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ORIGINAL: Sanity

No, really - if you hate being an American, you should try something else out. I can't imagine why all those people are trying so hard to get into such an awful place like this in the first place. Can you?

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

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In the USA, we pretty much hold no grudges- bewteen states.

In the above, the EU, could learn a thing or two, about getting along with others.

Proof positive the 1 exists. He was my window to that country.

There is a lot of racism in Europe, and there are many people that hate immigrants all over the world...so perhaps I just hate ignorant people. Thanks for pointing out not only Americans are ugly with their ethnocentricity.

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ORIGINAL: thompsonx

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

Yeah, right - I'm with you. We need to treat illegals like they are royalty. If they're caught with kids, if they broke in with kids we should give them a billion dollars. I am so with you on this one.

Sanity:
I am not sure just how you make the leap from treating someone in a humain manner to giving them a billion dollars.
The post was primarily about the U.S. illegally detaining citizens of a forign nation and seperating the family.
thompson

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ORIGINAL: Stephann

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

No, really - if you hate being an American, you should try something else out. I can't imagine why all those people are trying so hard to get into such an awful place like this in the first place. Can you?

While, like julia, I doubt this will have much of an affect, I would like to simply take a moment and thank you for encapsulating the modern ideals of America.

As a citizen who has served in the Marines, lived in Okinawa Japan for three years, and has been in Latin America for the past three years, I envy your ability to make such a bald faced statement.  That the world can be summed up into such simple statements such as "round em up and kill em" or "fuck them and their children" exemplifies the compassion and wisdom that the American People are capable of. 

I am jealous of the view, that America can be isolationistic and ignorant; while at the same time enforcing the will of the US on any other country it wishes to, in the name of commercial dominance.  I think it would be far less expensive if we simply started unleashing our nuclear weapons on all those other pesky countries; after all, we can still pump oil from the ground, so long as the workers wear hardened radiation suits.  And there won't be any silly wars or countries to interfere with us, eh?

Stephan

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ORIGINAL: Stephann

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

No, really - if you hate being an American, you should try something else out. I can't imagine why all those people are trying so hard to get into such an awful place like this in the first place. Can you?

While, like julia, I doubt this will have much of an affect, I would like to simply take a moment and thank you for encapsulating the modern ideals of America.

As a citizen who has served in the Marines, lived in Okinawa Japan for three years, and has been in Latin America for the past three years, I envy your ability to make such a bald faced statement.  That the world can be summed up into such simple statements such as "round em up and kill em" or "fuck them and their children" exemplifies the compassion and wisdom that the American People are capable of. 

I am jealous of the view, that America can be isolationistic and ignorant; while at the same time enforcing the will of the US on any other country it wishes to, in the name of commercial dominance.  I think it would be far less expensive if we simply started unleashing our nuclear weapons on all those other pesky countries; after all, we can still pump oil from the ground, so long as the workers wear hardened radiation suits.  And there won't be any silly wars or countries to interfere with us, eh?

Stephan

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

I was being sarcastic, thompson.

If we catch someone committing a crime with their children in tow, we have very few alternatives. Jailing them with their parents seems quite humane to me, at least we're keeping them together. If they have to sleep in special children's quarters at night, that's probably for their own good, in case there is a riot or something, they are kept safe. All that this hysterical crying is meant to do is to try to make us hate the people who are guarding our borders, and I'm not buying it. It's so crazy... if the President toughens border security, we're supposed to hate him (and be ashamed of being American). If he's soft on illegal immigration, we're supposed to hate him (and be ashamed of being an American). It's pretty clear what the message is here, and I'm poking a little fun at it, that's all.

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ORIGINAL: thompsonx

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

Yeah, right - I'm with you. We need to treat illegals like they are royalty. If they're caught with kids, if they broke in with kids we should give them a billion dollars. I am so with you on this one.

Sanity:
I am not sure just how you make the leap from treating someone in a humain manner to giving them a billion dollars.
The post was primarily about the U.S. illegally detaining citizens of a forign nation and seperating the family.
thompson

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ORIGINAL: thompsonx
Sanity:
The post was about illegally detaining an alien not about illegal aliens being detained.
Perhaps you might want to read the link before you post your  kneejerk xenophobic response.  Then we might all be blessed with a more reasoned sarcasim.
thompson

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

Sometimes I hate being an American. I know why everyone thinks we are ugly.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Try again, thompson - read the OP. This thread is about illegal immigration.

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ORIGINAL: thompsonx
Sanity:
The post was about illegally detaining an alien not about illegal aliens being detained.
Perhaps you might want to read the link before you post your  kneejerk xenophobic response.  Then we might all be blessed with a more reasoned sarcasim.
thompson

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

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ORIGINAL: Stephann

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

No, really - if you hate being an American, you should try something else out. I can't imagine why all those people are trying so hard to get into such an awful place like this in the first place. Can you?

While, like julia, I doubt this will have much of an affect, I would like to simply take a moment and thank you for encapsulating the modern ideals of America.

As a citizen who has served in the Marines, lived in Okinawa Japan for three years, and has been in Latin America for the past three years, I envy your ability to make such a bald faced statement.  That the world can be summed up into such simple statements such as "round em up and kill em" or "fuck them and their children" exemplifies the compassion and wisdom that the American People are capable of. 

I am jealous of the view, that America can be isolationistic and ignorant; while at the same time enforcing the will of the US on any other country it wishes to, in the name of commercial dominance.  I think it would be far less expensive if we simply started unleashing our nuclear weapons on all those other pesky countries; after all, we can still pump oil from the ground, so long as the workers wear hardened radiation suits.  And there won't be any silly wars or countries to interfere with us, eh?

Stephan

 
 
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My turn.
 
American people, have a special birthright.  IN 1917- some big shot-got a bullet put in his head. Setting off WW1, later ww2.  Germany and Japan were seeking global domination.  With out America [people, our fathers and grandfathers]    Much of the world would be under an iron fist.
 
We bailed out the worlds azz 2x.
 
Therfore- we earned our standing
 
 
Later generations will forget this. But the here and now- our kin folk saved the world.  Hence- the American birthright.
 
Got it?
 
 

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If we catch someone committing a crime with their children in tow, we have very few alternatives. Jailing them with their parents seems quite humane to me, at least we're keeping them together. If they have to sleep in special children's quarters at night, that's probably for their own good, in case there is a riot or something, they are kept safe. All that this hysterical crying is meant to do is to try to make us hate the people who are guarding our borders, and I'm not buying it. It's so crazy... if the President toughens border security, we're supposed to hate him (and be ashamed of being American). If he's soft on illegal immigration, we're supposed to hate him (and be ashamed of being an American). It's pretty clear what the message is here, and I'm poking a little fun at it, that's all.

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ORIGINAL: WyrdRich

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

Sometimes I hate being an American. I know why everyone thinks we are ugly.

      Down at the ends of your legs, you'll find things called, 'feet.'  Feel free to put one in front of the other in any direction you like.

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... we get bashed here regularly...lol

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ORIGINAL: WyrdRich

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

Sometimes I hate being an American. I know why everyone thinks we are ugly.

     Down at the ends of your legs, you'll find things called, 'feet.'  Feel free to put one in front of the other in any direction you like.

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ORIGINAL: KatyLied

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... we get bashed here regularly...lol

hehe, to experience true "bashing" you need to live as a Yankee (their words, not mine) in Kentucky.  

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ORIGINAL: Stephann

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

No, really - if you hate being an American, you should try something else out. I can't imagine why all those people are trying so hard to get into such an awful place like this in the first place. Can you?

While, like julia, I doubt this will have much of an affect, I would like to simply take a moment and thank you for encapsulating the modern ideals of America.

As a citizen who has served in the Marines, lived in Okinawa Japan for three years, and has been in Latin America for the past three years, I envy your ability to make such a bald faced statement.  That the world can be summed up into such simple statements such as "round em up and kill em" or "fuck them and their children" exemplifies the compassion and wisdom that the American People are capable of. 

I am jealous of the view, that America can be isolationistic and ignorant; while at the same time enforcing the will of the US on any other country it wishes to, in the name of commercial dominance.  I think it would be far less expensive if we simply started unleashing our nuclear weapons on all those other pesky countries; after all, we can still pump oil from the ground, so long as the workers wear hardened radiation suits.  And there won't be any silly wars or countries to interfere with us, eh?

Stephan

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ORIGINAL: cjenny

What exactly are we supposed to do with the 'huddled masses'?
All I've heard here is what we shouldn't do without any suggestions for an alternative.