MY MINI-RANT OF THE DAY

Do you know how all this anti-immigration, anti-Hispanic hype began?

Nah, most of you won’t believe it.

The whole thing started in the late 1970’s when a pair of “ranchers” in Cochise County wanted a way to legitimize their abject hate of Mexicans, and also legitimize their tow-truck business.  You see, when illegals were picked up in a vehicle, it was impounded.  There in Cochise County the Bennett brothers had the contract with misc. agencies to tow the vehicles to impound lots.  There, after a specific number of days they could claim the vehicle, which they would then sell, making a very tidy profit off illegal immigration.  They are also Big Game Hunters who were interested in marketing the greatest hunting experience of them all – hunting illegal aliens who were allegedly drug runners.  In order to get away with this rash and highly racist plan, they marketed it as protecting America and Cochise County against alien invaders.  Working alongside them was another gentlemen who had been arrested for assaulting an illegal alien and inflicting great bodily harm on him.  Because the climate in Cochise is so conservative he managed to get away with it.  And thus he sent out a letter signed by 200 or so of the leading citizens of the county demanding something be done about the onslaught of illegal aliens, saying he was going to form a citizens vigilante group to do this himself.  Oh, did I mention that the Bennett brothers once tried hanging a pair of illegal immigrants?  They tortured the two men, burned them, and filled them full of buck-shot.  Guess what?  They served no time for what is obviously  hate crime.

Their crime fighting exploits were followed by the press.  Pat Buchanan managed to get hold of the information and paid a personal visit to them.  So did Barbara Coe.  The rest is history.

I love irony.  In what is an exquisitely ironic twist, it is entirely possible all these new anti-immigration laws that are being passed in communities around the country are going to backfire and end up costing the community twice what they are spending on ‘illegals’ and ‘welfare’.

The Bennett brothers scored big when they attracted the attention of Patrick J. Buchanan.  Please follow the dancing ball… Bay Buchanan, sister of Patrick J. Buchanan works directly with Tom Tancredo (yep, you knew I would get around to him before long) and his PAC.  And, guess who does all the agitation on The Hill?

Ruben Navarrette, Jr. on Immigration and the polls.  

Think Progress (okay, it’s liberal) has a little fun with Pat Buchanan.  

“…Immigrants will not be able to assimilate:

 

Where the Italians wanted to be part of our family, millions of Mexicans are determined to retain their language and loyalty to Mexico. They prefer to remain outsiders. They do not wish to assimilate and the nation no longer demands that they do so. [Buchanan, p. 28, 2006]

 

VERSUS

 

Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Languages or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion. [Benjamin Franklin, 1751]

 

Immigrants are responsible for crime:

 

Many Hispanics, as a matter of fact, you know what culture they are assimilating to? — the rap culture, the crime culture, anti-cops, all the rest of it. [Buchanan, 8/22/06]

 

VERSUS

“The Irish fill our prisons, our poor houses. … Scratch a convict or a pauper, and the chances are that you tickle the skin of an Irish Catholic. Putting them on a boat and sending them home would end crime in this country.” [Chicago Post, 1868]

 

Immigrants plan to commit treason against America:

 

Mexican-Americans can now become citizens of Mexico again. The whole idea is to create this giant fifth column in the United States which can leverage the American government in elections and pressure them to do what is in the interest of the nation of Mexico. [Buchanan, 8/22/06]

 

VERSUS

 

[A] set of citizens, German and Irish, wanted to get the Constitution of the U. S. into their own hands and sell it to a foreign power. [Theme of an American Nativist Party rally, 1844]

 

Immigrants come from inferior cultures:

 

[A]lmost all immigrants today, legal and illegal, come from countries and cultures whose peoples have never before been assimilated into a First World nation. [Buchanan, p. 221, 2006]

 

VERSUS

 

Today, instead of a nation descended from generations of freemen bred to a knowledge of principles and practice of self government, of liberty under the law, we have a heterogeneous population, no small proportion of which is sprung from races that throughout the centuries have known no liberty at all… In other words our capacity to maintain our cherished institutions stands diluted by a stream of alien blood, with all of its misconceptions respecting the relationships of the governing power to the governed. [Rep. Albert Johnson, 1927, justifying the 1924 National Origins Act]

 

Immigrants will dilute the white race:

If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built. No nation has ever undergone so radical a demographic transformation and survived. [Buchanan, p. 11, 2006]

 

VERSUS

 

The number of purely white People in the World is proportionally very small…in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are Germans also, the Saxons only accepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. [Benjamin Franklin, 1751]”