Scary Statistics:

Tuesday – June 15, 2010

Scary Statistics:

When ever I had a discussion with my children about why things happen or who in some cases caused bad things to happen, I ended by saying, “look at the statistics”. Sometimes statistics are good and some times they can be bad. It all depends on how you look at the equation. In any case, the stats will tell the story.

When we want to find out the crime rate, we look at statistics. To find out about who commits crimes and what type of crime was committed, we look at the statistics. When Sociologists analyze societal trends, they look at statistics.

When pollsters ask questions, in their surveys, they use statistics to plot the curve and determine the trend.

When the census is taken, statistics tell the story. The census is about 80% done, according to census officials. What we do know, before new stats are tabulated, is that 49% of newborns in America were babies of minority families. Between 1990 and 2000, we saw a doubling of Hispanics born in this country. There are 9 births for every Hispanic death in this country. 54.7% of our population is now either a minority or immigrant.

When I founded Pinecone Conservatives a year ago, I had a conversation with a neighbor. She said she was Canadian and shared a dual citizenship with America. She also went on to say that the Constitution does not mean anything to her. She favored a government run health system and favored social aid programs. I am afraid this is the pervasive view of many. Many of the new Americans view the Constitution as something outdated and as something they don’t necessarily agree with.

Many of the new Americans have been led to believe that the founding fathers and many politicians were bigots and the laws favored the educated and wealthy. Many of the new Americans have been led to believe that Conservatives favor the educated and the wealthy. Many of the immigrants come from socialist countries or countries that offered nothing to its citizens in the way of aid. Many of the immigrants, or illegal’s, come to this country, because it is the land of plenty and opportunity. Even this phrase has been changed to mean that everything is free to the underprivileged. Many of the new Americans have been led to believe that Conservatives are a problem for them.

I am proud to say that I come from a family of immigrants. I still have my culture, because my grandparents and great-grandparents knew that the land of plenty would yield the fortune of liberty and freedom if they assimilated. My grandmother, in particular, was a strong, Conservative woman, because she and all of my grand parents saw the horrors of genocide in Armenia. They came to this country, they respected the Constitution and lived the dream that the document whose character is reflected by the founding Fathers who wrote it, a mere 140 years before my family immigrated here.

Many of the new Americans are given the false impression that the land of plenty is only reserved for the wealthy and the educated. The land of the plenty is there for anyone who is industrious and who works hard. This is what is missing from the dialog.

The Founding Fathers viewed immigration and assimilation this way:
At the beginning of our republic, the nation needed a larger population and encouraged immigration. At the same time, the founding fathers were concerned with assimilating immigrants. George Washington, wrote to John Adams, and stated that immigrants should be integrated into American life so that “an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, laws; in a word soon become one people.” In 1790, James Madison stated that America should welcome the immigrant who could assimilate, but exclude the immigrant who could not readily “incorporate himself into our society.”

Alexander Hamilton insisted that "the safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on the love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education, and family.”

In notes on Virginia, Thomas Jefferson wrote: “Every species of government has its principles. Ours… is a composition of the freest principles of the English constitution, with others derived from natural rights and natural reason. To these nothing can be more opposed than the maxims of absolute monarchies. Yet, from such, we are to expect the greatest number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of government they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing , as is usual , from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and tender it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.”

I believe this is what we are experiencing now. Never in our history have we questioned the birth certificate and birth place of a President. Never in our history have we questioned a president on his religion. Is he Christian or Muslim? We still don’t know the answer. This should not matter, but we don’t have answers and the Constitution is the rule especially when it comes to citizenship. Never before in our history would we permit a Muslim Activity Center to be built on hallowed ground, on the site of the 9/11 attacks. Never before in our history have we questioned the basis of allowing Sharia Law to possibly be aligned with Constitutional law in this country.

We are a distracted mass of people. We have President who uses every distraction to push an agenda. His agenda is biased. His agenda does not protect the mass, but will warp the mass into an unrecognizable form of extremism.

The premise of the direction of uncontrolled immigration is scary, because the statistics back up the scary facts. Instead of educating immigrants on how to take advantage of our system, and how we will take advantage of them, by courting their vote, let’s instead educate them on how they can make this country better for all, by reading and learning the words of the founding fathers.

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: There are 140 days until the midterms. There will be new statistics that will tell the story of this failed president and the failed agenda that is designed to make America unrecognizable from what our forefathers intended.