[Dialogue] Food for what thought?

[David Dunn]

On 1/18/05 8:48 PM, "the Whitneys" wrote:

> FOOD FOR THOUGHT (true or not....)
> 
>     We all know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado.  In
> that context, his thoughts are particularly poignant.

This is a scary piece and I thought that I'd better track it down. It was
apparently originally written by an anti-immigration free-lance writer named
Frosty Wooldrige. More widely read people than I will have to scour the
recommended reading list on this guy's website to discern his stripes, but
he refers regularly to the Center for Immigration Studies in DC which, so
far as my Google searching has been able to determine, is a demonstrably
dogmatic, activist, anti-immigration lobby group masquerading as an
objective immigration think tank.

See:
http://www.frostywooldridge.com/info/recommended_reading.html

> How to Destroy America
> Article by Frosty Wooldridge
> October 31, 2003
> 
> Published in MichNews.com.
> 
>  In Washington, DC, several weeks ago, an immigration-overpopulation
> conference was filled to capacity by many of America¹s finest minds and
> leaders. Writers, speakers, CEO's, representatives from Congress such as Tom
> Tancredo as well as former governors graced the podium. Bonnie Eggle, mother
> of the national parks ranger Kris Eggle, slain by Mexican drug runners last
> year on our unguarded southern border--gave a compelling speech that left not
> one dry eye in the place. Peter Gadiel, father of Jamie Gadiel, spoke
> powerfully on how the World Trade Center took his son and how nothing has been
> done since--to stop the flow of illegal immigration into the United States.
> Even with the facade of Tom Ridge's Homeland Security, 800,000 illegal aliens
> continue walking, crawling or tunneling across the Mexican border annually.
> Their accelerating numbers undermine America's ability to function.

etc., etc.


We live in a rough world--both physically and intellectually--and this
speech, ostensibly by Dick Lamm, but whose original I was not able to track
down, is exhibit A. Bias is clothed as truth, bigotry hides behind
patriotism and the dream of an inclusive and just society is painted as
suicidal delusion.

Damn, I wish we didn't need to be so hyper-vigilant to spot the demonic amid
stuff that reads so eloquently and comes from a mind that I'd like to trust.

The internet provides the perfect 'vector' that allows such inflammatory
material to burn brightly and spread globally.

David