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________________________________________ The Patriot Post Digest 9-23-2016 From The Federalist Patriot Free Email Subscription ________________________________________
Mid-Day Digest
Sep. 23, 2016
THE FOUNDATION
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” —Cesare Beccaria
TOP RIGHT HOOKS
That Time Comedy Central Debunked Gun Free Zones1
Some number of Americans get their news from Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” That makes one episode this week particularly interesting, and we hope viewers get the underlying message. After the terrorist attack in Minnesota over the weekend, a local ice cream shop owner put up a sign that read, “Muslims Get Out.” Trevor Noah, now the host of “The Daily Show,” used his opening monologue to lay into the business owner:
“This man genuinely thought people who go around blowing people up would be stopped by a sign? You realize you’re talking to terrorists, not vampires. They don’t need to be invited in, alright? Or maybe he’s onto something, because if you think about it, we’ve never tried that. We’ve never actually tried to repel terrorists with signs. Yeah, maybe that’s all the airports need is a sign that says, ‘No Terrorists,’ yes? Yeah, and then guys are going to be walking going, ‘Oh, I was going to blow up the airport, but the rules are rules and they said I can’t come in.’”
Obviously, the store owner didn’t intend to thwart a terrorist attack with a sign. But Second Amendment defenders should immediately recognize Noah’s logic. No “Gun Free Zone” sign has ever stopped a criminal. In fact, those signs merely indicate where a mass murderer would be unchallenged by an armed citizen. Every major mass shooting in recent years has occurred in a gun free zone. As Sean Davis notes, “Bad people who want to murder you don’t care about your stupid signs and stupid laws.”
On the flip side, as we also write today2, citizens exercising their Second Amendment rights can be one of the best deterrents and foils to terrorism. Fortunately, more Americans are realizing — Comedy Central’s efforts notwithstanding — that isn’t a joke.
Fast-Tracking Immigrants for Votes3
In light of the recent revelation that at least 858 individuals and maybe twice that many who had been slated for deportation were accidentally granted citizenship4, one would expect that the Department of Homeland Security would be working overtime to shore up its vetting process and do its due diligence to reassure Americans that it will work carefully to prevent such a blunder from happening again. The DHS is indeed working overtime — not to get all its paper finger print records digitalized, but to processes as many immigrant citizenship applications as possible before the election.
An email from a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office chief stated, “The Field Office due to the election year needs to process as many of the N-400 cases as possible between now and FY 2016.” The email continued by “encouraging” employees to take advantage of overtime opportunities in order to meet the processing goal. The level of disconnect is simply stunning. In a letter sent to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, Senators Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Charles Grassley (R-IA) stated, “Your department seems intent on approving as many naturalization cases as quickly as possible at a time when it should instead be putting on the brakes and reviewing past adjudications.”
The real problem is a mindset. Last week, one of Hillary Clinton’s campaign staffers sent around a tweet quoting Donald Trump: “No one has the right to immigrate to this country.” The staffer responded by writing, “We disagree,” and said that Trump would have kicked his family out for immigrating from Libya. Whether this ends up being Clinton’s official policy is almost irrelevant. This staffer revealed an attitude espoused by many on the Left: The U.S. has no right to reject or limit people from immigrating to America, whereas immigrants have an unfettered right to come here. This globalist, open-borders mindset is the main reason it has been so difficult to get Democrats on board with stopping illegal immigration. This fact is made even more obvious by their refusal to refer to illegal immigrants as “illegal,” preferring the moniker “undocumented” immigrant. The truth is, Trump is exactly right that any sovereign nation is obligated to its citizens to regulate immigration, whether this be through limits or prevention. No non-citizen has the right to demand the privilege of citizenship, and to claim that such rights exist is to do violence to the rights of actual citizens.
Texas Puts Refugee Program on Notice5
The Obama administration plans to resettle 110,000 refugees into the U.S.6 over the coming year, but Texas is having none of it. The Lone Star State, which saw an influx of some 7,000 refugees over the last 12 months, has announced plans7 to sever its participation in the Obama administration’s refugee program.
The Washington Free Beacon explains that the reason has to do with a lack of safeguards8: “Texas officials drafted a plan that would require federal national security officials to provide assurances that none of the individuals being resettled pose a terror threat. The administration has declined to approve this plan.”
Gov. Greg Abbott says, “Despite multiple requests by the state of Texas, the federal government lacks the capability or the will to distinguish the dangerous from the harmless, and Texas will not be an accomplice to such dereliction of duty to the American people. Therefore, Texas will withdraw from the refugee resettlement program. I strongly urge the federal government to completely overhaul a broken and flawed refugee program that increasingly risks American lives.”
Abbott is right to be concerned. Around 30,000 migrants from terror hot spots managed to infiltrate the southern border9 last year. Barack Obama can insist, as he did this week, that “refugees are subject to more vigorous screening than the average tourist.” But why should we believe anything he says? Earlier this year, Hillary Clinton asserted, “I think we’ve done a really good job securing the border.”
How good? Well, a newly uncovered DHS memo10 says, “Refugee fraud is easy to commit, yet not easy to investigate.” In fact, “bad actors … have exploited this program.” You don’t say. Remember that next time Democrats say we have nothing to worry about.
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
David Harsanyi: Hillary Clinton Would Rather Blame Free Speech Than Islam for Terrorism11 David Limbaugh: Clinton and Obama, First Heal Yourselves on Race12 Hans von Spakovsky & Jennifer Matthes: It’s Not Racist to Not Have Straight-Ticket Voting13
For more, visit Right Opinion14.
TOP HEADLINES
Charlotte Police Refuse to Release Shooting Video15 Tulsa Cop Charged With Manslaughter16 500 Million Yahoo Accounts Hacked17
For more, visit Patriot Headline Report18.
FEATURED RIGHT ANALYSIS The Islamic State’s Chemical Weapons19
Missteps and half-measures — the continuing story of Obama foreign policy.
By Michael Swartz
While the Leftmedia quit keeping a body count when Barack Obama became commander in chief, there’s still a war going on in Iraq between the ragtag dead-enders of the Islamic State and the Iraqi military, with American troops there supposedly in a supporting role that stays “one terrain feature” behind the front.
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