The Quote Below – More Misinformation from the Media
“A senior advisor at the Pentagon with a history of disparaging refugees and immigrants, spreading conspiracies, and other controversial rhetoric was nominated by President Donald Trump on Tuesday for a spot on West Point’s advisory board.
“Retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor, a West Point graduate, will sit on West Point’s Board of Visitors, along with other appointees and members of Congress. The board carries out inquiries into the military academy’s “morale and discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, and academic methods.” It meets several times a year and provides independent advice and recommendations to the President on the military academy. . . .
“CNN’s KFile previously reported on some of Macgregor’s views on minorities, including a claim that Muslim refugees were “unwanted invaders” coming to Europe “with the goal of eventually turning Europe into an Islamic state. . . .”
“This summer a group of Black alumni wrote an open letter requesting the military college address its problems of systematic racism, and the school’s superintendent announced an investigation into the group’s allegations [against Macgregor]. . . .
“Speaking on the Conservative Commandos radio show in April 2019, Macgregor spread a conspiracy that liberal billionaire George Soros was financing busing foreigners coming into the United States with the goal of destroying American culture.
“The largest problem of all is really a network of people like George Soros, who are committed Marxists, who see the destruction of the United States and of Western Europe as a means to an end of creating what they think will be this global society and the planet,” said Macgregor.
“He added, ‘Pretty soon, there won’t be very many Americans left inside the United States if they can ship in enough of these foreigners. And of course, the big falsehood is ‘well, they’ll all become Americans. Just give them time.’ We don’t see much evidence for that right now. In fact, we see the opposite. We see hardcore points of foreign culture that is hostile to the United States, hostile to our values, hostile to our way of life forming across the country.’– Pentagon Official Who Spread Conspiracies, Disparaged Immigrants and Refugees Gets Spot on Influential West Point Advisory Board, Sndrew Kaczynski, Em Sleck, Nathan McDermott, CNN, 12/12/20 [Link]
Fact Check of Above Quote: A common ploy of immigration enthusiasts is to take a perfectly reasonable statement from an immigration restrictionist and try to make it appear foolish with the use of scare quotes and implied contempt. The goal is to persuade readers not to reflect on the truth of the statement, but to warn them that it is not a fashionable elite opinion. With respect to Islam and Europe, it is true with out question that unwanted migrants are pushing Europe toward a Muslim future. By bringing this change they are acting, for all practical purposes, as invaders.
It’s hardly a “conspiracy” to state that George Soros bankrolls a long list of organizations that promote mass immigration. Nor is it a conspiracy theory that he is a globalist and an opponent of genuinely sovereign nations. Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, observed of Soros that “His name is perhaps the strongest example of those who support anything that weakens nation states, they support everything that changes the traditional European lifestyle [. . . .] These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.” And contrary to this CNN article, there is evidence that he has funded migrant caravans to the U.S.
Is Macgregor really off the mark to question where unending mass immigration is taking us? The authors of this article smugly suggest that he is. But the reality is hard to deny. Immigration is overwhelming out powers of assimilation. Those powers are rapidly declining as multiculturalism and other anti-American ideologies dominate our schools and colleges. Diversity, despite what our sophisticates tell us, is not our strength. The more of it we have, the more we lose the ties that bind our communities and nation. . .
Our media elites hold patriotism and patriots in contempt. Col. Macgregor has accrued that contempt. He should wear it as a badge of honor.