Well ain't that a fine plate o' spaetzle 'n' meatballs?
*bangs head on nonexistent wall
The Senate immigration bill could mean reparations for German Nazis. No, I’m not making this up. Look at Title IX, the “Study of War Time Treatment of Certain People,” also cited as the “Wartime Treatment Study Act,” Sections 901-916, pages 409-415 available through the Heritage Foundation.
...The Senate immigration bill would establishes a Commission on Wartime Treatment of European Americans to investigate U.S. policies that the bill describes as “devastating to the Italian American and German American communities.”
Section 903 declares that, the “term German Americans” includes “resident aliens of German ancestry” who numbered about 300,000 in total. The same definition is used for the term Italian American.
...This section of the Kennedy-Bush-Kyl immigration bill is a textbook case of what happens to legislation that is created in secret, without hearings, and with only limited debate. These six pages reveal the politically correct mind-set animating this 418-page monstrosity.
It’s beginning to dawn on me that the ‘Whole Purpose’ behind this stupid bill is not “low wages,” [once they’re citizens they’ll demand the same damned wage the rest get] or “keeping families together” [they’d be together in their country of origin, too] nor not being “raaaacist” [ whateverrr].
Seems to me the “Whole Point” is to devalue American Citizenship.
In preparation for what? To what end? I got no clue.
And if that isn’t the “Whole Point” - or one of ‘em - it sure is one hell on an unintended consequence.
Meatballs…
Well, like duh, yeah! One of the big agendas that has grown up in the last fifty-sixty years as part of the political correctness agenda is the elimination of American “exceptionalism.” You may remember that I criticized GWB in the days and weeks immediately after 9/11 for seeking to “roll back the Enlightenment,” and for that I despise him and count him the very worst president we’ve ever been saddled with. This is more of the same neocon same—and it dovetails with the criticism conservatives make of treason on the part of leftists. If America is not “exceptional” then there is no reason to view American citizenship as something special on the world stage.
If there is a single keystone problem with America, it is that it has lost its focus: America is a pilot project in self-governance for the rest of the world and for all of human history, and that agenda is far and away more important than anything else we could conceivably be doing. Each of us is God’s vicar on earth through every choice we make; devaluing American citizenship is a betrayal of all humankind.
Posted by on 06/24/07 at 08:07 AM
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