Thomas A Locker

Just a reminder, the resurrection of Jesus Christ has more surviving eyewitness testimony than: · Hannibal crossing the Alps · The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius · The trial and death of Socrates · Alexander the Great’s conquests · Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon

@Werbil195791 @DissidentRight Or maybe there are just a lot of teachers in the neighborhood.

@DissidentRight You must have walked by a public school.

I saw an ad for a pedometer; thought it would be nifty to have one, so I bought it online. Carried it with me on this morning's walk of the family dog. Checked it when we arrived back home: the dial read 2,206! A 45-minute early-morning walk in a quiet middle-middle-class suburb, and my pedometer detected more than two thousand child-molesters in its range! Truly it's a fallen world we live in.

These children are issued birth certificates that are indistinguishable from those give to any other child born in the USA. If they apply for a USA Passport, using the birth certificate issued by the locality where they were born, they will be issued a USA Passport with no questions asked. Are they citizens?

@1983Level3 @BelannF I’m not sure I understand? You didn’t answer my question. But are you saying diplomat children are citizens of the U.S.?

WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT FOR THE JUSTICES TO UNDERSTAND? Is this difficult for you to understand?

@ExtrmeCntr @BelannF I have investigated this and the children of diplomats who are born in the USA are issued birth certificates that are indistinguishable from those give to any other child born in the USA.

@1983Level3 @BelannF If you are correct in your interpretation, in the Senators comments, isn’t “who are children of” diplomats redundant since he already mentioned “foreigners”

@gregoryrsinger @onefiftyfivemm I have investigated this and the children of diplomats who are born in the USA are issued birth certificates that are indistinguishable from those give to any other child born in the USA.

@1983Level3 @onefiftyfivemm That’s correct. Children of diplomats are not citizens because diplomats are immune from most of our laws—eg, NOT under US jurisdiction

Oh wild so you're saying the 14th amendment didn't imply that native Americans were subject to the jurisdiction of the US federal government when it was written? That's crazy

The four key tenets of the modern Left. You can call it race communism

@AuronMacintyre If the supporters of birthright citizenship are correct in their interpretation of the Amendment, isn't the clause - and subject to the jurisdiction thereof - redundant? That clause must mean that there are persons born or naturalized in the United States who are not citizens.

The 14th A never meant to convey birthright citizenship, the people who wrote it were clear Liberals reinterpreted the meaning for their gain Now conservatives are "radically changing the definition of citizenship" by restoring its real meaning This is how the dialectic works

@upstatefederlst If the supporters of birthright citizenship are correct in their interpretation of the Amendment, isn't the clause - and subject to the jurisdiction thereof - redundant? That clause must mean that there are persons born or naturalized in the United States who are not citizens.

I'm demanding we create some bespoke definition of "subject to the jurisdiction" to create new policy out of thin air like Democrats do with absolutely no hesitation. "Actually subject to the jurisdiction means both parents are US citizens, we just didn't notice until now."

@ryanswalters73 If the supporters of birthright citizenship are correct in their interpretation of the Amendment, isn't the clause - and subject to the jurisdiction thereof - redundant? That clause must mean that there are persons born or naturalized in the United States who are not citizens.

It seems pretty obvious to me that most of the people arguing for birthright citizenship are either immigrants themselves or have no extended ties to our Founding Generation. My people came to Jamestown in 1609. George Washington and I are second cousins (9 generations removed - his great grandfather, Colonel Augustine Warner, Jr., was my 10th great grandfather). I had numerous grandfathers who were members of the Virginia House of Burgesses and served as high ranking officers in the militia. My ninth great grandfather was Anthony Ashley Cooper, one of the original proprietors of the Carolina Colony. I’m related to Martha Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and so many more. It simply means more to us, a connection we have that others don’t. It is something foreigners can never truly understand. And never will.

@nettermike If the supporters of birthright citizenship are correct in their interpretation of the Amendment, isn't the clause - and subject to the jurisdiction thereof - redundant? That clause must mean that there are persons born or naturalized in the United States who are not citizens.

Republican Senator Jacob Howard, who was a coauthor of the 14th Amendment, said that the 14 Amendment was “simply declaratory” of the Civil Rights Act to protect freed slaves. He assured senators, “This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, or who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.” J Turley

@wil_da_beast630 If the supporters of birthright citizenship are correct in their interpretation of the Amendment, isn't the clause - and subject to the jurisdiction thereof - redundant? That clause must mean that there are persons born or naturalized in the United States who are not citizens.

This birth-right citizenship case, if you've listened to the arguments and questions, will likely be a loss for the right. #messenger

@ChristianHeiens @megbasham If the supporters of birthright citizenship are correct in their interpretation of the Amendment, isn't the clause - and subject to the jurisdiction thereof - redundant? That clause must mean that there are persons born or naturalized in the United States who are not citizens.

Ever notice how the Constitution was utterly powerless to stop everything from COVID lockdowns to the explicitly anti-White/anti-Male DEI regime of the last dozen years, but it's now constantly being invoked to defend everything from giving citizenship to the children of illegals and CCP spies to sending unlimited sums of taxpayer money to the Progressive NGO complex?

@wine_018 TKAM is anti-white nonsense.

I had a conversation with one of my guys at work. He's 23, a good "kid" and he seems to have a great head on his shoulders. We were talking about required reading when I was in school; Animal Farm, 1984, To Kill a Mocking Bird, etc. He never heard of 1984. No idea about Animal Farm. He did know about "Mocking Bird." The look on my face had to show my disappointment. I said, "Bro, these are important books. So relevant today!" Hours later, he showed me his Amazon receipt. That's a win.

John Adams, on the importance of only letting the propertied vote: It is certain in theory, that the only moral foundation of government is the consent of the people. But to what an extent shall we carry this principle? Shall we say, that every individual of the community, old and young, male and female, as well as rich and poor, must consent, expressly to every act of legislation? No, you will say. This is impossible. How then does the right arise in the majority to govern the minority, against their will? Whence arises the right of the men to govern women, without their consent? Whence the right of the old to bind the young, without theirs? But let us first suppose, that the whole community of every age, rank, sex, and condition, has a right to vote… But why exclude women? You will say, because their delicacy renders them unfit for practice and experience, in the great business of life, and the hardy enterprises of war, as well as the arduous cares of state. Besides, their attention is so much engaged with the necessary nurture of their children, that nature has made them fittest for domestic cares. And children have not judgment or will of their own. True. But will not these reasons apply to others? Is it not equally true, that men in general in every society, who are wholly destitute of property, are also too little acquainted with public affairs to form a right judgment, and too dependent upon other men to have a will of their own? If this is a fact, if you give to every man, who has no property, a vote, will you not make a fine encouraging provision for corruption by your fundamental law? Such is the frailty of the human heart, that very few men, who have no property, have any judgment of their own. They talk and vote as they are directed by some man of property, who has attached their minds to his interest… Harrington has shown that power always follows property. This I believe to be as infallible a maxim, in politics, as that action and reaction are equal is in mechanics… We may advance one step farther and affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way then of preserving the balance of power on the side of equal liberty and public virtue, is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society: to make a division of the land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates…I believe these principles have been felt, if not understood in the Massachusetts Bay, from the beginning… I would not advise [our people of Massachusetts] to make any alteration in the laws, at present, respecting the qualifications of voters… The same reasoning, which will induce you to admit all men who have no property to vote…, will prove that you ought to admit women and children: for generally speaking, women and children have as good judgment and as independent minds as those men who are wholly destitute of property: these last being to all intents and purposes as much dependent upon others, who will please to feed, clothe, and employ them, as women are upon their husbands, or children on their parents… Depend upon it, sir, it is dangerous to open so fruitful a source of controversy and altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the qualifications of voters. There will be no end of it. New claims will arise. Women will demand a vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their rights not enough attended to, and every man, who has not a farthing, will demand an equal voice with any other in all acts of state. It tends to confound and destroy all distinctions, and prostrate all ranks, to one common level.

@jasonwhitlock Didn't they try that once before?

@Matt_Bracken48 @JackPosobiec All the Just War conditions are easily met in the battle against Islam. With the possible exception of serious prospects for success But, as has been said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Jack, I'm not going away. Take a stance. "Wake up pray up" does not mean wait to see which way the winds of war blow, to pretend you were always on the winning team. Don't be a "Good German," 1939 edition. 1945 was pretty bad for "Good Germans." Stand and be counted. We are all watching.

One Month of Operation Iran

@thinkingwest Tradition is a set of solutions to problems we have forgotten even exist. Throw away the solutions and you get those problems back. Donald Kingsbury “Courtship Rites”

Roger Scruton has an incredible quote on why tradition is a duty: “We do not merely study the past: we inherit it, and inheritance brings with it not only the rights of ownership, but the duties of trusteeship…Things fought for and died for should not be idly squandered. For they are the property of others, who are not yet born.” Let’s not squander our inheritance. We have great work to do.

@thomasjeans @C_3C_3 Ending the draft was the key to flooding America with immigrants (legal & illegal). If Americans had been being drafted while those "living in the shadows" were immune, there'd have been a revolt.

@C_3C_3 how many of the 11 million are registered for Selective Service? oh, that's right -- zero? Americans will be drafted while illegal migrants pillage our homeland

11 million. That’s the official US government estimate for illegals in America. Yes, that’s true. It’s absurd. It’s an insult to our intelligence. The Biden Administration let in more than 11 million alone. If you had to guess how many illegals are in America?