The title of this piece is the same as the fourth volume of Winston Churchill’s magisterial history of the Second World War. It tells of the period right after Pearl Harbor until mid-1943, when the war could have gone either way. Well, we’re at a crossroads as well, a hinge of fate if you will, when it comes to the government shutdown and the immigration debate.
I recently watched a press conference held by Stanislaus County, California Sheriff Adam Christianson regarding the murder of Newman Police Corporal Ronil Singh by an illegal alien, one Gustavo Arriaga. The culprit, I will spare you the term “alleged” as this is no legal analysis, had accomplices who attempted to cover for him and mislead police. They are also illegal aliens. Arriaga has gang affiliations and has been in this country several years. They are all thankfully in custody.
Sheriff Christianson pointed out during the presser that in California, law enforcement officials like him are prohibited by law to share information with federal agencies like ICE, who perhaps could have interceded long before this point. If that would have happened, Corporal Singh would be alive and spending the holiday season with his young family. But, the people who run California had other ideas.
Singh was a legal immigrant from Fiji and leaves behind a wife and five-month-old son. He came here and served this country. Arriaga and his allies in California government are here to destroy it.
So where to go from this point?
We’ve heard, in this column and numerous other venues, the arguments against illegal immigration. You don’t need to hear mere redundancy.
But I think sometimes that the right (the GOP) and Americans in general, are circumspect regarding this argument because they don’t want to seem bigoted against Latins. In this case, Latin culture and nationality being not monolithic, against Mexicans.
If we are indeed at a hinge moment, that trepidation must be thrown out the window. It’s not that all Mexicans are horrible. Only an idiot would agree with that. However, we must stop watering down reality because we are afraid of being called racist by the left. The president has taken the lead in this. The rest of the right and GOP must follow and not just fold like a cheap card table when some leftist race hustler goes boo.
Thus, the smart boys and girls at the RNC and in the numerous PACS and 527s that make up the conservative media constellation must hang this murder squarely on the shoulders of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Jerry Brown as surely as if the homicidally negligent trio pulled the trigger standing alongside their illegal alien partners.
Get to your scripts and production teams and do your jobs.
This shutdown is about a wall? Fine, make it about the wall and metaphorically bury them beside it. The blood is on their hands. Show it, graphically. This is not a time for the scalpel or subtle dig. This is the time for sledgehammers and nukes. Scorch the message into the corneas of the American voter that the Democratic Party values the life of a murderer more than they do of a hero, husband, and father.
Have the new Dem House come to Washington greeted with streets filled with mourners attending (with the permission of the family) the state funeral of Corporal Singh. The president and first lady should attend the services. Invite the Dems then watch as they dismiss it as political theater and refuse to attend. But what commemoration of a hero is not theater? When Pelosi and Schumer decline to be there, hang it around their necks like a political noose.
Ask Latins across the country, in political media, whose side are they on. What kind of people are they? Do they mourn the martyred Officer Singh or celebrate the criminal Arriaga and his Dem helpmates? Put it that blatantly. When the answer comes in, even from Mexican Americans who came to this country legally and most of the rest of Americans like myself of Latin descent, the answer could go a long way to bringing Latins, given their natural social conservatism, into the GOP fold.
Soon in the new year, schedule a House and Senate vote on the budget bill including the $5 billion for the wall. Invite families like the Singhs and the Steinles to witness the vote from the congressional galleries. Let Pelosi, Schumer, and the rest of those vile creatures vote against the bill in front of grieving families. Let’s watch as they wiggle and sweat, trying to rationalize their cowardice, all the time knowing full well America is watching and will not forget their spiritless performance.
Let this be the opening of the new Dem majority in the House.
This may win the battles of the wall and the shutdown. Nevertheless, the war remains. Aside from kicking California out of the Union or divorcing her by political process, a measure I have advocated in this space before, the right and the GOP must get out of its country club rut and bring the fight to the very faces of the Democratic Party, as they have been doing to us for some time.
As Churchill noted the wartime hinge of fate, he also told his SOE, his so-called “League of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” to “set Europe ablaze” and hurt the Hun occupiers where they lived.
A similar approach, perhaps even filling California with conservative Latins from other parts of the nation and making it their mission to get California Latins to register GOP (much like the Freedom Riders in the 1960s South who aided black Americans in voting), could work some wonders. It could change the electoral tide in the socialist merdehole, where families like that of Corporal Singh pay in blood for the political decisions of out of touch and morally bereft Democratic Party politicians.
Until that day we must not abate, we must not flag; we must not wither in honoring the memory of Corporal Singh and ensuring, by our ceaseless efforts in fighting those who abett the evil that killed him, that he did not die for a lost cause.
