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Ronald F. Maxwell

Dear President:  No surrender!

1/10/2019

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​Why the president must stand firm.

The first responsibility of any government is to defend and to protect its own people - its own citizens. There is no obligation, in law or common law or even by inference, for any government to defend the aspirations of people who are nationals of other countries - or to prioritize those aspirations over the aspirations of its own citizens. 

From time to time governments may decide to assist foreign nationals, as the USA did in some of our foreign wars. But this is the exception, not the rule. And even these interventions should never prioritize foreign citizens over their own. 

President Trump is restoring common sense and sanity to a government which had lost its way. The American people never voted for open borders, for globalism and for the surrender of their national sovereignty. 

Successive governments, both R and D, functioning more like a UniParty than opposing parties - have gradually dismantled essential components of our national sovereignty. We know how this was done: trade deals which favored multinational corporations over US citizens, shipping jobs overseas, ignoring the ever growing illegal alien population (now estimated to be in excess of 20,000,000) which has driven down wages and expropriated entire sectors of the economy (meat packing, landscaping, etc).

In addition to all these deleterious effects on the American people - US citizens are being killed at an alarming rate - by illegal aliens: DUI deaths, overdose deaths from massive drug smuggling and by outright murder. 

But the crisis is larger even than these personal and community tragedies. We are losing our sovereignty. A country which cannot control its borders is no longer a country. 

We must ask, what’s the use of a government which cannot protect its own people and defend its own national sovereignty? 

Though we don’t want to see anyone out of work or missing a paycheck, why should anyone care more that a hundred or a thousand or ten thousand government employees are not getting paid - than for the survival of their country? 

A government that cannot deliver on its fundamental responsibility to secure its own borders and to assure its own sovereignty not only deserves to be shut down. It deserves to be dissolved. 

We know what’s going on. Huge forces, populated by sometimes strange bedfellows, want the status quo to continue because it suits their purposes: of profits and or political power. These are the globalist multi-national corporations, the Ethno-Centric zealots of the Left, the great majority of the Democratic Party and the Never Trump wing of the Republican Party as exemplified by Mitt Romney.

Despite perfunctory lip service these people WANT open borders, ineffectual border security, mass migration, multiculturalism, multilingualism and globalism. They truly believe that the era of the nation state is a relic of the past and are doing everything they can to accelerate this vision of their utopia. 

But - the American people never voted for this utopia and do not want it. Anymore than the Brits, the French or anyone else. 

This is what the “shut down” is all about. The stakes could not be any higher. Which is why the president must not and cannot surrender.
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David Hubbard
1/10/2019 10:50:15 pm

I agree 100%

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Robert M. Peters
1/11/2019 07:20:26 am

The fact that we will not even address illegal immigration suggests how deep the malaise is in the soul of the American people; yet, illegal immigration is but one aspect of the demographic war being waged against not only America but the rest of the West by the globalist elites. The gates to this invasion were opened in 1965 with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. My father said at supper one night that this act would end America as he had known it and as I knew it at the time. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 was, in fact, the corollary to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That act took from individuals, associations, organizations and states the sovereign authority of association, its claims of addressing historical wrongs not withstanding. What individuals, associations and states lost under the civil right act was then lost by the nation at large under the immigration act. More on this later.

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Tim Lieder
7/7/2020 04:54:43 pm

You're a stupid racist. Cute anti-Semitic dig whistle in your rant

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Preston Brooks
1/12/2019 12:32:14 pm

The wall is not enough. We need E-verify, an end to H1B visas, and no government benefits to illegal aliens. This is common sense stuff and if our demographic displacement wasn't the real issue, all of these things would be in place already.

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Jim haas
2/2/2019 06:24:23 pm

A wall yes ...
Also let’s stop all aid of any kind to these people
Money , food stamps,,,health care etc,,,,,
Increase ICE ....cut off the money supply and they will go back,

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Victoria Taylor link
5/2/2019 04:39:20 pm

Mr. Maxwell:
Having seen “Gettysburg” on TCM recently, I searched the Web for what you are doing of late. All I found was your Website stating “In 2014 Maxwell continues pre-production on an epic trilogy of movies...” Then I discovered your two contributions on “Reckonin”.

You have a gift and your country needs you, in a BIGGER WAY - RIGHT NOW - than what I discovered. Maybe you should think in terms of contributions to WRITE OUR FUTURE HISTORY as opposed to learning and sharing past history.

You are so great at visualizing in your mind, then clearly and succinctly communicating through the written word and film. Maybe research what we conservative U.S. Citizens see as a better future and use that in conjunction with your own vision.

Take your thoughts and writings about what has and is taking place in our current history and create a movie/ documentary about how it should be. Sadly, the influx of people entering our country illegally, including many who have been raised in this country, have a low frame of reference/ paradigm for what our country used to be and could be in the future. You are the man, I believe, that could add value to their lack of knowledge.

Please give the above consideration and note my comment that follows. Gettysburg may be the most impressive movie I have ever seen and certainly the best related to the Civil War! It was a masterpiece. Thank you.



Take what you are able to clearly visualize in your mind, then clearly and succinctly communicate through written word and film those thoughts and writings about what has and is taking place in current history and create a movie about how it should be. Sadly, the influx of people entering our country illegally, and many would have been raised in this country, have a low frame of reference, or paradigm







and all I ground on your Website was what you’ve been working on since 2014.
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You need to be “out there” with your talents doing more than just these posts. she

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    Ronald F. Maxwell is a film director and writer. His directing credits include Gettysburg (1993), Gods and Generals (2003), and Copperhead (2013)

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