The Roman Republic fought a war over Citizenship, the Social War. The war ended in a Roman victory and the genocide of Samnites, an Italian tribe, which wanted full Roman citizenship. The Citizenship War was debilitating to the Republic, causing the rise of military strongmen like Sulla, Marius and eventually Julius Caesar.The vaunted Roman Republic, which had survived hundreds of years, began to die, over a war about who should be a citizen of Rome. Citizenship is very important to Republics. A Monarch can claim subjects by birth, decree or conquest. To be a citizen of a Republic, this American Republic, one has to be either born lucky or meet the criteria of the citizens who came before you. Because American Citizenship is so valuable, such a cohesive force in the existence of the Republic, it cannot and should not be enterprised upon. DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) is the executive order by President Obama which allowed some individuals who were broug

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi(D-Ca), 77 years old, gave the longest speech in the history of the House of Representatives, over eight hours. She did it in four inch heels. Her history making speech  was mostly about illegal aliens, and DREAMERS ( those illegal aliens brought to America by their parents as children ) and DACA Recipients, those DREAMERS allowed to stay in a America by an Executive Order from President Obama; an order rescinded by President Trump, effective March 5, 2018. Her speech was eloquent, emotional, heart rendering, and completely devoid of reality. Ms. Pelosi lives in a fantasy NBC/Hollywood sitcom; her speech reveals how clueless she and her acolytes are.  The illegal aliens, including the DREAMERS must be repatriated. That agenda is not driven by racism nor American nativism but by acceptance of Climate Change, which has unleashed water stress on America, including Los Angeles, Phoenix,  and Miami,and by the rise of robots. First excerpts from

This Blogger has spent time in Mexico: Mexico City, Zacatecas, Morelos, Merida, and Chiapas. He has supported the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). In 2005, he dated a comely Mexican La Pasionaria, who believed in illegal migrations, amnesty, and Open Borders (Opposites attract, and we did not discuss politics). Based on his empirical observations of the Mexican illegal alien population in Los Angeles, he published the following on February 15, 2012. “Most illegal aliens in Los Angeles are from Mexico; I believe that their compulsion to come and stay in America is driven by the desire to make DISNEYLAND, a permanent part of their lives. They are enraptured and captivated by  DISNEYLAND. They think DISNEYLAND is the personification of Magic Realism. DISNEYLAND is the Mecca of their Dreams; their trip EL NOTRE is merely a  Hajj to DISNEYLAND. I firmly believe that there would be no illegal alien problem from Mexico if Disney had built DISNEYLAND in Mexico City, o

“Bernard Lawrence  " Bernie "  Madoff    is an American scam artist ...... He is …. the admitted operator of a Ponzi scheme that is considered the largest financial fraud in U.S. history. Prosecutors estimated the size of the fraud to be $64.8 billion, based on the amounts in the accounts of Madoff's 4,800 clients as of November 30, 2008” Bernie Madoff scammed America and became a billionaire. When the Reckoning came, his children were not rewarded for being the children of a scam artist, but were held to account for their father’s scam. One child committed suicide; one died early from stress induced cancer, one went to prison, all in all, a sad, Shakespearean tragic ending. But when you scam America, your life, and the lives of your children become a Greek tragedy, worthy of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripedes. American society, in its collective wisdom, has decided that the children of crooks, and scam artists and claim jumpers should not benefit  from the crimes

The key social conundrum in America’s first antebellum period was triggered by the Dred Scott Decision; were runaway slaves in free Union states freemen or merely misplaced property? That crystallized the antagonism between Free States and Slave States and led to Civil War. The key  conundrum  in current antebellum American society is: Whether illegal aliens are merely undocumented immigrants or claim jumpers, usurpadors? That crystallizes the profound antagonism between the residents of 2016 America who believe themselves to be Global Citizens ( 43%) and those in America who define themselves as American Citizens( 57%) Defining Claim Jumper- “ a  supplanter, usurper - one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another.” The Global Citizens in America believe in Open Borders, that nationhood does not matter, or that nationhood is racist. Global Citizens believe that anyone, from anywhere in the world, have a right to come to America illegally, violate t