Customer Reviews
A glimpse into the future - By: Sawney Beane, 19 Feb 2007 
Another prophetic book from buchanan, although it mainly concerns america & its relationship with Mexico ,which as a non american helped me understand the situation better. There is also a chapter on Europe & it's immigration problems state by state. This book is rather unsettling, as it paints a rather grim picture of the future for western peoples & highlights betrayal by it's ruiling elites. This book is not for the P.C brigade.
Facing reality - By: David Hamilton, 10 Jan 2007 Patrick J. Buchanan is a serious figure. He has been senior advisor to three American presidents, Nixon, Ford & Reagan as well as a founder of three current affairs TV programmes, a syndicated newspaper column & three times presidential candidate: he cannot lightly be dismissed which is what one world Ideologues & importers of cheap labour would like.
This book is a remarkable achievement for it deals with several aspects of one major subjectin a simple style which makes it accessible to everyone. The major subject is the disintegration of America. Buchanan's two essential points are the failure of America - &in this read your own European nation - to reproduce their own kind or control immigration. These threaten the health & safety of millions of innocent civilians. It is different from books by rationalists & ideologues because it refers to what is actually happening not a vague future. As Edmund Burke put it, "If an idea is goodin theory but notin practice, then it is a bad idea."
He gives insights into what drives, nay, allows the American malaise. He starts at the beginning by considering why civilisations collapse & after several examples from Rome, isolates the main causes as,"the death of faith, the degeneration of morals, contempt for the old values, collapse of the culture, paralysis of the will,. But the two certain signs that a civilisation has begun to die are a declining population & foreign invasions no longer resisted.
We are given a historical parallel: "In 376 A.D. a large band of Gothic refugees arrived at the Empire's frontier, asking for asylum. In a complete break with established Roman policy, they were allowedin unsubdued. They revolted, & within two years had defeated & killed the emporer Valens - the one who had received them - along with two-thirds of his army, at the battle of Hadrianople."
He asks what sort of people are coming? Comparing Bush with Valens he quotes from the 2005 speechin Tuscon, "Thatin five years 4.5 million aliens had been caught trying to break into the States & of those over 350,000 had criminal records. Onein every twelve apprehended by border patrols were criminals. That is 200 felons a day coming to rob, rape, assault or murder innocent Americans who trust their rulers to protect them. We get particular examples. One is a 16 year-old gang member who was found lying a pavement with all his fingers severed by rival gang members. He was a member of the South Side Locos, the second largest gangin Virginia. The attackers are salvadoreans & belonged to Mara Salvatrucha with an estimated 100,000 membersin 33states & 6 counties. These practical examples show the danger ordinary Americans have been putin by the authorities who live by theory.
The authorities create these conditions by unrealistic policies like Sanctuary cities that forbid police to arrest known illegals & criminal aliens thus fostering gang wars. After being deported for say, murder, assault with a deadly weapon or drug trafficking they sneak back & police have to ignore them. This stems from the pretense that immigrants are essentially good which leads the authorities to ignore their human nature & not face reality when they misbehave.
Another example of how their human nature is the intention of many Mexicans that they are re-taking the South West by demography which is how the Americans originally took it off them. This is as La Reconquista. He quotes president Fox, speakingin Chicagoin 2004, "We are Mexicans that livein our territories & we are Mexicans that livein other territories. In reality there are 120 million people that live together & are working together to construct a nation."
He destroys the abstract arguments for the Economic & Creedal nation idea, by stating " The Ideology was created by colonial elites to justify breaking the blood ties with their British brethren but before the greatest documents were written, America existedin the hearts of her people." He also shows how the political organisations of the last 200 years are breaking down into tribal components. The case against nationalism consists of myths that are based not on facts but dreams. He demolishes several including the Statue of Liberty as a monument to immigration. He shows that the lines from J.F.Kennedy's "A Nation of Immigrants" about Asian & Mexican immigrants were not his but added for the second editionin 1964, four years after his death.
I disagree with him on one point: he believes the roots of paralysis are guilt but, if you feel guilty you want to make amends but the elites are bringing immigrants into our communities not their own. They livein lovely areas or safelyin gated communities & this shows their real motive - loathing of their own poor people & fear of other ethnic groups. The profession of guilt is egotistical & makes them feel virtuous. It is a consequence of our atomization. The elites & company bosses think only of themselves. The one gets cheap labour, the other looks magnanimous & great before the world as they offer a moral beacon to the less enlightened. But unconsciously, they loathe their own poor people & do not care how much they have to suffer as long as they themselves feel good.
He advocates a patrolled fence along the border with Mexico & deportation for criminals & cites Eisenhower's operation Wetback of 1954 when a million illegals were repatriated.
It should be noted that Buchanan deals with what is actually happening using examples from today, while open borders enthusiasts offer only a vague future utopia without evidence, but wishful thinking.
