"Death to America!"
Posted on 07/27/2015 11:10:43 AM PDT by OddLane
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced a change in policy regarding the oath taken by naturalization candidates: They will no longer be required “to declare that they will ‘bear arms on behalf of the United States’ and ‘perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States.’”
Exclusion on religious and moral grounds has its roots in the Founding era, some will point out.
“After the Declaration of Independence, a number of state constitutions specifically recognized the rights of conscientious objectors,” the book Congressional Protection of Religious Liberty documents. “The 1776 Pennsylvania constitution provided: ‘Nor can any man who is conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms, be justly compelled thereto…’”
Likewise, the constitutions of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine provided similar exemptions. Those were practical recognition concessions concerning people and faiths that were already established at the time.
Still, this latest move by the Obama administration leaves open some questions.
The preamble to the Constitution includes a handful of specific limited purposes for forming a national government that are often intentionally overlooked by those counting on the rest of us being neither informed nor on guard. Among the justifications for states ceding power to the federal arrangement: “provide for the common defence … and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”
Why is it in our interests to recognize citizenship for foreigners who will not “provide for the common defence”? The Constitution was written for us, so it seems fair to ask: What’s in it for us? What’s in it for our Posterity?
It’s also fair to ask, since the whole government ostensibly was set up for us, why such a change was made without consulting us beforehand through our representatives, and asking how we felt about it? For an administration that makes such a big deal out of trying to con people into thinking we live in a “democracy,” why have the representatives of the people been bypassed on such a potentially revealing litmus test of sincerity?
With problems experienced with some foreign nationals let into this country without proper vetting and without ascertaining how their admission further secures the Blessings of Liberty, it’s also fair to wonder how many oaths are just part of a ritual needed to mask hostile loyalties.
While the USCIS policy went into effect July 21, there is still time to provide inputs, including protests, assuming you, as an Oath Keeper, have objections to this change and would like to make your views known. You have a little over a week to do that, by sending your inputs, per the Policy Manual Comment process, to ope.feedback@uscis.dhs.gov. The only thing I would add, assuming your Congressman and Senators are not total wastes of time, is to include them on your correspondence.
It doesn’t.
Bkmrk.
Everybody is missing where this is coming from: Muslims! They would have a problem with an oath to defend the United States, and they’re afraid to be rejected when they refuse it.
See, Rome.
They’re just coming for the Free Stuff, since we don’t have enough welfare cheats already. Wonder if they’ve added the promise to vote Democrat yet.....
..because it’s a HANDOUT HAVEN....most illegals get more in “assistance” than citizens. The second highest source of income for MEXICO after OIL.....is US CASH.....
Ask not what your country can do for you..Ask what you can do for your country
President John F Kennedy
Bingo
The USA: a nation that once took American citizenship seriously, increasingly occupied by residents.
yup.
Unless a potential Naturalized Citizen has a Gun to their Head while swearing to the OATH as written, they can simply refuse and go back to where they came if they disagree with any part of that same Oath.
The PC Crap continues to undermine the Foundation of our Republic, which we all know is Intentional.
Indeed.
"Death to America!"
Bingo (slapping head)! I should have realized that. I thought it was just more "hate America" stuff. Obie is a Muslim through and through.
The only think they have to promise is to vote for corrupt democrats... In exchange they’ll get what blacks get - freebies and empty promises.
These new immigrants know better than to swear to defend a nation that won’t defend its own borders.
Dems are looking for new Democratic voters, and the VRA requires that they be provided ballots in their ‘own’ language (Spanish,...)..they are looking for voters not soldiers.
The military is a place to change social norms.
“Undocumented soldiers..”
“Gay soldiers...”
“Dont diss the soldiers..”
BTTT.
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