On
PBS News Hour last night … 26 Jan 2017
One of the commentators, Daniel Benjamin, a former US State
Department Ambassador at large and coordinator for counter-terrorism said,
roughly … “We know more about refugees coming to this country (screen them more
thoroughly) than we do about President Trumps’ taxes.”
The point is … we screen our refugees effectively, sanely …
better than we screen Executives who pay no taxes, and who stay awake rambling
with a Twitter feed, dividing us, infringing our freedoms and values.
Now tell me that doesn’t say something deep about our flawed leader!
It was on Holocaust Day that the Donald issued another Executive Odor
shutting America’s doors to immigrants, and excluded refugees from five
nations. Those nations are precisely the ones where war, barbarism, beheadings,
and political, social, and religious intolerance demand we open our hearts to
those whose lives are most at risk.
Emma Lazarus
would now sadly have to say …
“Don’t send your
homeless, tempest-tost to me,
The Light is out, I’ve closed the door”
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