Costello said he was surprised when attending a recent citizenship ceremony to hear a politician extoll multiculturalism's virtues by saying new citizens need not give up their culture, language, religion or love of their birth country.
"I realized that this confused, mushy, misguided multiculturalism completely underestimated the audience," he said. "Becoming a citizen of another country changes their identity."
Costello stood by his comments Friday, reiterating his view that migrants with dual citizenship who scorned Australian values should have their citizenship revoked and go to a country where they would feel more comfortable.
Damn. Aren't we looking for a Republican Presidential candidate for 2008? He's got my vote.
Now if other nations would just follow suit, we could eliminate this one-sided tolerance for once and for all.
The "oath of citizenship" in the U.S. precludes any kind of evasion or mental reservation.
If a naturalized Islamic citizen in the US were to be advocating the overthrow of the US gov't and its replacement with sharia law, then I'd consider he had falsely sworn his oath of citizenship, and I would ANNUL it....as if it had never been accurately sworn.