{"id":768,"date":"2007-07-14T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=768"},"modified":"2007-07-14T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T15:40:00","slug":"not-a-nation-of-immigrants-but-nation-with-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Not a nation OF immigrants, but nation WITH immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=black><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Students, teachers, politicians, globalists:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ask what a true nation of immigrants would be.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Absent a founding group, it would be no<br \/>\nnation at all, but a random gathering of people of assorted races, religions,<br \/>\nnationality united only by their presence in the same land. The United States<br \/>\nis a nation with a distinct founding culture, one that remained dominant while<br \/>\nassimilating\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand subtly changed by later arrivals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Revolutionary Americans were fairly homogeneous: 60%<br \/>\nEnglish, 20% Scottish and Scots-Irish, the rest Dutch and German.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Overwhelmingly Christian, 98% Protestants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society,<br \/>\nand move to another society.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>There has<br \/>\nto be a recipient society to which the immigrants move.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>In our case, the society was created by<br \/>\nsettlers who came here in the 17<sup>th<\/sup> and 18<sup>th<\/sup> centuries.<br \/>\nThey weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t immigrating to some existing society.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>It was the settlers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Anglo-Protestant society<br \/>\nand culture that attracted subsequent immigrants to this country. We then,<br \/>\ntherefore; are a nation WITH immigrants. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s integrity and sovereignty is strained by<br \/>\nmulti-culturalism, affirmative action, and mass immigration. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>The pet phrase of<br \/>\nAmerican politicians is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153strength in our diversity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, false.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>The much repeated dictum, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153NATION OF<br \/>\nIMMIGRANTS\u00e2\u20ac\u009d screed is now unquestioned by Americans and foreigners alike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Mass immigration, both legal and illegal, has transformed<br \/>\nour Republic into a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> World dumping ground, diluting our<br \/>\nstrengths.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to honor the<br \/>\ncentennial of American independence.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>E<br \/>\npluribus Unum commemorates the union of 13 British colonies into one nation.<br \/>\nThe statue and the Motto do not celebrate immigration; they salute the<br \/>\nachievement of the settlers who founded those colonies. Emma Lazras\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 quotation<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Give me your tired\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6..\u00e2\u20ac\u009d expresses a broken heart against Russian pogroms\u00e2\u20ac\u201da<br \/>\nlater ad-on. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">Joe McCutchen<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">Fort Smith<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">479-646-8261<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Students, teachers, politicians, globalists: Ask what a true nation of immigrants would be.&nbsp; Absent a founding group, it would be no nation at all, but a random gathering of people of assorted races, religions, nationality united only by their presence in the same land. The United States is a nation with a distinct &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=768\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not a nation OF immigrants, but nation WITH immigrants<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arkansas-freedom-purpose"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}