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Commentary: The Congresswoman Representing Somalia
The Minnesota Sun ^ | 7-18-2019 | George S. Bardmesser

Posted on 07/18/2019 11:25:33 AM PDT by servo1969

I am an immigrant.

I want Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) to go back to the shithole country she came from.

And I want her to stay there.

I spent some time on the Internet looking for even one positive thing that Omar has said about America--but my search was in vain. Omar hates and despises her adoptive country unequivocally and unconditionally. She hates everything about America today, and she hates everything about the America of yesterday.

Omar hates white people. Omar hates Jews--and she is not shy about letting everyone know it ("It's all about the Benjamins baby"). Omar hates our ally Israel ("Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel").

Ilhan Omar is a one-woman hate factory.

Maybe I missed a public statement where Omar praised America. But after looking through countless webpages and many gigabytes, I think I am on solid ground when I say: Ilhan Omar hates everything and everyone around her, except possibly her brother, whom she married, and perhaps the 9/11 terrorists who killed 3,000 people ("some people did something"--no biggie).

As an immigrant from the no-longer-with-us USSR, I believe I have as much moral authority as anyone to tell Omar: you should return to the country you represent and take up permanent residence there.

America can never measure up to Omar's high standards--but no doubt Somalia will. Omar need not suffer in our land of toxic xenophobia, Islamophobia, racism, sexism, lookism and speciesism--because she can live out the rest of her life amidst the tolerance, understanding, and mutual respect that Somalis are famous for.

(For those interested, Somalia today is still a land mostly of anarchy, fundamentally not all that different from what you probably saw in "Black Hawk Down," with a civil war, Islamic terrorists slaughtering civilians, corruption, hunger, poverty, torture, rape, refugee camps, and all the other usual things associated with that jewel of East Africa.)

This past week, President Trump once again detonated the brains of the Left, when he tweeted (without even naming names) that those who came here and enjoyed all the benefits of this country, but had nothing good to say about America, can go back to their original countries. The reaction from the Left was instantaneous and explosive: Racist! Sexist! Nativist! Islamophobe! Bad Man! Really Bad! Trump is Hitler! Trump is Mussolini! Trump is a Dictator! Trump is Satan! We hate Trump!

As an immigrant, I would like to tell Ilhan Omar: I love America. America gave my family and me opportunities I never would have had anywhere else. Unlike you, I am proud to call myself an American. America is incredible and special. My family has never asked for a handout--but what my parents and I have, we have because we grasped the opportunities offered and protected in our new country. For these opportunities, we are eternally grateful.

Twenty years ago, I went to the Vietnam War Memorial for the first time. Even though I didn't immigrate to this country until 1978, five years after the Vietnam War ended, and even though I have no personal connection to any of the 58,212 names listed on the memorial, I felt the specialness of that place. The sacrifice of the men and women who fought and died for my country was worthy of the deepest respect and contemplation. I have no doubt that Omar, were she ever to go to the Vietnam War Memorial, would feel nothing.

As an immigrant, I can assure native-born Americans that Ilhan Omar does not speak for immigrants. Not for Russian-Jewish ones like me, not for (I am quite confident) Latinos, Asians or Europeans. Omar and the vitriol she constantly spews is not typical of immigrants who come here legally. So I salute President Trump for once again sticking a fork in the eye of the leftist PC crowd, and saying publicly what millions of people are thinking privately. Republicans agree with him. Independents agree with him. In fact, Trump just gave us all even more reasons to vote for him in 2020. And if Democrats don't agree--who cares?

It is worth describing here a peculiar phenomenon that most Americans have never heard of, known to Jewish immigrants from the USSR by a mocking Russian word razocharovanty--"the disappointed ones." These were people who had difficulty fitting in at the social level they were once used to--without passable English, the "careers" that were open to them were mostly at the bottom rungs of the economic ladder. And so the razocharovanty wanted to go back to the USSR. As Joe Biden would say, "no joke."

They didn't hate America, but they didn't see themselves as part of the American future, either. They missed their motherland, warts and all--and with rose-colored glasses, the warts didn't look so warty. Nostalgia isn't rational--it's an emotion that exists outside rationality.

And then, miraculously, they got their wish! As a propaganda ploy, the Soviet government permitted the razocharovanty to return! They even chartered a plane to take them back--all roughly 200 of them. The Soviet state restored their pensions (maybe $50 a month in those days) and gave them apartments to live in (no small thing, in a land of socialist scarcity where the government devoted all its energies to building tanks and missiles).

Within months, almost all of the razocharovanty were back in Brooklyn. Spending time in the Soviet Union was the single best way to cure nostalgia. America, suddenly, looked better than ever.

And this brings us back to the heroine of our current events. I want to add my voice to President Trump's recommendation: Dear Ilhan Omar, you should go back to Somalia. Forever. America's freedoms are my freedoms--but you care nothing for them. America's enemies are my enemies--but you think more highly of them than you think of your fellow citizens. America's allies are my allies--but you hate our allies. America's heroes are my heroes--but nothing they ever fought and died for, you find heroic or even worthy of a mention. America's history is something I read and study--but you find nothing there to be proud of.

Ilhan Omar, when you go back to Somalia, we won't miss you.

George S. Bardmesser is an attorney in private practice in the Washington, D.C. area.


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1 posted on 07/18/2019 11:25:33 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

Oh, I meant to edit that word, sorry.

No way to edit it now.


2 posted on 07/18/2019 11:27:07 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969
"I want Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) to go back to the xxxx-hole country she came from.
And I want her to stay there."

Awesome.

3 posted on 07/18/2019 11:27:46 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: servo1969

That’s ok, Bump!


4 posted on 07/18/2019 11:29:58 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: servo1969

No need to be sorry. President Trump uses that word. It’s crude but accurate.

Omar is unfit to serve in Congress; much less unfit to be a US citizen.

Deport her now.


5 posted on 07/18/2019 11:32:23 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: servo1969

The article on this thread (to a David Steinberg expose on Ilhan “Omar”): http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3764937/posts, makes a very strong case that Ilhan herself gained citizenship fraudulently.

The gist is that she is not actually a member of the Omar family (the ones who got refugee status). She was born in the Esmi family. The Omars allowed (committed fraud) for three members of the Esmi family (Ilhan, her father, and one of her sisters) to pose as members of the Omar family, to get US citizenship as well.

Ilhan later committed multiple frauds, to get her brother (one of the other three members of her biological nuclear Esmi family, who had received UK citizenship), to get US citizenship.

This type of fraud was rampant among Somali immigrants at the time. 87% of those Somalis then claiming familial relation as their basis for application, who were then genetically tested, were shown to be frauds. From 2008-2012, that basis for application was suspended for Somalis, because of the overwhelming fraud.


6 posted on 07/18/2019 11:36:38 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: servo1969

FUIO!!!


7 posted on 07/18/2019 11:37:03 AM PDT by TomServo
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To: servo1969

She is the Democrat’s worst enemy, no doubt about it.

But she is indicative of a much larger problem. Our kids in school and university are being taught ideology that leads to this kind of destructive, angry, hateful nature she exhibits. A generation of people who see flaws and mistakes as evidence of structural defect and who do not see the beauty in a country that gives millions of immigrants of all types opportunity, freedom, citizenship, civil rights and a civic voice.


8 posted on 07/18/2019 11:42:33 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: servo1969

You should’ve edited that photo.


9 posted on 07/18/2019 11:44:41 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: servo1969

Thank you Mr. George S. Bardmesser, very well said!

You truly understand the benefits of our great nation unlike Omar and those like her.


10 posted on 07/18/2019 11:45:58 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: servo1969
We have a 2nd. Amendment for a reason. And this traitorous anti-American worm and her seditious ilk are the reason for it.
11 posted on 07/18/2019 11:46:32 AM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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To: servo1969

Ahoy there, matey!When Omar returns to Somalia she can become a member of their primary professional class - pirate.


12 posted on 07/18/2019 11:48:05 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: servo1969

Beautiful.


13 posted on 07/18/2019 11:50:59 AM PDT by MarMema (breeding tauntauns in northern Michigan - soon to be for sale!)
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To: Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; SunkenCiv; ..

*ping*

Great piece.


14 posted on 07/18/2019 11:55:11 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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To: servo1969
It looks like they used photoshop to lighten her up a bit for that portrait. Not like the ordinary candid news photographs and videos which we see.
 
15 posted on 07/18/2019 11:57:28 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (In Italia i fascisti si dividono in due categorie : i fascisti e gli antifascisti. -- Ennio Flaiano)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Omar history you will need sometime to read it

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/07/david-steinberg-tying-up-loose-threads-in-the-curious-case.php

There from Minnesota and follower for years

https://www.powerlineblog.com/?s=Omar&x=12&y=8


16 posted on 07/18/2019 12:01:11 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: servo1969

She’s a Musloid, what do you expect?


17 posted on 07/18/2019 12:02:28 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: servo1969; GOPJ; Diana in Wisconsin; ColdOne; Art in Idaho; Conservative Gato; ptsal; onyx; ...

Off the Wall Ping?

Excellent commentary.


18 posted on 07/18/2019 12:06:11 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: servo1969

Love the sentiments of the writer! That photo? Not so much.


19 posted on 07/18/2019 12:10:10 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: servo1969

I want her to remain in the USA to help Republicans regain the House and keep the Senate and the Presidency.

Millions of dollars in campaign contributes can’t get the Republican votes she so easily creates.


20 posted on 07/18/2019 12:11:10 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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