Saturday Forum

A Massachusetts Reader Confirms Special Hospital Treatment for Sen. Kennedy; etc.

From: Kaye O’ Hern (e-mail her)

Re: Today’s Letter: A New Jersey Reader Wonders If Teddy Kennedy Had To Wait Long In The Emergency Room

I can clear up your letter writer’s doubts.

Not only didn’t Kennedy wait but he is one of the few patients who has been admitted directly into Massachusetts General Hospital from another hospital’s emergency room.

My sister had a life-threatening emergency procedure at Quincy Hospital. But she was told that Quincy could not send its emergency room patient to Massachusetts General because its policy—for my sister and others but obviously not Sen. Kennedy—does not permit admitting referrals.

Luckily, my sister survived her crisis. But for a period of several hours while our family scrambled around looking for a hospital that would accept my sister, things were touch and go.

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A Reader In Scotland Says Pat Buchanan’s Column “Strikes Out”

From: Martin Kelly (e-mail him)

Re: Patrick J. Buchanan’s Column: Bush Plays The Hitler Card

I’m very disappointed to see Buchanan strike out so badly in this column.

Is he justifying Hitler's baiting of Poland on the basis that the Poles wouldn't discuss Danzig and that all areas with ethnic German majorities were somehow entitled to live in Germany—without having to move?

If that's the case, I'd like to see what defense Buchanan proposes to mount when the Mexicans come calling for Arizona.

What's sauce for the goose-stepper might just be sauce for the gander.

Martin Kelly is a Glasgow, Scotland-based blogger. Previous letters from him are archived here.

James Fulford writes: Pat Buchanan revises and extends his remarks on the Second World War in his column tonight, and has written a new book about it, Churchill, Hitler and 'The Unnecessary War': How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, available at popular prices through Amazon.com.

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A Texas Reader Fears Don Collins May Be “Off His Meds”

From: Michael W. Johnson (e-mail him)

Re: Don Collins’ Column: A Democrat Says: Why Not A Polio-type Campaign To Immunize Americans Against Illegal Alien Fraud With National ID Cards?

I'm very concerned about VDARE. COM's Donald Collins. Judging from his latest piece on a proposed National ID, Collins is off his meds again.

For one thing, Collins is back to promoting his “illegal aliens are slaves” mantra.

The last time America imported slaves, parties of armed men bought them from African chieftains and chained them in the holds of ships for passage across the Atlantic.

To my knowledge, illegal aliens sneak across our border on their own initiative while our border patrol agents make vain attempts to keep them out.

Some illegals pay smugglers to help them cross. Does that sound like slavery to Collins? [VDare.com note: The technical term under which some immigrant "employers" are prosecuted is usually "peonage"—but it sometimes does come down to slavery.]

It should be obvious that a National ID is merely a red herring proffered by those who would rather not enforce our immigration laws.

Most Mexican illegal aliens carry what is the equivalent of biometric ID: they have brown skin and they don't speak English.

Any four-year-old can spot the unassimilable kind of illegal alien. The problem is not that we're unable to identify them but that our masters in Washington choose not to remove them.

National ID won't solve that problem.

The only solution is to remove and replace our ruling class—that is the people put in the White House or Congress.

Even if that's currently not possible, at least we ought to spare ourselves the unnecessary expense of a useless National ID system.

Johnson, who lives in Houston, is a software engineer who expects to take up subsistence farming after his imminent replacement by an H1-B. Previous letters from Johnson expressing disgust with untrustworthy Democrats are here and here.

Don Collins replies: Johnson’s ID suggestion may not be quite the ticket. Many Mexicans do speak English but are citizens who have been here legally for years. The same is true for other skin colors of foreign-born people who also may not speak English.

On the other hand, many people with white skin don’t speak English and are here illegally.

Johnson opines that: "Any 4 year old can spot the unassimilable kind of alien".

Perhaps that’s oversimplifying it. I suggest Johnson reconsiders the National ID card.

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