Kellyanne Conway is a dimwit, albeit a fast thinking and fast talking dimwit as she defends Tweety Twump's bad judgement on the Arab ban.
"Conway defends Trump immigration ban, ripped press 'a new one' over bias"
By Joseph Weber
Published January 29, 2017FoxNews.com
"White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Sunday defended President Trump’s order to temporarily ban immigration from seven mostly-Muslim nations -- and deflected criticism over countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan not being included in the ban.
“These are countries that have a history of training, harboring, exporting terrorists,” Conway, counselor to the president, told “Fox News Sunday.” “We can’t keep pretending and looking the other way.”
Conway said the Obama administration and Congress essentially came up with the list of seven, citing the Terrorist Prevention Act of 2015.
A federal judge on Saturday evening issued an emergency order temporarily barring the administration from deporting people from those countries.
Conway argued Sunday that the Brooklyn judge who issued the order is a President Obama appointee and that the judge’s order doesn't impact the thrust of Trump’s executive order -- preventing dangerous people from coming into the country, not detaining them."
"America Once Accepted 800,000 War Refugees. Is it Time to Do That Again?"
To solve the Syrian refugee crisis, experts say the United States should take a page from its post-Vietnam playbook.
Max J. RosenthalSep. 11, 2015 1:41 PM
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/syria-refugees-europe-vietnam
"After the end of the Vietnam War, hundreds of thousands of people attempted to flee Southeast Asia, mostly from Vietnam, by riding rickety, overloaded boats to nearby countries. Those countries, like many European countries during the current crisis, felt overwhelmed by the unyielding and disorganized flow of people arriving on their shores. They eventually announced that they would refuse to take in any more "boat people," prompting the international community to create a global resettlement program with the help of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The UNHCR ultimately resettled 1.3 million Southeast Asians in countries around the world, including more than 800,000 in the United States."
Same on America. Are we cowards? The language of the Executive Order signed by Tweety Twump is obviously anti-Muslim. He is stating a cultural bias clearly when he requires gathering data that is obviously specific to Muslims. One example:
"(iii) information regarding the number and types of acts of gender-based violence against women, including honor killings"
OK, passions aside, it is perverse to list only the countries in Tweety Twmp's signed Executive Order.
Wrong! Again!
"Why Trump’s "Muslim ban" won’t stop the terrorism threat"
Updated by Jennifer Williams
@jenn_ruth jennifer@vox.com Jan 28, 2017, 7:02pm EST
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Trump picked the wrong countries
Set aside the question of whether imposing blanket bans on entire countries’ populations because of the actions of a few evil individuals is justified either morally or on human rights grounds. The bigger problem is that it also isn’t likely to do much to reduce the terrorism threat.
The San Bernardino shooting that killed 14 people was carried out by an American-born US citizen of Pakistani descent and a lawful permanent US resident of Pakistani descent. The Orlando nightclub shooter who murdered 49 people was an American-born US citizen of Afghan descent. The Boston marathon bombers, who identified as ethnic Chechen, came to the US from Kyrgyzstan and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before carrying out attacks that left three dead. The militant who killed four Marines during a shooting spree in Tennessee was a Kuwaiti-born US citizen whose parents were Palestinian and Jordanian.
Faisal Shahzad, the attempted Times Square bomber, was Pakistani-American. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the infamous “underwear bomber,” was Nigerian. Richard Reid, whose 2001 attempt to blow up an airplane with explosives hidden in his shoes is the reason we still have to stand barefoot in the TSA line more than 15 years later, was born in the UK to a white English mother and a mixed-race Jamaican immigrant father. Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, was born in Virginia to Palestinian parents.
And the 9/11 hijackers? Fifteen were from Saudi Arabia, two were from the United Arab Emirates, one was from Lebanon, and one was Egyptian. Osama bin Laden was a Saudi citizen, and his top deputies — including the current leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, were Egyptian.
Literally not a single one of those countries is on Trump's list, and the ones that do show up repeatedly — especially Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt — aren’t on the list.
Tweety Twump;s immigration ban is a solution looking for a problem to happen. The Geneva Convention and other international agreements intended to protect threatened refugees and immigrants cannot be ignored by Tweety. These people are humans. They are PEOPLE, not hotels or golf courses to be dropped via "bankruptcy." America's integrity and honesty cannot be cast aside like a contractor's bill for payment for services rendered. America cannot just walk away from agreements and treaties as though they are real estate deals gone sour. We cannot cower because a deal is inconvenient.
29 Jan 2017, mark your calendar.
"First They Came for the Immigrants–and NYT Said People Should Anonymously Inform on Them"
By Jim Naureckas
Who decides when to stop rounding up "illegals?"
"As Donald Trump issued an executive order intended to single out Muslims for immigration restrictions, many Americans searched their consciences for the right way to respond to this act of discrimination by their government. “First they came for the Communists/And I did not speak out/Because I was not a Communist,” begins the famous poem by Martin Niemoller. How can we avoid making the same mistake that the Germans made who failed to stand up against the first acts of repression by the Nazi regime?
Fortunately, the New York Times Magazine publishes a column called “The Ethicist” that offers advice on complex moral questions. In the most recent column (1/25/17), “The Ethicist” offers some advice that’s relevant to the Trump era of heightened xenophobia, ethnic scapegoating and threats to civil liberties: If someone confides to you about an immigration violation, he says, you should inform against them to the government.
A reader wrote in to “The Ethicist” to ask what they should do about an acquaintance who admitted to them that she had married a US citizen only in order get US citizenship. “Do I have an ethical obligation to speak out about marriage fraud when it is used to gain US citizenship?” the reader asked.
No, but it would be a good thing to do, was the response of Kwame Anthony Appiah, who writes the “Ethicist” column. (Appiah described himself as “an immigrant who became a citizen myself.”) The columnist wrote:
It is the nature of the nation-state arrangement that states have a right to regulate who crosses their borders. You may disagree with one feature or another of our system, but over all it is fairer than many others. And if someone abuses it by the sort of fraud you have described, they are not only breaking the law, they are jumping a queue that millions of other people have formed by applying properly and then waiting their turn.
Given that you’re clearly not the only person who has the relevant information, and given the diffuse nature of the harm, you’re not obligated to report what you know. But provided you are morally certain about your conclusion, it would be a good thing if you did. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a website where you may report anonymously. (Filing false information is a crime.) It would be up to them to confirm what you say.
Presumably such advice would also apply to the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States whom Trump has threatened to deport. Has your neighbor admitted to you that they don’t have a green card? Homeland Security has a website where you can anonymously report them!
The New York Times can publish an updated version of the Niemoller poem: “First they came for the immigrants—and I said people should secretly turn them into the government.”"
What is Tweety Twump's basis for has action? None!
"Terrorism and Immigration: A Risk Analysis" The number of terrorist attacks by people from all the specified countries picked by Tweety total , , , ZERO!
And NONE of the countries where terrorists have come from, for example Egypt and Saudi Arabia, with Tweety Twumps hotels are listed. Emoluments . . .
Alex Nowrasteh
Cato Institute - Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity
September 13, 2016
Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 798
"Abstract:
Terrorism is a hazard to human life and material prosperity that should be addressed in a sensible manner whereby the benefits of actions to contain it outweigh the costs. Foreign-born terrorists who entered the country, either as immigrants or tourists, were responsible for 88 percent (or 3,024) of the 3,432 murders caused by terrorists on U.S. soil from 1975 through the end of 2015. This paper presents the first terrorism risk analysis of the visa categories those foreign-born terrorists used to enter the United States."
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2842277
What about crimes against humanity? What about the Geneva Convention?
Here was the moral solution was after WWII; have we becomes an amoral nation? Are we a nation of cowards, afraid of our shadows? Do we believe all the conspiracy theories, trying to disprove negative activates of ghosts?
"Merkel slams Trump travel ban, cites Geneva convention"
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday slammed the restrictions on immigration imposed by US President Donald Trump, saying it was "not justified" to target people based on their background or religion.
Posted 30 Jan 2017 00:55
"BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday (Jan 29) slammed the restrictions on immigration imposed by US President Donald Trump, saying it was "not justified" to target people based on their background or religion.
Her spokesman said Merkel had raised the issue in a telephone call with Trump on Saturday, reminding him of obligations under international human rights law.
"The chancellor regrets the entry ban imposed by the US government against refugees and nationals from certain countries," spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.
"She is convinced that even in the necessarily resolute battle against terrorism it is not justified to place people from a certain origin or belief under general suspicion."
The German government "will now examine the consequences" of the ban for German citizens with dual nationality, he added."
http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/1951-refugee-convention.html
"The 1951 Refugee Convention is the key legal document that forms the basis of our work. Ratified by 145 State parties, it defines the term ‘refugee’ and outlines the rights of the displaced, as well as the legal obligations of States to protect them.
The core principle is non-refoulement, which asserts that a refugee should not be returned to a country where they face serious threats to their life or freedom. This is now considered a rule of customary international law."
"Merkel 'explains' Geneva refugee convention to Trump in phone call"
German chancellor speaks to president amid international anger over US ban on people from seven Muslim countries
"Merkel reminds Trump of Geneva Convention after immigration curbs"
ByREUTERS
29 January 2017 18:33
"She expressed her concerns to Trump during a phone call and reminded him that the Geneva Conventions require the international community to take in war refugees on humanitarian grounds, the spokesman added.
Merkel's sentiments were echoed in Paris and London; "Terrorism knows no nationality. Discrimination is no response," said French Foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, while his British counterpart Boris Johnson tweeted: "Divisive and wrong to stigmatise because of nationality."
Along with Syria, the US ban of at least 90 days affects travellers with passports from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, including those with dual nationality that includes one of those countries."
