Archive for November 13th, 2006
Hyphenated Americans are not Americans
Diggers Realm has this quote
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 person’s becoming in every facet 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… 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.â€â€”Theodore Roosevelt, 1907
Bob Biermann commented below:
Comments: Theodore Roosevelt indeed wrote these words, but not in 1907 while he was still president. The passages were culled from a letter he wrote to the president of the American Defense Society on January 3, 1919, three days before Roosevelt died.
“Americanization” was a favorite theme of Roosevelt’s during his later years, when he railed repeatedly against “hyphenated Americans” and the prospect of a nation “brought to ruins” by a “tangle of squabbling nationalities.”
He advocated the compulsory learning of English by every naturalized citizen. “Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or to leave the country,” he said in a statement to the Kansas City Star in 1918. “English should be the only language taught or used in the public schools.”
He also insisted, on more than one occasion, that America has no room for what he called “fifty-fifty allegiance.” In a speech made in 1917 he said, “It is our boast that we admit the immigrant to full fellowship and equality with the native-born. In return we demand that he shall share our undivided allegiance to the one flag which floats over all of us.”
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A Day Without a Mexican
I watched some of this show ‘A Day Without a Mexican‘ last night and thought it was funny as hell. Living in AZ I was surprised at the contents of the show and how the Mexicans really thought we Gringos were stupido enough to believe this shit. The funny parts were how food stopped showing up on the store shelves and jut about every business shut down when there was no one to do the work…
All of us Gringos were helpless and lost and robotic in our processes in life. and the News reporter (Anchor woman was going down on a co-worker (Mexican) and treating him like a toy. then he disappeared and she was lost and horny with no one to service her….? really that is what it was about…
The web site is all about pro-illegal immigration
Beaers go home. we don’t need you or want you
Dis-arm Kids in Massachusetts
I had a Daisy BB and Pellet gun growing up. They really don’t want to protect kids, they want to disarm America. This is the nanny state.
You might think that Massachusetts can’t become any more anti-gun.
Well, think again. Now there’s a proposal to ban BB guns in Massachusetts. Complete with a BB gun amnesty period. And a BB gun buyback program.Millions of kids have grown up with BB and pellet guns. I don’t know of any that were turned into criminals by their Daisy Red Ryder BB gun.
But that doesn’t matter to the politicians in Massachusetts. They think BB guns are bad, and they want them outlawed.
In fact, these politicians not only plan to ban BB guns in Massachusetts, they’re sending letters to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island to ask those states to do the same.
In the words of one of these anti-gun politicians, their goal is to make “New England an area free of pellet guns and BB guns.”‘Scuse me, but isn’t Massachusetts the same home state of some of the bravest patriots to fight in the Revolutionary War? Paul Revere must be rolling over in his grave right now.
In Massachusetts, they’ve gone from the cradle of liberty to a state that treats its residents like children.
Why do people still live there?
