A Letter to the Editor

Sometimes you read something of such clarity and simplicity that you just know it could not be improved on. My cousin (and fellow assimilated immigrant) forwarded me this letter with a request to pass it on. This is my way of doing so.

This letter was written in response to a series of letters to the editor in the Orange County Register:  
   
 Dear Editor:  
    
  So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this land is made up of  immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should tear down the Statue of  Liberty because the people now in question aren't being treated the same as those  who passed through Ellis Island and other ports of entry.  
   
  Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people like Mr.Lujan  why today's American is not willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any  longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to  the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New  York and be documented. Some would even get down on their hands and knees  and kiss the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new  country in good and bad times. They made learning English a primary rule in their  new American households and some even changed their names to blend in with  their new home.  
    
  They had waved good bye to their birth place to give their children a new life and  did everything in their power to help their children assimilate into one culture.  
    
  Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to  protect them. All they had were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought  with them to trade for a future of prosperity. Most of their children came of age  when World War II broke out. My father fought along side men whose parents  had come straight over from Germany, Italy, France and Japan. None of these 1st  generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had  come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of  Japan. They were defending the United States of America as one people. When  we liberated France, no one in those villages were looking for the French- American or the German American or the Irish American. The people of France  saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that represented one country. Not  one of those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another  country's flag and waving it to represent who they were. It would have been a  disgrace to their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants  truly knew what it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot into one  red, white and blue bowl.  
    
  And here we are in 2006 with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same rights  and privileges. Only they want to achieve it by playing with a different set of  rules, one that includes the entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to  their mother country. I'm sorry, that's not what being an American is all about. I  believe that the immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900's deserve  better than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future  generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those legally searching  for a better life. I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an  example by those waving foreign country flags.  
    
  And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty, it happens to  mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the immigration bill. I wouldn't start  talking about dismantling the United States just yet.  
  
 (signed) Rosemary LaBonte 

Nice job Ms LaBonte. Could not have said it better myself. I hope there are more like you

out there. I'm still down on my hands and knees kissing this hallowed ground. God bless America and all who truly love her.

Sergio from Camarillo

 

The Year of the Stunt

 

I recently accused our own President Bush of manipulative stunts, so it is only fair that I reveal the Democrats as equally adept in this art; point in case, Obama Barak. I can only believe that Obama (Osama) is only a political strategy trick to make Hillary more palatable to the moderate voter. It is so transparent how details of Obama's disturbing past spent in Wahabi madrasas are casually being released by the MSM. Also his alleged Christianity is shown to be very much in conflict with his legislative voting record. All this guy needs is a triple-six tattoo and the anti-Christ analogy would be complete.

So have the Dem political strategists put up a straw-man? Have they purposely put up a Black man with disturbing ties to Islamofascism as candidate for Presidential nomination? Talk about pushing the fear factor. Are they cynically stoking the fires of working class racism? Islamophobia?

If in fact, Liberals are not just a bunch of degenerates, but a people adherent to a vastly different paradigm, then it is entirely possible that even within their paradigm, Liberals, like Conservatives also vote for the least of all evils.

So, what is worse, a Socialist, mercurial, power-mad, psycho-bitch or a crypto-Muslim? That is one serious hell of a choice for the Democrats to have to make at their next National Convention. All I know is that just about any Republican candidate has a better chance of defeating Obama than they have of defeating Hillary.

Is the American voter so angry at our government's pathetic performance that the next vote in 2008 will be another protest vote? How would that shape-out? Could it all end up as a Democrat majority in the Congress, but not large enough to overcome a veto, and a staunch Republican Conservative in the White House? 

Will we see a voter engineered grid-lock? Is that really the best of all worlds? Some believe so, I only worry that this "stunt" is being played-out in a time of war. So far, there's nothing to smile about in the horizon.

 

Treading Water

If the German prosecutor takes the war crimes case against Rumsfeld and the Bush Cabinet, he will be a hero in Euro-socialist circles. Rumsfeld and all others if (or when) charged with war crimes can (and probably will) be convicted in absentia. If the case is prosecuted, Rumsfeld will most likely be convicted because he will not submit himself (make himself present) to the German court, and that will rankle the proud German judiciary. 

Any covert efforts or retaliation by the United States to thwart the prosecution will be widely exposed by the mainstream media and the ‘covert operatives’ will be hung out in the wind. The international community will side with the German prosecutor. Every ounce of envy that the world has had at American power will be brought to play. 

Pundits in the upcoming Hillary Clinton administration will publicly debate protecting Rumsfeld or restoring the friendship with their Euro-Socialist brethren. Even if Rumsfeld and the rest are never turned over, the public pressure on them will be more than enough to justify suicide. 

No one else will dare take up the Crusader mantle after this.

The Europeans can do this, they know they can do this and make enough international trouble to get the Liberal Dems in power to either acquiesce their legal jurisdiction, or at least switch to full-apologetics kiss-Euro-ass, kiss-Arab-ass mode. Either way they win.

Some might argue that the European Socialists don't have a choice in the matter. Fifty million restive Muslims within their borders can be quite a threat. You can't very well shoot the rats when they are inside your underwear with you. But they let that happen to themselves.

The Germans are out of bullshit options. They painted themselves into a corner with their last assertion that “The US Courts will take up the matter.” It will be either to prosecute, or to suffer internal unrest at the hand of the Muslims. It’s a squeeze play by the International Hard Left, brilliant in its timing and execution.

The only other option is for American courts to take up the “challenge” and conduct their own War Crimes tribunal of sorts. I believe Waxman of West LA may be preparing that as I write this. Any way you look at it, this turn of events will make it impossible for any other prominent American politician to truly take up the fight against Islamofascism.

Don’t forget that the American military is civilian controlled. All the heroism and sacrifice, if mis-directed will be a simple waste of American lives and talent. All our War on Terror activities from now on will be staged for public consumption. They will be elaborate Hollywood-like productions to give the American voter the feeling that something is really being done; lots of drama, little or no real progress.

In closing, I wish to say that a ship of state can not negotiate the rough straits of warfare when half the crew is drilling holes under the water-line. Our Republican ship just sank; too bad it was carrying my America. I call it treason most foul.

So where does this put you and me? For I assume since you bother to read this column, my views resonate with yours. I’m afraid this thing puts us in the drink. We are now treading water and very far away from land.

Sorry folks, but that's how I see it. By using the Islamist menace, the international secular Socialist movement is poised to check-mate the Judeo-Christian world. The New World Order will be strictly secular.

It could be that all this was inevitable, … pre-ordained, … part of the prophesied end-times. It could also be that in my love for my young family, I thought that by writing these opinions I could help forestall, or delay that fateful day. Foolish of me wasn’t it?

Maybe God will forgive my arrogance.

Sergio

CAVEAT LUSOR

Hey fellow bloggers, BEWARE! 

The enemy might just be reading your writings. If so, you could become the target of a local Islamofascist sleeper-cell. 

There is a high school teacher in France, who wrote an opinion piece in a French daily slamming Islamofascism. The poor fellow is now under constant (French) police protection after receiving death threats. If you ask me, he would be better off under the protection of Barney Fife.

French Islamofascist chat-rooms are now abuzz with death threats against Robert Redeker, a high school philosophy teacher. The Islamist chat-rooms contain photos of him, a map to his home and his telephone numbers.

The poor fellow is now in hiding, changing residences every two days, not a good situation. In an interview in Le Figaro, Redeker called his situation "a little victory" for Muslim fundamentalists, saying they "succeeded in punishing me on French soil as if I was guilty of a speech crime."

Islam’s greatest aim is perception control. Publish any opinion negatively affecting that perception and you become a stone in their shoe. Gain a sizeable readership and you become an obstacle to be removed.

With the leftist ACLU, the disloyal Dems and the MSM running cover for them here in the United States, how long will it be until the same happens here? For all I know, attacks against contributors to Republicanandproud could already be in the planning stage. To that I say “hey you gotta go sometime, you might as well ‘go’ doing something worthwhile.”

We do it for the kids, so they may inherit a free society to live in.

To Peru for Podiatry

We have terror cells running around the country planning mayhem, and we still stop everything, and devote police and secret service resources to retrieving un-authorized photos of Bradjelina.

A team composed of local police, state police and including members of the Secret Service swooped down on the Westfield, Massachusetts home of William Keys. Apparently Mr. Keys had in his possession a memory stick from a digital camera with unauthorized photos of Bradjelina. This operation was coordinated with Los Angeles law enforcement agencies.

Mr. Keys is accused of posting three Bradjelina photos on the Internet. 

All the while, Anglo-looking Chechens and clean-shaved Pakistanis are renting local warehouse space to assemble weapons, and prepare bloody acts on our civilians. Can we really devote vast law enforcement resources to chasing down paparazzis? Can’t those self-indulgent show-biz millionaires hire their own private security apparatus? 

Just who the hell are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to command such expenditure of public law enforcement resources? What’s with going to Namibia to have a baby? What’s wrong with birthing in the US? Are our world-class medical facilities suddenly sub-standard?

So what’s the deal, … is bin Laden hot on Angelina? … or perhaps on Brad? Yeah, that’s probably it: Osama is hot on Brad and wants to bump off his competition! So Osama planted al Qaedas all over US maternity hospitals to get Angelina?

So maybe this thing is part of the war on terror after all? Or is it just some of that old Hollywood publicity stunt stuff? 

Sergio From Camarillo