From The Dow Blog on Tuesday came a thoughtful review of Patrick Buchanan’s new book, State of Emergency, which continues to ride high on the Amazon sales list. The Dow Blog has done much insightful and effective work over the past couple of years. That men like the proprietor of this site continue to do so, purely out of patriotism and despite family and work commitments, is the worst possible news for the other side.

This, featuring the voices of, among others, Fabian Nunez, is not nearly as funny as the one with the President.

On it you will hear Jose Angel Gutierrez talking about how Mexican, as descendants of the Aztecs, Incas and so on, are morally exempt from immigration laws because they’ve been around for “forty thousand years.”

For what those forty thousand years were like, see Stephen Cox’s November 1995 Liberty Magazine review ofConquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico.: the review is called I Left My Heart in Tenochtitlan in

On November 8, 1519, Hernan Cortes and his Spanish expeditionary force arrived at the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. They were greeted by the Aztec nobility at a place on the outskirts of the city called Malcuitlapilco, which means “the end of the file of prisoners.” In 1487, when the Aztecs inaugurated the Great Temple in Tenochtitlan, a line of prisoners waiting to be sacrificed on the city’s pyramids had reached this point. It was two miles to the Great Temple, and there were four such lines of victims.

You can see them there, young men standing in the sunlight in the great city built on an island in the great lake of Mexico, a name that means “in the navel of the moon.” The sky was blue above them, and the two lofty volcanoes, Iztaccihautl and Popocatepetl, rose in the distance. Throughout the day, the young men waited in line for the blood-caked priests of Huitzilopochtli, god of the sun and the chase, to rip their hearts out and roll their bodies down the sides of the pyramid so that they could be dismembered and eaten. At the foot of the Great Temple, a carved stone was set in the pavement; this stone was called “Huitzilopochtli’s dining table.”

The interest of the Aztecs can never fade; the story of their conquest by the incredible strangers who came from beyond the sea can never lose its romantic power.

The one part I still remember, eleven years after reading this review:
In Mexico, pork became a favorite dish of the former Aztec nobility, “since it had a slight taste of human flesh” (p. 578).

The Associated Press has an informative story today on efforts by local jurisdictions to stem the influx of illegals, pegged on Suffolk County NY’s adoption yesterday of an employer sanctions bill. (N.Y. County Targets Illegal Immigration - By Frank Eltman September 20 2003.)

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy was the leading proponent of the bill and called it a vital tool in helping crack down on unlawful immigration. “The thing that feeds illegal immigration is the hiring,” Levy said in an interview with The Associated Press. “If you dry up the jobs, you dry up the flow of illegal immigration.”

Interestingly, too, this was picked up by the ever –alert Drudge Report, which seems to have decided the issue is of interest to its readers. Since this site’s great competitive strength is its superlative news judgment, this is encouraging.

Considering the plutocratic Hamptons summer community is certain to be a massive employer of illegal domestic labor, this is a remarkable development.

And it is particularly sweet for VDARE.com. Our Why VDARE piece written when the site started, ended by noting a particularly outrageous stratagem by the Abolish America faction in Suffolk County seven years ago:

VDARE has come into existence because many great and developing issues of the day are no longer covered in the Establishment Media—whether liberal or “conservative.”

However, you can sometimes see them naively reported in the local press. Thus Long Island’s Southampton Press (Donna Giacontieri, Is Town Seal Offensive? September 24, 1999) has carried a story about a local version of the Virginia Dare phenomenon: the local “Anti-Bias Task Force” called on the town to abolish its seal, which depicts a Pilgrim and the words “First English settlement in the State of New York.”

The grounds: it “features an offensive representation of one gender, one race and one historical period . . .”

“One historical period . . .”?

Yeah. It’s called America

Happily Southampton’s seal remains the same.

But America’s grassroots are changing as we hoped.

Applaud Steve Levy

This is parody. (If you can’t see the video, it shows stereotyped illegal aliens in the background of the President’s speech on immigration, as he says ” For decades, the United States has not been in complete control of its borders. As a result, many who want to work in our economy have been able to sneak across our border….”.)

I wonder if the people who did this parody knew that for two years at the Bush White House, you might have actually seen an illegal alien on the White House lawn, installing tents for special occasions. See Michelle Malkin’s Illegal Alien Scandal - At White House!, VDARE.com, January 02, 2003.