Patriotic holidays are more strongly felt by many citizens post-9/11, as the cost of the our freedoms receives overdue attention. But Veterans’ Day is now a conflicted remembrance for some, where the sacrifices of yesterday seem little remembered in the actions of the nation’s political leaders. Instead of protecting America, Washington is more interested in the open-borders agenda pushed by by ethnic hucksters and “denationalized elites” (so described by Sam Huntington).

In fact, politicians today strive to give away the borders and sovereignty that many thousands of Americans died to protect. (One such scheme is the “North American Community” planned by the Council on Foreign Relations.)

This November contains additional dangers and ironies. France was rescued from German fascism 60 years ago, only to welcome a more stealthy enemy after the war — “cheap” labor to rebuild postwar France, in the form of Muslim immigrants.

Today, elderly French ladies in Normandy (who likely lived through D-Day) fear Muslim boys from the local school. ["Riots Change Way of Life in Normandy Town"]

EVREUX, France — Three white-haired women stood before the burnt wreckage of their beauty salon, reminiscing about the days when they still felt safe walking the streets of this Normandy town after dark.

“We were happy here,” said one of them, an 80-year-old. “Now we’re afraid.”

Another looked at her watch and reported it was almost 4:30 p.m. the time that school lets out and when this group of older ladies makes sure they’re at home, behind locked doors.

Such a horrific image can erase even the normal anti-France schadenfreude. It makes the “Fortress America” so derided by internationalists look better all the time.

We Americans share specific values like free speech, individual liberty, personal responsibility environmental stewardship and gender equality, and do not comprise a “universal” nation as envisioned by Ben Wattenburg. Americans gave their lives in war so that we citizens could live in freedom in our sovereign nation, not so Juan and Ahmed could enter at will for better job opportunities or the advance of jihad.

Veterans’ Day should renew our committment to being a national community, and renouncing the universalist global flophouse envisioned by elites in Washington and beyond.

As Veterans for Secure Borders notes, “They didn’t die for open borders!”

Peter Bronson, according to a local website, is “Cincinnati’s premier conservative op-ed columnist”. The city is going to need him - it just elected its first black mayor - but according to this source he is, predictably, being phased out. His profile at his newspaper has not been updated since May.

That is a pity on a national level, because Bronson has a grip on the US immigration disaster, notwithstanding his profile’s obsolete description that he

writes William F. Buckley opinions with an Animal House sense of humor.

Last Sunday’s essay, Need for translators overloads courts - Peter Bronson The Cincinnati Enquirer November 6 2005 goes to straight to the point:

Mam is one of 23 Amerindian dialects in Guatemala, along with Quiche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Garifuna and Xinca. It’s also a muy grande headache for Hamilton County.

When an illegal immigrant from Guatemala was charged with sexual battery and rape, Common Pleas Judge Patrick Dinkelacker had to bring in two interpreters to translate English and courtroom lawyer Latin to Spanish, then translate the Spanish to Mam….

Even a few years ago, interpreters were rare in his courtroom, Dinkelacker said. “Now it’s every couple of weeks. We’re being inundated.”

Translators have been hired for Russian, French, Hindi and Fulani, a dialect in Guinea. But 70 percent of the demand is Spanish, said Pretrial Services Director Wendy Niehaus, who assigns translators.

Some defendants speak English fluently to police and lawyers, but then demand an interpreter in court. And most who get translators are illegals. “I’ve not seen a legal, to be honest,” Dinkelacker said [VDARE.com emphasis]…

This year, translator bills will hit $200,000…

In dollars, $200,000 is not Quiche. But it’s only a small down payment on the costs of illegal immigration

(”Dialect” appears to be the standard US journalist euphemism for “language”. On this view, French is a European dialect.)

But Bronson sees reality. He has appeared on VDARE.com before. Applaud him.

Hat tip, American Renaissance

Via JihadWatch, I see that Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered foreign rioters to be deported, even if they’re in France legally:

Sarkozy orders deportation of foreign rioters

PARIS, Nov 9 (AFP) - Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday issued orders for non-French rioters convicted in the wave of urban violence to be deported — a measure directed at youths of Arab and African background living in the high-immigrant neighbourhoods involved in the unrest.

Sarkozy told prefects, or regional governors, to apply the order to foreigners including those who have valid French residency visas.

Just a reminder: this common-sense, unobjectionable step was one which was not taken by the US Government (the first Bush administration) after the Rodney King Riots.

“At a Cabinet meeting today, Attorney General William P. Barr said nearly one-third of the first 6,000 [Los Angeles] riot suspects arrested and processed through the court system were illegal aliens, according to a senior Administration official. Barr has not proposed any special effort to have them deported, a Justice Department spokesman said.”
—Washington Post, May 6, 1992

[Quoted in Time To Rethink Immigration, June 22, 1992 ]