Posted on 10/30/2009 12:14:22 PM PDT by AuntB
Dear Immigrant,
Welcome to the greatest nation the world has ever known, The United States of America, that is if you're here legally. If you're not here legally, go back across whatever border you crossed and try coming back the way you're supposed to, otherwise when you entered this country you are a criminal.
To you who have done the honorable thing and taken the time and trouble to become a citizen of this great nation, welcome! We're all in the same boat, with the exception of the Indians who were here when we first came here, we all came from some other country.
Now, having said that, let's talk some turkey.
I don't know where you came from but evidently it's not as good as the U.S.A. or you wouldn't have taken the trouble to come, so you must think America is a wonderful place. We think so too, and a lot of American blood has been spilled to keep it the way it is.
Don't judge this nation by our gonadless politicians in Washington D.C., most people out here in middle America have more guts in their hip pocket than you'll find in the whole of Capitol Hill.
Just remember these people will tell you anything to get you to vote for them. I consider most of them to be the enemy and since you've become a citizen, if you care about this country they're your enemy too.
In this country, you are free to practice any religion you want to without a problem, unless you're a Christian. If you are, then you'll have a lot of problems mostly because of an outfit you'll probably come to dislike called the ACLU. But if you're not a Christian don't worry about them. They'll never bother you.
We have our own laws in this country, some will make sense to you and some won't, but whatever it is, it's the law of the land and if you live here you have to abide by them or face the consequences.
We do not believe in mercy killings, jihad or that a woman has to be covered from head to toe to keep some man from being tempted to lust after her, and we do not believe that our women are second-class citizens.
We will not live under Sharia Law or anybody else's, and if you want to I would suggest that you go back where you came from and do so. We live under the laws of The United States of America, and those of our state and local governments.
We do not believe in trying to kill someone because he criticizes your beliefs or your way of life or your prophet.
People use the name of my Savior as a curse word all the time and I don't like it either, but there's nothing I can do about it except pray for their ignorance to be enlightened.
We believe in equality in this country, equality of race and equality of the sexes. If you run into a guy named Al Sharpton or a lady named Gloria Steinem, they will call me a liar but you can make up your own mind who you want to believe.
We celebrate our independence every Fourth of July commemorating the day we broke ties with King George of England for trying to tax us into the poor house and we're hoping to break ties with the Democrat Party in the near future for doing the same thing, maybe we can designate another holiday to commemorate that.
Don't be fooled by the numbers you hear President Obama throwing around, the billions and trillions that fall so easily off his lips, it's all a farce, in reality the money doesn't actually exist, it's all done by the magic of the Treasury Department's printing presses.
I believe that we should all respect our heritage but I also believe that we who are blessed enough to be citizens of this nation should be Americans first and whatever else we happen to be after that.
I also think it would be wonderful to dispense with the politically correct titles like Native American, African American, Asian American and so forth and just be plain old Americans.
I just hope you'll love my country as much as I do.
What do you think?
Pray for our troops, and for our country
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
©Copyright The Charlie Daniels Band
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2374377/posts?page=4#4
Milenio (Mexico City) 10/29/09
“The importance of obedience”
Full transl. of op/col. by Roman Revueltas, whose previous column appeared in the M3 Report of 10/28/09.
People throw out garbage. That means, we have to change the people. Imagine a country of very civilized people: people who don’t park their car in the middle of a cross street; people who take their turn in line; people who respect; people who do as they say; people who obey. Well, that country, of people who know how to behave, would be much more livable than another, for instance, where people do whatever they feel like doing without any consideration toward their fellow man.
Last week I was walking down the street and a fellow who was walking ahead of me stopped, picked up a plastic bottle dumped on the sidewalk and went into a store to put it in a waste bin. I waited for him to come out and congratulated him. I later thought that this is the way that all of us Mexicans ought to be. I ask you, then, to imagine a territory populated by orderly and reliable persons: almost paradise.
People usually follow rules for fear of punishment. This explains the colossal growth of criminality in Mexico due to the scandalous lack of punishment for the criminals: if you murder and nothing happens to you, well then, you kill again and you go on kidnapping. But, it’s not a matter of bringing up the death penalty scarecrow; it’s an issue of applying the laws, and nothing more. The great question is why is it that millions of citizens exist here who want to commit all sorts of infractions: throwing out garbage is a small transgression; ignoring a traffic light is a minor crime; assassinating a kidnapped child is a monstrosity perpetrated by a beast . Nevertheless, the common denominator of disobedience is present in all cases.
The more highly evolved individuals do not abstain from committing a crime for fear of jail but due to a clear conscience of what is right and what is wrong. Their personality has been structured based on moral values. That is precisely where our failure is as a society: Mexico is a jungle dominated by disobedient, quick tempered and irresponsible individuals, Calderon cannot change this. We change it ourselves.
http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8664651
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http://www.tscl.org/action/illegalamnesty.asp
I strongly disagree with this line of thinking. It is as if if
A) Indians hold a moral high ground that I do not, as if they are somehow more noble than me and my fellow Americans, and
B) I am no better than an illegal alien.
I love and respect Mr. Daniels, but he is wrong on this mark. My people have been here for hundred(s) of years and my destiny is tied to this land intimately.
I am descended from explorers and settlers, not heathen squatters.
Dear ILLEGAL Immigrants: Thanks so much for FORCING OBAMACARE ON US!! You creeps.....you have SWAMPED the banks with Mortgages you couldn’t afford, and you swamped Emergency Rooms for FREE HEALTH CARE, whose Costs were PUT ON US!!! GO HOME....You’ve DESTROYED OUR COUNTRY, THANKS VERY MUCH.
Speak for yourself, Charlie, I was born here.
” “...with the exception of the Indians who were here when we first came here, we all came from some other country...”
I strongly disagree with this line of thinking. It is as if if
A) Indians hold a moral high ground that I do not, as if they are somehow more noble than me and my fellow Americans, and
B) I am no better than an illegal alien.
I love and respect Mr. Daniels, but he is wrong on this mark. My people have been here for hundred(s) of years and my destiny is tied to this land intimately.
I am descended from explorers and settlers, not heathen squatters. “
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I hear you. But I don’t think the points you made is what Daniels was trying to say. His point, unless you are Indian (that’s what my ancestors called themselves) you resulted from some kind of immigration. However, we ARE NOT a ‘nation of immigrants’...MOST of us were born here. We are indeed NATIVE AMERICANS, the current indigenous tribe.....but not for long if we don’t stop this nonsense.
And only 4 of the founding fathers were actually immigrants.
“it’s all a farce, in reality the money doesn’t actually exist, it’s all done by the magic of the Treasury Department’s printing presses”.
...this is the “hard to sell” part. Most Americans have no understanding of how the value of the dollar works, especially weed picking illegal Mexicans! “Just preent more muneeey”.
Why *not* judge America by its politicians? It’s America that elected them.
I saw an interesting thing on national geographic a few years ago. It turns out that someone had dug up a skull and dated it to befor 12,000 years ago. The scientist took photos and made a plaster cast of the skull. He had done this because the Law states that any remains found in the U.S. prior to our arrival are the property of Indians. Upon further study the scientist discovered that this skull was not Indian (based on bone structure). It turned out that the indians may have wiped out whoever lived here prior to their arrival. I guess they are no better than us.
Unless he thinks they rose up out of the dirt, then they came from somewhere else too.
“Why *not* judge America by its politicians? It’s America that elected them.”
Good point!
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