That having been stated I want to relate a sad story. I worked on a very well-articulated answer to your posting for over three hours. I would have had you in my pocket with everything I had to say. When I went to post my message, Boardhost informed me that I was limited to 10,000 words, which I had apparently exceeded. I was instructed to click the back button and edit my message. When the screen went back, my entire message was gone! All 10,000+ words. I cried, Meri cried. It's now after 4:00 AM and I don't have the energy to try to reconstruct my very logical and to-the-point answer to your message. Hopefully in the next day or two I'll get up the gumption to try it again. Before I sign off now, though, let me just say two things. First, my reference to cyber cops was not about you. I was responding to your comment that Boardhost should be informed about our little party here. They would be the ones to send out the cyber cops if we were breaking any rules, which, I assure you, we are not. I'm not promoting any kind of racial hatred here at all. I'm exercising my right to free speech about our government and it's lame approach to the ILLEGAL immigration issue. No one is being victimized here! Secondly, I wrote this song to try to bring people together on this issue. My goal was to show how ironic it is that our government allows an unchecked flow of illegals to invade this country, and yet if I were to go to (insert name of your selected country - I chose Mexico, since it's an easy and obvious target) without a passport or documentation I would be detained and deported. Worse yet, if I tried to enter Mexico from Guatemala, say, I would be shot on sight by the Mexican border patrol. If you read the lyrics to my song you'll see that I'm directing this at our government, not at the people who are coming here illegally. I'm hoping that Americans will become outraged enough about the fact that we have no control of our southern border that they will band together and demand that something be done. I'm not trying to alienate anybody with this. The only thing I have to say to both legal and illegal immigrants is this: if you found life so unbearable in your native country that you chose to leave there and seek a better life in the U.S., please respect the privilege of living here. Learn our language, obey our laws, wave the American flag, not the flag of the homeland that you chose to leave behind and be proud to be an American. I'll be back later with a detailed response to your posting. I need to get away from this for awhile and recollect my thoughts. G'night all...
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