State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America Kindle Edition

Patrick Buchanan is a controversial conservative figure who has drawn criticism for many of his works. However, of some of the more activist of conservative authors, his works are perhaps the most researched and reasoned I have read in a long time. In "State of Emergency" Buchanan gives a strong historical and social argument for securing our borders. With one exception cited in the next paragraph there is almost no ranting and raving on the lunatic fringe -- consider that the next time you read an Anne Coulter book -- but a well reasoned, intellectual argument for why we must protect our borders and preserve our culture.

The only negative is I do not agree with his assessment that President Bush's immigration policy is grounds for impeachment. Although I am a fan of the president -- yes, the man still has supporters -- I disagreed with some of his efforts at immigration "reform". However, I do not agree that his immigration policy goes to the level of treason.

How can one look at the state of the world and not be concerned? Every day brings a new loss of freedom in Europe. Immigrants murder freely in Holland (Theo Van Gogh and others). Portions of Paris are not even patrolled by French police anymore because the police would be assassinated by Muslim immigrants. Busses and trains are torched regularly throughout Europe by rampaging legal and illegal immigrants. Free Speech has largely ceased to exist in Europe after the riots and killings following the publication of fairly benign cartoons concerning Islam and Mohammed. Who even knew what sharia law was (Muslim religious law) before various groups began calling for it to replace Western Civilization law based on presumption of innocence and trial by Jury (which are not rights under Islamic law)? And what about America?

This is Patrick Buchanan's latest work on America's problems. I found it to be a fairly quick read chock full of statistics and anecdotes illustrating the scope and danger of illegal immigration in America.

Buchanan's books for the last 10 years have had one unifying theme - thing's are rotten in the US and going to get worse. This book fits right in with his other books, but concentrates on illegal immigration.

Buchanan is well known as a political TV commentator on various shows, as an author, and as a Presidential Candidate. His speech at the Republican Convention in the 90's was a polarizing wake-up call that is generally reviled by the liberal press but seems more and more accurate as the years go on.

This book collects statistics, incidents and anecdotes that all point to one problem - illegal immigration. Buchanan pulls no punches as he reviews the havoc wreaked on America by the current 20 million criminal aliens. The criminal activity from drugs to gangs to violent rape and sex crimes perpetrated by illegal aliens in the US is under-reported by a liberal press. In my local paper, for example, I almost never know whether the latest criminal rampage is from a criminal or legal alien. Buchanan gives the statistics and examples to show how much crime in America comes from illegal aliens - whether by his extensive statistics showing what a high percentage of prisoners are illegals to documented cases.

Illegal immigrants are overwhelming school and health systems. Hopitals are closing. Cities are turning into crime-ridden zones controlled by gangs. Nearly half of the "uninsured" in America are illegal aliens, and yet the socialists use these figures to justify taking over the medical system.

One of Buchanan's strengths is his analysis of how the political culture is changing due to the new demographics.

A negative is that the book felt disjointed. Lots of facts and figures but not too much structure. And portions were redundant. I still feel that Buchanan's best book was "Decline of the West".

So overall, a quick, scary collection of the problems of immigration but not as completely thought out as "Decline of the West".

Without any urge to rapidly post a book review, I read the book over a couple of months, usually while reclined in the tub. Then I turned to its antithesis in many respects, Ben Wattenberg's _Fewer_ to see if I could be pulled by the opposing mentality.

The only two things I can mention now, without being repetitive to the other rich reviews, are these:

(1) It is a huge gap in this overview, in my opinion, that Buchanan does not make any mention of outward emigration from the USA. It does not apply to me at my stage in life (other countries would prohibit it based on my age alone), but it is definitely lurking in my child's generation. An almost unnoticed consequence of globalization, is that some of the best educated and most creative talent in the USA are sizing up opportunities, freedoms, cultures, and deciding not to make a permanent commitment to their native land. Massive illegal immigration into the USA and its coarse degradation of a coherent culture certainly serve to repulse the best and brightest of our rising young professionals who have the greatest personal options and abilities to be globally mobile. Perhaps this will be the subject of a new book; I can tell you it is a real and significant event although hardly noticed.

(2) Ben Wattenberg's Chapter Eleven, "Geopolitics", is the one to read if you should skip all others. Actually, there is a synthesis to be made between this and the Buchanan viewpoint. America "constitutes an empire of ideals" and not territorial conquest. I think they both believe America should lead by example. If this theme can be agreed to, then Buchanan certainly is supreme in stressing that there is no advantage to America or the world in our allowing masses of uneducated and hostile persons into our borders to exploit our culture. A culture is, essentially, an agreed-to set of rules, and if many only want to play by their individually eccentric or even criminal rules and not by those coordinated by the larger society, then what there is, is chaos. Somewhere Buchanan uses the metaphor of Rome after the Vandals, and that is an image that grips the imagination.

One of the best writers in this country . He is very precise and objective. He uses very sharp evidence to demonstrate his arguments.

It gives a clear view of how the demographics have changed in this country and what it will be going forward.

Great book...makes one realise the staggering damage illegal immigrants specially from Mexico have on our country...makes me appreciate my country more and keep those who don't have the appreciation out

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BUCHANAN IS A FIVE STAR FELLOW FROM THE OLD SCHOOL, AND SMART ENOUGH TO SEE HOW AMERICA IS WRECKING ITSELF.