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| Gryff Quote | Reply | | Quote posted on: 6/18/2007 1:11:31 PM "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Theodore Roosevelt 1907 |
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replied on: 6/18/2007 11:22:49 PM AMEN! |
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replied on: 6/19/2007 11:15:40 AM Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president. Theodore Roosevelt |
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replied on: 6/29/2007 9:45:48 AM One of my sons serves in the military. He is Still stateside, here in California. He called me yesterday to let me know How warm and welcoming people were to him And his troops, everywhere he goes,telling me how people Shake their hands, and thank them for being Willing to serve, and fight, for Not only our own freedoms but so that others may Have them also. But he also told me about an incident in the Grocery store he stopped at Yesterday, on his way home from the base. He said That ahead of several people in front of him stood A woman dressed in a burkha. He said when she got to the cashier she loudly Remarked about the US flag Lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock. The Cashier reached up and touched The pin, and said proudly," Yes, I always wear it And probably always will." The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier When she was going to stop bombing her countrymen, Explaining that she was Iraqi. A gentleman standing behind my son stepped Forward, putting his arm around my Son's' shoulders and, nodding towards my son, said In a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi woman: "Lady, hundreds of thousands of Men and women like this Young man have fought and died so that YOU could Stand here, in MY country And accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR Countrymen. It is my belief That had you been this outspoken in YOUR own Country, we wouldn't need to be There today. But, hey, if you have now learned How to speak out so loudly And clearly, I'll gladly buy you a ticket and pay Your way back to Iraq so you can straighten out The mess in YOUR country that you are obviously here In MY country to avoid." Everyone within hearing distance cheered! |
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replied on: 7/11/2007 8:50:53 AM I don't know how everybody else feels about it but, to me, I think Hispanic people in this country, legally or illegally, Made a huge public relations mistake with their recent demonstrations. I don't blame anybody in the world for wanting to come to the United States of America, as it is a truly wonderful place. But when the first thing you do when you set foot on American soil is illegal, it is flat out wrong and I don't care how many lala land left heads come out of the woodwork and start trying to give me sensitivity lessons. I don't need sensitivity lessons; in fact I don't have anything against Mexicans! I just have something against criminals and anybody who comes into this country illegally is a criminal. If you don't believe it, try coming into America from a foreign country without a passport and see how far you get. What disturbs me about the demonstrations is that it's tantamount to saying, "I am going to come into your country even if it means breaking your laws and there's nothing you can do about it." It's an "in your face" action and, speaking just for me, I don't like it one little bit and if there were a half dozen pairs of gonads in Washington bigger than English peas it wouldn't be happening. Where are you, you bunch of lily livered, pantywaist, forked tongued, sorry excuses for defenders of The Constitution? Have you been drinking the water out of the Potomac again? And, even if you pass a bill on immigration, it will probably be so pork laden and watered down that it won't mean anything anyway. Besides, what good is another law going to do when you won't enforce the ones on the books now? And what ever happened to the polls, guys? I thought you folks were the quintessential finger wetters. Well you sure ain't paying any attention to the polls this time because somewhere around eighty percent of Americans want something done about this mess, and a mess it is, and getting bigger every day. This is no longer a problem; it is a dilemma and headed for being a tragedy. Do you honestly think that what happened in France with the Muslims can't happen here when the businesses who hire these people finally run out of jobs and a few million disillusioned Hispanics take to the streets? If you, Mr. President, Congressmen and Senators, knuckle under on this and refuse to do something meaningful, it means that you care nothing for the kind of country your children and grandchildren will inherit. But I guess that doesn't matter as long as you get re-elected. Shame on you. One of the big problems in America today is that, if you have the nerve to say anything derogatory about any group of people (except Christians), you are going to be screamed at by the media and called a racist, a bigot and anything else they can think of to call you. Well, I've been pounded by the media before and I'm still rockin' and rollin' and, when it comes to speaking the truth, I fear not. And the truth is that the gutless, gonadless, milksop politicians are just about to sell out the United States of America because they don't have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to face reality. And reality is that we would never allow any other group of people to have 12 million illegal in this country and turn around and say, "Oh, it's O.K. Ya'll can stay here if you'll just allow us to slap your wrist." And I know that some of you who read this column are saying, "Well, what's wrong with that?" I'll tell you what's wrong with it. These people could be from Mars as far as we know. We don't know who they are, where they are or what they're up to and, the way the Congress is going, we're not going to. Does this make sense? Labor force you say? We already subsidize corporate agriculture as it is; must we subsidize their labor as well? If these people were from Haiti, would we be so fast to turn a blind eye to them or if they were from Somalia or Afghanistan? I think not. All the media shows us are pictures of hard working Hispanics who have crossed the border just to try to better their life. They don't show you pictures of the Feds rounding up members of MS 13, the violent gang who came across the same way the decent folks did. They don't tell you about the living conditions of the Mexican illegal some fat cat hired to pick his crop. I want to make two predictions. No. 1: This situation is going to grow and fester until it erupts in violence on our streets while the wimps in Washington drag their toes in the dirt and try to figure how many tons of political hay they can make to the acre. No 2: Somebody is going to cross that border with some kind of weapon of mass destruction and set it off in a major American city, after which there will be a backlash such as this country has never experienced and the Capitol building in Washington will probably tilt as Congressmen and Senators rush to the other side of the issue. I don't know about you but I would love to see just one major politician stand up and say, "I don't care who I make mad and I don't care how many votes I lose, this is a desperate situation and I'm going to lead the fight to get it straightened out." I don't blame anybody for wanting to come to America, but if you don't respect our immigration laws why should you respect any others? And, by the way, this is America and our flag has stars and stripes. Please get that other one out of my face. God Bless America Charlie Daniels |
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