{"id":971,"date":"2007-08-17T16:50:24","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T20:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=971"},"modified":"2007-08-17T16:51:18","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T20:51:18","slug":"north-american-unioncommunity-a-bad-idea-repost-from-february-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/17\/north-american-unioncommunity-a-bad-idea-repost-from-february-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"North American Union\/Community: A bad idea &#8211; REPOST from February 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Repost from February:<\/p>\n<p>The column below ran in today\u2019s Marietta Daily Journal in February. <\/p>\n<p><strong>North American Union would be terrible mistake <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>D.A. King<br \/>\nColumnist<br \/>\nFebruary 15, 2007<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere shall be open borders\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211; A recurring 1984 proposal promoted by the Wall Street Journal for a five-word amendment to the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America\u201d.<br \/>\n&#8211; Presidential candidate George W. Bush in a 2000 campaign speech on Latin America in Miami. <\/p>\n<p>As someone who studies our intentional lack of border security and the resulting terror threat and illegal immigration crisis in the new America of the Bush administration, the most common question I hear after people begin to suspect that the president of the United States has no intention of securing American borders &#8211; Sept. 11, 2001, be damned &#8211; is natural enough: \u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why would the president &#8211; and a large part of Congress &#8211; refuse do everything possible to stop what a 2006 House Committee on Homeland Security report estimated to be somewhere between four and ten million illegal and uninspected border crossings in 2005 alone?&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please read the rest\/original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=557\">here<\/a> and see the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repost from February: The column below ran in today\u2019s Marietta Daily Journal in February. North American Union would be terrible mistake D.A. King Columnist February 15, 2007 \u201cThere shall be open borders\u201d &#8211; A recurring 1984 proposal promoted by the Wall Street Journal for a five-word amendment to the Constitution. \u201cBy nominating me, my party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}