Nemo me impune lacessit

No one provokes me with impunity

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No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Article 1, Section 9, Constitution of the United States

If this is the law of the land...why in a republic (little r) and as republicans, do we allow mere POLITICIANS to the right to use a "title of office" for the rest of their lives as if it were de facto a patent of nobility. Because, as republicans, this should NOT be the case...just saying...

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Sunday, May 20, 2007

More on McCain/Kennedy...

Dear Mr. McCain,

I am a life-long republican...though I am not a contituent of yours. My family have been republicans back to the founding of the party in the 1850's in Michigan and Ohio. I live in a "blue" state and thus have no real voice in the matter at hand. Additionally, I too am a veteran of the US military, though of the USMC, not the Navy.

I recently found an excellent quote in a blog I found online. This is the address of the quote:

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2007/05/a_republican_la.html.

The quote is as follows,

"It's not a complex problem. Build a physical fence all along the southern border. Spend enough money to condemn and purchase the necessary land, and to erect an effective fence. If that's 10-million dollars a mile, we're looking at about 20-billion total. Chump change.

Make illegal entry into this country a felony.Round up and deport illegal aliens. Verification of immigration status can be made a routine part of every traffic stop. Deny federal funds to any municipality that calls itself a "sanctuary".

Make knowingly employing an illegal alien a felony with mandatory prison time...When the jobs dry up, most illegals will deport themselves.Problem solved.

All these steps are "do-able". We just need to to them. The president will need to go on television and say, "All those pictures the media is showing you of train-loads of weeping, miserable people being taken to the border? Those pictures are a great deterrent to future immigration criminals. We will persevere."

Additionally, herein follows the text of an email that I sent to my own senators,

"Dear Ms. Mikulski,I am a member in good standing of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiner, Local 1694, Mid-Atlantic Region. As such, I have very strong feelings upon the impending bill to legalize 12-20 million illigal aliens.

I and many of my brothers in the large union shop that we work in (Washington Woodworking, Inc, of Landover, MD) are STRONGLY against such a legalization. We DO NOT agree with the leadership of our union upon this issue. Illegal immigrants have had a large, and negative impact upon the building trades.

I believe that our border must be secured first, then existing laws enforced, along with much higher penalties for employing illegal aliens. Only then, should a "guest worker" program be implemented, but such implementation should be if that individual returns to country of origin and THEN applies for a visa. In other words, NO AMNESTY!!!

I firmly believe, that if you were to actually speak to blue-collar workers, and NOT those who are carefully culled by your staff to only say what they believe you want to hear, you would vote against ANY compromise. I will be calling your office in the next several days to reinforce my opposition to the McCain/Kennedy immigration bill.

Sincerely,
Richard A. Vail, Ph.D.
Baltimore, MD USA "

While I firmly understand that as a practical matter, you don't really give a flying f--- about my opinion as I don't reside in your state...you may wish to give serious consideration as a prospective presidential candidate to what working middleclass Americans honestly think. I am sir,

Your Ob't Servant

Richard A. Vail,Pikesville, MD USA

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