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.
Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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Proud to be an American!
Does this apply to the ruling on the Pledge or not?
He had long graying hair, a cowboy hat and a stretched balloon tire bicycle that would lend one to assume he was yet another aging denison of the anti-war/counter-culture crowd so prevalent in Eugene.
But that would be a mistake to assume that.
Artful was a Vietnam veteran. He had a silver star and purple hearts amoung the medals in a frame on the wall in his converted bus he lived in. He was also one man a Eugene anarchist would regret burning a national flag in front of.
As long as I knew him, he had medical problems that resembled those cited as part of exposure to agent orange, but I never once heard Artful whine that his kisfortunes were the fruit of the evils of the actions of others.
He lived life aimply and as best as his medical condition let him. There are others he served with who were lucky to have him as a comrade in arms in a contraversial war, some of whom arrived this week to pay respects to him at his wake this week-end.
I salute him and the outgoing tide of lives of aging heroes from his and earlier wars. They are real Americans, without the likes of this country will soon cease to exist.
Rest in peace my brother, you are missed; and remembered.
Are your beliefs and Liberty worth fighting for?
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists.
Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year, he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later, he died from exhaustion and a broken heart.
Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing and unwavering, they pledged: "For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."
They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books never told you a lot about what happened in the Revolutionary War. We didn't just fight the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought our own government!
Some of us take these liberties so much for granted, but we shouldn't. So take a few minutes while enjoying future 4th of July Holidays, and silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid.
Perhaps we should compare the government then, which they fought so hard to escape, to the government now? Think about it...
Remember: Freedom is never free!