Yours truly,
Martin
What are we to do when a man sworn into office as President of the United States in one week, begins to use his powers in cruel, bigoted, and arbitrary ways the very next week?
I've been to the Statue of Liberty in New York's harbor -- there is nothing on that American beacon of hope that discriminates against refugee families based on their religious affiliation. If there were, we would not be a world power.
The child victims of ISIL are children of every faith.
They are children of the same God -- the One God; the God that commands us to be kind to strangers. For those of us who are Christians, He is the One God who was Himself a refugee child fleeing murder gangs in the Middle East.
So, what do we do - what actions do we take - when our half-elected President begins to use our power to apply religious tests to the plight of refugees fleeing murder, genocide, and oppression?
What would our immigrant parents, grandparents, or great grandparents have us do?
The answer is that we must stand up, speak out, and do everything in our power - individually and collectively - to stop the injustice being perpetrated, in our names, against our neighbors.
This is not a time for acceptance, acquiescence, or "wait and see."
This is a time for peaceful, loving, and law-abiding citizens to come together and rise up in solidarity for one another.
Come together - protest, dissent, make your voice heard - at the highest scale and at the deepest and most local levels. And by all means - bring your kids.
It was Germany's Rev. Martin Neimoller who penned the oft-repeated lines about the creep of an elected fascism in 1930's Germany: First they came for the trade unionists, then they came for the gypsies, then they came for the homosexuals and the artists, then they came for the Jews - "...and I did not speak out" because I was not of those groups... "Then they came for me,... and there was no one left to speak for me..."
Fascism comes to power -- let us never forget -- by first by being elected under the guise of being something else: a redressing of old grievances. A promise to return to better days. A promise to punish the elites. A promise to protect a frightened majority from having their greatness stolen by a religious or ethnic minority - people not like us.
So, let it be remembered that when first they came for our Muslim neighbors in America, the people of the United States rose up and said, "not in our country, you don't."
Don't you understand what temporary means?
ReplyDeleteMartin...What is an ISIL??? Something you lick in the summertime when it is 90 degrees???
ReplyDeleteWhat a pile of crap from a communist
ReplyDeleteGood for you - God Bless you you protector of people.
ReplyDeleteI am glad you read the Statue of Liberty.
Now - go read the Constitution and see if there is anything in it that says we have to take in people. It doesn't.
Glad you brought up Germany. Go see how they are doing today taking in their special kind of refugees. It is great that their special refugees they welcomed in like to assault and rape their little girls and boys. Exactly what America needs.
I hope you will never be around a group of Muslim men who want to toss you from a rooftop or chop your head off, but hey, you can tell them how you stood up for them and fought for them and welcomed them because you, sir, are a champion for all people! They will look at you and laugh at you and say 'You stupid American'.
I'll stick by my President who stuck by his word and said he will protect us. Go stand in line and hold your cute, little wonderful sign you made and enjoy it now. What a blind, sad sheep...
Martin open a Quaran and read a few chapters before you open your mouth about Muslims again. Also try telling 20 Muslim men that you, a "Christian" are their brother. (Remember their women are not allowed an opinion of their own.) I bet you won't be able to tell the 21st!
ReplyDeleteright, the Peoples Power Assembly is just a spontaneous group of peace loving patriotic Americans
ReplyDeleteOnly Idiot can compare Nazi Fascism to Muslim Invasion. Nazis were taking Jews out of their homes, confiscating their properties and sending them to concentration camps. Most of today's Muslims are coming to other countries posing as refugees to infiltrate them. For all of those Snowflakes, who doesn't know history, realize this - in 1940's Muslims Were In Alliance with Adolf Hitler to wipe out Jews and Christians. OK Sheeple, look it up before you start cheering.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you go with them
ReplyDeleteHey Martin why are you so worried about the muslim children but you care nothing of the children that are murdered daily by abortion?
ReplyDelete1:24 ISIL is another name for ISIS. Something you would know if you read.
ReplyDeleteSend Martin O'dumbass back to the moddle east with the rest of the protesters
ReplyDeleteMartin, you are a demented, discredited has-been. The muslims are the antithesis of everything this country stands for now, and was built on then. How many humanitarian acts has islam EVER performed for the benefit of ANY infidel since the inception of this murderous sect? None, absolutely none. Shut up, you treasonous snake. Any supporter of islam is just as guilty of terrorism, and murder, as any of the jihadis.
ReplyDeletePeople better remember CHARLIE HEBDO attacks in France it Will happen here if we bow down to Muslim democrat politicians with open boarders.
ReplyDeleteHe's such a d*ck. I'm so glad he's someone else's problem now. Like Obama, he turned the Queen Mary into the Titanic. Ran our state right into the iceberg.
ReplyDeleteThese politicians are like the revruns: Sharpton, Jackson, etc. who show up when they know the press will be there. They do nothing but pour gas onto the fire.
T.O.C.B Take Our Country Back! and make America great again.
What the hell do you mean half President, Trump won a little more than 2,600 counties and Crooked Hillary won about 500. What does that tell you? The only reason she got more votes was because of the land of fruits & nuts, California and B'Blabbeo loons from NY. Wake up!!!!
ReplyDeleteBa-humbug! Stupid tree hugger.😴😯🤡💩🐫
ReplyDeleteis this letter a joke? this little snowflake must search for Truth, must get a grip and must go home and close the door until the aforementioned is complete ...
ReplyDeleteI think President Trump is doing a great job!
ReplyDeleteWow, yet another commie calling trump a nazi. well, i happen to know my history a bit and none of the people that the nazi's came after were terrorists. it was the nazi's who were the terrorists. for you to keep calling trump a nazi will come back to haunt you libs when you get in power again. what comes around, goes around. You are making violent protests the norm. do not cry when you are on the receiving end of them! It should have been done to obama numerous times. but we showed more class than a lib is capable of.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't O'Malley know that nobody cares what the thinks or says. Bet he sits down to pee. Quit acting like a child. Intelligent folks are sick of it.
ReplyDeleteThe word Muslim never appears in the executive order Martin you LIAR!
ReplyDeleteWho is Allah? The Islamic god is called “The Greatest Deceiver” ( Qur’an 3:54 )
ReplyDeleteThe Bible too also mentions the GREAT Deceiver…
(Rev 19:20) And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he Deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
The ONE trait that is truthful about Allah is also congruent to the beast; also known as the bibilcal satan!
They can apply for a visa like everyone else and maybe it would move faster if they stopped killing people and worshiping a demonic religion.
ReplyDeleteAll the terror attackers here in America left here got training in one of those countries and came back.
ReplyDeleteThey are in Michigan.
DeleteHahahaha he fails at everything he does.
ReplyDeleteElenor Roosevelt said great minds discuss ideas, small minds discuss people. The looney left calls Trump names while the thinking class discusses the tradeoff of security over convenience. We can never expect the children and small minds to comprehend the thoughts of the great minds and adults.
ReplyDeleteHistory shows that immigrants have been turned away for a fair number of reasons. Among them were active disease, seditious behavior, bigamy, and the probability that they would be supported by government dollars. Now, however, we accept those with active cases of TB and other highly contagious diseases, terrorist leanings, multiple wives, and those who have no job skills and instantly go on the government dole. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteHe's never had a clue and never will. He wanted to cut down the number of officers at ECI and replace them with inmate councelors, this is his thinking until one of the female officers was attacked. All his oars aren't in the water. The worst governor Maryland ever had. He is a blight on intelligence, just go away Canada would be good.
ReplyDeleteSomebody needs a lengthy (a year or more) field trip to Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Afghanistan, and a few other choice places in that part of the world.
ReplyDeleteO'Malley, you had your shot. You LOST! Oh, that's right, you never even got off the ground to be able to run. So why should we listen to you rather than our fully elected President Donald Trump who is trying to protect the citizens of our country. Yes there are some victims of ISIS among the refugees. There are also some ISIS members disguised as victims among the refugees. Ask Germany or Switzerland. They can tell you about the teenagers who raped their women and children and come to find out they really were not teenagers. They were fully grown men but they came without birth certificates so there is no proof of that. The German women and children are still raped. As for the children of "every faith" being children of the same God. They are not! If they are children of every faith they are not children of the same God as the One God that I worship.
ReplyDeleteBut the thing is that the ban is not about religion as much as it is about keeping us safe. Radical Islam HATES us. They want to KILL us. Why should we let them in this country with impunity. WE SHOULD NOT! KEEP THEM ALL OUT! And I could care less about other family members who have already managed to get here and now can't see their family members. Go home. You can see them all you want. You shouldn't be here anyway. Our Constitution does not say that we have to offer a refuge to any and every person who wants refuge. They come here. They do not even try to assimilate to our ways. They don't try to learn the language. A great many of them don't try to work. Why should they? They get welfare, free health care, etc..., etc.., etc... I have no sympathy for them. How many have you taken in to your big house, Mr. O'Malley? That is just what I thought. NONE! So don't tell the rest of us what we should do.
Refugees are suoposed to go to the Nearest country NOT bypassing them by 4000 miles without any vetting from terrorist countrys that keep NO paperwork.
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ReplyDeleteHe has more fingers than his total IQ.
He turned Baltimore into a peaceful garden spot.
Then he taxed everything he could think of, including the rain.
Let's send him as a goodwill ambassador to the countries he's so worked up about; Hillary can make the arrangements!
Then you Martin are a part of the problem.
ReplyDeleteOnce more... IT'S NOT a muslin ban!
ReplyDeleteTemporary restrictions on refugee vetting from 7 countries. KEY WORD...TEMPORARY!
Martin,
ReplyDeleteI mistakenly thought that you were a student of history.