By J.B. Williams
Sunday, August 19, 2007
When one can walk down the streets of any major US city and see illegal invaders marching under a Mexican flag with signs written in Spanish that attack, insult and incite sovereign American citizens who simply want secure organized legal immigration for their country, people with no right to be here at all demanding their alleged "American" right not only to remain here, but to redesign America too, one must ask what kind of American they intend to be?
But the problem doesn't begin here. This is just a visible symptom of a much bigger problem in 21st Century America.
When Muslims are allowed to march down Broadway in the heart of New York City in celebration of 9/11, honoring the terrorists who carried out the most brutal attacks on innocent civilians anywhere in the world, we must ask what kind of Americans these people are? We have a right and a responsibility to ask…
But even this is not the root of the problem. It's just another example of just how serious the problem has become in our country.
It seems that while many in the world desire a financially beneficial American residence, not nearly as many desire the responsibilities inherent with those benefits. But the problem does not begin with immigrants really, it begins right here at home.
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 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".
Therefore, to be American is to believe in, to protect and defend these principles which made America the most prosperous, most generous and most powerful example of freedom on earth. To believe in these things, to work in support of these things, to put these ideas before self, is to be American.
Though offensive to many modern Americans who have bought into the Karl Marx concepts of progress, not to be American is just as easy to define. In short, to act against fundamental American principles is to act against America. One can not act against America and still be an American. It's just that simple…
Though many seek to negotiate the definition of American, to make excuses for their anti-American ideas and actions, to cover their anti-American agendas in patriotic sounding buzz words like "progressive," "socially conscious," "liberal" or "tolerance," the foundations of their movement remains wholly un-American, fully at odds with fundamental American principles and therefore, completely in opposition to America. That's not "American".
To be American is to believe in, practice, support, protect and defend American principles. There is no other way to be "American". This means that to oppose these principles, in whole or in part, is to be something less than an American, something which is in fact, a threat to America.
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".
America was formed and built upon certain specific principles and values and those ideas have served America better than any set of ideas have ever served any people in recorded history. Left intact, they will serve America and the world for as long as Americans remember, respect and protect those principles.
However, the erosion of those principles and values means the erosion of America and a free sovereign nation of independent individuals able to pursue happiness free from government intrusions or legislated limitations. America is falling because the principles and values are falling. Those who seek a middle ground between right and wrong, good and evil, American and anti-American, are just as responsible for the fall of America as those who openly work in direct opposition to America. They just lack the intestinal fortitude to admit what they are…un-American.
Attacking America in word or deed is not American. Attacking life, liberty, freedom, individual achievement, national sovereignty and security, unfettered peaceful religious expression, 2nd Amendment rights, private property rights, public decency, personal privacy or any other fundamental American ideals is NOT American. If you do this after being elected to represent "Americans," then you are in fact a "traitor".
It's time for real Americans to stand and be counted. It's time to put a stop to any and all who seek to erode America by eroding American principles and it's high time we stop apologizing for protecting and preserving the greatest nation ever known to mankind.
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