Eleanor Duckwall's Spotlight

The Center Shouldn't Hold???

The "center" refers to the geographic center of the United States which is now a red stake stuck in an anonymous spread of pature 20 miles north of Belle Fource, S.D. as defined by the National Geodetic Survey in 1959. What has changed about the geographic boundaries to prompt moving this marker. It is likely that few Americans are aware, see the big picture, have any inkling that imperceptible movement has taken place and that seismic changes are about to take place.

A Brit slipped on past them all. Normally the NYT would not permit eye-opening, earthshaking, truth to be published within, but it happened July 4, 2007 when most were looking up, mesmerized by fireworks and the warm feelings of patriotic music and family gatherings. The editorial board was looking up too.

Government Incompetence on Both Sides of the Pond

The enormity of the problems brought on by mass immigration is not lost on the common people that wallow in the mire created by governments and business elites.

Here is Richard Little John at the Daily Mail The car bomb you are calling may be switched off - please try later!. The quote by Melanie Phillips applies to both sides of the pond:

It's best not to dwell on the enormity of what has led us here. In yesterday's Mail, Melanie Phillips summarised superbly not just the deranged evil of those who seek to destroy us, but also the frightening criminal negligence, stubborn stupidity and callous indifference of those charged with protecting us. [My emphasis]

Don't blame the police or the intelligence service, this is a mess made by politicians. I felt like retching when Gordon Brown sauntered on camera to announce that the safety of the British people was paramount.

Change the name Gordon Brown to just about any American politician for the same effect. However, some are more guilty than others: Edward Kennedy (D-MA) comes to mind described at The Borjas Blog:

Regarding the 1965 bill that sparked the resurgence of large-scale immigration, Senator Kennedy predicted: "The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission."

Regarding the 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act (the first amnesty of illegal immigrants), Senator Kennedy predicted: "This amnesty will give citizenship to only 1.1 to 1.3 million illegal aliens. We will secure the borders henceforth. We will never again bring forward another amnesty bill like this." The 1986 legislation, by the way, ended up granting amnesty to around 3 million illegal immigrants.

In the private sector, this kind of track record would probably make Senator Kennedy an inviting target for all kinds of malpractice lawsuits.

Immigration lawyers and others are appearing on talk shows to condemn the opponents of the bill and to demand an immediate freeze on ICE raids and deportations as unjust. They should direct their venom at the leadership that caused this problem in the first place by looking the other way for decades before pretending to take action.

A massive concentration of families and children is scheduled for July 17 in Washington D.C. to "confront the leaders of both parties and the President." Their intention is also to "bring[ing] this economy to a halt.

Are these the kinds of immigrants that we need or want ... on either side of the pond? They are selling out.

Unfortunately they all seemincompentent.

Radical Islam's Goal is Global Conquest

But first, they must annihilate the United States:

A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror "spectacular" this summer, according to a senior official with access to the document.

"This is reminiscent of the warnings and intelligence we were getting in the summer of 2001," the official told ABCNews.com.

U.S. officials have kept the information secret, and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said today on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" that the United States did not have "have any specific credible evidence that there's an attack focused on the United States at this point."

As ABCNews.com reported, U.S. law enforcement officials received intelligence reports two weeks ago warning of terror attacks in Glasgow and Prague, the Czech Republic, against "airport infrastructure and aircraft."

The warnings apparently never reached officials in Scotland, who said this weekend they had received "no advance intelligence" that Glasgow might be a target.

Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff declined to comment specifically on on the report today, but said "everything that we get is shared virtually instantaneously with our counterparts in Britain and vice versa."

Unlike the United States, officials in Germany have publicly warned that the country could face a major attack this summer, also comparing the situation to the pre-9/11 summer of 2001.

Bat Ye'or Speaks in Toronto

Bat Ye'or is the pseudonymn meaning "daughter of the Nile" in Hebrew, for Giséle Litte, née Orebi, a British author specializing in the history of non-Muslims in the Middle East, and in particular the history of the Christian and Jewish dhimmis living under Islamic governments. Here is an address given at an even sponsored by the Fraser Institute at the Sherton Centre Hotel in Toronto. [Note: the videotaped speech has some unclear words which are given brackets in the following transcript provided at the The Gates of Vienna Blog:

What Does It Mean to Be an American?

Although written for Independence Day Holiday, this essay by Steven Warshawsky at American Thinker should be given out to prospective citizens and those that have forgotten what love of country means.

"Undocumented Americans." This is how Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently described the estimated 12-20 million illegal aliends living in America. What was once a Mark Steyn joke has now become the ideological orthodoxy of the Democratic Party.

Reid's comment triggered an avalanche of outrage among commentators, bloggers, and the general public. Why? Because it strikes at the heart of the American people's understanding of themselves as a nation and a civilization. Indeed, opposition to the ongoing push for "comprehensive immigration reform" -- i.e., amnesty and a guest worker program -- is being driven by a growing concern among millions of Americans that massive waves of legal and illegal immigration -- mainly from Mexico, Latin America, and Asia -- coupled with the unwllingness of our political and economic elites to mold these newcomers into red-white-and-blue Americans, is threatening to change the very character of our country. For the worse.