SHARI | 2006-12-05
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My maternal Grandmother's people, like Bob's went back to before the declaration or constitution were written. The rest of my ancesters came from like places as hers originally did. Places like Cornwall, Scotland, Germany, the Isle of Man. They just came later. So, I'm stuck, if I'm not American what the hedoubletoothoothpick can I be? And I don't accept propositions!
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ME:
LOL!
As to the maternal versus the paternal sides of your family, this is exactly what I meant by EXPANDING on my ideas. I get SO tired of saying that "a nation of immigrants" is silly and then having some white person on Stormfront say, "Well, my family immigrated. What have you got about immigrants?"
When I die, who is going to do the THINKING?
OK, back to basics. The Preamble says "We the people of the United States --- to ourselves and our posterity."
They did NOT say, "Nobody else will ever be allowed to come to our shores again, forever." So what DID they mean? Obviously they meant that the United States Government under the Constitution had no right to do ANYTHING that was not for the benefit of the people already here.
Think a second. Since they didn't mean that no one else would ever be allowed to come here, what DID they mean? They meant that the United States Government had no right to formulate ANY policy, INCLUDING IMMIGRATION POLICY, unless it was for the benefit of the people and our posterity.
It is very hard for me to even have a rational discussion with people who can't figure this out for themselves. Your paternal ancestors got here because your maternal ancestors WANTED them here. Indians wanted to keep three square miles per capita and we needed more people from OUR Old Country to come and help drive them off. We needed more people like ourselves so we invited them in.
This is the exact opposite of some sort of obligation to accept all immigrants because our great great great great great grandfathers immigrated.
I can't deal with this! Nobody but me seems to be able to logic this out. Why can't people do some thinking on their own?