Posted on 07/03/2002 8:19:00 AM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs
The Fourth Of July is coming, so this may be appropriate. American
The following was said to be written by a dentist in Australia.
An American
"You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American. So I just thought I would write to let them know what an American is, so they would know when they found one.
An American is English, French, Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Australian, Iranian, Asian, Arab, Pakistani, or Afghan. An American may also be a Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.
An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses. An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.
An American is from the most prosperous land in the history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each man and woman to the pursuit of happiness.
An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need. When Afghanistan was overrun by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country. As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan. The best products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the best athletes.
Americans welcome the best, but they also welcome the least. The national symbol of America welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America. Some of them were working in the Twin Towers in the morning of September 11, earning a better life for their families. [I've been told that the people in the Towers were from at least 30, and maybe many more, other countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.]
So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and every bloodthirsty tyrant in the history of the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself. Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.
So look around you. You may find more Americans in your land than you thought were there. One day they will rise up and overthrow the old, ignorant, tired tyrants that trouble too many lands. Then those lands, too, will join the community of free and prosperous nations. And America will welcome them!
Pass this around the World!
WELL WE SAY " IN UNITY THERE IS STRENGTH".
That's the ideal. E. publium unim. Applied equally, welcoming all, preferring none, demanding the same loyalty and obligation to assimilate, and in return granting the same rights and privileges of an American.
We will.
I would trade two Baldwins, a Tom Cruise and a Rosie O' for this guy.
No! We have had enough! Tell the tired and poor to stay in their own countries and make them great, just as we did here!
What was once a good thing, long ago, will eventually choke us off. It's my opinion that immigration, unchecked, unregulated, legal and illegal immigration, will eventually destroy this nation. To much of a good thing can kill you.
How many millions upon millions more does this dentist suggest we absorb?
Does this dentist realize that we continue to allow in approximately 8,000 Middle Eastern men a month on visas. Do any Americans realize this? This is an article that should open any Americans eyes.
8 Million Illegal Aliens Swarm U.S.
On Oct 29 2001 2:46 AM
NewsMax.com ^ | Friday, October 26, 2001 | Phil Brennan Reprinted from NewsMax.com
8 Million Illegal Aliens Swarm U.S. Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com Friday, Oct. 26, 2001
At a time when the U.S. faces an internal terrorist threat posed partly by illegal aliens, a shocking new report from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that there are as many as 8 million illegal aliens - or more - in the U.S. Incredibly, the number of illegal aliens living in the U.S skyrocketed by about 400,000 to 500,000 a year in 10 years, jumping from the 3.5 million estimated to have been here in 1990 to 8 million last year.
Actually these figures has been updated, and estimates now range to as many as 15 million illegal aliens, now in the United States.!!!!!
End the immigration "free for all". It needs to be reformed, stopped, and limited immediately. A moratorium should be put into effect now.
I got it myself about two weeks ago. I certainly didn't think that you were trying to pass it off as something it wasn't.
Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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