I think I just figured something out.

As I have been writing here, I have been asking myself why do so many illegal immigrants want to move to the United States and while discussing this with my wife, she said something in relation with the fall of Rome which really got me thinking.

It isn't about money is it? Everyone knows there is other ways to make a lot of money, especially made easier in our southern neighbors where the rule of law is weaker.

It is about the rights you have here. Even an illegal immigrant is protected and covered under our laws of freedom and liberty. The saddest part about that is that our legal system has become warped and twisted, far from what our founding fathers had intended.

Everyone wanted to be Roman citizens because Roman Citizens had rights. So, apply that to today, and why are so many people running to the Democratic countries of the world? For the protections and rights of our countries. What do they not have in the lands they left? The protections and rights we enjoy on a daily basis.

So, how do we solve the problem of mass immigration? Would the best answer be to assist these people in making their countries more like what ours used to be when originally founded? Perhaps.

What would happen if we were able to help people create a better form of government than ours based on ours and the other free countries of the world? Quite simply, they could remove the current powers that be, and replace them with true believers. Heck, our country is a perfect example of things not to do, or mistakes already made to avoid.

I do not begrudge people wanting a better life, or seeking the rights and protections we enjoy on a daily basis, sometimes even in ignorance. However I do believe the whole world would be better if they stayed home and fixed their problems at the source.

I will admit I have sympathy for those being oppressed. I am glad for those who find freedom, but breaking the laws of the country that protects you to get these freedoms is wrong. Americans earned their rights with blood and hard work. We didn't always get it right, but we learn. I suggest that illegal immigrants learn from our ways and bring them home and make all their people aware of how they too could help themselves.

Honestly, I ask these illegals to do this before they anger the American people to a level thats causes unrest which will lead to hate.

Look who's moving in! By the way, do you have a hot tub?

"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."
--Theodore Roosevelt, 1919

So, almost a hundred years ago, people in charge of our country understood what it meant to be an American. One country, one language, one flag. Anyone who says they are here to take anything away from us is declaring war. The people who say they are here to take back parts of the United States and make it part of Mexico is committing grievous crimes against our country. Sedition is still a capital offence, and should be punished by death. We fought a civil war against our own people over their attempts to do such. So I ask, why do we allow people today to say these things?

We always hear that the criminal immigration crowd is coming here to make their lives better for them and their families. But then if this is truth, why are some of them wanting to make our country more like the one they ran away from? Not only make it more like, they want to make it a part of. My confusion grows at this point. If life sucked so bad there, why come here and make it like, well, there?

If they actually accomplished their goal, wouldn't it make sense that after a short time, they would run away again? This makes me think that this would be like the Jews escaping the German forces showing up elsewhere and saying they want to install the Third Reich into power. They haven't and never will, but what I hear in the news, this is what the Mexicans are saying.

Now, perhaps it isn't about escaping corrupt government. Perhaps it really isn't about escaping poverty. Perhaps it isn't about finding a better life. Maybe, just maybe it is about theft. Theft of our jobs, land, homes, business', and medical care. Truly throughout history, theft on this scale is war. When Saddam took Kuwait, that was an act of war. When the Germans took Poland, that was an act of war. We can even go back to World War 1 to examine this. When the Germans took part of France because at one time it was part of Germany, it was war.

If you believe and support this retaking of our lands, lets go all out. France should come and take over Canada again, plus whatever else they once had control over. It would solve the post Katrina problems because the French would own New Orleans. We can give up the upper east coast to Britain. I am sure they would love that. Russia can have Alaska back as well in all of this, even though we bought it fair and square from them when Seward made the deal. But under that line of thought, Mexico should return to Spain, as well as most of South America. But what if we go even further back in time.

Rome should be re-established and given back all of of their lands, but this would only last until the kingdoms which pre-dated them are re-established, so it would leave their hands at that point. So lets get to work. Oh, if we follow this model, the Inca's, Mayans and Aztec's would enslave the people of their lands. Hmmm, perhaps we should get to work building a temple and altar for blood offerings again.

People, history is full of wars. Borders move all the time. We now have more countries in our world than anytime before this. If we went back to the beginning and gave back everything to people who didn't like the way it changed, we will never be done.

Today in Africa, there are wars being fought by kids. I do not mean the western idea of kids which include people until their mid-twenties. I mean children of the ages 16 and down. Would you want your 11 year old son shooting your neighbors? Perhaps the other side, do you want your daughter of 10 being claimed against her will to be a mans fifteenth wife being raped at will? Now if you wonder what happens to those who complain, or even cry about this, they either cut off their arms and legs, or just have the 11 year old soldiers hack them up in front of the newly kidnapped kids to show them what happens if the resist.

I am sure someone somewhere says that this is because someone wronged them, and it is ok.

Our country was created to go in a different and never before tried direction. It gave unquestioned rights to our people. After slavery was abolished, we still had to tweak the system. Even as long ago as the 1990's we are still trying to get things right for our citizens. Oh, what, who? Our American Citizens.

So clarify something for me. Are these illegal immigrants citizens? No, because they are illegally here. So why do we even allow them the rights and protections of our own people? Because our country is better then where they came from. So again, why do they want to take our lands and make it part of a place that sucked so bad? Maybe because we are being flooded with uneducated fools.

Our country is going to have to make a choice. If we want to maintain our freedoms, we need to control our borders. If we want to maintain our liberties, we need to have accountable citizens. Without borders and citizens, we are a lawless wasteland in which war lords will rise.

Maybe I am wrong. Maybe I should be moving into the really nice house down the street from me and claim it as mine. I will send you all the bills, and if you do not pay them, I will blame you for allowing me to have moved into the house in the first place. If you disagree with me on illegal immigrants, send me your address, because me and my family are moving in the next day! Then we will see how you feel about this issue.

"Non-rocket science questions" and AM I NOT AMERICAN?

I just read this article on illegal immigration and I only can say Right On!

I wish more people would look at this issue through this lens.

I am upset at criminal immigration due to many reasons. I have seen wages either stay low or be lowered because of this influx of people. When I was a kid growing up, we would work the fields for summer jobs. I did day labor with kids from school or church. Sometimes we would use our schools and churches to line up jobs. We would use that money towards things we needed, or put it towards church trips, boy scout trips, or even some school trips. It was awesome and fun to get friends together and do jobs for people. It didn't matter if it was shoveling snow, moving dirt and gravel, planting trees, or cleaning up after construction sites. When I got older, I would work in the fields doing whatever they asked of us.

So, am I not an American? I keep hearing that Americans will not do these jobs, but I could call up friends and we would go as a group. One friend John is not a cop. Was he not an American while he helped me and others? This statement is BS to its core, and I wish people stop using it. Another friend of mine took college classes in the morning, and she cleaned hotel rooms in the afternoon and night to pay for these classes. Was that un-American?

Another difference between now and then was what we got paid. We made a heck of a lot more then an illegal would accept. They work for dimes compared to what we were GIVEN as teens.

Maybe it is because kids today would rather leach off of their parents while playing x-box all day, but I do not think that is the problem. I remember the guys I went to school with who worked at McDonald's. They always had money for movies and the other things we did. They had cars. My friend Paul did office cleaning at night. He paid for his trip to Europe with that money. Now, go try to do that today when you want just a fair wage, and an illegal is willing to take half. Think you will get what you want?

Today I hear from painters, sheet rockers, masons, and others about how they used to make twice as much, and that is being halved because of cheap illegal labor being hired. Is this fair to them? They either worked under a parent to learn a skill, or started right out of high school to learn their skills. When they started, they could make great money. Now, they watch as they lose bids to cheaper contractors hiring illegal labor. Oh, is this because they were doing jobs Americans wouldn't do?

Hear me on this point! I do not care about what color your skin is, race, religion, or creed. If you came here in a legal manner, welcome! Now, you could be extended family of mine, but if you came here illegally, go away. Go home! Go back and do it the right way. Heck, if i can spare ten dollars to help you, I will send it, but wait your turn.

My family is new to the USA in terms of the countries age, and compared to some families. When my family arrived, it was during the Great Depression. Think they had it easy? No. Did they work their ass off to make a living, and to provide for the future? You bet they did. My family has had members in every war since then. All of them joined without the draft taking them. They fought for the land they joined legally. My grandfather built the first school in there area for other families and our own. He built the first church there also. He is buried just a short distance away from that church which is still used by local families. No one paid him for this, he did it to help and develop our country.

I can still go to dinner back where my grandparents ended up. I hear the old language spoken around the table. But did they refuse to learn English? No. Did they blame America for their problems? No. They fought for everything they had with hard work! I have great uncles missing arms, fingers, and sometimes legs. Did they quit working and live off of the system? Hell no! I grew up watching them work harder then most uninjured men day after day. They never quit because that was not the America they grew up in. When they got old, the family did everything they could to care for them. Did we ask for handouts? Here it comes, NO.

So, since my family farmed, were they doing jobs Americans won't do? Because some of my family worked construction, were they not American?

The next time I hear someone say that statement that Americans won't do something, I will have to ask them, then who did it all these years prior to this day?

The only reason I see every day of why an American won't do a job is because illegals took it first for half the pay. If we can get rid of the illegals, wages will have to rise again. If we kick the illegals out, the jobs will open up for us again. If we only allow legals to work, then it by default becomes American jobs again. It is that simple.

I will end with one piece of advice to these illegals coming here for a better life.

Do what Americans did when they were being held back by British rule. Revolt! If the powers to be are corrupt and evil in your country, quit being a coward that is running away and fight! You need arms? We have plenty here in our country to arm you! Heck, we will make more just to help you. If criminals are making your life so bad you have to leave, then stand up and do something about it! You want to be like us AMERICANS? Then act like us and stand up and take the power away from those who wrong you! Do not ruin my country because you cannot stand up for yourself, or you will see Americans standing up against you! Quite simply, go home and fix your problems. Otherwise, I call you a coward.