British isn't a British word

Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

Stop it!  It is so tiresome to repeatedly see the Arizona Republic's Robert Robb's malarkey about America's roots being Anglo-Saxon and Protestant.

Our "British" principles of government were borrowed from French and Italian humanists who were educated in Catholic universities.   Britain's Anglo-Saxons adopted the Roman Republic and its heroes as their own, but they never would have known who their Roman heroes were if Catholic priests and monks hadn't told them.

For heavens sake,  "British" isn't even an Anglo-Saxon word.   The Roman Pliny called the British Isles "Britanniae" centuries before the Anglo-Saxons arrived and Pliny's "Britanniaie" is rooted in Celtic name "Pretani."  In Pliny's day the Celts not only inhabited "Britanniae," but also Gallia (France) and Hispania (Spain).

In others words,  since the Anglo-Saxon immigrants to "Britanniae" eagerly took Celtic wives (putting it delicately), not only is Mr. Robb Irish, but he's almost certainly a long lost cousin of his colleagues Elvia Diaz and Daniel Gonzalez and maybe Ed Montini.

Monolithic Protestant culture: what does that mean besides we're Christians who don't accept the Pope as leader.  Theologically, Episcopalians have more in common with Catholics and Lutherans than they do with Baptists and Presbyterians.   In "Britanniae",  the dominant religion of the moment merrily persecuted everyone else.  The Catholics persecuted the Anglicans.  The Anglicans persecuted the Catholics.  The Anglicans and Puritans (Congregationalists and Presbyterians) fought wars with each other over who'd run the country.  America's government was inspired by the British all right.   The Founding Fathers gave us a Constitution and especially the First Amendment to stop all that crap.

Boiling Frog

In the 2016 US Senate election,  138,634 Arizonans voted for the Green Party candidate who unabashedly goes by the name Boiling Frog.   And America's "Progressive" movement wonders why it isn't taken seriously.

Let California Secede

Californians, sore about the presidential election outcome, want to secede.  Fine with me.  However,  they should be reminded, as we in the West so often are, that the federal lands and parks belong to the people of the United States.  So do all the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine bases and interstate highways.  California also won't be allowed to take with them citizens of the United States who don't want to go.  These might be a minority state-wide, but they're the majority in the central and eastern two-thirds of the state.   So good luck to you California when you go.  You get the Dodgers and Giants and we keep Yosemite and the Colorado River.   If you think you have a water shortage now... just wait until after you secede.

NY Times Takes Sides In Brexit: Cadiz and Armada a Myth

It's stunning to read that Queen Elizabeth's Muslim alliance kept the Spanish from invading England  in the 16th century (NYT 9/18/16).  That's a doozy of a history revision.   Ever since high school I thought it was the weather and Sir Francis Drake that defeated the Spanish Armada.   As for the Spanish deciding to invade England,  isn't the author of this revision, Jerry Brotton, overly aggressive in suggesting it was simply a matter of religion.   At the time England was persecuting its own Catholics, instigating rebellion in the Spanish Netherlands and sending pirate raiders to attack Spanish possessions in the Americas.  Indeed,  England was the first to attack Spain in 1587 when Sir Francis Drake raided Cadiz and followed with attacks on Portuguese ports and Spanish shipping, claiming to destroy 100 Spanish ships. 

If you think America has trouble getting over its Civil War and Latino immigrants,  the English and their obsession with "black-hearted" Catholic Spain has America beat by centuries.
At a time when The Times is chastising Trump's fibbing about Mexicans,  it appears The Times is siding with England in the Brexit propaganda war and doing some fibbing of its own.
  

Times Racist Past: the Mexican Greaser and the Orphan Kidnappings

As between the Anglo-Saxon hoodlum and the Mexican "greaser" who to so large an extent compose the citizenship of Arizona, and contend between themselves for the control of its destinies when it is admitted to statehood...we dislike to be forced to a choice.... Since no bones were broken their experience is not to be deplored if it has taught them [the Sisters of Charity] to abstain in the future from handing over American foundlings to be reared in Mexican homes.
-- Foundlings in Arizona, NY Times, 11/6/1904

See Linda Gordon's The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction for the details on this racist, anti-Catholic episode from America's past, when Arizona vigilantes kidnapped New York orphans before the Sisters of Charity could place them in the prosperous homes of Mexican miners.

Nick Kristof, Monday Morning Quarterback

(AKA  The Historian's Fallacy)

Another anti-American edition of the Historian’s Fallacy by Nick Kristof (8/25/2016), claiming that the US didn't admit any immigrants before and during WW2 and the US is to blame for Holocaust deaths, including Anne Frank. 

1) America admitted tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of German refugees during the 1930s and 1940s, including the Marxist Herbert Marcuse who participated in the violent Spartacist rebellion, which attempted to overthrow the German government after WWI.  During WW2 Marcuse worked for the OWI/OSS as analysts and afterwards became of prominent advocate for Marxist revolutionary politics at the University of California. 

2)  In the 1930s and early 1940s no one in America including its leaders had any idea what the Germans planned to do to the Jews.  Blaming someone for a decision they made long before events allegedly resulting from the decision is known as the Historian’s Fallacy.  In the 1930s and 1940, China was the country where mass murder was a reality.  It was American attempts to stop mass murder in China that brought the US into WW2.

3) Blaming Roosevelt for not being more aggressive on the refugee issue is simplistic and ignores the structure of American government.   A few Southern senators, notably Robert Reynolds, blocked Senator Wagner’s refugee initiative to admit German children in the late 1930s.  Roosevelt needed the Southerners’ support for the American rearmament program, which was well underway in the 1930s.  Roosevelt did not make a bad choice: US factories came within a few months of delivering the P-40 aircraft to France in 1940 that would have prevented Hitler's victory in the Battle of France.  Roosevelt’s rearmament program saved the Soviet Union and England.  The aircraft carriers Roosevelt built in the 1930s defeated the Japanese at Midway in June of 1942.

4)  Operation Market Garden was launched only days after the Franks were transported to Auschwitz. 17,000 American and British soldiers were killed or wounded in the attempt to liberate the Netherlands.  Show some respect for all the Allied soldiers who lost their lives fighting Hitler, Nick.

Why Didn't the Allies Bomb the Concentration Camps

No one thought of asking the allies to do this until July of 1944. The request was rejected by the Americans as militarily impractical, if not impossible, due to accuracy and the extreme distances involved. What the Americans wouldn’t say at the time was that all available resources were dedicated to Operation Cobra, the breakout from Normandy, which began in late July 1944 and culminated in an allied victory by late August.

The last train for Auschwitz, carrying Anne Frank and other Dutch Jews, departed the Netherlands in September of 1944.  The train left only days before the allies' Operation Market Garden failed to capture the bridges across the Rhine, which would have captured the Netherlands and cleared the way for an invasion of the German heartland in 1944.  The attempt resulted in 17,000+ British and American casualties.

It’s surprising, but predictable, that no one asks why the Russians didn’t bomb the camps or rail lines. By April of 1944, the Russians were at the Polish border, by August they had overrun Treblinka and were outside Krakow, near Auschwitz. During most of 1944 Auschwitz was well within range of Russia’s Tu-2 bomber, which could carry a heavier bomb load than American B-17s and B-24s operating at extreme range. The Russian response to this question would likely be, after muttering a curse about your stupidity: We were engaged in horrific battles where the outcome was never certain. We threw everything we had into those fights. We captured Treblinka as soon as we could and we were so close to Auschwitz by August of 1944.  The Germans started evacuating the camp in October, stopped gassing people in November and started covering up evidence of their war crimes. What makes you think we didn’t do everything we could to destroy the rail lines in Poland. When they emptied the camp of its last prisoner just before we captured it in January of 1945, the Germans had to march the prisoners back to Germany.  

You say we should have tried harder to rescue the prisoners in Auschwitz?  When we finally got men across the Vistula River outside Krakow after ferocious fighting, the Germans immediately counterattacked with five army divisions, 100,000 soldiers.  They were quickly reinforced by another eight German and Hungarian divisions.  We held on to the west bank of the Vistula until August 16th when the exhausted Germans gave up.  We could not resume the offensive until our own battered divisions and exhausted soldiers had been rearmed or replaced.  136,000 of our boys were killed or gravely wounded in the fight to get from the Polish border to the suburbs of Krakow.

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Marshal Zhukov, the valor of the Red Army is beyond reproach, but the alliance between Stalin and Hitler to divide Poland in 1939 opened the door to all the horror that followed?

"If the nation only knew their hands dripped with innocent blood, it would have met them not with applause but with stones."  Marshal Zhukov

As you know, I was in Mongolia in 1939 leading the armies of the Soviet Union in the fight against the fascist Japanese.   After Stalin died, I personally arrested the rapist Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin's Himmler, the criminal who had so much blood on his hands including the murder of the Polish officers in the Katyn Forest, and ordered his execution.  There was no Nuremberg charade about how to deal with the guilty.

NY Times Bloody Sunday Cover-up

In a story about the future of the border between Ireland and the UK after Brexit (8/7/2016), Stephen Castle claims that the "years of  strife and violence in Northern Ireland between some Protestants who wanted to remain part of Britain and some Roman Catholics who favored unification with Ireland."

In fact the Northern Irelands Troubles of the 1960s and 70s were about civil rights, not the partition of Ireland into North and South.  The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association led the civil rights movement beginning in 1967 using civil rights marches to lobby for an "end to discrimination in areas such as elections... discrimination in employment, in public housing and alleged abuses of the Special Powers Act [including extra legal internment of dissidents]."  The increasingly repressive reaction to these protests culminated in the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" massacres, where British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians.

The question concerning Brexit is not really the border.  The question is whether conservatives, who never approved of the settlement of Northern Ireland's civil rights issues,  will return Northern Ireland to it's bad old days of civil rights abuses. 

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To this day The Times has failed to address its bias and continues to feature Simon Winchester, the Guardian reporter who helped England's Parachute Regiment cover up its role in the Bloody Sunday massacre.

Michael Biesecker Dissembles

Like so many on the Left, Michael Biesecker dissembles (ie, hides some facts). Up until a few months before Pearl Harbor America's Left was just as isolationist as Lindbergh. Leftist who backed the Hitler-Stalin alliance and opposed US war preparations and aid to England included Pete Seeger, the Morgen Freiheit, the Daily Worker and the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Strange, but true. They didn't become pro American involvement until the day Hitler turned on his ally Stalin and the Communist Party line changed. During the years of the Hitler-Stalin occupation of Poland, most of the people deported to "labor" camps and massacred by the tens of thousands by Stalin's secret police were Polish Catholics. America's Left didn't even whisper an objection. Hitler and Stalin, not America, are responsible for WW2 and its crimes against humanity, and Pete Seeger and America's Left helped them open the gates of hell. No amount of anti-American propaganda will change that.

RE: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-america-first-echoes-old-isolationist-rallying-cry/

Steve Kerr, Guns and Islamic Terror

It's predictable.  Steve Kerr is all over the television screen as we watch the NBA finals.   No one mentions that Kerr's father, president of the American University in Beirut, was assassinated by Islamic Jihad, the predecessor of Hezbollah, and that the Kerr family came to the Middle East when Steve's grandfather volunteered to help the survivors of the genocide that Sunni-Muslim dominated Turkey perpetrated on the Armenians.

It's a bizarre world view the "progressive" Left, including the Arizona Republic's Steve Benson, has created where America is responsible for Islamic violence.  This pretense requires  lots of creative juggling.   Nicholas Kristof, for example, condemns America for not intervening to save the Armenians.   Did he think we should have wagged our fingers harder, which surely would have gotten the Turks' attention, or is the Left condemning the US for not putting boots on the ground to save the Armenians?

Charles Blow and NY Times Hate America

Instead of blaming ISIS and ISIS followers for terrorist attacks, Blow blames America.  How bizarre and twisted is that.

6/4/1942: How the Japanese Lost WW 2

Late in the morning of June 4, 1942, a high-tech Dauntless SBD dive bomber launched from the U.S.S. Enterprise slipped through the Japanese fleet anti-air defenses and, stabilized by its innovative dive brakes, dropped a 500-pound high-explosive bomb in the middle of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s aircraft carrier Kaga’s flight deck.   Dozens more SBDs followed and scored more direct hits with 500 and 1000 pound bombs, sending the entire Japanese carrier force to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean: Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu and Akagi.   Within a matter of minutes at Midway in the remote Central Pacific, the course of World War 2 had been decisively changed.

The Japanese mismanagement of their Midway campaign provides an important lesson for people who run businesses and governments.  Focus and scope management are critical to success.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the Japanese had twelve months to win WW 2 or at least entrench themselves strongly enough to force a stalemate.  The United States was in the midst of a massive rearmament program started in the late 1930s and by early 1943 a dozen plus Essex-class super aircraft carriers would enter the fight in the Pacific.  The Japanese were aware of this and knew they needed to destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet and its five older aircraft carriers in 1942.  After this, they would be able to occupy the Hawaiian Islands and use land-based aircraft to neutralize the Essex aircraft carriers.   The Japanese planned to lure the U.S. Navy into battle at Midway, threatening the Hawaiian Islands, and destroy the U.S. Navy's operational aircraft carriers.

"For want of a nail... the battle was lost."  The Japanese didn't just throw away a nail for the battle horse's shoe.  They threw away whole boatloads.  Despite knowing that victory at Midway was imperative to win the war, the Japanese filled the six months after Pearl Harbor with big and small initiatives that wasted boatloads or resources before the battle. 

By the time the Japanese fleet arrived off Midway, they had diverted and lost so many resources that the Americans, who were throwing everything into the battle, had almost 140 more aircraft at Midway Island and on its aircraft carriers than the Japanese fleet.  

Instead of waiting until they'd located the American aircraft carriers, the Japanese immediately attacked Midway and began losing more aircraft, and most of these were attack aircraft belonging to the one aircraft carrier what survived the first fatal American dive bomber attacks.  The Japanese, still not focused on their primary object, the destruction of the American fleet, decided to attack Midway again and their carrier decks became a confusion of rearming for a naval battle when the American aircraft carriers were finally discovered.  The lost minutes and lost and missing aircraft were fatal.  "For want of a nail...."

This is a lesson for all businesses and governments.  Know and focus on the objectives that make your business successful.   Manage scope.  Be absolutely ruthless, RUTHLESS, in saying NO to any initiatives that distract from achieving the organization's objectives.  (you'll never be as ruthless as Admiral Raymond Spruance was when he launched the 117 plane raid against the Japanese fleet knowing that half of the American pilots would never return and hoping that thousands of Japanese would end up dead).

America hasn't managed scope successfully.   For generations we have been haunted by the legacy of slavery and many of our best efforts to fix slavery's problems have been diverted into other initiates.   Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity have become the solution for every problem.   We have softball teams for all the girls while most of the young black men who'd like to play get cut from the high school basketball team.   While black children are gunned down by the score in the streets of Chicago, our government starts arguments over the census and transgender bathrooms.

Focus and be RUTHLESS.

John Birch, Steve Benson and Hiroshima

Is it really a surprise that Steve Benson pushes the idea that we need to apologize for Hiroshima.  Steve's privileged family were enamored with the isolationist John Birch Society, which believed China would be better off ruled by the Japanese, never mind the 20,000,000 dead and counting in 1945 killed by Japan's 3,000,000 strong and undefeated army of occupation.  Steve's privileged family never had to worry about fighting at Iwo Jima and the prospect of continuing the fight on the beaches of Kyushu where the invasion of Japan would start.   When the A-bomb was dropped, my dad was in training to be in the vanguard of the Japan invasion.   My father-in-law was leaving Iwo Jima for the next round.  My Uncle Rob Regan was already preparing the way for the invasion.   How many more of these did Steve want:  photo of Lt. Regan's attack on Japanese cruiser at Kure, Japan, late 1945.

The Irony of Hypocrisy

Steve Benson, the Republic's cartoonist, recently dressed up presidential hopeful Ted Cruz as Senator Joe McCarthy, the 1950s political operative notorious for recklessly accusing people of being communists.  I wonder if "progressives" like Mr. Benson, who accuse people of being a Hitler or McCarthy, realize the irony of their accusations.  Or is a better word for it hypocrisy.

Obama's Biggest Mistake

"Headmasters should be above the menial tasks.  They should keep their minds clear for policy and leadership."

-- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John le Carre

Muslims Fight Hitler's Marxist Allies... in Spain

Michael Kazin's review of Spain in Our Hearts, a book about the Spanish Civil War, neglects to mention the largest contingent fighting against the Americans enlisted in what Kazin describes as the "Communist-led International Brigades."   Muslim Berber troops from Spanish Morocco were the most significant contingent fighting the Communist-led forces.  Without these troops Franco's rebellion against the Spanish Republican would have died an early death, if it had been born at all.  Many of the Berber troops may have been just poor boys who needed a job, but the ferocity of these combatants suggest that most of the Muslims, like Spain's Catholics, saw themselves fighting Godless Communism.

Profession Kazin's most egregious oversight, however, is when he remarks "The [Spanish] Republic’s defeat, the historical wisdom goes, helped give Hitler the confidence to invade Poland that summer."

In fact!  Hitler got his confidence to invade Poland when he signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop "non-aggression" pact in August of 1939. This was an alliance between Hitler and Stalin to invade and divide Poland between them. The great irony of the America's Abraham Lincoln Brigade veterans was that they longed for America to come to their aid in the Spanish Civil War. After Stalin allied with Hitler, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade veterans stayed aligned with the Soviet Union and opposed aid to England and American intervention in World War II, right up until Hitler turned on his ally and invaded the Soviet Union in September of 1941.   

The following is the statement issued by the New York Post, Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and signed by Fred Keller, Commander of the post. The posts in other cities, and every individual vet, are urged to give this statement or similar ones the widest possible circulation, so that our view of the war will become clear to our thousands of friends.  "We, the members of the New York Post of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, who fought in the International Brigades in Spain for democracy against Fascism feel that the present European war is not an anti-fascist war but an imperialist war, and that as long as it remains so we not only will not take part in it, but we will emphatically oppose our country's entering it or giving assistance to either side." 

"Today the same press which falsified the character of the Spanish war is printing reams of Chamberlains propaganda in which the British Prime Minister attempts to hide his real aims under the guise that he is waging a war for democracy against fascism and for Polish independence. At the same time he misrepresents the true intent and service of the Soviet Union." 

"We therefore support the foreign policy of the U.S.S.R., which has consistently led and  aided the cause of peace and of truly democratic peoples throughout the world, and  which uses its powerful economy and armed force for the oppressed and attacked peoples of all the world." 

-- The Volunteer for Liberty, Organ of The Veterans for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, October, 1939

The ALB was joined in its opposition to American involvement in WWII by the Daily Worker, the Morgen Freiheit, and the Almanac Singers, led by Pete Seeger and Millard Lampell, whose song "Plow Under" [every fourth American boy] opposed conscription to mobilize America for war.  

Demagoguery at the Arizona Republic

"Perhaps we [America] should moderate our enthusiasm for insisting that other people [non-visa immigrants] do things the 'right way' until we [Americans] have a little more experience doing things the right way ourselves."

-- Sharon Kha, AZ Republic, 3/9/2016 

Apparently, Ms. Kha, among other things, believes American intervention in WWII to save Europe and Asia from Hitler and Tojo was a mistake.

There really needs to be a Pulitzer Prize for being able to use false equivalence, anachronism and non-sequitur in one newspaper column.   It's frightening to thing that Ms. Kha was once allowed to teach in a US high school and represent the University of Arizona. 

Somehow slavery and the American Revolution are sins, according to Kha, that delegitimize any interest in enforcement of America's immigration laws.  This is probably the first time I've seen the American Revolution listed as one of America's sins, but Ms. Kha being an ex-patriate Canadian, it's understandable.   Canada's sovereign is still Queen Elizabeth II of England.   The vestiges of the tyranny and oppression America confronted in 1776 still preclude Catholics for being the Canadian Monarch (or Queen of England).  Maybe America should be more like Canada and have a monarch?

Is it dissembling or disingenuous for Ms. Kha to neglect to mention that America inherited slavery from the British.  And that because cotton commerce with Britain made industrial slavery hugely profitable, America had to fight a war to end slavery and amend its Constitution to guarantee birthright citizenship.  Help me with the wording, I'm just a poor bean counter.  

Instead of demagoguery (non-sequitur, false equivalence and anachronism), Ms. Kha should have admitted that America does a lot right.  For example, there are more immigrants living in America today than ever before thanks to our generous and laxly enforced immigration laws.    Every year a million plus more immigrants are added to the 40 million immigrants already living in the US.

America can't save the world.  It might be possible to save Mexico and Central America.  We're not going to figure how without agreeing on what's possible.   That's impossible when demagogues on the left, like Kha, and right, Trump, drown out reasonable voices with their "no-borders" and "build-a-fence" diatribes.

The Morning After

The morning after, USA Today reveals that Spotlight, a movie about the Catholic Church and sex abuse, is America’s least favorite movie… by a wide margin.   The night before, accompanied by their half-naked consorts, Hollywood’s purveyors of gratuitous sex and violence, declared Spotlight their best movie of 2015.   In 2002, the same crowd voted convicted child-rapist Roman Polanski their best director, giving him a standing ovation.  Polanski could not accept the award in person because he would be arrested if he set foot in the United States.   The irony of it all.

When Dialogue is a Code Word for Denunciation

Of course the New York Times wouldn't publish this letter:

I agree with Tito Jackson, Boston city councilor, who remarked on racial tension at Boston Latin:  “I don’t think that we’ve had the watershed conversation that we need to have on this topic and this issue.” (NYT 1/30/15)  I remember very vividly being invited to a meeting on racial issues at Holy Cross College a few years before the busing crisis exploded [in the 1970s].   I was barely able to get a word in edgewise.  I was confronted by a young black man accompanied by the now prominent Ted Wells who instantly launched into a diatribe about what my ancestors had done to his ancestors.  This was bewildering.  My young black friends didn't know my ancestors.  My mother's family were recent immigrants from Ireland where her uncle had spent several years in a British prison for being an Irish nationalist.   Their mortal enemies were black all right:   the Black and Tans British paramilitary police.   On my father's side of the family they were very proud of their association with the Wagners, claiming that grandpa had helped persuade Bob senior to run for the United States Senate.   Recall that Bob Wagner was the valued friend of the NAACP's Walter White who had fought valiantly, though unsuccessfully, on White's behalf to enact a federal anti-Lynching law.   Perhaps if we had a conversation on race where all sides were willing to listen to each other instead of shout insults, we might at long last have a productive discussion on race.

Finn McCool and Spain's Red Captain:

Since I was once an Irish cowboy, I was intrigued by the Arizona Republic's "A True West Moment" (1/24/16), which claimed the first cowboys were "ginger Hibernians riding around on Celtic saddles."  Although 10 percent of the Irish allegedly have red hair, the only red hair in my family belongs to my wife and hers is inherited from a Spanish ancestor.   What's a Celtic saddle?  The legendary Irish hero Finn McCool, defender of the cattle, and ancient Celts rode bareback or with a pad to protect their horses.   In service of Rome, Celtic cavalry began to use what we'd recognize as saddles, but the Chinese invented the stirrup and that piece didn't arrive in Europe until around the 6th century after Christ.   Cattle and the saddle arrived in America with Cortez.   After the Spanish ranches spread north to Sonora,  Tucson was founded by the Spanish General Hugo Oconor, known to the Apache as "The Red Captain."  Oconor (aka Hugh O'Conor) was an Irishman in the service of Spain, and he built fort Tucson to stop the Apache from raiding cattle ranches in Sonora.  Celtic Ireland and Romano-Celtic Spain reunited in Arizona, in defense of their shared cattle culture.

Targeting Latino Christians

The Arizona Republic's editorial (1/15) on Latin American immigrants does not raise the question of why Latino Christian refugees are being treated differently than Syrian refugees.   Our government welcomes Syrian refugees even as it deports Latinos.  Moreover, the editorial fails to address this  issue in its context.   America, more than any country, has been very welcoming to immigrants and refugees from all over the world, to the tune of at least a million a year (the most intellectually corrupt aspect of the immigration debate is the failure to acknowledge the immense number of immigrants America welcomes every year).  Enforcement of U.S. laws against illegal immigration are in fact quite lax, especially in the area of visa fraud committed by Asians, Europeans and Africans.  What we need to answer is why what immigration law enforcement action the U.S. does take primarily targets Latino Christians.

Cultural Amnesia...If not Plagiarism

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus." --Galatians 3:28

According to Aaron James Wendland writing in the New York Times (1/17/16),  

Now, in Germany and elsewhere, doors are closing. But what are the potential consequences of this resistance to outsiders, to those in need? Is it justified? Do we owe the suffering and dispossessed something more, if we are to call ourselves ethical beings?

Few philosophers confronted questions like these more directly than Emmanuel Levinas... Levinas has taught us that our responsibility for others is the foundation of all human communities"

Are Times readers, editors and Wendland so culturally ignorant that we don't recognize shared humanity and responsibility for others as the ancient foundation of Christianity.

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

“What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”

He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”

But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’

“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”

The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”

Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”

-- Luke 10:25-37