Over 50 percent of the colonial population were indentured servants, and as in Australia, was settled primarily by people, from convicts, to the homeless and the destitute, who were taken, in many cases, by force and trickery to be placed in servitude in the new colonies of the new world - from New York and Massachusetts, to Virginia, Georgia, and Maryland.

Gentry and businesses of the day obtained these indentured servants by many nefarious means as well as what was considered partly as good works. They brought them primarily from England, and were used in advancing the westward trek to Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and westward. It seems funny that the two nations found with the most desiring of people for freedom would have become the powers that they are, and the quickest to desire the same freedom for others as the United States and Australia. Part of the Statue of Liberty saying is “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”. It says that her strength comes from God. Her mission comes from God. She holds God’s light in her torch and knows it’s strengths. Those that would take God from our shores and our government are flying in the face of history and would extinguish God’s light. As a consequence, it would extinguish the most important light for liberty that ever existed.

This country was not built by the gentry and politicians of the day, but by what were, at one time, the most abject people, considered by some as trash, with no hope of becoming anything else. They forgot faith, hope, and the strength that comes from freedom. To me, America is a miracle wrought by God to show the world what could occur when God was brought as a light to the new world and as a guide for her existence. The Iraqis never knew freedom and liberty, and apparently don’t yearn for it enough to take control of their own destiny, letting some of their own people destroy this hope of freedom. We could say a pox on both their houses and leave them high and dry to destroy themselves. However, the freedom we so enjoy and inherited should encourage us to try to help all nations to have this privilege.

If you remember, freedom and liberty for ourselves, gained by our revolution, was one of the reasons why we went to wars for the freedom and liberty of others during World War I, World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War. Now we have the Afghan War, the Iraq War, and I believe it is our place and hope of the world to espouse the saying “All men are created equal”, and all people yearn for freedom and liberty in their own way. Should we now retreat, or put aside our selfishness and continue to strive to help others achieve what we are so lucky to have? I am sure in some of the wars we have fought, we purchased for others that which should be the right of every man, woman, and child, and is best summed up by Patrick Henry’s saying “Give me liberty or give me death”.

If a nation such as this can be built with the flotsam and jetsam of the world, indentured servants, potato famine refugees, other refugees from probably all nations of the world, and people just wanting to be free, why should we, the inheritors of this, not be willing to share? Shall we not nail our colours to the mast? Our flag so many disparage, defile, and destroy, stands for rights over wrongs and designed to straighten the backbones of her citizens. If all nations had what we have, there would be no illegal immigrants to defile our borders. In fact, borders would be largely non-existent.