Monday, July 7, 2014
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
The Left’s Immigration Insanity
Don’t let anyone tell you our borders are secure. The New York Times reports that nearly 300,000 illegal immigrants have crossed the border “in recent months.” Rather than being deported, they have been dispersed throughout the country by the government.
Many Americans, particularly those on the right, are justifiably upset by the Obama Administration’s refusal to enforce our immigration laws and the chaos it has created. The political left is also angry over immigration. . . but its anger is aimed at Americans of all races who are saying, “We’ve had enough!”
Stunned by last week’s popular uprising against the relocation of illegal immigrants to Murrieta, California, reports indicate that hundreds of federal agents in riot gear are being sent in to break the resistance.
Over the Fourth of July holiday, I watched numerous liberal commentators and political figures express their anger not at the routine violation of our borders and immigration laws. . .
. . . not at the families sending their children alone on a dangerous trek across Central America. . .
. . . not at the pro-amnesty agitators who chanted, “Viva La Raza” and burned the American flag. . .
. . . but at Americans of all races, including blacks and Hispanics, who oppose flooding their communities with people who have clearly violated the law.
It was a stark reminder of how normalcy so infuriates the radical social engineers who control our government and manipulate our culture.
The most normal reaction imaginable to a massive influx of people entering our country, who access welfare and other taxpayer-funded programs, is to say, “Enough!” Overwhelmingly, these are men and women with little-to-no marketable skills, not the high-tech workers the president and the Chamber of Commerce insist we need.
The normal reaction of any nation is to be concerned about its sovereignty, language, culture, national identity and traditions. Yet as Americans express these completely normal views, they are labeled “racists” and “xenophobes.”
Don’t believe me? Just consider this column by a left-wing activist comparing the term “illegal immigrant” to the “N word.”
This anti-democratic assault on free speech is part of the intolerant left’s strategy to silence debate as it demonizes normalcy.
Look at what is happening in our schools. American flag shirts are banned as “provocative.” Patriotism is a normal impulse we should encourage among our youth!
Look at the media’s hysterical reaction to the Tea Party movement, which arose over reasonable concerns about unsustainable deficit spending.
Look at the vitriol now directed at people who say marriage is between a man and a woman.
Now the left insists that if you don’t believe in open borders, you must be a bigot.
The left’s increasing vilification of normalcy is what people are complaining about when they say, “I don’t recognize my country anymore.”
By the way, a recent survey found that most “solid liberals” are not proud of America. That simple fact goes a long way toward explaining their bizarre political views and their radical efforts to fundamentally transform this nation.
Shocking Contrast Of Cultures
Six Israelis were arrested this weekend and charged with the murder of a 16 year-old Palestinian, Mohammed Abu Khdeir. Three have reportedly confessed. Khdeir was killed in retaliation for the murders of three Israeli teenagers by Hamas operatives last month.
This is heartbreaking news. But in the reaction to these horrible murders, Israeli and Palestinian values are unambiguously on display.
Palestinian terrorists who brutally murder Israeli civilians are venerated. Public squares are named after them. Palestinian mothers celebrate the bloodlust of their murderous sons.
For example, the mother of Abu Aysha, one of the accused Hamas kidnappers of the three murdered Israeli teenagers, said, “They’re throwing the guilt on him by accusing him of kidnapping. If he truly did it — I’ll be proud of him till my final day.”
Now compare her praise to the revulsion felt across Israel today at the news that some Israelis responded to this evil with an evil of their own. Yishai Fraenkel, the uncle of one of the three murdered Israeli teenagers, called Khdeir’s death “heinous and shocking.” He added, “A murderer is a murderer, no matter his nationality and age. There is no justification for any murder.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Abu Khdeir’s father to share his condolences. The prime minister reportedly said:
“I would like to express my outrage and that of the citizens of Israel over the reprehensible murder of your son. We acted immediately to apprehend the murderers. We will bring them to trial and they will be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law. the murder of your son is abhorrent and cannot be countenanced by any human being.”
I don’t recall reading about Mahmoud Abbas’ call to the three Israeli families . . . because it didn’t happen.
Tom Rose and I interviewed Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer on the “Bauer & Rose” show this weekend. My co-host, Tom, said Khdeir’s killers would be “vomited out of Israeli society.” Ambassador Dermer echoed those remarks, saying, “There will be no roads or parks named after Israeli murders.”
Evil knows no ethnic boundaries. But you should judge a society by how it reacts to evil. The shocking contrast in the reactions to these murders again raises the question of why so many American elites insist on moral equivalence between Israel and her enemies. Often such a posture has nothing to do with morality and is not even equivalence, but thinly veiled anti-Semitism.
Our Vets DID NOT Fight In Vain
As Iraq continues to unravel, a terrible narrative is gaining traction: that the thousands of U.S. servicemen and women who fought, were wounded and died did so in vain. Our men and women in uniform deserve better. Click here to read my latest column pushing back against this demoralizing and defeatist narrative.
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