Citizenship
Rocky Mountain Spotlight, page 2, 6/28/07, states under “chatter” : “Sooner or later I will become, just by default, an American citizen.” Craig Ferguson, native of Glasgow, Scotland, and host of CBS’ Late Late Show, who has received support since June 13 from five governors and 5,569 cities in the U.S. in his “honorary citizenship campaign.” Enough is enough!!
Not only do illegal/ criminal aliens besiege our cities demanding rights (which they aren’t entitled too), but now our “elected officials” pander citizenship to anyone who campaigns?!! Why not offer it to Bin Laden? He has a vested interest in our country...he’d love to destroy it!!
We’re stupidly diluting our nation, insulting it’s hard-working home-born citizens, and treasonously back-handing our military which sheds blood on our behalf. Shame and curses on all who prostitute our land, spit on our flag, ridicule our heritage, or provide aid and comfort to those bent on destroying what our forefathers fought and died for from the Revolutionary War to Iraq today!!
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I might add "shame" on the U.S. citizen for re-electing and not ousting self-serving so-called leaders of this land.
Americans need to get involved at the state and national level and start holding politicians accountable for their actions.
In other words Americans need to step-up and put-up because if they don't they will forever be shut-up!!
Posted by A on July 11, 2007 09:10 AMPerhaps the complaining letter writer would explain just how citizenship, in an of itself, IS NOT a basic RIGHTof those born here. Vide: the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Others acquire the RIGHTS of citizenship through the process of Naturalization
Then, he might explain how an "honorary citizenship" is something other than a "privilege" - the word coming from privilegium, in Latin, meaning "private law". What "rights" are conferred on an "honorary"?
Does someone receiving the "Keys to the City", for instance, come to own, or hold office, or otherwise excercise "rights" - such as voting, holding office, etc., - in that City?
I have no idea what the good Scotsman mentioned in the letter has done to arrive at a position of receiving "honorary citizenship"; - a sort of national form of "Keys to the City, perhaps? - but whatever it might be - or have been - what does it actually mean?
Much ado about little or nothing.
Posted by Old Grouch on July 11, 2007 11:32 AMOld Grouch,
Unless I’m missing something, I think you answered your own question by stating, “Perhaps the complaining letter writer would explain just how citizenship, in and of itself, IS NOT a basic RIGHT of those born here.” Citizenship IS a basic right of those born here. I don’t believe the letter writer was saying it was not. I read them to say that citizenship IS NOT a right of those who ARE NOT born here, unless they earn it through legal channels.
Robyn Faber of Westminster writes:
“When did citizenship in America fall from privilege status to “a right” that anyone may claim?”
Well, I would submit that it became a so-called “right” when leftists took on the cause of immigration. Those who wish to forgive illegal aliens for breaking our immigration laws might have their hearts in the right place by lending a helping hand, but I think their heads are somewhere between their left butt cheek and their right butt cheek. Same goes for those who hire illegal aliens just to lower their payroll. In the short term it might look like a great thing, but in the long run it will be one of the things that will decay this country from the inside. Sooner or later those illegal workers, or those who might be granted amnesty, will demand the same wages as the current legal workers.
Mountain Cat,
I read - and attempted to answer - the letter as if it were primarily dealing with the matter of the Scotsman and his "honorary citizenship campaign". That's where the writer winds up with, "Enough is enough!"
The rest is more or less the usual diatribe of the anti-immigrationist that has filled posting lines for weeks. I don't see masses of people ,either claiming or attempting to claim, "citizenship" - "honorary," or by naturalization - in the rest of the letter. And the claims about "leftists" and immigration, etc., etc., etc., are irrelevant in the context.