Leaders, writers encourage illegal immigration
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Free speech can be a societally destructive thing when it is ungoverned by rules. When speech does not tend toward a constructive solution of issues, it is invariably destructive. Free speech demands responsibility, responsibility to consider — to know — what would be the consequence of what is being argued for should the argument succeed. Free speech without rules and, therefore, without responsibility leads to what we have today, a nation fragmented into scores, even hundreds, of factions screaming their credo gritos at one another and the nation as a whole.
The situation, of course, is the culmination of a program instituted by then newly formed Central Intelligence Agency, Operation MOCKINGBIRD. Operation MOCKINGBIRD intended, and quickly succeeded, in co-opting, neutralization, and effective takeover of the nation’s news and information media. Its stated purpose then was to “deceive, confuse, and finally hold bewildered” the U.S. public, and to so govern. Its tactical doctrine was to “divide and conquer” — to use the insidious combination of reduced education and free speech in a manner resulting in a nation completely at odds with one another, incapable, therefore, of the fundamental force of democracy, that of consensus.
Watching the immigration issue, no one aware of Operation MOCKINGBIRD can fail to recognize its tactical doctrine and principal goal at work. Every new instance of “breaking news” presents another opportunity, both for MOCKINGBIRD and for the observer to recognize its cynical face.
Every tragedy, to one degree or another, is the proverbial witches’ brew, a concoction made from a recipe. Each of the ingredients, however well-meaning, contributes to the tragedy. So it has been with illegal immigration and its hideous fruit, the tortured deaths of the 19 near Victoria five years ago.
Advocate readers and those contributing their opinions would do well to consider that.
Yesterday, writing in response to an Alternet essay (entitled “Are Immigration Authorities Going After School Children Now?“) by one Amanda Martinez, I wrote:
“So if I rob a bank, the police who come looking for me are being cruel to my children? Who is being ‘cruel?’ These people took their kids to a crime they intended to commit. Now that they’re caught, they want to hold their kids’ interests hostage? What the hell kind of twisted reasoning is this? Easy — it’s political propaganda.”
Martinez, and writers like Ruben Navarrette represent one of the several factions which contributed directly to the hideous deaths of the 19 at Victoria. Their arguments encourage illegal immigrants, joining with the politician Rudy Giuliani and other political figures who say to them cynically that “illegal immigration is not a crime.” Those marching in the streets waving Mexican flags are another factor, offering to illegal immigrants as they do the encouragement and support of shared view and purpose.
Businesses and individuals who offer employment to persons in the U.S. illegally also offer not only encouragement but incentive. So do hospitals and health-care providers who offer services free of cost, and — incredibly — state and city officials who offer criminal sanctuary. Like those politi cians and others who for political reasons contemptibly hold out the hope of amnesty for illegal aliens both already here and otherwise, they share, therefore, in responsibility for the deaths being suitably lamented in Sunday’s (May 11) Advocate. On account of all these people, and those like Martinez, Navarrette, and the Advocate’s guest editorialist, Clara Ramos, the 19 came to the United States and their gruesome deaths.
Sometimes, only your opponent — your “enemy” — is your friend. As author Orson Scott Card once observed in his novel Ender’s Game, “There is no teacher but the enemy. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong.”
Mexico is — thunderously — what Mexico is, and it is incontrovertibly that way because of Mexicans. That we do not want Mexicans here illegally is because we know why Mexico is as it is, and we do not want our country to become Mexican.
“Only the enemy shows you where you are weak.”
Hal von Luebbert is a resident of Port Lavaca
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Good article and full of solid ground.
July 6, 2008 at 12:08 a.m.Spock,
Logic, reason and common sense are not common at all. Folks like their opinions, faith, feelings and the way they think it should be to govern debate. Dont attempt to confuse them with facts
Throwing rocks is easier.
These folks cannot take the chance of exposing themselves to the facts then look at those facts with reason; their opinions may have to change. Cannot have that now can we????
Ernie, I believe that is the Atlantic Ocean you speak of. But that is an excellent youtube video. Facts as to why we need CONTROLLED, LEGAL immigration.
The writer has some excellent points, factual. I don't know about Operation Mockingbird...but I would not doubt it being an operation of some minor propaganda type.
July 4, 2008 at 9:16 p.m.To all the reports of public ignorance and downright stupidity, the remarks here provide additional evidence. For instance, "Americans" (there are fifty-nine nations in the hemisphere, only one of whom's citizens call themselves "Americans") seem to have thrown logic as a means of valid debate to the winds. Ridicule and ad hominem remarks prove utterly nothing, merely demonstrate that the persons who uses them has nothing valid with which to counter something with which he somehow finds a way to disagree (when you know nothing of the subject, how do you find reason to have an opinion?).
The fact of Operation MOCKINGBIRD is not disputable, being a matter of voluminous record - to say nothing of enormous taxpayer expense. Look it up. Its existence, like the theory of a silent coup d'etat warned of by President Eisenhower immediately before its having come to fruition, is the only thing that can possibly explain events since World War Two and the state of affairs today.
I might add that to insult one more intelligent than oneself merely demonstrates to him how inferior you are. People of intellect ignore insult, preferring to offer more temperate counsel to those unable to deal in any other coin.
Of course, it may be that you only seek to entertain youself and those like you. If that's the case, have fun.
July 4, 2008 at 7:10 p.m.What a small world. I actually attended South Fork High School in Martin County.
June 29, 2008 at 5:06 p.m.Martin County Florida is a plot of land lying between Lake Okeechobee and the Pacific Ocean with a 2000 census population of 126,731. The linked video is a hospital administrator for Martin County Memorial Medical Center.
Make of it what you will....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJxmJ...
Ernie
June 29, 2008 at 5:01 p.m.Question? Couldn't the paper come up with something better than this looney tunes letter to print. The CIA kidnapped his brain and refuse to give it back.
June 29, 2008 at 12:21 p.m.An insulting cartoon would be more pleasing.
WHERE DID THIS GUY COME FROM? WHAT A THEORY! OMG!
June 29, 2008 at 12:04 p.m.