A Dark Day for America
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2026 1:18 pm
Today is a sad day for American law. The corrupt US Supreme Court has just upheld "birthright citizenship". A nation is not an inn upon the highway, where every traveler who chances to pass the night awakens in the morning as one of the family. It is an inheritance; it is a covenant between the living, the dead, and those yet unborn. Its privileges are not trinkets to be scattered upon the winds, nor prizes to be claimed merely because Providence ordained that one first drew breath upon a particular patch of earth.
Citizenship is no accident of geography. It is a solemn bond of duty and allegiance. It demands not merely obedience to the magistrate, for every thief obeys the constable when the irons are fastened upon his wrists, but fidelity of heart, attachment of sentiment, and a willingness to bear equally the burdens and the blessings of the continuity of a people, a nation.
What wisdom is there in proclaiming that every child born within our borders, irrespective of the condition, allegiance, or intention of his parents, is thereby invested with the full dignity of our political household? Shall the Republic possess no discretion? Shall it distinguish neither friend from stranger, nor sojourner from heir? Almost no other nation in the world has ever recognized birthright citizenship, and certainly not our European ancestral homelands. Indeed, Europe is one of the places where citizenship at birth is NOT automatic.
A house that forever widens its doors, yet never inquires who enters, will one day discover that it no longer belongs to those who built it. Laws may endure upon parchment, but nations endure only so long as they preserve the character from which those laws first sprang.
You may accuse me of hardness. I deny the charge. Charity toward mankind is a Christian virtue; surrender of a nation's birthright is not. Compassion may open the hand to the needy, but it must not compel the Republic to dissolve itself in sentiment. Government exists not merely to shelter the individual, but to preserve the people whose labor, sacrifice, and constancy gave it life.
I am told that history moves ever forward, and that to resist this doctrine is to oppose the inevitable. History is strewn with the ruins of states whose greatest folly was to mistake novelty for wisdom and indulgence for justice. Ancient Rome fell to the hordes of barbarians. If only our barbarians were the Huns and the Goths, all would be well, in fact! We face much darker prospects, no pun intended. The downfall of nations is seldom announced by the trumpet; more often it arrives clothed in the language of benevolence and fake equality.
Therefore I stand where prudence bids me stand. No matter what the Supreme Court says, I will never consider "just anyone born here" an American. Let citizenship remain an honor to be deserved, not a circumstance to befall. Let the Republic remember that what is bestowed without discernment is seldom treasured, and that a people who cease to guard the gates of their political inheritance may one day find there is no inheritance left to guard! May the Lord punish those evil Supreme Court "justices" who have betrayed our people once again.
Alfred Cromwell
Citizenship is no accident of geography. It is a solemn bond of duty and allegiance. It demands not merely obedience to the magistrate, for every thief obeys the constable when the irons are fastened upon his wrists, but fidelity of heart, attachment of sentiment, and a willingness to bear equally the burdens and the blessings of the continuity of a people, a nation.
What wisdom is there in proclaiming that every child born within our borders, irrespective of the condition, allegiance, or intention of his parents, is thereby invested with the full dignity of our political household? Shall the Republic possess no discretion? Shall it distinguish neither friend from stranger, nor sojourner from heir? Almost no other nation in the world has ever recognized birthright citizenship, and certainly not our European ancestral homelands. Indeed, Europe is one of the places where citizenship at birth is NOT automatic.
A house that forever widens its doors, yet never inquires who enters, will one day discover that it no longer belongs to those who built it. Laws may endure upon parchment, but nations endure only so long as they preserve the character from which those laws first sprang.
You may accuse me of hardness. I deny the charge. Charity toward mankind is a Christian virtue; surrender of a nation's birthright is not. Compassion may open the hand to the needy, but it must not compel the Republic to dissolve itself in sentiment. Government exists not merely to shelter the individual, but to preserve the people whose labor, sacrifice, and constancy gave it life.
I am told that history moves ever forward, and that to resist this doctrine is to oppose the inevitable. History is strewn with the ruins of states whose greatest folly was to mistake novelty for wisdom and indulgence for justice. Ancient Rome fell to the hordes of barbarians. If only our barbarians were the Huns and the Goths, all would be well, in fact! We face much darker prospects, no pun intended. The downfall of nations is seldom announced by the trumpet; more often it arrives clothed in the language of benevolence and fake equality.
Therefore I stand where prudence bids me stand. No matter what the Supreme Court says, I will never consider "just anyone born here" an American. Let citizenship remain an honor to be deserved, not a circumstance to befall. Let the Republic remember that what is bestowed without discernment is seldom treasured, and that a people who cease to guard the gates of their political inheritance may one day find there is no inheritance left to guard! May the Lord punish those evil Supreme Court "justices" who have betrayed our people once again.
Alfred Cromwell