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Posted at 11:22am on Jan. 29, 2008 McCain's dubious adviser.

By Paul J Cella

Just when I had started to warm back up to John McCain, whom I strongly supported in 2000, along comes a story that is a vivid reminder of what makes him untrustworthy: for all his sacrifice and service to the country, his ideology aims at its dissolution.

The story this time is that John McCain employs as a “Hispanic outreach director” a man who is, in essence, the agent of a foreign power. He is on-record in implacable opposition to assimilation: “I want the third generation [of immigrants], the seventh generation, I want them all to think ‘Mexico first.’ ” He ran an organization which held a cute contest: artistically depict the border fence like Berlin Wall and win a prize! His career, as an oath-bound agent of the government Mexico, consisted of the kind of sanctioned sedition that has grown up all around the pro-immigration faction.

John McCain’s strongest appeal is his patriotism: a love of country that exacted a severe price. But what kind of patriotism can countenance the affront represented by men like Mr. Juan Hernandez? What kind of patriotism can embrace men like him, who make it their business to agitate among foreign-born populations against the sovereignty, the laws, the authority of our country?

To destructive policy (his Comprehensive Dispossess America bill), McCain has added insult. He has crowned folly with subversion. Mark Kirkorian rightly notes that before the Judicial Usurpation of Politics under the Warren Court, McCain’s adviser would be stripped of his citizenship for having accomplished an “expatriating act” by his oath to another government. Let that sink in. For nearly two centuries, before the advent of the tyranny of the Robed Masters of the Supreme Court, American law would have regarded Candidate McCain’s adviser as unworthy of citizenship, on grounds of disloyalty.

So what kind of patriotism countenances this treachery? Patriotism of abstraction, that’s what kind. When America becomes merely a convenient label with which to bundle one’s ideological enthusiasms, merely a shell into which one may pour whatever political content one likes — why, then real existing America may be trampled on with impunity. Actual laws, actual property, actual communities, actual culture: all these return void before the might of America the Abstraction. Cracked eggs for the omelet.

Juan Hernandez should be fired forthwith.

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