April 11, 2006

Are Major Corporations Opposing America’s Safety?

Doug McIntyre spoke at the recent Restoration Weekend organized by the Center for the Study of Popular Culture:

Here are some recent Los Angeles headlines. "Between 2000 and 2003, the population of L.A. County went up by a million." It's like taking the entire city of Boston and its suburbs and laying it across L.A. County. "The illiteracy rate among L.A. County workers age 16 to 54 is a staggering 51%." "The L.A. County healthcare system lost 14 major hospitals in the last 12 months alone, and we have that many more on the brink of insolvency and closing right now."

While nearly every other major city in America has seen a steep decline in violent crime, in Los Angeles County, the murder rate is up. The L.A. Unified School District-which is many things, but "unified" isn't one of them-is a disaster. Seventy-eight percent of the student body speaks Spanish and you're as like to see bien venutos over the door as you are to see "welcome."

The average price for a home countywide in Los Angeles, hit the half-million mark, in the San Fernando Valley, at $600,000. In Orange County, it's $650,000 and rising. On our block alone, in our little cul-de-sac, a single family home now houses four families with 11 cars in the street. This is happening across all of Southern California.

...It's not an accident that the chief lobbyists for an open border policy in this country are Wells Fargo Bank, Citicorp, Citigroup, Bank of America, the Hotel and Tourism Industry, the meat-packing industry, the poultry industry and on and on the list goes. These are major American industries that largely do their business here domestically.

...Are we out of our minds in a post-9/11 world? This is God's gift to terrorist cells that need funding. This is God's gift to illegal drug cartels to launder their money.

Banks are now writing loans for illegal immigrants, in direct violation of the banking laws. A nation that does not have control of its borders is a nation in name only. That is exactly the point. That's the objective of the multi-national corporation and the corporatists who have taken over our party.

The globalist business model views the nation-state as an impediment. In fact, they see the nation-state as a vestigial hold over. An archaic remnant of a bygone era. Things like language, law, history, art, tradition, and culture are impediments to the movement of goods and services. Their single mantra is stock price über ales. As long as the stock price is going up, it's good. They have zero responsibility to the nation that enriched them.

Per Dick Morris:

One must separately consider the three key elements of immigration reform under discussion: The border fence, the guest-worker program and the criminalization of illegal aliens and those who employ them.

The GOP base wants a fence. It is vital to the entire concept of whether or not we can control our borders. All efforts to beef up manpower on the border have failed to stem the daily flow of illegal immigrants from Mexico. A fence is the only way to do it. By backing a fence and demonstrably taking control of our southern border, the Republican Party will appease the demands of its base.

But to prevent disaster among Latino voters, it must accompany the fence with a more liberal policy on guest workers and criminalization.

Simply put, the fence must have a gate that swings open for immigrants we want and need. To avoid permanently antagonizing our southern neighbors and to keep the labor supply on which so much of American business and prosperity depend, we need a guest-worker program.

Note that Morris advocates a guest-worker program -- not a massive amnesty.

We have to have the border fence. And it looks like we Americans may have to do some consumer advocacy targeted to our own corporations, to get them on board with our security needs, with regard to controlling our borders and developing our immigration policies.

Kuwaiti Intellectual: Muslims in West Must Cut Their Ties to Muslims in the East

Memri reports on an article written by Dr. Ahmad Al-Baghdadi, a political science lecturer at Kuwait University:

...what do you expect the West [to do] when it sees its citizens being murdered in the name of religion, when it [experiences] hatred in the name of religion and suffers the damages of terrorism [perpetrated] in the name of religion? It is only natural that the West should hate you and tighten the rope around your necks, so you do not 'invade it from within' as you declare in your announcements and sermons...

"The truth that we must deal with today is that people in the West no longer trust Muslims in general. The Muslims in the West must therefore sever their ties with the Muslims in the east, and repair their relations with the Western societies by announcing that they accept the humane values on the basis of which they were received in the West. They must also sever their ties with the religious clerics and their fatwas...

"If they fail to do this, they must bear the consequences and the difficulties that will ensue. They must not blame bin Laden and Al-Zarqawi, but [only] themselves for being driven, in ignorance, by the views of the clerics..."

It's good to see the first beginnings of leaders within the Muslim world who speak out against terrorism. 

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