SURPRISE! AFTER SECRET TALKS, SMALL VERMONT CITY GETS MUSLIM MIGRANTS

Mayor wanted no public discussion of “possible links to terrorism.”

May 17, 2016

The Boston Globe reported last Friday that Christopher Louras, mayor of the small Vermont city of Rutland, “has unveiled a plan, developed in near-secrecy, to resettle 100 Syrian refugees who fled the onslaught of the Islamic State and are exiled in sprawling Jordanian camps.” The plan will “gradually send Rutland more Syrian refugees than are currently living anywhere else in New England.” While the Globe is clearly pleased at Rutland’s “instant cultural diversity for Rutland,” the secrecy of the project sounded a sour note. Why should such a glorious act of “diversity” and “multiculturalism” have to be planned out in secret?

Yet instead of having a frank public discussion about the plan to bring in the migrants, according to the Globe, “months-long discussions about whether to invite the Syrians were limited to the mayor, a small circle of city and business leaders, and a nonprofit resettlement agency. The president of the Board of Aldermen, who knew about the effort, did not tell his colleagues until a day or two before Louras announced the plans at an April 26 news conference.”

Board of Alderman President William Notte explained cryptically: “There was no benefit to anyone to spread the knowledge.” No benefit? Why not? Louras was more forthcoming than Notte: the Globe stated that he “made no apologies for excluding the public from the planning. If the proposal had been floated earlier, the mayor said, the debate would have become ‘about them’ — meaning the Syrians, their culture, and possible links to terrorism — instead of whether the city had the means to accommodate the refugees.”

Yes, and we can’t possibly have a public discussion about whether the migrants have possible links to terrorism. That would be “Islamophobic.”

Louras also states that “the benefits, economically and culturally, that we will recognize is exactly what the community needs at this time.” The Globe then notes that the mayor is “the grandson of a Greek immigrant who fled the Ottoman Turks a century ago.”

This little detail puts this whole affair in a most interesting light: Louras almost certainly thinks that the Muslim migrants he is bringing to Rutland are the modern iteration of his grandfather or grandmother, fleeing from oppression in the old country to freedom in a new land. In reality, Louras isn’t bringing to Rutland people like his refugee grandparent. He is bringing in people who are much more like – in beliefs and outlook – the Ottoman Turks from which his grandparent was fleeing. It has almost certainly not entered Louras’ mind that any of the people he is bringing to his town might share the world view and aspirations and goals of those who drove his grandparents out of Ottoman Turkey. Inconceivable!

Unfortunately, it is all too conceivable. Ahmad al-Mohammed and one other of the jihadis who murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015 had just entered Europe as refugees.

In February 2015, the Islamic State boasted it would soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. And the Lebanese Education Minister said in September 2015 that there were 20,000 jihadis among the refugees in camps in his country. Meanwhile, 80% of migrants who have come to Europe claiming to be fleeing the war in Syria aren’t really from Syria at all.

So why are they claiming to be Syrian and streaming into Europe, and now the U.S. as well? An Islamic State operative gave the answer when he boasted in September 2015, shortly after the migrant influx began, that among the flood of refugees, 4,000 Islamic State jihadis had already entered Europe. He explained their purpose: “It’s our dream that there should be a caliphate not only in Syria but in all the world, and we will have it soon, inshallah.” These Muslims were going to Europe in the service of that caliphate: “They are going like refugees,” he said, but they were going with the plan of sowing blood and mayhem on European streets. As he told this to journalists, he smiled and said, “Just wait.”

Will they be waiting in Rutland?

Liz, I need to ask you...are upset with me because you read (a few days ago) where I posted that freepers should stop wasting time talking about various topics such as "pecans, apples, potatoes and pies."

Is this what got you upset? Didn't you think thru - -that my reasoning behind posting that way -was just to 'goad' freepers and lurkers to be fr activist for just these six months before the general...post comments at youtube -to hinder the hillary campaign. (and I wasn't making fun of those who post in garden threads...in fun 'foods' threads) ( and in a folowup post, I stated that 'guys' should stop talking about hunting, bowling etc-- for awhile and perform some easy fr activism -at youtube.

My post wasn't just to 'goad' female freepers -but was also to 'goad' guy freepers too. That's what I do here. That's what I like doing. Being an fr activist. I do lose some friends here. But I'll risk that -to the betterment of our conservative cause. I just can't sit still and take what all these delusional liberals have done and are doing to our country. Some folks need to take (peaceful/freeping) action!

Liz, I thought for sure you'd be foresighted enough to see ...that my intentions were good. That I was just trying 'Goad' folks here. To Goad all freepers to do some easy fr activism.
Even back in '99, '00 and '01, feelings could be hurt if an fr activist (like me and others back in those years) left out someone or someone thought that they were being asked to 'do too much' ...like make homemade signs or asked to give rides to other freepers to a protest destination -and then at the conclusion of our fr protest were ---expected--- to drive folks to their homes. We did all that. And at times, some feelings did get hurt when we'd all try to 'goad' other freepers to put forth some effort. Anyway....

I was simply trying to - - 'goad' - - everyone do some fr activism...Against the Hillary campaign. :)

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In fact, let me post the exact paragraph that I think got you upset Liz. (btw, it was right after this particular fr activism post of mine -in that thread- that I noticed... that exact day, May 10th .....and every day since I posted this post (below) -that you were no longer pinging me to your excellent posts/this is when I noticed that something might be...amiss.

This just has to be the reason you are all of a sudden asking me to not ping you. :( (if not, tell me what I did? What can it be?? I'm totally clueless.

It would be much easier for me to just forget about all this....just relax here at home all day and simply just play chess, spades or watch cable all day. A nice leisure retirement till I'm below the grass, instead of typing here...hassle with concentrating each day -on what to post here- that might be beneficial to our conservative cause.

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Here is that one particular paragragh in my long activist post, May 10th, that might have you Liz...and maybe some other folks- who took this...the wrong way:

"Now, this might sound harsh, but now it the time for all of us...to work/post - against the democrats' nominee and spend less time talking about other topics for the next six months (such as how to bake pies, eating apples, pecans and how flowers grow or other trivial matters ...and get to work and spend time working...for just the next six months)"

...this was post #19 / paragraph 12

in this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3429816/posts

[and further down the page to post # 39 / paragraph 11 -- I included 'goading' guy freepers

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Surprise! After Secret Talks, Small Vermont City Gets Muslim Migrants

Mayor wanted no public discussion of “possible links to terrorism.”