STOP THE INVASION

On Being American

Being American carries with it certain connotations of integrity, self-sufficiency, courage, confidence, and immeasurable responsibility. It is compassion and tenderness. It is impartial justice and righteous rage in pursuit of correcting wrongs. Being American is an unquenchable thirst for achievement. To possess the national consciousness of an American is to possess an indomitable spirit. Being American is a state of mind, a form of heart, a place in the soul. It is the look of the Eagle in your eye.

Whether it is fighting wars, providing charitable relief, or pioneering new frontiers, more is expected of Americans than any other nationality. The world expects more of everything from Americans, and Americans demand it of themselves. No matter how insurmountable the task, Americans unflaggingly rise to the challenge. To Americans, failure is never an option, whether it is annihilating the bad guys or cradling the infant in safety. Americans are always leaders, and never followers.

Being American means knowing the cost of freedom, and knowing our history of having paid that price through the oceans of blood, sweat and tears of our ancestors and now our sons and daughters, both on our own soil and on distant shores. Being American means knowing the value of our freedoms and being constantly vigilant in jealously guarding those freedoms. Being American means offering our wisdom of hard won freedoms to peoples of other nations, if they are courageous enough and willing to pay the price of achieving those freedoms for their own.

Being American is all those things, and more. It cannot be learned or taught. It cannot be bought or sold. It cannot be achieved in individuals by transplant onto United States soil. But it can take root in foreign soil if the populations of those foreign lands have but the most vague notion of what being American means. Being American is an idea that knows no boundaries and is not constrained by geographical location. The idea of being American is a beacon of hope intended to light the world, not a magnet to draw the world to our shores.

ONE nation, under GOD, INDIVISIBLE, with liberty AND justice for ALL.

“It has often given me pleasure to observe that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected, fertile, wide spreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants. A succession of navigable waters forms a kind of chain round its borders, as if to bind it together; while the most noble rivers in the world, running at convenient distances, present them with highways for the easy communication of friendly aids, and the mutual transportation and exchange of their various commodities.”

“With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people--a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.”

“This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties.” – John Jay

Thus, to me, is the American kernel, the ideal, from our founding fathers forward. We have been entrusted with a legacy to safeguard unsullied and to hold dear through all eternity.

And yet, I look about me at the peoples of my nation today, and I am deeply troubled. I see the flags of foreign nations waving above my standard, Old Glory, on my American soil. I see all manner of squabbling nationalities and ethnicities vying for ascendancy over others. I see people looking for handouts, refusing to rely on themselves for their daily bread, shelter and clothing. I see community leaders propounding the presumed virtues of profound and incompatible "diversity", differences. I see “special interests”, divided, set aside for preferential treatment. I see deep chasms of division within my nation. I see our political leaders establishing secretive protocols and agreements with foreign nations upon which the American people they so govern have not been consulted, and which agreements and protocols spell the dissolution of our united American nation. I see a nation divided against itself. I see a nation being split asunder by profiteers and contemporary carpetbaggers.

The assault on our united nation is not unexpected; indeed, it was discussed at length by our founding fathers. The assault in and of itself is not the most troubling thing. For if the American people lived up to the ideals established for them by our history, the assault against our united nation would be short lived and unsuccessful. Through apathy we are squandering our legacy and our birth right.


"We can all hang together, or surely we will all hang separately."