"In 1856, the Know Nothing Party's platform called for a waiting period of 21 years before an immigrant could become a citizen. Paul and other candidates, such as Utah's Tea Party-Republican Mike Lee, say children born here to illegal aliens shouldn't automatically become U.S. citizens."
"With the general election fewer than 60 days away, voters ought to focus on reversing the meteoric rise of the Tea Partiers, who are the linear successors to the aptly named anti-immigration Know Nothing movement that flourished for a brief time during the 1850s."
The trouble with people who do a little historical research is they miss the broad picture. The Know Nothings were against legal immigration; the Tea Party (generally) is against illegal immigration. The Know Nothings were also anti-Catholic. For the most part the Tea Party isn't about religion.
#2
Not only is the historical comparison invalid [illegal vs legal], but the perspective is also invalid. Back then America had a continent to fill and develop. After over a generation of lecturing from the same class as the writer, that America must cut back on consumption and resource extraction, you don't have the means to sustain unlimited and uncontrolled immigration without stealing from those already here. We were once a nation of slavery should we go back to it too? Times and conditions have changed. Time to evolve.
Posted by: chris ||
09/09/2010 16:54 Comments ||
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#4
It's the old, "We're scared because our ignorant, and moronic policies are killing this country. Since people realize this, we must attack them. Maybe some idiots will believe our propaganda."
#1
More precisely: Obama's brand of quasi-socialism is what a preppy who later went to Harvard, and whence to community organizing thinks anticolonialism is.
#2
I don't FEAR islam, I despise it. It is the religion of Satan, the anti-God religion of those that feel inadequate and unloved. The Arab world needs to grow up - it's not the 7th Century any more.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
09/09/2010 21:01 Comments ||
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It's been a while since I've seen the Churchill quote on Islam, so this seems an appropriate place to comment,
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."
If the Cordoba House Mosque were to be relocated:
The headlines in the Muslim world will be that Islam is under attack (theres) the danger of the radicals in the Muslim world to our national security, to the national security of our troops, he said. Nice people traveling all over the world...
"If this is not handled correctly, this crisis could become much bigger than the Danish cartoon crisis, which resulted in attacks on Danish embassies in various parts of the Muslim world, Rauf said later. . If we don't handle this crisis correctly it could become something which could really become very, very, very dangerous indeed. It'd be a shame if something happened to your nice country, or your nice people.
Now if you gave up but a tiny bit of Earth and Water...
Islamland is very, very lucky we didn't do what we could have done. They had better think twice before they try something like this again or think they can stick up a monument to their aggression near that spot. They know not what they are dealing with.
"Good Lord. There are no words."
Posted by: Black Charlie Chinemble5313 ||
09/09/2010 16:09 Comments ||
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"If you build your 'cordoba house', we'll nuke Mecca". Is there ANYBODY in the US government with the stones to say that? It absolutely needs to be said, or we'll all be muslim slaves in 50 years or less.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
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