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Foreigners, Terrorists, and the Constitution

The preamble of the Constitution says the following:

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

When we take a close look at that paragraph we can see the first few words clearly, “We the people of the United States…”   Without getting into the fine details of grammar, this is the subject of the sentence, it is ‘we the people’ who do all that is mentioned afterward, and that is what is important.  We do the following: establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for common defense, promote general welfare, and most importantly SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY ordain and establish the Constitution.

I have bolded this part because, while listing all of the items is important, “We the people secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our children, etc.” is the most important idea.  We do not secure the blessings of liberty for the Germans, nor for the Sudanese, nor anyone else.  The Constitution is meant to serve us, We the People, not to serve or protect foreigners who attack us and wish to see us and our Constitution destroyed.  Anything We the People decide to willfully extend to foreigners is just that: an extension based on good will, NOT a promise to the same protections We the People have secured for ourselves.  Courts and judges have tried to force us, the people, to grant the same protections and rights to foreign terrorists as if they were a citizen who might be accused of stealing a pair of shoes from a neighborhood store.

In what sane mind can one actually think that granting Constitutional protections to those dedicated to destroying the Constitution and our culture is a good idea?  If we win, they get to be imprisoned and write motivational letters to help in the war against us.  IF we lose…  there will be no Constitution, though there may be sharia.

We the People need to stand up and guard jealously our liberty and re-secure it against those who wish to take it from us, or extend it to those who want to destroy us.