Dakota Beacon

Once upon a time in a land far away there lived a blossoming culture – young, strong and vibrant. We will call this fledgling culture “Rome.”

As Rome grew stouter and more robust, she expanded into the lands around her by way of conquest. Integration of the conquered lands provided wives, slaves, and men for Rome’s legions.

For the next 1100 years this policy served Rome well. Though far from the center of power, people assimilated as part of Roman culture. As non-citizens, the conquered people shared a common core of values, peace, and order. Evidence of ruins around Europe and the Mediterranean provides a telltale indicator of the extent Roman’s culture carried beyond its center of power.

Rome’s strategy also worked well in reverse. When foreign armies attacked Roman legions, they were inevitably defeated. Romans would then capture the attacker’s logistical support – men, women, and children who had traveled with the invading force – and sell them into slavery. The men, if not sold into slavery, would be conscripted into the Legions and sent to the far reaches of the empire. Once again, Rome’s culture was pervasive, and not the other way around.

As a result, Rome kept foreign elements under control. In a word, foreign populations were assimilated into Roman culture. In the 4th century AD that would change. As the Huns moved from the Eurasian Steppes, they attacked people that would plead with Rome for asylum. In response the Romans allowed the Goths, Vandals, and others to move into the Empire. That was a mistake.

Instead of assimilating them, the Romans allowed them to settle intact on Roman lands. Often, these armed groups lived in their own communities separate from Roman values and continued their own culture without assimilation. Could a disaster be far away? Rome, flourishing for more than a millennium, was gone within a century.

Contemporary Western leaders admit little knowledge of Roman history. Those who speak the malarky “Diversity is our strength!” should never be allowed near the levers of power. For years we were told about 11 million illegal migrants occupied the US. That low number was generated by faulty polling and weak handling of data. The real number is closer to 40 million.

Data is used by the Census Bureau's annual American Community Survey to estimate how many illegal migrants live in this country. The Census Bureau tallies up the number of foreign-born people they've actually identified. Then they subtract the number of foreign-born people gleaned by census data to be in the U.S. legally. Bingo! 11 million illegals. The problem with this method is that illegal aliens don't respond to census takers. Why would they admit they're here illegally?

Then came a new administration prepared to remove the illegals. Can the US, under current enforceable laws, at once remove 20, 30, or 40 million illegals? Probably not! But the administration, using the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, could certainly whittle away at the illegal population targeting violent criminals, cartel affiliates, and gang members.

A segment of the citizen population finds removal of alien criminals intolerable. In protest to ICE removal efforts, they fill the streets and man the barricades! As ICE rounds up large numbers of violent felons, demonstrators (many of them subsidized), choose to interfere with the arrests. Violence used against law enforcement becomes an insurrection. For example, commercial fireworks embedded in shrapnel and bricks hurled from high places become deadly weapons.

No one phrased it better than J. B. Shurk writing for the American Thinker. “Nothing says, ‘I like to terrorize and intimidate Americans into submission’ like a crazy-eyed leftist holding a gas can in one hand and a match in the other, while wearing a T-shirt that says, ‘Hate has no home here.’ … For decades, the American Establishment has lied to Americans by claiming that the forty million or more illegal aliens living inside our country (a nation growing inside a nation) are just like us -- better, in fact, because they do jobs that Americans won’t do! … Yet now that the foreign nationals have been ‘activated’ to burn down America, it is easy to see that they are not like us at all. Americans don’t wave Mexican flags while setting vehicles on fire. Americans don’t praise Hamas while threatening Jews. Americans don’t smuggle biological weapons from China in hopes of destroying America’s food supply. Americans don’t export guns and military equipment to the nation’s geopolitical enemies. Americans don’t get shout-outs from Islamic terrorists encouraging Muslims inside the U.S. to assassinate President Trump, his Cabinet, and their families. That’s what foreign infiltrators, terrorists, and enemy combatants do.” Well said, Mr. Shurk!

Invaders inevitably seek to change the nature of the place they invade rather than assimilate. The growing Roman empire did so in lands they conquered. When the Romans dominated new people, those people fought and lost. But at least they had enough pride in their culture to fight for it.

Today, across the West in general and the US in particular, millions of invaders from alien cultures have been welcomed with open arms. Segments of the US population labor under the misconception that welcoming these invaders with free amenities of Western life will somehow earn their respect and they will assimilate. Like a Fifth Column, those segments have provoked opposition calling their pro-illegal alien disturbances a “protest.” This violates all common sense.

Meanwhile, Washington fiddles while US cities burn.

Dennis M. Patrick can be contacted at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).