Sir;...There are enough good reasons to want to close our borders without some made up defense of culture and religion... The people see clearly that their rights are not qualitative, but quantitative... That is, we share our civil rights with property, and the more property one has the more rights one has, quantitatively... And what is left for people without property is diluted by every new arrival...Rights should equal wealth... The loss of political power (rights) equals poverty, and deprivation, and every arrival of people without rights and political power only makes our situation worse...If rights were the result of a quality, of being human for example, then it would not matter how many people showed up here, or where we might go in the world.....But as long as property confers rights, and greater rights with more property, the more reason everyone with property has to spread poverty, and to withhold support from the government...They count on property rights at the same time that they undercut the defense of their special rights by denying support to all rights, and to general welfare, and even to law and government... People seek wealth to have greater rights, and spread poverty to deny rights, and so, uncertainty and pain robs meaning from the whole form of society...But never fear; Pat Buchanan is here.... He will support wealth and deny the protection of rights on the basis of culture and religion.... What is our culture and religion??? Many of the immigrants share our religion, and our culture is a non -culture, because we accept no cultural diversity in this country...It is a meaningless term...We don't know our cultures, or the paths our cultures have taken...WE do not know the history of our laws, what we have come out of, or what we are becoming...Our property is not any sort of right as traditionally conceived...Property rights has always meant the destruction of  other rights...In fact, absolute property rights is contrary to all natural cultures, and is a destructive culture unto itself... That is what you are defending...As the term:  Culture; is commonly used is the equivalent of civilization.... Do you believe you can point to an American civilization??? Is it not Western civilization, or European civilization, and would that not include our South of the Borders???You are defending the very thing that is ruining us, and making us poor...You blame the poor slobs who find their way to this land, often in pursuit of wealth we have taken from them, and full of the very life this society needs to carry on.... What you stand for is not so uncommon... There has always been some saying: No more, to immigration....I would like to say no more as well, for one reason only... The Romans said: Divide et  Impera....With our history of slavery, and all our many imports we have many lines of division, and are easily conquered by traitors within....Now, my people have been here for a long time, and perhaps yours have too... But in my wildest fears I do not see a danger in the face of strangers nearly so frightful as from those who would divide us from humanity as a way of dividing us from each other...The country has always represented human rights, and such rights cannot be diluted, or diminished... We do not have to fear to share our human rights with any people, here or abroad.... It is property rights that is our enemy, and the enemy of humanity... People need only so much wealth, and more does not add so much to ones security as it adds to our general misery.... So, if I could explain the case in classical terms; America is a fast fish, and it is fast to the fast man... Do not think we will own the world, and hang onto this cherry....Holding the world endangers our most essential, and basic rights.... Equal civil rights cannot be certain anywhere property confers unequal rights... Property is the main point of division in this land...We have fought one civil war over property rights... Shall it become necessary for us to fight another, have no doubt upon which side I stand...I stand for human rights... Thanks....Sweeney  

Well, Byuke, that's a warm fuzzy thought: Yet another bedrock part of what used to be a sound healthy media infrastructure in this country going down the tubes right along with the educational, road, bridge, mass transit, and environmental infrastructures the Republican party has made such sport of pissing all over. And idiots like you who think vdare.com is something to look forward to as the replacement are celebrating like a bunch of Nyro's with your third-rate fiddles. If you think the NY Times is out of sync with this country just because of an editorial or two on immigration you don't agree with, you need to find a party drug that is kinder to what's left of your synapses. You and your ilk have been off-gassing us-versus-them hatred and surfing that stinking wave since your glory days of Ronald Reagan, and now that the stench is starting to lift and what clean are is left becomes available, all you can do is hope for the destruction of one of the great institutions that has made this country great. What a little worm you are.

Re: Masako;...You know, I have been looking half of my life for a good excuse to use that word: Ilk, and when ever I think I have one it always looks out of place... I complement your use of the word... The Republicans are all ilk, except for the wanna be ilks.... If I was that kind of ilk I would be thinking twice about who to suck up to because the anger out here in the wasteland is solid enough to cut with a knife...But I doubt we can have any kind of good revolution that is not based upon human values..So human values must be our goal.... All the ilk should consider that  Lenin was not the first to export revolution...It was our own founding fathers, and the Monroe Doctrine was not about keeping South America as our own land to exploit, but was meant to free them with ourselves from European tyranny....Now we have become tyrants in our own right, and why should we be surprised that all roads lead now to America, and that so many show up at our door... The promise of liberty is still here...It is for us to breathe new life and meaning into it... We have to know that justice does not mean justus Americans.... Freedom is a beacon for everyone... Take that you republican ilks...Best to ya...Thanks...Sweeney

Re: James A, Sweeney: Well, shucks, I guess old you-know-who just brings the one-syllable words to the tip of me tongue. I do get tired of defaming animals (you know, like pigs and dogs) by likening him, perched there as he is at the nightmare end of the bell-shaped curve of our species, to one of them. So yes, words like "ilk" and "skulk" and "worm" tend to come to mind, although ilk itself is pretty neutral until you name the exact lineage you have in mind. Soon I guess I will have to reach beyond even the annelids for creatures that fill the bill. Cheers to you. Masako.