For decades, illegal alien supporters have flung the charge of "racism" at opponents who stand for the rule of law and secure borders. Ironically, quite a few have been Hispanics with a transparent agenda of building their ethnic/racial clout at the expense of other Americans.

This blatant hypocrisy, plus the fact that "racism" as a smear has lost some of its punch from overuse, has prompted the alienist lobby to deploy new words to demonize opponents. One of their rising stars is "hate."

To illustrate, consider the response last summer of the National Council of La Raza (the Race), described by the media as the nation's largest "Hispanic advocacy group." After nationwide opposition stopped the Senate from granting amnesty to ten million or more illegal aliens. La Raza's spokeswoman, Cecilia Munoz, sputtered thusly, "I don't think we should be comfortable with the fact that the United States Senate responded to what was largely a wave of hate."

The essence of this and similar expressions of "hate hype," is that there can be no honorable opposition to amnesty or any other facet of the alienist agenda. It's all pure incarnate "hate," and unworthy of consideration. The lineage of this propagandistic hype is easy to trace from the totalitarian left. In the words of Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin, "We can and must write in the language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, scorn, and the like, toward those who disagree with us."

Lenin's malice lives today in cultural Marxism, an anti-national ideology fixated on race and gender, popularly known as "political correctness" (P.C.). Its apostles claim to teach tolerance and diversity, but heaven help anyone with thoughts sufficiently independent and diverse to disagree with them. Toward all facets of traditional America and those with patriotic loyalty to it, the P.C. people show the utmost scorn — and indeed quite often, if one may dare to say it, intolerance and hatred. They commonly despise America and the people who love America. Broken borders and population replacement by immigration serve to erase and eliminate both.

So is it surprising that the ayatollahs of hate hype are haters themselves? Not at all. Psychology has long recognized the tactic of projection, whereby the one who most obsessively accuses others of a fault is often the one who most ardently practices it himself. The payoff of projection is commonly twofold. It diverts attention from the accuser to the accused, and if the accuser makes the charge first, which is usually the case, he gains the rhetorical advantage of putting the accused on the defensive.

With respect to the P.C. accusers, any speech they hate is "hate speech" and any group they hate is a "hate group." Given their totalitarian mentality, it is not surprising that they also obsess about "hate crimes." Some day, they hope, all speech and associations they deplore will be matters for the police to handle. That day is already at hand in some European countries and Canada. Our Constitution, so far, has protected personal freedoms here. But the Constitution will avail little if, through mass immigration, we end up with a balkanized population significantly ignorant of American values and institutions.

For those who love freedom it's hard to imagine a worse situation; for those who hate freedom in their craving for power, it's hard to imagine a better one. An ignorant and divided society offers innumerable opportunities for our latter-day Lenins and their agendas. This assessment is not difficult to understand, which is why the P.C. crowd labors mightily with name-calling to stifle the pursuit of truth. As some commentators have observed, "Truth is hate to those who hate truth."

To disagree with P.C. is to invite the venom of the hate-hype vipers. From their breeding areas on leftist campuses and other backwaters of intolerant "tolerance," they have slithered far and wide, thus posing a danger nearly everywhere.

Dear reader, if you, an honorable patriotic citizen, should encounter one of these snakes in the grass and get bitten, quickly apply the following remedies. First and foremost, keep in mind that the venom of the viper is only deadly if you take the snake seriously. To neutralize the poison, meditate on the hypocrisy of this red-to-pink reptile. Better still, just laugh at it, and encourage others to do likewise. Ridicule in such instances is the best possible medicine.

Hate hype will continue until Americans of character can drain the swamps where the vipers breed. Until then, fellow citizens, know what you're dealing with when you hear a hiss.