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To: E. T. who wrote (15755)	12/24/2006 4:16:32 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 71588

"America is perceived as THE land of opportunity. " Agreed. People tend to follow where others of the same nationality / ethnic group have preceded successfully. "If you live in Darfur and most of your family has been sliced up, or you live in some lousy spot in ..." I know several people from Darfur, and am getting to know more as fast as we can get them into this country legally. They get offended when people say that we have no right to secure our border from Mexicans, yet we make it very difficult to bring in their relatives. "People all over the world will not stop clamoring to get here. No matter how high you build the wall," As opportunity fades for those immigrants here illegally the word will return home quickly. The current legal immigrant quotas are too small. "Have a Merry Christmas Peter. Hope you and your family will be well and prosper in the new year." Thank you and you and your family please have a Merry Christmas and a great new year.

To: E. T. who wrote (15755)	12/24/2006 5:05:53 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 71588

But if he and his family prosper to much, you want the gov to tax the hell out of them

To: E. T. who wrote (15755)	12/25/2006 1:47:42 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 71588

Bah, humbug "The secularist camp, led by Tom Flynn ... charges that 'Merry Christmas' is used to condemn and exclude non-Christians from the month or so between Thanksgiving and New Year's, a season that the Christians have hijacked, and with their traditions 'poisoned the December air.' Americans, says Flynn, 'need to recognize that a war of sorts is genuinely in progress, a war to redefine American life ... and it is desperately important that non-Christians win.' "Trying to follow Mr. Flynn's twisted reasoning is like trying to follow a white line in a snowstorm. Christians, he claims, are attempting to redefine American life, and if they succeed America will be rendered all but unrecognizable. Worse, if the secularists are defeated, no one will be safe from Christmas carolers, Salvation Army bell ringers and Charlie Brown Christmas specials. ... Wishing someone a 'Merry Christmas' may in fact constitute hate speech, equal in effect to cross burning. ... "Who would have thought that one little phrase, one little wish for happiness and peace on earth would cause such hard feelings, such belligerencies?" — Christopher Orlet, writing on "Merry Christmas as Hate Speech," Tuesday in the American Spectator Online at www.spectator.org