The anger at his new policy is seriously misplaced. President Trump has ordered a temporary, 120-day halt to admitting refugees from seven countries, all of them war-torn states with majority-Muslim populations: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, and Somalia. He has further indicated that, once additional screening provisions are put in place, he wants further refugee admissions from those countries to give priority to Christian refugees over Muslim refugees.

Trump’s order is, in characteristic Trump fashion, both ham-handed and underinclusive, and particularly unfair to allies who risked life and limb to help the American war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. But it is also not the dangerous and radical departure from U.S. policy that his liberal critics make it out to be. His policy may be terrible public relations for the United States, but it is fairly narrow and well within the recent tradition of immigration actions taken by the Obama administration. First, let’s put in context what Trump is actually doing.

The executive order, on its face, does not discriminate between Muslim and Christian (or Jewish) immigrants, and it is far from being a complete ban on Muslim immigrants or even Muslim refugees. Trump’s own stated reason for giving preference to Christian refugees is also worth quoting: Trump was asked whether he would prioritize persecuted Christians in the Middle East for admission as refugees, and he replied, “Yes.” “They’ve been horribly treated,” he said. “Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria it was impossible, at least very tough, to get into the United States?

If you were a Muslim you could come in, but if you were a Christian it was almost impossible. And the reason that was so unfair — everybody was persecuted, in all fairness — but they were chopping off the heads of everybody, but more so the Christians. And I thought it was very, very unfair. “So we are going to help them.” Trump isn’t making this up; Obama-administration policy effectively discriminated against persecuted religious-minority Christians from Syria (even while explicitly admitting that ISIS was pursuing a policy of genocide against Syrian Christians), and the response from most of Trump’s liberal critics has been silence: The United States has accepted 10,801 Syrian refugees, of whom 56 are Christian. Not 56 percent; 56 total, out of 10,801. That is to say, one-half of 1 percent. The BBC says that 10 percent of all Syrians are Christian, which would mean 2.2 million Christians. . . .


Experts say [one] reason for the lack of Christians in the makeup of the refugees is the makeup of the camps. Christians in the main United Nations refugee camp in Jordan are subject to persecution, they say, and so flee the camps, meaning they are not included in the refugees referred to the U.S. by the U.N. “The Christians don’t reside in those camps because it is too dangerous,” [Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom] said. “They are preyed upon by other residents from the Sunni community, and there is infiltration by ISIS and criminal gangs.” “They are raped, abducted into slavery and they are abducted for ransom. It is extremely dangerous; there is not a single Christian in the Jordanian camps for Syrian refugees,” Shea said. Liberals are normally the first people to argue that American policy should give preferential treatment to groups that are oppressed and discriminated against, but because Christians are the dominant religious group here — and the bêtes noires of domestic liberals — there is little liberal interest in accommodating U.S. refugee policy to the reality on the ground in Syria.
So long as Obama could outsource religious discrimination against Christian refugees to Jordan and the U.N., his supporters preferred the status quo to admitting that Trump might have a point. On the whole, 2016 was the first time in a decade when the United States let in more Muslim than Christian refugees, 38,901 overall, 75 percent of them from Syria, Somalia, and Iraq, all countries on Trump’s list — and all countries in which the United States has been actively engaged in drone strikes or ground combat over the past year. Obama had been planning to dramatically expand that number, to 110,000, in 2017 — only after he was safely out of office. This brings us to a broader point: The United States in general, and the Obama administration in particular, never had an open-borders policy for all refugees from everywhere, so overwrought rhetoric about Trump ripping down Lady Liberty’s promise means comparing him to an ideal state that never existed. In fact, the Obama administration completely stopped processing refugees from Iraq for six months in 2011 over concerns about terrorist infiltration, a step nearly identical to Trump’s current order, but one that was met with silence and indifference by most of Trump’s current critics. Only two weeks ago, Obama revoked a decades-old “wet foot, dry foot” policy of allowing entry to refugees from Cuba who made it to our shores. His move, intended to signal an easing of tensions with the brutal Communist dictatorship in Havana, has stranded scores of refugees in Mexico and Central America, and Mexico last Friday deported the first 91 of them to Cuba. This, too, has no claim on the conscience of Trump’s liberal critics. After all, Cuban Americans tend to vote Republican.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444373/donald-trump-refugees-critics-wrong

This is the kind of crap that will get the focus of my scope dead on the BLM hate group.The woman in this article needs to be locked up or shot.

Semper Fi !!!

During a protest over the weekend, Black Lives Matter called for white people to give them their possessions and then proceeded to call for “killing people,” and “killing the White House.”

This outrageous speaker makes numerous highly inflammatory remarks, including:

“F*** white supremacy, f*** the U.S. empire, f*** your imperialist a** lives. That s*** gotta go.”

“And we need to start killing people. First off, we need to start killing the White House. The White House must die. The White House, your f****** White House, your f****** Presidents, they must go! F*** the White House.”

“White people, give your f****** money, your f****** house, your f****** property, we need it f****** all,” as another protester responds “reparations!”

“Pay the f*** up, pay the f*** up. It ain’t just your f****** time, its your f****** money, and now your f******* life is devoted to social change,”


Then the speaker goes to to state that she is a preschool teacher. What parent in their right mind would want this person around their child?

It's really sad seeing how quick American liberals, socialists, communists, democrats (same thing) have become such worthless, limp d*ck, jellyfish, traitorous shit eating dogs being more willing to side with their Nations enemies than their own.

Semper Fi !!!

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. put Iran "on notice" Wednesday after the Iranian military tested a ballistic missile and allied rebels in Yemen attacked a Saudi naval vessel in the Red Sea, an early manifestation of President Donald Trump's promise of a tougher American approach to the Islamic republic.

"Iran is now feeling emboldened," Michael Flynn, Trump's national security adviser, told reporters.

Delivering his first public remarks since Trump took office, Flynn didn't elaborate on what actions the U.S. might take in response to Iran's missile test earlier this week. But he made clear the administration's view that President Barack Obama's strategy of containing Iran's destabilizing behavior while cooperating more closely on nuclear and other matters wasn't working.

"The Obama administration failed to respond adequately to Tehran's malign actions — including weapons transfers, support for terrorism and other violations of international norms," Flynn said.

Asked to clarify what Flynn meant by putting Iran "on notice," White House press secretary Sean Spicer said, "We felt as though their actions were both provocative and in violation."

The statement makes "sure that they understood that we weren't going to sit by and not act on those actions," Spicer said.

Reports of the missile test emerged after Trump signed an executive order last week temporarily suspending immigration from Iran and six other majority-Muslim countries.

As part of the final negotiations for the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers, Iran agreed to an eight-year extension of a U.N. ban on ballistic missile development. The U.N. Security Council later endorsed the agreement, calling on Iran not to carry out such tests. But Iran has flouted the prohibition regularly in the past year-and-a-half, drawing sanctions from the U.S. but also diplomatic cover from Russia.

Iran's Defense Minister Gen. Hossein Dehghan on Wednesday acknowledged the latest test and said "we will not let any foreigner meddle with our defense issues." He did not say when the test was carried out or specify the type of missile but insisted it wasn't a violation of U.N. resolutions or the 2015 nuclear accord.

Flynn argued otherwise, saying Iran specifically violated the U.N.'s ban on "activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology."

The test ended with a "failed" re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, said a U.S. defense official, who wasn't authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen, meanwhile, claimed a successful missile strike on Tuesday against a warship belonging to a Saudi-led coalition fighting to reinstall Yemen's internationally recognized government. The media arm of the Shiite rebels, also known as the Houthis, said the vessel was believed to belong to the Saudi Arabian navy.

Although Flynn didn't argue that Tehran was violating the nuclear accord, his promise of a sterner American approach to Iran underscored the fragility of a deal that Trump repeatedly ridiculed as a presidential candidate.

Flynn said: "President Trump has severely criticized the various agreements reached between Iran and the Obama administration, as well as the United Nations - as being weak and ineffective."

At America's request, the U.N. Security Council held a session Tuesday to address the missile test. The council referred the matter to its committee on Iran and asked for an investigation.

Iran has long boasted of having missiles that can travel 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles), putting much of the Middle East, including Israel, in range. Such capability would also put U.S. bases in the region in danger, and Iran says its missiles are key to deterring a U.S. or Israeli attack.

In March, Iran test-fired two ballistic missiles. One was emblazoned with the phrase "Israel must be wiped out" in Hebrew, sparking international outcry.

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i am continuously being harassed and bullied by 3 or 4 dhers and it is getting to the
point of outright threats of damaging my computer and internet access. the biggest bully
is known as cinnamonnhaze who is the rudest and crudest and has made literal threats. citylights01 is more harassing. and cupocheer has always been very rude and offensive.
i have from time to time flagged their rude, offensive, threatening posts but it seems
recently that they have joined forces and made threats not just to me but others esp. in
the current events & politics forum. what is the best thing i can do to avoid these posters? even tho i have them blocked they continue to make rude and offensive remarks,
which of course, others have shared with me.

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Lying, old, vindictive, hypocritical, thread attention wh*re and flag hag -----

I don't need to "gang" up with a bunch of has-been old b*tchy crones to call you out -- sleaze muffin --

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F**k you slut! You want a piece of me, step out from behind ya mammies skirttail and face me toe-to-toe, chickenshit turd dung! wow wow wow yellow coward