Posted on 12/05/2015 3:06:49 PM PST by Kaslin
Fear is an odd thing. A fearful instinct telegraphs an imminent danger to you, allowing you to be alert and protective. Fear in the wake of national tragedy or an act of terrorism is a common response. What we do with such fear in the wake of ISIS attacks and threats will reflect the best or the worst of our humanity, values, and character. For many Americans it also a spiritual question about the soul of what makes us American.
My life took an unexpected turn in 1980. I was hurriedly sent from my home in Cape Town, South Africa to the United States of America to avoid being imprisoned for refusing to be conscripted to a military that was used against its own citizens. Staff of the United States embassy helped to facilitate documents being sent to New York via diplomatic pouches.
I landed at JFK on the morning of December 6, 1980 filled with expectation and fear about being a foreigner in a new country and culture.
I felt like a homeless person without a country or family around me while simultaneously feeling elated to be in the country whose liberty, democracy and commitment to human rights I admired
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I have no fear of immigrants, I however am no a fool and do fear Muslims, because they do not have any desire to immigrate, they are an invading army.
Or is it just an accident that they are predominantly males of military age? And that ISIS said they would use refugee ranks to invade?
No, I like most Americans are doing the jobs Congress-critters will not do, I am preparing for war on the home front and am part of the increase in gun sales. I will kill to protect this Country and our freedom and will not bow to enemies foreign or domestic.
I must admit I never thought it would be domestic, but for some stupid reason my tax money is being used to bring enemies into the country. So, domestic it is. Knowing the history of Islam, they will push the issue too far, and knowing the history of America, it will become Islam hunting season someday. The sooner the better so there are not the causality rates of the last civil war.
Sad to see war inside the US, I have seen enough elsewhere to know it is never a good thing. But Muslims will not stop till there is war, that has been their pattern and religion for near 1500 years.
Terrorism is their form of war, but we fight to the finish. If this goes too far, we will have to nuke mecca.
Oh well, little loss there. The cost to us mounts the longer we delay the inevitable. I’d say, deliver the Ultimation’s now and get this over with.
If, after 35 years, he still thinks he is a ‘refugee’ he really, really needs to LEAVE.
So this leftist pacifist motivational snake oil peddler thinks his peaceful existence here in the land of the dollar bill since 1980 means that we should keep the door open to all refugees, even if it means a few stealth mass killers get in along with more than a few of their enablers.
He thinks that positive peaceful vibes are what’s needed, and this insight has been generated by this guy all while he has been protected by men with guns who afford him the space to self actualize without a knife at his throat.
Color me unimpressed. He left one country when the military wanted him to serve, what the Hell is he going to do when there isn’t a place to run and hide anymore, beam positive waves at the Jihadi who’s getting ready to give him a collar level haircut?
Fox gives this drivel space?
Actually, I would point out that Apartheid was enforced by the South African Police. The military was principally employed at that time in fighting Russian backed Cuban manned insurgencies in Southern Africa (Mozambique and Angola).
In short, the guy was a draft dodger who refused to serve in the cause of fighting real live communists.
Thread WINNER.
The immigrants, in the true sense of the word, of the early 20th century can to BE Americans.
2nd generation American myself, I can remember the stories told by my g-parents: We came w/ little/no $$, WORKED and spoke ENGLISH.
Yet, I see the affront those of old made every day with bi-lingual signage and govt documentation in every dialect on the planet (no, no waste of $$ THERE /s). Yet, being a neighbor of Canada I don’t see much, if any, French...unlike Spanish.
This jackass is the head of the “Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation” which tells you all you need to know about him.
Most South Africans who came to this country weren’t coming here to set up their own laws, live in their own enclaves separate from the rest of their new countrymen, didn’t subscribe to a religion that was openly hostile to a majority Christian nation, and didn’t have a significant number of people among them who mean to do their new “fellow citizens” harm.
This a-hole should have stayed in South Africa so he could enjoy the benefits of the things that Desmond Tutu was striving for. I sure would like to see how that would have worked out for him.
Instead, he is standing on a soapbox to exhort us to achieve dhimmitude. The sanctimonious jerk is going to preach to us about the principles at the Statue of Liberty, and how our fear is making us fail to “live up to them”.
People like him make me so angry I want to spit. We should give him a one way ticket to Syria, Iraq, Egypt or Iran. Screw him.
I made the mistake of reading that article, and it made my blood boil.
Damn, I DETEST liberal dimwits like him.
We should send him back to South Africa, let him see what his liberal brethren have created there for non-whites. Make him live it.
Look at the jobs reports: about 747,000 new jobs for native born Americans since 2007 and 2,685,000 jobs created for foreigners.
It's one thing to have your government be generous in your name, but quite another when your own government kicks you and your family to the curb and invites foreigners, including those who might kill you, to move into your own house.
As long as the ideals of the US and its citizenship are taught through public schools, I don't want any more people coming here.
Don't need any more foot soldiers for the enemy in the war to renew the dream of liberty.
He would be a Dhimmi. But you know what? He has no idea. He subscribes to the asinine liberal twaddle about a wonderful multicultural society where everyone respects everyone else, and they sing Kumbaya together.
He doesn’t understand Islam, not even a smidgen. He has no idea what it is like to live in Muslim state, being forced to pay a dhimmi tax at best, and at worst, having your family murdered because they won’t convert to Islam.
LOL, I had to check if fox allowed comments on the article and the first thing I read was “This is a big steaming pile.”
Now I’m going to go back and read the rest. :)

Those of us who were paying attention to him understood exactly what he had in mind, the traitorous, racist, anti-American scum.
And no one can tell me that photo wasn’t planned and staged, right down to the finger in the placeholder.
You are RIGHT, but its a career path many choose.
It’s time to stop letting Liberals convince us that common sense is fear.
Whose votaries, disappointed in not having had a Khmer-Rouge-style bloodbath to celebrate with, have to be satisfied with killing white farmers one at a time out in the countryside (following the pattern in Zimbabwe, that other bastion of the principled anticolonialist's pride).
We ought to offer a prisoner swap: Obama's cousins in durance vile (also called prison), for the Boers still in South Africa and Zim.
Any takers?
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