Archive for May 2007

Editor’s note: This column is an excerpt from Dr. Ted Baehr and Pat Boone’s new book “The Culture-wise Family: Upholding Christian Values in a Mass Media World.” In the book, entertainment expert Dr. Ted Baehr and legendary musician Pat Boone urge people to make wise choices for themselves and their families so they can protect their children from toxic messages in the culture.

The following is Chapter 10, written by historian Williams S. Lind.

Sometime during the last half-century, someone stole our culture. Just 50 years ago, in the 1950s, America was a great place. It was safe. It was decent. Children got good educations in the public schools. Even blue-collar fathers brought home middle-class incomes, so moms could stay home with the kids. Television shows reflected sound, traditional values.

Where did it all go? How did that America become the sleazy, decadent place we live in today – so different that those who grew up prior to the ’60s feel like it’s a foreign country? Did it just “happen”?

It didn’t just “happen.” In fact, a deliberate agenda was followed to steal our culture and leave a new and very different one in its place. The story of how and why is one of the most important parts of our nation’s history – and it is a story almost no one knows. The people behind it wanted it that way.

What happened, in short, is that America’s traditional culture, which had grown up over generations from our Western, Judeo-Christian roots, was swept aside by an ideology. We know that ideology best as “political correctness” or “multi-culturalism.”

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Competition for jobs and housing is increasing racial tension between local residents and new immigrants, according to new research.

Four out of 10 said Britons treated them as an equals but nearly as many - three out of 10 - said they did not.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation also found a five-fold increase in the number of eastern European immigrants intending to stay in Britain.

In April 2004, just 6% said they had planned to live in the UK permanently. That has now risen to 29%.

“Women were more likely to have decided to stay than men, as were those with higher average earnings,” the survey of 333 migrants said.

The researchers found only a third of those interviewed knew how to register with a doctor.

Some 44% were sharing a room with someone other than a partner, but some were living in overcrowded conditions by choice to save rent.

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A New York Times/CBS News poll released yesterday found that 69% of American adults believe illegal immigrants should “be prosecuted and deported for being in the U.S. illegally.” Just 24% disagree and say they should not. The survey of 1,125 adults was conducted May 18-23, 2007.

Ultimately, while supporting prosecution, the poll shows that just 33% of Americans believe that most illegal aliens should actually be deported. Sixty-two percent (62%) say that most illegal aliens who have been here at least two years should be “given a chance to keep their jobs and eventually apply for legal status.” Giving them a chance to keep their jobs is a continuation of the status quo requiring no change in policy.

Eighty-two percent (82%) of those surveyed believe the federal government could be doing more to “keep illegal immigrants from crossing into this country.” Only 14% said “the U.S. is doing all it can reasonably be expected to do along its borders.” Sixty-one percent (61%) consider illegal immigration a Very Serious problem for the United States. Seventy-five percent (75%) favor higher fines and increased enforcement of employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens.

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Today is a brand new day, today is one more day that we have to let our leaders know under no circumstance will we accept this bill or S.2611 the precursor to this bill. We will not be good democrats or republicans and sit down and shut up. We don’t care if they call us racists, we have been called that so much it really has lost its sting and they can call us what ever they want we know who we are we are American citizens and we have come to take our government back. The American people have found their voices and we are screaming loud and clear NO AMNESTY. What they call not practical we call a small problem that real Americans can solve, simply because real Americans do not know the word impossible.

Think back to Hurricane Rita and Katrina how many people did we move from cities bound for destruction? If we can do that then we can damn sure take a few lost illegal immigrants home. America was built on a can do attitude as a matter of fact the name American says it all Amer I Can. Now I know it feels like all is lost and that they are going to pass this bill with or without or input and let me tell you that is just how they want you to feel right now but we are Americans we don’t walk away from any fight and we will stop this madness, yes you and I will call them we will email them and we will do it over and over again till they cannot stand to pick up that phone or read another email because we are the people they need to hear from, we are the Americans call these numbers 202-863-8500 Republican National Committee phone number. Press 1—a real live person answers the phone. Call 1-866-340-9281 it is toll free it will not cost you a penny; you will not believe the sense of power calling those numbers will bring and you will no longer be able to just shut up and sit down anymore.

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ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland’s reputation as a haven of tolerance for immigrants has been undermined in recent weeks by calls for a ban on new minarets, a mysterious synagogue blaze and neo-Nazi threats to disrupt national day celebrations.

Switzerland is known for public order and efficiency. Its neutral status and high living standards, as well as its need for lower cost workers, have historically attracted refugees from conflicts around Europe and the world.

But with rising immigration — and lack of integration caused partly by tight laws on handing out Swiss passports — religious and ethnic tension has been on the rise, particularly focusing on Muslims.

“There is always this feeling that Switzerland is a little island and you daren’t let anything in because it will destabilise it,” said Clive Church, an expert on Swiss politics, recently retired from the University of Kent.

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By embracing immigration in Miami, McCain will be staking a claim to a key issue in an early primary state that Giuliani and Romney have made central to their strategies for winning the nomination. Romney and Giuliani have both hired aides to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. But the president’s younger brother, whose wife is Mexican American, has expressed dismay about the anti-immigration views held by some in his party.

Aides say McCain, like the president, understands the importance of building ties with Latinos.

“We’re getting close to the point where we will no longer be a national party if we try to define it as a white male, cul-de-sac, gated-community party,” said John Weaver, McCain’s chief strategist.

Some strategists think the GOP field is being pulled to the right in part by Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), who is not a top-tier candidate but is running as the most prominent anti-illegal immigration member of Congress.

In an interview, Tancredo accused Bush’s allies of risking the party’s future by ignoring the GOP base. Deflecting criticism that the immigration issue hurt Republican candidates last year, he argued that the party alienated Latinos in 2006 for the same reason it lost support of other voters: the Iraq war, scandals and other administration failings.

“We lost a lot of white males too,” he said.

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A remarkable picture of how Britain is ’sleepwalking’ towards US-style segregation of schools along racial lines is highlighted today by government figures that reveal many towns are developing schools that are overwhelmingly white, Asian or black.

A majority of pupils in many areas of the country - particularly in deprived former mill towns in the north of England - have little contact with children from different ethnic backgrounds, even though they live in close proximity.

The figures are bound to raise fresh concerns about the phenomenon of ‘white flight’, where some families move area to remove their children from schools where there is an intake is predominantly Asian children. The split in communities can also lead to increased racial tensions.

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By a vote of 6-3, the Tulsa City Council on Thursday night approved a resolution designed to help combat illegal immigration.

Longstanding policy has prevented police in Tulsa from asking a person’s immigration status during an arrest.

Now, the council has passed a resolution which requires the arresting officer to determine the suspect’s immigration status, even during a misdemeanor arrest.

Originally, the resolution would have applied only to felony arrests. However, U.S. Representative John Sullivan, R-Okla., lobbied the council to include misdemeanors, and during last night’s meeting the councilors concurred.

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A clear majority of voters back a Government minister’s controversial call for a “Britons first” policy for council houses, according to a poll released today.

Trade and Industry Minister Margaret Hodge sparked a storm when she said that people whose families have been in Britain for generations should get priority for social housing over new arrivals, even if the migrants are in greater need.

Education Secretary Alan Johnson last night accused her of using “the language of the BNP (British National Party)”, while his rival in the Labour deputy leadership race, Jon Cruddas, accused Ms Hodge of diverting attention away from the real issue of a shortage of council homes.

But a poll produced today for BBC2’s The Daily Politics found that 69% of those questioned agreed that “British citizens should always get priority for social housing ahead of immigrant families”, against 27% who disagreed.

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Mental health professionals are outraged after the Institute of Psychiatry concluded there was no evidence of racism.

A report by the body claimed Africans and Caribbeans suffer from even higher rates of schizophrenia than statistics suggest.

Lee Jasper, chair of the African Caribbean Mental Health Commission, rejected the findings. ‘We are seeing racism on an industrial scale in the mental health service.

‘When you look at the staggering disproportionality of representation within the service then I think there is no other credible explanation to this problem than institutional racism.’

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Professor Robin Murray from the Institute of Psychiatry has denied existence of racism in mental health for many years. Now he has released a report that fits his predetermined position.

Prof Swaran Singh: ‘We need to move away from the blame game.’

Prof Murray’s views have been regarded as controversial, but now he has gained support from Black and Asian professionals who are joining him in denying racism

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