Posted on 08/06/2016 11:45:14 AM PDT by poconopundit
Yesterday was a day of celebration at my house because my wife of 34 years became an American citizen!
My daughter was at the swearing-in ceremony in Atlanta where 165 immigrants from 65 individual countries took the oath, said the Pledge of Allegiance, and sang the national anthem.
My wife was proud of her accomplishment. She's from Japan and though her conversational English is very good, she worried about the oral exam and spent many, many hours memorizing the 100 possible questions the immigration office could ask from the Civics Test.
As I turned out, answering the 5 or 6 civics questions was the easy part. The hard part was understanding the heavy Southern accent of the woman immigration officer! My wife spent all of her 3 decades in states like Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, so the new dialect threw her for a loop.
My wife was the only Japanese in the new citizen group. There were many from Mexico and apparently a few from China.
But it was the grandmother of a new citizen from Bhutan (a country in the Himalayas) who took the cake for the person with the most interesting national costume at the ceremonies.
While glancing at the questions in the exam, I ran across one particular question that I thought would be particularly challenging for future citizens, because it goes against what they are seeing on the nightly news.
The question is: what is the rule of law? And there are four acceptable answers:
And yet in the last few weeks we've seen some striking examples of events that go against these civic rules:
Let's hope that in 50 years, our ancestors will look back on the election of 2016 and say: that was the time that Americans went to the ballot box in great numbers to restore the rule of law and defend the principles enshrined in the Citizenship Civics Exam.
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The rule of law is .....
it’s something taught in history class.
My wife became a citizen yesterday. A little reflection on America.
Rule of law? Everyone must obey the law. (only the little people), Leaders must obey the law. (they are not the little people). Government must obey the laws. (they are not the little people). No one is above the law. (applies only to the little people.)
The RoL is whatever comes out of Comey’s mouth.
It’s pathetic.
In 50 years, the question will be: “What was the rule of law?”
Rule of law: liberal laws can never be repealed. Conservative laws can be revoted until they’re repealed.
The rule of Law is something in very short supply in Washington, DC. Apparently an unknown in the halls of the FBI.
Congrats to your wifey. 34 years? On my family side, my aunt also became a US citizen 2 years ago after 12 years as an illegal, undocumented whatever. My Canadian GF’s green card end is coming up this year and she might either renew or go straight to citizenship. I told her it’s $450 for green card renew or $198? for US citizenship.
Something that Obama, Hillary and any and all Dhimmicrats feel is not necessary for them to abide.
Congrats.
When I went for Interview, FBI officer/INS asked me 3 questions, can’t recall now. I had smooth sailing.
But that day Middle eastern background people had difficult time. Someone was arrested that day.
During oath ceremony, officials ejected couple of people out of ceremony.
What is the rule of law?
Something we used to have as the foundation of the Republic.
Before Usurpation Day when we threw it all away.
The rule of law is whatever Hillary says it is ...
The rule of law is whatever Obama thinks .....
Interesting Jenny. Nice to hear that the immigration officials are taking their policing job seriously.
Congrats to your wife.
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But I've got a better idea: how about National Corruption Day -- and we hold that day of mourning on Hillary's birthday.
Good. For my wife, it was very beneficial to become a citizen because she would lose many benefits if I died before her.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! WTG Mrs. Ponconopundit!!!!! Welcome to the Greatest Country in the World, on it’s way to becoming the ONLY Greatest Country in the World!!!!
Vote Trump!!! LOL....(((((( welcome )))))
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