If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

The notion that Americans can be protected from "terror" by giving up the Bill of Rights is absurd. Democrats are complicit in this absurd notion. Many were intimidated into voting for police state legislation, because they lacked the intestinal fortitude to call police state legislation by its own name. The legislation that has been passed during the Bush regime is far more dangerous to Americans than Muslim terrorists.

A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.

In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US armaments corporations, and the gullible American people seem proud of it. Those ribbon decals on their cars, SUVs and monster trucks proclaim their naive loyalty to the armaments industries and to the whores in Washington who promote wars.

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?