Principles...A Statement

My Father watched his friends die in WW I,

I watched my friends die in Korea and Vietnam,

The flag they all died for was the U.S. Flag,

My Grandparents on both sides of the family were immigrants and the first thing they did was to integrate into the American culture since they were now Americans living in America…not the Old Country. (Even before they took the oath of allegiance they knew they were Americans.)

In Texas, not long ago, a student raised a Mexican flag on a school flag pole, another student took it down. For that simple act of American patriotism he was expelled from school. When I read about that I had to wonder at the logic of those who punish a young adult for protecting the flag of his country while letting a fellow student get away with raising an alien flag over U.S. territory.

In California kids in a high school were sent home on Cinco de Mayo for wearing shirts with the American flag printed on them. At the same time Hispanic kids at the school were encouraged to wear Mexican flags and iconography as symbols of their heritage! Please explain to me why it is ok for others to celebrate their heritage but wrong for Americans to celebrate our heritage.

Enough is enough.

Let me make this perfectly clear!

THIS  IS MY COUNTRY!  And, because I make this statement DOES  NOT mean I’m, a raciest or against immigration!!!

Every one who wishes to join is welcome here in my country, Welcome, to join with us legally:

1. Get a sponsor! It’s the law!

2.  Get a place to lay your head!

3. Get a job! Isn’t that why you came?

4. Live By OUR Rules!

5. Pay YOUR Taxes!

6.  Learn the LANGUAGE like all previous immigrants have in the past!

We’ve gone so far the other way, listened to politicians who see immigration as a source of willing fools, and treat the citizens of this country as feckless idiots. Because they believe the foolish immigrants (mostly illegally present in our country) will also keep them in office. Americans are told that we must bend over backwards and not offend anyone, while those same politicians allow others to repeatedly offend the very people whose country they are living in.

The American Dream is dying at the hands of politicians who have turned their back on that Dream and think that the Constitution (and the laws that followed) are not for them…the privileged masters of our country.

I will not forget…with every election cycle I WILL affirm that I am an American.