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McCain is bad, Bad, BAD on national sovereignty. He wants that 12 Million person foreign national occupying force to stay.
Then again, maybe he's just a realist. Realizing that an occupation force over six (6) time larger than the entire US military means that the war is over, and they have won.
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Occupying forces have uniforms,guns, command and control structures, etc. If you insist on using inflammatory vocabulary, how about"squatters"?
Choose your terminology carefully.
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They do in fact occupy this country....consider:
a: they undercut 'traditional labor' payment rates to monopolize certain industries
b: they avail themselves of our resources and services without regard for participation in
payment for those resources and services
c: they are flexing political power in certain areas of the country to make citizen populations
conform to foreign language and customs
d: they readily fly their 'foreign' flag over the Stars-n-Stripes
e: they refuse to assimilate, occupying enclaves of same-language, same-culture populations
which exclude outsiders (specifically "Anglos")
So, they're attempting to control the labor force, the economy, the language, the prices of
goods and services, and they monopolize social services to the detriment of the paying public,
either purposely or not.
Is that not an occupier ? Are we so pusillanimous as to be afraid to assign a name to some
such phenomenon if it's to 'offend' someone ? Is an occupying force armed, by definition ?
I think it perfectly accurate to call certain parts of the American Southwest as "Mexican Occupied"
territory, by virtue of the fact that Mexicans came illegally, and carved a living from this 'foreign'
country despite the illegality of their actions and the wishes of the people, and the fact that their
presense here is in itself contrary to American Law.
(it IS a stretch, admittedly, but IMO, it's less a stretch than the term 'squatter' which, by definition:
Main Entry: 2squatter
Function:nounDate: 1788 :one that squats: as a:one that settles on property without right or title or payment of rent b:one that settles on public land under government regulation with the purpose of acquiring title
They're not squatters, IMO, if they seek political power and attempt to countermand U.S. law by
DEMANDING social services they do not pay for.
Is there another word, perhaps ? Are we caught up in semantics ? Seems to me when they flood across the border, take jobs and services and refuse to leave, they're occupiers.
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