Freedom for sale! Turns out it's cheap, too!

Rachel of Pay Heed to the Geek wonders:

Pay heed to the geek :: The “easy way” out :: January :: 2007:

"I wonder where America would be now if our founding fathers, the abolitionists, the suffragists, the civil rights leaders had all just decided that things were too hard here in this part of North America and gone elsewhere. What if Benjamin Franklin had decided things were easier in France and stayed there? What if Frederick Douglas had just kept following the underground railroad into Canada? What if Susan B. Anthony had become a conservative Quaker? What if Martin Luther King had just stayed in Liberia?

Why are all the Mexicans who are willing to risk life and limb confronting the United States government instead of their own? Why won’t they fight for change in their home land and instead expect us to do it for them? Why do they seem to think that
changing their nation only involves sending a check home on pay day?"

Those are all great questions. I've often wondered similarly myself. What if America had played a harder line with Castro and not allowed any of those who fled his regime to come here? Would he have been able to keep control of a restive and vastly more militant population for so long? Certainly not!

I may come across as less than compassionate at times, and perhaps I am. It is not that I lack feelings for other peoples' strife; it is that I know my ancestors put property, life and limb on the line in the cause of freedom; they did not seek an easier way when they surely could have. That is why I have next-to-zero sympathy for those who come here clamoring for, often demanding, a "better life." I hate the fact that the fruits of my ancestors' efforts have been made so convenient to steal by this government. I loathe the thought that most of those who come here today surely don't consider coming because they desire embracing America's ideals, they come here for "stuff." And in many instances they don't share it or invest it in our economy, the send the stuff "home."

Despicable!

It pisses me off that my family's sacrifices have been made so tritely fungible by both the intent and neglect of those who are supposed to be our leaders. And I'm supposed to find compassion for those complicit? To hell with that!

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