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This week in Reno, Nevada, a local
television station was tipped off that a business was flying a Mexican flag
above the U.S. flag. The station decided to check out the rumor (and kudos for
that, I would've just run with it) so they sent a camera guy out to film it and
while he was out there, something extraordinary happened: a U.S. army veteran
showed up, cut the U.S. flag off the pole, told the cameraman how fed up he was,
and walked away.
When I first heard the story, I tried to decide if this guy is a patriot or a
vigilante. I thought, "well, he's a veteran on the one hand, but then again, we
can't have--" ...and then I realized: IT DOESN'T MATTER, it's not the story.
The Real Story is that Americans are sick and tired of the government not
enforcing their own laws; we're tired of being told that the country we love and
the values we stand for need to change; that we're the ones who are out of step;
that we're the ones have to give up our traditions and bow to political
correctness.
There's a poem engraved into the base of the statue of liberty that immigration
activists love to recite. "Give me your tired, your poor..." -- you know the
one. But the most important part of that poem, the part that everyone forgets
about, is the last line: "I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
"The golden door!" You don't put a golden door on a shack or a port-a-potty, you
put it on a special, revered place. Well how many of us are sick and tired of
hearing that this country isn't a special place anymore; that it's just like
every other country; that it's no longer worth fighting for?
That veteran heard a story about America once again being thrown into the corner
like a dirty rag, and he snapped. Well I've got news for you, gang: unless we
start reconnecting with common sense and values, unless we all -- Republicans
AND Democrats -- stop acting like political operatives and start acting like
Americans, there is much more of that to come. |
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