This Isn't About "Immigration." It's About Advancing
Liberalism, Seizing Power & Hurting America |
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RUSH: All right, the so-called immigration rallies. It's not about immigration. Immigration is just the vehicle. What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing other than the latest incarnation of the left, the socialist left, the Democratic Party in this country attempting to swell its ranks and regain power and using this issue as a means to do it. They're also trying to depress the Republican base into not turning out. They're not getting much resistance on that from the Republicans who are mystifyingly absent on this, and it's hard to figure this out, how they've so totally missed the boat on this.
I think they've gotten caught up in the notion that we have to have a group of people here that are going to be pandered to for their votes and the competition is to try to show this group of people, "Hey, we're nice, too! We're not the demons the Democrats say we're, and we'll be glad to lead you if you vote for us." But of course that contest is guaranteed to lose. The Democrats are out recruiting. They're attempting to make this group the next bunch of victims discriminated against by a bunch of white racist elitists, most of them Republicans, and the Republicans don't seem to see this. It's amazing how utterly blind they are to what is happening.
They're tone deaf, politically deaf. They just don't get it. The idea that this is about immigration can be dispelled by simply looking at the organizing group. I've had e-mails from  people who were in New York yesterday. There were barrels and barrels of American flags that were on hand, and I'm sure this happened at a lot of other places, and they were passed out to the people who showed up. Some of the people didn't get the word to leave the Mexican flags at home so they showed up, the organizers found as many of them as they could and took them and replaced them with American flags. This whole thing is a show.
The idea that this would intimidate otherwise intelligent and informed elected officials, both Democrats or Republicans, is beyond me, because I'm not into being intimidated anyway -- but I'm not a politician. But one of the key organizers of the immigration protests nationwide, including yesterday's in Washington, is a group whose leaders are tied to the Workers World Party. The Workers World Party is a Marxist organization that has expressed support for the dictators Kim Jong Ill of North Korea and Saddam Hussein of Iraq. The group is called ANSWER. That stands for "Act Now to Stop War and End Racism." |
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Do you know when ANSWER was founded? Three days after 9/11, and it was founded for the express purpose of blaming the United States for the attack that we suffered on that day. Now, this bunch, ANSWER, has also proposed a nationwide boycott on May 1st -- May Day, the Soviet communist holiday -- to protest congressional efforts at immigration reform and border security, and it's an offshoot of the International Action Coalition. That's an anti-capitalism group founded by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark. What's happening here, folks, is this is seen by these anti-American groups as a great way to weaken this country and to divide this country.
There are countless leftists, socialist, Marxist, communist, what have you, who are filled with their own self-loathing. They're generally losers. They don't matter much to anybody, and they recoil at success, dominance, achievement, and power, and their objective is to tear it down. They live under the illusion that capitalism has created by design a certain set of winners and a certain set of losers and it's the winners who determine who the other winners are and who the losers are going to be. They are in the losing side. So they have this false notion that that's inherently unfair and we must all be equal, but the real objective is not equality.
The real objective is not quality lives for the people they claim to represent. The real objective is not happiness and the pursuit of happiness for the downtrodden of the world. It is simply a desire to destroy a country like the United States of America, however possible. They fully well understand that destroying the distinct American culture is a classic way and perhaps an easy way of destroying this country. So they glom onto any subject that they think will advance that objective of theirs. This is a perfect opportunity for them. It's a perfect opportunity to stand with their Democrat socialist brethren and to promote them, and it's a great opportunity to once again condemn this country.
If you'll notice, if you pay close attention -- we've got some audio sound bites -- all of these people who are interviewed (and I've got quotes in news stories) they all blame America for making them, these illegals, who they are. They blame us for being selfish. They blame us for being uncaring. We have no compassion. We accuse them of being criminals, and they say, "We are America, too, and we don't like the fact that you're being so critical of us," and Democratic politicians who spoke yesterday at the rallies, after I'm sure doing a bunch of recruiting, go to the podiums and microphones and basically endorse this attitude that America is rotten.
They endorse it and they encourage that attitude to be felt, to be thought of, and to be increased in emotional intensity in these people's minds and hearts. They are fomenting an actual dislike for this country. They are encouraging it. They will do whatever necessary, including wreck the country in order to get their power back. It's their birthright. It is their entitlement. They have been stymied since 1994, and they are at their wits' end. So this is just the latest issue that's been presented to them. They happen to be playing this one -- I hate to tell you this, playing this -- as far as their objectives are concerned, this may give them the best chance they've had of anything that's come along in the last five years, and I'll explain that, we'll talk about it in great detail after this bottom-of-the-hour time-out. But a bunch of Marxists, socialists, and communists are responsible for these protests yesterday, and they couldn't care less about immigration. They care about destroying the country.
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RUSH: You saw John Sweeney with Ted Kennedy yesterday at the Washington march. I don't know that he was with Ted Kennedy, but he was there. Just last week we had heard that Sweeney was dead-set against this guest worker program because he was afraid of the impact it would have on big labor. Somebody has gotten to him. He's done a big turnaround, because the labor union -- you rank-and-file members need to know this -- labor unions want to turn the illegals into citizens; they're all for that so they can sign 'em up as members of the union and drive up the wages and benefits, and I'll tell you, you Republican business people who like the illegal immigrants because of the low wage base, keep a sharp eye on what the libs and the big unions are planning for you. Because they're going to go out and recruit these people, make 'em members of the unions, because they're losing. Big Union, Big Labor is losing its percentage of the workforce, been declining for years, and it's declining at a rapid rate now and they need to replenish it so the union leaders can continue to go out and buy new Cadillacs with union dues.
Now, Thomas Sowell has a great piece today as he most always does. His piece is entitled "Immigration 'Solutions'." "Activists who are organizing mass marches and demonstrations in cities across America may well be congratulating themselves on the huge numbers of people they can get to turn out to protest efforts in Congress to reduce illegal immigration." It is a good effort. Anybody who thinks this is all spontaneous and anybody who thinks this is born of real anger, forget it. That's not what it is. There may be anger. I maintain to you today that the anger is not over illegal immigration and the anger is not over the Senate bill. It's not over legislation. The anger is at America itself, and these protesters have been rounded up. They have been coddled and urged by Spanish-language radio and television, the underground networks, however the word gets out, but this is not spontaneous. This is not a bunch of people who are emotionally upset about something and they're banding together to demonstrate it.
 In fact, one of the funniest things yesterday was Senator Kennedy showing up and he's got a translator. He'd utter a sentence and the translator would translate it into Spanish. Over the half the crowd, maybe 80% of the crowd spoke English. Now, what does that tell you? They didn't even need a translator and this was shown later on in Kennedy's speech where they started repeating what he asked them to repeat before the translator had told them what he had said. Now, if these are really all these illegal immigrants that have failed to assimilate and so forth, then what the hell? These are largely English-speaking people who have been rounded up by these people.
Everybody wants to matter. Everybody wants to be something, everybody wants to be something other than the loser that they are. When the schools start letting kids out of school to go to these things under the pretense that it's educational, you can make book on the fact that you've got a bunch of left-wing administrators and school board people encouraging this kind of thing, not for educational purposes, but rather to advance a political cause. Sowell says: "The releasing of children from schools to take part in these marches and the support of the marchers' goals by some religious leaders demonstrate that this contempt for the laws of the land has spread well beyond immigrant communities. For some, this is just another extension of their general anti-establishment attitudes and activities. They are ready to protest virtually anything at any time." That’s a large contingent of the people we all saw yesterday.
"At the other end of the political spectrum are staid and sober representatives of business interests who simply want a continuing supply of cheap labor. They don't march, they lobby politicians. Both liberals and free-market libertarians often see this as an abstract issue about poor people being hindered from moving to jobs by an arbitrary border drawn across the southwest desert." That also is a good, I think, description of the intellectual, the elites, the so-called smartest people in the room and the way they look at it. |
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The borders are something arbitrary, and these are just decent people, and all they want is a decent life, and then they come to this country and they want a decent life and, "By God, I'm not standing in their way! I'm not going to do it." I have been with a liberal who said that very thing. I'm going to share a little story with you people. One of my many trips to southern California last year, I went out with some friends. You will know the names. I'm not going to tell you the names. The point is not the names.
After golf my friend said to me, "By the way, such-and-such has been invited to dinner. He's a guest out here with one of my friends," and I said, "Okay," and I said, "You did what?" I said, "Okay, I'll do it this one time, but don't start packing the table with liberals every time I come out here." He said, "This is the first time. It will never happen again." So we're at dinner and the subject of immigration comes up. My friend is on the warpath about immigration. He lives in LA, lives in Palm Springs. Once the subject came up, that's all that was discussed and nobody got a word in, and I thought I was listening to me as he went on and on.
Finally, the guest, a big, big media lib, is feebly trying to argue with the fully informed host of mine, and the liberal didn't know diddly-squat except what the New York Times has ever said about this issue, and my friend is peppering him, "Do you know how many emergency rooms have closed?" All the statistics of what's going on in southern California, and the liberal buddy had absolutely no response for it, and finally he got frustrated, because my friend just kept peppering him with questions and he was on the defensive the whole night but he didn't know what bad shape he was in until near the end of dinner.
Finally he said, "Look, let me just put it to you this way just so you understand where I'm coming from. If there are poor people anywhere in the world, and they want to come to my country to improve their lives, well, then I say, 'Let 'em in.' I'm not going to stand in the way of any poor person improving their lives," and that's all it took. The host exploded. "You're going to let any poor person in your backyard to date your daughter? You going to let any poor person come in when you don't know who he is?" and the guy maintained his position. So we're driving home after dinner and the host had thought that he had convinced this liberal that his position on immigration was all wrong, and he was just livid.
"I can't believe the guy! I can't believe the guy," and I said, "Let me tell you what this is all about. That guy was more concerned that nobody think him cold-hearted and cruel than anything else. At the end of this dinner he left thinking he won because he showed everybody how much more compassion he has for the world's poor than you did. You come across to him as mean-spirited, cold-hearted and cruel. You don't come across as an American. He doesn't hear an American speaking gloriously of his country and hoping for more glory in the future. He hears you and he hears you as a mean-spirited, racist SOB, because that's the only way he can look at you in his template, clichéd, stereotypical way."
The guy banged his steering wheel and said, "By God, you're right." Well, when I read Sowell today talking about this, "Both liberals and free-market libertarians often see this as an abstract issue about poor people being hindered from moving to jobs by an arbitrary border drawn across the southwest desert." In other words, there is no America. There isn't an America. We just say there is because we've called our states the southern border, and we've drawn this line on a map, but who are we to keep the world's poor out of our country. It's the same argument I heard this liberal make in Palm Springs a year ago. |
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 It's true. This is one of the problems that we all face. I'm telling you, these are all leftists, folks, and they are overwhelmed with their own guilt. Phil Donahue was discussing this way back when he had his syndicated show. I saw him one day lamenting the accident of his birth. He said, "You know, if I would have just been born 50 miles south I would have been one of the world's wretches," and I'm sitting there, I'm watching Donahue on TV back when I had that kind of time to waste, and I said, "Phil, you weren't born 50 miles south. You were born in America, and rather than feel guilty about it, why don't you do what you can to help people around the world become what you have become instead of making them victims and assuming they have no chance, that their lives are filled with doom simply because they're born into circumstances that make it impossible in your mind for them to escape?" There are far more people born to poor circumstances than wealthy in the world, and yet there are countless millions of great people doing great things who have escaped whatever these wretched circumstances and conditions are. But to liberals, it seems despite the evidence it isn't possible. Once you're poor you're always poor because some faceless nameless winner of life's lottery has deemed you forever to be poor, and they actually believe this sort of stuff.
The way Sowell describes this: "Intellectuals' ability to think of people in the abstract is a dangerous talent in a world where people differ in all the ways that make them people. The cultures and surrounding circumstances of those people are crucial for understanding what they are likely to do and what the consequences are likely to be. Some free-market advocates argue that the same principle which justifies free international trade in commodities should justify the free movement of people as well. But this ignores the fact that people have consequences that go far beyond the consequences of commodities. Commodities are used up and vanish. People generate more people, who become a permanent and expanding part of the country's population and electorate. It is an irreversible process -- and a potentially dangerous process, as Europeans have discovered with their "guest worker" programs that have brought in many Muslims who are fundamentally hostile to the culture and the people that welcomed them. Unlike commodities, people in a welfare state have legal claims on other people's tax dollars and expensive services in schools and hospitals, not to mention the high cost of imprisoning many of them who commit crimes. Immigrants in past centuries came here to become Americans, not to remain foreigners, much less to proclaim the rights of their homelands to reclaim American soil, as some of the Mexican activist groups have done," and are doing, and are encouraging.
Now, I know for some of you, like it was when I was very young, it was hard to get my arms around the fact that there were Americans who didn't like America. It was really hard to understand it. It's an instinctive thing you grew up thinking, "We're all in this together. We're all Americans. It's a great country, we've all made it what it is." When you learn, when you first realize that there are Americans, and a lot of them among us, who would just as soon tear this place down and start over, continue to live in it and have it grow as it is, it stuns you and shocks you. But for people who are organizing these rallies, the ones that have happened and the ones that are going to happen in the future, and the people who can sit there and look at the southern border as simply an imaginary line drawn by elitist, evil Republicans, to keep the world's downtrodden out, you have to understand they have no concept of this country as special. |
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They have no concept of the thing I refer to as American exceptionalism, and a lot of these people are found in the Democratic Party. In fact, the whole concept of American exceptionalism embarrasses them. The whole concept of American exceptionalism is a problem, makes them feel guilty. "What do you mean saying we're better than everybody else?" We're not saying we're better as human beings. We're saying that our system, our capitalist system, the way we manage our affairs, has allowed for more prosperity and greatness and achievement than at any time in human history, and the fact that you want to tear it down is quite instructive to us, but they see nothing special about the country.
They look around the world and they see the poor, the wretched, whatever, and they blame this country for it. "Why, if we weren't so prosperous and we weren't stealing all of the resources of the world, why, these people wouldn't be as poor. So it's only right that people from anywhere be allowed to come here and claim and take back what is theirs in the first place because the wretched, evil white European American founders stole it from them!" And that's what's driving this immigration business. It's not about immigration. It's the latest chance for the left to wreck and ruin this country.
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RUSH: Let's grab a couple phone calls here before time gets away from us. Philadelphia, Weston, glad you called, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Rush, good afternoon, how are you?
RUSH: I'm fine, sir. Thank you.
CALLER: You know, a country that no longer relies upon laws to maintain order will eventually look to the state to restore that order. And that's ultimately what the left tries to do. It's been their MO for the last century. It's why Hillary Clinton talks down the economy. Essentially, they want to inspire this lawlessness. They want a country that has fallen into chaos, that is poverty stricken.
RUSH: For what purpose? So they can go in and then write new laws to control behavior in people?
CALLER: Yeah, because a country that's broken, a la Roberto Duran raises his alarms and says, "No mas! I give myself over to the state. I'm now a ward of the state." All you have to do is... I mean, the Soviet Union, Russia? Russia needed to be broken first.
RUSH: But, see, that's the thing. It worked for a while but the bottom line is you cannot find a single piece of evidence, you cannot find it worldwide for the length of human history where such a system works. It doesn't work, and you can cite the Soviet Union. I know what the Soviet Union did to imprison its people for 70 years, but what happened? It bombed out. East Germany, the whole Soviet bloc, bombed out. The Chinese, the ChiComs, you watch, that's going to change dramatically as it already is in the future.
 The North Koreans? Who wants to live in North Korea? Who wants to live anywhere where those are the circumstances? This country is not going to put up with it. Don't think just because of these massive protests that the red state base of this country is going to throw up its arms in despair and give up. I still believe this is going to backfire on the left, folks. Don't misunderstand, I'm just trying to stir the backfire here. I'm trying to stir you up. I'm trying to tell you what this is really all about. You can sit out there and debate illegal immigration all you want, and I applaud you, we should do that, but understand what's really at stake here -- and Weston, you're exactly right.
They want chaos, and if you don't believe it just listen to what they're saying. They're acting like it already exists. The chaos is Bush, the chaos is the war on terror, the chaos is the war in Iraq, the chaos is the economy. They're trying to create, they're trying to stir up, these feelings of discontent and anger and rage and they've done it among their base. Of course they want chaos. It's a brilliant comment. You're absolutely right that that's what they want it for, but the reason they want it, and you're probably right about this, is the citizenry eventually says, "To hell with this! We need somebody to come in here with an iron fist and fix this stuff and the only people that can do it are the government."
They also foster that, but it isn't going to get that bad. It isn't going to get that bad. They're not winning. It just looks like it. It's the same old game. Their buddies in the drive-by media have fired the bullets now into the crowd, and they've created another mess just like they created down in Durham with this rape story. Reasonable people are going to have to go in and fix that and straighten that out. What have we learned? You know, the left has been promising us an agenda, have they not? They've been promising us their agenda. Well, we now have four planks of the liberal Contract with America. It's becoming clear to me what that contract is.
#1: Cut and run from the war on terror for anti-war votes, invest in America's defeat to get votes of the anti-war crowd.
#2: Amnesty for illegal immigrant votes.
#3: A slogan: "We hate Bush more than you do."
#4: "Oh, yes, we are strong and tough on security, too."
We know what their contract is now, and it's not a winner, and these people are not going to be voting in these mass numbers that they envision in this year's election or 2008 anyway -- well, not as many as they think. I'm sure they'll get some of them. |
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