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Too Different Worlds and Two Different Americas

By Scott Rohter, April 2013


“Without wisdom the nations fall and the people perish.”

"The greatest threat to our future and our freedom is our own Federal Government"

Imagine a country with a population of between ten and twenty million illegal aliens living and hiding somewhere in it. No I am not talking about ancient Rome. Then imagine that this same country has a Constitution that requires it to hold elections every two years for members of Congress. Originally we only voted for members of the House of Representatives, but after the 17th Amendment was passed in 1913, We the People of the United States of America also began electing our U.S. Senators by direct popular vote. Ever since then we have held National elections every two years in order to elect members of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate to represent our 315 million people which now includes an estimated twenty million illegal aliens who don’t even belong in our country. Not only are these foreigners in our country illegally… but they are also voting in our elections illegally.

The same Constitution which requires us to hold elections every two years for members of the House and Senate also requires us to elect a President every four years to implement the laws that Congress passes. Our President is elected through a complicated system of popular State votes and Electoral College votes, and our Constitution makes no provision at all for how these popular votes are to be counted other than to state in Article 1 Section 2 that the votes are to be tabulated in the same way that they are counted for elections of the various State Legislatures. That leaves the voting for Federal offices subject to a wide variety of different and sometimes conflicting State laws.

Just to make matters even more complicated, the word “Citizen” is not used to describe who can and cannot vote in our Federal elections. The Constitution just says that, “Members of the House of Representatives shall be chosen every second year by the People of the several States." Note: It does not say that they shall be chosen by the Citizens of the several States. It says they are chosen by the People of the several States. Yet in the very next clause it does say that you must be seven years a Citizen of the United States in order to be a member of the House of Representatives. The Constitution says you need to be a Citizen to be elected, but it does not say you have to be a Citizen in order to vote. That presented a problem.

So Congress passed and the Nation ratified the 14th Amendment, and then the 26th Amendment, in order to clear up this confusion. Yet plenty of confusion still persists today as to just who can and cannot vote in our Federal elections for members of Congress and for President.

Now imagine if you will, a Federal lawsuit between the U.S. Government and one of the fifty States over the use of a Federal voter registration form. that merely asks a prospective voter to state for the record under penalty of perjury that they are a legal resident of the United States. It does not require them to prove anything. It only requires the registrant to state for the record that they are a legal resident of the United States. A legal resident can be thought of as someone who has more rights than a person, but less rights than a citizen. This voter registration form is the subject of a pending Federal lawsuit between the State of Arizona and the Obama Administration.

Arizona which has a huge illegal immigration problem wants to require its residents to do more than just fill out the standard Federal voter registration form in order to vote. Arizona wants to require them to do more than just state for the record that they are in Arizona legally. Arizona wants prospective voters to show proof of their legal status. Arizona rightfully claims that if someone is willing to vote illegally then they will also be willing to lie about it and claim that they are a legal resident when in fact they are not. Arizona’s Attorney General is correct. It’s just basic common sense. If someone is going to commit voter fraud then it is unreasonable to expect they are going to admit to it on the same voter registration form.

Nowhere in the text of the United States Constitution does it define what a Citizen is as the Founding Fathers understood that word to mean. Furthermore, whatever it meant... the Constitution does not even use the term Citizen to describe who can vote, but only to describe who can run for Congress. So apparently whatever it meant to be a citizen, it was not a requirement to be able to vote. So then just what exactly is the difference between the two terms… “Citizens”, and “the People of the Several States”, as our Founding Fathers understood those terms to mean.

Remember that when these men wrote our Constitution, our country was only comprised of thirteen colonies that were literally scattered along the Atlantic seaboard from Massachusetts to Georgia. The territory of the original continental United States of America did not extend much beyond the Appalachian Mountains. When immigrants came here they were literally leaving their old life in the Old World entirely behind. They were leaving another continent behind. In fact they were leaving everything behind, including family and friends. They were making a fresh start in a new world. There were no double allegiances, no dual citizenships, and no mixed loyalties. Most immigrants who came to America sold all of their earthly possessions except for the clothes on their back in order to pay for their passage, and when they disembarked several months later after they left Europe, they literally set foot in a new world. There was usually no way to go back and no desire to.

Our Founders never envisioned that the country they created would one day stretch across an entire continent to meet up with another ocean, or that it would share a common border with Central and South America. They never dreamed that our country’s southern border would one day be a one way highway between English speaking and Spanish speaking Americas… They never dreamed that our southern border would one day be the dangerous border it is between two different languages, two different cultures, and two different hemispheres. They never dreamed that our southern border would be the border between two different Americas.

But there was something else that was very different about the attitude of those early immigrants who came to our country in the 19th Century, and around the time that our Constitution was being drafted. That same attitude persisted all the way until the early part of the 20th Century. There was something very different about the attitude of those early immigrants who came to America that is different than the attitude of the majority of people who are coming to our country today. When people immigrated to America in the 18th and 19th Centuries before our country expanded west of the Mississippi, and before the advent of trains, the people who made that overseas journey were truly lost souls who had sacrificed everything they had in order to come here. There was no question about to which country they owed their loyalty, and that patriotic feeling and love for America extended well into the 20th Century even after the introduction of the automobile and the airplane. But something is very different today.

Today we have twenty million desperately poor, but not lost souls who are often living here with no allegiance to our country of any kind, or with mixed loyalties, who have given up nothing in order to come here because they had nothing to start with. They are not really leaving family or friends, or country behind. They are not really making a new start in a new land. They can go back to their old country any time they want, and they often communicate with their family and friends back home via telephone and internet on a daily basis. These 21st Century migrants are not adopting a new country, or trading in one homeland for another, one language for another, or one allegiance for another. Rather they continue to jealously speak their native tongue long after they have lived here for many years.

Instead of assimilating into our society today's so called "immigrants" impose their country’s unfamiliar culture and foreign customs upon us. This can range anywhere from celebrating Cinco de Mayo to adult men having sex with underage, pre-pubescent girls. The attitude of today’s illegal immigrants from Latin America is a far cry from what our Founding Fathers could have ever imagined. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison could have never guessed that our southern border one day would be the dangerous and volatile border between two different Americas, and too different worlds.

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