

CBM's Bard's Sketches: Sound Bytes and Un-sound Bytes!
of the USA of today (mini-commentaries in sound-byte format, from CBM's bard-in-residence, i.e., the Editor, as culled from his cluttered and overflowing desk).
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America, America, God shed his grace on me, and crown the hoods with brotherhood from sea to shining sea....
. Bumpers Seen/Bumper Scene -
. Now, a few recommendations of mine:

1886 Dedication -
"Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch,
whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning,
and her name Mother of Exiles,
From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome;
her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
'Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!' cries she With silent lips.
'Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!'"
Emma Lazarus - The New Colossus
{Now that bespeaks an immigration policy unlike any ever seen on the earth.}
More importantly, from another Emma, i.e., Emma Willard, 1843:
"The government of the United States is acknowledged by the wise and good of other nations, to be the most free, impartial, and righteous government of the world; but all agree, that for such a government to be sustained many years, the principles of truth and righteousness, taught in the Holy Scriptures [The Holy Bible], must be practised. The rulers must govern in the fear of God, and the people obey the laws."
[excerpted from Emma Willard's History of the United States]
AMEN.
Emma Willard should have stated that the laws must be godly, must be from God's Holy Word, must be just.... For ungodly, unrighteous laws to be obeyed, is not a good thing!
For an immigration policy like the one championed in Emma Lazarus's The New Colossus to succeed in being other than a nation-destroying disaster, the nation must be governed in the fear of the LORD; for the laws to be just, they must be His. Ancient Israel was instructed by God to welcome strangers, insofar as those strangers were willing to obey the laws of the land, which were God's laws. There was one law for all people, and all people who would rebel against the law would be punished without regard for who they were or where they were from. There was no diplomatic immunity. There was no congressional immunity. None were to be above the law. There was no deportation of criminals. There was swift execution for all murderers! Those who accidentally killed others had to flee to specified cities of refuge, and remain there lest they be executed. Israel of old failed to live up to anything that was required of it by God; so too the United States of America has utterly failed to live up to what God requires of it. This nation is awash with grievous corruption, perversity, and vileness, rampant wickedness, terrible injustice, and monstrous violence. Absent a sweeping nationwide evangelical revival and subsequent godly societal reformation, the former "New Colossus" is not long for this earth; not long at all.
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America, America, GOD shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.
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hey, what about my future? boy, they better get this mess
straightened out in time for me to have a beautiful future
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