Americans have long been in the clutch of the despotic hand of
political correctness. It has been our country’s civil religion as long as I
can remember. It mostly serves as a minor nuisance in everyday life. It exist just
enough to control our thoughts and speech, to be an overseer of our behavior
and obstruct our natural view the world around us. However, it has even made its way
into actual policy decisions and laws, especially under Obama & Holder Inc. For starters, consider immigration. Only
a country so removed from reality would allow its borders and
laws to be violated the way the US has.
Once across our border, uninvited and unwanted, illegal
immigrants find refuge and welfare relief from many state and city governments.
Free from arrest, and least of all, deportation. The goodwill and charity
comes, not from private hospitably of citizens but from the aid of government
at taxpayer’s expense. Any negative reaction, and there is plenty, is ignored
and shamed. Ugly labels are used as duct tape over the mouths of the average
citizen. Silenced, pummeled, and threatened back into their living rooms and told to be good consumer peasants. Meanwhile,
the “political” debate on immigration is anything but. Instead, it’s an issue
that is talked around carefully when it front of cameras, and rather candidly
behind doors. More illegal immigration is one of the only issues where both
sides tend to agree.
This is startling considering that Americans
routinely poll between 60 and 70 percent in favor of curbing or ending
immigration, as well as sending those back to the country of their origin who
willfully and knowingly violated our laws.
Why has nothing happened under the force of a clear
majority? The clergy and holy priests who occupy the seats in our town halls,
federal bureaucracies, universities, nonprofits, courts and Congress do not answer to the
people. Instead they adhere to their dogma. It is better to practice the
teachings of political correctness, in the holy name of diversity, then to obey
men.
Our federal government is the secular version of the
Vatican.
And so now we have a more immediate, pandemic threat in
which political correctness was very much a factor. Ebola is a disease so
foreign and far away from our shores that most Americans know
nothing about it. That was until a man named Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian, who brought it to the United States and infected a yet unknown number. He was allowed to board an
airplane in Liberia and fly to America despite the risks
to public safety.
A country secure in its identity and unanimous in its
beliefs would unhesitatingly take any and all actions and precautions to ensure
the public safety of its citizens. We do not, unfortunately, live in such a country.
Discussions
of travel bans by federal officials and liberal pundits are dismissed as if
time travel is being proposed instead of simply ending flights in and out of
Ebola ridden areas of the world.
As Patrick J. Buchanan wrote, “The Greatest Generation possessed a common sense that seems lacking today.”
In dealing with contagious and
deadly diseases, common sense says to err on the side of safety. Public safety
must come before political correctness. Community and country come ahead of any
obligation to the people of West Africa.
Indeed, is not the first duty of
the government of the United States to protect the lives, liberty and property
of the citizens of the United States?
Traveling to Africa decades ago,
Americans were given a series of shots to avoid contracting indigenous diseases.
Travelers to the United States were questioned about diseases to which they may
have been exposed in Third World countries.
Now we have a government that
considers it discriminatory to put troops on our frontiers to halt the invading
millions from across the Mexican border, and the mark of a cruel and cold
people to send back lawbreakers who have broken into our country.
All great religions need their martyrs. But rarely has there
been a time when the zealotry of so few endangered the lives of so many.
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