Above: Panmunjon, Korea, 1962—Dave Gorak is the one on the—you should pardon the expression—far right, wearing a garrison cap.
See also: VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow in American Legion Magazine, July 1997
As this “Nation of Laws” continues to hemorrhage the rule of law and sovereignty along our southern border, I am bewildered by the silence of the country’s major veterans’ organizations—the American Legion [Tweet them], the Veterans of Foreign Wars [Tweet them] et al.—that claim to be looking out for the interests of those, including me, who wore the uniform.
I am not a combat veteran. My military service included a year with the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, 9th Cavalry, an armored unit stationed along Korea's Demilitarized Zone, nearly 10 years after a ceasefire ended fighting there.
What we did wasn't particularly notable: monitoring the activities of North Korean troops on their side of the Military Demarcation Line, listening to radio chatter, learning to identify the other side's aircraft and vehicles by their silhouettes, recognizing uniform insignia, participating in field exercises, and, of course, looking forward to Pay Day so we could drink beer until we were stupid and silly.
My question is this: If I, whose Army experience was relatively tame, am upset by people entering this country illegally, wiping their feet on our immigration laws and sovereignty, waving foreign flags in our streets while demanding that we afford them respect and dignity, where are the voices of those veterans who experienced things I thankfully was spared?
Why are they ignoring the Marxist (née Democratic) Party’s wholesale betrayal of what millions throughout our history have risked their lives to defend?
Nearly 2 million illegal aliens have crashed our border since Beijing Biden moved into the White House [US on track to encounter record 2 million migrants on the southern border, government estimates show, CNN, March 31, 2021]. And not a word from the American Legion that for decades has claimed to be “For God and Country.”
This organization and others like it are not only looking the other way, but they also refuse to publish any criticisms of this crisis.
This is not the Legion’s historical position—as Peter Brimelow wrote in Time To Rethink Immigration in 1992
[s]taunch defenders of the national-origins quota system, like the American Legion, allowed
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Sign me up to keep America AmericanAbove: Panmunjon, Korea, 1962—Dave Gorak is the one on the—you should pardon the expression—far right, wearing a garrison cap.
See also: VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow in American Legion Magazine, July 1997
As this “Nation of Laws” continues to hemorrhage the rule of law and sovereignty along our southern border, I am bewildered by the silence of the country’s major veterans’ organizations—the American Legion [Tweet them], the Veterans of Foreign Wars [Tweet them] et al.—that claim to be looking out for the interests of those, including me, who wore the uniform.
I am not a combat veteran. My military service included a year with the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, 9th Cavalry, an armored unit stationed along Korea's Demilitarized Zone, nearly 10 years after a ceasefire ended fighting there.
What we did wasn't particularly notable: monitoring the activities of North Korean troops on their side of the Military Demarcation Line, listening to radio chatter, learning to identify the other side's aircraft and vehicles by their silhouettes, recognizing uniform insignia, participating in field exercises, and, of course, looking forward to Pay Day so we could drink beer until we were stupid and silly.
My question is this: If I, whose Army experience was relatively tame, am upset by people entering this country illegally, wiping their feet on our immigration laws and sovereignty, waving foreign flags in our streets while demanding that we afford them respect and dignity, where are the voices of those veterans who experienced things I thankfully was spared?
Why are they ignoring the Marxist (née Democratic) Party’s wholesale betrayal of what millions throughout our history have risked their lives to defend?
Nearly 2 million illegal aliens have crashed our border since Beijing Biden moved into the White House [US on track to encounter record 2 million migrants on the southern border, government estimates show, CNN, March 31, 2021]. And not a word from the American Legion that for decades has claimed to be “For God and Country.”
This organization and others like it are not only looking the other way, but they also refuse to publish any criticisms of this crisis.
This is not the Legion’s historical position—as Peter Brimelow wrote in Time To Rethink Immigration in 1992
[s]taunch defenders of the national-origins quota system, like the American Legion, allowed
Last month, the FBI conducted a conspicuous raid on the home and campaign office of Laredo, Texas nine-term Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar, citing potential financial improprieties related to the Central Asian country of Azerbaijan [FBI probe targets Rep. Cuellar’s home, campaign HQ in Laredo, by Valerie Gonzalez, The Monitor, January 19, 2022].
The timing of the raid is curious, indeed virtually unheard of. Cuellar, who has served as a public official since 1987, will be facing primary challenger Jessica Cisneros, touted as “the next AOC,” [ Jessica Cisneros Could Be the Next AOC. (But Don’t Tell Her That, by Tim Murphy, Mother Jones, January/February 2020] on March 1st.
The incumbent has centered his campaign around battling the recent illegal immigration surge and publicly criticizing the Biden Administration’s poor handling of the border crisis in South Texas, including a challenge aimed at embarrassing Vice President Kamala Harris [Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar says he has MOVED ON from trying to get Kamala Harris' help on the border because she 'doesn't seem interested' and hasn't returned his calls, Daily Mail, December 23, 2021].
On immigration, Blue Dog Cuellar and his opponent Cisneros are night and day. While Cuellar has been a high-profile advocate for action against the illegal aliens, drug traffickers and human smugglers pouring into his district, Cisneros is an actual immigration attorney backed by the “Squad” who advocates for Open Borders: Far-Left Targets Pro-Borders Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar For Primary Challenge, by Becky Noble, The Political Insider, August 5, 2021. The Cuellar-Cisneros election is key for the hard Left of the Democratic party, who see the race as a critical step towards turning Texas blue [ 'We flip Texas, we flip the country’ — AOC stumps for Cisneros, Casar, by Sofía Sánchez, Texas Public Radio, February 12, 2022] .
The 28th District is overwhelmingly working class and Mexican-descended, but during the 2020 election it began trending towards Republicans (Biden +4 compared
Earlier (2013) Richard Nixon's 100th Birthday: Nixon Now More Than Ever!
Whenever America is polarized, as it is today, people go back in memory and history to recall other times their nation was so divided.
The Civil War of the 1860s and the social revolution that tore us apart in the 1960s come instantly to mind. In that latter time, there was no figure more central to the conflicts of his day than Richard M. Nixon.
And no staff member was closer to Nixon in the campaign of 1968, or for the first four years of his presidency, than his personal aide Dwight Chapin, whose memoir, "The President's Man," is published this week.
Coincidentally, this February of 2022 is the 50th anniversary of Nixon's trip to China that changed the world. Chapin was at Nixon's side every day of that trip and had negotiated with the Chinese to prepare the schedule for both the president and first lady Pat Nixon.
The campaign of 1968 and Nixon's first term
Earlier: Ariz. GOP Senate Candidate Blake Masters Appears To Be Running As An Immigration Patriot
The Leftist Mainstream Media is worried about a GOP/ GAP wave this election cycle. They fret that Republicans are—gasp—embracing White Identity Politics. They wring their hands about Republican candidates and lawmakers who mention anti-white racism. They shriek over attempts to ban Critical Race Theory. They publish Dem Talking Point “fact checks” about truthful claims that Democrat states discriminate against whites in distributing treatment for the China Virus. And they really don’t like complaints about President Biden’s crass promise that his first nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court must be a black woman, especially embarrassing because Affirmative Action is now on SCOTUS’ docket. Funny thing: the MSM is at least partly right. The GOP is reluctantly embracing White Identity politics—because it wins elections. But it needs to go much further.
A sample of what the Lügenpresse thinks is a fire bell in the night:
Earlier (2003) The New York Times Says Japan Needs Immigrants. The Japanese Politely Disagree
Most people visit or move to Japan because the country and its people fascinate them, and they don’t judge them for being, well, Japanese. Not so with Julian Ryall a free-lancer, correspondent for The [UK] Telegraph and the South China Morning Post. Ryall thinks Japan is too Japanese. It has not adopted his enlightened views on race and immigration. While most of his work parrots Establishment bromides about the economy and the China conflict, he also writes something of a regular Two Minute Hate about the Japanese. They are, he clams, incorrigible racists. You’d think a man who has earned his daily rice bowl in the country for a quarter century would be a little more grateful. But alas, gratitude has never been a strong suit of the Leftist media.
Let’s leave aside Ryall’s departure from diverse, high-crime London for the monochrome, low-crime Yokohama just outside Tokyo, and what that says about his anti-racist bona fides. Let’s focus instead on his openly anti-Japanese journalism. Typically, Ryall doesn’t himself claim the Japanese are racists; he lets his interview subjects and headline writers do it for him.
This is typical: Why is racism so big in Japan? [SCMP, December 9, 2017]. The main source is an American expatriate named “Debito Arudou, a human-rights activist who was born David Schofill in California and became a naturalized Japanese citizen in 2000.”
Arudou was quite exercised that “most Japanese do not want to believe [racism] exists in their society because they have been told there is only one race in Japan.”
The Japanese are right to believe that. But Ryall and his American interlocutor expect Japan to adopt open borders and permit a mass influx of refugees:
And when the domestic media plays up violent incidents involving immigrants in France, Germany and Britain, it comes as no surprise that Japanese resist the idea of permitting foreigners to settle permanently in Japan, even when they are refugees seeking sanctuary from violence in their homelands.
“It is well known that Japan accepts a minuscule number of refugees each
Earlier (1994) by Roy Beck: The Ordeal Of Immigration In Wausau
The Wausau Daily Herald has a story about one of Biden's Afghans (they're not legally refugees, as Ann Corcoran keeps pointing out) who is accused, entirely predictably, of committing sexual assault in his new home in America:
'One individual doesn't necessarily reflect on the wider group': Resettlement group responds to arrest of Afghan refugee https://t.co/S1NmdoRZy5
— Wausau Daily Herald (@wausauherald) February 8, 2022
The reason the Wausau Daily Herald has this picture is that it had the usual pro-immigrant sob story about the same guy, reported by the same young female reporter, Renee Hickman, a Report For America corps member who covers rural issues in Wisconsin.
The cutline under the picture:
Matiullah Matie talks during an interview on Jan. 23 at his home in Wausau. Matie along with his wife and six children arrived in Wausau in December after fleeing Afghanistan amid the U.S. military's withdrawal from the country.
['Everything is different': One of first Afghan families to arrive in Wausau adapts to new home, country by Renee Hickman, Wausau Daily Herald, January 21, 2022]
The paper also had this picture (I’ve blurred the faces of the kids) of the family being welcomed by happy Democrat pols:
Matiullah Matie and four of his children meet with Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes and Wausau Mayor Katie Rosenberg.
More from the sex assault article, with CYA protestations of local Democrat immigration enthusiasts and Refugee Racketeers (links added):
Matiullah Matie, 40, was arrested following a complaint that was made on Feb. 2. A family acquaintance who had been assisting the family with its resettlement made the complaint and said the assault happened in a vehicle,
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