America's Grand Pappy

The following was an open letter that Charlie Daniels Wrote...To me after reading this it makes me feel that Charlie Daniel's is America's Grand Pappy...he may not always be right and may not always have all the facts but he speaks with the voice of reason and common sense, things are black and white in his eyes, right and wrong, there is no grey area...I enjoyed this read and will comment on it later but please enjoy the following.


Charlie Daniels on Immigration Issues

4:55pm Thursday, Jul 19
I don't know how everybody else feels about it, but to me I think Hispanic people in this country, legally or illegally, made a huge public relations mistake with their recent demonstrations..

I don't blame anybody in the world for wanting to come to the United States of America, as it is a truly wonderful place.

But when the first thing you do when you set foot on American soil is illegal, it is flat out wrong and I don't care how many lala land left heads come out of the woodwork and start trying to give me sensitivity lessons.

I don't need sensitivity lessons, in fact I don't have anything against Mexicans! I just have something against criminals and anybody who comes into this country illegally is a criminal and if you don't believe it try coming into America from any other foreign country without a passport and see how far you get. What disturbs me about the demonstrations is that it's tantamount to saying, "I am going to come into your country even if it means breaking your laws and there's nothing you can do about it."

It's an "in your face" action and speaking just for me, I don't like it one little bit and if there were a half dozen pairs of gonads in Washington bigger than English peas it wouldn't be happening.

Where are you, you bunch of lily livered, pantywaist, forked tongued, sorry excuses for defenders of The Constitution? Have you been drinking the water out of the Potomac again? And even if you pass a bill on immigration it will probably be so pork laden and watered down that it won't mean anything anyway. Besides, what good is another law going to do when you won't enforce the ones on the books now?

And what ever happened to the polls, guys? I thought you folks were the quintessential finger wetters. Well you sure ain't paying any attention to the polls this time because somewhere around eighty percent of Americans want something done about this mess, and mess it is and getting bigger everyday.
This is no longer a problem, it is a dilemma and headed for being a tragedy. Do you honestly think that what happened in France with the Muslims can't happen here when the businesses who hire these people finally run out of jobs and a few million disillusioned Hispanics take to the streets?

If you, Mr. President, Congressmen and Senators, knuckle under on this and refuse to do something meaningful, it means that you care nothing for the kind of country your children and grand-children will inherit. But I guess that doesn't matter as long as you get re-elected. Shame on you.

One of the big problems in America today is that if you have the nerve to say anything derogatory about any group of people (except Christians) you are going to be screamed at by the media and called a racist, a bigot and anything else they can think of to call you.

Well I've been pounded by the media before and I'm still rockin' and rollin' and when it comes to speaking the truth I fear not. And the truth is that the gutless, gonadless, milksop politicians are just about to sell out the United States of America because they don't have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to face reality.

And reality is that we would never allow any other group of people to have 12 million illegals in this country and turn around and say, "Oh it's ok, ya'll can stay here if you'll just allow us to slap your wrist."

And I know that some of you who read this column are saying "Well what's wrong with that?" I'll tell you what's wrong with it. These people could be from Mars as far as we know. We don't know who they are, where they are or what they're up to and the way the Congress is going we're not going to.

Does this make sense? Labor force you say? We already subsidize corporate agriculture as it is, must we subsidize their labor as well?

If these people were from Haiti would we be so fast to turn a blind eye to them or if they were from Somalia or Afghanistan ? I think not.

All the media shows us are pictures of hard working Hispanics who have crossed the border just to try to better their life. They don't show you pictures of the Feds rounding up members of MS 13, the violent gang who came across the same way the decent folks did. They don't tell you about the living conditions of the Mexican illegals some fat cat hired to pick his crop.

I want to make two predictions.

No. 1: This situation is going to grow and fester until it erupts in violence on our streets while the wimps in Washington drag their toes in the dirt and try to figure how many tons of political hay they can make to the acre.

No 2: Somebody is going to cross that border with some kind of weapon of mass destruction and set it off in a major American city after which there will be a backlash such as this country has never experienced and the Capitol building in Washington will probably tilt as Congressmen and Senators rush to the other side of the issue.

I don't know about you but I would love to see just one major politician stand up and say, "I don't care who I make mad and I don't care how many votes I lose, this is a desperate situation and I'm going to lead the fight to get it straightened out."

I don't blame anybody for wanting to come to America , but if you don't respect our immigration laws why should you respect any others?

And by the way, this is America and our flag has stars and stripes. Please get that other one out of my face.



God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

I mean are you serious "this is America and our flag has stars and stripes. Please get that other one our of my face."

I read this at work and I almost had to contain myself from standing on top of my desk and saying god damn right Charlie. He hit the Immigration issue right on the head for me, now I know there are those of you out there that will not agree with or let alone like what I say or believe and that's fine. This IS America and we are allowed to do that. But hear me out and please don't get defensive this is not personal its politics.

As someone who has been fortunate enough to travel the world and even live overseas for a short amount of time, all this talk about how the boarder is just to big or we don't have the man power to protect it, Makes no sense. When I left Minneapolis Mn heading for Germany via Amsterdam I couldn't sneeze without customs agents or officials checking to see if I was spewing hazardous materials. I was searched so thoroughly that I went through a brief moment of almost feeling guilty like at any moment I was going to be taken into a back room and good cop bad cop was going to do a number on me...I was searched when I entered the airport, I had to reclaim my bags in Minneapolis to have the checked again, then I had to go through the international flight security check point in MN, once in Amsterdam I had to again claim my bags and have them rechecked for a domestic flight to Germany...once in Germany I had to clear through customs, searched again...Now in no way shape or form am I complaining about all this...I want this to be done to every person, flying on commercial jets is a privilege not a right, no where in the Constitution does it say "we the people will provide you with cross continental travel with out hassle"...I encountered a few Americans who seemed to think they were entitled to that (different post different day)...So after all that forgive me if I don't blindly say yeah the boarder is too big, or the resources are too limited to manage...I know a direct boarder poses whole different set of obstacles but there is a way and the American people are demanding a solution.

This is America my flag has stars and stripes, please get that other one out of my face...

(I am too tired and my thoughts are somewhat scattered on this topic so forgive me as I could write on this topic all day but at the moment I have neither the energy or the clarity to finish my thought process...I may continue later but for the time being enjoy Charlie "Grand Pappy" Daniels and post your thoughts...)