Citizenship

While I'm on this subject, I'd like to say a few things about what I think it should take to hold citizenship in the United States.

First of all (the 14th Amendment notwithstanding), citizenship should not be a "birth right" unless at least one of the parents is a U.S. citizen. I know, we need a Constitutional Amendment to correct that little mistake.

Also, no American citizen should be allowed to hold citizenship in any other country....make your choice. If citizenship in another country is more desirable to you than being an American, go there.

Naturalized U.S. citizens should be required to renounce their citizenship in any other country and surrender their passports for an American passport.

Any U.S. citizen who takes up arms against the United States military anywhere in the world should have his citizenship revoked - posthumously, of course.

Americans are justified in being proud of their citizenship. Those who feel ashamed of being Americans just because they disagree with whoever is currently running the government should be ashamed of themselves instead. Who gives a damn what foreigners think about us or our government? Their ignorance comes from being brainwashed by their leftist media - and many of them are just crude enough to whine about the U.S. to American visitors they don't even know!

I wasn't ashamed to be an American when I was stationed overseas - even when Jimmy Carter was President. Those who tried to shame me only earned my scorn for being so gullible and so willfully ignorant about the United States.