All anti-immigrants, I need you to tell me about this poem on the statue of liberty -did a commie inscribe it?
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I thought the big debate was about ILLEGAL immigrants. I don't really care if illegal immigrants enter the country either as long as they are willing to work hard, which most of them do.\n\nAnd even the "Native Americans" were immigrants too when they crossed the land bridge in Alaska. They just happened to show up in America first.
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I Am NOT A HATER\nNor Am I ANTI LATIN COMMUNITY\nAnd I DO BELIEVE That ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL\nAnd EVERYONE Deserves EQUAL RIGHTS\nBut I Am Sitting Here At This Moment Watching GWB Fumble Over His Own Words Tryin To Justify\nILLEGAL Aliens In Our Country...He Said That Our Workforce Needs These Laborers..And Then He Said    \n\n    "We Must Make Employers Accountable For Hiring Illegals Instead Of Citizens"\n\n  And I Thought That If He Did That ^ Then HE Would Hafta Be Accountable Too, Cause We ALL KNOW That This POS Has Got A WHOLE GANG OF ILLEGALS Workin On His Ranch In Crawford Texas..\n\n  He Is Trapping Himself Between A Rock And A Hard Place   Cause If He Lets The WHOLE GANG GO..They MIGHT Blow The Whistle On Him\n\nAnd If He Dont   He Stands A Chance Of Gettin BUSTED As An EMPLOYER Of An ILLEGAL Workforce \n\n If Congress were to pass a law that said, quite simply, that the CEO of any business that was caught employing illegal immigrants went to jail for a year - no exceptions -then within a month there would be ten million (more or less) people lined up at the Mexican border trying\nto get out of the United States. \n\nThe US unemployment rate would drop close to zero, and \nwages would begin to rise. The American middle class would begin to return to viability, as would the union movement in this nation.\n\n As I Watch Him Paint Himself Into This  Corner I Cant Help But LMFAO But At The Same Time It Makes Me \n\n        MAD AS HELL And Im NOT Gonna Take It Anymore\n\nILLEGAL ALIENS  Of ANY RACE/Nationality Are A Tremendous Burden On The Hardworking , Taxpaying CITIZENS  Of Our Nation \n\n They MAY/MIGHT Work.. But Many Do Not And Contribute To The Already High Crime In Our Country And IF They Are Criminally Prosecuted, It Is YOU The TAXPAYER That \nSupports The Heavily Burdened Judicial System And YOU The TAXPAYER That SupportsThe Criminal In A Prison\n\n \nILLEGAL ALIENS OF ANY RACE/Nationality Also Contribute To The High Cost Of HEALTH CARE Because They Have No INSURANCE And Its YOU The TAXPAYER That Supports The System That Governs The Health And WELFARE That Many ILLEGAL ALIENS Take\nAdvantage Of Through Their(Possibly)Legal COUSINS Who MAY Or May NOT Be Citizens Of The US(ILLEGAL ALIENS Forge Documents Too...NoBody Said These People AreSTUPID...) But They ARE NOT CITIZENS And WE THE PEOPLE Should NOT Be Made To SUPPORT \n\n (This Is A MAJOR CONRIBUTION To YOUR EXTREMELY HIGH HEALTH INSURANCE RATES Folks)\n\n ILLEGAL ALIENS Of ANY RACE/Nationality Are A Burden  To OUR (AMERICAN)Education System By OVERCROWDING Classrooms,And Making It Virtually Impossible For(Underpaid) Teachers To Give The Neccessary Time And Attention To The Individual Students\n\n Legal immigration is a good and healthy thing for a nation, because it is done at a rate and in a way that allows a country to collectively decide what sort of labor/jobs ratios it wants to maintain. Limitless illegal immigration, however, leads to the modern-day equivalent of \nslavery, benefiting only the conservative corporate elites. \n\nThe pro-illegal immigrant crowd tells us that we need to be humane in our handling of illegal immigrants. These are people that violate American law only because they are looking to make better lives for themselves and their families. They tell us that these are people living in poverty with no way out. They come here to live the American dream, and they violate our laws to do so.\n\nWe're also told that these immigrants are simply doing the jobs that Americans won't do. If there were no jobs of this type, there would be no motivation to enter the country illegally. Basically, if there was no market for illegal immigrants, there would be no illegal immigrants. We have to try to empathize with those that are simply trying to make a living for themselves and their families. We need to be understanding and humane when dealing with a population at finds itself in a situation where it must break our laws to better
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i believe your are talking about Martin Niemoller's famous poem. There are several versions that are discussed in the first source i linked. This is the most popular (not most accurate) one:\n\n"First they came for the Jews\nand I did not speak out\nbecause I was not a Jew.\nThen they came for the Communists\nand I did not speak out\nbecause I was not a Communist.\nThen they came for the trade unionists\nand I did not speak out\nbecause I was not a trade unionist.\nThen they came for me\nand there was no one left\nto speak out for me."
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"You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down--up to a man's age-old dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order--or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course."\n\n"We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one. So they are going to solve all the problems of human misery through government and government planning. Well, now, if government planning and welfare had the answer and they've had almost 30 years of it, shouldn't we expect government to almost read the score to us once in a while? Shouldn't they be telling us about the decline each year in the number of people needing help? The reduction in the need for public housing?"\n\n"A young man, 21 years of age, working at an average salary...his Social Security contribution would, in the open market, buy him an insurance policy that would guarantee $220 a month at age 65. The government promises $127. He could live it up until he is 31 and then take out a policy that would pay more than Social Security. Now, are we so lacking in business sense that we can't put this program on a sound basis so that people who do require those payments will find that they can get them when they are due...that the cupboard isn't bare?"\n\n"Not too long ago two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, "We don't know how lucky we are." And the Cuban stopped and said, "How lucky you are! I had someplace to escape to." In that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth."\n\n"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness."
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BULLS*IT Is RIGHT\nWHATS NEXT??WE CANT FLY EM ON OUR FRONT PORCH EITHER??\nTHIS IS OUR NATION\nEXCERSIZE YOUR RIGHTS AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN\nDO NOT CRUMBLE UNDER THE PRESSURE OF THE THIN SKINNED\nAUTHORITY THAT LACKS THE BACKBONE TO STAND UP FOR THIS NATION(WHAT IS THE SCHOOL TRYING TO TEACH OUR KIDS)\n\nWAKE UP AMERICA..SPREAD THE WORDS..FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS\n\nDO NOT BACK DOWN..SEND YOUR KIDS TO SCHOOL WEARING THE AMERICAN FLAG AND TELL EM TO WEAR IT PROUDLY\n\nMAKE SURE YOU TEACH YOUR CHILDREN THAT NOONE CAN TAKE AWAY THEIR RIGHTS AS AMERICANS AND THAT THEY SHOULD BE PROUD TO BE AMERICANS\n\nFrom My Blog:\n\nThe media estimates that almost ONE MILLION ILLEGAL FOREIGN MIGRANTS  and their advocates Militantly Marched in the streets of America under the flag of Mexico. Their agenda is for our FEDERAL LAWS TO BE IGNORED , and their Criminal Trespass into these sovereign United States to be rewarded with unlimited benefits that include the rights of American Citizenship! \n\nAs these large mobs of foreigners marched proudly under the flag of a foreign country to demand the right to live and prosper in the United States, they claimed that the issue is immigration. But their own actions reveal what is in fact a determined effort to FORCE Americans to ACCEPT LARGE FOREIGN COLONIES  in our midst, and to pay handsomely for the privilege of doing so. We have both the RIGHT and the moral MORAL OBLIGATION  to DEFEND AMERICA , and  JUST SAY NO !!!\n\n\nIt REALLY BURNS My *** That A Large Portion Of The Latin Community (Citizens And ILLEGAL ALIENS ALIKE) Are MARCHING On Our Cities Carrying The FLAG Of ANOTHER NATION , And DEMANDING The Rights Of AMERICAN Citizens... THAT Is The ICING On The Cake \n\nFolks .. You WANT To Be Treated Like AMERICANS Yet You Will Protest Under A FOREIGN FLAG ... And You Expect ME To RALLY With You And SUPPORT Your Cause??? \n\nI Think NOT.. Perhaps You Should Realize Exactly What It Is That You Are Trying To Accomplish... Because To ME It Looks Like An INVASION From A Foreign Army .. \n\nYou Wish To Become AMERICANS With The RIGHTS Of AMERICANS .. \nYet Many Of You REFUSE To SPEAK My/Our LANGUAGE \nAnd REFUSE To Honor My/Our Flag \nWell I REFUSE To Let YOU Continue To Burden My Pocket \nAnd The Pockets Of My AMERICAN BROTHERS Of ANY DESCENT\n\nSAVOURFARE(Below)\n\nYou Are CORRECT That You May NOT WEAR THE FLAG, Or ALTER The Flag In ANY Way\nBut There Is NO REASON That You Or ANYONE ELSE Cannot Wear A T-Shirt With A FLAG Silkscreened On It, Or A Flag INSIGNIA\nSewn Onto Your Clothes\nALL US Servicemen Have A Flag Insignia On Their Uniforms And There Is NO LAW Stating That CITIZENS May Not Sew An Emblem Representing The Flag On Their Attire\n\nI See Your Response And You Got Me\nBUT As Stated In The Text "There Is No Penalty"\n"Merely GUIDELINES"\nIll Keep Wearin My T-Shirt With PRIDE__:)>-
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The National Anthem should be sung however we want to sing it. As Americans we should be proud of our freedom of speech, and anyone who wishes to sing the national anthem in Spanish, English, German, French or any other language for that matter should be able to do so.\n\nOn Friday, September 10, 1897 "some three hundred men assembled at Harwood, gathered a few American flags to display during their march, and set off for Lattimer. They proceeded peacefully and unarmed. In their view, they were simply expressing the American rights to assembly and free speech. Sheriff Martin received word of the procession and mobilized his deputies. As the column neared Hazleton they encountered Martin's posse. The sheriff drew his pistol, pointed it at the head of a marcher, and ordered them to disperse. They refused. A fight broke out. One of the deputies grabbed a flag and ripped it to pieces,"\n\nMore often than not those who have sacrificed and died for this country have been immigrants, and have fought hard. Let's not forget the Lattimer Mine massacre where so-called proud Americans yanked the American flag from the hands of immigrants, tore it and threw it on the ground to be trampled on. The question is "which of these two groups were the more patriotic? The immigrants who carried the flag or the non-immigrants who threw it on the ground? I know the answer I give to that question."\n\nThe reality is that no first generation of immigrants have ever successfully been able to learn English and it wasn't until the second generation that English was spoken among these immigrants. There were periods in our history where entire towns, streets, and areas of entire cities that no English was spoken or read. These people were hard working Americans who came here without any documentation. Some of my ancestors came down through Canada and did not have papers. It wasn't until they went to be naturalized that they ever had any official papers. The idea that there is such a thing as illegal immigration is strange and foreign and the result of bigotry.\n\nThe immigrants from Spanish speaking countries who have not and cannot (and this is a known fact from our history) learn English should be able to sing the National Anthem because they are Americans as much as my undocumented ancestors from Canada, England, and every other place in the world were Americans long before they were naturalized.
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I am a liberal.\n\nDo I hate America? Of course not! I love America, probably more than Conservatives do. I love the ideals of the Declaration of Independence where it states that all men are endowed with the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I cherish the Constitutional notions of checks and balances. I worship the freedoms laid out in the Bill of Rights. I take seriously the welcoming call of the Statue of Liberty to give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.\n\nWhat Conservatives see as "hate" would be more properly described as "disappointment". I am disappointed when our leaders and our nation stray from these sacred American ideals. If there is any hate, it is not for America or Americans, it is for the leadership that betrays America.\n\nIf you love something or someone, then you are particularly concerned when that something or someone turns out to be broken or sick. When your child has a fever, you don't waste time bragging to everyone that he's an honor student, you take him to the doctor. And you don't accuse the doctor of hating your child when he points out that he has an infection. You thank the doctor, you get the prescription antibiotics, and you work hard to heal your child.\n\nFurthermore, you aren't "blaming the child first" by noticing that the child is sick. There's nothing wrong with pointing out America's problems. If you can't identify the problems, you can't begin to solve them. When America has done something wrong, however, I'm more than happy to blame America first. For example, America illegally invaded, occupied, and tortured the people of a sovereign nation that was no threat to us. Who am I supposed to blame for that, France?\n\nIf I see a friend doing something that could hurt him, I don't cheer him on and tell him he's doing the right thing. Admittedly, that would be the easiest (or most amusing, in a sick kind of way) thing to do. The harder—and more responsible—approach is to warn my friend of the dangers of his actions. It might piss him off, but I have to be willing to take that chance.\n\n\nThe danger of all these displays of false patriotism is that they emphasize "American Pride" over any attempt to find solutions to our nation's problems. Those who point out flaws in our way of life do so because they want to see our country live up to the promise of democracy laid out in our Constitution.
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QUOTE:\n\n"It seems to me that these high profile illegal immigration supporters are trying to re-define our language..."\n\nSpot on, buddy !\n\nLanguage shapes thought.  Propagandists have used this subtle craft to effect throughout history.\n\nGet educated about this age-old problem, it may surprise.\n\nExamples I could use are politically incorrect here.\n\nhttp://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6303
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As many have already said, those lines you use are from Thomas Jefferson's editted 'Declaration of Independence'.  It was merely congressional document forwarded to the British King, and not an official policy of America.\n\nOur founders were idealistic of this country.  Although when you get down to the truth of the issue, all of them wanted America for white people.  Even Jefferson believed that slaves would have to be eventually shipped to Africa to prevent the calamity between the two races (which he highly feared), and what he thought were cultural difference.  It's not that they were overtly racists in todays terms, they were more or less realists to how different the cultures were.   Within many of our founder journals they noted it would take quite sometime for even eastern europeans to evolve enough to be part of America.  Thus the reason why immigration was restricted to the western europeans for sometime.\n\n 'The People' in all essence were American born or former western europeans.  The founders really wanted to make a country like Europe, but without the messy politics of Europe.  Only when the 14th amendment was made (which was more or less forced on to the south), was anyone but white considered a person with constitutional rights.\n\nIn the case of foreigners/illegal immigrants not having special rights in America,... it's fairly simple.  The Constitution give Congress the right to dictate policy on immigration/naturalization.  While history shows you that for consesus building, the Constitution did a horrible think in permitting slavery; it also shows you the pragamatism of politics.  Reality is illegal immigration has conflicting nature like slavery.  People of all sides favor it or disfavor it, depending on the interests.  While you might consider it wrong, the laws of our land and our people say in larger force that it's right.  It may not be perfect, and it may have to be worked on, but that's government, and people. \n\nI would not pull the race card on this, though, as it depletes the actual nature and reasoning of why we have it today.  As I've shown you (very honestly), that our past exhibits many wrongs, but our present has much more to do with structural capabilities and cultural harmony.
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"Fascism is on the march today in America. Millionaires are marching to the tune. It will come in this country unless a strong defense is set up by all liberal and progressive forces... A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government, and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. Aboard ship a prominent executive of one of America's largest financial corporations told me point blank that if the progressive trend of the Roosevelt administration continued, he would be ready to take definite action to bring fascism to America."\nhttp://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Fascism.html
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Keep Shruggin It Off People\nKeep Your Heads Buried In The Sand\nKeep PRETENDING It Isnt Happening\n\nIts Your CHILDRENS FUTURES That Are At Stake\nI Guess YOU Dont Care Whether Your CHILDREN \nRaise THEIR Children \nIn 50 FREE UNITED STATES......\n\nREAD This...This Is NOT A Joke\n\n"More than a century after the U.S. invasion of Mexico that resulted in the annexation of Texas, Mexicans are "REOCCUPYING" the territory, but through less violent means and for different reasons," \nreported Monica Mendel of TheNewsMexico.com news service on March 25th. \n"Most of these immigrants live in border states like California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, the same ones Mexico lost when President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna signed an agreement to end the U.S. invasion in 1848 by ceding 2.5 million square kilometers of Mexican territory to the United States."\nThe provocative term "REOCCUPATION" was not coined by an anti-immigration activist.\nRather, it was used in an Official Study published by the Mexican Government's National Council on Population (Conapo). \n\nMendel writes: "The "REOCCUPATION of this territory has been SLOW BUT STEADY, and the number of Immigrants is GROWING EVERY YEAR." Citing Conapo's findings, Mendel predicts that during the six-year reign of incumbent Mexican President Vicente Fox, ending in 2006, "Two Million Mexicans will enter the United States at the rate of approximately 380,000 per year."\n\nBy publishing the Conapo study, the Mexican government has formally embraced the concept of "DEMOGRAPHIC WARFARE" -- RE-CONQUERING the Southwestern United States through UNCHECKED ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. But it has long been an open secret that Mexico takes advantage of our porous southern border to EXPORT its "SURPLUS POVERTY" and RE-IMPOSE CONTROL over our Southwest.\n\nLast July Fourth, Mexico's EWE news service published an interview with the celebrated Mexican novelist Elena Poniatowska in which she noted: "Mexico is at this moment RECOVERING TERRITORIES it lost in the past to the United States thanks to emigration." "The common people -- the poor, the dirty, the lice ridden, the cockroaches are advancing on the United States, a country that needs to speak Spanish because it has 33.5 million Hispanics who are imposing their culture," observed Poniatowska. "Mexico is RECOVERING the territories yielded to the United States by means of MIGRATORY TACTICS."\n\nBut columnist Carlos Loret de Mola most clearly explained Mexico's "demographic warfare" strategy 20 YEARS AGO in Excelsior (the Mexican equivalent of the New York Times). In an essay entitled "The Great Invasion: Mexico Recovers Its Own," Loret described the strategy in brutally candid terms:\n\nA peaceful mass of people ? carries out slowly and patiently an UNSTOPPABLE INVASION, the most important in human history. You cannot give me a similar example of such a large migratory wave by an ant-like multitude, stubborn, unarmed, and carried on IN THE FACE of the most Powerful and Best-Armed Nation on earth.... [Neither] barbed-wire fences, nor aggressive border guards, nor campaigns, nor laws, nor police raids against the undocumented, have stopped this movement of the masses that is unprecedented in any part of the world.\n\nThis migrant invasion, continues Loret, "seems to be slowly RETURNING [the southwestern United States] to the JURISDICTION of Mexico without the firing of a single shot, nor requiring the least diplomatic action, by means of a steady, spontaneous, and UNINTERRUPTED OCCUPATION." The effects of Mexico's immigration invasion were even then visible in Los Angeles, which Loret archly referred to as "the second largest Mexican city in the world."\n\nCharles Truxillo, a professor of "Chicano Studies" at the University of New Mexico, believes that Los Angeles will one d
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Thank you for this beautiful montage.  I can't imagine anyone not being impressed, American or not, with the images shown. The music was nice, too. \n\nI almost didn't open it, because I don't want you defining who a patriot is, especially since their definition is almost always at odds with mine. \n\nRemember, donate responsibly.
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I found the poem at this website:\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/now/arts/nyepoems1.html\n\nThere are links above the poem that can take you to an interview with the poet done by Bill Moyers and lesson plans about the poem and others by this poet.\n\nI hope this helps you.
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Yep.  I got this email today.  Sums it up nicely.\n\n"Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the country protesting the fact that Congress is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration.  Certain people are angry that the U.S. might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and, once here, to stay indefinitely.  Let me see if I correctly understand the thinking behind these protests.\n \nLet's say I break into your house.  Let's say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave.  But I say, "I've made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors; I've done all the things you don't like to do.  I'm hard-working and honest (except for when I broke into your house)."\n \nAccording to the protesters, not only must you let me stay, you must add me to your family's insurance plan and provide other benefits to me and to my family (my husband will do your yard work because he too is hard-working and honest, except for that breaking in part).  If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my right to be there.  It's only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I'm just trying to better \nmyself.  I'm hard-working and honest . um, except for ... well, you know.\n \nAnd what a deal it is for me!!   I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of selfishness, prejudice and being anti-housebreaker.\n \nDid I miss anything?  Does this sound reasonable to you?  If it does, grab a sign and go picket something.    If this sounds insane to you, call your senators and enlighten them because they are stumbling in the darkness right now and really need your help."\n \nLinda Myers\nApril 10, 2006 -  New-Sentinel
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Americans don't question their right to live on stolen land.  Hmmm...do you think that's why we support Israel?  And we also conveniently forget that their ancestors had to struggle with language differences when they came over. And that many cities still have ethnic neighborhoods with signs/newspapers/etc in Polish or some other language besides English.  But we consider that a quaint reminder of our past, while we scorn people who have come over more recently, especially if they have darker skin.  Guess we should modify the Statue of Liberty, since we only accept the tired, poor, and hungry on a conditional basis, and we don't want too many of them!  Geez, you'd think we weren't one of the richest countries in the world!
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This is actually from the Declaration of Independence...\n"...life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Thomas Jefferson, who wrote it, had not quite determined whether or not the colonists had a natural right to property. But he did have great conviction that the British, or any government for that matter, could not impede their God-given right to live out their lives without tyrannical, micromanaging elitists controling every aspect of life.
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Well, Edgar Allen Poe's job is safe.... but I totally understand the point and sentiment.  I've grown weary of liberals  bemoaning our "cruelty" in Iraq and our "unconstitutional" treatment of playing loud music to people who are not even citizens(and enemies at that-- who major news media will NOT show disemboweling and beheading Americans), while ignoring torture chanmbers and mass graves of  the Iraqi dictator.\n\nSo, I'll pardon the poetry and give you a thumbs up.