Posted on 12/13/2015 9:20:18 AM PST by Kaslin
Let’s jump into the Way Back Machine and revisit a message that Barack Obama sent to the governors of our nation when they expressed concerns about plopping Syrian refugees down in our communities. And by “way back” I mean three weeks ago.
"In short, the security vetting for this population, the most vulnerable of individuals, is extraordinarily thorough and comprehensive," Secretary of State John Kerry and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson write in letters sent to all state and territorial governors and to the mayor of Washington. D.C.
Huh. Our vetting process is extraordinarily thorough and comprehensive. And to their credit, our officials seem to be giving it the old college try. In fact, they vetted Tashfeen Malik three times before allowing her to come to the United States with her “fiancee” and settle in San Bernardino. Unfortunately, as the New York Times was forced to report last night, they missed a few things, such as the fact that she’d apparently been going on social media for years and talking about how she was in favor of violent jihad and wanted to be a part of the movement.
Tashfeen Malik, who with her husband carried out the massacre in San Bernardino, Calif., passed three background checks by American immigration officials as she moved to the United States from Pakistan. None uncovered what Ms. Malik had made little effort to hide that she talked openly on social media about her views on violent jihad.
She said she supported it. And she said she wanted to be a part of it.
American law enforcement officials said they recently discovered those old and previously unreported postings as they pieced together the lives of Ms. Malik and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, trying to understand how they pulled off the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001.
So how did that happen? They’re looking at a lot of people every year, so if there’s one needle in a haystack you may very well miss it I suppose. But that’s not the situation at all. The Department of Homeland Security told the Times that, immigration officials do not routinely review social media as part of their background checks. If that’s not bad enough, they followed up by saying that the department is still debating whether it is even appropriate to do so.
So we’re not yet at the point of asking whether we’re even capable of going through the social media posts of visitors looking to come to us from terrorist infested places like Pakistan. We’re still arguing about whether we even should? Our extraordinarily thorough and comprehensive vetting process doesn’t include checking Twitter to see if the girl was recently chatting with her friends about how cool it would be to blow up a football stadium. But at the very same time, you’re an Islamophobe if you don’t want the refugees settled in your community or if you think we should slow down the flow of new visas being issued to applicants from the most sketchy regions. Yeah… that makes a lot of sense.
If you’d like a bit of irony served up with your Sunday morning coffee, the editorial board of the same newspaper that brought us that report took time out on the very same day to once again praise the new Prime Minister of Canada for his warm, welcoming embrace of the “refugees” and cast aspersions on the United States. (New York Times)
Until Mr. Trudeau's election, the Canadian government had been among Western countries that had responded to the refugee crisis with more apprehension than compassion. Mr. Trudeau changed that by ordering his government to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year and at least 25,000 by the end of March.
"We get to show the world how to open our hearts and welcome in people who are fleeing extraordinarily difficult situations," Mr. Trudeau said during a brief speech at the airport, where the refugees had arrived on a Canadian military plane. "Tonight they step off the plane as refugees, but they walk out of this terminal as permanent residents of Canada."
Well that’s just touching and heartwarming, isn’t it? And they couldn’t help themselves when it came to comparing the Canadians to the awful hatemongers in America.
The prime minister made no direct mention of Canada's southern neighbor in his speech on Thursday. Yet he spoke unmistakably to a broader audience when he said: "This is something that we are able to do in this country because we define a Canadian not by a skin color or a language or a religion or a background, but by a shared set of values, aspirations, hopes and dreams that not just Canadians but people around the world share."
Yes, Mr. Trudeau, I’m sure all of the “refugees” you’re handing out new winter coats to are going to be just fine. What could possibly go wrong? I mean, just because you already found an ISIS terror plot being hatched which was targeting Toronto, that’s probably just an aberration, right? When you finish congratulating yourself, you should drop a note to a few people letting them know that you’ve got this vetting thing under control. Start with the families of Robert Adams, 40; Isaac Amanios, 60; Bennetta Bet-Badal, 46; Harry Bowman, 46; Sierra Clayborn, 27; Juan Espinoza, 50; Aurora Godoy, 26; Shannon Johnson, 45; Larry Kaufman, 42; Damian Meins, 58; Tin Nguyen, 31; Nicholas Thalasinos, 52; Yvette Velasco, 27 and Michael Wetzel, 37.
Barry Soetoro says, “The NRA made her do it!”
In the very first reporting of their murder spree it was stated that her name was a fake
and that name which is typically a male name to muslims is from a jihadi warrior in the 7th or 8th century
So if it was a fake name how did the BO govt vet her at all?
The vetting process was ... fill out this form by answering these 6 questions. We put the form in a file and wish you the very best in your new life in America.....
Maybe congress ought to be impeached for dereliction of duty in failing to impeach the abysmal failure B. Hussein Obama.
I have a feeling terrorists will hit that piece of Americana STAR WARS when it opens. Big targets, big fear, big press with everyone watching.
You are not going to catch me or any of my family in any pack theaters any time soon.
That does not surprise me at all that her name was a fake. Notice that the town in Pakistan she had claimed to be from doesn’t even exist.
Same here. Ever since Obama told us that he has our back and that everything is fine and that we all need to go out and spend our money shopping before they steal it, I’ve been avoiding any place where there is a large concentration of people.
If you are a sane adult, this 3 1/2 minute video will make your head explode.
The “Takeaways”?
1. Nearly ALL of the federal bureaucracies are JOBS PROGRAMS for otherwise unemployable MORONS;
2. Obozo sends know-nothing, nearly brain dead FEMALES to these hearings and HOPES the Pubbies and conservatives go after them as they would — and SHOULD — a MALE for these non-responsive mutterings so the Democrats can continue their idiotic chant about the “GOP war on women”. Notice that toward the end, she appears to be muttering to herself;
3. The even more concerning aspect of this video is that, despite the untold millions of taxpayer resources thrown down these bureaucratic rat holes, the Department of Homeland Security either DOES NOT KNOW THOSE NUMBERS or, more likely, DOESN’T WANT US TO KNOW THEM.
If, God willing, we elect a sane American adult who DOESN’T HATE AMERICA to the White House, perhaps we can commence the treason trials madness of this sort makes clear are necessary if this nation is to survive.
FOLKS, WE’RE BEING INVADED!! ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION YET????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHbHKCozVcs
None of the terrorist that have attacked this country were on the dumb @$$ no fly list.
None of the 911 attackers. Underwear or shoe bomber not on the list. Boston marathon bombers? Nope. Hadal Nisson..nope. The muzzies that attacked a Dallas area cartoon gathering not on the list. These two in San Bernardino didn't make the list....none of them. NONE!
DHS, TSA, NSA, LMNOP or whatever alphabet agency are impotent.
Anyone surprised our government is stupid?
Again, this has to make mainstream media news. Or the sheeple will never know.
If only we had done more to prevent climate change she would have stopped. /s
It should but won't. That's why Trump and Cruz are so popular.
yeah, I should just say Trump or Cruz has to let this known on Sunday morning or no one will ever find out.
John Kerry said in an interview that the State Dept. was reviewing its screening procedures, which begs the question shouldn’t you stop importing Muslims in the meantime?
Of course the twit interviewing him didn’t go there for fear of appearing politically incorrect.
Ask muslims if they support the violent pali intifada, most will which means 90% of muslims are radicalized.
I being generous to the ten percent!
Too bad she died, she could have replaced H on the dhim ticket.
Trudeau...”but by a shared set of values, aspirations, hopes and dreams”
Who knew that the Canadians dream of a Global Caliphate where all infidels are either dead or slaves/
Diversity is our strength; we should not hold her political/religious views against her when welcoming her into our country. Think of all the carbon footprints she erased after Planned Parenthood had fallen short - it’s no wonder Obama is thrilled with her work on population control.
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