The Expansionist

Saturday, January 22, 2005

Divided Loyalty. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Republican foreigner who would be President, retains Austrian citizenship! AOL News today reported:

VIENNA (Jan. 22) - California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a citizen of both the United States and Austria, should be stripped of Austrian citizenship for allowing a convicted murderer to be executed, an Austrian politician said.

How cheaply do we value U.S. citizenship that we permit foreigners to hold major government offices!
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It's time for the U.S. Government to outlaw all dual nationality and force people to choose: the U.S., or some other country. If some other country, GET OUT of the United States! There is no place for dual loyalty in a superpower that is called upon to act for its principles, and its interests, all over the world.
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I don't care if it's Austrian citizenship, Israeli citizenship, Italian or Irish citizenship. If you want to be a citizen of another country, by all means do so. But renounce your U.S. citizenship. Be faithful to one country or another, because there may be times when you cannot be faithful to both.
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To all those cowardly Americans who travel under foreign passports because some ancestor came from Canada or another foreign country that they may regard as inoffensive in hotspots, or retain or have actually newly taken foreign citizenship to give themselves an escape route if things get too dangerous here, I say, GET OUT of the U.S. Go to your beloved Ireland or Italy, Austria or Israel. There is no place here for cowards, traitors, or potential traitors. Burn your bridges — or retreat across them now!

- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 5:25 PM

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