Thursday, July 31, 2008

It's quiz time!

Now pay attention!

See if you can name the source of the pro-immigration article below:

a) John McCain for President press release

b) Southern Poverty Law Center Immigrant Project

c) Communist Party of Cuba

Here's the article:

The Guatemalan Catholic Church said illegal immigrants are humiliated in the United States, from where nearly 15,000 Guatemalans have been expelled so far this year.

Archbishop Rodolfo Quezada Toruño condemned the practice of installing chips on the immigrants to keep them under control, as they do with criminals on parole.

"Installing a device on people to locate them is humiliating. It is a sign of slavery," the cardinal said during a mass in the metropolitan cathedral.

For his part, Mauro Verzeletti, of the Catholic Church's Human Mobility Pastoral, condemned xenophobia and mass raids, as one that took place recently at a company in Postville, Iowa, where nearly 300 Guatemalans were arrested.

I admit, it's a tough question, so here's a hint: notice the writer fires all the guns typically used in pro-Open Borders propaganda, such as equating opposition to Open Borders to "slavery" and "xenophobia." Plus, pay attention to how the article plays up the religious hook in every paragraph, stressing how the Catholic Church champions the immigrants. That's supposed to shame immigration restrictionists. There's nothing quite as effective as the Trojan Horse approach, and utilizing the traditional institutions of the society you're trying to undermine is a time-tested strategy.

Give up? The answer is "c," the Cuban Communist Party's Prensa Latina English edition. But as similar as the three possible sources are on the subject of Open Borders, you still should've guessed the correct answer. Neither John McCain nor the SPLC would use the term "illegal immigrants."

Gotcha!

3 Comments:

At July 31, 2008 12:22 PM , Anonymous Mark A Thomey said...

Mike:
You have to be careful, also, about the term 'Catholic Church'. In the popular media, this term is now associated with the modernist, new order, post-Vatican II 'catholic church', which has jetisoned all vestigages of traditional Catholic theology and morality. Thus the reason why you see such drivel as pronouncements on global warming and the 10 commandemnts of driving coming from the Vatican now days. The new order may control the buildings, but they are NOT the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.

Traditional Catholic teaching on this subject is clear - countries have a right to their own existence and to defend themselves from invasion. The latter necessilary contains the right to control who can, or can not, immigrate.

Pax Domini tecum, et Meridies resurgabit! [><]

 
At July 31, 2008 12:29 PM , Blogger Michael Tuggle said...

mark a thomey,

Good point. Of course, it's the "liberation theology" activists using the Catholic Church's infrastructure that are aiding and abetting illegal immigrants -- the Open Borders leftists want folks to think they're one and the same.

 
At August 5, 2008 3:03 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

"... such as equating opposition to Open Borders to "slavery" ..."

The truth is actually the opposite. By opening borders and allowing the flood of unauthorized immigration, you create slaves by artificially increasing the labor supply and lowering its price (the laborer's wages) to something barely above nothing. If the borders were actually controlled there would be a relative scarcity of labor, and individual workers would be able to demand (and get) more for their time and effort.

Like Glenn Beck has been known to suggest, open borders constitutes a modern day slave trade. The only difference between now and the early 1800s is the lack of whips and chains.

 

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