Well my rights we’re a gift to me from my father, who’s rights were a gift to him from his father whose right were a gift to him from his father, whose right were a gift to him from his father, who one day decided that he didn’t feel like letting the racist imperialist regime of Britain wipe out his entire race, and so decided to move to the one place on earth where an Irishman had a fair chance if he worked hard enough.
I’m not going to feel guilty for being born American, because neither America nor my tiny part in it was by random chance. It was in fact very carefully planned out for me by smart men who thought, hey I know; let’s make a society based of freedom and equality.
Being born in America gives me the rights of being an American, again a gift from my father. I like my country, and I understand that there are much worse places to live. I want to help the people who live in those places, but I have to be careful because if I let everyone in without question, then I run the risk of bringing in the people who made their countries shitty to begin with.
They don’t have the same rights I do, because their father didn’t give it to them, because his father never gave it to him, because his father had never even heard about rights and freedom. I am sorry that more nations don’t follow the example of America, that they still worship monarchies and other dictatorships, that they still slaughter their kinsman because they are called Tutu, or that they crush their people into poverty in the name of equality.
Really I think there should be at least four world super powers right now, but Canada decided to be socialist, Mexico decided to go with the quick buck of corruption, China thought Marxism would be worth a try, and the Nations of Africa can’t seem to stop killing each other with machetes no matter what anybody does to help them. All of these places have everything they need except a capitalist democratic republic.
America was not an accident, it wasn’t fate, or god, or thousands of years of random history that made America, it was men who planned it. They thought it out, and came up with the best nation that has ever existed on the planet earth. A nation based on the revolutionary premise that all men where created equal, a relatively unheard of concept at the time.
So yeah, people want to come here, why wouldn’t they? I encourage them to do so, for their children, and their children’s children. We’ll give them all the freedom, to have all the opportunity they can earn, but they’ve got to go through a process first.
It really is a small price to pay for freedom if you think about it.
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Date: 2005-11-10 03:26 pm (UTC)I’m not going to feel guilty for being born American, because neither America nor my tiny part in it was by random chance. It was in fact very carefully planned out for me by smart men who thought, hey I know; let’s make a society based of freedom and equality.
Being born in America gives me the rights of being an American, again a gift from my father. I like my country, and I understand that there are much worse places to live. I want to help the people who live in those places, but I have to be careful because if I let everyone in without question, then I run the risk of bringing in the people who made their countries shitty to begin with.
They don’t have the same rights I do, because their father didn’t give it to them, because his father never gave it to him, because his father had never even heard about rights and freedom. I am sorry that more nations don’t follow the example of America, that they still worship monarchies and other dictatorships, that they still slaughter their kinsman because they are called Tutu, or that they crush their people into poverty in the name of equality.
Really I think there should be at least four world super powers right now, but Canada decided to be socialist, Mexico decided to go with the quick buck of corruption, China thought Marxism would be worth a try, and the Nations of Africa can’t seem to stop killing each other with machetes no matter what anybody does to help them.
All of these places have everything they need except a capitalist democratic republic.
America was not an accident, it wasn’t fate, or god, or thousands of years of random history that made America, it was men who planned it. They thought it out, and came up with the best nation that has ever existed on the planet earth. A nation based on the revolutionary premise that all men where created equal, a relatively unheard of concept at the time.
So yeah, people want to come here, why wouldn’t they? I encourage them to do so, for their children, and their children’s children. We’ll give them all the freedom, to have all the opportunity they can earn, but they’ve got to go through a process first.
It really is a small price to pay for freedom if you think about it.