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Dreamers Vs. Fetuses
Townhall.com ^ | January 24, 2018 | Brent Bozell

Posted on 01/24/2018 7:11:00 AM PST by Kaslin

The Democrats blinked in the first round of the government-shutdown fight over immigration, but they promise to regroup and fight again for immigrants living in America illegally who came as minors. The Democrats call them "Dreamers," and so, the "Facts First" media employ that loaded propaganda term as well.

One might argue "Dreamers" is only a technical term, an acronym for the never-passed Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act designed to grant conditional permanent residency to those who immigrated illegally as children. It was first introduced by Sens. Dick Durbin and Orrin Hatch in 2001.

It is perfectly reasonable for politicians to plop an appealing title on legislation: the Clean Air Act, the Highway Beautification Act, President Trump's Tax Cut and Jobs Act. But while both parties do it, there is a key difference. Republicans know theirs will be derided by the press. Democrats know the same media will be their megaphones.

For example, when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer proposed a short-term spending bill last Friday before the government shutdown, Nancy Cordes of CBS reported, "He says this hardball strategy is the only way to force GOP leaders to the table before hundreds of thousands of immigrant Dreamers face deportation."

Sometimes they qualify it by saying things like "so-called Dreamers" or "what they call 'Dreamers,'" which adds at least a fraction of emotional distance. In print, they might add quotation marks.

But overall, they don't qualify. It's an emotional investment. Liberal-media outlets already portray immigrants of all ages who are here illegally as a virtuous and deserving category, as better humans than people with, well, "citizenship privilege." In fact, when was the last time you heard a journalist use the term "illegal alien"? Or "illegal" anything? But the "Dreamers" are even more wonderful.

Here's a typical New York Times lede on the subject, from last August: "Jessica Rojas beat poverty to put herself through engineering college, where she collected accolades for academic achievement. After graduating last year, Ms. Rojas, who grew up in Chicago, was hired by a utility company to help modernize the city's electrical grid."

You won't read in The New York Times, "Jessica Rojas broke federal law by sneaking into this country illegally."

The media claim to love facts, and they suggest their critics can't handle facts and traffic in phony "alternative facts." But they have a way of being very careful in organizing the facts to match their policy preferences. So if the children of those living in the country illegally were to join the vicious Salvadoran gang MS-13, they wouldn't be starring in a New York Times story on "Dreamers." Only the valedictorians and electrical engineers represent this group.

Liberals claim to love humanity, with hearts that must be two sizes larger than the average American. But not every category of vulnerable humans gets this treatment. Consider the hundreds of thousands of unborn babies who are aborted each year in this country. They are not considered part of humanity. Reporters refer to them using the cold, clinical term "fetus." These humans never get a chance to get an engineering degree to gain your sympathy. No journalist calls them "Dreamers."

Instead, a year ago, the New York Times rolled out an article on the "Christian" abortion provider Dr. Willie Parker and allowed him to play philosopher. "Life is a process, not an event," he argued. "If I thought I was killing a person, I wouldn't do abortions. A fetus is not a person; it's a human entity."

But the Times interviewer, Ana Marie Cox, said in one question that she worries about "abortion access" being damaged by "the sacralization of motherhood," and she ended the question by telling Parker, "you seem pretty cool!" In the liberal mind, deportation is a tragedy and abortion is ... pretty cool.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: abortion; dreamact; willieparker

1 posted on 01/24/2018 7:11:00 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Just posted this on another thread.
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Out of the 60,000,000 abortions performed (total est) it would seem the liberals are defeating themselves killing their own children who may grow up to vote democrat, but it is my SWAG that the majority of these people would have grown up to despise their parents the same way the parent despise themselves.

The parents know the monsters they are. Just because its legal doesnt make you any less of a monster for killing your own offspring.

Kill your kids who would vote against you and import killer muslems and Mexicans to shore up the liberal vote!


2 posted on 01/24/2018 7:14:54 AM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Kaslin

Our Unborn Children are Dreamers

When do babies start dreaming?
Baby is still a few years away from dreaming about showing up to school in her underwear, but is still dreaming up a storm, even when she is nothing more than a bun in your oven!

When do babies start dreaming in the womb?
Researchers have no way of asking babies whether they dream, or what they dream about, so they have to be very creative when determining when babies might start dreaming in the womb, and have used a number of different methods to produce largely inconclusive results.

REM (rapid eye movement) sleep is when grownups do most of their dreaming, and scientists have discovered that babies in the womb may begin experiencing REM around week 23, and therefore likely start dreaming away themselves at this point. However, grownups don’t always dream during REM sleep, so we can’t be sure that babies do either - it’s not like they have much information with which to populate their dream universes!

The bottom line
Because it’s pretty much impossible to figure out when babies start dreaming in the womb, or what they dream about, we might as well just imagine Baby dreaming of you!

https://www.ovuline.com/guide/10318/when-do-babies-start-dreaming


3 posted on 01/24/2018 7:15:50 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Kaslin

It sounds like Miss Rojas will be a real asset to her home country.


4 posted on 01/24/2018 7:17:43 AM PST by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: Kaslin

Libs need 10s of thousands of dreamers and chainers to replace
the libs that aren’t reproducing because in their circles it isn’t PC to have children, global warming and all of that.

Dems have no choice but to open up the boarders for new dem voters.

Libs are importing and inventing these votes in key cities/states to swing elections for a slow overtake of the governments at local, State and Federal levels.


5 posted on 01/24/2018 7:20:02 AM PST by jonose
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To: Kaslin

Now there’s an idea. You want “Dreamers” to get legal status. Then abortion must be outlawed. Legislation would have to be non-severable and voided if courts overturn any part of the bill.

Dems would be caught between a rock and a hard place.


6 posted on 01/24/2018 7:21:02 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: NTHockey

Hopefully Trump has that one in his back pocket!


7 posted on 01/24/2018 7:30:52 AM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Kaslin
Let's examine a possible scenario for the current situation.

Progressives are faced with an unanticipated dilemma:

The Progressive economic ideology is socialism, but, in practice (look at Venezuela), in order for socialism to work, population must be controlled: hence, the absolute demand for so-called "rights" to abortion.

On the other hand, Progressives must have a great supply of voters, and if that requires allowing illegal immigration into the country, then that is their great demand.


8 posted on 01/24/2018 9:01:40 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: Kaslin

“A fetus is not a person; it’s a human entity.”

What a twisted mind it takes to come up with such an illogical statement. Any human “entity” is, by definition, a person. There are no non-human “persons” (outside the legal fiction of corporations), and there are no non-person “humans”. The terms are interchangeable.


9 posted on 01/24/2018 9:44:25 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: loveliberty2

The other way to solve the dilemma is to simply get rid of elections. That’s the way Marxists usually cut that Gordian knot.


10 posted on 01/24/2018 9:45:55 AM PST by Boogieman
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