What power do words have? The answer is plenty. Words shape our thinking. They can inspire us, or break our spirits. Despite the old saying, words can wield more power than sticks and stones. Words can work magic.

The pro-immigration interests understand this principle well. With few reasonable arguments to defend their unreasonable positions, they seek to cast spells with single words and slogans. With these spells they seek 1) to position themselves on the moral high ground 2) to portray immigration control as morally suspect.

Consequently, they bill themselves as the advocates of a "nation of immigrants," motivated by love, tolerance, compassion, etc. Then they cast their second spell against our side, using such words as nativist, hater, xenophobe, bigot, racist, right-winger, etc.

Don't fall for this verbal hoodoo. Cast a spell of your own by setting the record straight as to who you are. Our movement defends a nation of Americans. We are patriots who love our heritage, particularly the right of Americans to choose their country's destiny. We are conservers and sustainers who want to leave a viable culture and environment for our children.

As for our foes, let's cast some spells with reference to their motives, the leading ones being cheap votes and cheap labor. Politicians, particularly liberal ones, view masses of unassimilated immigrants as an easily exploited voting bloc. Of course they cover their aims with high moral pronouncements.

A classic example was the statement of former New York Mayor Ed Koch that politicians should ignore the "mob" who want immigration control and vote their "conscience." A word we might coin for a political leader so contemptuous of democracy is Kochite.

A related group of politicians are the Hispanic supremacists who want immigration to increase the clout of La Raza (the Hispanic race), even as they denounce immigration reformers as "racists" and "Nazis." Words to pitch at them are racistas and Razis.

A name to label the businessmen who sell out their country for cheap labor is cheap labor baron, a term derived from the notorious "Robber Barons" of the 19th century. Specific variations might be chicken baron and beef baron for the cheap labor exploiters in the poultry and beef industries.

Other businessmen who promote immigration and endless development, to the detriment of proper stewardship of resources, may be described as sprawlaholics, growth gluttons, and the cash and trash lobby.

On the subject of hate, it is plain that few haters anywhere can rival the "multiculturalists" of our universities and media who view mass immigration, purely and simply, as a weapon to destroy their native land-the nation they have always despised. Like the crazed Jim Jones of Jonestown fame, they would compel everyone to share their death wish. Fitting terms for such people are: multi-cultists, alienists, death wishers, Jim Jones clones, and wrong-wingers.

Here are a couple of other useful phrases: When our opponents refer to "legal immigration" as to suggest that anything legal is beneficial, reply that what we have is legalized immigration (as in legalized prostitution), a questionable activity merely tolerated by the law. When they say our policy of favoring immigrants with family ties over those with skills promotes "family values," we should reply, "What you really mean is family connections." Stress the favoritism and corruption that this phrase suggests.

And when they try to manipulate sentiment with tales about their "immigrant grandfathers," reply that our proper concern today is what happens to our grandchildren.

Consider the italicized words above, and practice using them. We must employ the power of language as our opponents do. Mince so words, break their spells, and push them to the moral low ground where they belong.