Put a Bounty on every Iranian in the US
No, every Muslim. These ferals are as thick as thieves in the US. Start with the burkas.
I know two people born in Iran who now live in the U.S. One is a middle aged man, well educated, now an American citizen, productively employed in a technical field. The other is his mother, now very elderly.
This young man was a boy back when the Iran-Iraq war was underway. You will recall that Saddam Hussein was using chemical weapons against Iran (and his own people when need arose), and the mad mullahs had taken to rounding up children to charge in human wave assaults to clear Iraqi minefields preparatory to Iranian troops attacking.
The boy was of martyrdom age, at least in the eyes of the mullahs. His father was all in favor of the martyrdom career for his son, and the cash payment to himself that came with it. The mother had other ideas. She managed to slip the leash and get herself and her young son out of Iran. They eventually found their way to the U.S. They are, by the way, emphatically non-Muslim today.
Do you really want to put a bounty on their heads?
Some political refugees have legitimate cause. And some of them are the kind of people we should want to keep. Some of them would go home to reunite with family and friends if the situation ever changed back home. After 30 or 40 years in exile, those calculations are likely to change and the number who would return will dwindle. But we should be selective.
When it comes to the legitimate refugees, the question is spreading out the burden of hosting them. If they are uprooted by famine, war or natural disaster, the presumption is that they will return home when the situation begins to recover. By and large, they should get asylum in neighboring countries, and the international community should provide support for that. But if they have been uprooted by a revolutionary madness, returning home may never be an option.
Probably the most infamous case in American history was FDR turning away German Jews trying to escape Nazi Germany prior to the Second World War. A very high percentage of German Jews did get out, but many of them had a very hard time finding an escape route. Some fled to China and then fled again when the communists took over. Some got to South America. Some who were well connected, had money, and had professional credentials or who were distinguished in their fields made it out to Europe or the U.S., but the barriers to Jewish flight are a shameful chapter, and not just in the U.S. Prior to the war, the Nazis encouraged Jewish emigration, although they made it difficult for people to get their money out. The borders closed after the shooting started.
I have met a man who was one of the Vietnamese boat people, one of the few survivors in a small boat that drifted too close to a North Vietnamese controlled island in the dark and were machine gunned before they drifted out of range.
I’m also acquainted with a woman who, as a young child, was grabbed by her mother, loaded with a pack with as much food as they could carry, and survived a month trekking through the jungle, avoiding the roads, as they got out of Cambodia. Her mother had been tipped off in time; her father and most of the rest of her family were never seen again.
Don’t get me started on the refugees from Castro’s Cuba. I know several of them.
Then there’s a young woman from Afghanistan that I knew back in the day. She was in an elite graduate program at an elite U.S. university when the Taliban took control. Most of us have seen the pictures of Iranian women — I’m thinking of the University of Kabul pics — in the mid-1970’s, when even Afghanistan was joining the modern world. They are in western garb and studying towards serious careers. Then the holy warriors swept in, kicked women out of the universities, and put bags over their heads. The young gal with whom I was acquainted made a prudent decision not to go back, and she has made a very creditable career in the U.S. Send her back to a life of sex slavery and to serve as a brood mare to a ninth century knuckle dragger from the hill tribes? I don’t think so.
A lot of these refugees are every bit as anti-communist as freepers. And if they’re from the Islamic world, they’re anti-Muslim. Wanna talk about Lebanese Christians or Armenians? They’re usually our kind of people.
Be careful about the “send ‘em all back” or “put a bounty on their heads” talk.
Not enough. Put a bounty of every member of the religion of satan.
Do they not have any idea what the USA is extremely capable of doing?
I’m more concerned about our deep state government and these communists here rather than the Iranians…
Ask Japan if they celebrate August 6 & 9
The majority of the Assyrian people in this country are more patriotic than the majority of Americans. This is a WWII Japanese internment moment for us.