IMMIGRATION: OUR HUMAN DILEMMA

By Frosty Wooldridge
August 29, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

By 2050, at the current rate of immigration-driven growth, our country adds another 75 million immigrants by 2035. Many experts expect higher numbers. Is it a milestone or millstone?

In the face of scientific evidence of melting polar ice caps, accelerating species extinction, water shortages, soil erosion, air pollution, acid rain and vanishing farmland—where do we find a national leader to address America’s most ominous dilemma early in the 21st century? Few leaders emerge in the political, educational or religious realm.

U.S. industrial giants won’t speak about it. Most Americans ignore its reality. A few notables like Dr. John Tanton, Roy Beck, Dr. Diana Hull, David Paxson, Bill Ryerson, Dan Stein, Marilyn Hempel, Kathleene Parker, Dr. Albert Bartlett of Colorado University and former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm—educate Americans about their future immigration calamity.

But, like the Amtrak Express on the midnight run, it’s comin’ and it’s comin’ fast

Silent-assertion! One hundred-fifty years ago, one of my favorite authors, Mark Twain said, “Almost all lies are acts, and speech has no part in them. I am speaking of the lie of silent assertion; we can tell it without saying a word. For example: it would not be possible for a humane and intelligent person to invent a rational excuse for slavery; yet you will remember that in the early days of emancipation agitation in the North, the agitators got but small help or countenance from anyone. Argue, plead and pray as they might, they could not break the universal stillness that reigned, from the pulpit and press all the way down to the bottom of society—the clammy stillness created and maintained by the lie of silent assertion; the silent assertion that there wasn’t anything going on in which humane and intelligent people were interested.

“The universal conspiracy of the silent assertion lie is hard at work always and everywhere, and always in the interest of a stupidity or sham, never in the interest of a thing fine or respectable. It is the most timid and shabbiest of all lies…the silent assertion that nothing is going on which fair and intelligent men and women are aware of and are engaged by their duty to try to stop.â€