re: "If Every Immigrant Were Like This . . ."

Mark Krikorian at The Corner ("The one and only.") doesn't care much for the mass immigration model.

Money quote(s):

"The new national commander of the American Legion is Fang A. Wong, who moved here (legally) from Hong Kong with family members at age twelve in 1960 to join his father. He enlisted in the Army during Vietnam, where he served for more than two years, and retired from the service in 1989."

This is why CAA loves legal immigrants. CAA loves legal immigrants who, like CAA's forefathers (and mothers) re-made themselves from Grand Fenwickians, Graustarkians, and Ruritanians into un-hyphenated Americans. Yes, CAA favors the melting pot theory of assimilation and proudly identifies himself as a "Heinz 57" American.

"Does Wong’s example somehow mean that mass legal immigration is therefore a good thing, that our current arrangements ought to remain untouchable? The question sounds silly (especially since Wong came before Ted Kennedy got a hold of our immigration law), but that’s exactly the kind of thing apologists for mass immigration say all the time. Now, I might conceivably be willing to rethink my position if there were some kind of highly accurate test to ensure that every immigrant we admitted would become not only a productive, law-abiding member of society but also an ardent patriot, deeply committed to the principles of the Constitution, displaying a genuine enthusiasm for our nation’s history and culture, and immune to the wiles of our post-American elites.

But there is no such test."

The United States, or at least its political elites, have swapped out the very successful "melting pot" assimilationist model for the "salad bowl" model which has been so successful in no place where it can be identified. This presents problems which now amount of chanting the Orwellian "diversity is strength" mantra will solve.

9/23

re: "Whore not Hero: The Traitor Files -- Teddy Kennedy"

Pamela Geller at Atlus Shrugs ("Evil is made possible by the sanction you give it. Withdraw your sanction.") asks a serious question.

(Remember, the cover-up is nearly always a greater downfall, and more damaging, than the crime itself.)

Money quote(s):

"What I want to know is, why were these traitors protected? Teddy was the tip of the poisonous spear. Time after time, year after year, decade after decde, their treason is/was covered up. Was there not one decent man or woman with integrity? One?"

&

"The year after his Latin American tour, Kennedy entered the United States Senate. It is quite remarkable: the Kennedy that emerges from the FBI reports sounds like a right-winger's cartoon fantasy of the man. However bad you thought Ted Kennedy was, he was worse!"

re: "Liberal Lion of the Senate"

Lex at Neptunus Lex ("The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy!") suspends his speak-nothing-but-good-of-the-dead policy.

And it's hard to fault him for it.

WT - LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Don't issue visas to terror-group supporters

From my archive of press clippings:

Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Don't issue visas to terror-group supporters

Friday, February 26, 2010

All of the Sept. 11 terrorists and the Christmas Day bombing suspect were issued visas by U.S. consular officers in the Middle East or Europe.

Read the whole article here.

Snippet(s):

"Before the Immigration Act of 1996, foreigners who were a security risk were denied tourist, student and business visas to the United States. This 1996 legislation was enacted into law by members of both major political parties and signed by the president.

Sponsored by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who wrote immigration legislation for 40 years, the Immigration Act stated that "mere membership" in a terrorist organization was not a sufficient basis for denying an applicant a visa. On June 10, 2002, then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage wrote that believing "an applicant may pose a threat to national security ... is insufficient grounds for a consular officer to deny a visa to an applicant.""

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MARGARET NAST
Las Cruces, N.M.

re: "Dishonoring the honours"

EURSOC is none too pleased at Sen. Kennedy's honorary knighthood.

Money quote(s):

"(T)he Queen will be expected to honour a man who supported the filth who murdered her husband's uncle, Lord Mountbatten; who attempted to murder her government, though succeeded in killing several government ministers; who murdered thousands of British subjects in their attempt to destroy her United Kingdom?"

re: "Nominating Senator Kennedy"

Charles Crawford at Blogoir ("This website makes available to the general public interesting episodes and insights from Charles Crawford's eventful diplomatic career, and aims to explain in a open-minded, reasonable way how diplomacy works in practice.") has a question about Sen. Kennedy's honorary knighthood.

"Did the recommendation give the Senator full and glowing credit for (as recorded by the KGB) talking to the Soviet Union to try to thwart President Reagan's policies? "