In that story, U.S. Army lieutenant Philip Nolan, develops a friendship with Aaron Burr. When Burr is tried for treason, Nolan is tried as an accomplice. During his testimony, Nolan bitterly renounces his nation, angrily shouting "Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!" When convicted, the judge grants Nolan his wish: he is to spend the rest of his life on warships of the United States Navy, in exile, with no right to ever again set foot on U.S. soil, and with explicit orders that no one shall ever mention his country to him again.
The sentence is carried out to the letter. For the rest of his life, Nolan is transported from ship to ship, living out his life as a prisoner on the high seas, never once being allowed back in a home port. None of the sailors in whose custody Nolan remains are allowed to speak to him about the U.S., and his newspapers are censored.
Nolan is unrepentant at first, but over the years becomes sadder and wiser, and desperate for news. One day he says to a young officer, as he is being rowed over to another ship on which he is to be held, he beseeches a young sailor never to make the same mistake he made, and to: "Remember, boy, that behind all these men..., behind officers and government, and people even, there is the Country Herself, your Country, and that you belong to her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by her, boy, as you would stand by your mother...!"
Deprived of a homeland, Nolan slowly and painfully learns the true worth of his country. He misses it more than his friends or family, more than art or music or love or nature. Without it, he is nothing.
The Fort Hood shooter would have been nothing more than another poor Jordanian peon had his parents not immigrated here. Our country gave him everything, and, spurred on by his religion, he repaid that great gift with bloody murder. He deserves the ship.
BAHAHAHA! You expect the Bama not to let any adherents to the cult of the moon god into this country? By that standard he'd have to return to his native kenya.
I actually think the American people themselves took a major security risk electing a Muslim raised radical by the name of B. HUSSEIN Obama to be our next commander in chief in the wake of 9/11. What WERE they thinking? The buck stops with us.
Second question: Can we get Congress to declare, based on such statements as Maher quotes, that Islam is a hostile power inherently bent on destroying our democratic republic?
I am sorry, but it was an act of treason and he should be shot.
I am sorry, but it was an act of treason and he should be shot.
Where did Dr. Maher publish this letter? Do you have a link?
John Peter Maher is a great friend of the Serbs. Therefore obama, the presstitutes, and all the other powers-that-be will dismiss him as a “wingnut”, grossly unfair as that is. I know—I’ve been there!!!!
obama is on the same side as Malik Nadal Hasan, Ahmadinejad, the “Bosnian” and KLA islamists, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, etc. He is working to use his Deathcare program to debilitate and murder tens of millions of Americans, and to replace them with massive numbers of Third-World immigrants, especially including muslims.
Dr. Maher is right as usual. But we’re still saddled with the antichrist obama administration, thanks to the American electorate’s desire for relief from the bankster-engineered financial crisis of 2007/2008. That crisis was designed to bring obama or someone like him to power.
Gospodi pomiluj!!!!
We should stop all Muslims from entering this country NOW!
We should arm and support all Christians around the world who are fighting for their very survival.
We should suspend the so-called “rules of engagement” and begin fighting as Patton would have fought in that other World War.
We are fighting against JIHAD. Everyone knows it and it is shouted every friday from thousands of mosques here and abroad.
To the next US president - may he/she be elected very soon!
We should stop all Muslims from entering this country NOW!
We should arm and support all Christians around the world who are fighting for their very survival.
We should suspend the so-called “rules of engagement” and begin fighting as Patton would have fought in that other World War.
We are fighting against JIHAD. Everyone knows it and it is shouted every friday from thousands of mosques here and abroad.