Posted by
Charles Lewis on Thursday, June 28, 2007 5:46:01 PM
by Charles Lewis
With the euphoria of victory against the lethal "Border Betrayal Bill," a celebration is certainly well deserved. After that, however, we in the grassroots save-America movement had better take a step back and assess the realities of where we stand. On the one hand, there is the opportunity to parlay the momentum we clearly own. On the other, we must avoid the inattentiveness that can arrive with even momentary complacency and deal with a raft of other threats of the same approximate severity as that of the invasion intrigue. We desperately need to capitalize on the former (the momentum) in pursuit of the latter (the quelling of the threats).
Item one on the agenda needs to be to see to it that as many current immigration laws as are on the books are enforced. This is highly problematical, as the administration has been spewing some rather thinly veiled threats in terms of its unwillingness to do anything to stem the tide, if said unconditional surrender bill were to die on the vine.
To be sure, if a fence is not constructed, if our border defenders remain in a state of abject fear of doing their jobs, if sanctuaries continue to proliferate, if internal enforcement is not stepped up and facilitated, if the terrorist illegal alien gangs that are running rampant in at least 42 states are not dealt with definitively, if employers are not held accountable under current law, and if invaders are allowed to continue to vote - in the millions - via Motor Voter, all will be, essentially, as if this treasonous legislation had passed. Indeed, we need to strike when the iron is hot and push hard for redress in all these areas. And state laws - like the tough, enforcement-only one passed recently in Georgia - need to reflect the will of the American people.
On the other hand, we must muster the same kind of constituent outrage that stymied this bill toward the defeat of the Bush Administration's various other equally lethal initiatives - ones that are, in general, favored much more by the new Democrat majority than by the President's own party mates. I am referring to the likes of the fast arriving North American Union apparatus, the Law of the Seas Treaty (which cedes much of American sovereignty to the pernicious UN), the "New Freedom" agenda (mandatory universal mental health screening and drugging), "Patent Reform" legislation that will forever remove the motivation to "build a better mousetrap" that made America the economic juggernaut it once was and could still be. All of these are Bushite priorities.
And one-man wrecking crew John McCain has his own slate of insidious proposals that must be defeated. These include extending his 1st-Amendment destroying "campaign finance reform" to the Internet, and turning authority over that same Internet over to that same UN.
Not that the agenda of the "loyal opposition" party doesn't have a huge array of sinister propositions on the table. The "Fairness Doctrine," gaining momentum within the bi-cameral donkey majority, would effectively shut down conservative talk radio by making it obligatory that stations carrying conservative talk give equal time to leftwing programming. Since the latter is a proven non-starter in the marketplace of ideas, most stations will be forced to switch to apolitical formats under this affront.
Likewise, the "Grassroots Gagging" provisions of lobbying legislation would make it a serious crime for political action groups (or even bloggers with 500 or more e-mail recipients) to send mailouts on crucial issues without giving Congress 45 days or more notice (far too long for such alerts to have any vestige of timeliness) and receiving approval.
Similarly, the "hate crimes" bill (already passed by the House) would make speech - even from the pulpit - that is critical of such things as Islamofascism, abortion, multiculturalism, homosexuality, and, certainly, the "great global warming" hoax prosecutable. Reassurances that only violent crimes based on these views will be subject to such action ring hollow in the face of recent jailings under such ordinances (like the 20-day incarceration of a 16-year-old girl) for expressing the views themselves.
And the denial of gun rights to a full third of our ex-servicemen (and many, many other law abiding citizens) is all but finalized, under the McCarthy Bill and its lookalikes (while the ATF runs roughshod over the few gunshops it hasn't already shut down for minor clerical gaffes). Plus the new confiscatory Democratic tax plan threatens to poison American investment and economic growth like a Chinese dog biscuit, and strangle the middle class.
Not to mention "bipartisan" menaces like the FDA's plan to ruin the health of those few not addicted to junk food, sugar fixes, and damaging prescription drugs - by running natural vitamin companies out of business and requiring prescriptions for their wares.
We especially need to ride the wave of our power surge to defeat in the primaries traitors like Trent Lott, Lindsey Graham, George Voinovich, John McCain, and Arlin Specter. We must put up the best candidates (ones we can trust) we possibly can against these arrogant hypocrites.
And perhaps our very next move should involve the release and/or just compensation of Johnny Sutton's many political prisoners among border guardians, whose tally - Ramos, Compeán, Hernandez (who, with four months left on his sentence for shooting out the tires of a van of illegals that had tried to run him over, has been tranferred to a facility where he will be exposed to the kind of steel booted invader thugs who almost killed Ramos), Sipe, Brugman, Alemán, Rhodes, and Mohr - is approaching double digits. And with them, we must not forget Nicholas Corbett (up for murder for defending himself from a rock wielding invader) or the Los Angeles riot cops on the carpet for doing the right thing (with uncalled-for restraint, no less) when confronted with rioting invaders in MacArthur Park.
Remember, America's opposition will be greatly motivated to shore up its vulnerabilities as a result of this setback. It always is, in such instances. We need to make sure that our own, energized response is even greater.