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SUBTERFUGE
by Intrepid
It comes from the Latin, subterfugere: to escape. Webster's (unabridged) defines the word as a deceptive stratagem or device; deception by artifice so as to conceal or evade.
President Bush's televised address to the nation on Tuesday regarding the proposed deployment of 6,000 National Guard along our Mexican border was a stratagem for evading the American people. It was deception by artifice so as to conceal a growing demographic nightmare. Six-thousand National Guardsmen patrolling (in shifts) along vast expanses of semi-monitored but porous, unprotected borders--against the floodtide of alien millions--is a virtual drop in the bucket to coincide with that virtual fence he proposed instead of--oh, perish the thought!--a real wall.
President Bush has had six years to secure those borders, but he hasn't done a thing. Why? Not even after 9/11 did he take decisive action on this issue. Consistently he's failed to effectively, systematically secure our borders from the flow of worldwide illegals. And now, after the May Day (million-man) march of the wetbacks on the United States and its citizens, polls show that the American people (shocked by the actual sight of this on their TV screens) by overwhelming majority demand border security, now. You see, it's a visual thing: what we don't know can't hurt us, but what we can see on our screens, that we finally, visually know--and that hurts like hell!
The dirty little secret is finally out, and the polls prove it. So, now the president has to try and calm us down. How? With clichés, platitudes, half-truths--smoke, mirrors and amnesty (only it ain't amnesty, right?). Are these supposed to be solutions to the kind of crisis that within 20 years could cripple this country and destroy our national identity?
While passing out bromides and verbal band aids, there were some things that George W. Bush failed to mention in his address on Tuesday night. Though he alluded to the reality that "Illegal immigration puts pressure on public schools and hospitals and strains state and local budgets" (not to mention social security, medical insurance, prisons and welfare), he said nothing of the Senate which currently is working on an immigration bill (from Republicans Hagel & Martinez) with amendments being voted on right now that, if passed in its present form, will rock our world and change our nation forever.
According to Meg Gallagher of the NY Post, "The Senate bill, as it stands, contains a vast, unacknowledged increase in legal immigration disguised as a guest-worker bill. 'Guest workers' under the Senate version would mostly have a right to convert to legal immigration status after a number of years. Legal immigrants are automatically eligible for citizenship status." Meanwhile, each legal immigrant would obtain new rights to bring not only spouses and children but even extended family members to the United States.
A study of the current immigration bill just released by the Heritage Foundation reveals that the net result of the Senate provision would be a vast increase in legal immigration over the next 20 years of a minimum of 103 million to a maximum of 193 million legal immigrants entering our borders. We are a nation of not quite 300 million, now! How are we expected to accommodate (let alone assimilate) between 100 to 200 million more immigrants (in addition to millions more illegals) within 20 years? How can we allow this and still retain our national identity, our institutions, our culture, our country?
And what about national security in the face of radical Islamic terror? How can We the People seriously believe that our elected leaders and the president himself are seriously protecting our nation and our future when we aren't even offered a serious plan with teeth for the protection and the defense of our Mexican border?
Let no American citizen--no child or grandchild of immigrants who came here to forge an American identity--put his or her trust in this half-baked, fraudulent, inept excuse for real solutions to massive security breaches, hemorrhaging along open, undefended borders. The president's address on our collapsed national security was subterfuge.
Intrepid
5/19/06
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