Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi
Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, about 389,000 veterans are still living, a remarkable total given that most are in their 90s or older. Among our veterans also are approximately 3.5 million Korean War vets, 610,000 Vietnam War and hundreds of thousands more from the Gulf Wars and other conflicts.
On Veterans Day 2019, as those brave men and women reflect on their service in America’s defense, they could be forgiven for questioning whether, in light of Congress’ repeated betrayal of traditional U.S. values, putting their lives on the line was worth the risk. Congress has consistently refused to protect the homeland through border and interior enforcement. At the same time, Congress has passed legislation that subverts job opportunities for Americans. Good U.S. jobs have been offshored or given to foreign-born employment-based visa holders.
Despite President Trump’s immigration bravado, at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Paso del Norte Port of Entry press conference, it was announced that in FY 2019 illegal immigration apprehensions hit a decade-high 1.1 million, a 68 percent increase over FY 2018. Along the southwest border, family unit apprehension set another record, 474,000. Because of the flawed catch and release policy, most of the migrants are released inside the U.S., eventually disappearing into the general population. Department of Homeland Security officials acknowledge that catch and release is, in terms of good policy, a grave failure that Congress refuses to correct. Only 1.4 percent of migrant family members from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the border illegally in 2017 have been deported to their home countries.
Congress has cataclysmically failed to protect American workers. A job is essential to maintain dignity and provide for family. But Congress has looked the other way as U.S. companies have, over the years since the Immigration Act of 1990 which expanded employment-based visas, hired millions of foreign nationals to displace Americans. Employers addicted to cheap labor, in all areas – from tech and call center operations to manufacturing and human resources – love the lower wages that they can pay the outsourced workers. Studies found, however, that if the outsourced jobs returned, they could be numerous enough to provide opportunities for unemployed Americans. Adding to the job challenges of unemployed citizens, including veterans, is the annual 1 million or more legal immigrants who receive lifetime valid work permits.
Finally, the amnesty specter never fades from the Swamp. The latest, but certainly not the last effort, is the House of Representatives’ Farm Workers Modernization Act which would grant amnesty to 1.5 million illegally present ag workers, expand the controversial and often-abused H-2A visa, add 40,000 Green Cards to the EB-3 category and mandate E-Verify across the agriculture sector. The bill would also create a new immigration category, the Certified Agriculture Worker, and will provide a citizenship path. The sponsors, led by Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Mario Diaz-Balart (D-FL), are notoriously anti-American worker, and have throughout their careers consistently voted for more employment-based visas.
Despite the bill’s title, the legislation does nothing to modernize agriculture technology through time-saving, efficient mechanization. Unlike stoop labor, robots can operate 24/7 and have been adopted by forward-thinking U.S. ag businesses in Florida and California.
Getting inside vets’ heads to learn their immigration leanings, pro or con, is impossible. But likely many vets, like so many other Americans, must wonder when Congress decided to cater to illegal immigrants and lobbyists instead of passing legislation which assures that citizens come first.
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We fought against that which now controls us. One hell of a disconnect there.
Spot on. If the greatest hadn’t won the war against Hitler, we’d all be speaking Nazi right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd44iVUq5fs
‘Sprechen Sie Nazi, flash?’
Nope. I more pragmatic than that. I’m learning Mexican and Ebonics for when the We the People finally reap the full benefits of open borders and diversity is our strength.
Flash..
Priceless, just Priceless.
You really like living on the edge don’t you? They’re going to give you a room without a view in Gitmo if you Keep that up. I’m going to check his site to see what other gems hes has.
The greatest gave us the Great Society thus the death of freedom of association, white flight, urban blight,suburban sprawl, unlimited third world immigration, welfare, the petro dollar, fiat currency,medicare/medicaid, drug addled hippie brats,CIA, JFK murder, permanent welfare/wealth transfers, easily accessible pornography, deficit spending and the USS Liberty , but hey, they won da’ war, except they didn’t. The war was all but over by the time America landed on D-Day.
https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/NoOverlord/index.html
The massive allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944 was not necessary for the military defeat of Germany. The German Army had already been destroyed on the eastern front, and the German war industry was being devastated by the combined bombing offensive. According to Trumbull Higgins,
When the British were finally compelled by their Allies to invade France in 1944, it was an invasion essentially undertaken in the self-interest of the West, the terrible risk of the collapse of the Soviet Union having long since passed. At this date the Red Army no longer needed more than Western supplies with which to occupy eastern Europe. (4:283)
The Normandy invasion was simply too late to be of meaningful assistance to the Russians. In fact, Stalin had conceded that is was no longer necessary.
All hail the WW2 generation, who handed Western Civilization to those who want the White race dead, and made the world safe for communism.
Like many others, I feel like I was conned, and wasted my time, defending the murder of Western Civilization.
Muh greatest generation: slaughtering their European kinsmen to make the world safe for Communism and Zionism.
It was a race to Berlin so we could claim a role in that victory…
But the Pacific war needed our winning. I was commissioned by the grandson of the admiral that was SUBPAC that oversaw the defeat of enemy shipping. My father fought and almost died in the Pacific and your first paragraph is partly true. People in congress older than the Greatest generation gave us all the programs that put us where we are. At the end of his life my father admitted that his war was for nothing because the American people are controlled no matter which way they vote.
Bullshit. The programs mentioned came about in the 60’s and 70’s when the greatest had the most political power.
And, the Pacific war was an unnecessary engineered military adventure that sacrificed American blood and treasure for the whims of war profiteers and their tools in political office. Battles were created simply because they could be and thousands of young men paid the ultimate price for old bored bastards fantasies of glory and fame.
Read it here.
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
by E.B. Sledge
I read it. And yes many battles were fought when islands could have been bypassed and starved out japanese. Read Manchester’s Gooodbye Darkness. Congressional leaders that brought about Medicare, increased social security and great society were older than greatest gen.
+1 for his perspective only.
Not too bad until around 9:30 when he makes no distinction between “The Military” and the U.S. Militia regarding the borders.
Hint: Every man, woman, and child is in the Milita LIKE IT OR NOT.
Ask an honest Jew and there will be no disconnect.
Nobody controls you, except through ignorance, various drugs, and illiteracy.
I don’t have to wonder. I know.
Imagine how British veterans and families who lost loved ones in both WWI and WWII must feel. Having fought for the Crown and the French with horrific sacrifice of life only to have their nation turned into a vassal of the E.U. ( look Ma no Brexit yet) and overrun with Africans and Muslims.
Talk about a parallel situation! How it seems that the Government is the true Enemy.
“There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are. These are the old truths we are painfully rediscovering after a century and more of sentimental cant. Those who deny them deny their family, their heritage, their culture, their birthright, their very selves! They will not lightly be forgiven.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
STOLEN, Like a Thief in the Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH0_B6bsocI
Good video. We must reap what these people have sown
“..it seems that the Government is the true Enemy.”
Your comment is true, but as crafted is also a misdirection. It is true that government in its own right always and eventually morphs into an enemy of freedom and prosperity, but in the context of this discussion, the overarching enemy of White men is not so much government itself as it is ((those)) who, by dint of their dishonest money system and ill-gotten wealth, control the government.
So long as the structure exists, it will always be controlled by the worst. Government as an idea is the true enemy indeed.
Yep. Why the hell do we hero worship the military? What good are they? We’re being invaded and losing freedoms left and right. Just exactly who is the military fighting for? For one world government, that’s what.
“Why the hell do we hero worship the military?”
Agree with your sentiment. In an ideal homogeneous Aryan society, the combat arms of the military would consist of all able-bodied male citizens mostly as reservists, and hero worship of individuals would not naturally arise. However, military duty in general would be honored and those warriors who demonstrated extraordinary courage and strength in the legitimate defense of our Folk would rightly be regarded as heroic, in the traditional sense of the word.
The military hero worship has grown into a mass psychosis.
The last vets to be thanked were out of WWII–and those fools were also suckered into a war that the USA could have easily avoided BTW.
As for our ‘modern’ military vets–who mostly join because they are down-educated, and un-employable outside of a parasitic government system–they are not serving the you or me or the nation.
Rather they are serving the ponzi-dollar system that the USA has foisted upon the entire world, which requires a massive standing military that can bomb lesser nations who cannot fight back.
Most conservatives can’t wake up to these facts and they spend their time in their knees sniveling and praying and standing on street corners waving Amerikan flags, pumping their fists into the air shouting ‘Murica’.
Shimmy.
Here here.
EC didn’t correct you Flea so “Hear, Hear”
+1
Thankfully I learned this as a child.
“The last vets to be thanked were out of WWII–and those fools were also suckered into a war that the USA could have easily avoided BTW.”
Shure Shin, but we didn’t want the Japs to own the Pacific for themselves. Americans didn’t think Japanese were non human but that cannot be said for the Japanese thoughts of non Japanese. My father fought the Japs on Iwo Jima, stood before the first flag raised on Suribachi and took a bullet in the head the day after he was in the picture of the three marines receiving communion on 3 March. He was looking at the camera with his hands in his dungaree pockets, Ira Hayes, flag raiser to his right. He let bygones be and lived and worked in Japan twenty years.
I understand your ire at America with out bases still there, which they shouldn’t be. GIs still marrying Japanese women and producing Aikos (love children) which have a hard time with both sides of their families and calling themselves hafus.
Sorry, you’re right. I served in the army and all I did was follow the orders of the NCOs above me, who in turn followed the orders of the officers above them, who in turn followed the orders of the DOD above them, who in turn followed the orders of the president above them. When the president didn’t order us to stop the invasion and change the laws, I should have turned my gun against my nation and forced them to do that. I’m sure it would have worked out just fine.
I won’t wait for your passionate Thank You for my service.
I’m sorry you were used as meat for the grinder. There’s no shame in being lied to by the idea of the indispensable nation.
Wait.
Are you saying for all it’s faults, the USA is dispensable?
I’m saying America is not more important than all other nations. I don’t believe that to be true.
“On Veterans Day 2019, as those brave men and women reflect on their service in America’s defense…”
A supportive role in the rear echelons is an honorable form of military service. But the “and women” part of this sentence is a stretch. More than 99.9 % of the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who fought, died, were wounded, or otherwise showed “bravery” in actual combat during the aforementioned wars were men.
Also, I’ve never met a female veteran who has ever given a fleeting moment of serious philosophical reflection on her “service.”
Veterans Day is for veterans.
Memorial Day is for the dead.
So called Rear Echelon soldiers often put their future and sanity on the line EVERY BIT as much as the 1% cannon fodder who get shot at.
Fear of dying in a horrid training accident, knowing you have numbnuts gaining more authority year after year, is at best 6 degrees of separation as combat, where you don’t have a minute to be scared.
I joined the military at SIXTEEN knowing that “combat vet” blowhards were the worst sort.
I’d rather bunk with a tenacious person who spent 15 years in the rear rooting out spies or training HARD for a battle that never came, than some numbnut with 15 months of combat.
Today there is no rear.
https://imgur.com/gallery/lYm52f3
It’s these same WW2 veterans that foisted the so-called “civil-rights (for some)” laws on us (at the point of bayonets), and the “Hart-Celler Immigration Act of 1965” on us.
In fact, we should have assisted Hitler in pushing back against the Soviets and communist elements in Germany instead of making the world safe for (jewish) communism.
We are paying for our mistakes to this very day.
Message to those of the “greatest generation”: Thanks for NOTHING…
Fully concur. However, in these troubled times, it’s best that we White Folk avoid inter-generational hostility, something that serves the agenda of our ((enemies)) and that they intentionally foment.
Lately I’ve noticed on various other WN sites frequent lapses into anti-boomer vitriol, such as assertions that they are worse than jews and should be hung from the nearest lamp posts when the SHTF.
Whatever the shorcomings of any generation are , including those of millenials, no good can come from openly attacking other White people of any age. My 2 bits.
“Lately I’ve noticed on various other WN sites frequent lapses into anti-boomer vitriol, such as assertions that they are worse than jews and should be hung from the nearest lamp posts when the SHTF.”
WRSA, Vox Day and probably a lot of other places I haven’t been.
“Boomer” is now a slang term used by teenagers (my 14 yr old grandson for instance) to mean any older person (basically anyone over 30 I think) who has a closed mind and is unable to change. Or worse, try’s to be “drip” (cool) and just looks stupid.
You make a good point about “intergenerational hostility” being detrimental to our cause. However, as a gentile white “boomer”, these destructive laws were FORCED upon us. We had no say-so in the “civil-rights” and “pro-immigration” direction that our country has taken. We were too young to be an effective force to deal with and were forced to “go along to get along”.
Regards,
Lars,
Amen, amen and amen. White people should be standing together.
National voting never mattered.
Not once.
Agreed. Much worse than the Boomers.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/07/non-citizens-to-stay-on-north-carolina-voter-rolls-before-2020-election/
Just to give some background…as far as I can tell the only reason the former Republican Governor lost to this Leftist Democrat Governor , by a super slim margin, was because he was for TOLL roads in Charlotte that most NC’ers HATE TOLLS….another Yankee type endless tax. He pissed enough people that stayed home and he lost.
Joe Guzzler back at it. Yet strangely silent on the Epstein saga.
The focus is on immigration and security of our borders, but let’s go back to WW2 and the supposed fight against fascism. As defined by Mussolini, the father of fascism, it is a system that unites the powers of government and big business (aka – mercantilism, crony capitalism, etc.). While millions were in Europe fighting their version, Hoover and FDR even before the war started, and FDR and Truman during the war, along with mostly democrats in congress but also many republicans, implemented economic fascism in this country (much of which still exists today). When “the Greatest Generation) came home from the war, they did not work to dismantle these fascist structures within our economy. Much thankfully went away because of Supreme Court rulings and a general lack of support since the Depression was finally over, but the rest remains…..along with the mentality that supports it. The losses of freedom and liberty during the Korean war, the Vietnam sham, and all the rest, are well-documented. If what our military is supposed to do is defend the US, the Constitution, and freedom, they would be waging war on our behalf in Washington DC, every state capital, and every city hall in the US.
NO – your “service” did nothing more than empower the Empire, its crony-capitalist controllers, and the global banking machine…all while leaving us poorer and less free.
You already know what I think.
You should watch the video flash put up.
Definitely not in vain!
If it takes 2,000 years and billions of senseless deaths of people who were gonna die someday anyway, well… who would want to quit the fight against Illiteracy, mass intoxication, and Gangster Politics at this point?
Quitters.
Enter the LDS.
They really fooled the GANGSTERS with the polygamy PLOY.
Now who holds the upper hand and moral high ground?
I’ve paid the price personally for the polygamy ploy and the Dirty-Jew ploy and the fuck white people ploy and the #metoo ploy. ALL OF THE PLOYS. Will anyone back me?
So that’s whoopi? Damn, she looks as creepy. I can’t tell if she’s a mr. potatohead or what, but something is off.
Whoopi is pretty much the best they have- or else it would have been someone else getting SMOKED SENSELESS by DJT Jr. yesterday.
I’ve met the black male version of Whoopi more times than I can tell you.
Even the rather demonic whispers at 1:00-1:01 didn’t help.
She just better stay away from the high school janitor and his mop wringer.
His eye sight is not too good.
Whoopie has to wear a dreadlock hat because she no longer has enough hair to wear them.
She looks like a turtle sticking it’s head out and flaying it’s legs when you pick one up.
Even in her best day, Whoopi could make Esther Rolle look like a Kardashian. She was a comedian, she wasn’t that great to make her the end all be all black voice. How smart can she be when she had her lover (wtf was going on there?) Ted Danson wearing blackface at the Friars Club?
Actually, I believe it was actually a pathetic attempt to match and counter this:
Executive order mandatory E Verify.
Wrong! You and your kind fought for that which controls you! Do you think Lenin and Stalin did not want to control people? They controlled everthing. No sacrifice of the future of those we rule is too great. Each of your soldiers in WWII made a choice to fight for us, fight for the triumph of our political ideology of communism. Your indifference to your fellow man’s plight, the Russian people, under our rule was shown to the whole world by joining with us to defeat those who would free them. Now you complain about the very circumstances you find yourselves in. An entire generation sacrificed for us, yet you call them your heros. Your kind never, ever learns. So, celebrate your veterans and their choices to serve us – just don`t complain when you and, your grandchildren, don’t like the results.