Posted on 11/04/2015 8:10:31 PM PST by Art in Idaho
An Idaho militia group protested the arrival of Syrian refugees by issuing dark warnings based on anti-Muslim conspiracy theories.
The III% Idaho group rallied Monday outside the statehouse in Boise, where about 100 anti-government activists, many wearing flak jackets and other armor, waved American flags and banners promoting their pro-gun militia group, reported Hatewatch.
"This isn't some made-up crap we're spewing out here, like they're leading you to believe across the way," shouted Brandon Curtiss, president of the right-wing group.
Actually, "made-up crap" describes a lot of what the III% Idaho group is spewing.
The group has been protesting the College of Southern Idaho's refugee resettlement program for several weeks, warning that Islamic State radicals were sending "sleeper" terrorists to western nations among refugees from war-torn Syria.
About 300 refugees are expected to be screened and then resettled in communities throughout the state.
Federal authorities admit that gaps do exist in screening Syrian refugees, but they said these migrants will still undergo extensive background checks - although the results are confidential, which makes it difficult to assure alarmists.
"There are many terrorist organizations out there who have stated numerous times that they will manipulate the refugee crisis to spread radical Islam," said Chris McIntire, a spokesman for the III% group.
"We are seeing this in Europe," McIntire said. "We have seen it for the past several months, where refugees are rioting in the streets, they are waving Islamic flags, they are praying to Allah, they are demanding Sharia law, which includes the second-class treatment of women."
Anti-Muslim extremists - including Brigitte Gabriel of ACT for America, Pam Geller and Mark Levin - have been promoting those conspiracy theories in right-wing circles and then out onto social media.
The III% movement was co-founded by pro-gun, anti-government activist Mike Vanderboegh, who promotes the idea that the Second Amendment allows unsatisfactory election results to be overturned by armed revolt.
The group's name refers to the apocryphal belief that only 3 percent of colonists participated in the American Revolution, and group members take pains to describe themselves as a mainstream conservative group — although their rhetoric frequently overlaps with other far-right "patriot" groups and even white supremacist groups.
The far-right connection is missed by some media outlets, including an Idaho TV station that reported the III% percent movement "stands for conservative protections of the constitution and community safety."
Sounds pretty tame - but the group’s leaders promote a nationalistic agenda that presents Americans as victims of an ethnic minority protected by liberal elites.
"We want to take care of Idahoans first, and we are tired of them taking the dwindling resources we already have for the state of Idaho, and funneling that over to refugee programs to help these guys coming in here, and ignoring our Idaho citizens – our homeless, our veterans, our students that need help here first," Curtiss said. "We're not against refugees, what we're saying is, we need a better process."
"They're draining our dwindling resources that's already in place and not looking out for Idahoans first, or U.S. citizens for that matter," he added.
Yes,
the difference must be noted.
Author mentioned Mike Vanderbough.
Why don’t you ask Great Britain that divided the area and installed the Hashemites to rule the COUNTRY called Jordan, a USA ally?
They also took a piece of Iraq and called it Kuwait. Was Saddam correct when he called Kuwait the Iraqi 19 th province?
We fought the first Gulf War to liberate the internationally recognized Kuwait, a USA ally.
Many examples of countries that were parts of the Ottoman and Roman empires, etc.
If you wish, you can get lost...in history, that is.
Iraq itself is just as arbitrary as anything mentioned.
Baghdad, Basra and Mosul areas were separate before Brits invented Iraq.
Absolutely.
The Brits made Egypt and Sudan one country that broke up in Nasser’s time.
The past is history and the present is reality.
Muslims in general also believe anything that happened before maximum Muslim expansion is just ancient history and bears no relation to the present.
Yes.
Some of them think that Spain is Arab!
I think those are excellent ideas. I've been racking my brain trying to think of a few. What about a "protect and defend" connection with seeing them as potential domestic terrorists and filing 'something' to at least put the whole thing on hold - demand a vetting process is in place, Homeland Security, blah, blah - file and tie it up in the courts so to speak - until Trump gets in. .
” They’re planning on a full bore importation from now until then,”
I have posted here for months that Obama will institute a Saddam-like “scortched earth” policy before he leaves office. He will attempt to flood our country with Muslim “refugees”.
These people in Idaho are merely using their common sense.
Obama will attempt to flood our country with Muslim "refugees".
That he will. Any ideas you have about how to legally stop this? Know of any attorneys who might look into this? Sent notes to Sekulow and Levin last evening. Nothing back yet. Is there a FReeper attorney ping list?
P.S. All FReepers, see the ideas from combat_boots above thread. Any other ideas on this? Let's all 'think on it' and see what we can come up with. Run it by attorneys you know. .
Will do, Art.
Is there not a legality issue pertaining to fraud? Passport, name, origin, organizational sponsorship, money carried, work visa, etc?
So which guy, Vanderbough or
Kerodin, now use the III% name? Or do they both use it?
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