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To: wagglebee
I'm thinking about buying an island somewhere and starting my own country.

Let me know when you start accepting visas...

15 posted on 04/17/2015 8:43:54 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: grobdriver; xzins
Let me know when you start accepting visas...

I never thought the day would come when a great number of Americans actually wanted to leave and didn't actually have anywhere to go.

With the exception of the Indians, America was populated primarily by people who came seeking: A. Economic opportunity and/or B. Freedom from religious or political persecution. Economic freedom still exists, but certainly not at the level it could or should, and religious and political persecution is becoming more real by the day.

In his 1964 speech, A Time for Choosing, Ronald Reagan said:

Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, "We don't know how lucky we are." And the Cuban stopped and said, "How lucky you are? I had someplace to escape to." And in that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

And a decade later in We Will Be A City Upon A Hill, Reagan concluded with:

We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, "The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind."

We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.

America CAN be restored, but only if we have a principled leader who will do so. Barring that, the only palatable option for true Americans will be to leave the country; but, as President Reagan warned us, there's really no place to go.

30 posted on 04/17/2015 9:34:01 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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