I recently came across this I am not nesesarily saying that i agree with the ladys points infact i dont but with are debate against fisa, and i am against the fairness doctrine and just genraly against the government in are lives and the silenceing of the people i thought i need to post this as well sence the people of orange county are so the opisite of my thinking lets rub this in there face a little
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> This is a very good letter to the editor. This woman
made some good points.
> For some reason, people have difficulty structuring
their arguments when arguing against supporting the currently proposed
immigration revisions. This lady made the argument pretty simple. NOT
printed in the Orange County Paper..................
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> Newspapers s imply won't publish letters to the editor
which they either deem politically incorrect (read below) or which does
not agree with the philosophy they're pushing on the public. This woman
wrote a great letter to the editor that should have been published; but,
with your help it will get published via cyberspace!
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> From: 'David LaBonte'
> My wife, Rosemary, wrote a wonderful letter to the
editor of the OC Register which, of course, was not printed. So, I
decided to 'print' it myself by sending it out on the Internet. Pass it
along if you feel so inclined. Written in response to a series of
letters to the editor in the Orange County Register:
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> Dear Editor:
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> So many letter writers have based their arguments on
how this land is made u p of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests
we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in
question aren't being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis
Island and other ports of entry.
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> Maybe we should turn to our history books and point
out to people like Mr. Lujan why today's American is not willing to
accept this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there
was a rush from all a reas of Europe to come to the United States,
people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be
documented . Some would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss
the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new
country in good and bad times. They made learning English a primary rule
in their new American households and some even changed their names to
blend in with their new home.
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> &nb sp; They had waved good bye to their birth place to
give their children a new life and did everything in their power to help
their children assimilate into one culture. Nothing was handed to them.
No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All they had
were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade
for a future of prosperity.
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> Most of their children came of age when World War II
broke out. My father fought along side men whose parents had come
straight over from Germany, Italy, France and Japan. None of these 1st
generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their
parents had come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini
and the Emperor of Japan. They were defending the United States of
America as one people.
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> When we liberated France, no one in those villages wer
e looking for the Frenc h-American or the German American or the Irish
American. The people of France saw only Americans. And we carried one
flag that represented one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would
have thought about picking up another country's flag and waving it to
represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their parents
who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly knew what
it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot into one red,
white and blue bowl.
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> And here we are in 2008 with a new kind of immigrant
who wants the same rights and privileges, only they want to achieve it
by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the
entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother
country. I'm sorry, that's not what being an American is all about. I
believe that the immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in the early
1900's deserve better than that for all t he toil , hard work and
sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that has become
a beacon for those legally searching for a better life. I think they
would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving
foreign country flags.
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> And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue
of Liberty, it happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on
the immigration bill. I wouldn't start talking about dismantling the
UNITED STATES just yet.
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> (Signed) Rosemary LaBonte
2022 Books...and that's a wrap!
2 years ago
