Carpetbaggers

Back during the bad old days of the post Civil War South there were Yankees who flocked to Dixie for the only purpose of fattening their purses and/or imposing their values on the states that made up the Confederacy. These men were called Carpetbaggers. The term comes from the impression that they showed up in Dixie carrying carpetbags (short term visits) as opposed to arriving with trunks (long term or permanent stays).

Several times during my machinist career I've run across what I considered the modern form of carpetbaggers; Englishmen, Mexicans, Argentinean who intended to live and work in the US until they reach retirement age, and then return to their home countries with their Social Security payments and 401(k) money. I've never thought much of such men and have never been loath to empty my pipe on their steel toed boots.

But, let's face it, there are worse. To wit, the immigrant from a Mohammedan nation who comes to the Grand Republic not only intending to maintain his or her Arabic identity, citizenship and loyalty, but intends to force the body politic to surrender itself to such heretical and unAmerican nonsense. Such a person is a carpetbagger in the worst sense of the word i.e, a form of Islamic imperialism to be forced upon a nation that is, at least nominally, Christian.

The founders of the nation were overwhelmingly professing Christians. Jews arrived on the North American continent during the late 17th century. Buddhists, Confucians and Taoists hit the west coast in the mid 19th century and Mohammedans arrived in the 19th century. Up until 2001 there was no racial/ethnic attack on the US. During WW 2 Buddhists were not rounded up and put in camps. Some Japanese, some Germans and some Italians were put in camps In each case it was the nationality of the person that dictated whether or not they'd cool their heels in an interment camp because in in the mentioned cases the United States was not being attacked or threatened by religions or sects. The US was being attacked by other nations and those interned, whether rightly or wrongly, were subjects or citizens of hostile nations.

But at least since the Iran hostage crisis the US has been attacked in one form or another by radical Islam, not any particular Islamic nation.

The 9/11 highjackers were all living the Lives of Reilly in the US. The bombers in Madrid were more than likely living better and more free lives in Spain than they were in Morocco. The London bombers would have probably pissed and moaned and whined worse than nancy boys with runs in their stockings if they had been sent back to whatever sand pile they came from. And what did this group of clowns have in common? Not nationality. Just their adherence to a heresy that the greater Christian world will put up with with contempt, but which Islamic leaders expect to become dominant in the West. Such carpetbaggers make the old post Civil War carpetbaggers look like philanthropists.

This is not to say that all Mohammedans in the US or UK are guilty of rotten behaviour. They aren't. But those who are not part of bombings, in either fact or sentiment, must make themselves known as people who value those qualities of the ideal an United States or the United Kingdom that their brothers are trying to destroy. They must, in order to gain the trust of the populace of the US and the UK, to show that they are residents of those countries because of the values of those countries, and that they are not trying to make those nations copies of the countries from which they came.