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Old Jan 17, 2008, 10:12 pm   #13 (permalink) (top)
Stizzles
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Well, the perpetual "Melting Pot" Renaissance you support becomes less rosy when it features a government boot on people's necks.
Maybe it's just been my experience, but I think government boots have been less responsible for American deaths than immigrants like the 9/11 conspirators. The more security, the better.

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Since they obviously want to be in our fine country, why shouldn't they conform, and do the little things like, learn and use English? That's not to say we're asking them to forget their herritage, but they are living in the US now and English is our primary language.
...which some of us have yet to master.

Why shouldn't they conform? Well, first off, because they don't have to if they don't want to. It isn't the government's place to make sure people conform to our national identity; it is the government's place to prevent or recooperate damages from demonstrable harm, but making sure that everyone speaks the right language? That everyone has the right beliefs and ideas? You're sounding less like the Federalist Papers and more like the Know Nothings.


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