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Abe Senior Member
since 2003-05-28
Posts 694Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end! 
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THE LAW’S THE LAW We forgive too many crimes And we say that it’s okay Go ahead and break our Laws We don’t mean them anyway. They’re enforced when they suit us Or we’ll pretend we didn’t see Unless a law abiding citizen Like someone like you or me. If you’re one of those in power In politics or corporate trust If you spend enough dollars Then acquittal seems a must. If you work for almost nothing You don’t need to toe the line As long as the “boss” gets richer Everything will be just fine. No one should be above the Law From the bottom to the “top” There’s no Law when it’s twisted And this practice has to stop. Our courts say, they can burn our Flag You can stomp it to the ground Or protest with foreign colors Out there waving all around. But as Roosevelt once said Some words we should live by “We have room for but one flag” One language for you and I. We still welcome immigrants Who seek the American Way But they, too should be governed By our Laws and what they say. There’s the right way and the wrong That all the people should know And if they want to break our laws Then, they should be forced to go. And if those we vote into office Insist on saying it’s alright Then we should vote them out Or else we will lose the fight. Our borders are all broken And nobody seems to care Someday a War we might fight Will not be, fought “over there.” All the Laws of our Land Should apply to one and all We can’t just use those we want Lest we’ll watch our Nation fall. We must shut down our borders Keep the illegals from our Land Though Lady Liberty has a saying This is not what She had planned. Del “Abe” Jones 04-04-2006 Inscribed on Statue of Liberty > "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door." Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907 "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Theodore Roosevelt 1907 A FOX IN THE WHITE HOUSE?? We let them cross our borders By air and land and sea While we pay for all those benefits All those illegals get for free. Even when we catch them And we pay to ship them back For every one there are two To cross, take up the slack. There’s nothing wrong with legals Who come to work in the fields And earn a little extra money That the American way yields. But seems our President Lived in Texas far too long Because those Texas ranchers Don’t see anything wrong. Been the same for generations But, used to be under control Though now millions cross the line And hardly any pay the toll. It not only hurts our Country But those too, within the law Who do it right and work hard Now, the worst they ever saw. If we don’t put a stop to it Letting them in, sending jobs out The rest the World will have it all While we Americans go without. The "New World Order" Some in Power want to see The death knell for Freedom Is what the new order will be. There’s some who will benefit But, won’t be anyone we know You best look to see it Coming Before you look and see it Go. Governments and Politicians Around the World play the game To turn it to “us” and “them” To keep the poor just the same. While cheap labor rushes in American jobs are our out source Just wait and watch and you’ll see As our own ruin runs it’s course. America, home of the Free As we give all of it away Support the World, except ourselves For that’s the American Way. Del "Abe" Jones 03-28-2005 On Wednesday, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06 That won't ever happen again ! Del "Abe" Jones Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity. [This message has been edited by Abe (04-04-2006 12:12 PM).] |
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curiouse Member
since 2006-03-21
Posts 277england |
this has a lot of feeling and depth in it. i loved it!, curiouse Curioustity is a fine gift... |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
excellent write. martyjo |
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sweetberry Member
since 2006-03-29
Posts 125 |
You hit the spot with this! Good job... |
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