RE: My (probably unpopular) opinion on arab refugees
December 6, 2016 at 1:13 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2016 at 1:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
From an american perspective....fearing arab (and particularly muslim) immigrants is the height of poor risk assessment. Our own home gown religious nuts have committed more acts of terrorism and taken more lives on our own soil than they have, and it's not even a close contest. If an act of terrorism goes down, on us soil, the perpetrator is almost ten times as likely to be american than to be muslim immigrant (or even a muslim american). Don't take my word for it, check the FBI's website. They've been keeping tabs (90some-odd percent of all terrorist attacks since 1980 have been perpetrated by citizens - and that's over and above your usual fare like murder, rape, and assualt). Immigrants from any demographic are positively docile compared to your bog standard american.
Our vetting process takes 18-24 months to be moved in-state....3 if you don't mind being resettled overseas (lol.....Jordan anyone?). Most never make it through, or disappear before their process is complete.......notably, many people who worked as assets in conflict zones overseas have had their applications denied. They put their lives on the line alongside our military, in a way that the vast majority of -americans- are unwilling to do. Good job there, never leave a man behind, right?
Others wash out of process because their countries are shitholes and the necessary infrastructure for background checks no longer exists (if it ever existed)...and so, through no fault of their own and definitely not because they;re all a bunch of terrorists, they are -forced- to either stay where they are or illegally emigrate to someplace a bit more reachable. It's hard to cross the atlantic and get into the US. Alot easier to get into the EU. Overburdening those countries and making a regional conflict a global issue.
Calls for "stronger vetting" are a dog and pony show for we the people. The societal evils of "foreign religions/cultures" moving into our areas largely express themselves as the shittiness that homegrown citizens devolve into for no reason other than being worked up by those who need them to work that polling lever.
Long story short, when people are running, you don't point the guns at them, you point the guns at what theyre running -from-. I don't know how or when we forgot that properly basic rule of being a human being. Passive assistance, like throwing food into the lot of them and hoping it gets into "the right hands" is naivety...as anyone whose ever doled out UN supply drops knows. The warlords take the rice and beans. Whose going to stop them?
Our vetting process takes 18-24 months to be moved in-state....3 if you don't mind being resettled overseas (lol.....Jordan anyone?). Most never make it through, or disappear before their process is complete.......notably, many people who worked as assets in conflict zones overseas have had their applications denied. They put their lives on the line alongside our military, in a way that the vast majority of -americans- are unwilling to do. Good job there, never leave a man behind, right?
Others wash out of process because their countries are shitholes and the necessary infrastructure for background checks no longer exists (if it ever existed)...and so, through no fault of their own and definitely not because they;re all a bunch of terrorists, they are -forced- to either stay where they are or illegally emigrate to someplace a bit more reachable. It's hard to cross the atlantic and get into the US. Alot easier to get into the EU. Overburdening those countries and making a regional conflict a global issue.
Calls for "stronger vetting" are a dog and pony show for we the people. The societal evils of "foreign religions/cultures" moving into our areas largely express themselves as the shittiness that homegrown citizens devolve into for no reason other than being worked up by those who need them to work that polling lever.
Long story short, when people are running, you don't point the guns at them, you point the guns at what theyre running -from-. I don't know how or when we forgot that properly basic rule of being a human being. Passive assistance, like throwing food into the lot of them and hoping it gets into "the right hands" is naivety...as anyone whose ever doled out UN supply drops knows. The warlords take the rice and beans. Whose going to stop them?
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