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Dear Global Community,

I recently received an e-mail inviting me to write a letter addressed to the United States telling the world how I feel about any and all topics relating to the United States which would be posted at a site called Blog to America. I took a little time checking out the site and found it very interesting. So, here we go.

I’ve had my own blog site, A Republic, if you can keep it since February of 2005. I’ve posted many messages there about our broken immigration policy and our wide open borders. I’ve written a countless number of letters to my elected officials urging them to get to work on the problem. I’ve let them know that I will remember them the next time I see their name on a ballot if they don’t do what most United States citizens feel is the right thing to do.

The best thing they can come up with is an amnesty deal for the estimated 12 million illegal aliens that are in the country now and a guest worker program for the ones that want to come in and work for low wages until their visa expires. They will go home, apply for another visa and return again. Big business will love it. They will be able to keep their labor cost down without the expense of moving the factory over seas. This will make it difficult for United States citizens to find jobs that pay a livable wage.

Our elected officials and the main stream media tell us it would be next to impossible to round up all of the illegal aliens that are in the country and send them home. I don’t feel a massive round up is needed. Let ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) continue their raids on factories. Increase the fine for hiring illegal aliens to about $10,000 per illegal alien. Soon they won’t be able to find work. Fine landlords and realtors that provide them with housing, not having a roof over their head should be reason enough to leave the country on their own. Some of them will be pulled over for traffic violations or be involved in domestic disputes. Get rid of the catch and release policy that is now in place and replace it with a catch and deport policy.

Today I heard that one of my United States Senators, Kit Bond is planning on supporting the latest amnesty bill. All I can say is, Kit I hope you have another job lined out because I will do all I can do to stop you from being re-elected.

If I sound like a bigot or racist I’m sorry you feel that way. I don’t feel that I am. I’m not opposed to immigration. I’m opposed to someone breaking our law by entering the country illegally. If your thinking of immigrating to the United States I just want you to jump through all of the required hoops to become a citizen. Then I will welcome you as a citizen and a friend. After all this country is mostly made of immigrants. Each of them had something special to offer, that’s what makes this country great.

God Bless America, God Save The Republic.


About the Author:

Name: David Schantz
Age: 56
Country: United States
City: Saint Joseph
State: Missouri
Gender: Male
Income: Medium
Occupation: Pollution Control Plant Operator
Experience With US: Currently Live in the United States
Website: http://arepublic.blogspot.com/

Labels: 50's, immigration, male, medium income, missouri, north america, technical

Dear Global Community,

I was going thru some of the letters that were submitted and just wanted to voice my opinion about a few things. But first, a thing or two about myself. I'm a Southerner here in the States and a Republican as well. I voted for President Bush and I support his policy on Iraq as well as Iran.

I think that President Bush was right to go into Iraq. He tried to go the diplomatic route, but it didn't work. He tried to go thru the United Nations, but all the wanted to do was the same thing they'd been doing for over a decade. Give empty warnings to Iraq. Saddam had been committing atrocities for years in that country, and what did the UN do about it? Nothing. He was accumulating weapons of mass destruction. And it wasn't just the intelligence agency of America saying so. France and Britain and a host of other countries. So in my opinion, President Bush didn't have a choice in the matter. It was either address the issue, or sit back and do nothing until we had another Hitler on our hands.

As for Iran, I honestly can't understand how anyone in this world could fault us for taking an aggressive stance with them. Who could possibly think that a nuclear Iran wouldn't be dangerous? And besides, we've tried the diplomatic route by offering them aid, financial assistance, lifting trade embargos, etc etc. And yet their leader continues to spew rhetoric about how they have a right to nuclear power.

And lastly, I do agree with the people who've mentioned that America shouldn't be the world's police. But frankly, I don't see anybody else stepping up to the plate to do it.


About the Author

Name: Larry
Age: 36
State: Alabama
Gender: Male
Income: Medium
Occupation: Technical

Labels: 30's, alabama, iraq war, male, medium income, middle east policy, republican, technical, united nations

Dear Global Community,

This will be what may turn out to be a dose of hard truth. I am an American, born in the state of Florida and currently residing in the Tri-State area. What I am about to write here constitutes some strong feelings that have been haunting me for nearly eight years now.

I am neither Democrat nor Republican in my political views, I merely believe in common sense. I understand that no candidate is perfect, and each has their flaws and accolades. I am not merely a "Bush Hater" nor an extreme leftist as I would be eagerly branded by my fellow countrymen.

This has got to stop. The President of the United States is the highest office and elected leader can hold in our country, and with this position one is expected to set an example for the country. Our current leader is neither doing this nor is he interested in the well being of it's citizens.

From the time he has taken office, he has summarily lied to his nation nonstop for personal gain and at our expense. This person has waged war on multiple countries under false pretense. This man has orchestrated the greatest acts of treason in our history with the now blatantly obvious orchestration of the 9/11 "terror" attacks.

We are Americans, and we pride ourselves on not falling for fascism. Our country was founded in this very principle in 1776. We fought fascism in both world wars with success, and we stood up to communism and violations of human rights afterwards.

And yet, somehow, we are quickly losing all of the liberties and freedoms our forefathers lost their lives for. Six years ago when these atrocities began to pour in, it was people like myself who blatantly tried to tell our country it was an inside job, and that he was going to try to send us into a never-ending war.

We were short of persecuted as conspiracy nuts, or eliminated as some type of dissenting witch hunt. Four years into his presidency, when he was up for re-election, we had overwhelming proof from all sides that we were already marching into a fascist regime and that all we had to do was simply elect somebody else in order to put a stop to it.

Yet, this man was re-elected for a second term. He spent the first four years lying to us non-stop, and yet we somehow believed him when he said he was telling the truth for re-election. Many of us still believe he is not and has not lied to the very people he has sworn to protect and serve.

Look, even if you still believe that terrorists did in fact attack the world trade center, you still have to ask why we haven't caught the man responsible. Last time I checked, this is what the war on terror was about - Al Quaeda and the capture of Osama Bin Laden. It has been nearly two presidential terms, and we are waging wars in countries that had little to no connection with the WTC attacks.

And as a country, we are allowing it in our names. This is an atrocity at the very best, and absolute treason at it's worst. The man who has sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America has been eroding and eliminating those very same freedoms from day one. At this moment in time, the Bill of Rights has essentially been eliminated, and much of the Constitution itself is under the watchful scrutiny of those who would wish to practice revisionism for their own sake.

We live in an age where information is freely available for the asking. All we have to do is a search on Google, and all of the evidence and proof unfolds. But we simply do not do this for some odd reason.

This inaction reminds me of when Hitler wrote a book called Mein Kampf detailing every single thing he was planning to do and where he stood on issues, available on bookshelves across the country. And still nobody read it, and after the world war, the people who suffered ignorance and apathy told the world that they had no clue he was doing such horrible things; which was a total fabrication sine people clearly did know ahead of time.

Well, now all of the treasonous acts against our country, the lies, the preemptive wars (ignoring Geneva conventions), the concentration camp known as Guantanamo Bay, the calm elimination of our Bill of Rights at his discretion, and so much more go unnoticed by the majority of people in this country.

And for the people that know these things are going on, it is still a shameful act to sit idly by and allow him to continue. Just because you conquered your ignorance does not mean you can still latch onto your apathy as a convenience.

Is witnessing a murder but doing nothing to stop it, and even authorizing it, still a crime even though your weren't the one to commit the murder? Of course it is... so why is it so hard to accept what is going on, and then stand up to it?

Remember, doing nothing but watching as a murderer pulls the trigger makes you just as guilty as doing it yourself. And this is a concept I truly hope hits home with this country.

I still would like to believe that America and it's citizens are not as stupid and apathetic as the rest of the world seems to believe. So far though I have little to disprove the rest of the world, and I simply wish above all else that we as a people finally put our feet down and say enough is enough.

We owe it to our founding fathers.

We owe it to ourselves.

We owe it to future generations.

When my son or daughter looks back in the history books and reads about this time period, and when this child looks me in the eyes and asks his or her daddy what he did during these times to try and stop it - I will say in all honesty "Everything I could."

I believe it's high time the rest of America legitimately make that claim as well, making our forefathers proud. The rest of the world used to look up to us (maybe not the French) and now they see us as a threat to Freedom, Democracy and Liberty.

Pretty ironic since we as a country apparently live by that code. We are simply acting shameful and like cowards. This man, George W Bush, is garnering Unilateral power over America... and no, this is not a good thing. All I am asking is to make some waves, let this administration know their actions will not be tolerated. There is so much more I wish to say in this letter, but I realize that I couldn't possibly cover a fraction of what this man has done in our names.

So I will simply close this open letter to America, hoping that the components which enlighten you, as well as motivate you.

Sincerely,

William Burns III


About the Author

Name: William Burns III
Age: 28
Country: USA
Gender: Male
Occupation: VR Designer
Website: http://www.vr5-online.com

Labels: 20's, florida, foreign policy, history, independent, male, politics, technical, terrorism, war and conflict