To: BP2; tired_old_conservative
The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else. For an American citizen to vote as a German-American, an Irish-American, or an English-American, is to be a traitor to American institutions; and those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic" "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague". ~~Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nuff said
320 posted on
04/25/2010 3:46:03 PM PDT by
Las Vegas Ron
("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM, where are you?)
To: Las Vegas Ron
You do have the self awareness to realize, I hope, that in the context of this discussion, that quote could apply to you and BP rather than your intended target.
When American soldiers are bravely putting their lives on the line for our country, and someone has the self-centered gall to refer to it as “Obama’s War” instead of “America's War,” who indeed is appealing “to the baseness that lies deep in their hearts?”
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