Reality A La Carte: IMMIGRATION & POLITICS

Reality A La Carte: IMMIGRATION & POLITICS
AOL Screws Up Your Mail! [Doesn't Deliver] PLUS ---> Border Patrol v MadMan John McCain!

AWAKE UP CALL FOLKS. HERE's SOME OF THE NEWS:

1. Subject: Border Patrol Agents Angry with McCain
2. Senate Rejects U.S. Troop Pullout in Iraq
3. Al-Qaida Tried to Start U.S.-Iran War, Papers Say
4. Minutemen Hire Contractor to Build Fence
5. Clinton: Dems Sin By Ignoring Religion
6. House Dems Strip Jefferson of Assignment
WITH LAWMAKERS from the House and Senate yet to reconcile their competing immigration bills and President Bush still touting a temporary worker program, some rank-and-file defenders of the border are lambasting the notion that deporting illegal aliens is impractical.

Moreover they view anything that smacks of amnesty as a betrayal to those who have risked their lives patrolling the borders.

The National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) union represents the U.S. Border Patrol's 10,000 non-supervisory agents. The largest local of the NBPC is Local 2544, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona - a busy sector accounting for more than half of the 1.15 million illegal aliens apprehended last year by the Border Patrol.

Local 2544 members serve on the front lines, and they are hopping mad with the administration and with some lawmakers in particular.

Mike Albon, Local 2544's public information officer, told NewsMax, "All the comments on our Web site are the opinions of the Local and can be taken as the Union's point of view."

To say the least, the Senate bill's gradual amnesty program for many who have crossed the border illegally is unpopular with Local 2544:

"We strongly oppose any attempts to reward illegal alien lawbreakers. We have risked our lives to keep them out of this country. The slick politicians can call it ‘guest-worker' or ‘earned legalization' all they want, but it's amnesty."

NOW BOW TO 'AMNESTY JOHN!

His name is McCain; Snake oil his game; he is seeking but fame but his manner is lame. And he doesn't even speak Spanship? Oh Chiwawa... or something like that in Spanish.

Particular union vitriol is reserved for the man they call "Amnesty John," who voted for the Senate bill. "Amnesty John" is the union's handle for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

"Senator McCain has never been a friend to rank-and-file Border Patrol agents," says the union. "He routinely ignores correspondence from Border Patrol agents and often gives the impression that he is just too big and too important to deal with us. He attempts to undermine our mission at every turn and actively supports the criminals who violate our laws. He always tries to downplay the fact that illegal aliens knowingly and willingly violate our laws."

According to Albon, the root of the rank-and-file frustration is that McCain and others who want a road to citizenship for some of those already unlawfully in the country are at best unrealistic when it comes to the paperwork burden of proving who was where and when: "Your government is nowhere near being capable of handling all those claims.

"They will buckle at the slightest hint of pressure from any activist/social services group. They will issue waivers like candy to any illegal alien who says he or she can't afford the 'fines' levied by the government. They will accept one fraudulent document after another. The entire thing will be mass chaos."

The union fears a reprise of what they say occurred under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of Nov. 6, 1986. Under that act, say union officials, many who had just entered the United States falsely claimed they had entered years before so they could qualify for amnesty.

Case-in-point: a large group was tracked down and apprehended on the Tohono O'Odham Indian reservation about 10 miles from the border. Two of them had freshly minted "amnesty" cards. The cardholders claimed they had entered years before and were just visiting the rest of the group:

"We were told that if we wanted to prove their claims false we would have to ‘back track' them all the way to the south side of the border to prove they were in Mexico. It was logistically impossible to do this under the circumstances."

As to the argument of Sen. McCain to simply say to those "undocumented workers, who are working the jobs that the rest of us refuse, come out from the shadows," the union is adamant:

"Senator, they put themselves in those ‘shadows' by breaking our laws and they need to go home. They weren't forcibly placed in the ‘shadows' by some murdering tyrant from the Middle East. They freely chose to break our laws, steal our jobs, and take advantage of our wobbly-kneed politicians who let them do it. Instead of using all that energy to fix their own corrupt country, they sneak into ours and then demand that we change our system to fit their crimes. It's pretty simple stuff . . ."

The Union's Solution

The local has a simple solution to the border crisis: Shut the border down to illegal crossings, and then start hammering the greedy employers who hire them:

"Start deporting, we repeat, deporting, the illegal aliens who are here in violation of law. It may take years, but you don't build a house overnight."

As to criminalizing the illegals – one of the great sticking points in the immigration reform debate – the union does not understand what all that fuss is about. They explain that it is already a federal crime to enter the country without inspection – specifically under title eight of the U.S. Code, section 1325.

Under that current law, a first offense is punishable by a fine and up to six months in jail, a second offense is punishable by a fine and up to two years in jail.

Says the union: "Many media outlets are incorrectly reporting that it is only a ‘civil offense.' No, it's just that we can't persuade the U.S. attorney's office to prosecute anyone for 8 USC 1325 – unless they're also an axe murderer, so they are charged with the ‘civil offense' and sent home."

The National Guard at the Border

The union says that it abhors the fact that President Bush has gone out of his way to assure Mexican President Vincente Fox that the United States. will not "militarize" the border:

"Fox has already ‘militarized' the border. Mexico has plenty of troops on the border. We know this because we see them all the time and they shoot at us with rather large .50 caliber rifles. All we can do is hope their aim is bad, run from them, and then watch as the cowards from our government hide from the issue, and their government lies about them even being there."

Albon points out that Local 2544 had not been consulted regarding the deployment of National Guard troops in the Tucson sector. "We were told we would be consulted. We weren't."

Local 2544 is also quick to point out that it and its membership has absolutely no complicity or involvement in reported management directives to report the location of the Minutemen volunteers to the Mexican government:

"Our position on the Mexican government and the Mexican military is very clear. They are corrupt; their soldiers shoot at us; they smuggle drugs; they help illegal aliens invade this country by the millions; they are not to be trusted, and they should have zero input into the internal policies of the United States of America."

Albon reports that union leadership has received a lot of e-mail on this issue:

"It's been a standing joke for years that we should ‘check with the Mexican Consulate' to see if they approve before we do anything. Their influence on our politicians and upper managers is absolutely disgraceful."

Meanwhile, Arizona's Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano has just vetoed a Republican immigration package that would have allowed local police to arrest illegal immigrants for trespassing.

This did not sit well with the union:

"Napolitano is like many other tough-talking politicians. She talks about ‘illegal immigration' and ‘out-of-control borders' a lot – and that's about it. If she was half as hard on illegal aliens as she was on Border Patrol agents when she was the U.S. attorney for Arizona, we would be a lot better off."

Looking to the Future

The union is very cynical of the future:

"While Bush is in office nothing will get done. That much is obvious after six years. And the current crop of prospective presidents who are posturing for a run in 2008, including our wonderful in-state non-supporter, ‘Amnesty John' McCain, will probably be worse. That should take us through 2012, when we'll be hearing the same old tired ‘get tough' political posturing over ‘securing our borders' all over again. Does anybody really think Hillary Clinton is going to be a tough, enforcement-minded leader on illegal immigration if she gets elected?Get real folks!

FINALLY A COUNTRY WITH POLITICAL LEADERS
WHO HAVE PRINCIPLES!
Three Cheers for Australia!

MUSLIMS WHO WANT to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on
Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.

A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia at a special meeting with Prime Minister John Howard, he and his ministers made it clear that extremist's would face a crackdown. Treasurer Peter Costello , seen as heir apparent to Howard, hinted that some radical clerics could be asked to leave the country if they did not accept that Australia was a secular state and its laws were made by parliament.

"If those are not your values, if you want a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic state, then Australia is not for you," he said on national television. "I'd be saying to clerics who are teaching that there are two laws governing people in Australia, one the Australian law and another the Islamic law, that is false. If you can't agree with parliamentary law, independent courts, democracy and would prefer Sharia law and have the opportunity to go to another country which practices it, perhaps, then, that's a better option," Costello said.

Asked whether he meant radical clerics would be forced to leave, he said those with dual citizenship could possibly be asked to move to the other country. Education Minister Brendan Nelson later told reporters that Muslim's who did not want to accept local values should "clear off."

"Basically, people who don't want to be Australians and don't want to live by Australian values and understand them, well, then, they can basically clear off," he said. Separately, Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques.
AMERICA and Canada..... ARE YOU LISTENING?
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AND THERE'S MORE: After hearing that the State of South Australia changed its opinion and let a Muslim woman have her picture on her driver's license with her face covered, prompted this editorial written by an Australian and published in an Australian newspaper.

IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT.
Take It Or Leave It... I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.

However, the dust from the attacks had barely settled when the "politically correct" crowd began complaining about the possibility that our patriotism was offending others.. I am not against immigration, nor do I hold a grudge against anyone who is seeking a better life by coming to Australia. However, there are a few things that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently some born here, need to understand.

This idea of Australia being a multicultural community has served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity. As Australians, we have our own culture, our own society, our own language and our own lifestyle.

This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and wom en who have sought freedom. We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, learn the language!

Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right-wing, political push but a fact because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.

We will accept your beliefs and we will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us. If the Southern Cross offends you, or you don't like "A Fair Go," then you should seriously consider a move to another part of this planet. We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don't care how you did things where you came from. By all means, keep your culture but do not force it on others.

This is OUR country, OUR land and OUR lifestyle, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, "THE RIGHT TO LEAVE " If you aren't happy here, then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So, accept the country that accepted YOU!

The United States of America (and our political leaders) could learn something from this! Pretty easy, really, when you think about it. I figure if we all keep passing this on to our friends (and enemies), it will sooner or later get back to the complainers.....

USING AOL? DON'T!
Get Yahoo and dump AOL and be a happy Camper again! If you are having mail problems with AOL, you're NOT alone. Subscribers are leaving AOL in droves. If AOL keeps downsizing, most homesexuals will be letting their fingers do the walking...while collecting unemployment. Poor babies!

COUNTRY IN CRISIS! That's us!
Learn to speak Spanish dear one(s). But then, if we are lucky, the Chinese, instead of the Mexicans, will take over the country. The Chinese government attitude is, don't screw with us and we won't screw with you! I see myself a Patriot; one who served this wonderful U.S. of A in peacetime and in war, for 22 years! Democracy doesn't work, says I. History, too, has proved that fact! Sadly, to stabilize the country quickly would require the efforts of a benevolent dictator! I so love my country but I sicken that our elected leaders have betrayed us! We have so many laws that no one knows just what will jail you and what won't. I deeply love my country and am deeply in fear of my government for what it has become. I really think that someday I will be 'taken,' as Joyce implied. But I am old and it won't be for long. As for illegals -- and our laws -- the illegals have had a field day with our laws and legal system, using it to a great advantage!
WANT TO BUY A POLITICIAN?
The price might be high and he'll never admit it, but with Jefferson, the price is right! Who? Thomas J? No silly, William Jefferson, Snake Oil Salesman perfectus, from the state of Louisiana!
IS JOHN KERRY LOONEY TUNES?
Of course. I think he bumbped his head five times when he fell out of his boat while in the Vietnam delta. Five purple hearts later he went before congress (lower case). If he hadn't got his head caught in the propellers, he probably might be qualified to work for Burger King! You remember Kerry, don't you? He is the guy who never voted for whatever before he did vote for it again?. Yep. I think so!
SWIMMING LESSONS FOR UNCLE TED?
No way, Jose. He leanred to swim at Chapaquidick.
CHUCK SCHUMER IS TIRED OF DC
I have word from the 'grapevine that Chas Schummer may go to Israel where he will open up a Bookblack establishment. He ought to discuss the matter with Williman Jefferson first. Y'know, learning how to raise capital while winning friends and influencing people. Jefferson, too, might need to learn the trade himslef if he is sent to prison. I think one the charges against him include freezing his assets... in this case, $90k (in his home)freezer!

A few weeks back, John Kasich, of Fox TV's Heartland News, boldly announced the TRUTH -- loud and clear -- [that] there's more trouble coming to 'River city USA of A,' if the Congress passes the immigration 'amnesty' bill which they wrongfully insist isn't an amnesty bill at all! If the bill passes, here is the awful TRUTH: --->In 20 years we will have more than 300 MILLION additional Mexican citizens among us -- not counting the ones that continue to sneak across our borders! -- ready and waiting to be placed on U.S. welfare roles! More than 90 percent of them have no workmanship skills, are high school drop-outs, bear children like popcorn in a microwave, and most have unknown daddies. Middle class Americans are already footing $50 Billion a year to keep the illegals healthy, subsidize their housing, while allowing them more perks than a legal citizen can ever dream of getting... and they still demand more! Most of them never wanted citizenship to begin with; they just want the 'goodies.' That's the rub!

I have personally been told, by friends in Arizona, that English speaking Mexicans are already organizing local illegals and bogus paperwork that will have to be notarized, to 'prove' that their illegal compadres have been in the U.S. for whatever 'required' years necessary, in accordance with the requirements proposed in the immigration bill being pushed through Congress by Washington Snake Oil Salesmen! If the bill is carried, say goodbye to what little remains of the American way. El Presidente Fox will have won, making the U.S. the welfare provider for his millions of downtrodden people! The bastard! This will tear the country apart just when my great grand children are 25-30 years old. What a grand gift we're leaving them! Welcome to the 21st Century!
HJG, Patriot.
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	AWAKE UP CALL FOLKS. HERE's SOME OF THE NEWS:
	1. Subject: Border Patrol Agents Angry with McCain 2. Senate Rejects U.S. Troop Pullout in Iraq 3. Al-Qaida Tried to Start U.S.-Iran War, Papers Say 4. Minutemen Hire Contractor to Build Fence 5. Clinton: Dems Sin By Ignoring Religion 6. House Dems Strip Jefferson of Assignment WITH LAWMAKERS from the House and Senate yet to reconcile their competing immigration bills and President Bush still touting a temporary worker program, some rank-and-file defenders of the border are lambasting the notion that deporting illegal aliens is impractical.
	Moreover they view anything that smacks of amnesty as a betrayal to those who have risked their lives patrolling the borders.
	The National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) union represents the U.S. Border Patrol's 10,000 non-supervisory agents. The largest local of the NBPC is Local 2544, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona - a busy sector accounting for more than half of the 1.15 million illegal aliens apprehended last year by the Border Patrol.
	Local 2544 members serve on the front lines, and they are hopping mad with the administration and with some lawmakers in particular.
	Mike Albon, Local 2544's public information officer, told NewsMax, "All the comments on our Web site are the opinions of the Local and can be taken as the Union's point of view."
	To say the least, the Senate bill's gradual amnesty program for many who have crossed the border illegally is unpopular with Local 2544:
	"We strongly oppose any attempts to reward illegal alien lawbreakers. We have risked our lives to keep them out of this country. The slick politicians can call it ‘guest-worker' or ‘earned legalization' all they want, but it's amnesty."
	NOW BOW TO 'AMNESTY JOHN!
	His name is McCain; Snake oil his game; he is seeking but fame but his manner is lame. And he doesn't even speak Spanship? Oh Chiwawa... or something like that in Spanish.
	Particular union vitriol is reserved for the man they call "Amnesty John," who voted for the Senate bill. "Amnesty John" is the union's handle for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
	"Senator McCain has never been a friend to rank-and-file Border Patrol agents," says the union. "He routinely ignores correspondence from Border Patrol agents and often gives the impression that he is just too big and too important to deal with us. He attempts to undermine our mission at every turn and actively supports the criminals who violate our laws. He always tries to downplay the fact that illegal aliens knowingly and willingly violate our laws."
	According to Albon, the root of the rank-and-file frustration is that McCain and others who want a road to citizenship for some of those already unlawfully in the country are at best unrealistic when it comes to the paperwork burden of proving who was where and when: "Your government is nowhere near being capable of handling all those claims.
	"They will buckle at the slightest hint of pressure from any activist/social services group. They will issue waivers like candy to any illegal alien who says he or she can't afford the 'fines' levied by the government. They will accept one fraudulent document after another. The entire thing will be mass chaos."
	The union fears a reprise of what they say occurred under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of Nov. 6, 1986. Under that act, say union officials, many who had just entered the United States falsely claimed they had entered years before so they could qualify for amnesty.
	Case-in-point: a large group was tracked down and apprehended on the Tohono O'Odham Indian reservation about 10 miles from the border. Two of them had freshly minted "amnesty" cards. The cardholders claimed they had entered years before and were just visiting the rest of the group:
	"We were told that if we wanted to prove their claims false we would have to ‘back track' them all the way to the south side of the border to prove they were in Mexico. It was logistically impossible to do this under the circumstances."
	As to the argument of Sen. McCain to simply say to those "undocumented workers, who are working the jobs that the rest of us refuse, come out from the shadows," the union is adamant:
	"Senator, they put themselves in those ‘shadows' by breaking our laws and they need to go home. They weren't forcibly placed in the ‘shadows' by some murdering tyrant from the Middle East. They freely chose to break our laws, steal our jobs, and take advantage of our wobbly-kneed politicians who let them do it. Instead of using all that energy to fix their own corrupt country, they sneak into ours and then demand that we change our system to fit their crimes. It's pretty simple stuff . . ."
	The Union's Solution
	The local has a simple solution to the border crisis: Shut the border down to illegal crossings, and then start hammering the greedy employers who hire them:
	"Start deporting, we repeat, deporting, the illegal aliens who are here in violation of law. It may take years, but you don't build a house overnight."
	As to criminalizing the illegals – one of the great sticking points in the immigration reform debate – the union does not understand what all that fuss is about. They explain that it is already a federal crime to enter the country without inspection – specifically under title eight of the U.S. Code, section 1325.
	Under that current law, a first offense is punishable by a fine and up to six months in jail, a second offense is punishable by a fine and up to two years in jail.
	Says the union: "Many media outlets are incorrectly reporting that it is only a ‘civil offense.' No, it's just that we can't persuade the U.S. attorney's office to prosecute anyone for 8 USC 1325 – unless they're also an axe murderer, so they are charged with the ‘civil offense' and sent home."
	The National Guard at the Border
	The union says that it abhors the fact that President Bush has gone out of his way to assure Mexican President Vincente Fox that the United States. will not "militarize" the border:
	"Fox has already ‘militarized' the border. Mexico has plenty of troops on the border. We know this because we see them all the time and they shoot at us with rather large .50 caliber rifles. All we can do is hope their aim is bad, run from them, and then watch as the cowards from our government hide from the issue, and their government lies about them even being there."
	Albon points out that Local 2544 had not been consulted regarding the deployment of National Guard troops in the Tucson sector. "We were told we would be consulted. We weren't."
	Local 2544 is also quick to point out that it and its membership has absolutely no complicity or involvement in reported management directives to report the location of the Minutemen volunteers to the Mexican government:
	"Our position on the Mexican government and the Mexican military is very clear. They are corrupt; their soldiers shoot at us; they smuggle drugs; they help illegal aliens invade this country by the millions; they are not to be trusted, and they should have zero input into the internal policies of the United States of America."
	Albon reports that union leadership has received a lot of e-mail on this issue:
	"It's been a standing joke for years that we should ‘check with the Mexican Consulate' to see if they approve before we do anything. Their influence on our politicians and upper managers is absolutely disgraceful."
	Meanwhile, Arizona's Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano has just vetoed a Republican immigration package that would have allowed local police to arrest illegal immigrants for trespassing.
	This did not sit well with the union:
	"Napolitano is like many other tough-talking politicians. She talks about ‘illegal immigration' and ‘out-of-control borders' a lot – and that's about it. If she was half as hard on illegal aliens as she was on Border Patrol agents when she was the U.S. attorney for Arizona, we would be a lot better off."
	Looking to the Future
	The union is very cynical of the future:
	"While Bush is in office nothing will get done. That much is obvious after six years. And the current crop of prospective presidents who are posturing for a run in 2008, including our wonderful in-state non-supporter, ‘Amnesty John' McCain, will probably be worse. That should take us through 2012, when we'll be hearing the same old tired ‘get tough' political posturing over ‘securing our borders' all over again. Does anybody really think Hillary Clinton is going to be a tough, enforcement-minded leader on illegal immigration if she gets elected?Get real folks!
	FINALLY A COUNTRY WITH POLITICAL LEADERS WHO HAVE PRINCIPLES! Three Cheers for Australia!
	MUSLIMS WHO WANT to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.
	A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia at a special meeting with Prime Minister John Howard, he and his ministers made it clear that extremist's would face a crackdown. Treasurer Peter Costello , seen as heir apparent to Howard, hinted that some radical clerics could be asked to leave the country if they did not accept that Australia was a secular state and its laws were made by parliament.
	"If those are not your values, if you want a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic state, then Australia is not for you," he said on national television. "I'd be saying to clerics who are teaching that there are two laws governing people in Australia, one the Australian law and another the Islamic law, that is false. If you can't agree with parliamentary law, independent courts, democracy and would prefer Sharia law and have the opportunity to go to another country which practices it, perhaps, then, that's a better option," Costello said.
	Asked whether he meant radical clerics would be forced to leave, he said those with dual citizenship could possibly be asked to move to the other country. Education Minister Brendan Nelson later told reporters that Muslim's who did not want to accept local values should "clear off."
	"Basically, people who don't want to be Australians and don't want to live by Australian values and understand them, well, then, they can basically clear off," he said. Separately, Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques. AMERICA and Canada..... ARE YOU LISTENING? --------------------------------------------------------------------- AND THERE'S MORE: After hearing that the State of South Australia changed its opinion and let a Muslim woman have her picture on her driver's license with her face covered, prompted this editorial written by an Australian and published in an Australian newspaper.
	IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It... I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.
	However, the dust from the attacks had barely settled when the "politically correct" crowd began complaining about the possibility that our patriotism was offending others.. I am not against immigration, nor do I hold a grudge against anyone who is seeking a better life by coming to Australia. However, there are a few things that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently some born here, need to understand.
	This idea of Australia being a multicultural community has served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity. As Australians, we have our own culture, our own society, our own language and our own lifestyle.
	This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and wom en who have sought freedom. We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, learn the language!
	Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right-wing, political push but a fact because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.
	We will accept your beliefs and we will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us. If the Southern Cross offends you, or you don't like "A Fair Go," then you should seriously consider a move to another part of this planet. We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don't care how you did things where you came from. By all means, keep your culture but do not force it on others.
	This is OUR country, OUR land and OUR lifestyle, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, "THE RIGHT TO LEAVE " If you aren't happy here, then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So, accept the country that accepted YOU!
	The United States of America (and our political leaders) could learn something from this! Pretty easy, really, when you think about it. I figure if we all keep passing this on to our friends (and enemies), it will sooner or later get back to the complainers.....