This land is my land... this land is your land...er.. or is it?

Okay, okay, so here the question of the day: Should we give amnesty to the 10M+ people living in our country illegally? And if so, why? If not, why not? Well, this is a tough question -- because you could place well thought out arguments for both sides. For example, one might say "yes, because they came here just like our ancestors did many centuries ago -- looking for the American dream -- a better life -- and they take the shit jobs that Americans don't want." Or if you are against, you might say "these people came into our country illegally and did not follow an established system of laws. They have worked in our country without paying taxes and burdened our system by not being legit, and have ultimately diluted what it means to be an American, especially if they are allowed to just plain stay here forever and become Americans."

Anyway, a friend of mine, Dave, from church posted this today which got me thinking and then a bit riled up. I mentioned to Dave that some of the signs at the rally's for immigrant rights (or rather, illegal misdemenour peoples) said "this nation was founded by immigrants" and I feel like saying -- no shit man, so was your country (Mexico, etc) by Spaniards, French, Portugese, etc and you don't see me illegally sneaking into your country -- so why ours? Also, when people migrated to America, they registered officially either at Ellis Island (in the 1800s-1900s) or wherever. There was a system in place -- we have a system today, so use it!

Regarding a lot of immigrants these days: your nation was founded under different doctrine and was not established under a God-fearing system... that's why it sux so bad that you want to get into ours and dilute those who have been blessed... it isn't your "right" to invade our nation illegally and then seek amnesty and guaranteed citizenship. What the hell is that? If we can't do that in your nation (not that we would want to) why is it OK in ours?

It really makes you think of "nationalism" and what that means -- and then you can look at all the countries around the world that are in crisis (like France) who now have about 20% of their population coming from Muslim countries -- and they come to FRANCE, an established SECULAR nation that was founded to be ANTI-RELIGIOUS and then get offended at intollerance of their religious practices, etc... it's like -- whoa dude, wait a sec -- u knew this coming here, so u don't like it -- then go back to your burning mounds of tires in Mogadishu or wherever that is overrun with druglords...

Which brings me to my next disgruntlement: when people discuss separation of church and state -- what they fail to realize is that the purpose or reason was not to remove Christianity from government or society -- it was to remove the government sanctioning of a specific CHRISTIAN denomination over another.. that's what brought people to the New World in the first place.. it wasn't religious persecution by secularists or Muslims.. it was religious persecution by Catholics or the Church of England (quasi-catholic) over Protestants in expressing the way they worship, practice, and interpret Scripture -- NOT religion vs. no religion. Or Christianity vs. another religion... the issue of our country being founded on Christian principles was not even worth mentioning at the time because it was KNOWN by everyone!

And when our country's founders discussed "one nation, under God" it was not Allah, or Buddha, but God the Father of the Holy Bible.. Anyway, that's all for now... more later!