{"id":26981,"date":"2015-11-17T08:29:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T13:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26981"},"modified":"2015-11-17T08:30:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T13:30:57","slug":"as-the-debate-on-refugees-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=26981","title":{"rendered":"As The Debate On Refugees Continues…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Fitzgerald posted a commentary in the Boston Herald<\/a> yesterday about the current state of affairs in America<\/a>. The title of the article was, “In desperate times, deception destroys.”<\/p>\n

Here are a few very cogent points from the article:<\/p>\n

In circles of recovery it\u2019s sometimes referred to as \u201cthe gift of desperation,\u201d that moment when it becomes crystal clear to an addict that a change must be made, that returning to the old ways is simply not an option anymore.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Even the pope \u2014 who represents the Prince of Peace on Earth \u2014 seems to have embraced the spirit of the Old Testament<\/a>\u2019s \u201ceye for an eye\u201d credo, as if to suggest there are limits on how often we should turn the other cheek, because it\u2019s obvious the barbarians at our gates view kindness as weakness.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not complicated. If we\u2019re not going to love them into the family of civilization, then we need to crush them into oblivion, and soon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Immigration<\/a> is as American as the bald eagle. Ellis Island<\/a> bore witness to that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But now it\u2019s no longer a conversation about our hospitality; it\u2019s clearly become the Achilles heel<\/a> of our nation\u2019s security as millions take refuge in our populace without learning our history, speaking our language or giving any indication of affection for this country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Fitzgerald reminds us that asking who the refugees are and why they are coming here is not ‘hateful, prejudiced, or xenophobic’–it is common sense. We are responsible for preserving the country our Founding Fathers<\/a> left us.<\/p>\n

It would do us well to remember what Ben Franklin<\/a> said after the close of the Continental Congress<\/a> in 1787 when he was asked the following:<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, Doctor, what have we got\u2014a Republic or a Monarchy?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u201cA Republic, if you can keep it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

We need to welcome people who want to live in that Republic and send those who don’t want to live in that Republic somewhere where they will be more comfortable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Fitzgerald posted a commentary in the Boston Herald yesterday about the current state of affairs in America. The title of the article was, “In desperate times, deception destroys.” Here are a few very cogent points from the article: In … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,785,295,1119,245,9451,285,1501],"class_list":["post-26981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-boston","tag-boston-herald","tag-continental-congress","tag-middle-east","tag-syrian-refugees","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26984,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26981\/revisions\/26984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}