Contumacious
Radical Freedom
- Aug 16, 2009
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We can let-in, whomever-the-hell we want to, and keep-out, whomever-the-hell we want to...
It's our country, and we can do what-the-phukk we want with it...
Including determine who gets to be a State and who does not...
Are we stronger WITH Puerto Rico or WITHOUT them?
That's the test...
If the answer is WITH, and they want in, then, let 'em in, and get this over with...
If the answer is WITHOUT, then come up with a plan and timeline to cut 'em loose, in the most congenial manner possible without harming our interests, and get this over with.
In the 1860's when the Chinese sought equality and wanted to work in California's gold mines the congress suddenly determined that there was an emergency and for the first time ever concluded that they had the right to interdict, detain and deport. A racist SCOTUS ruled that the federal government had the authority
130 U.S. 581 (9 S.Ct. 623, 32 L.Ed. 1068)
CHAE CHAN PING v. UNITED STATES.
And so it goes.
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