Should those with duel-citizenship be barred from high ranking government positions? - Page 2

bigsmitty · 07-24-08, 11:48 AM

Seems to me we have a free market to take care of this issue. If you think someone won't primarily look out for your interests as an American, don't vote for him.

jamesrage · 07-24-08, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by obvious Child

That seems to work well. Given your obvious raging, out of control xenophobia, you should be running around like the sky is falling. We have CANADIANS running parts of NORAD.

OH GOD! WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TO?

NORAD is a joint US and Canadian military operation,so it does not prove your point.

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Because....

Typical Rage. All Rage. No Argument.

I listed my reasons,you choose to be a liberal globalist douche and ignore them.The idea that we shouldn't open certain positions to people whose countries we may one day be enemies or have problems with seems like a vague concept to you globalist.

chevydriver1123 · 07-24-08, 08:53 PM

Eh, Im abit divided on this, one note being that the government should hire based on qualifications regardless if the person has dual citizenship or not but if there were some restriction put in place it would have to bar those with dual citizenship from high security jobs.

Bodhisattva · 07-25-08, 01:03 AM

A guy/lady with dual citizenship from USA and Canada/England,NewZealand,Australia/Scotland and a few others is a far cry different than some guy with a dual of Uganda/Iran/N. Korea etc.

Vader · 07-25-08, 02:07 AM

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Originally Posted by obvious Child

That seems to work well. Given your obvious raging, out of control xenophobia, you should be running around like the sky is falling. We have CANADIANS running parts of NORAD.

OH GOD! WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TO?

Because....

Typical Rage. All Rage. No Argument.

It's dangerous and I don't like it ... but it is true ... there is some Canadian involvement in NORAD.

All of those are cleareed through Canada's version of the NSA/FBI.

so ....

Zyphlin · 07-25-08, 09:23 AM

Opps, I voted No but meant to say Yes. didn't read the question right.

No, someone with split loyalties, which is what dual citizenship essentially is, should not be sitting in a high ranking political office whose primary job should be serving the people of THIS country, not any other.

roguenuke · 07-25-08, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Zyphlin

Opps, I voted No but meant to say Yes. didn't read the question right.

No, someone with split loyalties, which is what dual citizenship essentially is, should not be sitting in a high ranking political office whose primary job should be serving the people of THIS country, not any other.

This is right on point. If someone wants to be involved in determining laws and decisions for the citizens of this country, then they should denounce their citizenship from any other country prior to running for an office here. It's really not that hard to do, it just takes signing paperwork. Is there any good reason why they would feel the need to keep it if they want to make decisions for this country.

And voting isn't really a good way to prevent it, since this is something that could be easily hidden and wouldn't necessarily come out during the campaign.

Democrat4life · 07-25-08, 05:35 PM

You have to be born in the US to hold a high ranking government position anyway, so they already are.

obvious Child · 07-25-08, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by jamesrage

NORAD is a joint US and Canadian military operation,so it does not prove your point.

In fact it does. We have foreigners running some of the most sensitive positions, with high level access in a government position. Where is your raging, out of control xenophobia? Or are you simply being a hypocrite? If it is acceptable to have foreigners in NORAD, why not dual citizenship people in other positions? After all, NORAD is a government agency.

Where has your raging xenophobia gone?

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I listed my reasons,you choose to be a liberal globalist douche and ignore them.The idea that we shouldn't open certain positions to people whose countries we may one day be enemies or have problems with seems like a vague concept to you globalist.

And I refuted your crap. You never listed any of them that made real sense. And you never argued why we shouldn't let people who have dual citizenship with same, Canada be in such positions. You made an idiotic blanket statement that assumed every dual citizenship person was a terrorist sleeper agent Hell bent on destroying America. You ignored my example of Hong Kong allowing dual citizenship holders to have high offices.

Try again. Less rage, more thinking please.

obvious Child · 07-25-08, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Bodhisattva

A guy/lady with dual citizenship from USA and Canada/England,NewZealand,Australia/Scotland and a few others is a far cry different than some guy with a dual of Uganda/Iran/N. Korea etc.

Our resident xenophobes don't seem to realize this.

Furthermore, why they support the removal of hiring competent people, I don't know. Apparently, they'd rather hire the sole citizenship moron who can't do his job rather then hire the Aussie-American who happens to have dual citizenship and is extremely competent.

Hong Kong has leveraged their open policy to utilize talent from around the world. Hell, they even let complete foreigners have high positions. But apparently merit, competency and intelligence don't matter. Just what passport you hold.