[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)

J Henshaw jeff at jhenshaw.com
Tue Jun 18 13:55:33 UTC 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeme A Brelin" <jeme at brelin.net>
To: <plug-talk at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 8:41 PM
Subject: RE: [PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)


>
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Craighead, Scot D wrote:
> > It is a slap in their face because they did go through all the BS
> > required to become citizens the right way.  Now we give someone else
> > the same reward for cheating.
>
> First, I'd like to point out that you admit that the stuff required of a
> pesron to become a U.S. Citizen is BS.  I'm the sort of person that
> encourages others to support removing BS from law.
>
> Second, the simple fact that these people are able to receive the
> so-called rewards shows that they are NOT rewards for citizenship, they
> are simply services offered to all residents.  The rewards of citizenship
> are a U.S. passport and equal protection under the law.  Non-citizen
> residents do not get those rewards.
>
> > I did not say they need to give up their culture, only that they must
> > learn ours.
>
> I think the point we're all trying to make is that there is no "ours".
> There is yours and that might even be mine, to some extent (though we
> belong to distinct and rapidly diverging sub-cultures).  But there is no
> culture that can be said to be "ours" as a nation.  I point very quickly
> to the legal citizens who live as migrant farm workers, the Pennsylvania
> Dutch, the Louisianna Creole, and San Francisco Chinese.  Their cultures
> are as much "American" as yours or mine.  They are as old and as rich and
> as unique to this part of the world.
>
> And the best way to prevent special protection of a few (at the expense of
> others, always) is to provide equal protection for all.
>
> J.
> --
>    -----------------

You forget the reason they all came here,  it was to share a common cultural
goal.

Freedom.







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