Liberty and Tyranny

by Mark R. Levin

  27 George Washington, “Farewell Address to the People of the United States,” The World’s Famous Orations, ed. William Jennings Bryan, vol. 8 (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1906), 90.

  28 Samuel P. Huntington, “The Hispanic Challenge,” Foreign Policy, March–April 2004.

  29 St. Augustine, City of God (New York: Penguin, 1984).

  30 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (New York: Penguin, 2003).

  31 John Perazzo, “Hillary’s Open Borders Disgrace,” FrontPageMagazine.com, April 24, 2007, http://www.frontpagemag.com/Arti cles/Read.aspx?GUID=473b1006-dea4-4340-b1a2-ac0838de5714.

  32 Ibid.

  33 Interview with Juan Hernandez, Nightline, ABC News, June 7, 2001.

  34 Thomas Sowell, “Border Scheme Built On Fraud, Empty Promises,” Baltimore Sun, June 14, 2007, 23A.

  35 Mark Krikorian, “Jobs Americans Won’t Do,” National Review Online, Jan. 7, 2004, http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/krikorian200401070923.asp.

  36 Steve Hanke, “Mexico Mimics Yugoslavia,” National Post’s Financial Post & FP Investing (Canada) Apr. 21, 2006, FP19.

  37 George J. Borjas, “Increasing the Supply of Labor Through Immigration, Measuring the Impact on Native-born Workers,” Center for Immigration Studies, May 2004, http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/back504.pdf.

  38 Lee Cary, “When Illegal Immigration Trends Converge,” American Thinker, Feb. 24, 2008, http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/when_illegal_immigration_trend.html.

  39 Peter Brimelow, “Milton Friedman at 85,” Forbes, Dec. 29, 1997, 52.

  40 Louis Uchitelle, “Plan May Lure More to Enter U.S. Illegally, Experts Say,” New York Times, Jan. 9, 2004, A12.

  41 Robert Rector and Christine Kim, “The Fiscal Costs of Low-Skill Immigrants to the U.S. Taxpayer,” Special Report 14, Heritage Foundation, May 21, 2007, http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/upload/sr_14.pdf.

  42 Cary, “When Illegal Immigration Trends Converge,” quoting Eugene McCarthy, A Colony of the World: The United States Today: America’s Senior Statesman Warns His Countrymen (New York: Hippocrene, 1992), 71.

  43 U.S. Department of Justice, “National Youth Gang Survey 1999–2001,” Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, National Youth Gang Center, July 006, http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/209392.pdf.

  44 Chris Swecker (FBI Criminal Investigative Division), testimony before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, House International Relations Committee, April 20, 2005, http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress05/swecker042005.htm.

  45 Government Accountability Office, “Information on Criminal Aliens Incarcerated in Federal and State Prisons and Local Jails,” April 7, 2005, 2–3, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05337r.pdf.

  46 Ibid., 1.

  47 Madeleine Pelner Cosman, “Illegal Aliens and American Medicine,” Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons 10.1 (Spring 2005), 6, http://www.jpands.org/vol10no1/cosman.pdf.

  48 Ibid.

  49 Ibid.

  50 William Harms, “Lomnitz: Understanding History of Corruption in Mexico,” University of Chicago Chronicle 15.6, Nov. 27, 1995, http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/951127/lomnitz.shtml.

  51 The quotation in Spanish reads: “He afirmado con orgullo que la Nación Mexicana se extiende más allá de sus fronteras y que los migrantes mexicanos son una parte importante de ella.” Ernesto Zedillo, “Mensaje del presidente de México, Dr. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, en la cena ofrecida con motivo de la Conferencia Anual del Consejo Nacional de la Raza,” website of the president of the Mexican Republic, July 23, 1997, http://zedillo.presiden cia.gob.mx/pages/disc/jul97/23jul97-2.html.

  52 “Results of poll of U.S., Mexican citizens,” United Press International, June 12, 2002.

  53 Heather Mac Donald, “Mexico’s Undiplomatic Diplomats,” City Journal, Fall 2005, 28–41, http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_4_ mexico.html.

  54 Ibid.

  55 Ibid.

  56 Ibid.

  57 Rene Romo, “Kemp Touts Self-Sufficiency in N.M.,” Albuquerque Journal, Oct. 25, 1996, A1.

  58 Alexander Hamilton, The Works of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 8 (New York: Putnam, 1904), 289.

  59 Ibid.

  60 Robert Rector, “Senate Immigration Bill Would Allow 100 Million New Legal Immigrants over the Next Twenty Years,” Web Memo 1076, Heritage Foundation, May 15, 2006, www.heritage.org/research/immigration/wm1076.cfm.

  10: ON SELF-PRESERVATION

  1 James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers, ed. Isaac Kramick (New York: Penguin, 1987), 98–99.

  2 U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8.

  3 See S. E. Forman, A Brief History of the American People New York: Century, 1922), 155–56; Adrienne Koch, Jefferson & Madison—The Great Collaboration (New York: Knopf, 1950), 141–42; George Washington, “Farewell Address to the People of the United States,” The World’s Famous Orations, ed. William Jennings Bryan, vol. 8 (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1906).

  4 Washington, “Farewell Address,” 94.

  5 George Washington, “First Annual Message to Congress,” Jan. 8, 1790, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washs01.asp.

  6 George Washington, “Fifth Annual Message to Congress,” Dec. 3, 1793, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washs05.asp.

  7 Thomas G. West, “The Progressive Movement and the Transformation of American Politics,” online posting, Heritage Foundation, July 18, 2007, http://www.heritage.org/research/though/fp12.cfm.

  8 Colleen A. Sheehan, Friends of the Constitution: Writings of the “Other” Federalists, 1787–1788, ed. Colleen A. Sheehan and Gary L. McDowell (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1998). Online edition posting James Wilson speech to the Pennsylvania State House, Oct. 6, 1787, Online Library of Liberty, http://oll.liberty fund.org/title/2069/156165.

  9 George Will interview with William F. Buckley, Jr., This Week with George Stephanopoulos, transcript, ABC News, Oct. 9, 2005, http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/TheList/story?id=1197559.

  10 George Will, “A War Still Seeking a Mission,” Washington Post, Sept. 11, 2007, A17.

  11 Barack Obama, “The American Moment: Remarks to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs,” BarackObama.com, April 23, 2007, http://www.barackobama.com/2007/04/23/the_american_ moment_remarks_to.php.

  12 Barack Obama, “Speech, Berlin, Germany,” transcript, ABC News, July 24, 2008, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5442292&page=.

  13 Patrick Goodenough, “U.S. Expected to Reverse Course on United Nations,” CNSNews.com, Nov. 7, 2008, http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=38988.

  14 Michael T. Klare, “Obama’s Energy Challenge,” TheNation.com, Nov. 10, 2008, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081124/klare.

  15 Editorial, “Would Democrats Waterboard Atta?” Investor’s Busi- ness Daily, Dec. 12, 2007, http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArti cles.aspx?id=282355009929237.

  16 See Mark R. Levin, “The Outrage of Hamdan,” And Another Thing blog, June 29, 2006, National Review Online, http://levin.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDY0NThhMDc5OGYzOWM3MzFhYTQxNTYzNzEyZDJiYjQ.

  17 Andrew C. McCarthy, “The Patriot Act Under Siege,” online posting, Nov. 13, 2003, National Review Online, Dec. 8, 2008, http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/mccarthy200311130835.asp.

  18 Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944).

  19 Jen Christensen, “FBI tracked King’s every move,” CNN.com, April 7, 2008, http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/31/mlk.fbi.con spiracy/index.html.

  20 “Echelon; Worldwide Conversations Being Received By The Echelon System May Fall Into The Wrong Hands And Innocent People May Be Tagged As Spies,” transcript, 60 Minutes, Feb. 27, 2000, Cryptome, March 2, 2000, http://cryptome.info/echelon-60min.htm.

  EPILOGUE: A CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO

  1 Candy Crowley interview with George W. Bush, “Bush on Economy, Iraq, Legacy,” CNN, Dec. 16, 2008, http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/12/16/intv.crowley.bush.long.cnn?
iref=videosearch.

  2 Avalon Project, available at http://avalon.law.yale.edu/.

  3 Atlas Economic Research Foundation available at http://www.atlasusa.org/V2/main/page.php?page_id=385.

  4 National Archives and Records Administration, Ronald Reagan, “Remarks at a Conservative Political Action Conference Dinner,” February 26, 1982, Public Papers of Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1982/22682b.htm.

  5 See Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose: A Personal Statement (New York: Harcourt, 1980), Appendix B.

  6 Ronald Reagan, “Encroaching Control (The Peril of Ever Expanding Government),” A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan 1961–1982, ed. Alfred A. Baltizer and Gerald M. Bonetto (Chicago: Regnery, 1983), 38.