A Lesson From The Manchester Massacre

Another Muslim terrorist has murdered another bunch of innocent people in a Western nation, this time the UK.

All of you who put COEXIST bumper stickers on your automobiles in a cheap effort at virtue-signaling need to have your heads examined. Do you invite everyone to "coexist" in your house with you? Of course not, even if they are from your own neighborhood. We can all coexist on planet Earth, but there is no justifiable reason to encourage or even tolerate coexistence of alien and hostile cultures within a single nation. History is clear that this is a recipe for strife and bloodshed.

And no, America is not a "nation of immigrants" from around the world. America was settled and founded by a specific people from a specific ethnic, religious, and cultural background whose values are not universally or even widely practiced. The notions of (socialist) Emma Lazarus that are etched onto the Statute of Liberty cannot rewrite history. Consider the words of Alexander Hamilton:

The opinion advanced in the Notes on Virginia is undoubtedly correct, that foreigners will generally be apt to bring with them attachments to the persons they have left behind; to the country of their nativity, and to its particular customs and manners. They will also entertain opinions on government congenial with those under which they have lived, or if they should be led hither from a preference to ours, how extremely unlikely is it that they will bring with them that temperate love of liberty, so essential to real republicanism? There may as to particular individuals, and at particular times, be occasional exceptions to these remarks, yet such is the general rule. The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities. In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency.

The United States have already felt the evils of incorporating a large number of foreigners into their national mass; it has served very much to divide the community and to distract our councils, by promoting in different classes different predilections in favor of particular foreign nations, and antipathies against others. It has been often likely to compromit the interests of our own country in favor of another.

Consider also that the preamble to the Constitution acknowledges that it is meant to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,” meaning the founding generation's descendants rather than whoever might set foot here in the centuries to come. That was the policy practiced for more than a century thereafter, as all of the naturalization acts from 1790 to 1906 were strictly confined to people of a similar background. Ozawa v. United States, 260 U.S. 178, 192-93 (1922). And of course there was the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act that virtually shut off immigration “to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity."

The "nation of immigrants" claptrap took hold following the dreadful 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act, sponsored by Philip Hart (the product of Irish Catholic immigrants) and Emanuel Celler (the product of German Jewish immigrants). This blasted open the doors and has pretty much destroyed America as a coherent nation at all.

There is no shame in preserving one's nation while leaving other nations to chart their own destiny, just as there is no duty to sacrifice one's nation on an altar of sentimental platitudes. It might be too late for the UK to remember this, but perhaps it's not too late for us.