Voltimand,
Your essay at #68 is arguably the best essay that I have read in a comments section at any website, ever.

Thank you very, very much for your concise delivery of two essential messages:
1. there is a real difference between a citizen and non-citizen,
2. there is a real difference between civil, law-enforcement jurisprudence and wartime military jurisprudence.

Both of these rules need reinforcing, and especially right now, because we’re being told by our ruling classes that American citizenship is a triviality in matters of state, and that the nation’s government should deny that we’re still officially at war.

Incidently, both memes track slogans propagated by advocates for militant Islamofascism, the “right-of-return/migration” caucus at the UN, and America’s Democrat(ic) Party (which yearns for unchecked social spending). Islamofascists believe Islam is universal, national citizenship is secondary. Right of Migration-ists cling to a post-national fantasy where local property titles, administrable boundaries, republican government and “Constitutional Rights” are obsolete clerical obstructions. And if you support enormous spending on patronage (ie. social) programs, then the prospect of the demos internalizing the fact that we are AT WAR, and that the war, not patronage, should top the Congress’ list of spending priorities, is to be feared and, of course, obstructed.

The more we can do to lift up American citizenship and remind our citizens that we a nation at war with non-uniformed combatants, the better. Your essay, Voltimand, is as good a propellant to both ends as one’ll ever find.

Thanks again,
-Steve