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Billionaire Koch Brothers: Americans Must Not ‘Turn Our Back’ on Refugees
breitbart.com ^ | 7/29/2019 | John Binder

Posted on 07/29/2019 7:46:18 AM PDT by rktman

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To: rktman

We’re not turning our backs.

We’re telling them to go back.

Build guard-gated neighborhoods with admit/do not admit lists in their homelands, like the one just to the north of where I am in Florida. There are hundreds of these guard-gated communities in Florida.

A massive guard-gated city is being built near Karachi in Pakistan according to a recent article in the Guardian Weekly.

And give the law-abiding ones Second Amendment-like gun-bearing rights in their homelands.

Nothing takes a bite out of crime more than a dead criminal shot by the criminal’s intended victim.

And state publicly that ordinary citizens need the right to bear arms.

There are thousands of communities with private streets in the USA, for residents and invited guests. Some have security patrols, often using retired police officers.

In New York City and Washington, DC there are apartment building where you have to get buzzed in. These cities also have apartment buildings owned by tenant associations that screen potential apartment buyers.

In Dallas, many apartment complexes are surrounded by chain-link fencing.

Upscale Los Angeles had many “Armed Response” signs when I visited over thirty years ago.


61 posted on 07/29/2019 8:55:43 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Sans-Culotte
Why are these guys ever referred to as Republicans or right wingers?

One suspects that it's a carefully cultivated false cloak that helps them buy Republicans in congress, and gives them access to other convenient avenues of undermining our fine Country.

62 posted on 07/29/2019 8:57:00 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in-never, never,never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. Winston Churchill)
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To: rktman

Real refugees whose lives are threatened and who are willing to adopt American values, give them a hearing and decide if they stay or go. Economic refugees from $hithole countries, send ‘em back or to a place that WILL take them. No Muslims, EVER!


63 posted on 07/29/2019 9:30:27 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Skywise
REAL “refugees” come from places like Puerto Rico where their homelands were wiped out. Not from places that have been ill managed.

What could have been more ill-managed than Puerto Rico? They have a year-round growing season, no need to heat their dwellings, a long and spectacular seacoast much of which is well suited for recreational resort use, and plenty of people who need work. They've had and survived storms forever and will continue to do so.

64 posted on 07/29/2019 9:40:05 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: dfwgator
I wouldn't go quite that far. Unlike Soros, they actually produce goods and services which are important to the economy.

But the reality is that we control 4% of the world's real estate and already have 5% of the world's population. The immigrants we can handle are those who can (a)contribute and (b)share our values.

That excludes 95% (or more) of those who want to come here. We can no more be flophouse to the world than policeman to the world. It is way past time to implement the same type of merit based immigration system practiced by every sane country in the world.

65 posted on 07/29/2019 9:41:18 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: JimRed

I just got back from Puerto Rico, frankly I wouldn’t have known there was a hurricane there based on what I saw. They’ve pretty much recovered.

Of course, the press doesn’t want people to think that.


66 posted on 07/29/2019 9:43:02 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nathanbedford

exactly. It seems that libertarianism is mighty convenient,eh?


67 posted on 07/29/2019 9:43:29 AM PDT by magna carta
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To: Kickass Conservative

TRESPASSERS!


68 posted on 07/29/2019 9:44:41 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman
Billionaire Koch Brothers: Americans Must Not ‘Turn Our Back’ on Refugees

How DUMB do they think the American public is?

SCREW the Koch Bros and the horse they rode in on!

69 posted on 07/29/2019 9:50:49 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: rktman

I’m finding it so easy to turn my back on the Koch bros. Good luck electing GOP candidates post Trump, boys.


70 posted on 07/29/2019 9:52:39 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: HamiltonJay; Lurkinanloomin
Honest question: Why do current American citizens think of America as "their country"? Case in point: my paternal side is 2 generations from Germany, while maternal is 1/2 England via Canada, with only the remaining quarter a slave holding officer in the CSA. Granted, I look more 'American' than an average 'Murican, but does that then deed me ownership & expectations?

My thought is that America isn't technically really anybody's country, but rather the nation of those who happen to hold and occupy the territory it at this moment. In this context it makes sense from a globalist perspective (Bush, Koch, et al) to promote policies that will simply substitute the current (difficult & recalcitrant) inhabitants for a more pliable, manageable population demographic.

Of course, I'm not suggesting we roll over; rather, look at the situation more pragmatically. For whatever reason we're here, we took it from the stone age Indians, and we shipped over some slaves to do the heavy lifting. However, we're not giving it up, and we'll drive out/defeat any who oppose our continental hegemony.

71 posted on 07/29/2019 9:53:49 AM PDT by semantic
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To: Little Ray

What the heck is wrong with the Koch Brothers? They were once good guys.


Nope. We are only learning now they were bad guys all along. The Koch’s helping elect republicans to push their open borders agenda does not make them “good guys”.


72 posted on 07/29/2019 9:54:55 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: semantic; knighthawk

Read knighthawk’s homepage to get a clue


73 posted on 07/29/2019 10:08:51 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
You evidently don't get out much. Every single country on this planet expresses the same type of patriotism; it's not novel nor unique. Rather than wrap oneself in the flag and defend core concepts with emotionally laden expressions, how about we take a more pragmatic approach?

Let's take GB for example: Celts were minding their own business when these pesky Angles & Saxons showed up, demanding their stuff, including their daughters. They acquiesced - after all, the "new" English were much larger, stronger and aggressive - and a new era took hold. However, lo and behold, after getting nice and comfy, a new crew of French speaking Danes show up and take the newcomers stuff. Not only that, but they were much more rigid and organized, so they inventoried and confiscated everything down do a remaining duck.

And guess what? The storied England to this day is still owned, ruled and governed by the descendants of William 1,000 years later. Moral of the story: He who holds the territory determines who and who isn't a citizen, who and who doesn't have power, who gets to direct million of peasants to charge machine gun bullets, and who gets to drink fine wine and travel the globe.

This is the core essential of every country, England, France, Germany, and the US. If the current inhabitants can't keep it, they don't deserve it. We're on the same page with respect to opposing the enemy, it's just that I take a much more real world approach.

74 posted on 07/29/2019 10:25:30 AM PDT by semantic
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To: semantic

America is unique and a Dutchman grasps it better than you do.


75 posted on 07/29/2019 10:30:16 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Well, let’s leave it at that. We’re both opposed to the Bush plan - as you call it - but we have different reasons.


76 posted on 07/29/2019 10:42:11 AM PDT by semantic
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To: Henry Hnyellar

I hadn’t thought of Libertarians as already being on the dark side - just horribly confused and on the wrong side of History.

Thanks for clearing that up!


77 posted on 07/29/2019 12:50:08 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: C19fan

Suicide Libertarians works for me!


78 posted on 07/29/2019 12:51:14 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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