a nation of laws not a nation of men.”
I believe it is time for the exalted elite in this country to engage in deference to the principles set forth by our Founding Fathers of this nation:
“Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease.”—Thomas Jefferson to William H. Crawford, 1816.
“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
My answer to the question, Can A Devout Islamic Be A Dedicated United States Citizen, is categorically: NO; however, You Make The Call.
1 For the purpose of this writing American is a U.S. Citizen
2016 Presidential Candidates
The presidential election campaign was far from what would be considered conventional. With the inclusion of an outside the “beltway cabal” candidate, the elitist establishment politicians certainly had their under shorts in a wad. Inclusion of the non-establishment candidate created a situation where policies affecting the general populous were being supplanted by rabid attacks on the character of the “outsider.” The rabid attacks were being promulgated by not only the inside beltway establishment politicians but also an extremely liberal biased mainstream media. The campaign morphed into nothing more than a choice of which flawed candidate was more acceptable.
On the left hand there was a candidate that has spent her entire adult life involved in government. Though this might be considered a definite plus, you must acknowledge that her accomplishments are not sans criticisms. While acting as Secretary of State she committed acts that definitely gave the appearance of corrupt behavior. Her most qualifying attributes are the insatiable lust for money and the penchant for prevaricating. These attributes are compounded with voraciousness for power and control, which completes the package.
“The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.”
“We just can’t trust the American people to make those types of choices… Government has to make those choices for people.”
Being an averred elitist she had obvious disdain for those beneath her and has considered those whom do not comply with her comportment are nothing more than deplorable wretches. Her demeanor leans more toward a despot than a democratic leader.
On the right hand we had the outsider who at the outset of his pursuit of presidential candidate was an arrogant, bombastic, crass, bellicose, truculent, self-centered and overtly repugnant individual. He had never held a public office and is known for being an astute, hard-core and successful businessman. He has availed himself of the system’s policies that protect wealth; and unfortunately along with the protection there is collateral loss to others. You might say a person of this character is loathe to the general populous. Upon garnering the position of official candidate for the party of the right, he became more disciplined and displayed a stature more in keeping with what is expected of a person who will lead the most powerful nation in the world. He reduced his propensity of obnoxious denigrating of others, however, still has a proclivity to embellish facts. Contrary to the candidate of the left, he has not shown any contempt toward the general populous nor have any of his shortcomings in any way placed the security of the nation in potential jeopardy.
A critical evaluation of the two candidates discloses the candidate of the left, who was ingrained in the establishment, will more than likely continue on the same path. It has become quite obvious the general populous was tired of the “same-o, same-o” and was savoring for fresh representation. The candidate on the right had no previous experience in government and more accurately depicts what our Founding Fathers did envision, citizen representatives not professional politicians. The time to defer to our Founding Fathers was apparent.
YOU MAKE THE CALL
Concerned Citizens of America: Alive and Kicking!
During the election year of 20081 there was a spontaneous eruption of concerned citizens opposing ever escalating exorbitant taxation, and the concerned citizens embraced the slogan “Taxed Enough Already.” The liberal progressive Democrats, elitist establishment Republicans and an extremely left leaning biased dominant media seized upon the slogan to create an entity, “Tea Party.” The censurable group, that created the entity, had an ulterior purpose in mind as they were then enabled to label and vilify ordinary concerned citizens exercising their Constitutional Right to petition the government. The group was well aware that it would be political suicide to attack ordinary citizens, thus a mutual Devil was established. The citizens’ concerns are: excessive taxation, continued bloating of an already oversized government, a desire to have the Constitution interpreted employing deference to the original intent of the Framers and a reduction of the national debt that our posterity will inherit. The fictitious entity is neither recognized nor registered as a bona fide political party and the concerned citizens do not have any formal leaders or directors, their emergence was spontaneous in response to an ever-increasing unresponsive, oppressive and corrupt government.
The movement gained enormous recognition and consisted of members of all ethnicities, religions, political affiliations and young and old. Though the dominant media, and status quo political leaders, asserted the members of the movement were nothing more than radical rabble-rousers fomenting violence and property destruction, there was no evidence of either at their rallies. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House at the time, referred to them as a continuance of Hitler’s Naziism and the media continued unrelenting and disparaging attacks against their convictions. After a few years of constant bombarding the movement, the dominant media and elitists were satisfied they had vanquished the voice of the Concerned Citizens, but how wrong they are!
