THE NAU CONTINUED
8. What Can we Reasonably Hope to Accomplish
to Combat this Seven-Headed Hydra?
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BEFORE WE BEGIN, WE START HERE
Instead of throwing up our hands, while bewailing, this is just too much to consider doing anything about, given the odds and the meager resources at our disposal---instead of remaining nesting eagles, we must learn to soar as these majestic birds do without equal. We are militant Catholics, also without equal---as adopted sons and daughters of Almighty God---if we place all our trust in Him and His Blessed Mother, the Immaculata, who is by Divine design, the patroness of America, both the US [The Immaculate Conception] and all of North America [Our Lady of Guadalupe]. Canada also has Saint Anne as patroness, but Our Lady of Guadalupe is the official patroness of North America, which includes Canada, just as the US has the Immaculate Conception as her own and Mexico has Our Lady of Guadalupe in her own right. She is our mother, under any title, we need not fear.
There are two loci of action: the spiritual, the greater and most important, and the socio-political.
First, before any other consideration, we must be certain why we want to secure our borders and overturn the NAFTA mandates---all of them. This has to be for the sake of justice, first, then, to avoid tyranny which will come after the deluge raining down on us without surcease, a special form of injustice. We must love our enemy, that is, those who disagree with us, although we are not obligated to turn aside because there are others who are being affected and not ourselves alone. If you slap me in the face, while this is legally an assault, I turn the other cheek. If you assault my neighbor's child, I cannot look the other way. As individuals we are morally free to forgive and remit offenses done against us, and only us, but have no such moral permission to do so for our neighbors. If not, no society. The vandals win. The crime against my neighbor may be so overwhelming that he is burdened to the point of grave harm. It is a sin to look the other way. Multiply this by the millions and it is very easy to understand why the two cases are different, even if one might think he could estimate such a situation for a single neighbor one knows very well. The sanctuary people want to impose this precept on the rest of us in the long run. If we could dictate that everyone turn the other cheek, then what would we do about Christ's teaching that "there is no greater love than that one lays down his life for his neighbor [friend]."? It is self-evident from the context that we are not supposed to stand idly by while someone is in imminent danger or harm's way. A man about to lose his livelihood and home because of a mandated injustice is in peril. I may not have to give my life to assist him, but what if it came to that, through no fault of my own or his? Multiply this by a whole country, it is called in defense of one's country unjustly under siege. As long as I use moral means I wage a just war. And we are at war, make no mistake. Instead of canons and fusillades we have weapons known as human beings who are abandoned by their own country, in so many words, in order to make war on ours, by plunder [Vincente Fox & Co.]. This is really a revolution in modern warfare, you know, the spoils of war without officially declaring war. The having it both ways scenario. The one making war gets the moral high ground [according to the media---and media is perception is "reality"] of being the aggrieved party who has no choice, because of us "dirty gringos", then taking all he can get no matter whom he hurts, even someone poorer than he is. This is not love of the poor as taught by Christ, but love of vengeance. The alien is now the patriot, and the patriot? He is an alien in his own land. Did I say a revolution? An understatement. Pat Buchanan names the crisis "A State of Emergency". Absolutely, and it is now or never time. Or adios America.
What if the illegals in large numbers lived across the ocean and had no contiguous border with America to access? What would they say and what would we say? It is not possible because of the physical constraints. Well, I say, as reason says, just because something is possible and even probable, this does not confer a moral right. To not do so is to say Hispanics from Mexico have more rights than those from the Iberian peninsula or non-Hispanics from Somalia. Wrong! There are rights, but there are equal responsibilities. It does not work just one way, like it or not. This is because the one I am claiming a right from or imposing a burden on also has rights. It is part of my responsibility to recognize this and champion it. To the extent that I willfully ignore this dynamic of justice, reciprocity, to that extent, I am less deserving of rights myself, like a waiver in court, actually. Now the other must do likewise, but it is the one making the demands for rights that "are being created" by fiat, outside of the natural law and common reason, upon which the burden of proof falls. If I say I have the "right" to claim your property or job for myself because some misfortune befell me, then it is up to me to establish my right to do so under the Divine law of reason, the natural law and common sense. The presumption of licitness already lies with you, for I am the interloper or aggressor in human affairs. We must be clear, very clear about these distinctions.
Second, we must not harbor grudges or entertain personal grievances against anyone and or an entire group of people. Apart from drug traffickers and unscrupulous businessmen, most of the aliens [non-gang related] illegally migrating here feel desperate. The businessmen aren't desperate, they just want to take undue advantage. This does not justify the actions of illegal aliens---however comprehensible---nor any unjust attitude they may cling to, but we are not free to hate or disparage them. Not so with the situation. We might have to take verbal abuse from them because they truly do not understand the natural law, national sovereignty or the reality that the average American has rights also and is not their enemy per se. We are immigrants and children of immigrants, too. I am. Legal ones, who patiently paid their dues. We can forgive their calumny and revilement, but we cannot give into their unjust demands because we care about them as well as our neighbors who are being impoverished to provide for benefits to those who are not citizens, foregoing benefits to themselves and their families that they paid for with taxes because there are limited services. We care about aliens, too, because if every one of them who wants to, comes as the others have been doing for years, very soon, there is no America worth coming to, no America at all, in fact, just one long despotic expanse with disease, cruelty and privation of every kind except for the favored few in power. Just like Mexico, but with more cold regions wherein to dwell. This will only help the bullies of the world. It is because we care about all the legal immigrants who went through or are going through the process of naturalization and who have made great sacrifices. We want the same opportunity for others, now and in the future; for this to be a reasonable hope there has to be order, not chaos and might makes right, et cetera. We also care about the aliens' souls. If we relent in the face of unjust demands, we are essentially acting as accomplices to sin, objectively speaking. It is an act of love to assist our neighbor's sanctification; even if he does not agree, we know our duty before God and this is what matters. God will not judge us on whether we succeed with our neighbor, but whether we tried our best---in keeping with the opportunities of our state in life, which is axiomatic---according to the prophet Ezekiel. There is no love without patience and forbearance. It is an act of charity to offer to mow my neighbor's lawn when he is ill; it is an act of justice to do no harm to his property and to prevent it if possible, using only those just means at my disposal according to the Divine and natural law. And it is an act of justice to teach my neighbor the same---to point out to him that if he uses emergency room treatment for ordinary medical care that he is not entitled to and because he does so, you are prevented from receiving emergency care or even ordinary care that you paid for or earned, then he is committing theft. And if you should die [assuming a quid pro quo situation] because he feels entitled to non-emergency care or care that he could have reasonably foreseen and made other arrangements for, then he is partially responsible for your death. So-called emergencies, such as deliberately coming to America to have a baby so as to make "it more difficult for authorities to deport you" is not an emergency, it is a deception, a fraud, otherwise known as having an "anchor baby". Then the liberals can shout, "we can't separate families." Right. Families created to create the pressure and exact, like extortion, such a response. A person who chooses with premeditation to have an "anchor baby" is just the sort of person who would not make a good citizen. She is using an innocent child as a wedge. Blackmail. Would you do this with your child? Of course not. You would rather endure an unjust burden, then make a baby other than it is a gift of God and not a weapon. This sort of thing shows cunning, but it also reveals very poor character. As with adoption, the rules are stricter. We cannot deport natural born citizens for bad behavior because they have no other country of origin, but we can deport non-citizens or those naturalized through deception. Babies born in the US of foreign nationals are given US citizenship at birth, but this has always been understood to mean of parents who were legally here for other purposes. As I said, a new kind of warfare, that makes what is going on in Iraq seem like child's play when one thinks of the implications for the future. Someone compared the nativity of Christ in Bethlehem to an "anchor baby" saying, "there was no room for Jesus either." This is one of those nasty shibboleths that must be challenged and put to rest, once and for all, apart from the presumption involved. Our Lady and St. Joseph were in Bethlehem by law, and actual citizens of the land, otherwise the law could not compel them to register, to make the trek from Nazareth to Bethlehem, sort of a county seat. There is no law mandating someone pay a trafficker $1000 a person, a fortune to someone like myself, then sneak across the border under stealth, planning to have a baby so as to be "anchored". Even more, Our Lord was conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary. He was not conceived through St. Joseph. The time of His birth and the appointed place was by Divine decree, not the sins [some are conceived knowingly out of wedlock] or machinations or schemes of men. Blasphemy does not begin to cover this insult! If someone proposes this nonsense to you hoping to stump you, you know how to answer. Memorize this paragraph. It's legal in war to use the weapon of truth, you know, although the elites in Washington are hoping we have forgotten how. This is why they go to such lengths to insulate themselves from any intrusion from the regular folks back home, except when the media is watching. They are afraid we might still remember and call them on it, the cowards!
To stand up for the truth of what a moral action consists of and in what it does not, is not just charity, it is justice! All men deserve the truth for its own sake and for their own. This is part of the practice of virtue, for it elevates both him and us. Virtuous men and women strengthen a nation beyond all measure. Those who cheat weaken a country beyond all reason.
In other words, our motivation must be one of justice and love of neighbor, and love of our homeland, which are intricately and unavoidably intertwined.
Third, once we have examined our motivation and are certain we are inspired by this trinity of purpose, then, and only then, can we proceed. Now comes the hard part, the real work. As Catholics---Christians---love of neighbor, as difficult as it is to perfect in practice, thirst for justice and patria ought to be second nature under normal conditions; these are not ordinary times so it is salutary and wise for us to be certain, and remove this first obstacle before the difficult tasks ahead and the temptations and stumbling blocks that will assail us.
SPIRITUAL CHALLENGES
To be sure the NAU, illegal migration and all the problems that are hurting America's ability to uphold nationhood are political. But first they are social, and social because ultimately the challenges we face are spiritual. The political perplexities and the quagmire that is the operating milieu got this way because of spiritual decay, moral perversion of every kind. A former Speaker of the House once said "that all politics are local." Indeed. And all politics are irrevocably and intrinsically about social arrangements; and social arrangements are about cultural matters; and cultural matters are about cult or religion. If no religion is proclaimed this in no wise alters the interplay of human nature because apostasy and atheism function as if a religion since they become the overarching raison d'être or ideology. Period. Human beings have no other way to go about human affairs simply because this is their nature as created by God, which brings us back to our beginning, no pun intended, to our Creator Who made us for Him. Denying that it is so does not make it not so, it just makes the one denying it wrong or delusional.
I may not be able to change you, or anyone else, although I would hope to. The only person I have control over is myself and you, yourself. Before I first seek to attempt to change someone else, I better be sure as is humanly possible that I do not need changing also and even more perhaps?
The mammoth tasks ahead are so profoundly spiritual, they are in the strongest sense spiritual combat writ large, rather than political. If the spiritual is sound, the politics inevitably take care of themselves. Poll after poll show that Americans in majority numbers think that America is "headed in the wrong direction." No argument. Naturally, the pollsters phrase things in socio-political and economical terms. Again, the spiritual lies at the heart of our ennui, malaise and downward trajectory in national spirit---see, there's that word, spirit, again. Sloganeering can't right wrongs, only cover them up temporarily, just as "Politics of Fear v. Politics of Hope" to use one slogan, serves only to compound matters.
So now we have come to the crunch: me, you, each of us as individual men and women. Are we humble first and foremost? Humility is the base of sanctity and virtue. In his classic work, THE SPIRITUAL COMBAT, Dom Scupoli begins with first things and I cite excerpts:
CHRISTIAN SOUL! If you seek to reach the loftiest peak of perfection, and to unite yourself so intimately with God that you become one with spirit with Him, you must first know the true nature and perfection of spirituality in order to succeed in the most sublime undertaking that can be experienced or imagined.
Some, who judge by appearances, make it consist in penances, in hair shirts, austerities of the flesh, vigils, fasting, and similar bodily mortifications. Others fancy themselves extremely virtuous when they indulge in long periods of vocal prayers, hear several Masses, spend many hours in church . . .
Since exterior works are nothing more than
dispositions for achieving true piety, or the effects of real piety, it
cannot be said that Christian perfection and true piety consist in
them.
They are, without doubt, powerful means for becoming truly perfect and
truly holy. When used with discretion they are of unique value in
supporting
our nature . . .
The situation is much different
with those
who ignorantly place their devotion in external acts, which frequently
are the cause of their own downfall, and are of far deeper consequence
than open crime. In themselves they are not evil, but only when wrongly
applied. They are so attached to these acts that they utterly neglect
to
watch the inner movements of their hearts . . .
A very little reflection on their conduct
discloses their error and the great distance between them and that
perfection
of which we are now in search. In every circumstance they love to be
shown
preference to others. They know no guide but their own private
judgment,
no rule but their own will. They are blind in their own affairs,
ferret-eyed
in regard to those of the neighbors, always ready to find fault. Touch
the empty reputation they think they possess, and of which they are
extremely
jealous. order them to stop some of the devotions to which they are
accustomed.
Their amazement and vexation can hardly be expressed. . . .
If God Himself, in order to open their eyes and to show them the true path of perfection, should send them crosses, sickness, or severe persecutions, the surest trials of His servant's fidelity, which never happen unless by his plan and permission, then the degenerate condition of their hearts is laid bare through their own extravagant pride. In all the events of this life, whether happy or not, they know nothing of a proper conformity to the Will of God. They do not know how to yield to His almighty power, to submit to His judgments which are as just as they are secret and impenetrable. They do not know how to imitate Christ Crucified, as He humbled Himself before all men; nor do they know how to love their enemies as the instruments used by God's goodness to train them to self-denial . . . and . . . greater sanctification of their daily life. . . .
Experience proves that acknowledged sinners are reformed with less difficulty than those who willfully hide themselves under the cloak of a false virtue. . . .
It [the spiritual life of combat] actually consists in knowing the infinite greatness and goodness of God, together with a true sense of our weakness and tendency to evil, in loving god and hating ourselves, in humbling ourselves not only before Him, but for His sake, before all men, in renouncing entirely our own will in order to follow His. It consist, finally, in doing all of this solely for the glory of His Holy Name, for only one purpose-----to please Him, for only one motive-----that He should be loved and served by all His creatures.
These are the dictates of that law of love
which the Holy Ghost has written on the hearts of the faithful. .
. .
But remember that as no war can be carried on with greater fierceness, the forces, no other than ourselves, being equal on both sides, so the victory when gained is most pleasing to God and most glorious to the conqueror. For whoever has the courage to conquer his passions, to subdue his appetites, and repulse even the least motions of his own will, performs an action more meritorious in the sight of God than if, without this, he should tear his flesh with the sharpest disciplines, fast with greater austerity than the ancient Fathers of the Desert, or convert multitudes of sinners.
It is true, considering things in themselves,
that the conversion of a soul is, without doubt, infinitely more
acceptable
to the Divine Majesty than the mortification of a disorderly affection.
Yet, every person, in his own particular sphere, should begin with what
is immediately required of him. . . .
the accomplishment of our duty . . .
Now it is time for a little dialogue or Q&A, you first.
Well, if I cannot know if I am humble, how and why ought I to try to be humble, for this seems impossible on its face, does it not?
By loving God above all things and by submitting ourselves to His service, then in service to neighbor, God will provide the grace for humility if we ask for it. It's just that we do not keep score, He does. Keeping score, that is, saying to ourselves, ah, now I am good, for humans, is a form of pride as Scupoli tells us, just as feeling that we cannot be forgiven our sins because we are so evil is a form of pride, as it places our "light" or lack of it, rather, before that of God's.
Why are you telling me this, I already know it, I am a practicing Catholic?
Dom Scupoli cautions us about thinking that we are "practicing", does he not? Because we concentrate on the wrong things, often the external.
Then what are you asking me to do, that I am not already?
Actually I'm not, asking you do something other than you are doing now that is, but the same thing with a different perspective or vigor.
I don't understand.
Let's look at it this way. Every morning you rise and make your Morning Offering, whatever formula is suitable for your spiritual temperament.
Yes.
Now, I am not presuming that you do not efface yourself before Almighty God, before you pray the first prayer of many prayers of the day. In fact, you may be doing this par excellence. Thanks be to God!
I am asking that you make an effort to be sure you are doing it. The most humble Saint always seeks ways for more self-abnegation and effacement. He never trusts himself, he places all his trust in God.
This kind of prayer is more efficacious than an entire Rosary said distractedly without trying to focus, but to merely get through it so one can say, there "I said the Rosary."
In other words, we must always be conscious of our own imperfections and sinfulness, before anything else. After all, the Gospel tells us that even the holy man [justified man] sins "seven times a day."
Only after true self-effacement can we hope to offer ourselves to God as an "unblemished" victim or lamb, through our work.
Then will our sacrifices and prayers be multiplied by the goodness and generosity of God and Our Lady, Mediatrix of all graces. We acknowledge our fall, make a firm purpose of amendment, than climb right up into her mother's lap, if she will permit us---we must always be polite, so to speak, and reverential, yet trusting with the heart of a child who loves and trusts his sweet mother, like a little child who beckons lovingly to his mother---she will bend down and sweep us up to cradle us---to shield us as her children under her mantle, Lovely Lady in Blue, as we place our heart in the Sacred Heart of Jesus and her Immaculate Heart, and let God take care of the rest, provided we do what we can reasonably do. They want pure hearts, hearts without artifice and deceit, humble hearts of pure trust.
No one person can do all things, but we can all do one thing at least and better than someone else. That one thing may be to root out some vice or sin we cling to more than another; our closest neighbor will know, even if he cannot articulate to himself as such. He will sense the change and say, "Have you noticed what has come over Sally?"
Why should this make a difference except for me and my salvation? What does my neighbor care if I love God more today than I did yesterday, that my trust in Him has increased, that I have more self-knowledge through self-abasement, not appeasement? What does patriotism have to do with religious practice or personal sanctity, one I cannot even be sure I am obtaining as you say?
Okay, that's a very good question. Let's look at it like this. We all know from experience, religious folks and unreligious folks, that there are people we meet and come to know, may even live with, who are very good, so good, that we find ourselves instinctively drawn to them, as they elevate our spirits, ennoble our hearts, bring peace and tranquility to our private disorders and troubled spots, our fears. Each one of us knows at least one. At least. If we are blessed we know several, but just one such person suffices for an entire lifetime if need be. The religious person sees such a good person as grace-filled, holy, a Saint perhaps, literally. A non-religious person looks upon this kind of individual as "inspiring" or a good example, a model, and so forth. Both are edified by such persons in their lives. We just know we want to be more like them and less like we tend to be sometimes, on a bad "hair day". Sometimes it is hard to put into words, but we know.
Remember in the beginning when we discussed the natural law and in what it consists of, that our first obligation, even as a citizen is to know and love God, to honor His precepts first, and that government has an obligation to protect our obligation to do so?
I remember. It reminded me of Catholic school days.
Well, what if you and I are part of a circle of 100 regularly interacting people, partly related by blood, and friends and co-workers, and the like. And only you and I decide enough is enough. The others are apathetic or angry and just like to bark about things like unsocial dogs. They won't listen or if they do, they say they don't care any longer, just leave us alone. It's like pulling the proverbial teeth. Anyway, you and I aren't dentists, we are simple people with simple means and little status in life and we actually like it this way. But we know things cannot go on like this, the Rubicon has come to us, or should I say, the Rio Grande, and it's time to make our stand at the old Alamo, but no one will go with us. The movie made the Alamo larger than life, the size of the big screen. When you actually see it, walk inside, one is taken immediately with its lack of immensity, its smallness. Yet it was very important in history. We lost the first Alamo, now but a shrine. We dare not, cannot lose this one. No one will go with us to defend the Alamo, which is beginning to appear bigger and bigger all the time. Pure suicide in purely human terms. We may be simple in our way of life, but we are not simple-minded fools. So what do we do if we really want to defend the Alamo? Bowie knives are out, for the battle that looms is not as at the original Alamo, at least not yet, not for two old ladies who think knives belong in the kitchen. If we go alone, our husbands, ever so much more practical, and stronger than we are, will just snatch us back and take us home. You know it, I know it. Like our fathers did when we tried to board the bus for Selma way back when. However that may be, we are not stuck. We don't change them, we change us, then they change themselves. Now, since we have made our examination of conscience and admitted our venality before God this morning, in sincerity, and with sorrow, trusting solely in Him, we know how imperfect we are, so it does not matter how imperfect our husbands and the others may seem to us, we have control only over ourselves. For all we know we are much more imperfect than they are anyway. So we find a particular habit or irritation that is unbecoming the dignity of one created in the image of God, one that really drives others crazy and just stop it, like that!
Huh? Bad habits are hard to break. Like that!
Indubitably. But all we have to do is ask God and keep asking Him like the old woman at the door in the Gospel, to drive it from us and He will, sometimes just like that! It's almost as if God can't help Himself, His generosity, His mercy, is above all His works. He loves to be trusted. The more we trust Him, the more He gives us, just like grace, you know, about the parable of the steward . . .
Oh, I think I see. Even if the bad habit does not go away right away, it is okay because it will, when it needs to, in His time, not ours, which is part of the trust we place in Him. If we are stingy in trusting Him He gives us the little we deserve or none at all maybe.
Right!
Now, whenever our dear but benighted co-worker or cousin or postal clerk or husband says something really stupid about immigration reform, like favoring amnesty, by any other name, and the like, instead of saying he is stupid we stop and ask him why he thinks this will help. Then have him think it through and explain the logical outcome of any unintended consequences. If he is not prepared then, that's okay, too. You see, instead of giving him the business, of calling him on being wrong, you have asked him for his thoughts, you take him seriously. We have to win the war, not every skirmish. This disarms him, psychologically, he isn't used to it. He will be frustrated for a short while because he is not sure what is happening but he'll get over it. Meanwhile, you and I are working on ourselves. We keep finding more faults to clean out---spring cleaning year round and on a tear and a roll. This will really drive him crazy and before you know it, he may not be able to define it or put it into precise words, but he wants to come along for the ride. He may even let us drive for once. Instead of complaining about our crosses to God, we daily thank Him for them, for indeed, they are blessings, Christ's Cross sure is and was---it won salvation for all men who seek to know and serve God in truth. We become joyous, in the small things, too. Like laughter it is catching, infectious. Human nature. Now call to mind the circle of 100. It is now no longer 2/100 but 4/100. And the four will grow and grow. And every circle will have at least 4/100 where once there was only 1 or 2. No circle will have a 100/hundred, because of human nature also. Some people just do not want to see things as they can be and ought to be after seeing things as they really are. For them it's right versus left, that's the way it is and all there is, and usually this is true enough, but the sovereignty crisis is less about right and left then it is about right and wrong. And because we seek to change, in earnest, first to serve God and to adore Him as we owe Him this, the change spills over unto others in our orbit. We are not faking anything, although our motive at first was to try to find a solution to apathy or contrariness. When we start to change, not having to be so in charge, so in control, and let God be God, it actually changes us for the sake of loving God and for no other motive. Since God cannot be outdone in generosity His grace builds on nature, and others see this and start thinking and maybe praying more themselves. Miracles began to happen. You just don't believe in them anymore, you come to expect them!
Oh, I see, I really get what you mean. I think I can do this, at least I want to try. No, I know I can do this, because all things are possible with God. But how is this going to help with the politics? This is where we are headed next, right?
Yes.
Well, we are already at the 4/100 and counting. Look what Jesus did with 12, and they weren't perfect in the beginning either. One did not have perfect trust even. One denied Him before men. Two fought over who was the greater. Imagine. Then came Pentecost and all Hell shook and shrank as all Heaven was let loose. Imagine.
THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
Now we no longer have to go alone. But even if we did, we place all our trust in God and in our valiant Heavenly Mother and her legions the Angels. Pride goeth before a fall, but Archangels goeth before a victory.
We are soldiers of Christ, for Christ, because of Christ and we are also soldiers of our country in a very real sense. What kind of a soldier who is trained for battle refuses to fight a just war? Or once in battle ducks for cover, abandoning his compatriots? No such soldier I ever met. A soldier fights because that is what a soldier does, is supposed to do. Christ will never abandon us if we place our trust in Him. With God any time is a good time for being a "patriot".
With our country, not so, sad to say. These are the times that try men's souls as one patriot was wont to say, so much so that these are the times that try the patriot himself. As if we are on trial. In the normal course of things it is the citizen who betrays his country, commits treason and abets the enemy. Now it is the country that betrays her citizens, especially her patriots who love her more than their own lives. It's a hard season for lovers, but for those who love because not to love is foreign to them, they love even more because they are despised. Christian patriots most of all. We all know the elites who pretend they are tolerant while loathing serious Christians. Some hate Christ or deny Him before men. They are uncomfortable with our comfortableness with our Heavenly Mother. How can we not glow with our love for her, the Mother of God, who loves each one of her children, given by her Son from the Cross, more than any of us could love her back. Some of our detractors are Catholics in politics. We scare the devil in them, I wish it could be the devil out of them. Not because we are any better than they are, but because we want Heaven above all else, even before the praise of other men, of being considered tolerant, as defined by them. We won't compromise when asked to worship false gods or to render unto Caesar those things that do not belong to Caesar but they insist do. They have a chance, this tolerance crowd to really demonstrate it and they flunk the test. Every time. They know who they are. We know who they are. And they know we know who they are, so we do not have to list the legion of names. They even write whole tomes on the matter, then are feted by talk show hosts who ought to know better. Only in America, folks. Whenever I see a once reliable politician "sell out" it is because he experiences loneliness and self-doubt, placing his trust in princes. He can't take the exile, the declamations of disapproval, so he worms his way back in, selling his soul by slow degrees. It's the sorriest sight on earth to see someone so high fall so low so fast, in a hurry to go nowhere. Then the litany of justification begins and before you know it, you and I are the "bad guys". So we know that we will be reviled, rejected for taking a stand that comports with the natural law, the law of reason. We had better take another look at that sorry sight and learn thereby. This is the price of patriotism, the ultimate price is our lives, but surely our lives by way of reputation, stolen from us by scorn and worse. We are soldiers, remember this. We are made of better things, for better things, and this is to love in the face of ridicule and rejection, to love more because we are not loved.
No, we must take up our cross, and like the eagle, rise for flight, not to take flight as in to flee, but to soar with the Archangels. We must go as one sent and not look back, we must become the salt of the earth as Christ commands, not turned into pillars of salt. Trust.
Forewarned and forearmed we gird ourselves. This is not so much a radical manifesto, but a call to "Arms"---prayer, penance, petition, over and over again. If we fall we get back up, dust ourselves off and begin anew, "Behold I make all things new . . ." If our comrade falls in battle, we help him up and again and again. Mission and message, message and mission.
POINTS OF ATTACK OR TARGETS
Taken from the website, THE CONSERVATIVE VOICE
Note: the present bill in Congress pretends to do some of these things, in attenuated form and is really an amnesty bill.
BUILD THE WALL! It must be more physically challenging to get across the border.
CONSTITUTIONALLY DEFINE citizenship to EXCLUDE citizenship to children of those not legally here! No more anchor babies.
LIMIT social welfare programs to provide assistance only to citizens. If a non-citizen can't be productive enough to support themselves here, they should not be a drain on US resources. Legal residents who are not citizens should be required to provide for themselves to retain their legal residency. Illegals who cannot support themselves and who find no nursemaid mentality here might just go home.
Provide severe penalties for employers hiring illegals. If the costs to employ them exceeds the labor cost savings over hiring citizens and legal residents … there is no incentive for them to hire illegals. If the jobs aren't waiting for the illegals, there is less incentive for them to cross.
The President must abandon his support of a guest-worker program. Let AMERICANS do the labor, even if that means higher wages and prices. The American Public will happily absorb a few extra cents for a head of lettuce or a bunch of grapes if they also see a concurrent reduction in the presence and curtailment of the influx of illegal aliens!
DEPORT! Do not be deterred by the claims that it is impossible to round up and deport the millions of illegals already here. It is easy enough to identify and deport a couple hundred thousand! If the illegals already here find it more difficult to find a job, impossible to get food stamps, welfare, medical assistance, and they run the risk of discovery and deportation… many more will voluntarily go home rather than have to be deported by the government.
Make English the official language of the US. ELIMINATE non-English communications from all government supported communications from education to streetsigns. Government offices should no longer be required to have interpreters. Anyone living in this country should be able to communicate in the native tongue of the US. Discourage bilingual labels on consumer goods, menus etc.
Illegals come here because getting in is easy, because there is a likelihood of an improvement in their status, and because there is a minimal risk of consequence. They stay because there is accommodation and enablement to live here without assimilation (bilingualism), and because their babies become citizens with the rights, privileges and opportunities that US Citizenship entails. Who wouldn't find that an incentive?
SEVEN LOW-COST LOW-TECH, HIGH IMPACT WEAPONS OF CHOICE
Pauly Fongemie
1. Contact others: get them to write a letter to the editor, of your local paper, then follow up with one of your own. Look for "hooks" or anchor stories, articles about NAFTA, the NAU, etc. Note errors of fact and write to make observations, get the facts out. Pray first, always.
2. While waiting for the letter to be published, commit yourself to an extra decade of the Rosary, or forego a dessert. Notice who else writes in, try to find others who are concerned in like manner. You may be able to establish a local network.
3. Purchase a copy of The New American Special Report on NaFTA:
Call 1-800-342-6491
If you can afford it, buy two and leave one at the doctor's office. I took a similar one---TNA has special reports from time to time--- to the waiting room at the hospital while waiting for a surgery patient and within five minutes people were interested---the cover caught their attention---and a debate began, the lousy television was forgotten. One gentleman took that issue home with him---he has a website and was just beginning to learn what is really going on. You would be amazed how little it takes sometimes. If nothing happens, trust in God and try again. Trust. Trust and pray, always.
4.
Call the President: 202-456-1111, 202-456-1414, Contacting the White House
Call your two Senators: 202-224-3121 - Capitol Switchboard, Call your Senators
There is a link at the bottom of the page for a list of Senators.
Call your Representative: 202-224-3121 - Capitol Switchboard, Call your Representative
There is a link on the left-hand side near the top for e-mail and other writing contacts.
SIGN A PETITION ONLINE
Ask for a position paper or letter in response, the follow-up. Be polite even if you think they would rather just get rid of you. Pray before you call, always. Just a Glory Be in thanksgiving for the opportunity. E-mail letters usually do not get responses except a form E-mail back.
5. Support the websites linked throughout these pages, by thanking the columnists, purchasing a book when possible.
6. Go to you local library and ask for books, like those mentioned, on inter-library loan if need be, keep asking, enlist neighbors to do the same, create a demand, turn heads there, these places are dens of liberalism and elitism, even small town libraries. They don't get it. Help them along.
7. If you haven't already, cultivate a sense of humor, it can't hurt and it costs nothing at all.
THE CATHOLIC'S BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC
O Sacred Heart of Jesus, make my heart like unto Thine,
Be my love.
O Immaculate Heart of Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee,
Be my salvation.
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection,
Shield us with thy legions.
Guardian Angel Mine, walk by my side and never let me go, for I fall so easily,
Suffer me not to lose my resolve.
Saint Venantius, Martyr and Exemplar of all Christians before unjust laws,
Pray for us.
All ye Saints, Martyrs and Angels,
Pray for us.
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