Posted on 08/19/2007 8:02:05 AM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
To be American is not just to live in America, or even to just be born in America. Like all nations, America has given birth to many un-American or anti-American citizens, some of whom have been tried, convicted, jailed or put to death for acts against American interests. Not every individual born or residing in America is an American and that is where the problem begins.
To Be American
To avoid being accused of single handedly defining what it is to be "American," I won’t define the term at all. Instead, I’ll simply rely upon our founding documents to define what it is to be "American." If you don’t like the definition found in our founding documents, take it up with our founders who are responsible for defining America and what it means to be "American".
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Worth the read for conservatives and a MUST READ for so-called "liberals"!
I note that this is in a Canadian site. Any U.S. sites have the guts to publish this?
This article is spot on.
P*ss on all traitors to this country.
What a revelation to behold!!
So much for the "melting pot" agenda.
A true American stands for and supports what America is.
This is conveyed throughout the Constitution if anyone is willing to read it and understand what being an American is.
It’s early in the publication cycle and some will. But none of the “mainstream” outlets in America would ever publish such a column.
Google, AOL, Yahoo and MSN will all bury it in the search results too, no matter how many hits it has.
Truth like this can not be available to the public in America. If Americans ever figure out how they’ve been had by the left, they will put an end to today’s DNC. That won’t happen...
>>Whether born in America or immigrating to America, each individual must choose to support or oppose American principles. If the principles of your heritage, your homeland, are more important than American principles, then stay in your homeland where those principles are welcome. America has it’s own principles and values and you will be expected to adopt them, one and all, upon asking to become an “American”.<<
“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
Thanks!
It is interesting that this is on a Canadian site.
Amen!
They are today!
Sadly, some of them now call themselves Republicans too.
Do you want to be “AMERICAN”, yes or no?
Leave your garbage in the country you left behind!
American writer, published where the press is still “free”.
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... and ESPECIALLY all candidates for public office -- at all levels.
Unfortunately, you are right... and Bush endorsed a few such as Arlan AH Specter.
Do you want to be “AMERICAN”, yes or no?
EXACTLY!
Ahhh, that explains it, I was wondering why we never see anything like this published here.
Until the people DEMAND such leaders, no such leader will emerge.
So long as the people demand to be pandered to, politicians from all parties will pander with gifts from the taxpayer treasury. They will never win power if they don’t.
I believe that most Americans believe in the principles listed in this column. But where are they on Election Day?
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