It Was True Then

And it is true now. 

Perhaps even more so.  Nintey-nine years ago,  Theodore Roosevelt made a declaration which should be engraved on a plaque and hung right beside  Emma Lazarus's famous prose on the Statue of Liberty.  Hell, given today's context, it ought to flat out replace that time worn poem.

Here's Teddy, and what he said in 1907:

"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 man's becoming in very fact 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, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...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."

Now then, contrast that with the reconquistas you see in America's streets today.  Tell me that proponents of a revolution to claim our Southwest as their Aztlan have America's best interests at heart.

They have only their own selfish interests, and childlike want the rewards of Citizenship without first having subjected themselves to the rigors of the legal process set for for the attainment of that great prize.

They wish to remain ignorant of American history, apart from American culture and even rebel at learning the de-facto Official Language of the United States of America.

Having no allegiance to America in the first place, their allegiance is not divided at all.  They remain allied to their homeland, wishing only to enjoy the fruits of American prosperity, without being first and foremost; American.

What they also don't understand is that America sees them marching in our streets.  America hears their arrogant demands.  America sees their Mexican flags, their communist placards and understands the disrespect being shown to the United States and her culture and laws.

And come November, we won't forget which politicians were on the side of the reconquistas, which elected officials cowed before the tens of thousands of people who cannot vote, and which representatives chose to represent them, rather than we who cast the legal ballots.

The reconquistas can make a great showing in our streets.

We can make an even greater showing in the voting booths.

Let us plan on so doing!

Comments

[geekWithA.45]

Well said!

>>wishing only to enjoy the fruits of American prosperity, without being first and foremost; American

It is my contention that being American, that is, embodying as many of the virtues and values of freedom, ingenuity, self determination and independence as one can muster is the very KEY to the creation of that prosperity that we enjoy.

Without doing that, one cannot meaningfully contribute, and if one is not contributing, one becomes a parasite.

And this brings me to another worry.

Unfortunately, we the productive must also carry the dead weight of our own society, and our own "citizens" (and I use that term loosely) alone supply us with.

I'm not talking about the genuinely sick, injured and disabled. Conscience and compassion dictates that we must make allowances.

I'm not talking about the retired, who have done their share, and earned the right to set aside their tools, and bank their fires.

I'm talking about the useless. The gamesters, who play every angle and card that they can, abusing the benevolence. I'm talking about the cheaters, the small minded men and women who have wormed their way into the bodies corporate and bureaus, who produce little, and whose efforts are mainly bent towards perception management and fiefdom preservation. I'm talking about those who view a traffic accident not as a problem to be avoided, but as an opportunity to be exploited.

We welcome all who thirst not for the material result of being an American, but those who hunger for the spiritual essence of what it is to be an American to join us, become One Of Us, work by our side, and enjoy the just fruits of our labors.

God knows we need more of US, because half of our own people just don't get it.

[Rivrdog]

Very well said, sir.

And also let us not forget to go to the range, for the most basic understanding of statistics will tell us that a percentage of these reconquistadores will not stop at flag-waving, but will probably want to go to guns, and when they do, inflict grave damage upon our communities.

We need to be ready to remind them, in the most final sense, that their invasion has been repulsed, with great prejudice.