Thank you for your interest Kathryn.
To your question on what I mean by American, here's a repeat:
"in the early days of English colonies in America, the English hierarchy stated that they feared the spirit of freedom among the Americans (the natives) as it would contaminate the Anglish colonists and make them less docile."
They called the natives, Americans!
So, I say this love of Freedom is an essential part of being a real American.
And, though the various nations in North America before the Anglish invader illegal immigrants came, are the original Americans, anyone in the world could be American when he loves what the real Americans love.
The Iroquois Confederation recognizes this and considers all nations as associate nations who subscribe to the love of freedom and non-aggression or Peace, or as Ayn Rand termed it, "no initiation of the use of force".
Further more, if the Anglish colonists who declared themselves as These United States of America, had followed the Divine Mandate for Peace in their own Declaration of Independence “to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them,”and to have “a decent respect to the opinions of mankind”, they would have respected the different peoples living here before them, and treated with them according to real Peace where every man is king of his house and a man's house is secure, protected and free from taxes and other harassments.
President Kennedy intended to follow this kind of peace when he gave the commencement speech at the American University on 10 June, 1953, entitled A STRATEGY FOR PEACE wherein he rejected war and everything associated with it. To this day,
A Strategy For Peace is remembered as one of Kennedy’s finest and most important speeches, wherein he said,
"What kind of peace do I mean and what kind of a peace do we seek?
Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.
Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave.
I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, and the kind that enables men and nations to grow, and to hope, and build a better life for their children—not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women, not merely peace in our time but peace in all time."
This was one of the reasons he was murdered. Murdered by the root of our problems: an ugly rotten mentality that is contrary to the Mind & Loving Intent of "nature's God", the source of all joy, beauty and life.
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