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Obama perfectly understands what he expects from the Syrian "Pilgrims"
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Posted on 12/01/2015 1:22:58 PM PST by VA Voter

In response to Obama likening the Syrian refugees to the Pilgrims it occurs to me that when the Pilgrims arrived in what is now Massachusetts they were unwanted, built communities on land that wasn't theirs, called the locals "savages", refused to assimilate, practiced their own laws, imposed an official state sponsored religion, forcefully converted local residents, flooded the land with more and more immigrants, imposed their will through force and intimidation,fought various wars with the locals until the locals were marginalized and their way of life was destroyed.

It would appear that Obama perfectly understands what he expects from the Syrian "Pilgrims".


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1 posted on 12/01/2015 1:22:58 PM PST by VA Voter
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To: VA Voter

You’ve got quite a lefty commie world view.

Funny point, but....


2 posted on 12/01/2015 1:24:07 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: ifinnegan

Just using the lefts world view against them.


3 posted on 12/01/2015 1:27:16 PM PST by VA Voter
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To: VA Voter

Savage was used back then as a term for a group that did not have a written language. It is referenced in our earliest geography books....c 1790-1810


4 posted on 12/01/2015 1:30:29 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: VA Voter

WE support them with housing, food, clothing, etc., but the Saudis—who won’t take them—will provide $$$ for mosques: indoctrination, training, armory, etc.
This is as boneheaded a thing as we have ever allowed.


5 posted on 12/01/2015 1:31:10 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: VA Voter
imposed their will through force and intimidation, fought various wars with the locals until the locals were marginalized and their way of life was destroyed.

Really? Sensationalize much?

The 'local residents' were more effected by disease brought by the Europeans than violence. And the Europeans did coexist with the locals quite nicely.

100 Pilgrims at war with the Wampanoags? They were vastly outnumbered. Thus we have the Pilgrim-Wampanoag peace treaty of Apr 01, 1621.

According to the treaty, if a Wampanoag broke the peace, he would be sent to Plymouth for punishment. If a colonist broke the law, he would likewise be sent to the Wampanoags. Doesn't sound much like war.

6 posted on 12/01/2015 1:31:39 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: VA Voter

Unless, of course, you were being ironic/sarcastic on purpose.


7 posted on 12/01/2015 1:32:31 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: VA Voter

They will be the core of his civilian army that is just as strong, just as well armed, as the US military.


8 posted on 12/01/2015 1:33:22 PM PST by Defiant (I wouldn't have to mansplain if it weren't for all those wymidiots.)
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To: VA Voter

To register as Democrats and vote for Hillary.


9 posted on 12/01/2015 1:34:02 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: VA Voter

The Pilgrims comment was meant to silence Christians.


10 posted on 12/01/2015 1:40:03 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: VA Voter

He really knows zip about the history of our country...


11 posted on 12/01/2015 1:41:01 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Defiant

ISIS is the government’s proxy army...to be used to fundamentally transform...


12 posted on 12/01/2015 1:47:21 PM PST by soakncider ("The two enemies of the people are criminals and government"...Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Shh. Not too loud.


13 posted on 12/01/2015 2:18:00 PM PST by VA Voter
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To: VA Voter

I wasn’t aware that the Pilgrims went on welfare and got all sorts of other “free” goodies.

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14 posted on 12/01/2015 2:20:36 PM PST by Mears
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To: Sacajaweau

Any group who beheads, crucifies, and rapes children should be referred to as “Savages”.


15 posted on 12/01/2015 2:30:36 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (I'd rather be islamophobic and alive, than tolerant and dead.)
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To: tumblindice

Who said that the mosques are islam’s barracks or is it their Barack.


16 posted on 12/01/2015 2:59:02 PM PST by This I Wonder32460 (Ideas have consequences.)
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The words criminal, murderer and rapist work just as well. As does evil doer.


17 posted on 12/01/2015 3:00:35 PM PST by This I Wonder32460 (Ideas have consequences.)
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To: soakncider

Position them in major cities, launch 15 Paris style attacks at once, then the militarized police and all those domestic scenarios will come in handy. Oh and by the way, no more elections. It’s an emergency, ya know!


18 posted on 12/01/2015 3:09:33 PM PST by Defiant (I wouldn't have to mansplain if it weren't for all those wymidiots.)
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To: VA Voter

if they’re the pilgrims... does that mean we’re the indians?

did he just green lit ‘indians’ attacking and killing ‘pilgrims’, in keeping with history?


19 posted on 12/01/2015 3:14:44 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: VA Voter

Hats with buckles on them and smallpox?


20 posted on 12/01/2015 3:24:55 PM PST by x
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