This is who we are now. This is what we do.
Uwe and Hannelore Romeike came to the United States in 2008 seeking political asylum. They fled their German homeland in the face of religious persecution for homeschooling their children.
They wanted to live in a country where they could raise their children in accordance with their Christian beliefs.
The Romeikes were initially given asylum, but the Obama administration objected – claiming that German laws that outlaw homeschooling do not constitute persecution.
“The goal in Germany is for an open, pluralistic society,” the Justice Department wrote in a legal brief last year. “Teaching tolerance to children of all backgrounds helps to develop the ability to interact as a fully functioning citizen in Germany.”
On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear the Romeike’s appeal – paving the way for the Christian family of eight to be deported.
“I think this is a part of the Obama administration’s overall campaign to crush religious freedom in this country,” said Michael Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association. His organization is representing (the) family.
It’s part of Obama and the Left’s overall campaign to crush freedom, period. Don’t think for a moment they won’t try to do the same or worse to American homeschoolers any time they get the chance and think they can get away with it. They will.
Had the family stayed in Germany, where homeschooling is illegal, they would have faced the prospect of losing their children. Like the Pilgrims, they fled their homeland yearning for a place where they could be free.
Yeah, well, the USSSA damned sure wouldn’t be that. Not anymore.
“It’s a denial of the essence of America,” he said. “The Pilgrims left England to go to Holland to seek religious freedom. They came here to seek religious freedom and parental rights for their children. Had this administration been waiting at Plymouth Rock, they would’ve told the Pilgrims to go back home.”
The essence of America is exactly what liberal-fascists like Obama despise and fear, and wish to see exsanguinated from the body politic. Nobody should be at all surprised by now; they’ve made it clear enough.
There are nearly 12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. You’d think the Obama administration could find a place eight immigrants who want to live here legally.
They’re the wrong kind of immigrants: not marinated in socialism for their entire lives, not likely to vote Democrat Socialist. And, y’know, white as rice.
So on behalf of the Romeike family, I would like personally appeal to President Obama.
Please, Mr. President, have mercy on this Christian family.
Don’t waste your breath. Better to follow the advice laid out in a previous paragraph:
“This administration thinks it’s a privilege to home school – not a right,” he told me. “We’d better buckle down and be ready to fight them every step of the way.”
And with every weapon at our disposal, by any means necessary, fair or foul. Because that’s what it’s going to take. Nothing less will remove their jackboots from our necks.
