The American Standard Bearer

Al Gore, the man who once, while visiting Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, gazed at busts of Founding Fathers the likes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson himself, and asked, “Who are those guys?” is still on the stump promoting himself. Gore travelled to New Mexico last week, spewing great volumes of greenhouse gases into the air as he went, to speak at the Wirefly X Prize Cup Executive Summit 2006 where he reverted to his trademark alarmist hyperbole, warning that “We face what I think should be described as a full-scale planetary emergency.”

He was unfortunately not referring to the possibility that the Dems will gain control of Congress, but instead, making more dire predictions about Earth’s demise at the hands of those nasty, SUV-driving Americans. But if only Gore were smart, he would recognize that there are forces far more immediate and deadly than global warming poised to wreak havoc all around the world.

France is again being rocked by Muslim violence, but this time, the perpetrators are more organized and sophisticated in their methods. They are now conducting commando like raids, targeting city buses, and have traded in rudimentary weapons such as hammers and baseball bats for guns and Molotov Cocktails. Recent Muslim violence in European countries like England, Spain, France, and the Netherlands is only the beginning of an increasingly more organized and determined assault on the west that is not likely to abate any time soon simply because European leaders are paralyzed with the fear of appearing to be racist.

The danger for America is that while Americans generally feel comfortably distant from events in Europe, we are also blissfully ignorant of policy in our own country that is leading us down the same path. Fear of the charge of racism has been institutionalized (i.e. racial profiling is bad) so that newly arrived miscreants are effectively above the law. Philly Cheesesteak entrepreneur Joseph Vento, owner of Geno’s in Philadelphia has been in the news recently because of the now famous sign he put in the window at Geno’s requesting that patrons please order in English. Last night he appeared on television and mentioned that Philadelphia police have told him that they have adopted a hands-off policy towards illegals. The truth is that law enforcement almost anywhere you go in the U.S. operates under the same policy.

Public policy that not only refuses to enforce immigration laws but will not enforce criminal statutes when illegals commit crimes is what threatens to tear Europe apart at the seams and we are not far behind.