Reposting Alain's newsletter today 'cause I couldn't have said it better myself. No, really. He says it much nicer:
This is my response that I wrote to a woman named Jackie T. Here is the letter she wronte to me:
RE: Socialists attack Minuteman Protestor in Chicago
Dear Alain,
I am a Republican, but I am also a Christian, and after reading the hateful, un-Christianlike article about illegal immigrants, I do not want to receive any Email from you. I suggest you read the 25th Chapter of Matthew in the Bible
and rethink your attitude toward the poor Mexicans who only came here to feed their starving families. Jesus would not smile down upon the Minutemen. You are on the wrong moral side of this!
Sincerely,
Jackie T.
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Dear Jackie T.,
I have removed you, and am sorry to see you leave my newsletter. I do want to say though, there is nothing hateful about wanting to uphold the law, nor was there anything hateful being done by the Minuteman who was attacked - he had just arrived and gotten out of his car to peacefully protest against the bank giving home owners loans to people who are here in America illegally. Though the people who assaulted him I would say were hateful, and I make this assumption based on their actions of physically assaulting him.
Just wondering, where would you personally draw the line?
Would you welcome with open arms the entire population of Mexico, all the countries of Latin America, all the countries of South America, not to mention the other parts of the globe. How about the entire population of Sudan, Nigeria or other poor African nations? Can they ALL come over here and walk across our borders since they are poor and want a better life?
Where would you personally draw the line?
We already have more than the entire population of many countries here illegally; that is they came into our country against the law and do not have citizenship.
I am not even asking you to consider the criminals, the gangs, the drug runners or any of that ilk right now, just the normal every day working people.
There is nothing wrong with people wanting to move to America. My ancestors did. The difference is they followed the rules. They came here legally.
If we do not draw a line some where, we are not a sovereign nation. If we say it is ok for the current 20 million or so to be here, and the thousands more who cross our borders illegally daily, then we must simply get rid of all immigration laws and have totally free and open borders. Then any one who feels like it can just walk in and claim American citizenship on a whim.
You can not say "leave these illegal's alone, they are just poor people wanting to make a living", but then tell others they can not come in. The rules (Read that as the LAW) must be applied evenly and equally to everyone.
There must be a line some where.
Right now, we have a line. Our government has rules and regulations in place that people can follow, they can go through the process, and become American citizens with all that entails.
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, and myself personally, support those who follow the rules. We also believe that the line, the LAW, needs to be enforced.
Otherwise we must simple through up our hands and say, "Well we gave it a shot, but America is simply does not exist anymore." One of the founding principles, one of the things that has made America stand out against the weird tapestry of our globe, is that we are supposed to be a nation of laws. If our laws no longer have any meaning, then neither does the once great country called the United states of America.
I will stand with law and order, and the Minuteman Civil Defense
Corps.
As for Matthew
25, I assume you are talking about Matthew 25:31-46. All Christians should do their best to help feed and cloth the poor. You must understand though, this is the individual Christians job, not the nations. It is the individual Christian who will be
standing in judgment before our Lord, not our nation. I myself work weekly helping people in need, and I give more than my tithe to the church to food pantries on a regular basis. These are my individual works.
Matthew 25:31-46 does not apply to the nation, but it does apply to me.
That is my opinion.
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Amen.
Daniel Powter
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