Getting a Purple Heart doesn't automatically mean we'll listen to you. Many of us have served and while we may not have any Purple Hearts, our opinions are every bit as valid. Except that we're still living in America and putting up with all this. If your backup argument is always to call anyone who disagrees a fascist and point to the medals on your chest, maybe you need to reevaluate your stance.
Also, we're talking about America, not your country. You left, remember? Don't try and say how you're our extreme Border Patrol either, as you've said before.
P.S. Are you sure you're not John Kerry? Talking about how you wanna throw away your medals because people disagree with you...
Jon (5-90): You make it sound so easy. Bringing all the Mexican truckers up to USDOT standards would rediculous amounts of money. Which would be paid by the gov't. We would have to overhaul their police system, knock out the corruption. It would require a vast increase in the size of our police forces. The same conditions that make risking your life crossing some God-forsaken stretch of desert would still exist in our new states except now it would be a lot easier to get up here. It would take a lot more money than we have available. For what it would cost, we could properly police the border. As you said, any job worth doing is worth not half-assing and doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results is insanity. So we actually put forth real effort at securing our country and quit doing a halfway job.
So don't listen, I'm used to it, my kids sure don't and I watch them make the same old dumb arsed mistakes I made 50-60 years ago, all over again and again and again. I'm just saying, I've done enough for the good old US of A, to earn an opinion. Likely more than others who tout themselves as the only true Americans. It really makes no difference where I'm living now.
And my statements about my purple hearts, was rhetorical, just what does a person have to do to be considered an American. I could die for my country and in some peoples eyes still be a foreigner, what have you done for your country lately?
I personally know I've done way more than I had to do.
America not my country? All of my kids are bi lingual, most likely know American history better than most of the population, all have dual citizenship. Half live in the US and half live here. I own property in Germany, S.C. and Arizona.
But I guess my nationality or loyalties are for others to decide and it's up to me to meet there standards of citizenship.
You want to put up with the B.S. in the states that's your affair. I have to say, all told, Germany has been good to me, much better than living in the states was. Though Germany has another set of minuses that I've adapted to, I sure don't agree with everything.
Look up the definition of fascist,
"Fascism is an authoritarian nationalist ideology focused on solving economic, political, and social problems that its supporters see as causing national decline or decadence".
Fascism may not be a total fit, but the best fit I can come up with. People are constantly coming up with new laws and regulations, in affect building there own cages, inside there fences, behind there walls. Usually the majority passing laws to control the minority. Of course, most all of these laws are unidirectional, for the other guy and not me.
And by the way, the size of the Border Patrol has doubled, during the same time period the illegal population has grown six fold. Like 5-90 said, maybe it's time for another approach.
People standing at the border, threatening people with firearms for trespassing or littering, seems a bit irrational to me.
I have no doubt in my mind, I could find a dope dealer within a couple of blocks of the home of any Minute man member, but they see the threat as being external and a problem of illegal immigration. Maybe there time could be better spent cleaning up there own back yard. IMO
As long as we are playing the king has no clothes, blacks generally detest Mexicans, why? Because they undermine there minority status and there political clout. The Mexicans (or Latinos) are or are soon to be the majority minority in America. Deal with it, it's unlikely to disappear no matter what you do.
