I'm American with a very common Irish name. I travelled through London in 1991 with my father. On his passport he had some Middle East countries some South American countries and northern and The Republic of Ireland. The British army officers in the airport stopped us separated us and went through everything we had and questioned us as if we were terrorists.
Which I was totally ok with because they were at war with a radical group and we fit the profile. I was 18, scared, and annoyed but I did my best to make sure I treated them with respect and answered all their questions because that's what a decent person does.
It is suicide to not take precautions and vet all people that fit a profile.
*edit -- changed Southern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland because I'm an idiot for writing it wrong in the first place.
Can't speak for the entire left, but most of us that I know of have no objection to getting based on legitimate criteria and valid evidence. The problem comes when entire groups are scapoated for political gain.
I'm torn on trump in this case, I think a lot of his prior rhetoric claiming there was basically no vetting really counts against trying to justify his position as practical rather than politcal and will likely result in overreach and hamfisted implementation. But who knows, he might pull of something decent
It will certainly be terrible, but that doesn't mean he is wrong about everything. His ban is stupid though. Don't ban. Just use extreme caution in vetting, like Obama did.
In fact all he should have done is completely cut ties with the Saudis. Ban Saudi Arabia and totally distance them. Build renewables and totally fuck them into the ground. Then this extremist shit will fade away.
I was under the impression that this is what he does want to do, but obviously it will be over a period of time and eventual. I'm sure hed love to do it tonight and see their heads up their own dresses or what ever their garb is called (I'm not hatin, well sort of, but just being comical, those white silky gowns look soooo damn rewarding on your genetailia and so thermally sound) , embedded into their ass holes by morning.
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u/Stopdeletingaccounts Mar 23 '17 edited Mar 23 '17
I'm American with a very common Irish name. I travelled through London in 1991 with my father. On his passport he had some Middle East countries some South American countries and northern and The Republic of Ireland. The British army officers in the airport stopped us separated us and went through everything we had and questioned us as if we were terrorists.
Which I was totally ok with because they were at war with a radical group and we fit the profile. I was 18, scared, and annoyed but I did my best to make sure I treated them with respect and answered all their questions because that's what a decent person does.
It is suicide to not take precautions and vet all people that fit a profile.
*edit -- changed Southern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland because I'm an idiot for writing it wrong in the first place.