Wednesday, 5 February 2014 -We Are a Nation of Immigrants?
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This note: This entry has been brushed up a bit. But it is our sincerest feeling about the issue. We take nothing away from those who have come after the establishment of the Republic. But, as in the case of the Mexicans, those who are coming here now as immigrants are far, far outnumbered by those who are coming here because a person can live for free. In the early days of my life the Mexicans who came here primarily went back to poorer but very, very pleasant life circumstances after working hard for a while and making enough to stabilise the family's patrimony. Criminality was rare...very rare...and sloth was non-existent. Those who determined to marry and/or stay became positive elements in the Texas fabric perhaps 96% of the time. Now, because we have essentially compulsory comprehensive welfare (essentially) we attract perhaps 30% who intend to be contributors to, and not consumers of the Bounty found in Texas. Lamentably, the general population of the American Republic has chosen that route in increasing numbers. Disability for people who are entirely whole, free food paid for by unknown third parties who are stupid enough to pay their taxes, free rent, free school, free whatever they want, plus medical for their hordes of "special needs" miracle/anchor babies, free medical for everyone actually....it is just a wondrous thing. And always the resounding echo of what the woman said in my Laundromat some years back..."Yes, it is true, things are better here. The government has to take care of you when you are nervous or tired. They provide much better than over there (Mexico). The only problem here is the damned Gringos.''
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To all the Karl Roves out there:
We have a certain 33% of the Latino vote. It is the bulk of the productive group. We have nothing to offer the un-productive group. If Mexican American issues are to be food stamps, AFDC, free lunch, Head Start, WIC, and Section 8 issues and we play to that group's idea of what the issues are, then the 33% we have in hand will not vote for us. That 33% is actually larger than we think because many, many Latinos and Latinas are intermarried and not statistically identifiable in most surveys.
My wife, as a white woman, always checks the box that says "white"...as do all or almost all of her biological and political (in-laws) relatives. In reality, while they are very proud of their Latin and colonial Ancestry, they are totally dedicated to the flag of their nativity. They check "white" because they are white, and beyond that it is nobody's business.
We have a certain 33% of the Latino vote. It is the bulk of the productive group. We have nothing to offer the un-productive group. If Mexican American issues are to be food stamps, AFDC, free lunch, Head Start, WIC, and Section 8 issues and we play to that group's idea of what the issues are, then the 33% we have in hand will not vote for us. That 33% is actually larger than we think because many, many Latinos and Latinas are intermarried and not statistically identifiable in most surveys.
My wife, as a white woman, always checks the box that says "white"...as do all or almost all of her biological and political (in-laws) relatives. In reality, while they are very proud of their Latin and colonial Ancestry, they are totally dedicated to the flag of their nativity. They check "white" because they are white, and beyond that it is nobody's business.
We can work on the other 67% as the American engine snags one by one out of the morass of dependency. Each one of those will be as the recovered alcoholic, and he/she will become a prophet of conservatism. This I know. Nothing else will work.
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(Reprint)
We
appreciate that there is good in having a sense of acceptance toward the
foreigner. He/she ought to be at home among us. We also know that gradually
those of us who come before, die and go away, and things gradually change from
how they were to how they will be.
We who were not immigrant are
descended from the colonial times. By direct continuum we are connected to
places in Europe from whence our forefathers escaped or left in search of a
different un-proscribed life. Rush and El Gringo Viejo share a
great-great-great-grandfather, for instance, a German fellow by the name of
Frederick Johann Limbaugh who left his Hessian and Prussian ancestors and
relatives behind and journeyed to some strange planet or parallel universe
called Pennsylvania. He arrived, after departing Antwerp two months before,
and made to a place full of his similar fellows and certain cousins in the
German areas of eastern Pennsylvania during the early
1750s.
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The
six chiefs of the Civilised Tribes of the Iroquois
address
the
Philadelphia Convention on secession in June of 1776.
El
Gringo
Viejo had a distant grandfather who
apparently
married a girl from the Oneida Tribe of that Nation in the earlier part of the 1700s.
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He began to learn English
quickly. He bought good land and established a farming operation of some
considerable value. He threw himself into the business of being a
communitarian, a contributor, a pillar of his community. He became active in
the Lutheran Church, in the public theatre, and in the military, rising to the
rank of major and executive officer of a brigade of 3,000 well-trained
militia.
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famous Ibero statue from eastern Spain. Predates the Celtic and the Gothic, and the Visigoth and the Greek, and the Roman, and the Arabic penetrations of the "Iberian Peninsula" |
People he would not know in life, but who lived just a short distance to the
north, in the Hudson River Valley, who were also German and Dutch along with
English, whose descendants would cross paths and have matrimonial
involvement in such a way as to finally produce El
Gringo Viejo. The Hudson River people had already been in the Hudson Valley
for over 100 years, by the time the Limbaugh gentleman had
arrived. The Hudson Valley
people all spoke English after 100 years in New Amsterdam, as did most of the
Pennsylvania folks, albeit with an identifiable brogue in the case of the
Teutonic peoples.
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The wife's
people came, pretty much directly,
from the
southeastern Iberian Peninsula, leaving
Huelva and
arriving to the lower left of this map
at a point
based at Monclova. This was in the
1560s. The
social and economic orbit extended
to Texas with
properties on both sides of Laredo.
They also had
considerable land interests in that
area between
Laredo and Monclova. Another
wave came in
the mid-1700s and settled in and
around what
is now the McAllen area.
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Another batch of English moved
into the Boston area....later into a place to be named Newton,
Massachusetts...and spread the name from there to Maine, Vermont, New York, and
Pennsylvania. Some went to a place called Canuckia and were never seen
again.
The better three-quarters of El Gringo Viejo had people on the American
Continent just after the mid-1500s....in a place that was conjoined with Texas
for most of the period up to and including 1836. Like Texas, it was originally
named for the first known aboriginal peoples encountered by the Spanish
explorers. Those peoples were the Coahuilteca, or "people of the Flying
Serpent". Coahuila and Texas both have stood far apart and away from their
governing centres from the beginning. The wife's people were "pure"
Celto-Hebraic-Phoenician-Ibero-Latins, real-live, pure-bred Spaniards. They
quickly outnumbered the local aboriginals....who also conveniently croaked from
the common cold. Then the Spanish colonists set about drawing an existence from
what was essentially a moonscape. And, they set about trying to fight off the
Kickapoo, Comanche, Apache and other disparate groups of aboriginal ruffians.
Another group of Spaniards on her side came in a bit later in the Spanish
Colonial period into the Tamaulipeca and that strange place called
Texas.
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Just
below the middle "E" in Tennessee, where
that
State meets Alabama and Georgia, more
or
less, is where El Gringo Viejo's mother's
people
settled, after coming out of Virginia
and
North Carolina. There are scores and
hundreds
of them still to this day, in Franklin
County,
Tennessee. They began their trek
through
the American wilderness, mostly
arriving
from Portsmouth to Virginia in
the
1650s.
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El Gringo Viejo's
people....mainly Britannic, with some considerable Teutonic overlay....are
conjoined with more almost entirely English folks,
with a bit or a tad of Cherokee. They wind up in
another Indian named place called Tennessee...and a few in Alabama. The
Cherokee nation, related somewhat to the Creek and the Choctaw, and
Chickasaw, these in a greater ethnic and linguistic sense to the Iroquois
Confederation formed a great body of humanity with a complex culture and
considerable talent. These groups fought against and then were absorbed by,
and absorbed with the white arrivals, chiefly through
matrimony.
The northern branch of El Gringo Viejo's grouping winds up moving into the Minnesota and North Dakota region. There was tree-steading hundreds of acres in the case of his paternal grandfather, and setting up very modern milling and financial operations in Minneapolis (Saint Anthony) Minnesota, the case of his paternal grandmother. Flour, flour, flour was their cry.
The long and the short and the wide of it, after all is said and done, is that America has tended to drift off into the "Aura of Ellis Island" and the huddled masses and somehow tying that to some kind of grand national policy. In these times, there is greater honour allowed to those who came here after the arrival of the liberty statue as refugees or simply as people moving to the United States.
Most came not because the United States is or was so great, but primarily because the place they were leaving was a hopeless dump. They left someplace drab, someplace decayed, someplace blown to bits over nothing beyond an argument between royal cousins or groups of madmen such as Robespierre, Hitler, or Lenin and Stalin. These places were abandoned without regret. And it amazes this observer that many of those who have arrived, and who are still arriving, line up to vote for candidates and causes that they were trying to escape "back home".
Strange people have arrived, like atheist Jews who hate Jews and Judaism and prefer marxist solutions to problems that do not exist. They have flooded in by the millions. People come in hating everything about America and hating Americans. Arrivals take up residence and expect to be cared for and given something....perhaps as a reward for not knowing how to play baseball, or that Gettysburg is not some kind of a maritime ice formation.
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We have investment and property in Mexico, and we would never urge or suggest that anything be changed there to adapt to our comfort. We speak the language of the guest nation and we abide by the laws of that nation and the States and locales that compose it. We might complain about things that are disagreeable, such as litter that spoils beautiful settings, but even those matters are conducted discreetly and in sotto voce. But in the main, Mexico is a wondrous place with a million delights at every corner. So we adapt. The place has always been a refuge, a retreat, and perhaps even a "just-in-case" type of investment.
And, judging by the fact that we are being governed, in the present time in America, by a body politic that can be swayed by convincing arguments such as "hope and change" and "....we'll have to vote for the bill to find out what's inside of it"....I would rather have a few distant alternatives. Perhaps where people are comfortable with the government buildings having manger scenes during the time of Advent up to Epiphany.....there are some small, difficult to quantify, benefits. It is difficult to explain.
What is known is that many of
the foreigners who have come into the United States recently do not want to
continue the United States as it was intended to be. They care nothing about
common law, or the sovereignty of each man and woman. The best of them are
industrious and disposed to work 100 hours per week to make money and have
things or to send some money back home. But, Almost all the Chinese who have
entered since 1990 are moles, plants, spies, and/or saboteurs. All the workers
in the Chinese restaurants are either slaves from Latin America or members of
the Red Chinese Peoples' Liberation Army on furlough, learning where the
vulnerable places are in Pittsburgh and Birmingham for when the time comes.
The Germans did the same things during the 1930s.
And then there are the not so
industrious. The worst of the new arrivals whelp out anchor babies and to barnacle
onto a welfare system, encouraged by the America-hating marxist Americans in our
midst and by people who say such stupid strings of words as, "....of course we
have to provide a safety net. The government has to make sure that
....".
And of course we still have
Auntie Zietuni and Uncle Omar Onyango Obama who are just kinda...like...you
know....there....having collected well over 2,000,000 USD during their Grand
Tour of America that they won on the Kenyan Wheel of Fortune show, or
something.
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We leave it with these simple
questions.
Is there any room for colonials
in America? Is there any room left for people who speak English as a native
language?
Is there any place left for people
who would die before taking public assistance?
Is there any thought ever given
to the idea that FEMA and the Bureau of Indian Affairs really, really are
Rosemary's Baby, and Sesame Street is a back alley in a town named
Secular Humanist Egalitarianism? Liberte'?, Egalite'?,
Fraternite', anyone?
El Gringo
Viejo
