Immigration is the mass sociological version of family psychology played out on a bigger stage. Every kid in a large enough family is sure that his/her parents should have stopped after his/her birth. One can not begin discussions of historical attitudes to immigration (and be complete in discussing the topic -- one can of course omit whatever one wants and not be complete) without a look into the "immigration policies" of the American Indians, whose presence here obviously antedated the "invasion" of the colonists. I am descended from several of the Indians who show up in the history books as being important interfaces with settlers in the 1500s and 1600s. May I suggest to Prof. Camarillo that for an intellectual exercise, he try to look at the strategy of assimilation that was clearly stated adopted from the time of Metacom (1675 powwow in Fitchburg) -- as the only option. And the nearly 80 years of historical record darkness that followed. It is in looking especially at the New England period history that one can see the trends that developed in "the Englishmen" settlers' attitudes that followed. These days, when I look at the intellectual exercise of "what's 11 million more in the grand scheme of things?" it is from the perspective of International Law, where everyone is on my property, most of the treaties signed since the 1630s have been invalid -- and "it was too long ago so there is nothing one can do about it" as an attitude being shoved down my throat. Wave after wave after wave of immigrants came, assimilated with the Indians, as was Metacom's plan -- and left a sorry mess that he probably knew at the time would result from an assimilation policy. But that is all past now. In the seeds of what was, following from the Puritans, Roger Williams and the 10 year moratorium on settling the Indian lands after King Philip's War (Clara Endicott Sears has one of the more accurate versions of the 1674-6 history) come answers to the modern problem of trying to figure out what to do when presented with fait accompli, whether one likes it or not. In my adoptive family, I was second of 4. On my native soil, I was first -- and treated as if I don't matter at all. Illegals matter because of "family issues". Maybe so. My only advice is to look to the attitudes of what antedated the colonists and their Declaration and Constitution. That was formative. And the documents sparse. It was an invasion. Names and places were all changed. 80 years is a very long time.
Spoken like a bunch of lawless people who speak and argue while on my property -- fake treaties all irrelevant to discuss because of faits accompli -- and "International laws important". All I gotta do is look at the pictures I took of Northeastern cities on very cold days and laugh that anyone would want to argue anything with me except the obvious. Thanks, Calvin. I'm sure you are absolutely right. All I need to do is follow the paperwork. And forget about what happened, and you should have noticed, but is not in the newspapers yet,.... 16 years ago today. Related to the photos. Time to hand you the two worthless pieces of paper test and see if you care for the giant reward. Wanna pretend we won't hand you the test? I spent 9 years as a bum waiting for someone to get an easy A. Not even my "fellow bums" were takers. The Curse of Metacom, given in what is now Needham, MA, while Metacom spoke to 75 Dredded Englishmen who were hunting him is not recorded in any history books I have seen. "Even if you get everyone of my people -- and I am the last one standing, you will still have to deal with me." How right he ended up being. My photos show it. So too does that Liberty Mutual commercial that ends with a view of Manhattan and Brooklyn from NY Harbor. I am never amazed that nobody ever says anything about it. It would ruin everyone's delusion of their own persecution -- and get in the way of their predatory and ungrateful acts. Don't get me wrong, Calvin. This is my most productive lifetime ever. I have no regrets about being the Target-in-Chief. And International Law says you are on my property. Please show more courtesy to others than you show to me. That is the whole point.
"Undocumented Immigrants"? "What about the children?" Gosh....I bet I can guess the good professor's political ideology.
Immigration is the mass sociological version of family psychology played out on a bigger stage. Every kid in a large enough family is sure that his/her parents should have stopped after his/her birth.
One can not begin discussions of historical attitudes to immigration (and be complete in discussing the topic -- one can of course omit whatever one wants and not be complete) without a look into the "immigration policies" of the American Indians, whose presence here obviously antedated the "invasion" of the colonists. I am descended from several of the Indians who show up in the history books as being important interfaces with settlers in the 1500s and 1600s.
May I suggest to Prof. Camarillo that for an intellectual exercise, he try to look at the strategy of assimilation that was clearly stated adopted from the time of Metacom (1675 powwow in Fitchburg) -- as the only option. And the nearly 80 years of historical record darkness that followed. It is in looking especially at the New England period history that one can see the trends that developed in "the Englishmen" settlers' attitudes that followed.
These days, when I look at the intellectual exercise of "what's 11 million more in the grand scheme of things?" it is from the perspective of International Law, where everyone is on my property, most of the treaties signed since the 1630s have been invalid -- and "it was too long ago so there is nothing one can do about it" as an attitude being shoved down my throat. Wave after wave after wave of immigrants came, assimilated with the Indians, as was Metacom's plan -- and left a sorry mess that he probably knew at the time would result from an assimilation policy.
But that is all past now. In the seeds of what was, following from the Puritans, Roger Williams and the 10 year moratorium on settling the Indian lands after King Philip's War (Clara Endicott Sears has one of the more accurate versions of the 1674-6 history) come answers to the modern problem of trying to figure out what to do when presented with fait accompli, whether one likes it or not. In my adoptive family, I was second of 4. On my native soil, I was first -- and treated as if I don't matter at all. Illegals matter because of "family issues". Maybe so. My only advice is to look to the attitudes of what antedated the colonists and their Declaration and Constitution. That was formative. And the documents sparse. It was an invasion. Names and places were all changed. 80 years is a very long time.
Spoken like a bunch of lawless people who speak and argue while on my property -- fake treaties all irrelevant to discuss because of faits accompli -- and "International laws important". All I gotta do is look at the pictures I took of Northeastern cities on very cold days and laugh that anyone would want to argue anything with me except the obvious. Thanks, Calvin. I'm sure you are absolutely right. All I need to do is follow the paperwork. And forget about what happened, and you should have noticed, but is not in the newspapers yet,.... 16 years ago today. Related to the photos.
Time to hand you the two worthless pieces of paper test and see if you care for the giant reward. Wanna pretend we won't hand you the test? I spent 9 years as a bum waiting for someone to get an easy A. Not even my "fellow bums" were takers.
The Curse of Metacom, given in what is now Needham, MA, while Metacom spoke to 75 Dredded Englishmen who were hunting him is not recorded in any history books I have seen. "Even if you get everyone of my people -- and I am the last one standing, you will still have to deal with me." How right he ended up being. My photos show it. So too does that Liberty Mutual commercial that ends with a view of Manhattan and Brooklyn from NY Harbor. I am never amazed that nobody ever says anything about it. It would ruin everyone's delusion of their own persecution -- and get in the way of their predatory and ungrateful acts.
Don't get me wrong, Calvin. This is my most productive lifetime ever. I have no regrets about being the Target-in-Chief. And International Law says you are on my property. Please show more courtesy to others than you show to me. That is the whole point.