tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post8176820743555502011..comments2023-06-21T10:26:47.525-05:00Comments on ("RAM").........Red Alert Moderates: Of Cruz, Vattel, and the Natural Born Citizen ClauseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-32455934209052237282015-09-02T23:30:11.994-05:002015-09-02T23:30:11.994-05:00A lot of kids are mentally numb by the time they g...A lot of kids are mentally numb by the time they get out of college. Well, they were probably numb even before. For many, the problem is not so much that they believe pc crap. The problem is that they are just too numb to resist it. Being numb, they have no interest in trying to follow what's really going on. They learn nothing, so they vote the way they have been pointed. Voting zombies. Wind up dolls. If you say Obama and his cohort have set race relations back 30 years, their response (even by those who claim to have super high IQs) is that, "Wow, you're carrying a lot of white privilege."<br /><br />So you have to go at mental zombies gently. You have to ask them what they think about so and so. Draw them out. Get them to think about political events. For many, it's like waking up after a long sleep. The ruling class wanted to train people to be content to be farmed. The purpose of college became one of completing the project of turning people into cattle. To considerable extent, they succeeded. They wanted to turn Americans into an electorate that would be so unfit for representative governance that it would rejoice as elitists step in to offer their services.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-38996963718883940252015-09-02T23:28:37.357-05:002015-09-02T23:28:37.357-05:00The rest of the pack may be in trouble. Maureen Do...The rest of the pack may be in trouble. Maureen Dowd is saying this:<br />“Do I think that Trump should be president?” Dowd asked. “No. Do I think he can be the badly needed match that burns down the status quo? Yes. Do I think he could precipitate an advent of a real third party? Yes.”<br /><br />My translation: In a better world, Trump may not be best. In the world as it has become, Trump may be precisely what we need.<br /><br />*****<br />Looting, border invasion, currency destruction, debt enslavement, moral anarchy, and lawlessness are run amuck, and this situation has been baited by the establishment. Nearly every so-called news and education outlet is owned or controlled by a crony who promotes the idea that pc is true and good and that anyone who accurately describes facts about race, gender, orientation, culture, status, and faith is a phobe, hick, racist, bigot, misogynist, chauvenist, grin go, white privileged cra ck er, and hate criminal. IOW, fascist control has infested most news outlets. All such fascists, progs, socialists, cronies, nutcases, and pervs have a lot of non-fact, opinion based, hateful names to call people who report the facts. That's fine by me, but only so long as the right goes both ways!<br /><br />Anyone who surrenders to fascist pc, who is too ignorant to see the problem or too corrupt to care, is a dirty establishmentarian or a double agent or water carrier for a dirty establishmentarian. Anyone who fails to see the importance of Trump for fighting this grave threat to the First Amendment and the American Ideal is a dirty establishmentarian.<br /><br />This is why the nation is divided as never before. What began as a free republic has been stirred by commie hustlers and jihadis into a frothing cauldron of social unrest. This is the "fundamental change" the perv in chief sought to produce. He and his goons and funders have set race relations and common decency back 30 years. They will have to be sorely defeated, for they cannot be tolerated without tolerating the destructon of the American Project. In rejecting e pluribus unum, they are attempting to force a war of all against all. Or a replacement of America by a collectivist, fascist despotism.<br /><br />EF George Will. If fascists can freeze targets into Emmanuel Goldstein poster boys, so can independents. If we want to reform the establishment, we will need to start naming the incorrigibly crony, establishmentarian enemies. After all, that is what the enemies acting on behalf of NWO are now doing against Trump and Cruz.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-59289560558732846492015-09-02T23:26:54.614-05:002015-09-02T23:26:54.614-05:00What we have is a plague of PC wussies. Too many p...What we have is a plague of PC wussies. Too many people prayed to a god of entitlementism, and so God sent a plague to wake them up. This PC plague is poison that holds America and the First Amendment in the balance. This inhumanity has been brought about by men and women alike. Too many women have greased the way for feminazis to metrosexualize men and society. Too many men have become entitlement minded parasites. Working together, pinkie wagging men and women are killing America, thereby creating the vacuum that has sucked in despotism -- i.e., secular and sectarian religions of worldwide horror. I do not solely blame men. Women share at least equal blame for this. They had much to do with the election of the pos in the wh. Obamagirl needs to go to Confession.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-71692207090327194412015-09-02T23:26:11.613-05:002015-09-02T23:26:11.613-05:00Taking Obama for the anti-American deviant he is, ...Taking Obama for the anti-American deviant he is, he can hardly be said to have been a failure. If anything, the 47% that constitutes the worst sort of dregs has increased and solidified. It is more benighted than ever.<br /><br />The fascist war against faith and family has sliced through the heart of America. Every institution is more polluted with depravity and insanity than ever. More unsustainable debt has been piled against our children. With the rise of pc feminazism, more men have been feminized than ever. More invaders are sucking the stuffing out of us. More nutcase nations are warring to promote the torture of human beings in order to establish societies and religions based on horror. More muslims are immigrating. More cities are becoming ghettos of anti-Americanism. We have ever more central city lawlessness. More feelings of justification based on nothing more than mendacity against producers. More ignant profs making fetishes out of depraved "critical theory" blame against workers. More childish pants-on-ground polar bear hunting. (I had to put the modifier "childish" in that sentence, because, without it, a lot of ignant fans of rap and crap would think I meant to extol pants-on-ground as a good thing.)<br /><br />But for Trump, Cruz, and Carson, it's hard to see much daylight shining through all this dank, bleak, black fog of demonic, pinkie wagging, subhumanism. Even if one of them is elected, DC is filled with depraved, establishmentarian, anti-American, one worlders. Only as Trump eats them, drops them, and puts us on a third party path to promote the American Ideal will I feel Obama has been a colonic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-1030847651151130232015-09-02T23:25:05.738-05:002015-09-02T23:25:05.738-05:00There are too many pc metrosexual wussies to spons...There are too many pc metrosexual wussies to sponsor a restoration of America. Absent a miracle, complete with an election of Trump-Cruz and a COS to pass the Liberty Amendments, this nation will have to pass through fires of nullification and/or secession. California, for example, is terminally stupid. Beyond fixing.<br /><br />EDIT: I don't care about fixing the Rino or Dino Parties. Their ideals are too one-world, anti-American. I want them eaten. Taken out. Digested. Dropped. Replaced by a party that represents the American Ideal: a representative republic that promotes human freedom and dignity. That respects faith and family. That can sever the gangrene. Cut away the terminally stupid that makes a religion out of incorrigible depravity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-73525076204685238622015-09-02T23:23:20.054-05:002015-09-02T23:23:20.054-05:00Freedom is not passed through the bloodstream. It ...Freedom is not passed through the bloodstream. It is learned via faith and families. There is an early window of opportunity to teach it. Give a child over to a wuss system of education, entitlementism, and one worldism and freedom is quickly lost. It is very hard to bring people who are marinated in collective entitlementism back into the fold of freedom lovers. For most, you eventually have to cut them loose, like gangrene. Otherwise, they will pull you, your house, and your country into a hellhole. The devil, through the proxy of gov, seduces security minded people into wanting to marry the gov to get goodies. But the goodies always turn into poison.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-44841381892485207472015-09-02T23:22:38.851-05:002015-09-02T23:22:38.851-05:00A person can orient his functional code as would a...A person can orient his functional code as would a reasonably empathetic American. Or he can orient himself as would an entitlement-minded victim. There does not seem to be much middle ground. One can be an American or a One Worlder. A Thinker or Feeler. Maker or Taker. Empathizer or Faker. Producer or Looter. Honest Citizen or Crony Gangster. Human Being or Fascist. One can base his moral code on a meta or higher purpose or on material wannas disguised under claims of "fairness."<br /><br />This applies to nearly every issue that is in contention today. Immigration, pc, affirmative action, socialistic redistribution, and tearing down America by claiming victimhood. The only way Rinos can "justify" their position on immigration and cheap labor is to sanction the Dino position on every other issue -- by argumentation based on feeling instead of thinking. So, we have pinkie-wagging Rinos pretending to be sophisticated by engaging in name calling against Conservers of Liberty.<br /><br />Yet, the American Ideal is hardly represented in our political parties. This is why Trump is resonating, while most Rino and Dino pundits are lying about it. Surprisingly, it took Maureen Dowd to see the potential virtue in Trump for burning away the lies of the main parties to make room for a new party. Apparently, it pains her as much as most other Americans to listen to Hillary.<br /><br />Collectivist Progs (Rino and Dino fascists alike) are so steeped in making false comparisons based on feelings! In nearly every argument, they fall directly into such false narratives. They savage every argument that cautions against the wholesale taxation of Other People's Money, time, resources, and energies.<br /><br />Progs lecture other people that they should share, but Progs themselves share little. Prog Ainos talk about fairness, but rarely serve anyone but themselves. They do not tend to volunteer their own money or service. They tend not to serve in the military to defend country. Not to give to charity. Not to obey laws. Not to raise responsible children. Not to honor faith, family, or country. More often than Conservers of Liberty, Progs tend to be addicts, pleasure mongers, decency destroyers, property disrespectors, child molesters, voting cheaters, and trouble seekers. When there's a law breaker, child abuser, vote cheater, or trouble maker, it's usually a Prog -- regardless of whether the "ever-tolerant" PC Prog be of the variety of crony, marxist, or muslim.<br /><br />Prog Fascists tend to have "progressed" not to abide the idea of a Reconciler who invites us to partake of decent participation. Instead, they fall headlong into serving their hedonistic natures. If they reference Jesus, it tends to be to advance a convenient and false narrative for using the state to force charity. Or they may advance some grotesque conception of a gangster-approving horror of an ideology or god. Having devoted themselves to gross pleasure and false or gortesque god, Progs call this "being all for the State" (or Sharia). You have to break omelets. Blot out empathies. Treat children and women as things. And goats.<br /><br />This is Prog "progress." Demons often posing as agents of "Christian redistribution." Hillary as Christian Statist! Gangster Rapper who is "in no ways tired." And it is morally and clinically sicko.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-48031208841053058602015-09-02T23:21:44.005-05:002015-09-02T23:21:44.005-05:00The problem with spoiling toddlers by sparing the ...The problem with spoiling toddlers by sparing the rod is that they tend to grow up to become self centered, malignantly narcissistic, lying fascists. Once these rotters come into adult bodies, what is to be done? They often plot and succeed against an unsuspecting and trusting citizenry. How can they be strapped back into high chairs until they stop making messes, learn proper manners, and show respect for other people's dignity and property?<br /><br />Well, first, we need to identify them for what they are. Expose their lies and false narratives. Trump is good at that! It takes talent to rock PC Ainos back on their heels, but Trump has shown how to do it! Then, we will have to escalate against their antics to whatever the level that is required in order to assimilate and restore common decency. Otherwise, these perpetually malignant toddlers will continue to deploy every subterfuge to cycle us away from the Reconciler and among the outrages of state scientific moralism, marxist despotism, and religiously tyrannical jihad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-90408210183675639292015-09-02T23:21:01.742-05:002015-09-02T23:21:01.742-05:00Trump needs to represent America, instead of repre...Trump needs to represent America, instead of representing the Rino-Dino laying of waste to America. We need to help him help us step back from One World Elitist Fascism. To do that, we will have to fight against the deceits of a colossus.<br /><br />Collectivist Progs (Rino and Dino fascists alike) are so steeped in making false comparisons based on feelings! In nearly every argument, they go directly to such false narratives. They savage every argument that cautions against the wholesale taxation of Other People's Money, time, resources, and energies.<br /><br />Progs say: You can't deport millions of people. Rinos say it is logistically impossible. Dinos say it is Hitlerian. As if illegals would not self deport if jobs dried up. Or as if it were analogous to loading people on trains to Auschwitz to deport them to their countries of origin. What a lot of overloaded bunk!<br /><br />Prog Rino Fascists want to abuse cheap labor by making a desperate and borderless worldwide market for it. But they want to make Conservers of Liberty out to be the bad guys! Asinine! Prog Dino Statists want to harvest cheap votes, so they can farm people as socialist serfs. Yet, they want to make Conservatives out to be the bad guys! Asinine!<br /><br />Aino Fascists and Statists deflect an examination of their evil natures by broadcasting false narratives. Statists like Hillary will say they want to spread opportunity and wealth, save the poor, end cancer. help refugees, make the benefits of democracy available to American muslims, equalize pay, provide free health care, free education, free drugs, free condoms, space to destroy, and freedom from law enforcement.<br /><br />IOW, Hillary will use the central apparatus to provide "charity" for all -- free as manna falling from the sky. Money from the stash. Enough to satisfy every want. And so, Hillary will tell us that anyone who cautions against her brand of statist gangsterism is a Nazi. Per Hillary, anyone who cautions against her program for national socialism is a Nazi! If that isn't irony shot from chutzpah, what is?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-80469293934705967542015-09-02T23:19:33.907-05:002015-09-02T23:19:33.907-05:00When the law is unclear, it helps lift the fog to ...<br /><br />When the law is unclear, it helps lift the fog to look at the politics. Global establishmentarians want to undermine national borders and national citizenship. They want people to be citizens of the world. They don't want selective citizenship in separate nations. They want people to be subject to local jurisdiction, and they want all local jurisdictions to be subject to global jurisdiction. They want to reduce the masses to a lowest common pool of cheap and divided labor.<br /><br />Scotus is comprised of establishmentarians. So, if given a favorable opportunity to tip the political scales, they will. This is why Cruz makes sense when he says an Amendment will likely be necessary to clarify the issue. Problem is, by the time an Amendment could be done, establishmentarians may well have flipped the demographic to make such an Amendment a political impossibility.<br /><br />So an American President needs to marshal the political will. He needs to hit the ground running. He can begin with Executive Orders. After all, he is bound to take care to enforce the laws as best he understands them. While Congress and Scotus dither and wait, he needs to be acting. Build the wall. Enforce e-verify. Provide guidance to enforcement agencies. Promote self deportation of illegals, but don't rush into massive deportations. Bring political heat on Congress to enact a clalrifying statute. With executive management, by the time Scotus makes its determination, or by the time an Amendment is being processed, the wall and good management may make the issue of birthright citizenship largely moot.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-75814774483645701442015-09-02T23:18:49.315-05:002015-09-02T23:18:49.315-05:00Ainos have bombed out the innocence of children as...Ainos have bombed out the innocence of children as much as we bombed out Dresden. Kids' minds are daily bombed by advocates, groomers, and entertainers for gender confusion. Bombed by conditioning for divisive group mindedness, that conditions blacks to blame whites and whites to accept blame for white privilege. Bombed by banning public support for ideals of a spiritually good Reconciler. Bombed by being taught to look upon police and authorities as racists and bullies. Bombed by being taught to dislike America and to desire its replacement and ruin. Bombed by conditioning to tolerate the intolerable. Bombed by teaching that Islam is anything other than a cult for terror, repression, mutilation, superstition, backwardedness, and horror. Bombed by conditioning to accept the fascist pc of cronies, commies, and muslims.<br /><br />On top of all this progressive bombing of kids' minds, what's the hubbub over a little discussion about suicide children and the real bomb?<br /><br />*****<br /><br />Walker had considerable support from corporatist establishmentarians for standing up to public unions. Has Walker ever been effective for standing up to corporatist establishmentarians? If they want to nullify borders, cheapen labor, diminish the political influence of the middle class. and browbeat the middle class with pc, then will Walker defend American values against such corporatist elites?<br /><br />Insofar as the biggest challenge to America's First Amendment Freedoms is in the donor class, how is Walker equipped to fight on behalf of the American Ideal and ordinary Americans?<br /><br />*****<br /><br />Corruption reaches far beyond the media (corrupt as it is) and envelops most of Congress -- which is owned by establishmentarians. (There's no other way to explain Boehner and McConnell.) So any revival of a HUAC would be purely Orwellian. Establishmentarians would see to it that it was used not to protect America, but to undermine America.<br /><br />Until adults retake power, maybe a continuing caucus would be better. A Conservers of American Liberty Caucus (CALC).<br /><br />The reason the regime has declined to identify the anti-American, anti-human, statist enemy (Islam, Marxism, and Fascist Cronyism) is because the regime is the enemy.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-37682553622113520772015-09-02T23:16:22.474-05:002015-09-02T23:16:22.474-05:00Free trade with China is much like affirmative act...Free trade with China is much like affirmative action with minorities and religious tolerance for Muslims: It's a one-way street that leads to the destruction of America. Trump wants a two way street. Feedback. Communication. Not elitists preaching to Americans about why we should tolerate our destruction. Enough! Don't take this crap anymore! Fit Larry Kudlow and George Will for tar, feathers, and rail.<br /><br />*****<br /><br />Socialism at home and free trade abroad is a recipe for enriching oligarchic princelings while pushing us lower than Chinese peasants. It's the recipe that is being sold to our Dino ignoranti by our Rino corrupti. We need to stop this stupid and corrupt alliance of Ainos. We need to kick Dinos and Rinos in their as ses by aiming at their so-called heads and make America great again.<br /><br />*****<br /><br />There is nothing "free" about policies that allow outside nations and corporations to access our markets and resources at will, while protecting their own. You can't have a "freedom policy" with a partner who is not a partner but instead is a predator or parasite. This notion that you can have only one or the other, freedom or predation, is stupid. Obviously, you can have policies of self defense and mutual respect that rise to each occasion.<br /><br />Policy makers need to think beyond adolescent, bipolar notions of all one or the other. We have to adjust to an ever challenging and fluxing world. Simple mindedness will kill us as a republic and reduce us to a lowest-common-denominator nation of cheap and depraved laborers.<br /><br />The idea that we must expose our citizens to have to compete against the cheapest and most depraved of laborers worldwide is a canard. A deception rammed against us by depraved oligarchs and their shills. Smart protection for our republic need not make us less efficient or competitive.<br /><br />This is because of a number of factors. First, labor is being rapidly replaced by machines. Second, tax policy can be deployed to help workers transition from welfare and noncompetitive industries to infrastructure workfare and evolving industries. Third, protection need not be an all or nothing game. It can be a buffering device. Fourth, the nations that compete against us by farming their people as subhumans and serfs incurr tremendous losses in social capital, trust, incentives, and creativity. Were we to fall for false economics and go to their level to reduce our citizens to their kind of subhumanity, we would lose the good will, trust, energy, and creativity that, up to now, has defined the character of Americans. There is a reason why our public schools are among the worst, but our universities tend to set the standards, worldwide.<br /><br />There is a stupid and depressing trend among too many so-called thinkers to limit themselves to purely linear and bipolar thinking. Too many people are not learning how to think in ways that comport with the fluxing and feedback nature of our cosmos. Our world is not linear or bipolar. It is fluxing and feedback. National citizenships are determined not by pure jus soli versus jus sanguinis, but by fluxing combinations. Trade polices tend inherently not to be purely free or protected, but combinatory. It's time for us to wise up, if we want to preserve a decent republic for our progeny. Trump tends to be correct in his plain spoken assessments. We have way too many "stupids" sitting on top of our gov, bureaucracies, media, and colleges.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-80143884159231892952015-09-02T23:15:03.321-05:002015-09-02T23:15:03.321-05:00The too smug but intellectually light on their arg...The too smug but intellectually light on their arguments NBC double-agents who pretend to be Conservatives want to spread confusion concerning Cruz' qualification. If they can marginalize Cruz, and the establishment neutralizes Trump, the republic will be done!<br /><br />I like Carson, but not yet for President. I want someone who knows more about how to fight bad guys than about how to fix their bodies. Trump, Cruz, Carson -- in that order. An American unapologist. Anything else is just an apologist.<br /><br />******<br /><br />Regarding D Day: So a lot of fascist establishmentarian cronies, commies and jihadis are going to go Donald hunting. Hmm. If I see a lot of nazis and musloids shooting, mutilating, burning, and head cutting, I'm supposed to despise their targets as opposed to them? Somehow, I don't think that's going to work. In effect, I suspect they're going to be pouring gallons of gas on their own heads while Donald gives them a match and tells them to sit down.<br /><br />*******<br /><br />Why do we trade with China? Because they buy our pols. Our pols tend not to represent Americans. They represent donors. The biggest donors are the biggest traitors, criminals, and cannibals. We have been selling ourselves and our republic into servitude for decades. We have been giving godforsaken cronies, commies, and jihadis the rope they intend to use to harness and then hang us. And our colleges have been teaching our youth to think they should like it this way. Because ... racism. All the while blaming Americans who are trying to sound the alarm by yelling, Stop!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-67911733317206886472015-09-02T23:12:43.200-05:002015-09-02T23:12:43.200-05:00A fuzzy black hole can always be found that can be...A fuzzy black hole can always be found that can be exploited. What of children born of persons residing in the U.S. as lawful visitors or temporary workers? What of children found or abandoned in the U.S. who are of unknown parentage?<br /><br />Does the Constitution, any Amendment, or custom of law, purport to rule on such issues in any way that would restrict Congress, under its enumerated powers, from providing that such persons are not natural born citizens, but persons who have, at most, only such right to be naturalized as Congress may define and delimit?<br /><br />Since the Constitution is not clear, I would say that national self interest should entitle Congress to rule on how such persons may be naturalized. However, the interests of establishmentarians are quite opposed to national self interest. This is why we need an energetic President who is an American Idealist instead of a globalist. This is why the establishmentarian colossus will oppose any such a candidate with every artifice at its disposal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-60449808244575144632015-09-02T23:11:34.150-05:002015-09-02T23:11:34.150-05:00A lot of Americans are not naturalized. They rely ...A lot of Americans are not naturalized. They rely on being supposed citizens at birth. Many residents of America cannot trace their ancestry back to parents who were naturalized. Absent some provision for presuming or grandfathering citizenship of their ancestors, they would not, on challenge, be able to show that they are born of a lineage that originated here legally.<br /><br />Not enjoying citiizenship based on a line of naturalization, they would need one of two things:<br /><br />(1) A precedent or statute that creates a presumption that persons of long residence are natural citizens.<br /><br />(2) Some implication or interpretation under the Constitution that makes their residence under a long line of ancestral residents into a ground for natural citizenship. (When Texas was admitted to the union, I wonder how it was determined which of its residents should then be considered as U.S. citizens?)<br /><br />Note: This may cause hair pulling among the NBC people, to try to determine who "really" is qualified as a "natural born citizen" to run for the presidency.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-57604057117706479902015-09-02T23:10:09.718-05:002015-09-02T23:10:09.718-05:00Some aspects of the citizenship quandry may be so ...Some aspects of the citizenship quandry may be so hairballed that Scotus may appreciate a reasoned attempt by Congress to provide some clarity.<br /><br />For example:<br /><br />Whereas the issue of national citizenship has not been entirely clear; and<br />whereas Congress has among its enumerated powers a responsibility to provide for naturalization;<br />Now therefore be it enacted as follows:<br />All persons documented by appropriate state or lawful authority to have been born in the United States before 1/1/2000 shall henceforth be deemed naturalized citizens. If born of a parent who also is a citizen, they shall in addition be deemed a native born and natural born citizen.<br />All persons not born before 1/1/70 who are not shown or documented to have been born of an American citizen shall be recognized as citizens of the nation or nations of their parents.<br />All persons not being naturalized or native born citizens shall have a right to apply to become naturalized citizens only by provisions of Congress elsewhere enacted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-26074309540617217832015-09-02T23:08:21.142-05:002015-09-02T23:08:21.142-05:00Was the purpose to provide that a child would be a...Was the purpose to provide that a child would be a citizen if born here of parents who, even though not citizens, were legal domiciliaries? If so, what sort of legal domiciliary status was necessary to confer status that could allow a parent to pass on citizenship? If mere invader status was not sufficient, then what about having a long recognized residence and employment? What of being here under authority provided by Congress for a work visa? For an education visa? For a work visa with permission to bring family? The precise line for what the drafters of the 14th Amendment and its ratifiers intended does not seem to be clearly established.<br /><br />Under a most conservative interpretation, a child born here of an invader should not be supposed to be a citizen. Nor should a child born here of a person merely visiting or passing through. But what of a child born of a person under some short term work permission?<br /><br />If you and your parents and their parents were not naturalized, and if no one can trace lineage to anyone who resided in the U.S. at the time of the Articles of Confederation, and if birth here is not in itself sufficient to confer jurisdiction, then, apart from hearsay on some certificate, What Is Your Basis For Claiming You (Or Any Person In Such Situation) Are A Citizen Or Born Of A Parent Citizen? Do you now understand the issue?<br /><br />I think the basis has to be on long term residence with no question to the contrary. However, how much time is needed to establish a presumption of citizenship based on length of term of residence? That is the fuzzy issue for which, until the Mexican invasion, no one in Congress or Scotus appears to have felt any need to provide clarification. Must citizenship be like squaters' rights, so that open and notorious claim of citizenship for a number of years, during which no authority beings an action for deportation, should be ground for proving citizenship? Can such long established "squaters" become parents of a child who would be eligible to run for president?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-35801962154697828862015-09-02T23:08:00.628-05:002015-09-02T23:08:00.628-05:00Apart from presuming my parents are citizens (an a...<br />Apart from presuming my parents are citizens (an assumption they share, but still just an assumption), what can be the basis for saying they or their parents were not mere invaders? How can a mere birth certificate establish whether both my parents were citizens, based merely on recording their hearsay?<br /><br />And what does "foreigner" mean? Different nations define the term differently for purposes of keeping their statistics. Some base status of being a foreigner on whether one was born of a citizen father, born of a citizen mother, born in country, born in country of a foreigner, born out of country of a citizen, and various combinations of jus soli and jus sanguinis. (Perhaps in as many combinations as post modern advocates for equality want to create for assigning gender. Lol.)<br /><br />Think a little more and maybe you'll identify the problem. Hint: Who do you know who claims to be a citizen, who did not undergo naturalization, and whose parents did not undergo naturalization? If mere birth is not sufficient to confer citizenship (and I do not believe it is), then what is their, and their progeny's, basis for asserting citizenship? What makes them citizens, if they were not naturalized and if birth in the U.S. is not sufficient?<br /><br />The obvious answer is that they would like to be able to trace someone in their direct family tree to having become a citizen -- either by having been naturalized or by virtue of some original qualification other than birth. So, for those who cannot trace back to a naturalized parent, what is their basis for claiming citizenship under an ancestor?<br /><br />Obviously, the Founders "grandfathered" and considered every white person who was living in the colonies at the time of the Declaration of Independence and at the time of the Articles of Confederation to have been citizens. However, at some point, the Constitution cut off merely living here as a basis for asserting citizenship. We know that, because the Constitution empowered Congress to provide for how naturalization would occur. The necessary implication was that merely living here would no longer be sufficient.<br /><br />So, all the persons merely living here, who came after ratification of the Constitution, were not automatically citizens unless born of a citizen (jus sanguinis). Nothing in the Constitution says progeny of such non-citizens would become citizens merely because of birth here (jus soli). Something more would be thenceforth required, unless a child were born of a shown to be, or well known to be, citizen. And that something more, at least until the 14th Amendment, was to be determined by Congress, under its power to determine requisites for naturalization.<br /><br />So, did the 14th Amendment clarify the situation? Did it take from Congress the power to determine in any way that a person born in the U.S., but not born of a citizen, would or would not be entitled to claim citizenship?<br /><br />Well, the 14th Amendment did NOT provide that birth here would, in itself, be sufficient to confer citizenship. This is because it also requires that a person born here be "subject to the jurisdiction." Now, it had already been commonly recognized that a child's citizenship would be influenced, jus sanguinis, by the citizenship of his father. So, the words "subject to the jurisdiction" were not needed to establish that. What, then, was the purpose of those words, "subject to the jurisdiction"?<br /><br />The purpose must have been to require some status in a child's parentage that was more than illegal, but less than citizenship. This is because nothing clearly shows an intention to confer citizenship on a child of an invader. And it was not necessary to provide for citizenship when a child's parents were already citizens. So, what was the purpose of the words, "subject to the jurisdiction"?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-80127935491570050672015-09-02T23:05:12.466-05:002015-09-02T23:05:12.466-05:00Rules of evidence create many exceptions that allo...Rules of evidence create many exceptions that allow the admission of hearsay. So official documents, like birth certificates, if certified by recognized authority, will generally be admissible to show the truth of facts attested to. Such documentation may be accorded various levels of presumptive truth, provided there is no evidence of tampering. So each state official who issues such certificates has substantial power to affect the burden of proof for an applicant. What kind of evidence may he accept before issuing a birth certificate that purports to document citizenship of the child or its parents? What power do federal courts and officials have to ensure equal treatment and non-selective profiling against applicants of certain racial characteristics? When must an official provide a certifying document based only on the affidavit of a suspicious midwife? What right does an applicant have to bring an action years later to obtain a certificate that should have been previously obtained but was not? How is due process to be accorded before determining the nation to which a person who claims to be a U.S. citizen should be deported? Given such issues, how practical could a program of massive deportation be?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-1469940542436305332015-09-02T23:04:25.094-05:002015-09-02T23:04:25.094-05:00My point is to explain how we can apply principles... My point is to explain how we can apply principles that will help us to avoid having to diagram the tree! To do that, our gov will need a principled plan that will help us avoid having to diagram the tree.<br /><br />When we get around to contested hearings concerning whom to deport, we will need a coherent understanding about what makes a citizen, and we will need a policy for how to enforce that understanding.<br /><br />Birth in America does not make a citizen. Having a citizen parent does (or can). What we need are policies to clarify and explicate:<br />(1) How can a person become a citizen of right, without needing to earn citizenship under procedures for naturalization?<br />(2) How should we identify persons, who are born in America without an American parent, who should be given a right to prove entitlement to become documented as citizens?<br />(3) In case of a deportation hearing, what evidence should suffice for such a person (or his appointed attorney) to prove that he is a citizen, who therefore should not be deported? (Should it suffice that he is here legally? That his parents are here on a long term visa? That his parents are here legally to visit on a passport? What should suffice?)<br /><br />You are reverting to abstractions. I am suggesting how to find a practical path for what should be the point of deportation hearings.<br /><br />To punt to Congress (while Congress is impotent or misguided) or an Amendment (which will be delayed) is not sufficient. The President will need to take measures to enforce his understanding of existing law. If I am correct about existing law, then the President can proceed with executive orders and guidance to enforcement agencies just as soon as he is elected.<br /><br />To wait and rely on a mere test case to Scotus, without managing the optics and marshalling public opinion, would likely be disastrous (given the establishmentarian one-world bent).<br /><br />For any of this to work, we will need to come to a coherent understanding about what it takes to make a citizen. That has been assumed, but never completed. It has been assumed because the issue has never, until the Mexican invasion, been considered important enough to be examined closely and competently. If we are going to have a coherent policy for citizens, then we need a coherent definition for what a citizen is. To say a citizen is a person born of a citizen parent is merely to regress the question concerning what makes the parent a citizen. To regress a question is not to answer it. If the President is to proceed in a principled way to protect citizenship, without waiting on a useless Congress and a twisted Scotus, then the President will need to explicate a coherent and reasoned interpretation of "citizen."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-86362851809929669772015-09-02T23:00:23.348-05:002015-09-02T23:00:23.348-05:00Intellectuals recognize that they can't pigeon...Intellectuals recognize that they can't pigeonhole freedom, so they convince themselves it has no meaning, except as a sometimes useful construct for twisting people's emotions. Giving over freedom as a mere invention, a construct, they also give over its train, including dignity and humanity.<br /><br />I think freedom is something, albeit, not a measurable something. I think we know it when we lose it, and then we curse having lost it. Regardless of whether our choices come first from our brains and then to our actions, or first from the context of our fields and then to the rationalizations of our brains, the fact is that we consciously appreciate a sense of participatory feedback between ourselves and the contextual field within which our experiences unfold.<br /><br />Free will apparently resides somewhere, even if not in our brains. Regardless of whether our brains send forth free will, they do experience a sense of participatory will. That which we appreciate and how we appreciate it feeds back to circumscribe how things are reconciled to follow.<br /><br />As to what really exists in any ultimately and completely measurable sense, that seems to regress to nothing more than spins of spins of spins. Somehow, each spin (even if ultimately reducing more to a value or vector in a field of mathematics than to a spin in a field of geomety), in expressing a measure of itself, takes account of ("empathizes with") the measure of its significant neighbors. Things seem measurably to appreciate one another ("wilfully participate with" and feed back to one another) -- even at their most fundamental level. At such level, participatory will seems to exhibit a meta, fundamental, innate dignity.<br /><br />To suggest that such a spiritual connection can or should reasonably be cast aside and ignored is to reduce the dignity of individuals. It is to make the borgdom (the state apparatus) the only thing of import. All for the state, and nothing outside the state. And this seems to explicate a fundamental divide between Americans and One World Establishmentarian Collectivist Fascists. So now we see why nearly all elitists are so blind to human dignity and American Exceptionalism -- because they believe participatory freedom is only a make believe idea. To which I laugh at them and say, The entire cosmos abides only because the Mind of God makes believe it is so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-44537710350296925872015-09-02T22:59:22.721-05:002015-09-02T22:59:22.721-05:00All able bodied so-called progressive minorities w...All able bodied so-called progressive minorities want to be more equal than white men with jobs. All have morally defective philosophies in that way. All need to grow up, but most never will. Their parents spoiled and stunted them in that way. Enough with the molly coddling! So long as you need to be specially molly coddled, you're just a little girl, a little boy, or a little sexual misfit -- and that's what you'll always be looked upon as being: Little, unreliable, and irresponsible. A perpetual toddler may get fascists to force lip service and speech codes, but can't force respect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-74085208815518184682015-09-02T22:58:20.721-05:002015-09-02T22:58:20.721-05:00So how many of these migrating muslims will offer ...So how many of these migrating muslims will offer sanctuary to any non-muslims, if it ever comes to it?<br /><br />Set aside an island for them. Call it Xion and put them there. If they want to immigrate to the West, let them renounce Islam (institutionalized terrorism that calls itself a religion). A citizen cannot be loyal at the same time to two opposing masters. Islam is diametrically opposed to the American Ideal. No one can at the same time be loyal to Islam and to America. Renounce Islam or get out! Obama should be sent out first, on a rail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-17782342292807166782015-09-02T22:57:08.241-05:002015-09-02T22:57:08.241-05:00Unless the next President marshalls strong politic...Unless the next President marshalls strong political support, the establishment Congress and Scotus, if given half a chance, will deem that all persons born in the U.S. are entitled to birthright citizenship. Just as they ruled SSM is constitutionally protected. Establishmentarian one worlders do not care what the Constitution says, and they are deeply infested in every institution.<br /><br />Absent a movement and mandate to root them out, they will continue to spread their evil. The next President, if he is faithful to America instead of to one worldism, will need to find ways to use the executive power to begin reversing the infestation and anti-American influence that has dug deep into the other two branches of government. Until then, carrying their dead weight is like carrying the weight of a zombie Siamese twin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-61262579522990408322015-09-02T22:55:50.467-05:002015-09-02T22:55:50.467-05:00The class of establishment goons that thinks itsel...The class of establishment goons that thinks itself smart has no clue how close the social contract is to being broken. We are close to the point where good people can no longer afford to be legally responsible. When that point is crossed, we will not be able to afford legal principles. We will have to separate and assimilate to tribal principles. That would entail nullification and secession between tribes. I do not want to get to that point, but the clueless alliance of pinkie wagging Rinos and entitlement minded and incompetent Dinos is perilously close to putting us there. We need a wake up miracle and a COS to pass the Liberty Amendments. If the infantile George Will class foists another choice on us between a Rino and a Dino, I think we will have crossed the Rubicon. At that point, Georgie and his friends will have lit their own match.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com