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To: Jeff Winston; admin; Old Lady
Both of these claims are just silly. "Anchor babies" after the Revolutionary War? Not in any modern sense.

Nonsense. When I was trying to get an accurate number, one website suggested there were 100,000 British Loyalist children born in the United States after 1776.

As their parents adhered to England, and as they were expected to follow their Father's loyalty, the United States was left to deal with the consequences of these many thousand American born British subjects. You just refuse to see them for what they are. Revolution era "anchor babies." The only difference is that they didn't, in most cases, try to claim American citizenship. That sort of thing just wasn't done in those days.

So are you proposing that we repeal the 14th Amendment??

I am suggesting that it is badly written and much abused. I would not be in favor of repealing it unless a substitute amendment or set of amendments (it really needs to be divided into more coherent and separate aspects) could be put forth to accomplish it's legitimate objectives.

Yeah, let's repeal the Amendment whose purpose was to make sure everyone understood "them n*****s were citizens, too."

Conversing with you just gets more and more surreal.

Conversing with you is getting to be about the sort of gutter experience that I suspected it would be. That the 14th amendment is used to create millions of abortions per year is not the first thing that comes to your mind when someone criticizes the 14th amendment. No, from YOUR perspective, Criticism of the 14th can only come from someone who is a racist bigot.

That tells me a whole lot about you. I am no longer believing you are a conservative anymore. I am suspecting you are, in fact a liberal troll attempting to defend the Idiot in chief at all costs.

I'm calling administrative attention to your comment. Anyone that tries to insinuate that someone is a racist is not a friend of conservatives.

349 posted on 03/28/2013 7:47:33 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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To: DiogenesLamp; Admin Moderator
Nonsense. When I was trying to get an accurate number, one website suggested there were 100,000 British Loyalist children born in the United States after 1776.

Those weren't anchor babies in any modern sense. They were the resulting consequences of the American Revolution.

No, from YOUR perspective, Criticism of the 14th can only come from someone who is a racist bigot.

When the main purpose of the 14th Amendment was to ensure that black people in this country were not deprived of their civil rights and citizenship, and you suggest that the 14th Amendment was a BAD THING, what else am I SUPPOSED to think?

I'm calling administrative attention to your comment. Anyone that tries to insinuate that someone is a racist is not a friend of conservatives.

So now you're a whining little baby, just because I called you on the 100% obvious implication of your statement, and you want to run to the moderators, and tell on me for having called you on it. Fine.

As for someone being "not a friend" of conservatives, I'd say that anyone who persistently misrepresents the Constitution as you have done, racking up literally dozens of fallacious and misrepresenting claims (all of which I can clearly demonstrate) would qualify.

355 posted on 03/28/2013 8:26:46 AM PDT by Jeff Winston
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