The Truth from Unwanted Lips...

Throughout my life, I can never say that I have been an open fan of Patrick J. Buchanan. Buchanan, a key member and political asset of three different Republican presidencies, often errs on the far side of the political right, but as of late, his passion for reforming not only his party, but his country, has drawn my attention. In his latest book, State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, Buchanan hit the proverbial nail on the head in regards to the pending doom that is our Nation's policy on border security. The following is the book's description from Amazon.com:

Pat Buchanan is sounding the alarm. Since 9/11, more than four million illegal immigrants have crossed our borders, and there are more coming every day. Our leaders in Washington lack the political will to uphold the rule of law. The Melting Pot is broken beyond repair, and the future of our nation is at stake.

In this important book, Pat Buchanan reveals that, slowly but surely, the great American Southwest is being reconquered by Mexico. These lands---which many Mexicans believe are their birthright---are being detached ethnically, linguistically, and culturally from the United States by a deliberate policy of the Mexican regime. This is the "Aztlan Plot" for "La Reconquista," the recapture of the lands lost by Mexico in the Texas War of Independence and Mexican-American War.

Comparing the immigrant invasion of America from across the Mexican border---and of Europe from across the Mediterranean---to the barbarian invasions that ended the Roman Empire, the author writes with passion and conviction that we have begun the final chapter of the Death of the West. Unless the invasion is halted now, Buchanan argues, by midcentury America will be a country unrecognizable to our parents, the Third World dystopia that Theodore Roosevelt warned against when he said we must never let America become a "polyglot boardinghouse" for the world.

President Bush's failure to halt the invasion and secure America's border, Buchanan writes, is a dereliction of constitutional duty that, in other times, would have called forth articles of impeachment. In the final chapter, "Last Chance," he lays out a sweeping immigration reform and border security plan, which, he contends, if not pursued, means George W. Bush's legacy will be to have lost for America a Southwest that was the legacy of Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson, and James K. Polk. With an estimated ten to fifteen million "illegals" already here and tens of millions more poised to pour across our borders, few books could be as timely---or important---as State of Emergency. It is essential reading for all Americans.

What I find most compelling about Buchanan's approach is his clear and concise analysis of both parties and their failures in this arena. He details the racial and ethnic motiviations of the Democratic leadership and their desire to exploit an ever-growing voting populous. And he also gives equal time to Republican ties to big business and the Right's desire to protect its campaign benefactors. For the first time in a long while, Buchanan's motivations appear true and just, and his message is clear. We are not long from a period in this country when we will look to our southwestern borders and realize they have moved slowly and surely north of Texas and New Mexico and Arizona. The lands that Sam Houston and Davy Crockett and Sam Bowie fought so hard to protect and secure will have been given away under the guises of cheap produce and humanitarian equality.