Wes Vernon
April 10, 2006
Illegal aliens and the speech police (and the coming breakup of the United States?)
By Wes Vernon

Oooooooooooooh! Stop speaking the plain English language. Calling a spade a spade is so mean!

Once again, George Orwell's prophesy has reared its ugly head.

Three U.S. journalism groups want their fellow scribes to stop using terms "illegal immigrant," or simply "illegal" [often used as a shorthand noun], and "alien" when covering the immigration issue. It's "dehumanizing," you see. That applies especially to "illegal alien." The proper term is "undocumented people."

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), and the Asian-American Journalists Association (AAJA) are leading the cry to stop saying illegals are — well, illegal.

As one of their spokesmen put it, "The words we use frame a debate, and we need to make sure those words are not loaded with baggage."

Well, okay, why stop there? Here's another idea. Maybe we should not define those who help themselves to other people's money at gunpoint as "muggers" or "bank robbers." Similarly, let us see or hear no more news reports of "embezzlers," or "white collar criminals." Those terms are so "dehumanizing," and "loaded with baggage." How about "unproven money-sharing people"? After all, "they just want a better life," right?

This political correctness is the latest outrage in the ongoing debate over whether violating the law is — guess what — illegal. If most journalists take it seriously, George Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm" will have morphed into the funny farm.

In fact, the Senate this past week became the funny farm when it appeared to be on the verge of approving legislation that said — I'm not making this up — that illegal aliens who have been in this country violating the law for five years or more would be rewarded with a pass toward citizenship. All would be forgiven. But those who have been violating the law for only two-to-five years, shame on them. Next time, violate the law early and often. They would have to go home and re-enter as temporary workers, albeit with a path toward citizenship. Those who are in this country illegally for less than two years would be punished for not getting in on the border-crashing racket soon enough. They would have to go home and get in line like everyone else who is dumb enough to think the laws of the United States mean what they say. Little questions like whether an honor system is sufficient to determine how long a person has been living here illegally are overlooked.

Conservatives tried to inject some measure of sanity into the bill. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid would have none of it. Apparently convinced we do not have enough criminals already on our shores, the senator from Nevada blocked amendments such as one that would have barred American citizenship for any illegal alien convicted of a felony or three misdemeanors or who ignored a court order to leave the country.

In bowing to the criminal lobby, Reid has disgraced the Senate seat once held by the late patriot Pat McCarran, co-author of the reasonable, orderly, compassionate, and generous 1952 McCarran-Walter Immigration Law. Like Reid, McCarran — a relentless foe of communism — was a Democrat. Unlike Reid, McCarran was one of the true giants of Senate history.

The death of immigration reform (at least until after the Easter recess) was deliberate sabotage on Reid's part. On the advice of New York Senator Chuck Schumer, denying sensible amendments was aimed at denying the Republicans a victory in this election year. It was not lost on anyone that — by sheer coincidence — Schumer heads the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee. Oh! So that's why my computer's spell-check keeps trying to get me to spell his name "Schemer." One of these days, I'm going to start obeying my spell-check.

The senators also managed to kill a border security-only bill — with no "guest worker" programs.

Meanwhile, in my own backyard of Montgomery County, Maryland — whose officials are heavily influenced by a segment of the population with propellers at the top of the head — the school system has granted students community service credit for attending a rally in downtown Washington (on Monday April 10) in support of "immigrant rights" (a "right" to break the law, that is).

According to information on the Chris Core radio talk show on WMAL-AM, no such credit would be available to a student who shows up to engage in a counter-protest in support of effective border security. The "civics lesson," as school officials call it, apparently is narrowly focused on one side of the debate.

School Superintendent Jerry D. Weast just can't understand why he is getting all these angry calls from parents who have this weird off-the-wall idea that school officials should focus more on education, not political advocacy. Weast thinks this is strange because what he is doing is "consistent with how the system has operated." Alas, that's the problem. But we'll save that discussion for another day.

As you watch demonstrators carrying the Mexican flag and damning the country they say they want to be a part of, consider the "compassionate" laws in the government of the very country that in many ways is egging them on and implying that we who have problems with willful lawbreakers are bigots. Check out Frank Gaffney's archived columns on this website. Mexico's immigration laws are extremely restrictive. If we imposed similar legislation in the U.S., we would be branded as "mean-spirited." (See Gaffney-April 3-"The Mexican Solution")

Now let us get right down to the plot — and that term is not used lightly — that serves as a major driving force behind this great lawbreaking machine:

Contrary to what the mainstream media would have you believe, the National Council de La Raza — the most prominent group agitating for illegal immigration — is not simply the "Hispanic Rotary Club."

Congressman Charles Norwood has done some digging, and has unearthed chilling information that La Raza serves as a "respectable front" for radical secondary groups whose agenda includes nothing short of dismantling the United States.

Writing in Human Events, Norwood identifies a "radical racist group" as "key" in the coalition. The Georgia Republican says the "Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA) seeks to carve a racist nation out of the American West."

MEChA was "reported to be one of the main organizers" of the street demonstrations. The lawmaker writes "MEChA and the La Raza movement teach that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon, and parts of Washington State make up the area known as Aztlan — a fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America."

All these areas of the U.S. are to be surrendered to "La Raza," after enough immigrants — legal and illegal — can claim a majority. Miguel Perez, a key figure in Cal-State's MEChA chapter, is quoted as saying "Non-Chicanos would have to be expelled — opposition groups would be quashed because you have to keep power." All of this will happen "once Aztlan is established" at which point "ethnic cleansing would commence."

And what kind of government would emerge in "Aztlan?" Says Perez: "The ultimate ideology is the liberation of Aztlan. Communism would be closest to it."

Lest you think these are just the outer fringes of a nut faction (Every group has some shady characters in its past and unbalanced characters today), Congressman Norwood says this rhetoric comes from official MEChA chapter sites at universities all over America, including Georgetown, U. of Texas. UCLA, U. of Oregon, U. of Michigan. and U. of Colorado.

Despite the National Council of LaRaza's suspect ties, Congressman Norwood believes the majority of its members are not racist. But unless La Raza completely separates it self from MEChA and unequivocally repudiates its entire racist agenda, then the Council should be barred from receiving federal funds (Yes, it has been receiving some of your tax dollars), and barred from testifying before Congress. Also the White House "should sever all ties."

To which we would add that no self-respecting journalist will be coaxed or intimidated into ignoring this "wolf in our midst" or sugar-coating it with mealy-mouthed Orwellian language.

© Wes Vernon

 

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