Posted on 07/24/2007 7:19:15 PM PDT by CathNY
“...shouldn’t we at least be aware of what they thought?”
But..but...they are just a bunch of old dead guys. Why should we care what they think?
Probably should have quotation marks on the above, but I cannot remember the Liberal A-hole that stated that.
Somebody actually said that? Wow
The Founding Fathers also didn’t have to grapple with the problem of the huge and powerful magnet that is drawing undesirable people here by the millions. There were no government handouts back then, and private charity generally went only to those who could convince the givers that they were truly worthy of it. And we didn’t have a legal system where it was more expensive for an employer to keep you even though you’re lazy and worthless, than to fire you and face colossal legal bills to defend against unfounded claims of “discrimination”. And we didn’t have a legal system in which employers are forced to pay huge sums into a workers’ compensation scheme, to support former workers who may have been injured on the job due to their own carelessness or refusal to follow instructions, or who aren’t even injured at all but have a doctor helping them to fake it in order to share in the payout.
Back in the late 1700s and early 1800s, anybody who came here was going to have work very, very hard to survive, and refrain from committing any serious crimes unless willing to face long imprisonment in conditions that nobody outside concerned themselves with (or being shot by angry citizens, who wouldn’t face prosecution). Try to imagine what would have happened to this Liberian guy in Maryland who raped a 7 year old girl and molested an 18 month old girl, if he’d come here and done these things 200 years ago. He most likely would have been executed within weeks of his arrest, and he most certainly wouldn’t have been provided a free attorney and a psychologist to tell the court he really needed a free interpreter for some obscure dialect even though he clearly knows English just fine.
It’s not just the immigrants who are the problem. It’s the mess we’ve made of our society, with the cancer of socialism and routine travesties of justice.
Mass immigration was going on before there was a United States, so the views of the Founding Fathers almost had to be in agreement with the policy of letting in as many as WANTED to be here. In the 18th Century, immigration was a strenuous chore, enduring a sea voyage that could take up several weeks, which was a serious obstacle for many. Once here, the surest way to secure a position was to indenture oneself, first to get established while learning the new culture, and also to sharpen up and hone any skills brought from the former country. At the end of the indenture, as a freeman, many more opportunities beckoned, as territory to the west seemed to be opening up all the time. There was not much of going home, at least not until a sizable fortune had been accumulated.
you're only hope is Ron Paul.
“Back in the late 1700s and early 1800s, anybody who came here was going to have work very, very hard to survive, and refrain from committing any serious crimes unless willing to face long imprisonment in conditions that nobody outside concerned themselves with (or being shot by angry citizens, who wouldn’t face prosecution). Try to imagine what would have happened to this Liberian guy in Maryland who raped a 7 year old girl and molested an 18 month old girl, if he’d come here and done these things 200 years ago. He most likely would have been executed within weeks of his arrest, and he most certainly wouldn’t have been provided a free attorney and a psychologist to tell the court he really needed a free interpreter for some obscure dialect even though he clearly knows English just fine.”
B T T T
Of course, they were. They were sane.
bttt
Good points. I’m sure the founding fathers would be rolling over in their graves if they knew what was going on now.
Major bttt
Yup, but cannot remember if it was some Hollywood A-hole, or if it was a response from some student upon questioning about the founding fathers, or what, but that was the answer given. My wife and myself remember the statement.
He was reading on the ‘La Raza’ site about all the govt agencies that are donating to them! Including the military.
He mentioned that the ‘Fox Corporation’ has donated to them also. That explains why O’Reilly went cold on illegal immigration after he blew up at Geraldo!
How can we fight back on this when our own govt agencies are donating our tax payer money to enable this illegal movement? James is on at 9pm pacific:
http://www.krla870.com/subpage.asp?StationId=KRLA-AM&PageNo=35
"A Republic, if you can keep it!"
Who wants to bet the MSM has NO interest in this story. None, nada, zip.
bttt!
Not true at all. Congress restricted immigration in the 1790s.
Why is it that we cannot have a good discussion on Free Republic without someone having to mention the current bottom feeder of the Republican party?
You can choose to ignore it.
I did not mention Rudy McRomney.
Ron Paul is our only hope, otherwise we get Hillary.
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