RELIGION or POLITICS ??? Cont'd.......WHO is a CITIZEN?? Finale...

Today we continue on the subject of ILLEGALS presented in the MOnthly Newsletter, IMPRIMIS, published by Hillsdale College and written by Edward J. Erler, professor of Political Science at California State University, San Bernadino, CA.




Greetings on this TGIF day and we are all excited about another great weekend. You tooooooooo?  So to get on with the closure of this particular topic, here goes........
 
 
DUAL CITIZENSHIP and DECLINE..............
 
      Those who advocate open borders tend to share this cosmopolitan view of transnational citizenship.   Illegal immigrants, they say, are merely seeking to support their families and improve their lives.    Borders, according to them, should not stand in the way of "family values"-- those universal "values" that refuse to recognize the importance or relevance of mere political boundaries.
Somehow, for those who hold these views, political exclusivity and the requirement of exclusive allegiance are opposed to these universal "values" if not to human decency itself.   
 
      Mexican President Felipe Calderon was in California recently pushing for more liberal immigration immigration policies.  He assured his fellow citizens who reside in the U.S. that he is "actively working to defend their human rights," no matter their immigration status, Calderon said, "they are human beings with dignity and rights that should be respected.   We are working, with the full effort of teh Mexican government, to bring a halt to the campaigns that harass migrants."   However much Calderon may be worried about the human rights or his fellow citizens, he is fully cognizant of the fact that Mexico's economy depends on the remittances of its citizens working abroad.   These remittances have become Mexico's second largest source of revenue, trailing only its rapidly declining oil revenues.   It is far easier -- and politically safer -- for Mexico to export its poverty than to reform its own political and economic system.
 
      We must constanly remind ourselvesm however, of the historical fact tht constitutional democracy has existed only in the nation-state, and that the demise of the nation-state will almost certainly mean the demise of constitutional democracy.    No one believes that the Europian Union or similar organizations will ever produce constitutional government.  Indeed, the EU is well on its way to becoming an adminstrative tyranny.   Nor would the homogenous world-state -- the EU on a global scale -- be a constitutional democracy;  it would be the administration of "universal personhood" without the inconvenience of having to rely on the consent of the governed.
 
      The doctrine of  birthright citizenship and the acceptance of dual citizenship are signs that we in the U.S. are on the verge of reinstituting feudalism and replacing citizenship with the master-servant relationship. The continued vitality of the nation-state and of constitutional government depends on the continued vitality of citizenship, which carries with it exclusive allegiance to what the Declaration calls a "separate and equal" nation.    Unless we recover an understanding of the foundations of citizenship, we will find ourselves in a world where there are subjects but no citizens. 
 
I hope you who read this will digest what is being written and realize the dangers this country is facing over the next years ahead. Hiding your head in the sand will not make it go away, so best you wake up and get ready to defend your citizenship and your country before you realize you are no longer FREE.   Wake the hell up, huh???    Cheers     CJ