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Federal lawmakers are investigating how a former Iraqi insurgent fighter was able to lie about his identity and still get through America's 'extreme' vetting process.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to find out why the terror suspect's pending arrest was allegedly spiked just over a week before the election. Trump had run on a tough-on-terror platform and had been critical of President Obama's refugee policy.
"When [Joint Terrorism Task Force] and the U.S. Attorney's office for the Western District of Texas sought to prosecute this refugee, the local law enforcement and prosecutors allegedly 'met resistance' from officials within the National Security Division's Counter Terrorism section in Washington DC," Committee chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said in a March 6 letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @06:56PM (4 children)
First, the pre-screening: eat a bacon cheeseburger without hesitation
Second, get into the brain scanner. We show video of various things and see how your brain reacts. Some things: rabbi, imam, woman in burka, woman in bikini, man in bikini, dog, pig, cow, sheep, goat, a mixed group of unrelated men and women in beachwear, men kissing, koran, bible...
If you react like a member of any religious/ethnic/linguistic/caste/class group that tends to isolate itself when in western society, you're out. Go away.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @08:25PM (2 children)
OK, so you are not a fan of the first Amendment. So, tell us, which of the other amendments would you like to see ripped out of the bill of rights? I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you see the second amendment as sacrosanct. But all those others...not so much. More and more, I am becoming convinced that there are no more true patriots left in this country. Really, I'm surrounded by a bunch of closeted fascists who would just love to enslave all those around them. And they likely see it as the ultimate blessed utopia...for themselves. I guess America really does deserve Donald Trump after all.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 09 2017, @09:05PM (1 child)
Suppose your religion requires you to toss virgins into volcanos. We don't let you do this, even though it limits your religious expression.
The same goes for tossing homosexuals off of buildings, stoning women who get raped but don't have at least 4 male witnesses, killing people who leave your faith, and killing your own daughter if she spends time with boys.
People who desire these things will lie about it. This is in fact explicitly part of their faith. Worse yet, people who have weak faith (not into the above horrors) frequently have kids who go all in.
Now, back to the limits of the 1st amendment. The supreme court has held that national security can take priority. This is such a case. It should also be obvious that a "faith" which fundamentally rejects our constitution is undeserving of constitutional protection.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 10 2017, @01:24AM
Look, you blithering fuckwit, the original premise was to demand that people "eat a bacon cheeseburger without hesitation" at the border in order to prove that they are not a threat. Call me weird, but I really don't think that abstaining from eating pork is a danger to me personally. On the matters of throwing virgins into volcanoes, tossing homosexuals off of buildings, stoning women who have been raped, et al., I'm right there with you. And you might be surprised to learn that quite a few muslims agree too. But just believing and practicing things different from what you believe and practice is not doing you any harm. It looks to me like you are demanding that anyone who comes into the country must do things exactly the way you do and believe exactly what you believe. This quite clearly makes you a fascist. Get help to cure whatever it is that is ailing you. Do it now.
Oh, good grief! Exactly why are you demanding others respect the constitution when not even you respect it? Physician, heal thyself!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 10 2017, @12:05AM
If you react like a member of any religious/ethnic/linguistic/caste/class group that tends to isolate itself when in western society, you're out. Go away.
Guess we'll be needing a new Vice President, then, eh?