THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume IX, Issue # 105, June 6, 2007
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
AMERICA'S INSIDIOUS DESCENT TOWARDS THE THIRD WORLD
By Christopher G. Adamo
AMERICA'S FUTURE AS A MULTINATIONAL, DIVIDED, IMPOVERISHED, & UNHEALTHY THIRD WORLD COUNTRY: THE
UNCONTROLLED INFLUX OF ILLEGAL ALIENS INTO THE U.S.A. & THE THREAT THAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION POSES TO
AMERICA'S COMMON NATIONAL IDENTITY, ITS CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL CULTURE, & ITS ECONOMIC
WELL-BEING -- HOW THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, IN COLLABORATION WITH MULTINATIONAL CORPORATE INTERESTS,
UNDERMINES AMERICA'S ONCE HIGH STANDARDS FOR FOOD PRODUCTION & SUPPLY, ALLOWS LOW-QUALITY FOOD
IMPORTS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES, & THEREBY JEOPARDIZES THE HEALTH OF AMERICANS -- THE EROSION OF LIBERTY,
JUSTICE, & THE RULE OF LAW IN THE U.S.A.
FULL STORY:
Somewhere in the dark recesses of their souls, an increasing number of Americans fear the eventuality of an ultimate
confrontation with Mexico over the disputed territories, formerly known as the Southwestern United States. But visions
of the affair as a horde of brass-buttoned soldiers, marching on San Jacinto with bayoneted muskets to retake it, are
woefully mistaken.
Were that the case, the overt threat would be obvious and recognizable. America could certainly rally and respond with
sufficient force to decisively win the battle. But no such events are taking place. In their stead, a much less dramatic
scenario promises far greater detriment to the country, though its protracted nature renders it less shocking, and therefore
more likely to succeed. In fact, in many respects, it already has.
A far better picture of America’s future can be seen in the formerly tidy and wholesome town of Lexington, Nebraska,
situated as it is in the prime of the Heartland. Over the years, it metamorphosed to a horrendous degree. No doubt, had its
inhabitants been forewarned of its fate a mere two decades ago, none would have believed the transformation to be within
the realm of possibility.
Once a prim and quiet farm town, Lexington’s major industry was, for many years, a New Holland tractor factory, which
brought to the town the stability of America’s former manufacturing prowess. Many of its residents were employed there,
with decent paying and skilled jobs. But in 1986, New Holland outsourced, and the plant was subsequently sold and
converted to a meat packing facility, whereupon the local workers were systematically supplanted by a massive
importation of illegal aliens.
Initial changes to the character of the town were subtle. Doors that once had been safely left open all night were now
locked. Lawn furniture and bicycles no longer adorned the yards, since they might not be there in the morning.
Nevertheless, the resilient townspeople made necessary adjustments and attempted to continue with their lives.
As the influx increased however, the degree to which the former charm of Lexington was eventually eradicated was
astounding. Its fate should send shudders through the spine of any throughout the rest of the nation who hope for a
country to bequeath to their children.
Much of the town now reflects the squalor not previously seen this side of the Mexican border. Even in the town’s
modernized zone, which passes just south of Lexington near I-80, businesses reflect the ethnic tidal wave that has
overwhelmed it.
It is all but impossible for American youths to gain employment at the local fast food franchises, since virtually all
business behind the counters is conducted in Spanish, making it difficult to avoid the disturbing notion that businesses
might eventually post signs saying: “Americanos need not apply.” The town has inarguably become Balkanized.
Yet, Lexington is hardly an isolated example. Nor is it among the most severe examples that have ravaged traditional
America. Rather, it is striking only in that it so starkly represents the plight of much of America’s southern border,
while being vastly separated from that region. If this can happen in Nebraska, no part of the country remains immune
to the ravages of such an incursion.
A similar disaster looms over America’s food supply, and may be much more far reaching, since it is not confined to
any geographical location. Its onset will not be heralded by guards showing up at the front door to enforce changes
in the state food regulations, or demanding that hapless citizens only patronize the state store.
Rather, the entirety of available food will gradually degrade, and, in fact, already has, with the ominous collaboration
of the United States government.
For example, Americans are being purposefully denied the ability to know the origin of the beef they eat. “Country
of Origin Labeling” (COOL), an essential facet of keeping America’s beef producers competitive on the world
market, has been systematically stonewalled at the highest levels of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
For some time now, the Department of Agriculture, along with multinational corporate interests, have worked
feverishly to eradicate quality differences between domestic and foreign beef supplies, while preventing consumers
from knowing that those differences exist. While free trade advocates rightly decry “protectionism,” the current
agenda demonstrates nothing short of protectionism for the foreign beef producers.
From the recent pet-food catastrophe, to the revelations of toxins in Chinese made toothpaste, along with seafood
imports that were produced in the most unsanitary of conditions, Americans now face renewed risks to their health
that many decades ago had been eliminated from domestic production. Yet, as time goes on, the food and health
industries reflect less and less of America’s formerly high standards.
If pragmatism prevails above all else as the ultimate driving force behind the “global economy,” the food supplies and
commodities of other nations will never be lifted to America’s former standards. Instead, America’s food supplies,
and, in consequence, its entire standard of living, will sink to that of the rest of the world.
It is of little comfort that such incidents are, at present, fairly isolated. At one time, they would have been unheard of.
A dangerous first step has been taken in the direction of acceptable risk and degradation where none would have
been allowed in the past. Eventually all supplies will decline in quality as producers seek to compete against
ultra-cheapened imports.
It is easy enough to allow these problems to expand, and then declare them “unmanageable,” as is reflected in the
callous indifference of the U.S. government to the southern border invasion and the importation of sub-standard beef.
More alarming still is that the law itself changing, ever more resembling the role of law within Third World tyrannies.
No longer the “glue” by which a free society retains its cohesion, the law is ever more being used as it is in the
“undeveloped world,” where it is a means of manipulating and controlling the masses. The total lack of enforcement
of America’s southern border is itself reflective of a banana republic.
“Justice” has been totally abominated, with honorable border guards serving jail time, while border-jumping criminal
thugs go free. The legal fate of each group is no longer determined on basis of any harm the individuals involved
might have inflicted on decent society, but rather on the threat they pose to the established order.
Fortunately, Americans yet have time to fix things. If they fully awaken to the impending danger, they will realize that
they still retain the option next election cycle of “throwing the bums out.”
“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish
it.” So reads the American Declaration of Independence, a document written only fifteen months after the citizens of
another Lexington, realizing that no other justice was to be forthcoming, took matters into their own hands.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
United States Immigration, Assimilation, & National Security Policy:
Immigration into the U.S.A., Legal & Illegal Aliens,
& U.S. Border Control
Political Culture, Patriotism, & American National Identity
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Science, Ethics, & Human Health:
Human Health & Public Policy
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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