A very good, quick read............


I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with
seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the
continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.

But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio,
above the table, and next to the barbecue. Then came the poop. It was
everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table...everywhere. Then
some of the birds turned mean: They would dive bomb me and try to peck
me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. And others birds
were boisterous and loud: They sat on the feeder and squawked and
screamed at all hours of the
day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food.

After a while, I couldn't even sit on my own back porch anymore. I took
down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up
their mess and took down the many nests they had built ! all over the
patio. Soon, the back yard was like it used to be...quiet, serene and no
one demanding their rights to a free meal.

Now lets see...our government gives out free food, subsidized housing,
free medical care, free education and allows anyone born here to be a
automatic citizen. Then the illegal's came by the tens of thousands.
Suddenly our taxes
went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5
families: you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room
doctor: your child's 2nd grade class is behind other schools because
over half the class doesn't
speak English: Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to press
"one" to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags
other than "Old Glory" are squawking and screaming in the streets,
demanding more rights and free liberties.

Maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder.

is so agree

So what let the birds starve?

Or did you only put the bird feeder up to attract certain kinds of
birds?

And you know, it is so easy to be selective...let the not so attractive
birds go back where they came from, back to the dust bowl, and place of
no seed...

And make sure that with that bird feeder, they all sing the one birdsong
that you like...heaven forbid one of those birds sings a different
tune...might have to set the cat on them...

wow!! man of many emoticons

hey if the birds want to eat legally

dont have a problem with that

So that bird, half starved, broken winged and sitting on the other side
of the fence can just stay there?

Just sit and watch the miserable little thing die a slow and painful
death...cause it can't fly up to the bird feeder...it doesn't sing the
same song...it doesn't qualify to be fed..

well u s should not be the police force of the world

nor the soup kitchen neither

but hey what do i know

seems like others are tightening their bird feeders as well

from
http://www.workpermit.com/news/2005_07_20/europe/austria_tough_illegal.htm

Austria gets tough on illegal immigrants

20 July 2005

A new proposed Austrian law lets police detain immigrants while their
asylum applications are being reviewed. Parliament's lower house passed
the so-called Foreigners' Rights Bill on July 7. Austria's upper house
will vote on the proposal on July 21.

The Austrian government is trying to clamp down on immigrants.
Newspapers increasingly blame foreigners for crime, which increased 6.9
percent in the first quarter and an unemployment rate of 4.6 percent.
About 64 percent of 3,667 drug-related arrests last year were
foreigners, according to police figures.

I'm always taking iin the sick birds...



Living in California I know alot about the differnt sides to this.
I have worked & rode horses with these "ailiens" for many years. alot
of close friends.
I have a Cousin that ahh! how does mom say it... Runs Coyote!

then on the other end of it my Ex brother in law. works boarder patrol
in New Mexico. a sick B****** that thought it was cute to brag about
popping them off target practicing...

&& yea I would feed many that came dragging into the stables starving.
we were along the canals. about 1/2 i would say offered to work.

Austria?


Robin, try AustrALia...you may get to prove your point better

and one of the reasons this government sunk itself as arrogant inhumane
mongrels is the illegal immigrant refugee debacle two years ago...oh
that and a certain middle eastern war...

Australia is a big country mostly drought stricken desert.plenty of
mineral wealth cant eat dirt.this country has people from the 4 corners
of the earth and we all reckon we live in a lucky country . some of the
decisions our leaders make are stupid we still spend more money on
defence than welfare at home and abroard.environment has taken a
pounding in this country.and the need for more more growth and
development dosent make much sense to me.if wrongs are made right for
every one every where people will find contentment where they are.i am
surrounded by trees they drop leaves in my gutters they are homes to
birds and critters and their bloody good shiitteerrs.i dont have to feed
them they have every thing they need i love were i live.

one day i decided to go camping...i went into the beautiful, lush
woods...i dined on the sweet, juicy berries while sunning myself on a
large, lined rock that faced off the side of the mountain, breeze
blowing gently in my hair.

after a bit, i noticed i was no longer alone, that others had come to
share the beauty and bounty of the land...who was i to complain, as i
was also a guest?

Maybe this should have been under religion, seems to have been viewed as
a parable of shorts. So I will treat according to the reception it was
given.

My heart is in the same place as Jess. But my head tell me different.
There are literaly billions of people in this world in 'need'. Food,
clothes, shelter, medical treatment,a better life.

To say, we will let any who can make their way to our door have these
thing, is to diminish the need of those who can not get here. To deny
what we have to share, would put us all in a light I would rather not
think about. For ALL of us are here by the luck of the draw. Even
those who fought the odds to get here and became a part of this society.

I speak of ANY country who offers thier open doors to those who would
seek a better exisence.

To allow any counry to be filled to absolute capacity with regards to
the natural resources available there, would not give room enough for
procreation. And still we would touch half the lives of ones 'in need
'. To allow such influx would be to level all resources, to nothing and
impoverish all the world.

We well might be on the way to equalizing the playing fields in this
manner. But for now, given the circumstances of the world at large, it
is important to conserve, to save resouce wealth. This to insure that
people like those on JSH, poeple of intelligence, with good hearts and
sound judgement become the concience of that leveled playing field.

To this end we must fight to change and wright the laws of those
counties, to accommodate, protect and provide in justice and equality
for all the worlds peoples. We, who have charge of the best of resouces
to offer, must protect them for the future.

When need knocks on your door, answer it with love and kindness, when
need is far away, for those of you who would pray, pray then for them
but do not wish all who have to become like them. It has been said that
those who win write history, do let those who would rule through
segregation, dishonor, greed and hate to be the winners.

A little sparrow arrived in my letterbox about 12 months ago...in the
form a girl, who share the same month for her birthday as my youngest...

This little sparrow lived so far away from us...she had so little seed
to nourish her...and when we looked, we had more than enough seed in our
feeder...so we feed her, every month our seed goes to her...and at
Christams time, we found she had a little brother, also desperately in
need of seed...their nest is harsh, and simple, their tree is dangerous
and often tossed in the storms of politics...


So we feed our seed to these little sparrows...because we have more than
enough.

And if these sparrows could or would require a new nest, a safer nest,
we would offer ours and shufty over, to make room for them...because we
have a safe nest, and plenty of seed.

I am not here by the luck of the draw....

My family came here with nothing, when there was nothing but wilderness.

What this country is did not just fall from the shy either!

They came here starved, froze, and faced death in every imaginable way.
They built this country on sacrifice and hard work. When the government
was taking most of what they could scrape from the wilderness to survive
on for themselves, we fought back and created The United States of
America.

Since then we have fought their enemies in far away places, fed them,
helped them to make a better life in their home. Many of us died in the
process, and they continue to die.

Now they want to come here, burn our flag, and protest against our laws.
Sure there are many who have forgotten the sacrifices made by our
forefathers to create this beautiful, free, bountiful country, but I
have pledged myself, and them that I will not forget. If I do then shame
on me for surely it would be the same as spitting in their face and
telling them they wasted their time.

I live in WNC, every spring when the temperature warms, the trees become
green, and the animals start breeding, people begin to flock the woods
to camp. Soon their are more people in the woods than animals it seems,
and a month later their is no natural firewood available so you better
take your own. If you go 50 ft outside your campsite there are wads of
toilet paper, and piles of feces. By July you are risking disease and
the beauty of the forest is tainted for all.

Too many people do this, filthy ungrateful people, who have forgotten
that it can not continue to stay beautiful without their commitment and
continued maintenance.

When I was growing up you could pitch a tent and camp wherever you felt
a need. They had not built the interstates they, and it was hard for
people from the lowlands to get here so they did not come as readily,
nor in such numbers. When the highways opened in the 70's, people
flocked here from everywhere, Thousands and now the culture is gone, the
beautiful scenery is spoiled by houses on every ridge line, and
pollution is becoming insane.

Even the dept. of Agriculture has recognized the forest can not take it.
Campsites are limited by signs, and whole sections of the forest are
closed off. The land can not take it, and the beauty that once was WNC
is fast becoming nothing more than the places that these people came
from.

Close your eyes, and make stupid medifores that sound good in your
minds, but I see it and live it everyday..

thats medaphor

BRAVO Fanta!!!!!

Close my eyes?

May I ask what Native Americans feel about your story?

Were your ancestors legal immigrants?

Get a grip Fanta...your story is eloquent...poignant even...but your
ancestors were plunderers, and invaders, same as mine...

and illegal, and stole resources of the Native Americans...

legal immigrnats, illegal immigrants...go ready your history books.

Hypocrisy.

Fanta....I live on down the mountain chain from you. At the foothills to
the Blue Ridge Mountains. My family has been here for generations like
yours. It's so sad to see what is happening.