In 1837, Elijah P. Lovejoy, a New England Yankee transplant to frontier Illinois, was martyred by pro-Slavery forces. He had been editor of an anti-slavery newspaper. His voice was silenced, but the ideas that he expressed spread, over the next two-plus decades, to make the abolition of slavery the most important political issue in American politics.
Today's Elijah P. Lovejoy is Peter Brimelow. This journalist was a onetime senior editor and reporter for Forbes and the National Review, America's premier conservative, establishment journals. He was fired (or left) these jobs because he has taken up the irrepressible conflict in American Politics.
The conflict: Immigration
Basically, the United States of America is settled territory with its own unique ethnic heritage. America is therefore under threat from Immigration-specifically through the workings of the Immigration Act of 1965, introduced and supported by the late Ted Kennedy.
The 1965 Act-which has been tinkered with-but not fundamentally altered-specifically recruits people from the Third World, especially Mexico to fill jobs and fill up the country. Brimelow argues that the Hispanic wave is a net drain as they are low-skilled workers with very little ability to move-upwards. Indeed, Hispanics are not moving up, if anything children of Hispanics assimilate to a downward, crime prone permanent underclass. Other races might be doing OK, but they unfairly qualify for affirmative action set-asides, special deals, social welfare programs, and often lobby the United States to carryout policies that aid their tribe at the expense of the American People.
Brimelow writes about the consequences of the continued immigration. Basically, it is a more Balkanized, dangerous, and less-free society. Indeed, since this book has been written immigration driven problems have created such a society. Travel is less free since the 9-11, immigrant driven attack, social services costs are so expensive the United States now faces fiscal problems every year, and elections have become a sharp edged contest, heavy with racial overtones.
Keeping immigration alive is the priority of a toxic mix of cheap labor employers (Republicans) and Cultural-Marxist ethnic activists (Democrats).
Despite the extremely powerful pro-immigration forces, since the book America has hardened its boarders, developed a quicker deportation process, and resisted formidable calls for Amnesty (at least as of this writing). However, the issue will not end until the fundamental truth of America is realized: It is a settled territory with its own unique people-immigrants aren't needed and their mere existence is a problem to the American people.
Easy to read, clear in its arguments, this book will stand for all time as the first shot fired of the modern irrepressible conflict.
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