Nobody Calls Victor Davis HANSON a Racist, But

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This is the dude, a Classics Department type, like Leo STRAUSS and NIETZSCHE and PAGLIA, who was the "intellectual" force for CHEENEE et al., providing the historical justification for the illegal war, for the PNAC, the "pagan" values of brute force, no mercy, and PRIDE (gloating). So he wrote this book, "Mexifornia," where he laments his vinyard California going down the toilet because of all these Messicans. However, he makes clear that his siblings are MARRIED to Messicans, and his family owns all these vinyards, and much of the CA economy depends on this CHEAP LABOR, ----and yet, what he advocates is a return to the 1950s concept of ASSIMILATION, where Messicans decide to admire Davy CROCKETT and John WAYNE. Anyway, this I.D. card has been ALL OVER Univision:

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1. Don't Make Me Kick This Before I Retire for the Night n/t

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2. That's racist.

Mexicanos are good people. Mexican-Americans are good people. Plain old Americans are good people.

The person responsible for that ID card is not good people.

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3. Here Are Links

This is the only Googled link for the "Mexifornia Drivers License" I have found so far. It was a rabid anti-Bustamante site, apparently: http://www.bustamanteno.com/Lawlessness.html In the course of looking for it, found scads of FReeper type, anti-immigrant/"racist" places that shouldn't have surprised me as to extent, but my staying only on DU and related Lib sites has sheltered me and closed off part of an ugly reality out there.

As for HANSON, he is to these various racist groups what NIETZSCHE was to the Nazis----that is, NIETZSCHE was not a proto-Nazi, but he was USED by the Nazis in a distorted way for their own ends, or perhaps according to their own limited understanding (and his sister's). He was a Classicist ("Philology") scholar of the Ancients, loving the spirit and values of pre-Christianity, and applying those values for himself and in his writings. Then along come fringe wackos who see only the crude outlines and appropriate THOSE.

HANSON's "Mexifornia" essay is thoughtful, sees the good in the immigrants (as well as the increase in crime, budget stresses)----but his coinage of the word "Mexifornia" is wide open for use by these freeper-creepers.

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MEChA can kiss Texas' ass, we have approx. 5 guns for ever man, woman and child in this state. It's going to be one hell of a fight to "win over" Texas.

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Mexifornia: http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_2_do_we_want.html
Full HANSON archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp
Nat'l Cathedral: (History or Hysteria?) http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson032803.asp
.... In disgust at the hysteria, I took a drive to Washington to the National Cathedral on Sunday. Big mistake. All except one of the entrances were closed due to security concerns. I walked in under the wonderful sculptures of Frederick Hart, an authentic American genius who almost single-handedly restored classical realism to American sculpture. A small statue of a kneeling Lincoln, who sent thousands into battle to eradicate slavery, was in the corner. A plaque of quotations from Churchill, about the need for sacrifice in war, was on the wall. So I was feeling somewhat good again — until I heard the pious sermon on “shock and awe.” In pompous tones the minister was deprecating the war effort, calling down calumnies upon the administration, and alleging the immoral nature of our nation at war.

Such a strange man at such a strange time, I thought. His entire congregation, by its own admission, is in danger from foreign terrorists (why else bar the gates?). His church is itself a monument to the utility of force for moral purposes. His own existence as a free-speaking, freely worshiping man of God is possible only thanks to the United States military — whose present mission he was openly deriding at the country’s national shrine. ....
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4. "Mexifornia" Sampler

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Thousands arrive illegally from Mexico into California each year—and the state is now home to fully 40 percent of America’s immigrants, legal and illegal. They come in such numbers because a tacit alliance of Right and Left has created an open-borders policy, aimed at keeping wage labor cheap and social problems ever fresh, so that the ministrations of Chicano studies professors, La Raza activists, and all the other self-appointed defenders of group causes will never be unneeded. ....

And while the Democrats think the illegals will eventually turn into liberal voters, the actual Hispanic vote so far remains just a small fraction of the eligible Mexican-American pool: of the 14,173 residents of the central California town of Hanford who identified themselves as Latino (34 percent of the town’s population), for example, only 770 are registered to vote.

My sleepy hometown of Selma, California, is in the dead center of all this. ....It is a schizophrenic existence, living at illegal immigration’s intersection. Each week I pick up trash, dirty diapers, even sofas and old beds dumped in our orchard by illegal aliens—only to call a Mexican-American sheriff who empathizes when I show him the evidence of Spanish names and addresses on bills and letters scattered among the trash. ....

Yet I also walk through vineyards at 7 AM in the fog and see whole families from Mexico, hard at work in the cold—while the native-born unemployed of all races will not—and cannot—prune a single vine. By natural selection, we are getting some of the most intelligent and industrious people in the world, people who have the courage to cross the border, the tenacity to stay—and, if not assimilated, the potential to cost the state far, far more than they can contribute. ....

Our elites do not understand just how rare consensual government is in the history of civilization, and therefore they wrongly think that they can instill confidence by praising the other, less successful, cultures that aliens are escaping from rather than explaining the dynamism and morality of the civilization that they have voted for with their feet.


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5. You know who needs to hear about this? Morris Dees.

An attorney recognized for winning big cases against the KKK, Dees is co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Among the many things this group does is track Hate groups. They're probably already on these turds, but I'll give them the heads-up.

http://www.splcenter.org/

http://www.splcenter.org/donate/donationsatwork/article.jsp?aid=3

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6. Great and Thanks, Oct n/t