The Return of the Path to National Suicide by Lawrence Auster

"On May 22 Patrick Buchanan wrote an article on immigration entitled 'Path to National Suicide,' using (without credit) the title of my 1990 booklet, The Path to National Suicide: An Essay on Immigration and Multiculturalism. And on June 5 WorldNetDaily had a piece called: 'National Suicide: How the government's immigration policies are destroying America.' WND's Whistleblower magazine had a special issue named 'National Suicide,' which featured Buchanan's 'Path to National Suicide' article. A reader, sending me the WND pieces, commented that the phrase 'national suicide' is becoming a part of our vocabulary 17 years after the publication of my booklet.

I first came upon the expression 'national suicide' in the bound volume of the Senate's hearings and debates on the 1965 Immigration Act, which I read in the New York Public Library in the mid 1980s. One of the opposition witnesses before the Senate Immigration Subcommittee, chaired by Edward Kennedy, had told the senators that to pass the Act would be to commit national suicide. The way he put it was poignant and it made a strong impression on me, and I later used it as the basis for my title. (I'll have to dig through my notebooks to find the witness's exact quote.) "

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