- Much like the Titanic that sank on April 15, 1912, the
Unites States stands at a critical juncture in the history of our nation.
Few realize it, but, like the Titanic, this nation smashed into a piece
of legislation in 1965 that was never asked for or approved by the American
public. Our 'Captain' Lyndon Baines Johnson along with helmsman Senator
Teddy Kennedy drove America into an 'iceberg' of massive, unrestricted
immigration that opened up the flood gates with the 'IMMIGRATION REFORM
ACT'. At first, the flow of one million immigrants annually wasn't noticed.
We offered benevolence. Our country stood large on the opportunity landscape.
There was plenty of room and resources.
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- However, the massive flow of humanity from that ?hit?
still pours into our country 38 years later and few seem to notice--much
like the party-goers and dancers on the Titanic that kept up for hours
after hitting the iceberg in the North Atlantic. However, even the invincible
Titanic could not survive the onslaught from the constant flow of incoming
water--slowly, methodically stealing her ability to stay afloat.
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- Today in the United States, 70 million immigrants later
and pouring in at 2.3 million annually--both legal and illegal--our nation
shudders from San Francisco to New York and from Chicago to Miami. We rose
from 200 million to nearly 300 million in three decades. What was once
a benefit to our country is now a full-scale overpopulation and societal
crisis. From stem to stern, our English language is under assault and our
schools are drowning in ethnic violence, drugs and gang warfare. In California,
Texas, Florida and Arizona, our hospitals suffer bankruptcies from non-paid
services for 350,000 annual 'anchor babies'. Ten million illegal immigrants
displace jobs from America's working poor and depress wages for many others
at a cost of $133 billion annually in lost jobs. Leprosy, tuberculosis,
Chagas Disease, hepatitis and other diseases 'pour' into our country within
the bodies of illegal immigrants who avoid health screening before coming
on board the United States. Even worse, clashing cultures with religions
that celebrate 'female genital mutilation' and subjugation of women are
growing in enclaves around our country. As Lincoln said, "A house
divided against itself can not stand."
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- On the environmental front, our nation explodes toward
an added 200 million people that will reach billion past the mid century.
We are creating an 'irreversible crisis' with 'unsolvable problems'. California
will add 20 million in 30 years. Colorado will add five million by mid
century. Arizona will add four million. They already don't have enough
water. Florida can not survive another five million people. New York shudders
with its population problems. Air pollution poisons what we breathe and
massive sprawl devours our once lauded spaciousness. Species extinction
accelerates as we add numbers. Much like the Titanic, our standard of living
drops and our quality of life sinks with the influx of unrestricted immigration.
Soon, we too, will become like the countries of Bangladesh, India and China.
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- On the employment front, our leaders are outsourcing
and offshoring our jobs to Third World countries while they import the
Third World into our country. Our Congress created H-1B and L-1 visas that
have displaced one million high tech American workers in the past decade.
America's middle class is being driven into the unemployment lines. Our
schools are becoming dysfunctional towers of Babel with over 140 languages.
We can not stay afloat with this kind of linguistic chaos. Additionally,
we?re moving toward ?Third World Momentum?, which means, the more we import
millions of Third World immigrants, the more we manifest identical problems.
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- Yes, we have compassion for immigrants, but it's our
country and our children. Their leaders need to take care of them in their
countries. Unfortunately, Congress and the leadership of this nation refuse
to step below the water line to see how fast we are sinking. We're $6.92
trillion in debt. There were 20 different languages on the California recall
ballot. Whose country is this anyway? Our leaders are standing in the wheelhouse
totally insulated and isolated from those of us who shovel the coal, build
houses, repair cars, teach our kids, drive school busses and plow roads.
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- On a sobering environmental note, do you want your children
?struggling? in our country with an added 200 million more people past
mid century? California will add 20 million while each state will add an
average of four million. Quality of life and standards of living will sink
as the population rises. We can not save the world, but we can destroy
our country if we fail to act. The more extreme our numbers, the more extreme
our consequences.
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- Like the Titanic that cracked in half before plunging
to the depths because no one stopped the incoming water, the United States
like all great nations before us, could sink. No nation in history has
survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all civilizations
rise and fall, and that, ?An autopsy of history would show that all great
nations commit suicide.?
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- You can see the signs all around our country. If you
look about you, we're shuddering from bow to aft?from the stacks to the
rudder. Who is steering our nation and why are they heading toward more
icebergs instead of changing course? What can you do? You are just as much
an American patriot as Paul Revere, Betsy Ross, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy
Roosevelt, Susan B. Anthony, Lincoln and the soldiers from Valley Forge
to the Jungles of Vietnam and deserts of Iraq. It's time to start riding,
stitching, writing, charging, demonstrating and fighting for our country
within our country. We must enforce a 10 year ?time out? immigration moratorium
to get our house in order. Go to my web site for specific action items.
Send those items to all you know and ask them to do the same. Via the Internet,
we might prove Toynbee wrong.
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- Since our leaders won't stop this invasion of an 'unarmed
army' of legal and illegal immigrants, it's up to you. Our children face
a dangerous future if we fail to take action. It wasn't George Washington
who beat the British army. It was every militiaman who shot from fence
lines and trees. It wasn't Ike who won WWII. It was every GI who slung
a rifle over his soldier. Susan B. Anthony marched and Dr. Martin Luther
King demonstrated. They, in their time, paid the price for defending America
so we could enjoy our freedom. This is your time.
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- Frosty Wooldridge is a teacher and author who has bicycled
100,000 miles on six continents to see overpopulation up close and ugly.
His next book: ? Incursion Into America? is due out in June, 2004.
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- http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_8210.shtml
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