Unfortunately,
Fake News is alive and all too well.
This
was witnessed in spades this past week as the Fake News/Kill Trump media lied
through its fangs about the President on immigration.
The Fake Newsies, at least
90% of whom are Democrat Party operatives, waxed hysteria over the “separation”
of Hispanic children from their
“immigrant” parents, i.e. those who entered America illegally through the
southern border.
Of
course, the blame for all of this was laid at the feet of the President, who
was excoriated by his political enemies in Washington D.C. and their apologists
and fellow partisans in the Fake News industry for his “zero tolerance” policy.
By now, any remotely honest observer of
the political scene should know that the truth is profoundly otherwise than
what fake journalists and commentators would have us think.
First, the “separation of families” for which Trump is being blamed is
a feature of a policy that was passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress and
signed into law back in 2008 by George W. Bush. This policy was continued
throughout Barack Obama’s two terms.
In fact, the emotionally-charged
photos of detention facilities circulated by the Fake News media that were
designed to convict Trump of heartlessness were taken while Obama was President.
This is
one crucial respect in which coverage of this issue reveals itself for the Fake
News that it is. Yet it is certainly not the only respect.
Second, that for a decade—the decade that their fellow partisans held
control of the levers of power in D.C.—fake journalists didn’t utter a peep
about this policy for which they are now blasting Trump proves that they are
cooking a controversy for partisan political purposes.
This
isn’t journalism. It is advocacy. It is political.
It is
fake.
Third, the vast majority of those crying
over the “separation of families” have spent decades undermining the sanctity
of the family at every conceivable turn. The idea of “traditional family
values” is one upon which this crew has set its sights with a vengeance.
They have not only mocked and ridiculed all things religious (and,
particularly, Christian), they have aggressively sought to fundamentally
transform the entire cultural and legal landscape.
Those
who have just now discovered the sanctity of the family—and make no mistakes,
when they shed their tears (however fake, like their news, these tears
undoubtedly are), they imply their recognition of this spiritual and moral
reality—have campaigned inexhaustibly for such family-crippling things as:
no-fault divorce; de-stigmatizing both co-habitation outside of marriage and
illegitimacy; sexual promiscuity; free contraceptives; the empowerment of the
State (Child Protective Services) to remove children from their parents, i.e.
to “separate families”; the empowerment of children to divorce their parents;
the elevation of homosexuality as something to be celebrated as a viable
alternative to heterosexuality; and so-called “same-sex marriage.”
Most importantly, these same
people who are now crying over children being
separated from their parents have been championing the
“right” of mothers to kill the children in their wombs, children who, at
that stage in their development, literally have no one to sustain them but
their mothers.
Fourth, as President Trump
said three years ago when he announced his bid for the presidency, some of those crossing our southern border are bad
people. Border agents, among the bravest and most patriotic of Americans
(and many of whom happen to be Hispanic), have readily attested to the truth of
Trump’s statement.
People
who resolve to undermine a nation’s sovereignty by breaking its most
fundamental of laws are willing to do virtually anything else to fulfill their
desires. It is understandable that they should want to leave their home
countries and come to America so as to provide a better lives for themselves
and their families. But unless it is morally permissible for one’s personal
happiness to be purchased at any and all costs—unless the ends always justify
the means—this doesn’t change the fact that such people disrespect America and
her citizens when they invade our country.
The point, here, is that
these people have also sent their children—some as young as four
years-old—across multiple countries, in some cases, and extremely dangerous
terrain just so that they can
eventually get here. Parents have given their young daughters contraceptives in
the expectation that these girls would be raped by human predators.
American-born
children can and have been separated from their American-born parents for
offenses that pale in comparison to such egregious abuses.
And it isn’t just parents who
have weaponized children in this way. Many of the “parents” and other
adult “relatives” aren’t related to these kids at all. The US government
is trying to protect these children by
making sure that they aren’t released into the custody of negligent, abusive,
criminal adults.
Finally,
during a conversation with Democrats and some Republicans over immigration
policy some time ago, Trump was said to have referred to some Third World
countries from which his opponents wanted to encourage more immigration as
“shitholes.” For this, the Fake Newsies (but few others) took him to task.
At
the same time, most of these left-wing Democrats in the Fake News media and
elsewhere are tirelessly complaining about the “white privilege,”
“institutional racism,” and “white supremacy” of America, or, as those on the
left have not so affectionately referred to it, “AmeriKKKa.”
This latest episode in the
Fake News media’s Kill Trump series would have
caused more thoughtful, or more honest, people to suffer a massive dose of
cognitive dissonance: On the one hand, there has been occurring for many years
a mass exodus of millions of non-white people from their home countries from
all over the world. On the other hand, these same people are risking
their own lives, yes, but the lives of their children to flee to…a “white
supremacist” country.
The “fascists” of AmeriKKKa
are intent upon building a wall, true, but to prevent people from, not leaving, but entering,
specifically, entering illegally.
A historically white country which
remains majority-white and which the American-born left continually derides as
“racist” is, in reality, the salvation of the world’s non-white peoples. This,
at any rate, can only be the view held by those who are willing to do anything
and everything to get to America.
But don’t expect for the Fake News
media to say so.
Jack
Kerwick [send
him mail] received his doctoral degree in philosophy from Temple
University. His area of specialization is ethics and political philosophy. He
is a professor of philosophy at several colleges and universities in New Jersey
and Pennsylvania. Jack blogs at Beliefnet.com: At the Intersection of Faith
& Culture.
