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Y’know, this is the US, not Mexico.

All those of you who think otherwise can damned well just leave.

Seriously. GET> THE> FUCK> OUT>.

It’s one thing to be proud of your heritage. I am proud of mine. And that includes Mexico.

But if this is what you have to offer the US, then get the hell out. You aren’t a citizen of this country. Your loyalty is to Mexico. Go there. Fix Mexico so others like you won’t have to come here and work shitty jobs that are still better than what they can have in Mexico. Go there and protest. See what it gets you.

But this country belongs to AMERICANS. We are a mixed bunch of mongrels from all over the world. Our ancestors assimilated to this country, not expecting the country to adapt to us, and we all have one thing in common. We love our country, our flag, and what it represents. We respect other flags, and understand the heritage that they represent. BUT THE US FLAG REIGNS SUPREME IN OUR HEARTS FOR WHAT IT REPRESENTS.

BUT. This flag, and the nation which it represents is not Mexico. If Mexico is your primary pride, then go there and protest. LEAVE. Let those of us who take pride in this country and hold it’s flag higher have this one back. Only in this country will you find the freedom to protest like you are. Remember, you left that country for this one for a reason.

If you do not feel this way, then return to the shithole of a country you fled. It is a shithole because folks like you left and/or refuse to clean it up.

I am tired of you shitting on and in my country.

Call me racist. You can label me any thing you want. But I take pride in the country of which I am a citizen. A proud citizen of this country, I welcome you with open arms until you think that the country which you left is more important EVEN FOR ONE DAY.

Either take pride in your adopted country or move to one in which you CAN take pride.

ETA:
We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” 

Teddy Roosevelt, 1907

As long as it’s the US flag. THAT would be free speech.

BUT THE MEXICAN FLAG….now that is different.

2 standards and all that.

While I think that burning ANY flag is disrespectful, and I do not condone the burning of the Mexican flag, under the laws of the land in which we live, flag burning is peaceful  protest and freedom of speech/expression. So why the punishment?

PUT THE BEVERAGE DOWN. 

NO, SERIOUSLY. PUT IT DOWN. SWALLOW.

Then read this.

I larfed and larfed.

Found via FreeThinker.

and resign.

Update on the flag t-shirt post below:

Principal apologizes for sending kids with American flags home on 5/5.

It was dumb call; he took the easy way out in his attempt to keep order. He is a fool and a tool.

The incident shows that he is, at heart, a bureaucrat, and not  principal material. In lieu of resignation, perhaps the school board should demote him. He is obviously not suited to his current position.

He’ll probably get a raise though….

Walls of the City points out that the feds seem to know more about the sales of firearms to private citizens via FFL sales than they are supposed to.

Just another thing to think about when you order a firearm through a dealer, rather than a private sale.

Thank God that in Indiana we can do face to face sales.

Sure they did.

And unicorns fart rainbows.

Via Hoosierboy, we get this gem from the O regarding the new Arizona law regarding proof of citizenship when stopped by the cops:

“We can’t start singling out people because of who they look like, or how they talk, or how they dress,” the president said. “We can’t turn law-abiding American citizens, and law-abiding immigrants, into subjects of suspicion and abuse.”

Is there something that he and I see differently? Perhaps the water in the Whitehouse makes things look different to him that what I see here in the midwest. THESE FOLKS ARE ILLEGAL, and no amount of spin changes that. You can call them “undocumented workers” if you wish, but they are still illegal immigrants. They are lawbreakers, and more importantly, they are NOT good for the country. They have no ties to the country, do not assimilate, and take jobs and services from other, legal citizens of this country.

If I call my local corner crack dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist” does that make him any less of a drug dealing criminal? Is his product any less illegal or damaging to others if I call it “recreational unlicensed pharmaceuticals”? Will it kill or damage any fewer lives?

If I rob a bank, (which is illegal, because only the government should be able to steal, and they hate the competition), and instead you call me a wealth redistibutor, has a crime been committed?

I put forth to you, that no use of semantics changes the fact that these folks targeted by the Arizona law are illegal, have committed a crime by entering this country. Nothing changes that. They have invaded nearly every corner of the land.

Illegal is still illegal. Which laws are ok to break?

In light of the prior post, I offer you this on nationalism, and what it takes to be an immigrant citizen of this country:

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”

Theodore Roosevelt 1907
 
Truer words have never been spoken.
 
So to those who are more proud of the country from which they came than the country in which they live: I say this to immigrants of all races, cultures, and creeds: If the country from which you came is such a wonderful place, so worthy of pride; why did you leave it and come here??
 
If you love your former country so much, why don’t you go back?
 
Or did you leave for a reason?
 
And if you wish to change this country into that which you left, will you gain anything by doing so?
 
Rather, adapt and assimilate to this country. Learn the language, learn the culture….become an American. Many, over the years, have, and most were successful.
 
Or go home. Soon.
Else become loyal to this country. Do that, and I will welcome you. Don’t, and you are not welcome.
 
Simple.
 
To those who would call me racist for the above remark: please justify your label. Perhaps I am: if so, feel free to justify your label. Otherwise it is just name calling.