LBJ’s one-world, open-borders ideology

President Lyndon Johnson, State of the Union Address, 1964:

We must also lift by legislation the bars of discrimination against those who seek entry into our country, particularly those who have much needed skills and those joining their families. In establishing preferences, a nation that was built by the immigrants of all lands can ask those who now seek admission: “What can you do for our country?” But we should not be asking: “In what country were you born?” For our ultimate goal is a world without war, a world made safe for diversity, in which all men, goods, and ideas can freely move across every border and every boundary.

I had never seen this quote before, but it embodies everything I’ve been writing for the last 16 years about the 1965 Immigration Reform Act. By saying that there is no basis for any national or civilizational preference in our choice of immigrants, President Johnson was defining America out of existence as a distinct historical country. Of course, it didn’t happen all at once, and it still has a long way to go. But the principle of non-discrimination, which is the principle of national and civilizational suicide, was set in place, and set in motion. We have no hope of saving ourselves as a nation unless we explicitly reject that principle, just as it was explicitly adopted 40 years ago.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 29, 2006 03:56 PM | Send