Colin Powell: Old Warhorse
Losing His Kick
By Frederick Meekins
Posted November 1, 2007
As the former Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell at one time (whether deservedly
or not) had a reputation as a voice of sober realism in the arena of American
foreign policy. However, as he ages and heads into his sunset years,
he is so increasingly muttering to himself about assorted forms of appeasement
that he is coming to remind the citizen cognizant of the efforts to undermine
this great nation more of Neville Chamberlain than as a soldier the statesman
most perceived him to be throughout the early 90’s.
During the 1930’s, British
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed a pact with Adolf Hitler granting
the German tyrant Czechoslovakia as part of what Nazi doctrine referred
to as Lebensarum or “Living Space”. For his part of this deal, Chamberlain
has from that point forward pretty much been branded a coward for
thinking such a policy would appease aspiring despots and those out to
undermine individual liberty.
As disappointing as he was,
at least it was some lesser power’s real estate Chamberlain was giving
away. For today, his globalist descendants are such proponents of
policide that they are no longer content to carve up the helpless corners
of the earth but rather long to dismantle the strong nation-states in which
they themselves reside in the hopes of accruing more power into their own
hands and control over the lives of those under them.
Like the Pan-Germanists of
previous eras seeking to expand their territorial claims into adjacent
holdings, the Hispanosupremacists of today seek to infiltrate the United
States in the hopes of subverting this geopolitical prize away from its
primarily Northern European cultural base. And to the elites, since
one group of slaves is pretty much the same as the other, many wishing
to expand their power have decided to back these migrants as a way to bring
about the end of the middle class and to reduce living standards to Third
World levels.
As one of its most prominent
mouthpieces and charismatic members, Colin Powell is reported as saying
in a September 10, 2007 post on the USAToday.com On Politics Blog titled
“Colin Powell: Terrorists Are Not The Greatest Threat To Nation” as saying,
“America could not survive without immigration. Even the undocumented
immigrants are contributing to our economy...That is the image we have
to portray to the world: kind, generous, a nation of nations...That’s what
people still want to believe about us... We’ve lost a bit of the image...And
we can fix the image by reflecting a welcoming attitude and not by taking
counsel of our fears and scaring ourselves to death that everybody coming
in is going to blow up something.”
In other words, tolerance
and diversity are more important than safety and survival. That is
rather easy for someone probably with their own security detail to say.
Often concerns about immigration
are couched in terms of preventing terrorism as often Americans have been
so browbeaten in the name of preventing racism and the like that they are
too afraid to raise other issues that hit even closer to home. For
example, in his propaganda, Powell waxes on and on how America could not
survive without illegal aliens referred to by the former warrior with the
coward’s euphemism “undocumented immigrants”. One must ask if Mr.
Powell would be as beaming about this demographic trend if it was his own
standard and quality of living on the line.
For example, as a political
superstar, Powell demands speaking fees of around $200,000 as he was paid
in 2001 for a speech at Tufts University. How would Powell feel if
orators were imported from abroad just as pivotal to events of the 20th
and 21st centuries as he has been, just as entertaining, but who were willing
to impart their perspective for considerably less? Are
you going to tell me Powell is not going to want his standard of living
protected if this is the only way he knows how to make a living?
Bigshots such as Powell do
not care if property values are driven down or neighborhoods made less
desirable by piling four or five families into single family homes with
Mariachi music blaring well after midnight accompanied by conversation
in a foreign tongue spoken so loudly that it sounds as if people are shouting
it back and forth at each other across the Rio Grande.
One reader posted the following
comment on the USAToday.com website about the article: “I think General
Powell should publish his own social security number and let it be stolen
by an illegal alien. Let his children be mugged, raped, and robbed
by an undocumented worker. Let his neighborhood be overrun by flophouses
with 45 people in one house and 15 stolen cars. Let his family members
be killed by an unlicensed undocumented illegal drunk. Let his military
retirement pay be taken from him and given to someone that did not earn
it. It is amazing a man who supposedly respects federal law is encouraging
the actions of those who violate our laws. Powell has been losing
it since the Iraq War, but now he is total lunatic.”
America is, as they say,
at a crossroads. Though a minimal level of human rights must be respected
at all times, as a whole the nation must decide whether it wants to appear
nice by the standards of grubby bums pandering for a handout or it can
survive. Attempting to pursue both paths is an option whose time
has about run out.
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