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Politics : ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION THE FIGHT TO KEEP OUR DEMOCRACY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (879)	5/30/2006 8:06:19 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3197

Careful with that video, WR! I've been warned by SI Dave that "cracker" is a racially negative term and isn't allowed on SI. I'm not kidding either..

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (879)	6/3/2006 1:15:54 AM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3197

English historian Edward Gibbon, in penning his classic "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (ironically published in the year America's Founding Fathers declared independence from Great Britain), theorized that Rome fell because it rotted from within. It succumbed to barbarian invasions because of a loss of civic virtue, its citizens became lazy and soft, hiring barbarian mercenaries to defend the empire because they were unwilling to defend it themselves.