Posted on 09/16/2017 11:02:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
On Friday night, the City of College Park, Maryland reversed its city council decision that allowed non-citizens of the U.S., including illegal aliens, the right to vote. This was due to council conveniently forgetting that such massive changes to the College Park City Charter require the vote of a supermajority on council as opposed to a simple majority. Ironically, the law that mandated a supermajority to pass changes to the city charter was enacted just this summer while the proposal to allow illegals and other non-citizens to vote, and was passed 4-3, was voted on only a few months later on September 12, 2017.
As the College Park City Council cannot be trusted to follow its own laws, it is inevitable that certain College Park council members will try to resurrect this issue in line with their lawless, progressive agenda.
As a resident of College Park, the father of an immigrant, a Christian who believes Jesus died for all people, and having served to protect foreign peoples with different backgrounds and religions, I can safely tell you that allowing non-citizens to vote was, and remains, ludicrous.
First, this proposal diluted the meaning of citizenship. Citizenship, with its rights, privileges, and responsibilities is a high calling. Citizenship, for those not born as Americans but wishing to become Americans, means swearing an oath and being willing to bear arms on behalf of the United States while forsaking all foreign allegiances (exceptions to having to take the oath are made for young children for whom, it is expected, their parents will teach them the meaning of citizenship).
My son of 15 years of age recently had to swear this oath. It is not too much ask of people to not only be a certain age to vote, but also to be citizens who are willing to forego all foreign allegiances and being willing to defend this great nation.
How ironic that those who are currently decrying foreign involvement in our elections are the same individuals saying non-citizens should have the vote.
Second, if all the privileges and powers of citizenship are given to non-citizens, then what incentive is there to become a citizen?
Immigrants and non-citizens are not inherently bad people. Most of our country traces its lineage to immigrants. My family just expanded considerably because of an immigrant. However, the proposal is a citizenship issue, not an immigration issue. Amazingly, while my son was waiting for his citizenship and residing in the U.S., illegal aliens had more rights to benefits than he did.
The leftists pushing this agenda are trying to have it both ways. They talk of inclusiveness but say that those who spoke against the proposed amendment are “racists” and “white supremacists.” The leftists recently succeeded in declaring College Park a sanctuary city in keeping with the national movement. Yet proponents of the proposal say letting non-citizens vote should be a non-issue because voting in local elections only means the gathering of trash.
Really, that’s what leftists think the power to make decisions over people’s lives amount to? Gathering trash? If that’s the case, is the trash really that bad in College Park? If so, perhaps what is really needed is taking out the trash, starting with a new City Council.
The local progressives can’t have it both ways and the truth is they are trying to make a national political statement.
The very definition of progressivism is just that; progressive to where there is no stopping point and that standards are continually lowered politically, economically, and spiritually in the name of creating a bigger political tent and base. This is the leftist mantra. They will never tell us when they are done with their incremental proposals to change our communities and ultimately our nation.
One other thing. If the College Park City Council persists in wanting to let non-citizens vote than perhaps council should divest itself of their power and allow non-members of council to make the decisions of College Park instead of council. That would at least be consistent, for council’s recent amnesia regarding their own voting laws shows they are not fit to govern and vote on behalf of others.
More and more city councils will try this. But glad this was reversed. It’s pure evil by the party of evil.
the national attention certainly had something to do with the fact that this thing evaporated.
Absolutely.
So, was this abortive attempt by College Park good enough to make it the new City of Evil?
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
...and slowly realizing that the Supreme Court is going to knock down these unconstitutional edicts. Only one more SC Judge is needed to cement the voting block on the Court toward strict constructionist thinking.
Tucker Carlson had an excellent show on this last week along with someone from the community trying to make it sound logical, which they didn’t. The exposure helped bury it.
I am also totally against it that naturalized citizen could become presidents., and I am a naturalized citizen,
Sounds like it got a little hot for these bastards! Why else would a liberal back down.
every POS that was for this localized treason should get voted out of office
Tucker Carlson was talking about this. He thinks (and I agree) that we will see more and more of this. Some council is going to get a super marjority. Once that happens, look for the some states to go for it.
I pray I’m wrong.
A temporary victory on a technicality. We need to kill this dead, bury it in a crossroads, and drive a stake through its heart. Let them elect a city council or whatever with non-citizens voting, and then sue arguing that a law or a tax passed by that council is invalid because the council was invalidly elected. Pay the tax and sue for a refund — make it hard for them to argue that you don’t have standing to sue.
California has been doing this for years. Where it was't legal it was ignored.
In this the author is wrong, the proposal doesn't dilute the meaning of citizenship, it annihilates the rights of existing citizens, be they natural born or naturalized.
By flooding the zone in the manner of the Arab Spring "refugee" invasion, with the final goal being one world subject to the whims and caprice of an unelected ruling body answerable to no one.
The muslim presence in Europe, especially in Germany and Sweden, now holds the invaders rights to be superior to those of the native born, whose resistance is deemed criminal by the very government they elected. Short rope and long fall...for all who betray their country.
Good article, but this isn’t about anything the Left advertises this as. Kind of a waste to argue points no one believes.
As we know, it’s about increasing the number of democrat voters. Once they win elections with an illegal immigrant society (their legal voting, no ID, no borders) in place, they’ll establish themselves in power for decades.
So, emphasize that it disenfranchises.
So they had kind of sabotaged themselves?
Get all the fools on your side and you got the majority in any town. Until somebody calls out that the Emperor has no clothes.
Logic and history are such sharp and painful instruments upon which to cut yourself. But only if they are applied.
ping
The SCOTUS will knock tis down with extreme prejudice when it gets there. They espouse the logic that this is for only local elections.
When is somebody going to point out the obvious when during an election cycle how do they determine what ballots are for local only when they have local, state and federal races all on the same ballot?
Citizenship has always had requirements. My Swiss forebears landed in Philadelphia on Nov. 9, 1750. The colonies were still under British rule. These Swiss were Germanic people. Upon landing, they were immediately taken to City Hall, where they were “Certified”. They relinquished allegiance to any other entity, and swore allegiance to King George and the Crown of England. Heads of households each received warrant rights to 50 acres of land in York Township, York County, PA, from the Penns.
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