"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but

citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and
who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." JFK

This was true then and is considerably truer and, arguably, even more relevant in 2010 America.
The enemies we face today are many and more sophisticated than 50 years ago. They’ve
realized that we cannot be defeated by force of arms but that, in our free society, with its porous
borders, our economy and value systems are our true weaknesses. The entire idea of
Immigration to America must be completely transformed, (by Americans) if the United States of
America is to remain a strong, viable Republic beyond about 25 or 30 more years and not go the
way of early 20th century Great Britain, (minus the gargantuan military and economic back-up
of the U.S.) or even the way of post-1991 Russia; economic collapse, political fragmentation and
eventual dictatorship necessitated by all of the just mentioned plus other internal strife. The
possibly sad prospect is that, in this instant information age and with the power that information
brings, America may have reached a “tipping point” already. This “tipping point” has, in this
writer’s opinion, not occurred yet but is imminent and will require much more than even massive
protest to solve.
Many Americans are old enough to remember when computers were nothing more than
technological curiosities looking for a practical civilian purpose. I believe that the free &
unobstructed use of this largely unmonitored resource called the internet for all its positive uses
is at the heart of the fracturing of American values and the loss of both civil discourse and any
kind of political consensus. It isn’t the unobstructed flow of information that is the problem. It is
the fact that this virtual “world” is virtually free of any real legal policing or monitoring.