Rick Dean
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Originally published in the July 4, 2004 issue of the Alamance Independent
SOVEREIGNTY TEST
Suppose, a bunch of foreigners with their families (for the sake of this article, let's say that they had temporary visas for a two year stay) moved into your sparsely populated neighborhood. As a new majority of residents, they voted en bloc and passed a resolution that doubled local property taxes in order to cover for education of their kids in their native language and for free meals and health care for their elde
ly parents. Now, you are the one who will pay for it, and if you don't, tax assessor may put a lien on your home. Of course, they will pay something, too (not much, as they usually live four families pe
r one cheap house), and you might even get a benefit for your da
d, but all in all, they managed to transfer some money from your pocket to theirs. And that's wrong.
As much as you don't like it, you may consider yourself lucky, though. Can you imagine what would happen if all the needy of the world (approx. 4 billion people) moved into your neighborhood, your state, and your country, and, after living there and paying taxes for a while, claimed "their" right to vote? Eventually, you would have been ripped off virtually of everything you have, and your life would be the only practical difference between this rip-off that has all appearances of invasion and a military conquest of your country by a foreign power.
This is exactly why we need sovereignty, folks. Its purpose is to
protect American citizens from the will of the rest of the world, because that will, will most likely be beneficial for them and detrimental for us. If some other nation decides to invade the U.S. in ord
er to redistribute our wealth among them, our government is bound by the Constitutio
n to exercise sovereignty and launch military assault against the aggressor. And if that other nation doesn't feel strong enough to risk a military confrontation and sends tens of millions of unarmed migrants, instead, hoping to accomplish by political means what they could not by force, here comes sovereignty to our rescue, again, with another line of America's defense: as non-citizens, they cannot vote.
Here is a simple sovereignty test that I put before you.
Sovereignty is exercised when no American citizen can be involuntarily submitted to the will (in particular, outcome of a vote) of non-citizen(s) while on American territory. The term "involuntarily" excludes voluntary contractual agreemen
ts to the extent they are not regulated by the laws; for instance, a citizen employee may be subjected to the decisions of board of company directors composed of non-citizens, but a body that contain
s, or is allowed to contain, at least one non-citizen cannot decide on such employee's rights resulting
from that employment.
If follows that the requirement of citizenship for voting is a necessary condition for sovereignty. It's not an outdated anachronism that deprives millions tax-paying foreigners of their God-given right to representation. It's not an old boys network plot to keep newcomers from joining the club. The requirement of citizenship for voting is one of the most fundamental means of protection that prevents the rest of the world from imposing their will on us, Americans. It is to be guarded as jealously as the American border should, because each non-citizen vote, be it in presidential or public school board election, is a violation of American sovereignty.
Remember this
when you hear Mexican activists and their American collaborators' demands for voting rights of millions of "migrants" that have managed to cross the border one way or another.
Happy Fourth of July!
Originally published in the July 4, 2004 issue of the Alamance Independent
SOVEREIGNTY TEST
Suppose, a bunch of foreigners with their families (for the sake of this article, let's say that they had temporary visas for a two year stay) moved into your sparsely populated neighborhood. As a new majority of residents, they voted en bloc and passed a resolution that doubled local property taxes in order to cover for education of their kids in their native language and for free meals and health care for their elde
ly parents. Now, you are the one who will pay for it, and if you don't, tax assessor may put a lien on your home. Of course, they will pay something, too (not much, as they usually live four families pe
r one cheap house), and you might even get a benefit for your da
d, but all in all, they managed to transfer some money from your pocket to theirs. And that's wrong.
As much as you don't like it, you may consider yourself lucky, though. Can you imagine what would happen if all the needy of the world (approx. 4 billion people) moved into your neighborhood, your state, and your country, and, after living there and paying taxes for a while, claimed "their" right to vote? Eventually, you would have been ripped off virtually of everything you have, and your life would be the only practical difference between this rip-off that has all appearances of invasion and a military conquest of your country by a foreign power.
This is exactly why we need sovereignty, folks. Its purpose is to
protect American citizens from the will of the rest of the world, because that will, will most likely be beneficial for them and detrimental for us. If some other nation decides to invade the U.S. in ord
er to redistribute our wealth among them, our government is bound by the Constitutio
n to exercise sovereignty and launch military assault against the aggressor. And if that other nation doesn't feel strong enough to risk a military confrontation and sends tens of millions of unarmed migrants, instead, hoping to accomplish by political means what they could not by force, here comes sovereignty to our rescue, again, with another line of America's defense: as non-citizens, they cannot vote.
Here is a simple sovereignty test that I put before you.
Sovereignty is exercised when no American citizen can be involuntarily submitted to the will (in particular, outcome of a vote) of non-citizen(s) while on American territory. The term "involuntarily" excludes voluntary contractual agreemen
ts to the extent they are not regulated by the laws; for instance, a citizen employee may be subjected to the decisions of board of company directors composed of non-citizens, but a body that contain
s, or is allowed to contain, at least one non-citizen cannot decide on such employee's rights resulting
from that employment.
If follows that the requirement of citizenship for voting is a necessary condition for sovereignty. It's not an outdated anachronism that deprives millions tax-paying foreigners of their God-given right to representation. It's not an old boys network plot to keep newcomers from joining the club. The requirement of citizenship for voting is one of the most fundamental means of protection that prevents the rest of the world from imposing their will on us, Americans. It is to be guarded as jealously as the American border should, because each non-citizen vote, be it in presidential or public school board election, is a violation of American sovereignty.
Remember this
when you hear Mexican activists and their American collaborators' demands for voting rights of millions of "migrants" that have managed to cross the border one way or another.
Happy Fourth of July!