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Originally posted by ModernAcademia
Some of you will continue to have "support our troops" in your signatures
This is the wrong mentality to have, to just get offended all the time and have your precious patriotism get hurt. Your Govt. is doing terrible things with your tax money and in your name since you are citizens.
Someone said my thread is all heart and no logic.
I believe my thread is all logic but those who are offended are the ones taking to heart.
Originally posted by jfj123
Damn right !
I support those individuals who signed up to protect their nation. Just like you say there is a difference between Americans and the US government, there is a difference between individual soldiers and the military.
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
Originally posted by jfj123
Damn right !
I support those individuals who signed up to protect their nation. Just like you say there is a difference between Americans and the US government, there is a difference between individual soldiers and the military.
I'm sure even some that oppose this thread will disagree with this statement.
You cannot fight for your freedom overseas
sorry bro, doesn't work that way
you protect your nation domestically, NOT abroad
you don't get it
overseas troops is bankrupting your economy
and causing hate towards the U.S.
which increases terroism
800 bases in over 140 countries is colonialism on a massive scale
this is NOT protecting you
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
Originally posted by jfj123
Damn right !
I support those individuals who signed up to protect their nation. Just like you say there is a difference between Americans and the US government, there is a difference between individual soldiers and the military.
I'm sure even some that oppose this thread will disagree with this statement.
You cannot fight for your freedom overseas
sorry bro, doesn't work that way
I am strong supporter of the division between the people and govt.
and this is globally not just for the western world.
you protect your nation domestically, NOT abroad
you don't get it
Originally posted by Heike
**I** am an immigrant, a legal naturalized citizen who's been paying taxes since I was 17 and served 7 years in the US Navy.
These people we're talking about, they're criminals, and that's the only thing we should be calling them. "Illegal Immigrants" is a whitewash euphemism that puts a prettier face on what they are and doesn't tell it like it is.
Originally posted by johnny2127
Smart guy here wants us to wait until the fight is on our soil and civilians are getting killed. I pray this guy never runs for office.
Originally posted by outsider13
I understand people's opposition to illegal immigration, but I think its important for people to realize that illegals are not our enemies. I was just looking at an infowars page on this topic, and most of the comments were actually encouraging the murder of illegal immigrants, saying things like "next time the farmer should shoot them and feed them to the pigs," one guy suggested setting out barrels of poison water for them to drink.
The point I want to make, is that these are poor, desperate people who are mainly trying to take care of themselves and their families. They are not invading enemies trying to steal our jobs and leech off of us. If I were desperate, I would probably do the same thing. I would put my own survival and the survival of my family ahead of the "law" any time.
Yes, illegal immigration is probably hurting this country. But who are you going blame? The immigrant who is just trying to feed his family, or the politicians, drug dealers (I'm talking the major cartels who are probably in league with the politicians), and corporations on both sides of the border who are responsible who for creating the terrible conditions that these people have to live in, for creating an environment where it makes more sense to break the law and flee your own country than to try and stay and make a real life for yourself in the land in which you were born.
Attacking the illegals is attacking the symptom, not the disease itself. Their enemy is the same as our enemy. Who knows? If things keep going the way they are, a lot of Americans might find themselves illegally crossing borders in hopes of finding a better life.
Originally posted by outsider13
I understand people's opposition to illegal immigration, but I think its important for people to realize that illegals are not our enemies.
I was just looking at an infowars page on this topic, and most of the comments were actually encouraging the murder of illegal immigrants, saying things like "next time the farmer should shoot them and feed them to the pigs," one guy suggested setting out barrels of poison water for them to drink.
The point I want to make, is that these are poor, desperate people who are mainly trying to take care of themselves and their families.
They are not invading enemies trying to steal our jobs and leech off of us.
If I were desperate, I would probably do the same thing. I would put my own survival and the survival of my family ahead of the "law" any time.
Yes, illegal immigration is probably hurting this country. But who are you going blame?
The immigrant who is just trying to feed his family,
or the politicians, drug dealers (I'm talking the major cartels who are probably in league with the politicians), and corporations on both sides of the border who are responsible who for creating the terrible conditions that these people have to live in,
for creating an environment where it makes more sense to break the law and flee your own country than to try and stay and make a real life for yourself in the land in which you were born.
Originally posted by lunarminer
I don't recall anyone calling you racist. I do recall that you called others racists.
Originally posted by lunarminer
I say BS! Every hear of a Government of the People, By the People, and for the People? Well that is what we have in the US. You cannot separate the People from the Government of the US. It is all one and the same, since our Government is elected and governs by the consent of the public. It is the very same in Canada and any other Constitutional Democratic form of government.
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
Originally posted by johnny2127
Smart guy here wants us to wait until the fight is on our soil and civilians are getting killed. I pray this guy never runs for office.
You don't get it
you speak of the fight?
which fight is this?
It's the fight caused because you are over there
its foreign occupation that is causing these attacks
and installing puppet govt.s in foreign nations
Originally posted by ModernAcademia
Originally posted by jfj123
Damn right !
I support those individuals who signed up to protect their nation. Just like you say there is a difference between Americans and the US government, there is a difference between individual soldiers and the military.
I'm sure even some that oppose this thread will disagree with this statement.
You cannot fight for your freedom overseas
sorry bro, doesn't work that way
you protect your nation domestically, NOT abroad
you don't get it
overseas troops is bankrupting your economy
and causing hate towards the U.S.
which increases terroism
800 bases in over 140 countries is colonialism on a massive scale
this is NOT protecting you
Originally posted by Jenna
We should all just throw open our doors and let all the illegal immigrants in that want to be here. So what if citizens are starving and can't find work, the illegals need to be taken care of.
Gotcha. I completely understand now.