Neither was born on American soil. While McCain had no choice about his citizenship, Schwarzenegger chose to become a US citizen. It seems to me that making an active choice is a better indicator of a commitment than when you just stumble into it via an accident of birth.
As for second class citizens, well what's the difference between that approach and the one taken with various minorities in the past? It would seem to me that citizenship is binary proposition, you either a citizen or you are not. No secondary or teriary degrees of citizenship. Anything less opens the door to a variety of problems. For instance someone who is a member of any unpopular group, based on religion, race or ethnicity, could be disenfranchised and become a non-person. Its happened in the past in Europe (i.e., Germany and Russia) and in the US, eg., the internment of citizens of Japanese decent 66 years ago for instance. Or the treatment of black citizens for the last 140 years for that matter. >Arnold was born to Austrian parents. McCain was born to a military >officer serving abroad, if you can't see the difference than I don't >know what to tell you. > >I don't have a problem with 2nd class citizens, I believe in staged >citizenship, I've said so many times before, and would support a system >like that proposed by Heinlein. > >Larry Lyons wrote: >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:259727 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
