"Nativist" is one of many word rocks that political correctors use to stone heretics who voice doubt about massive unending immigration. Yet what is so wrong about preference for one's native country? Nothing in fact could be more natural. As the renowned author Sir Walter Scott once poetically asked, "Be there a man with soul so dead who never to himself as said, 'This is my own, my native land?'"

Completely unnatural is the attitude of the "alienist," one who esteems foreigners as much as his fellow countrymen, and cares little if anything for his country. When listening to those who oppose any effective steps to stop illegal immigration it is not hard to deduce that many or most are alienists. Issues of American sovereignty and our rule of law seem to move them very little. The premise implicit in their arguments is that our nationhood really doesn't matter.

Alienists are indeed numerous among America's political and economic elites. Harvard professor Samuel Huntington observed in his book, Who Are We?, that these prominent alienists ("transnationals" as he calls them) "have little need for national loyalty. [They] view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function now is to facilitate the elite's global operations."

Such people, Huntington notes, regard themselves as superior beings who have, as one put it, "allegiance [to the] worldwide community of human beings." They may so flatter themselves if they please, but it is a view at odds with the collective wisdom of human beings through the ages. That wisdom simply is that if charity (love) does not begin at home, it doesn't begin-or go-anywhere. President Theodore Roosevelt succinctly punctured the moral fraud of the alienist when he observed that a man who loves all countries as much as his own country is like a man who loves all women as much as his wife.

Men of virtually all nations, tribes and kindreds, from age to age, have used one word to describe the likes of our alienists. That word is traitor. The Apostle Paul in the New Testament listed the most reprobate types of men. Among them were men "lacking natural affections" and "traitors." Similarly the poet Dante consigned traitors to the lowest level of his Inferno.

Alienists would have us believe that universal benevolence will naturally fill the void left by the demise of patriotism. In actual practice, love of country usually is replaced by love of self, manifested in ambition, arrogance and greed. One case in point is the European Union (EU) where global-minded bureaucrats are systematically leveling the historic nations of Europe and trampling on the traditional freedoms of those lands. Some of its architects, such as French globalist Jean Monnet, now admit that they hid the anti-national agenda of the EU at first to keep from alarming the populace.

On this side of the Atlantic, our open borders alienists appear to envision something similar with the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) negotiated by the leaders of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. Many critics see this scheme, allegedly one just to promote cooperation, as a blueprint for a North American Union, an entity leaving few immigration controls to the previously sovereign countries.

The governments of the three countries vow and declare that SPP has no sinister purpose, a claim American patriots should regard with the utmost skepticism, given the alienist disposition of so many in our government, the semi-secret "working groups" of the SPP, and its eerie resemblance of the early stages of what became the EU. Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) and other House members charge that SPP is a direct threat to American sovereignty.

Alienists take great pride in their professed love for all humanity. Nevertheless, their movers and shakers advance, often by stealth, what appear to be highly selfish agendas. For the "socialists" among them, the goal seems to be centralizing as much power unto themselves as possible. An underclass of unassimilated aliens, easily manipulated, is most useful to their agendas. For the "capitalists" the apparent aim is to break down borders to maximize profits. Never ending streams of immigrants keep wages as low as possible. Do elite alienists really hold all men, native and foreigner, in equal regard? Absolutely. They regard them with equal contempt.

Sir Walter Scott had it right when he observed that the nationless seeker of "power and pelf" (ill-gotten gain) is "a wretch concentered all in self." The charge of "nativist" from such wretches is truly a tribute to one's character.