The Illegal Alien Anthem…

Perhaps you’ve already heard, but there’s a new version of our National Anthem out. Nuestro Himno is a bilingual version of “The Star Spangled Banner” that comes from a British producer and sung in both English and Spanish.
It’s made a lot of news lately, so much so that even the President of the United States commented on it today:
BREITBART.COM – Bush Says Anthem Should Be in English
Even my buddy Dave, an ardent critic of Bush, said this, “He’s finally said something I agree–and it only took six years.”

When the president was asked at a Rose Garden question-and-answer session whether the anthem should be sung in Spanish, he replied: “I think the national anthem ought to be sung in English, and I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English and they ought to learn to sing the national anthem in English.”

The President is 100% right. Look…no one is against immigration. We’re against ILLEGAL immigration. Besides, where’s the version of the Anthem in Cherokee or Iriquois or Hopi or any other “Native American” dialect?
It’s not like you can go to Germany and France and sing their anthem in English! This version of the song is nothing more than the Illegal Alien Anthem, and it’s a slap in the face to anyone who has come here legally.
There’s one anthem and it’s sung in one language…and it belongs to every American:
The Star Spangled Banner
(The Defense of Fort McHenry)
September 20, 1814
By Francis Scott Key
Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
William Smith
ConservativeBlogger.com