Kennedy tells new citizens to despise America, as he does

Three hundred persons from 79 different nations took their U.S. oath of citizenship aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. John F. Kennedy in Boston Harbor. Sen. Edward Kennedy spoke at the ceremony, where there were also 1,000 guests in attendance.

“This has been a long pathway that you’ve taken,” Kennedy told audience members, many of whom clutched small American flags. “I just ask you to be involved and be engaged.”

Kennedy recalled how his Irish ancestors entered the United States across the harbor in East Boston and how their dream of a new life continues to be shared by immigrants more than a century later. Still, he said, this dream requires vigilance, responsibility, and tolerance.

“Our founding fathers were great, but they wrote slavery into our Constitution,” Kennedy said. “We have discriminated against women, the disabled, and others in our society.”

Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf of US District Court in Boston echoed that sentiment.

“The streets are not paved with gold … and freedom and equality are not completely achieved,” he said. “Despite our imperfections, the United States remains special to many people throughout the world.”

All I can say is: don’t be shocked at the resentful, despicable things Kennedy and Wolf said to these new citizens. This is all part of the inevitable working out of liberalism. Whether we can ever recover from the liberalism and save our society, I do not know. But I do know that the evil of liberalism must reveal itself fully before enough people wake up to it to oppose it effectively.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 03, 2007 09:27 PM | Send