Patrick Buchanan: Another Nutjob?

Patrick Buchanan has come out with another book similar in nature to his Death of the West (where he cites four dangers for the US: declining birth rates; uncontrolled immigration of peoples of "different colors, creed, and cultures"; a rise of "anti-Western" culture antithetical to established religious, cultural, and moral norms; and a "defection of ruling elites" to the idea of world government), and it is called State of Emergency.

In it, Buchanan indicates that he believes there is an actual “Aztlan Plot” for “La Reconquista,” the recapture of the lands lost by Mexico in the Texas War of Independence and Mexican-American War.

And I am with him on that point because, as I have previously indicated in any number of previous posts regarding illegal immigration, the La Voz de Aztlan website clearly spells out the theory of reconquista.

In a recent Time magazine article, Buchanan said:

I'm predicting that America will no longer be one nation but more like the Roman Empire--a conglomerate of races and cultures held together by a regime. The country I grew up in was culturally united, even if it was racially divided. We spoke the same language, had the same faith, laughed at the same comedians. We were one nationality. We're ceasing to be that when you have hundreds of thousands of people who want to retain their own culture, their own language, their own loyalty. What do we have in common that makes us fellow Americans? Is it simply citizenship? Or is it blood, soil, history and heroes?

Buchanan believes a state of emergency does in fact exist and it is not coming, it is here:

If we do not get control of our borders and stop this greatest invasion in history, I see the dissolution of the U.S. and the loss of the American Southwest--culturally and linguistically, not politically--to Mexico. It could become a part of Mexico in the way that Kosovo is now a part of Albania.

Are the stakes that high?

I believe they are. I believe that the Balkanization of America can happen and that the quality of life as we know it will most definitely be affected -- and not in any positive way.

I believe in an attack on all fronts, Left and Right. First, close the borders completely as best one can. Second, keep it closed for at least a year and analyze that impact. Three, rewrite the immigration laws and streamline the process to the point where it doesn't take years to naturalize, once the borders are reopened. Third, during the closing of the border, enforce laws on the books, enforce the immigration laws, deport, and arrest those who traffic in illegal immigrants and those who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.

Again, blunt: Republicans like the free work; Democrats like the free votes.

We need to rid ourselves of both; it corrupts us as a nation.

BZ