Rallies over mosque near ground zero get heated

Richard_ wrote:

<quoted text>I suppose Obama appeases "gun owners" by letting them keep their assault rifles, handguns and other firearms that lack sporting purpose?

Do you propose
further shredding of our constitution? Will you ensure that the criminals will no longer have firearms? Will you ensure that our country will never be invaded? Will you demand that bows and arrows, cutlery, and hammers be taken from us as well? They can be used to kill and maim as good as a firearm. Maybe you anticipate the day when the entire planet's populace will link arms and sing "It's a Small World, After All" and give each other fraternal kisses and hugs. Until you can guarantee a totally safe world, do not think about depriving us of a means of self-defense.

Good Old Rebel wrote:

<quoted text>Do you propose
further shredding of our constitution? Will you ensure that the criminals will no longer have firearms? Will you ensure that our country will never be invaded? Will you demand that bows and arrows, cutlery, and hammers be taken from us as well? They can be used to kill and maim as good as a firearm. Maybe you anticipate the day when the entire planet's populace will link arms and sing "It's a Small World, After All" and give each other fraternal kisses and hugs. Until you can guarantee a totally safe world, do not think about depriving us of a means of self-defense.

Dude, get in context or shut the hell up.

Richard_ wrote:

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Dude, get in context or shut the hell up.

You won't answer,
afraid of your anti-American sentiments, aren't you?

Good Old Rebel wrote:

<quoted text>You won't answer,
afraid of your anti-American sentiments, aren't you?

Nope, I'm not an "american" anyway. I'm a U.S. citizen, who can prove their U.S. citizenship. Plus, I hold a U.S. passport and a document proving my Honorable Discharge on a DD 214 from the U.S. Navy. You people and the Canadians, the Mexicans and the Peruvians, can all enjoy your status as "americans", I'm going to enjoy my status as a U.S. citizen.

Shouldn't you write: I'm a U.S. citizen and can prove my U.S. citizenship. Be that as it may, the greatest figures in the history of this country
referred to themselves as "Americans." I suppose you are an even greater patriot, than say, Lincoln.

Good Old Rebel wrote:

Shouldn't you write: I'm a U.S. citizen and can prove my U.S. citizenship. Be that as it may, the greatest figures in the history of this country
referred to themselves as "Americans." I suppose you are an even greater patriot, than say, Lincoln.

"Americans" is good slang word for Frenchmen to use, I suppose. But this is what Amendment XIV of the U.S. Constitution, has to say about it in plain English;

Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

But, like I said, if you want to have your "American" brother the Mexican national for a neighbor, that's your problem. Soon enough, progressive Demcorats like yourself will get the sovreignty of the several states abolished in favor of an "American Union", similar to those of the African and European Unions. Then we can all be happy "Americans".