Poll finds most evangelicals believe biblical mandate is for immigration laws to protect a nation's vulnerable members

A very interesting post from www.numbersusa.com about immigration enforcement views among evangelicals. This follows this post about an amnesty leaning Republican in North Carolina, Robert Pittenger. REMEMBER, “Amnesty” means ANY non-enforcement of existing immigration laws! This follows this comment and this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what you can do click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE.

Poll finds most evangelicals believe biblical mandate is for immigration laws to protect a nation's vulnerable members

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By Roy Beck, - posted on NumbersUSA

A brand new national poll of only evangelical Christians finds that they are deeply compassionate when it comes to immigration policy but not in the way the news media have been reporting because of a well-funded public relations campaign by a few dozen pro-amnesty religious leaders.
Released today here in Nashville at the National Religious Broadcasters giant annual convention, the poll found that most evangelicals are deeply concerned about unemployed and struggling low-paid American workers, particularly Black and Hispanic Americans who have the highest jobless and poverty rates.  And most evangelicals want an immigration system that protects their ability to work and support themselves.
When it comes to illegal immigration, the poll found that three of every four evangelical voters believe that biblical teaching about treatment of foreigners is more of a command to apply the law humanely to illegal immigrants than to give them work permits as is being advocated by both Pres. Obama and House Speaker Boehner.
The Pulse Opinion Research survey of 1,000 evangelical likely voters found that, when considering the country's unemployed, the overwhelming majority of evangelicals favored fully enforcing immigration laws and reducing legal immigration by at least half. (The 19-question survey's margin of error was 3%.)

• Only 12% of evangelical voters agreed with the view that the Old Testament verses in which "God commands the ancient Israelites to love the stranger as themselves" mean that "the U.S. government should offer work permits and legal status to illegal immigrants."

• Instead, 78% chose the interpretation that God's command "means the U.S. government should offer humane treatment while fairly applying the law."

The results were in sharp contrast to the views of the evangelical leaders who have been part of a corporation & foundation-funded, highly publicized national advertising and lobbying campaign to use scripture to promote "comprehensive immigration reform" like that passed last year by the Senate. That bill would offer work permits to up to 12 million illegal immigrants and double legal immigration over the next decade.
The survey asked evangelicals if restrictive immigration laws violate or follow biblical teachings? By a 5-1 margin, evangelicals said the laws "follow biblical teaching by protecting the most vulnerable within the national community," as opposed to the view that the laws "violate biblical teaching by keeping out poor foreigners seeking a better life."
By a 4-1 margin, evangelicals were more likely to say the government has "a lot" of moral responsibility to protect struggling Americans from having to "compete with foreign workers for jobs" than to say the responsibility is to protect the ability of "settled illegal immigrants to hold a job and support their families without fear of deportation."
Only 18% of evangelical voters were persuaded by arguments that the presence of so many illegal immigrants as active members of their churches improves the case for granting work permits and legal status. It should make no difference, said 71%.
The poll found even less support for increasing legal immigration:

• only 8% of evangelicals supported doubling legal immigration and 14% favored keeping it at the current 1 million a year,
• 64% said immigration should be cut at least to 500,000 a year, with half of all evangelicals supporting a limit of no more than 100,000 a year,
• 29% said legal immigration should be reduced to zero.

Evangelicals showed particular concerns for Black and Hispanic Americans, younger less-educated Americans of all ethnicities and the disabled, all of whom have very high jobless rates and whom many employers say they find it difficult to recruit. Most evangelicals (73%) said that, instead of bringing in more immigrant workers, employers should be "required to try harder to recruit and train" Americans from those high-unemployment groups.
And most evangelicals (68%) said they are willing to pay higher prices if it is necessary for employers to raise wages to fill jobs with Americans instead of adding more foreign workers. Asked to choose between two overall views of immigration:

• 15% chose that "most people should be able to migrate from country to country since all people are equal children of God."
• 75% chose that "nations have a moral and sovereign right to decide which and how many immigrants can enter."

The poll was sponsored by the NumbersUSA Education & Research Foundation, a non-profit organization that focuses on the bi-partisan U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform's recommendations for lower immigration to improve the lives of the more vulnerable members of society. Half the respondents of the poll were Republicans, 25% were Democrats and 25% were Independents. The margin of sampling error was 3% with a 95% level of confidence.
This follows another 1,000-response poll we released last week that surveyed all-likely voters, regardless of religion. 
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World News and Trends: Rape crisis in South Africa

article by Good News Editor

Reports from Johannesburg say a woman is raped every 17 to 28 seconds in South Africa. According to Interpol, these statistics make South Africa the rape capital of the world.

Said Time magazine: "In 1998 the official South African rate was 104.1 rapes per 100,000 people; in the U.S., the rate was 34.4 per 100,000." However, rape researchers say only one in 35 rapes in South Africa is reported, which if accurate renders the situation far more critical than the official figures indicate.
David Jones, reporting from Johannesburg, closes his Daily Mail feature article with good advice for the government: "For the sake of every South African woman—whatever her colour—the leaders of this nation, in many ways so potent with promise, must address their growing humanitarian scandal with considerable urgency."
The Bible takes an even more serious view. "... For just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter" (Deuteronomy 22:26But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
See All...). The context makes it clear that the subject under discussion is rape (verses 25, 27). To God, rape is as serious a crime as murder because it destroys something that can never be replaced. (Sources: The Daily Mail [London], Time .)

Bitter Harvest: Zimbabwe and the Aftermath of its Independence

A very interesting book review from www.Amazon.com about Rhodesia being ruined into Zimbabwe. (Could this happen in the U.S.? )This follows this previous post about it.  This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read another very interesting book HERE.


Bitter Harvest: Zimbabwe and the Aftermath of its Independence
Ian Smith (Author)


A wake up call.
By S Smyth

Format:PaperbackThis account of the deliberate destruction of Rhodesia by foreign powers helbent on disastrous political agendas which are also an existential threat to their own states and economies in 2009, is a wake-up-call for people with an interest in such matters. The bulk of Ian Smith's ire is directed towards Great Britain and its determined drive to placate the OAU and maintain the Commonwealth via the policy of No Independence Before African Majority Rule (NIBMAR) irrespective of the reality on the ground that Black-Africans desired any such a thing, or had the slightest ability to administrate it beyond a cadre of Marxiist-Lennist gangsters intent upon looting Rhodesia's capital core, for their own purposes.



As per Henry Kissinger's pragmatic advice and South Africa's disastrous détente policy, as aggressively advocated by John Vorster, Ian Smith accepted the inevitable. Rhodesia became Zimbabwe. And Robert Mugabe in consort with Zanu-PF, rapidly instigated their intended programme to reduce a successful and thriving African state into the catastrophe it now is, whilst pocketing the loot and remaining in power without any possibility of being challenged. Which is the point of Communism, as Ian Smith was reliably informed by a Black-African university graduate when asked why he was an advocate of Communism.



At the heart of this book is the observation that, when those who do not have to suffer the consequences of their actions persist in ignoring principles and sacrifice integrity for political expediency and personal gain, the state cannot survive.

 How liberal guilt leads to more innocent bloodshed!
By Jeffrey S. Ross

Format:Paperback
Amazon Verified PurchasePrime Minister Ian Smith lays out in detail how the Western powers, motivated by an urge to atone for a leftist-inspired guilt complex over the past, have only caused more innocent blood to gush in a land far from them. That, along with South African Prime John Vorster's foolish attempt to appease African Marxist leaders and use Rhodesia as a foil to distract world attention away from his Apartheid regime, has only served to install a brutal thug whose regime has one of the worst human rights records. If Western liberals want a REAL reason to feel guilty, they need only look to Zimbabwe and read Ian Smith's book.

Robert Mugabe, Bloodthirsty Thug
By R. Carpenter

Format:PaperbackIan Douglas Smith was born in 1919, the year after WWI ended. He was a relic of what "British" used to mean before socialism, before the nanny state, and before political correctness. For better or worse, he wanted to bring British rule of law, and the British way of thinking, to the Rhodesian Africans along with the resulting prosperity. He succeeded in bringing prosperity; most historians agree the Rhodesian Africans were more prosperous than any others. Smith immediately recognized Robert Mugabe for the savage thug he has always been. The problem was numbers: 270,000 Europeans compared with five million Africans in Rhodesia. Once the AK-47 arrived from Russia in large numbers it was only a matter of time. Rhodesia was something of an embarrassment for the rest of the white world with the civil rights movement in its early years of promise. It was so easy for distant Americans or Europeans to mouth the words "Black Majority Rule" without any understanding of reality. That reality included two very different peoples that whites feel free to lump together as "black", the Shona and the Matabele. The Shona, other than Mugabe and his thugs, are known as artistic, creative, intelligent and friendly people compared with the Matabeles, who are descended from the same folk as the Zulus. Both groups hated white people much LESS than they hated each other. In that sense, white rule was the Africans' second choice. Not good, but better than rule by the other African group. That fact explains why so few whites were able to rule so many Africans for so long, with the able assistance of African soldiers and police, all of whom were volunteers.

Rhodesia was thrown to to wolves by South Africa in order to buy that country's Apartheid system a few more years. Smith had no choice but to take what he could salvage, which included civil rights for white people and a white quota in the parliament for seven years. To give the devil his due, Mugabe waited the seven years to begin killing white people and taking their large farms. The whites knew how to run large farms but the Africans either did not or had little incentive to do so under new price controls. The predictable results include mass starvation and women forced to South Africa and prostitution in order to feed their children. Today there are fewer than 20,000 whites in the country, few of them in the countryside. Like many savages (see Ben Bernanke) Mugabe believed real wealth comes from printing money. Unlike our own Federal Reserve, Mugabe learned his lesson and no longer bothers to print his own worthless currency.

Here are a few telling comparisons between Smith and Mugabe. When Smith lived in the Prime Minister's residence it was often unguarded; he often answered the door himself. Mugabe has always lived there surrounded by sandbags, barbed wire, and machine guns. Smith often drove accompanied by one police officer. Mugabe drives with at least a company of heavily armed bodyguards. Any ordinary driver who does not stop immediately until the entourage passes risks being beaten to a pulp.

Is there a lesson for the future? Mind our own business; stop trying to "help" people we do not understand. Trade and visit, but no military alliances; no sanctions, no "spreading democracy" at gunpoint.

Battle For Zimbabwe: The Final Countdown

A very interesting book review from www.Amazon.com about Rhodesia being ruined into Zimbabwe. (Could this happen in the U.S.? )This follows this previous post about it.  This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read another very interesting book HERE.

Battle For Zimbabwe: The Final Countdown


Geoff Hill   freedom was betrayed,
By Henry Berry "Henry Berry" (Southport, CT) - See all my reviews

(REAL NAME) This review is from: Battle For Zimbabwe: The Final Countdown (Hardcover)

Africa correspondent for the Washington Times who grew up in different countries of southern Africa, including Zimbabwe, Hill gives a detailed account of the overthrow of the white-controlled government when the country was known as Rhodesia by indigenous black rebels and the subsequent cementing of the autocratic, often brutal rule of Robert Mugabe. Mugabe was one of the leaders of the insurrection and political leader of Zimbabwe (as the country was named after the end of white rule). To a large extent, this is the story of the murky circumstances whereby Mugabe became leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), including the assassination of its leader, and its role in helping to keep him in power. Instead of a bona fide political party in a democratic system, ZANU became the enforcement arm of Mugabe's one-man rule. Hill's chronicle of unfortunate Zimbabwe and biographical portrayal of its autocratic leader is a set piece in how things have gone wrong in many countries in Africa. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

 A solid piece, April 8, 2006

By David Persson -
(REAL NAME) This review is from: Battle For Zimbabwe: The Final Countdown (Hardcover)

With a deep understanding and love for this magnificent country, Hill lays out an excellent expos? over Zimbabwe's rise and unfortunate fall under the rule of President Mugabe. By elegantly blending historical events with a large number of interviews from both ZANU-PF officials and the MDC opposition to ordinary Zimbabweans, Hill has created a solid piece that is thorough and analytical but yet easy-to-read. Highly recommended for any reader in search of the root and underlying causes to Zimbabwe's worsening plight. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

 Indeed worth reading!!!,
By Squish - See all my reviewsThis review is from: Battle For Zimbabwe: The Final Countdown (Hardcover)

I am originally from Zimbabwe, but left in 1981. I was looking for



a book on the history and current situation on Zimbabwe that would



be informative and not dry. I feel very much more educated about



the various issues that have led this beautiful country to the



very sad situation it now finds itself in. I definately would



suggest others read it.

Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe

A very interesting book review from www.Amazon.com about Rhodesia being ruined into Zimbabwe. (Could this happen in the U.S.? )This follows this post about free speech on univeristy campuses which is being countered by speech codes, harrassment codes, and sensitivity training.  This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read another very interesting book HERE!


Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe




Martin Meredith (Author)


Distressing Portrait of a Nation,
By Brian D. Rubendall (Oakton, VA) - See all my reviews

(HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (REAL NAME) This review is from: Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe (Hardcover)

Martin Meredith's "Our Votes, Our Guns" is a particlarly depressing work of jouralism covering the descent of post-Rhodesia Zimbabwe into a barbarous authoritarian kleptocracy thoroughly dominated by a corrupt leader who turned his back on ever principle he supposedly had before obtaining power. The world's attention (such as it is) has been focussed on the forcible removal of white farmers from their land with the explict support of the government. But as Meredith demonstrates, President Mugabe's racist policies toward whites is just one of many evils he has perpetrated on his country.

Meredith starts out by setting the historical stage, including telling about the horrific brutality of white rule in what was then Rhodesia before the 1979 "revolution" that brought Mugabe to power. Certainly, Zimbabwe's violent release from colonialism has a lot to do with the country's current situation.



Meredith then goes on to show the early promise that Mugabe showed as president, so willing for reconcilliation that he met with the last white Prime Minister, Ian Smith on numerous occasions to ask adbvice in the early years. Meredith then shows how as Mugabe became increasingly paranoid and obsessed with power his cronys became more and more corrupt. Anyone who believes that third world debts ought to be forgiven should read this book. Zimbabwe is in a state of financial collapse because its president and his associates bled the country dry, not because of IMF or World Bank financial imperialism. If anything, Western aid has helped serve as an enabler for Mugabe's destruction of Zimbabwe.



The book's main drawback is a lack of first hand reporting by Meredith. There is no indication in the narrative that the author has ever visited Zimbabwe and he seems to have relied mostly on second had accounts. Nevertheless, he is an excellent researcherr, and despite this flaw this is still a compelling read for those with an interest in current events beyond the headlines.



 "A cartoon figure of the archetypical African dictator", 

By "michaeleve" - See all my reviewsThis review is from: Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe (Hardcover)

So said Archbishop Desmond Tutu of Robert Mugabe. This is coming from a church leader about someone who often publicly boasts about being a devout christian. If the Archbishop's criticism doesn't bother Mugabe then maybe Nelson Mandela's dissmissive epithet - calling the man "Comrade Bob" hits more to home. Mandela throws cold water on Mugabe's previously illustrious reputation as a freedom fighter and liberator of his people.

Mentioning Mandela is an appropriate starting point for discussing OUR VOTES,OUR GUNS because the author - Martin Meredith - is best known for his authoritative biography of Mandela. Here he applies his writing skills and powers of observation with the same results - a thorough analysis with keen insights into the personality. So who is Robert Mugabe and how is it that from a position of world acclaim as a hero at Zimbabwe's independence in April, 1980 - inhereting "a jewel" as Meredith quotes another African leader as telling him - he has sunk to such a low position today? Meredith says that a lot of this can be explained by over optimism and excessive expectations. In the 1970's he was the guerilla leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union/Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) which wrested control of Rhodesia from the minority, white-ruled government of Ian Smith. Following independence Mugabe emerged as a statesman. He was committed to reconciliation with whites and Meredith refers to Mugabe's speech on Independence day. He promised to "draw a line through the past" and said "if yesterday I fought you as an enemy, today you have become a friend and ally with the same national interest..." Meredith argues however that the hope in Mugabe as a model of the new African leader was badly misplaced. He says that Mugabe was never committed to democracy and his rule increasingly reflected his autocratic tendencies.



The book is very clear however in showing that Zimbabwe is not a one-party state. It is a functioning democracy with the required basics of regular elections, a free press and an independent judiciary. Mugabe also has achieved some notable successes. In keeping with their president's love of education (Mugabe has seven degrees) Zimbabwean's are generally very well educated and highly literate. The country has one of the highest rates of literacy in Africa (nearly 90%). Despite being an avowed marxist and thus seeking radical solutions to economic problems, and his very ugly attack on Matabeleland where his army killed thousands of civilians in an attempt to quash dissent, Mugabe could nevertheless always count on international and domestic support (especially in rural areas). In recent years his support both at home and abroad has evaporated, largely due to his increasingly violent land reform policies. 'Reconciliation' is no longer a word in Mugabe's vocabulary and he now calls Zimbabwe's white farmers racists and neocolonialists.



Meredith goes into all the social, economic, and political underpinnings of Mugabe's 22 year rule and the concomitant decline of Zimbabwe. One of the telling indicators of economic collapse is that this is a country that once had productive farms (albeit white-owned in a majority black country) and a booming agricultural sector. Today there are starving Zimbabweans. This book was no doubt published now because of its relevance in the lead-up to next week's electionsm - the most important in Zimbabwe's short history. As OUR VOTES, OUR GUNS clearly shows the events of March 9-1Oth will go a long way to deciding what kind of future Zimbabwe has and whether a line can in fact be drawn through the past.



Decline and Fall of Zimbabwe,
By A Customer



This review is from: Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe (Paperback)

This is a super-readable book about the career of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, whose corruption, brutality, and paranoia have wrecked Zimbabwe's democratic institutions and have brought the country to the brink of economic ruin. The book is refreshingly free of cant, and the author has a sharp eye for political grotesqueries, which have abounded in post-independence Zimbabwe. My only complaint (and hence the rating of 4 stars) is the lack of footnotes or any real analysis of the social or economic currents underlying Zimbabwean politics. Instead, journalist Meredith is content to chronicle events newspaper-style.