May Day!

Mayday!

March 2007

I want you to imagine a large building, like an auditorium. It belongs to an association of members, like the Moose Lodge or maybe a church. In this imaginary world, this auditorium is the only place where our association can meet. In fact, we can’t go anyplace else. This building is the only thing that gives us any identity as an association. When the building is gone, this group of members will be no more.

We meet all the time. We’re inside this meeting hall arguing about this or that, making motions, seconding them, debating them. We don’t always agree; in fact, we seldom all agree, but there are some things we are all supposed to agree upon. We disagree all the time about what color to paint the walls, or what type of new carpet to buy, but we all agree that we love this building where we live, and we want what is best for it. We disagree about the rules of our association, about how much the dues are going to be and who is going to be on the Board of Director’s next, but we all agree that we’re going to have rules, and that all members are going to obey them. We disagree quite a bit, but just like a church, we all have to keep believing some things together, or else we lose our identity as an association and become just a bunch of people crowded into one building and arguing a lot.

We’re a pretty open bunch; we allow visitors to come in often. They watch what we’re doing and we even allow them to pitch in to the debate every once in a while ... but it’s our building and our association. We let new members join all the time. All we ask is that they fit themselves in, not just into the building, but into the association. And we expect them to be loyal to this association because the association is, after all, what gives the building any identity. Of course, they must also abide by the rules of our association if they want to join.

But one day we members looked around and started to get worried. Instead of a handful of "visitors" we found hundreds, maybe thousands of non-members sitting in on our meeting. We discovered that many of them had sneaked into the building without permission, and were enjoying many of the privileges of membership without going through the process to obtain membership. Some were even voting when referendums and elections were held! A motion was made, asking that the doors be closed for a while so that we could identify those who are not members, make sure that they are following our rules and (if not) ask them to leave, but the "visitors" kept standing up and speaking out of turn, disrupting the debate, and demanding that the doors remain open so that their friends could continue to stream inside. "There’s a lot more room in here," they said, "and we have as much right to be here as you do."

No they don’t. They aren’t members. They have proven by their refusal to cooperate with our rules that they do not (and will not) abide by those rules. They demonstrate openly that they do not share the core beliefs of this association. Oh, they do love the building, but they do not want to be a member of our association ... they simply want to take possession of the auditorium and call it their own. Incredibly, some members of our own Board of Directors have learned that if these visitors are allowed to sit in long enough, it is impossible to distinguish them from the members who should be allowed to vote in our referendums and elections, and now there are enough of these visitors that their votes can put Directors on the Board and keep them there. Some Board members are actually standing at the doors, holding them open, and calling out to those walking by to come on in!

We members are now more alarmed than ever. It’s not just the hundreds of visitors inside the meeting, acting up, shouting us down, threatening the assembly if they don’t get their way. But the doors are still open, and more non-members are busting in every day, violating the rules but demanding membership anyway. We beg our association’s officers to close the doors, but they are so focused on parliamentary procedure and the niceties of the debate, that they cannot (or will not) recognize that "debate" is soon going to become impossible.

And then one day it will happen. Instead of an association, a group of people like a lodge or church, with common beliefs and goals, we will become just a bunch of people crowded into one building. The building is still there, filled with folks who like being inside of it, but the association will be gone forever.

Welcome to America. Like Rome, which fell when it could no longer maintain its wide-spread borders, we are surrendering to an invasion of neighbors who do not share our beliefs, have no interest in obeying the rules we have created, and simply want to come in and take over our house. They think that the magnificent way of life they see here and covet is a result of the building in which we live, but it isn’t the building (this land) that gave the association (this nation) its life, it is the association that made this building such a grand place to live. They are coming here in masses, a vast, unarmed army intent on "taking back" the lands that they believe are theirs, and I fear that they will succeed, because it seems that as a nation we have lost the will to live, lost the will to do what it takes to survive.

There is a simple word that keeps going missing today. Every time someone says "illegal immigration" the echo comes back "immigration!" The people who are marching in our streets, shouting their slogans in a foreign language, and waving the flag of a foreign nation declare that it was "immigrants" who made this nation great, but the word "illegal" somehow gets lost. The marchers are demanding that their violation of our laws be ignored and that they be brought to the head of the line and allowed to become citizens of the very nation who's laws they flout. There are millions of people around the world today who would love to come to America, learn our language, share our beliefs and become a faithful and loyal citizen. It isn’t our "sea to shining sea" or our "purple mountains majesty" they love, it is the association, the nation itself that they want to join. But they must apply, prove their worthiness, complete paperwork, stand in line at the U. S. Embassy and wait for an open slot in the quota for their part of the world. Before they can hope to become a citizen, they must prove they will not be a drain on our society, learn to speak English, pass a test, and then swear an oath of loyalty to this nation. The illegal immigrant marchers, on the other hand, want America to be their country, but they do not want to be Americans. They do not share the common beliefs that have made America the kind of place they wanted to get into. They don’t even want to know what those beliefs are. They simply like our house and demand that they be allowed to move in and stay. You don't believe that? Just spend a little time researching the words "Aztlan" and "reconquista" on the Internet.

I doubt that I'll live to see it, but I predict that if they succeed in annexing "Aztlan" back into Mexico, it will become just like Mexico today, the same miserable, squalid, poverty-stricken mess of a Socialist country that they are so eager to escape now. And where will they go then?

I include a link here to a very informative but disturbing essay by Mr. Kenny Fisher (it’s two years old!) on the "American Patrol" website. I also take the liberty of quoting his proposed solutions here, along with a couple of my own recommendations.