Political Correctness has Robbed America of Her Self Respect.

(This Post First Ran In May of 2005)

Political Correctness has Robbed America of Her Self Respect.

One of my “Pet Peeves” is men who do not “uncover” when they enter a house, or a public building, such as a restaurant. (For those of you unfamiliar with military terms…”uncover” means to remove your “cover”…or hat)

Yes, I am a Southerner. But, I’m do not believe this extremely discourteous, and rude practice, began with Southerners. I’m about as Southern as one can get and I remove my hat when coming indoors. In my home, as a boy, the quickest way to get "yelled at" was to enter the house with your hat still on. The instant your feet crossed the threshold, into my mother’s domain, the hat came off. Now, the cardinal sin within a southern family is for one to appear at the dinner/lunch table with your hat on. It just isn’t done. Well, it wasn’t done until fairly recently. It is disgusting to see a person; Southerner or northerner, sitting at table in a restaurant… eating… with his hat still perched on his head. It speaks of low breeding.

The hat on the head while inside another’s home is a sure sign of disrespect. When you remove your hat upon entering another’s home you are saying, “I am in your hone as a guest, and I recognize that I am at your mercy, as this is your domain.”

In olden days, when a man’s home was truly his castle, a show of disrespect, such as not removing your hat in his castle, could cost the offender not just his hat, but the head residing just beneath it, as well. This was serious business.

It has been my contention for some time that we have lost something as a society when we lost the “genteelness” which was so much a part of who we were, especially Southerners. I suppose that is one of the reasons I am drawn to the 19th century American history. It was during that period that the word “gentleman’ meant something. “Lady” was also a sign of deep respect …one the feminist movement tossed out a number of years ago. Now, for a woman to be referred to as lady is taken as a sign of disrespect!

Our society has lost a great deal in the past 30 years, or so. We have become crass, rude, discourteous, impolite, and, I’ll use a word no longer in use today: “common”. Even here, in the American South, the last bastion of good manners, we too, are slipping into the “Me, too” mindset which is founded on one’s own selfish motives and inflated self esteem now taught our children in the public/government schools.

We have lost something as a people. We have lost our own self-respect. Our society is doomed. All because men will not remove their hats while indoors, you may ask? No, that is but a sign, a marker, of the passing of a great society where the value of a human being was not in question.

In America’s rush to embrace “Socialism” commonality is a must. The destruction of the “class system” is a must. The political correctness crowd, the vanguard of American Socialism, has done a smashing job of destroying the American class system in their rush to create a single class. They do not understand, or they choose to overlook, the fact that removing the three classes (Lower, Middle, and Upper classes) removes a goal for Americans to strive towards. When an American has nothing to set his sights on, no goal to work toward, he soon becomes discouraged and simply falls back into the darkness of low self-esteem and accepts that his position in life will never change for the better and he is trapped. All hope is gone. Without hope all is lost.

Good manners were always about respect… respect for the other person. Look around you. Where do you see that respect today? It is all but non-existent. We, as Americans, have lost our respect for others, and as a result, we have lost our respect for ourselves.

Longstreet

How WILL US Christians Vote in November???

How will US Christians vote in November?

The short answer is… they will vote Republican. Not all of them of course, but those who are really dedicated Christians will vote Republican.

A couple of things are certain; US Christians continue to support the war in Iraq and the war against terror. The other is that US Christians will not vote for Mitt Romney in the primaries. Mr. Romney is a Mormon and many Christian denominations consider Mormonism to be a cult.

Now, understand there is a huge difference between referring to oneself as a Christian and being one. There is a huge difference between paying lip service to Christianity and living into it.

For instance the Democrat Party is the worst enemy Christianity has in this country. I don’t say that lightly. The Democrat Party stands for so much of what Christianity stands against. Many Christians left the Democrat Party, in disgust, when the Party supported abortion on demand. Another huge chunk of Christians left the party over the party’s support of gay rights. And the list goes on and on. The continued slander of Christianity, by the Left, insures they will not return.

The current brouhaha over the Florida congressman, and the page, is over the top and the Democrat Party’s drive to destroy the confidence voters on the right have in the GOP has sickened and disgusted the Christian community and they are even more set on supporting the party, which, at least, attempts to show some Christian compassion.

Now, before I’m accused of being “Holier Than Thou”, let me hasten to assure you I am nothing but an old Pharisee, myself and, on a scale of one to ten, with ten being the very best Christian, then I would come in no higher than a two.

And for those of you claiming that I am judging others when the Scripture, I put great store in, tells us to: “judge not, that ye be not judged”…. well, the scriptures do, indeed, say that. But, I would remind you that Christ, Himself, said: “Ye shall know a tree by the fruit it bears”. That eliminates a need to judge. And let’s face it, dear reader; there is a whole orchid up on Capitol Hill!

There is the big question: can one be a Christian and a Democrat… and… can one be a Christian and a Republican? I’ve seen the question phrased both ways. Let me just say that my personal brand of Christianity, will not allow me to be a Democrat, nor support the Democrat Party. In all honesty, I must admit that at times it causes me to re-evaluate my support of the Republican Party.

So, how will Christians in the US vote in November? My guess would be… they will vote as their Christian values require them to vote. If you are acquainted with Christian values… then, you already know how they will vote.

Longstreet

US Citizens have No Constitutional Right to Vote!

As a citizen of the US, you have NO Constitutional Right To Vote for a Presidential Candidate… period. The right to vote has been left to the states by the founders of the country and the framers of the Constitution. It is a “states rights” issue and it should remain that way.

There is a very strong possibility that your state has given you a “right” to vote in that state under the terms of that state’s constitution, but the federal constitution does not. It is a settled matter… settled by the US Supreme Court.

Now, that brings me to the current debate over whether states have a right to require an ID for voting purposes. Georgia said it does, and passed such a law. A judge in Georgia overturned the law saying that it would disenfranchise some voters who are otherwise qualified.

Now wait a minute! A couple of things jump immediately to the fore, here! First of all, the Voter ID is to insure that citizens of the US, ONLY, get to vote in state and/or federal elections. A voter ID will not disenfranchise anyone who is a citizen.

Look, we are being overrun by the invasion of illegal aliens. An invasion our federal government seems to show little, if any, interest in stopping. Those illegals are draining our state treasuries and putting a serious “hurting” on our federal treasury, as well. Now a judge wants us to allow them to vote?

OK, OK, he’s not saying allow illegals to vote… or is he? Because… that will be the end result of not being able to identify a “would be” voter as an American citizen and, therefore, eligible to vote.

There are those, of course, in Congress, with whom, illegal aliens casting votes would be perfectly acceptable. You see, they have identified those illegals as potential voters for THEIR party.

So far, we allow them entry into the country, illegally, we support them while they are here, with free schooling, free hospital and medical services, and a number of other federal and state programs which are supported by taxpayer money collected from legal citizens of these states… and now they want them to be allowed to choose the governing body of this land… a land, I might mention, they hope to reclaim as their own!

What’s wrong with this picture?

Just about everything!

Voter ID’s would reduce some of the voter fraud at the polls. When I walk into the polling place, here in my hometown, I am greeted with my first name. But, I would be happy to present a card with my picture, and proof of my citizenship, and voter registration, on it to anyone at the polls. In fact, I think NC should pass such a law at the earliest opportunity.

If the US House of Representatives has it’s way… ALL 50 states will be required to institute a Voter ID card program by the year 2010. A few days ago the House passed HR 4484 which would not only mandate that voters show such a card, when they show up to vote, but would mandate that ALL states issue such cards upon confirmation of a voter’s citizenship.

I have to tell you, I like it. Oh, to squelch the argument that some citizens can’t afford to purchase the cards, HR4484 mandates that states must furnish such cards, free, to anyone who can prove they can’t afford to buy one.

This is NOT a poll tax. Poll taxes are illegal in the US.

Both of my states’ Senators favor the bill and will likely vote for it when it reaches the Senate.

Now we can fuss and cuss about this, but think for a moment… none of this would have become necessary have the federal government done it’s job and secured the borders of this country and instituted a reality-based immigration policy.

Immigration should be stopped immediately except for those seeking political asylum in this country as a result of political persecution in their own countries.

As a rule, I am against the federal government involving themselves in the way states run their elections. So, what we have here is another of our “state’s rights” falling due to the incompetence of our federal government.

But, as long as judges overturn laws passed by states, which are well within the rights of the states, then the Congress must overrule those judges with federal law, which secures the rights of states to run elections the way they choose… as the US constitution intended. There's just something WRONG with the Congress having to pass a law to insure that right's, already granted by the Constitution to the states, is protected. But... that's life in the USA today!

Longstreet

"Sourthern Knights" Recalled.

“Southern Knights” Recalled.

Last Saturday, I stood in the cemetery of a small, rural, southeastern North Carolina church and helped to dedicate six granite Confederate Veteran Grave Markers for six “Heroes of the South” who were veterans of the Confederate Army.

As the exceedingly bright September afternoon sunlight shone down upon those gathered for this solemn ceremony, three flags snapped in the strong fall breeze as it danced it’s way across the cemetery embracing each stone in turn, and forcing our flags to flutter and, at times, stand straight out with their halyard as taunt as a bow string.

At the top of the flagstaff was the Stars and Stripes, the flag of our country, the United States of America. Just below “Old Glory” was the state flag of our state, the state of North Carolina, and directly below that was the Confederate Battle Flag, the flag of no country, and no state, just a battle field ensign, but… it was the flag under which the men we honored had marched and fought and died.

As I spoke to those assembled on that sacred ground, I let my eyes drift casually over the onlookers. I saw one child, a little sandy-headed boy, about 4 maybe 5 years of age. He was the only youngster there.

I thought, that young man needs to hear this, he needs to have his parents tell him what all this color and honor means. He needs to be told… before it is too late.

Our children have been taught a “revisionist history” about this unique part of the United States. Generation after generation of American children had been led away for their roots until southern children, especially, no longer know who, and what, they are.

Although the history of the United States, and the people of the US, is colorful the history of the Southern portion of our country is even more colorful. Settled primarily by Scot-Irish peoples, with French Huguenots along our southeastern coasts, the people of the early South always felt the difference between them and their northern brothers and sisters.

The South was agrarian… a land of farmers. The North was industrialized... a land of factories and immigrant workers from, mainly, northern Europe.

Farming is inexplicably tied to the weather, to the seasons, and weather and the seasons move at their own pace, a pace which is, for the most part, much slower than the pace of impatient man. Factories, for the most part, were not dependent upon the weather as the workers were most often inside out of the elements so their manner of work and life was at a much more rapid pace than that of the South.

Our dress was different from that of the north. Hot and humid, the south demanded lighter weight clothing, and lighter colors, than that of our nothern counterparts.

Our speech mannerisms became a birthmark of the Southron. We spoke slowly… almost poetically. Our northern neighbors spoke in a more rapid-fire cadence.

The early South was much more prosperous than the North. At the outbreak of the American Civil War the gross national product of the South was three times that of the North. For all intents and purposes, the South was supporting the North.

The North demanded more and more southern money to run the government and laid tariffs and taxes against the South and the South’s trade with Europe until the Southern people said: “enough”. The government of the US would not give an inch on the tariffs, and taxes, and the South parted company with the US and formed it’s own country, the Confederate States of America.

The Confederacy had a Congress, a President, an Army, and a Navy, and a land area, and population, much larger than that of the 13 original colonies. Plus, the South had… the money. Without the South’s money the US government was broke.

And so, the US invaded the Confederate States of America. (Always follow the money, dear reader.)

One of the hallmarks of the Scot-Irish people is their willingness to fight and… the intensity with which they fight. The ancient Romans got a bellyful of the Scot-Irish warriors when they tried to tame them.

I don’t mention slavery, here, as a cause of the American Civil War … because it wasn’t. It was dragged into the war later… but at the outset of the war, slavery, in the South, was not an issue. In fact, Lincoln had said publicly he was not against slavery.

Here are the words of a proposed 13th amendment to the US Constitution… House Resolution 80 (Joint Resolution of Congress, Adopted March 2, 1861)
Full Text of H.J.R. No. 80, the "Ghost Amendment":

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution, namely:
ART. 13. No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
--12 United States Statutes at Large, 36th Congress, 2nd Session, 1861, p. 251.

The resolution above is often referred to as the “Ghost Amendment”, the proposed original 13th Amendment.

The argument still rages today as to whether it passed… or not. At least two states ratified it… Ohio and Maryland!

The opening shots of the Civil war occurred in 1861. The Emancipation proclamation did not take effect until January 1st of 1863. The real 13th amendment, abolishing slavery, passed the Senate easily in April 1864, but was defeated 95 to 66 the first time it went before the House of Representatives in June. It took the House six more months before it reconsidered the amendment and adopted it 119 to 56 on January 31, 1865. The war ended at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, in April of 1865.

The four years of turmoil left scars upon the South, which have never healed. North Carolina, as an example, lost 40,000 of its men to the war. The US was involved in the Vietnam War for nearly ten years. The US lost 58,000 men as a result of that nearly decade long war. Compare that to the 40,000 men NC lost… in just four years. The South’s population was nearly stripped of it’s young men... for a generation.

The southern men who survived came home to a land devastated. All the advancements made in the 80 years since their grandfathers had fought the British for Independence was, for all intents and purposes… gone. Many found it impossible to start over so they packed up they families, and whatever meager belongings that had left, and went west.

Those who stayed turned to the hard work of rebuilding a society, which had been utterly destroyed, and began rebuilding. The South has continued to rebuild ever since.

But the scars are still evident, if not in our buildings and our landscapes, then certainly on our psyches. As the only part of the US to be invaded, and conquered, and occupied, we have a greater sense of liberty and freedom than, perhaps, any other part of this great country.

But we don’t talk about it. We aren’t allowed. We cannot remember our heroes who gave their lives in defense of their homes, their families, and their country… the Confederate States of America. The scars are still tender. Poke around them and you will be surprised at the vehemence with which you will be challenged by a Southeron.

We fly our Confederate Battle Flag, not as a put down, or as an implied expression of a deep-seated desire to secede, but in remembrance of the sacrifices the South made.

Our Southern children are forbidden to celebrate their heritage. It is a heritage of heroes. Yet, too many feel threatened by the truth to allow a southern student, in public school, to wear even a belt buckle with the battle flag under which his ancestor fought and most likely died.

One thing the detractors of the South have overlooked. Their attitude does little to meld this nation into one. If anything they continue to drive a wedge between the people of the South and the people of the North. Suppression of the celebration of one’s heritage creates a smoldering anger, which will burn until it bursts into flames. When that finally happens, more than just feelings will be hurt.

All this was pouring through my mind as I spoke to those assembled for the dedication of those stones.

Ours is a great country. Somehow we have managed to get along since 1865 with a modicum of courtesy toward each other. But we must realize that we are yet two nations within one country. There is no way to ever remove the wall of separation between the North and the South unless, and until, we allow the truth to be told to our children and future generations of Americans. Continuing to cover-up the truth of our heritage, the good and the bad, is unhealthy and it needlessly feeds into the bitterness over wrongs done half of this nation 141 years ago.

There is no reason for half of this great country to feel threatened by the other half. Our Southern ancestors meant the US no harm when they parted ways in the 1860’s. What they did was perfectly legal and was their way of righting an injustice. The South had no interest, whatsoever, in overthrowing the government of the US. And yet, the US invaded and overthrew the government of the Confederate States.

The scars are deep here in the South. I carry a partial list of my blood kin who were killed in battles with US troops, or died later, as a result of wounds received in those battles. Southern families consider those men heroes of the highest order. And we bristle when their good name is besmirched by some ignorant, politically correct, individual, from a Congressman, to a Senator, to a public school administrator.

The Confederate History of this family WILL be passed on to the children and grandchildren, and great grandchildren, so that we may keep their memory alive for the generations yet unborn.

A walk through a cemetery of a southern church can be a journey back in time. Looking at the dates, and the military ranks, carved in the headstones of our southern heroes can sweep one back to the days of Southern Knights in their gray and butternut uniforms. It also takes us back to the second half of that war when those same Southern Knight s walked mile after mile on bloodied feet, in tattered uniforms, on empty stomachs, and still managed to claim victory, time and time again, against the army of a fledgling superpower.

You think we’re not proud of them, of their legacy, and our heritage? Then you have no understanding of the South, at all.

Longstreet

Global Warming Scares Heat Up! ... by Alan Caruba

Global Warming Scares Heat Up
By Alan Caruba

To understand the whole global warming debate you have to understand that it is not about any dramatic warming of the Earth. The Earth has been warming since the end of the last Ice Age with time out for some mini-Ice Age episodes.

As Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, has repeatedly written, the average global temperature has increased about one degree Fahrenheit over the past century. It’s a natural cycle and, since we are at the end of the current 12,000-year interglacial cycle of temperate climate, we are due another Ice Age.

Global warming is about controlling the world’s population by impeding or making more costly the use of energy—oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear—in developed, industrial nations and thwarting efforts to expand the use of electricity in Third World nations. Keeping people ignorant and ultimately dependent on a vast one-world government based on failed socialist utopian policies is the name of the game.

This explains in part why so much of the global warming propaganda has been coordinated and emanated from the United Nations. Its International Panel on Climate Control and its Kyoto Protocol on Climate Control are just two examples of the mischief that is generated by the UN. The Panel has revised its estimates of global warming so many times that it has become a farce. Worse yet, those estimates are all based on deeply flawed computer models.

So what explains just a few of the headlines we are all reading every day now? “Earth spews troubling amount of methane”, “Winter ice declining rapidly in the Arctic”, and “Nastier hurricanes? Just blame us: Study links human activity, monster storms.”

A friend of mine, John Brignell, a British professor emeritus, runs a website called NumberWatch.com. On it you will find a page that documents how just about every imaginable natural phenomenon has been attributed to global warming. It’s a very long, often totally contradictory, list and a tribute to the idiocy and hypocrisy that fuels the global warming hoax. [http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm]

While the global warming hoax has an economic component whose focus is energy use, there is a political component because it is through the implementation of laws that the control of human behavior is achieved. This was seen most recently when California’s legislature voted to implement controls on “greenhouse gas emissions” from utilities and other industrial activities said to be the primary cause of global warming. California has notoriously failed to keep pace with the growth of its population and the provision of sufficient electrical power.

The global warming hoax is also intended to force people to use public transportation or to select alternative forms of energy such as solar or wind. These latter two are totally inadequate to our needs and exist, like ethanol, largely because of government subsidies and mandates.

So why are we reading this sudden new spate of articles about things alleged to cause global warming? It is not a coincidence as, indeed, nothing one reads or hears incessantly is accidental. Where it takes on a very dangerous potential is the proposed legislation emanating out of Washington, D.C. these days.

Largely unable to find traction with its anti-war diatribes, the Democrat’s fallback position is to scare everyone with global warming. It began in the summer of 2005 when Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) proposed a bill calling for modest mandatory limits on emissions of greenhouse gases said to cause climate change.

These limits are moving forward despite the unanimous rejection of the Kyoto Protocol by the Senate some years ago.

It is essential to keep in mind that climate change is caused by factors such as solar activity, the heating or cooling of the oceans, cloud formation and activity, and volcanic activity. Human beings have absolutely no “control” over these climate factors.

The vast bulk of the Earth’s surface isn’t inhabited, despite the fact there are six billion humans extant. Humans and other animals’ lives depend on the oxygen we breathe. We exhale carbon dioxide. The Earth’s vegetation benefits from the carbon dioxide as the essential element it requires for growth. And yet there are people in government and elsewhere that will tell you that CO2 is a greenhouse gas or even a “pollutant” that is bad for the Earth.

Some of those people are in Congress and these days it is, in the words of Business Week reporter, John Carey “awash in carbon-capping bills and proposals from Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Jim Jeffords (I-VT), Tom Carper (D-DE), John Kerry (D-MA), and others. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) plans to introduce legislation on the first day of the next session of Congress.”

Perversely, they will find support from the utility industry that would prefer regulatory certainty. This has nothing to do with the dubious, often duplicitous, science of global warming and everything to do with running a business. Similarly, the agricultural lobby will no doubt support this legislation in order to benefit from crops used to make ethanol, a gasoline additive that actually and grotesquely costs more to produce and provides less energy per use.

Finally, these proposed regulations to cap emissions are immediately nullified by the obvious fact that other nations such as India and China, with a billion people each, will not be joining this fraudulent effort. We could shut down all energy use in America without having any affect even if the false assertions about global warming were true.

The proposed legislation must be stopped before Congress in its stupidity imposes it. Previous Congresses thought Prohibition and the War on Poverty were good ideas. If you think life in America is expensive today, you have no idea how that cost will increase if global warming “controls” are imposed.

Alan Caruba writes a weekly column, “Warning Signs”, posted on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center, http://www.anxietycenter.com/. His new book, “Separating Fact from Fantasy” has just been published by Merril Press.

© Alan Caruba, 2006

US Troops Under Command of a Foreign Officer… AGAIN!!!

OK, I have said, from time to time, that this site is US Military friendly… and I mean it. So, it will come as no surprise to readers of IoF that I am more than a little upset with the US Military handing off 12,000 US troops to NATO in Afghanistan.

Now… the fact that we are a part of NATO is not a problem for me, (Well, it IS, but that is for another day!) but the fact that US troops will be under the command of an officer, not a member of the US military, is a problem for me. A British officer, to be sure, but he is not a US officer and he is NOT a member of the US Military.

If I were still in uniform, I would have a difficult time serving under any officer not of the US Military. Soldiers, sailors, Marines, Airmen, and Coast Guards men, have a reasonable right to believe that when they raise their right hand and take the oath, as a soldier in the US Military, that they will be commanded by a US citizen, a member of the US Military.

I feel this is wrong, and I feel certain men will lose their lives while serving under an officer who may, or may not, be qualified to lead US troops into combat.

Look, the US Military is a finely tuned machine. It has the capability of doing anything, anywhere, at any time… with the right leadership. To place the US Military under the command of an officer, not of the same military, is akin to placing a surgeon’s scalpel in the hands of, oh, say, a first year medical student and asking them to perform brain surgery. The have control of a tool, when wielded by a highly trained surgeon, can perform wonders. When used by someone less trained than a surgeon, it can become an instrument of death and destruction.

In any event, I was under the impression we had solved this problem, sometime back, with legislation, which prevented US troops from being commanded, ever again, by a non-member of the US Military. Apparently, I was misinformed.

Oh, but you may well argue, the General is a British General. That is true, and I hold the British military in high regard… just not as high as I hold the US Military. Besides, the entire British armed forces, added together, will not compare, in size, to the US Marine Corp.

Now this post is not meant to bring into question the abilities of the British Armed Forces. They’re good. Damned good. But they are not Americans.

The American fighting man is a unique individual. First he, or she, is a volunteer. They are the best trained, best equipped, best fed, best clothed, and most highly motivated troops in the world. They are kept at a state of readiness often referred to as “leaning forward” at all times. If the officer leading them is not in then same state of readiness as the troops there will be trouble.

Frustration among the troops is to be avoided at all times. But nothing can be as frustrating to a soldier ready to do the job he has trained for and, for whatever reason, the officers above him don’t share his commitment and his attitude. Frustration is a breeding ground for mistakes… and mistakes, in the military, cost lives.

Look, the men and women of the US Military are the treasure of America. They are sons, daughters, husbands, fathers, brothers and they are OURS! Why, then, does the DOD feel it can jeopardize the lives of that treasure under the command of anyone other than an American officer?

I don’t like it. At all!

Longstreet

Who Made the Decision NOT to Defend the Borders of the US???

(This Post First Ran in April of 2006)

At which level of the US government was the decision not to defend our Southern Border with Mexico made? For, it is certain someone, at some level in the United States Government, made that decision... and it is someone with the authority to see that it is carried out!

We desperately need to find that person and see that he, or she, is rendered unemployed at the earliest possible moment.

If a nation cannot, or will not, control it’s borders, and the comings and goings of persons across that border, then that government is not doing it’s duty to the citizens of that nation. That’s where we are in the US today.

I want to hear a “Presidential Candidate” say: "If elected, I will seal the southern border with Mexico and I will see that the entire Canadian border is patrolled so thoroughly that not even a field mouse can cross without being caught”.

That candidate will have my vote.

There is no excuse for not controlling our borders. None! It is a shame, and a disgrace, that private citizens of this country have to go to the borders and do the job the Federal Government is supposed to be doing. Eventually tempers will flare and there will be violence on the border. It can be avoided… if the government would only do its job!

Thousands of illegal immigrants from countries, which sponsor terrorism, come across that border each year. Thousands! Who knows what their intent towards this country is? Who can say whether or not they have smuggled devastating explosive devises across the border and have them secreted in one or more of our major cities?

If you think I sound as thought I’m paranoid, well consider this: When everybody IS out to get you, paranoia is just darned good thinking!

Any government’s first priority is the safety of it’s citizens. Someone in Washington, DC, should be made to understand this. They are shirking their duty.

Sooner, or later, there will be permanent Citizen Border Guards on our borders. A type of “Home Guard” if you please. If that’s what it takes, then so be it.

Longstreet