Following last week’s horrific terror attacks in Paris, Republican Governors and Presidential candidates have turned against those fleeing terror in Syria by calling for states to keep out the huddled Syrian masses of men, women and children yearning to be free.
Despite the existing, incredibly onerous, nearly two-year process of vetting such refugees before they are allowed to come here — and despite state Governors having no direct control over immigration/refugee policies at the federal level, more than 30 of them have now declared they will not allow refugees from the war torn nation to be relocated within their state borders.
Presidential candidates like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and even the supposedly “reasonable” and “moderate” Jeb Bush have declared we need to consider shutting down mosques and/or institute a Christians-only policy for refugees coming to the U.S. from countries under siege by terrorists.
These GOP cowards and liars have little more evidence to back up their assertions about dangerous refugees “pouring into our country from Syria” than they did when they warned President Obama was allowing an Ebola epidemic to land on our shores and kill us all just a few short months ago.
Nonetheless, some gullible and frightened American citizens have responded to the offensive, anti-American rhetoric of GOP leaders by turning against their fellow citizens, sometimes violently, for the “crime” of being Muslim or even just appearing to be of Middle-Eastern origin.
All of the above, of course, is precisely what Osama bin Laden — and now ISIS — long ago announced to be exactly what they were hoping for.
All of that and many more disturbing tales from the ‘Land of the Free’ and the ‘Home of the Brave’ in today’s BradCast…
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“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses, yearning to breath free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
I guess if we are not willing to live up to the inscription on the Statue of Liberty, we should give it back, because we don’t deserve it.
Wow. Those news stories were all APPALLING… but by the end of the segment I was almost completely fixated on your rhetorical choice to repeat that same phrase about twenty times! 😉
And where is the self-styled, self-satisfied “mainstream” press? When are they going to state over and over and over again that Governors have nothing to do with immigration and refugee policy? When are the so-called “mainstream” journalists going to point out to the public that certain politicians are mocking the oath to uphold the Constitution? And when are they going to start laughing Jeb Bush off the stage? How can anyone take seriously a man who never served, whose brother did not complete his service in a patty-cake unit of the Texas Air National Guard, and that George the Younger bears direct responsibility for all of this mess because of his invasion of Iraq?
Ben Carson says Obama wants to bring 50,000 refugees. Trump says Obama wants to bring in 250,000 refugees. The republican party says they are the party of God. They started this mess.They were going to make Iraq a democracy. Killing thousands and displacing thousands and they expected them to love us. IDIOTS. The republican party has one God and it is GREED and POWER. The sad part is they belong to a cult of right wing media.