoor plumbing.

          
Stage One: Make it harder for immigrants to assimilate by admitting only those from cultures wildly divergent from ours.

          
Stage Two: Stop asking immigrants to assimilate.

          
Stage Three: It is hate speech to ask them to assimilate.

It’s still possible to meet a Honduran or Bosnian immigrant more completely imbued with Anglo-Saxon values than a tenth-generation American WASP. But they’re the exception. To keep bringing in waves of foreigners hostile to the native population in hopes of getting a few good ones is like draining the ocean to find a ring you lost.

DIVERSITY: THAT CULTURE YOU RISKED YOUR LIFE TO FLEE FROM

The companion lie to the “America is a nation of immigrants” lie is “diversity is a strength.” Praising diversity is simply part of the PC dogma, a mantra constantly being pounded into our heads. Repeat after me:
Diversity is a strength. Diversity is a strength. Diversity is a strength.
It’s like the shrieking radios permanently attached to bright people’s ears in the Kurt Vonnegut story “Harrison Bergeron,” to prevent them from using their superior intelligence. Contrary to everything you’ve heard, never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a disaster.

Look at Ireland with its Protestant and Catholic populations, Canada with its French and English populations, Israel with its Jewish and Palestinian populations. Or consider the warring factions in India, Sri Lanka, China, Iraq, Czechoslovakia (until it happily split up), the Balkans, and Chechnya. Also review the festering hotbeds of tribal warfare—I mean the “beautiful mosaic”—in Third World disasters like Afghanistan, Rwanda, and South Central LA. If diversity is their strength, I’d hate to see what their weakness is. The fact that we have to be incessantly told how wonderful diversity is only proves that it’s not. It’s like listening to a waiter try to palm off the fish “special” on you before it goes bad.

In response to the wanton slaughter of thirteen American troops at Fort Hood by a disgruntled second-generation Muslim immigrant, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, Army Chief of Staff General George Casey went on
Meet the Press
and said: “Our diversity, not only in our army but in our country, is a strength.”
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Then a few years later, after two Chechen immigrants bombed
the Boston Marathon, former CIA director Michael Hayden told a
Fox News Sunday
panel: “We welcome these kinds of folks coming to the United States.” Really? The kind that launch murderous attacks on Americans? Do people even listen to themselves when they spout these bromides, or is it just background music? Saying he was speaking “as the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency,” Hayden added: “Immigration to this country contributes to our national security.” The 9/11 attacks must have been fantastic for national security!

Hayden also made the strange announcement that America is “required to look like the world.” Is that in the CIA charter? I know it’s in the Democratic Party’s platform and also in the wedding vows of John Kerry and Teresa Heinz. This wasn’t some nut from the ACLU. It was a former government official—the head of the CIA. At least it becomes less of a mystery why no one at the CIA saw 9/11 coming.

A few days later on MSNBC, Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff of California responded to Muslim immigrants’ bombing the Boston Marathon by saying, “The American-Muslim community is a source of great strength to us . . . our strength in America has always been our diversity.”
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Do these people have a silicone chip in their brains that makes them say that?
How about a rousing chorus of: “Four legs good, two legs bad!”
This is the sort of brainwashing Americans are relentlessly subjected to, day after day, from every major news outlet. The good news is, even after years of wall-to-wall propaganda, Americans still aren’t sold on the idea.

IMMIGRANTS: YOU’RE NOT BLACK

Americans used to talk about “integration.” Then one day, out of the blue, the word “integration” got replaced with “diversity”—just like “global warming” suddenly became “climate change”—then “July.” Integration was about redressing historic wrongs done to black America. Diversity isn’t. Under the diversity regime, everyone gets special rights and privileges, except white men.

Affirmative action, welfare, enterprise zones, minority set-asides—all these used to be justified by the legacy of oppression: It all goes back to the Middle Passage! But now we’re talking about social welfare being dispensed in great heaping portions to Hmong, Somalis, and Latin Americans. They arrived circa 1997. So now liberals act as if they never mentioned anything about the redress of historic grievances.

The entire edifice of civil rights and discrimination law was meant to address the black experience in America, not to reward any loser with resentments. The idea was:
Okay, we’ve got 10 percent of the population that got the short end of the stick for a couple of centuries, so we’re spending it all on them.
America altered constitutional provisions about private property and freedom of contract—for blacks. Huge social welfare programs were established—for blacks. Affirmative action policies and racial quotas were developed—for blacks. We agreed to virtually criminalize the use of certain words—for blacks.