I came across this and felt a need to post it. It is not my words, but I wish I had wrote it.

From: JAH <jahpublications@eircom.net>
To: "Strait Truth" <Strait_Truth@egroups.com>
Subject: How to define an American
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:55:16 +0100

How to define an American

What makes an American? What are the qualities -- the
"ingredients," if you will -- that distinguish
Americans from Germans, Mexicans, or the French?

Why is it that we feel a special right to be proud of
who we are and what our country stands for? It's not
just that we live in the most prosperous land on
earth. It's not just that our country is a superpower,
capable of imposing its will on smaller nations. It's
not just that we enjoy the widest, most sparkling
array of consumer goods ever known on the planet
Earth.
No. Being an American is something more than all that.
An American is made, not merely born into a powerful
country.

The problem of illegal immigration has been on
everybody's minds these days. While immigrants give
America cultural richness, new entrepreneurs, and
hard-working laborers, some immigrants also bring
crime, cultural disruption, and a drain on public
services that's weakening our economy.

Many people want to build walls to keep illegals out.
They want to militarize the border with enormous
deployments of soldiers, razor wire, and surveillance
equipment, not realizing just how vast our borders
are. We have 7461 miles of borders in all, land and
sea. Close one section and the tide of illegals will
channel into another.

If it's impossible to keep drugs out of heavily
guarded prisons, how will we fortify any border well
enough to keep out millions of desperate human beings?
And what kind of country will we have when we're
surrounded by one huge "Berlin Wall"? 2 edge sword
Walls aren't the answer. But neither, ultimately, are
guest worker programs or any other political
proposals.

When you're facing a problem you can't solve, it's
often because you're asking the wrong question. The
question isn't "how do we close our borders?" The
question is "what makes an American?"

Illegal immigration is dangerous to this country. But
not for the most obvious reasons. It's dangerous
because so many of the people flooding in don't
understand what being an American is. They come from
corrupt, oppressive, over-governed countries. They
want better lives. But they don't grasp what actually
makes a country better.
Many come here looking for material wealth. Yet they
don't understand that material wealth is only a
bi-product of freedom.

Many come here looking for opportunity. But they don't
understand that opportunity is also a bi-product of
freedom.

Others come here looking for a free ride (for
themselves or their children) on America's vast and
growing train of "free" social services. But they
don't understand that all those "free" government
programs are destroying freedom -- and ultimately will
destroy even the prosperity they seek.

Freedom is what makes America different from all other
countries. Individual liberty, individual
responsibility, a shared language and individual
initiative have made Americans an awesome force for
more than 200 years. Millions of the illegals pouring
across our borders don't understand that.

They come from countries where only corrupt
politicians and their agents are "allowed" to use
firearms. So they think it's natural for ordinary
people to be disarmed and helpless.
They come from countries where justice is unknown, so
they think it's natural for people to be denied their
rights.

They come from countries that have never valued
individual liberty. So they think getting "free
goodies" from government is a blessing rather than a
subtle form of enslavement.
That's the real problem with "illegals." They want the
results while rejecting the causes. That's impossible.
The result: freedom is destroyed by the very people
who hunger for what freedom produces.

Problem is, millions of people born here are no
better. Most people who call themselves Americans
think "freedom" means nothing more than having a
60-inch plasma TV or a new car every few years. Or
being allowed to vote for pathetic and parasitic
politicians pre-selected by power brokers.
http://i.am/jah/politics.htm
These native-born numbskulls also want the government to
provide cradle-to-grave "freebies" for themselves and
their children. And just like too many illegal
immigrants, they don't understand that the individual
right to bear arms is the dividing line between free
people and oppression.
http://i.am/jah/syst.htm

I started this talk by asking, "What makes an
American?" Well, the "recipe" for making an American
-- that is, for making the kind of person that can
help keep this country great and strong and prosperous
-- is very simple:
Take one human being of any age, gender, religion,
national origin, or color. Teach that person to truly
love and be responsible for individual freedom, and
you have an American.
Without the love of liberty, you don't.

And individual liberty exists only where government --
the most powerful collective force on earth -- is
limited.
America has something that no other nation has -- an
official document whose whole purpose is to say,
"Government, keep out."

It's called the Bill of Rights. Four hundred
seventy-two words that say, "Government, keep out.
We'll run our own lives." Four hundred seventy-two
words that spell out what government is forbidden to
do.

Government, keep out of our homes, our finances, and
our businesses.
Government, keep out of our religion. Keep your hands
off our free speech.
Government, you can't railroad us into guilty pleas
and self-incrimination in court.
Government, keep out of all the limitless rights that
belong only to individual people and to the states.
Government, your role is strictly limited. Trespass
and the people have every right to protect themselves
against you.

Illegal immigrants -- and too many native-borns --
don't understand that "government, keep out" is what
makes a free country. And only that form of freedom
leads to lasting prosperity.
As a consequence, government is taking over. And
freedom is dying.
Not long ago, immigrants who came here wanted to be
part of the real America -- an America with endless
opportunity -- and responsibility -- for individuals.
Grown men coming into New York Harbor, seeing the
Statue of Liberty, would fall on their knees and cry
like babies. Their first taste of freedom. They came
here, worked hard, and learned about what made us
special in all the world.

And they became Americans. The problem of immigration
isn't that some in-comers don't have government
paperwork. Most of our ancestors didn't. The problem
is that too many migrants -- and too many native-borns
-- don't have a clue.
What makes an American?

An American is flesh and bone. But so are all other
people. An American is also an idea in action. The
idea of individual freedom. Everyone who shares that
ideal enhances America. Everyone who fails to cherish
that idea fails our nation.

The ONLY solution is to enforce The Plan against the traitorous legislating
N.W.O. Zion-Nazi mass-murder, inside-job perpetrators of OKC, Columbine, 911
and the phoney War on Terror:- http://i.am/jah/plan.htm

Time is running out:- http://i.am/jah/signs.htm

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