{"id":2462,"date":"2019-02-21T19:44:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T19:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/?p=2462"},"modified":"2019-02-23T21:09:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T21:09:20","slug":"an-assassination-attempt-on-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/an-assassination-attempt-on-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"An Assassination Attempt on Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2463\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.a0ZdcG5i_400x400.jpg?resize=400%2C400&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.a0ZdcG5i_400x400.jpg?w=400&ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.a0ZdcG5i_400x400.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.a0ZdcG5i_400x400.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.a0ZdcG5i_400x400.jpg?resize=100%2C100&ssl=1 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Americans, a noxious notion has seeped into your kid\u2019s school curriculum.\u00a0 It\u2019s called \u201cworld citizen\u201d.\u00a0 It\u2019s happening to your kids, prep school to inner-city.<\/p>\n<p>As a retired teacher of 30 years, I was perplexed.\u00a0 Is this an attempt to erase borders or proclaim allegiance to the UN or both?\u00a0 Anyway, the original concept of citizenship may go the way of plastic straws.\u00a0 The modus operandi is to fiddle with the minds of the youngins and tie the project\u2019s prospects to the fortunes of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>These Democrats aren\u2019t kidding.\u00a0 They are actively trying to erase the border as they erase the distinction between citizen and non-citizen, and even legal and illegal resident.\u00a0 The cultural appropriator Beto (as in Robert O\u2019Rourke) absconded with Reagan\u2019s old line, \u201cMr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall\u201d, absent the reference to Gorbachev.\u00a0 12 Dem-heavy states and DC already are issuing driver\u2019s licenses to people whose presence in the country is in violation of our laws, thus creating havoc with motor-voter laws.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2464\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2464\" style=\"width: 780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2464\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship190211233726-beto-orourke-rally-against-wall-exlarge-169.jpg?resize=525%2C295&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship190211233726-beto-orourke-rally-against-wall-exlarge-169.jpg?w=780&ssl=1 780w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship190211233726-beto-orourke-rally-against-wall-exlarge-169.jpg?resize=300%2C168&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship190211233726-beto-orourke-rally-against-wall-exlarge-169.jpg?resize=768%2C431&ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert O’Rourke at a rally at the El Paso border.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2467\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.52598342_835951550087721_4632797444839571456_n.jpg?resize=525%2C381&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.52598342_835951550087721_4632797444839571456_n.jpg?w=878&ssl=1 878w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.52598342_835951550087721_4632797444839571456_n.jpg?resize=300%2C218&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.52598342_835951550087721_4632797444839571456_n.jpg?resize=768%2C558&ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That bastion of insanity, California, has taken the chant of \u201chealthcare for all\u201d literally to mean \u201call\u201d, as in any of the world\u2019s denizens who can get here.\u00a0 Oh, Bernie in his 2016 concoction of the concept tried to stop migrants from receiving the benefits if they enter for that reason.\u00a0 The restriction is meaningless. How could it be enforced without a mind-reading machine?\u00a0 Sander\u2019s 2017 version, the one tucked to the bosom of Dem candidates seeking to oust Trump, ended the masquerade.\u00a0 \u201cResidents\u201d are eligible for the freebie; the adjectives \u201clegal\u201d and \u201cillegal\u201d are absent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2468\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.180824_SandersRide_Ramirez.jpg?resize=525%2C381&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.180824_SandersRide_Ramirez.jpg?w=1250&ssl=1 1250w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.180824_SandersRide_Ramirez.jpg?resize=300%2C218&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.180824_SandersRide_Ramirez.jpg?resize=768%2C558&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.180824_SandersRide_Ramirez.jpg?resize=1024%2C744&ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gillibrand goes further than the cultural appropriator with calls to dismantle ICE and the wall.\u00a0 She\u2019s in good company with many in the Dem congressional caucus.\u00a0 And once these foreign citizens get here, it\u2019s now wrong to count them as \u201cnon-citizens\u201d, as per Manhattan Federal District Court Judge Jessie M. Furman (Obama appointee).\u00a0 Not only are we not to stop the citizens of other countries from entering but we are to be kept in the dark about how many are here.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2466\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2466\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2466\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.GM-Jesse-Furman-Article-201801092148.jpg?resize=525%2C315&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.GM-Jesse-Furman-Article-201801092148.jpg?w=620&ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.GM-Jesse-Furman-Article-201801092148.jpg?resize=300%2C180&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal District Court Judge Jessie Furmam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cForeign-born\u201d is the approved moniker for everyone born on foreign soil and taking up stakes here. If they are non-citizens \u2013 which we can\u2019t tell thanks to Judge Jessie \u2013 they are still citizens, citizens of another country.\u00a0 That makes for an interesting situation when voting rights for foreign citizens in the US gets traction among the Dem rank-and-file.\u00a0 Other countries\u2019 citizens get to help choose what happens to US citizens.\u00a0 Soon, with the erasure of the border, every US election will require shipping ballots to Moscow, Mexico City, Managua, Capetown, etc., etc.\u00a0 With the Dems, what\u2019s in a border anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Voting rights is making the rounds among Dem strongholds in the US.\u00a0 Stacey Abrams (failed Dem candidate for Georgia governor) announced her support for the craziness in local elections.\u00a0 SF, of course, and some Maryland localities have already broken the ice (not ICE).\u00a0 They excuse the folderol with cries that non-citizens – legal or illegal (which we can\u2019t tell thanks to Judge Jessie) – pay taxes.\u00a0 In tax-happy cities and states, yes, they pay some exactions.\u00a0 The legal ones pay but don\u2019t have to mess around with jury duty and draft registration.\u00a0 Illegals ditto, but they don\u2019t pay Social Security taxes and the like, unless they commit document fraud \u2013 which many have since that\u2019s the only way for them to get paid. Advantages abound for those keeping their foreign citizenship.\u00a0 They avoid the flip side of rights: responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2469\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.witt_.jpg?resize=525%2C295&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.witt_.jpg?w=780&ssl=1 780w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.witt_.jpg?resize=300%2C169&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.witt_.jpg?resize=768%2C432&ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Dem Party is clearly out to blur the line between citizen and non-citizen.\u00a0 And why not?\u00a0 It\u2019s a rich vein of votes.\u00a0 It works to elect Democrats.\u00a0 In 50 Dem congressional districts, the foreign-born comprise more than 20% of the population (only 11 Republican districts meet the standard).\u00a0 Sandy Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) was elected in a 25% foreign-born locale (almost 50% Hispanic).\u00a0 In-migration and out-migration combine to bend the partisan balance beam of a neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2465\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.52937481_835951950087681_7872425400003985408_n.jpg?resize=525%2C367&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.52937481_835951950087681_7872425400003985408_n.jpg?w=560&ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.52937481_835951950087681_7872425400003985408_n.jpg?resize=300%2C209&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If we take the words of the donkey party\u2019s candidates at face value \u2013 And how could we take them otherwise? \u2013 what\u2019s the point of being a citizen?\u00a0 Simply renting on American soil is enough to get all the bennies of the nanny state, condones massive document fraud, avoids certain inconvenient responsibilities of citizenship, and is a qualification for the franchise.\u00a0 For all practical purposes, naturalization is irrelevant.\u00a0 Now, that\u2019s one way to repeal Art. 1, Sec. 8, Cl. 4 (naturalization power) of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2470\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.52727984_835952046754338_3451016616156856320_n.jpg?resize=525%2C356&ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.52727984_835952046754338_3451016616156856320_n.jpg?w=600&ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Citizenship.52727984_835952046754338_3451016616156856320_n.jpg?resize=300%2C204&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Say bye, bye to the border. And isn\u2019t that the point?<\/p>\n<p>RogerG<\/p>\n<p>* Thanks for the contributions of Howard Husock of “City Journal” and Matthew Continetti of “National Review”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans, a noxious notion has seeped into your kid\u2019s school curriculum.\u00a0 It\u2019s called \u201cworld citizen\u201d.\u00a0 It\u2019s happening to your kids, prep school to inner-city. As a retired teacher of 30 years, I was perplexed.\u00a0 Is this an attempt to erase borders or proclaim allegiance to the UN or both?\u00a0 Anyway, the original concept of citizenship … <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/an-assassination-attempt-on-citizenship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “An Assassination Attempt on Citizenship”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[18,16,22,24,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8hOz7-DI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2462\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}