Naturalization and BS
USCIS (US Citizen and Immigrations Services) has put out a learning tool for those of you wishing to become naturalized citizens of the United States (not like that matters since we don’t enforce laws here anyway). They produced a set of flash cards for the naturalization test to help you learn the right answers.
The problem being that many of them do not really contain the RIGHT answer, but the answer the government WANTS you to learn. Examples? But of COURSE!
Question #72:
Notice a KEY word in there that really shouldn’t be? I’ll give you a hint, it starts with [gua] and ends with [tee]. Now another hint, there is NO amendment that guarantees your right to vote. Those amendments bar states from blocking access to vote based on specific criteria only.
Question #91:
The ability to get a government job? How lame has this country gotten that people are rushing here to join in the fun of working for the federal government? WOW…
Question #93:
Now, this isn’t a case of inserting an incorrect word, they’re flat out LYING here. There IS no right to vote granted to ANY US citizen in the Constitution of the United States… PERIOD. You can waste hours of your life trying to find it, but you won’t find it because it doesn’t exist. Sure there are amendments (such as those seen above in Question 72) that address voting and set up rules for it, but you do not have a right to vote at a federal level in this country. Just check out our most recent reminder on the issue if you still have doubts… GEORGE W. BUSH, et al., PETITIONERS v. ALBERT GORE, Jr., et al. -2000 where the SCOTUS stated the following:
The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States unless and until the state legislature chooses a statewide election as the means to implement its power to appoint members of the Electoral College.”
Odd that the Supreme Court gets it, yet the folks down at the USCIS seem to think otherwise.
Why would they go to such great lengths to convince immigrants that they need government jobs and that they have some intrinsic right to tick a check box? Simple… control and power. As long as you buy into the belief that you have a bucket load of non-existent rights and lean on the government for your assistance and paychecks… THEY control YOU.
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That’s the kind of technical BS that was also used by Alberto “I don’t remember” Gonzales when he said, “There is no expressed grant of habeas in the Constitution; there’s a prohibition against taking it away.”
Not mentioning it explicitly, in this case, and like Habeas Corpus, means that the right is implicit. There is no need to write down that it is a right because it is implied throughout the document that it is. All citizens have the right to vote.
Some rights are just so basic to the system that they don’t need enumeration. Voting is one of them. It’s built into the foundation of the constitution. WHAT is being voted on is another question, and one that we both know merits much more discourse, particularly when it comes to congress.