This is a sign of assimilation?
Update 1
I wish I had seen this earlier (H/T: RightWingNews).
Again, does this signal a willingness to assimilate?
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When I saw this first at Michelle Malkin's site, my blood pressure meds failed again.
This has gotten zero attention in the MSM. Over the weekend, militant illegal alien activists marched onto a post office station in Maywood, Calif., and replaced the American flag with a Mexican flag while chanting anti-American epithets. Yup, here we go again. Remember this spring?
I generally don't go right to the gutter, but are these protesters that STUPID? Do they really believe that doing this is going to convince us that we should just give in to their demands?
Or do they think that WE are that stupid?
Hmmm, given the support that the MSM gives them, the political correctness "give up-ness" that has taken the place of standing up for what is right and wrong, they may truly believe that we are.
Frankly, I hope not... Go read the whole thing here.
As I have gotten older, and hopefully a bit more wise, I have come to appreciate more and more what a special country, what a unique place, America truly is...
Compared in almost any set of measures, the US is still the best country in the world, and I am truly blessed and fortunate to be here. Our freedoms and our documents that limit (or should be, anyways) the power and reach of government have created a land of wealth, opportunity and capability that has never been seen before in history. This is not jingoism, not super-nationalism, but just plain, ordinary pride in our country.
Yet, I have also become a bit wiser in that our style of living, our style of government, can be fragile as well. This grand experiment that is America is exactly still that, an experiment. As one trained in biology and computer science, I know full well that not all experiments do not go well, even when carefully nutured and looked after. Things can go wrong, and the bigger experiment, the worse a negative outcome can get. Because this experiment is so unique, we must be vigilant in maintaining that balance that allows this experiment to continue on for our children and grandchildren.
That's why I went bananas last spring when I saw the Mexican flag being flown over an upside down Old Glory during the large illegal immigration marches. I kept on thinking that if these folks are demanding citizenship and the vote from me, yet continue to wave the flag of their homelands and not the American flag, something is not working here. Add to that all the signs that proclaimed that California et al belonged to them; it was their right! That's why in the later marches, the PR "goofs" were fixed; the signs were in English and many more American flags were being waved. Unfortunately for them, we all saw the real intent in the first marches and ignored the PR.
Yup, trash our national symbol, demand something that isn't theirs to demand, and say it all in Spanish! Go ahead, see how convincing that will be to me. Now, "take over" a Post Office, replace my flag with yours, and you think I'm going to support you?
Er, wrong thinking, and not a great way to sway those of us who are citizens to your cause. Trashing my country does not make you my friend much less getting me to vote for your cause. Marching in large numbers so as to intimidate just tends to get not the angst going but the anger flowing.
This does not show a love of this country, the willingness to really leave and renounce your former homeland and accept this one. Remember your homeland, yes. Remember your heritage (as I do my Swedish and Irish ones).
But be willing to assimilate and immigrate the legal way - show that to me, and I will be the first to stick my hand out in greeting.
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Posted by: One Angry California Voter | August 30, 2006 3:08 PM