[Dialogue] Food for what thought?

[Priscilla H. Wilson]

Thank you, David...for taking time to do that. Just reading that piece 
told my intuitions that it wasn't what it was saying it was.
Priscilla

On Jan 19, 2005, at 12:29 PM, David Dunn wrote:

> 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 America’s 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
>
>
>
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