Hello Bob,   
      
    >> I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"   
      
    BA> Emma Lazarus' poem wasn't included with the statue, it came later.   
      
   His poem is quite fitting, and describes the American people   
   for who they are.  Or rather, what the American people used to   
   be, but apparently are no longer.   
      
    >> And now, 31 governors, representing the people of   
    >> their respective states, have turned their backs on   
    >> those who are most desperately in need of our help.   
    >> 30 of those governors are Republican, 1 is Democrat.   
    >> All of them a sorry excuse of a human being.   
      
    BA> Tell us, Lee, how ypu propose to prevent terrorists from infiltrating   
   their   
    BA> way in with these "refugees"?   
      
   It was not until after WWII that the United States   
   began making a distinction between the terms "refugee"   
   and "immigrant" - and even later "asylum" as a special   
   case.   
      
   The US is a nation of immigrants.  Every immigrant is   
   a potential terrorist.  How does a nation of immigrants   
   go about protecting itself from potential immigrants?   
      
   If the USA decides to protect itself by becoming   
   "Fortress America" and denying entry to all who wish   
   to come here, will that make Americans any safer than   
   before?   
      
   Timothy McVeigh was a terrorist.  He was born and raised   
   right here in the good ol' US of A.  We even trained him   
   to be a killer, in the US Army.  He killed not only men   
   and women, but also children.  Brings new meaning to the   
   term "baby-killer".  Yeah.  They taught him well at the   
   Army of God (a Christian militia he was a member of).   
      
   McVeigh used a home-made bomb to do his dirty work.   
   Loaded up a rental truck with ammonia nitrate and parked   
   the truck outside a federal building in Oklahoma City.   
   Walked away and watched it blow up from a distance.   
   Was later apprehended for questioning, about to be   
   released for lack of evidence, and would likely have   
   gotten away with it had a witness remained silent   
   for one hour longer.   
      
   What about The Unabomber?  And other home-grown   
   terrorists?  We have no shortage.  Some are in prison.   
   Most are not, freely walking the streets right now.   
   Some are in mental institutions.  Most are not, living   
   freely in a community near you.  Feel safer now?   
      
   Yeah.  Most terrorists here are born and raised in   
   this very country.  There are over 900 militias, most   
   of them Christian militias, no passports required.   
   All it takes is a belief in Jesus and a call to arms.   
      
   You asked a question as to how I would "propose to   
   prevent terrorists from infiltrating their way in with   
   these `refugees'".   
      
   I do not believe it is possible to prevent terrorists   
   from infiltrating their way into this country, or into   
   any other country.  A truly dedicated terrorist will   
   find his/her way into this country regardless of what   
   we do or try to do.   
      
   Besides, we have plenty of our own terrorists to deal   
   with, and have no idea as to how to go about doing so.   
      
   David Koresh and his group of Branch Davidians taught   
   us that lesson at Waco.   
      
   Back to Syrian immigrants and how we got ourselves into   
   this fine mess -   
      
   Of course, this whole mess is Jimmy Carter's fault.   
   Well, I guess you could say it was Ted Kennedy's fault   
   since he wrote it, and Carter signed it.   
      
   I am talking about the Refugee Act of 1980.  It is the   
   brainchild of Ted Kennedy, who started thinking about   
   it the moment he became a liberal, started to put it in   
   writing in 1978, and introduced it to the US Senate in   
   1979.  The bill was adopted by the Senate by a unanimous   
   vote on September 6, 1979, and signed by President Jimmy   
   Carter on March 17, 1980, becoming law on April 1, 1980.   
      
   This piece of fine legislation has remained virtually   
   unchanged to the present day.   
      
   Public Law 96-212.   
      
   Go ahead.  Look it up.  Print it out.   
      
   This is the road map of our future.   
      
   What is NOT being said by the news media -   
      
   This wonderful piece of legislation allows the spouse   
   and children of "refugees" to also enter this country.   
      
   No number of "spouse" or "children" is cited.   
      
   It gets weirder, but this is getting long, and I would   
   like to give you and others a chance to read the text of   
   the act before making further comment.   
      
    BA> And will you accept unlimited civil liability for any damage these   
    BA> "refugees" might do?   
      
   And if the president is "insane"?   
   Who will then be held accountable?   
   Hell, I think we are all insane.   
   After all, we elected him (twice).   
      
   --Lee   
      
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