Civics Lesson For Conservatives

At a California Tea Party rally, Duncan Hunter Jr. was asked would he support stripping U.S. citizenship from children whose parents came into America illegally. Hunter answered with an enthusiastic yes.

HUNTER: I would have to say yes. We simply cannot afford what we are doing right now. California is going under. How much in debt are we? Twenty billion dollars? And we're not being mean, we are saying it takes more than just walking across the border to become an American citizen. It's what's in our soul.

Actually Congressman, you are being mean. There is nothing nice sounding about deporting children. Hunter was someone able to peer into the souls of all these children and say they are not American. The last Republican that peered to a soul was President George W. Bush. The former President said he looked into Vladimir Putin's soul and found him "trustworthy."

BUSH: I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul; a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country.

Repealing the U.S. citizenship of brown-skinned babies his the latest conservative rallying cry. These conservatives that profess to love the Constitution should take the time to read it. We already know John Boehner and Sarah Palin haven't read the Constitution.

14th Amendment:

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State where they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge or immunities of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within itsjurisdiction the equal protection of the law.

The Founding Fathers made clear any person born in the United States is a citizen. I am tired of conservatives that say they love the Constitution; only to make rediculous statements, such as Alberto Gonzales's misinformation that the Constitution does not guarantee Habeas Corpus. A simple reading of the Constitution will inform the literate that habeas corpus can only be suspended during a time of war or for public safety. The Republican establishment and the conservative movement has created deficits, denied civil rights to gays, and supported stripping protections in the Constitution. This is why the Republican Party and teabaggers should be ridiculed every time they utter the words "less government and more freedom."