Since President Obama was abroad trying to shame Americans on the world stage because they don’t want another 9/11, or a 3/11, a 7/7, or an 11/13 to happen here, “Shotgun” Joe Biden gave this week’s address to the nation…
…In which he promptly tried to shame Americans who don’t want to see another terrorist attack happen here.
Here was Joe’s lead-in:
Good morning everyone. This past week we’ve seen the best and the worst of humanity. The heinous terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut, in Iraq and Nigeria. They showed us once again the depths of the terrorist’s depravity.
And at the same time we saw the world come together in solidarity. Parisians opening their doors to anyone trapped in the street, taxi drivers turning off their meters to get people home safely, people lining up to donate blood. These simple human acts are a powerful reminder that we cannot be broken and in the face of terror we stand as one. In the wake of these terrible events, I understand the anxiety that many Americans feel. I really do. I don’t dismiss the fear of a terrorist bomb going off. There’s nothing President Obama and I take more seriously though, than keeping the American people safe.
In the past few weeks though, we’ve heard an awful lot of people suggest that the best way to keep America safe is to prevent any Syrian refugee from gaining asylum in the United States.
This was the point where I had to stop the video because I wouldn’t have been able to hear what he was saying over my technicolor language. The world has not come together in solidarity. While the administration may not dismiss the fear, it dismisses the anger, and it dismisses the will to fight back, to take the offense. It does not take keeping the American people safe seriously, or it would not be so focused on insulting those who aren’t convinced that it’s doing enough to ensure our security.
Yet Biden tried to explain that the Obama administration is doing enough by giving the working-class version of the refugee process.
So let’s set the record straight how it works for a refugee to get asylum. Refugees face the most rigorous screening of anyone who comes to the United States. First they are fingerprinted, then they undergo a thorough background check, then they are interviewed by the Department of Homeland Security. And after that the FBI, the National Counterterrorism Center, the Department of Defense and the Department of State, they all have to sign off on access.
And to address the specific terrorism concerns we are talking about now, we’ve instituted another layer of checks just for Syrian refugees. There is no possibility of being overwhelmed by a flood of refugees landing on our doorstep tomorrow. Right now, refugees wait 18 to 24 months while the screening process is completed. And unlike in Europe, refugees don’t set foot in the United States until they are thoroughly vetted.
The refugees undergo a thorough background check, the Veep says. How can a thorough background check be performed on people who come from a war-torn country in which the government is our enemy and a citizenry database is nowhere up to speed with those of Western world countries? If men or women of threatening intent haven’t broken any laws in Syria or wherever they come from, or their countries keep terrible arrest records, they won’t show up on any watchlists or fingerprint databases. Interviews won’t necessarily weed out all those who want to come to the United States to pursue their terrorist plots.
Officials admit that the background check system isn’t foolproof, but they want Americans to dismiss that. They refuse to admit that the system of rejecting Syrian refugees–at least until the world can get a handle on ISIS–is the best guarantee of our security right now.
The American people do not trust the system. At least 31 governors reject the plan to drop Syrian refugees into their states. Poll after poll after poll after poll shows that the majority of Americans do not want to accept Syrian refugees, and they do not have faith that our government can effectively weed out all the potential terrorists from the incoming refugee population. A bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives passed a veto-resistant bill with more stringent requirements for refugee screening, and though many believe that the bill doesn’t go far enough, it is goes further than the vetting process currently in place does. That’s about the best we can expect out of our current Congressional makeup.
Our President responds to all this by calling us “paranoid,” “shameful,” “hysterical,” and “not American” because we won’t fall in lockstep with his not-so-perfect plan. You don’t win people over with haughty arrogance, but this is what democracy looks like in Obama’s America.
Biden assures us that the incoming refugees are helpless, harmless folks who wouldn’t hurt a fly.
Let’s also remember who the vast majority of these refugees are: women, children, orphans, survivors of torture, people desperately in need medical help.
And yet, they aren’t. Though there were reports a few days ago that 75 percent of the 850,000+ people migrating from Africa and Asia to Europe’s Mediterranean region this year–over half from Syria–were comprised of men, the United Nations’ statistics now show that the percentage is at 62 percent. And that’s only the amount arriving by sea, not by land. Interesting how that percentage has dropped so rapidly. Even so, men make up the majority. Not women. Not children. Not orphans. He’s only talking about the refugees we’ve accepted so far. It’ll likely be different once the current crop of refugees arrive.
Also, the UN data that some in the media are using to show that only 22 percent of the Syrian refugees are men of fighting age is based on Syrian refugees who registered through the UN in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and North Africa. That doesn’t include the amount who skipped going to those places and made a beeline to Europe. Further down the page of the UN’s Syrian refugee data, past the fold, was a section titled “Syrian Asylum Applications in Europe.” The caption below it reads,
The number of Syrians arriving in Europe seeking international protection continues to increase. However, it remains low compared to Syria`s neighboring countries, with slightly more than 10% of those who have fled the conflict seeking safety in Europe.
It showed that in 2014, the number of Syrian asylum applications in Europe was about 138,000–or 122,000, according to the European Commission’s Eurostat, which is fairly close. Between January and October of 2015, the number of applications has skyrocketed to nearly 460,000. Taking into consideration that around three-quarters of all refugees from other countries seeking asylum in the European Union aged 18-64 are male and that half of the migrants are from Syria, we could reasonably conclude that the majority of Syrian asylum-seekers are fighting-age men. This isn’t to say that all those men are terrorists. That’d be ridiculous, though Obama and the Left want the world to think that’s what those expressing a negative opinion toward the import of Syrian refugees are saying. All it takes is a few bad refugees to bring tremendous death and crippling destruction to our own soil, as we learned that Tuesday morning in September 14 years ago. That’s what we are trying to prevent by not rushing to accept these refugees.
“To turn them away and say there is no way you can ever get here,” Biden said, “would play right into the terrorists’ hands.” Joe’s no fortune-teller, so he can’t know if that would be true or not. He then quoted ISIS (he called it “ISIL,” which I will not) leader al-Baghdadi, saying something about how Muslims will have to decide to either apostatize or emigrate to the Islamic State to escape persecution. Biden said this is proof that ISIS–screw that submissive “ISIL” garbage, as far as I’m concerned–wants “to manufacture a clash between civilizations.” He says ISIS wants people to think it’s about us versus them.
But it is about us versus them. It’s not manufactured. Did the Daily Mail manufacture their story that several refugees have been arrested in separate ISIS terrorist plots within the United States? Did dozens of Colorado sheriffs manufacture their claim that “the FBI has almost 1,000 active ISIS investigations taking place inside the borders of the United States”? Are other news agencies manufacturing reports that more Syrian refugees are turning themselves in at the U.S.-Mexican border or that Syrians were caught in Honduras on their way to the U.S. using stolen Greek passports? Did FBI Director James Comey manufacture his testimony before a Congressional committee in which he said that “if we don’t know much about somebody, there won’t be anything in our data,” that he can’t “offer anybody an absolute assurance that there’s no risk associated with this”? Did ISIS manufacture their threat that they’re coming after the nation’s capital?
Does the administration feel the need to manufacture a false sense of security, perhaps?
When defending Obama, the media likes to point out that up to this point the majority of refugees we’ve allowed into the U.S. were children and people over 60. We’ve only taken in a couple of thousand Syrian refugees since 2011. Now Obama wants to bump that up to 10,000 next year alone. The UN wants the US to take in over double that amount. I’m sure Obama would if we let him. We can’t expect those demographics to remain the same.
Another thing, while I’m thinking about it. We are reminded that even if it’s possible that the states who say no to the refugees don’t have to take them, the refugees are not prevented from crossing over from one state that will accept them to another that doesn’t. In fact, once they’ve established themselves here, the government no longer keeps track of them. So they can go wherever they want. Even if all the states refused to take refugees, the federal government often won’t let the state know that refugees were brought there, as the recent case of the missing–then located–Syrian refugee in Louisiana brought to light. So again, the federal government spits on state’s rights–in this case, the right for states to know when they have people from other countries taking refuge within their boundaries.
And another thing. Women can be and have been terrorists, too. So the notion that we’re letting in more women than men, whether true or not, is no reassurance that the chance of terrorism would be less.
And another thing. I was reading of some who were saying that ISIS would not go through the arduous process of resettlement, that they wouldn’t want to wait that long to have their chance to kill Americans. The refugee process might be a deterrent on some level, but believing no terrorist would go through it also underestimates the patience of the enemy. If jihadists are willing to die for the cause, a lot of them are willing to wait a while, I bet.
Okay, one more thing. Taqiyya. Even if we were submitting refugees to a “religious test,” like Obama says, there are ways for Muslims of ill intent to get around that.
As Joe concluded his lecture about ISull, he said, “They want us to turn our backs on Muslims…” Yet the Administration turns its back on us.
They hope that we will “turn on ourselves,” Joe claimed. No, that’s what Obama’s wanted. And he’s succeeded in spectacular fashion over the course of seven years.
“We will betray our ideals and take actions, actions motivated by fear…” That’s not fear. That’s anger. Anger that all these men are fleeing their homeland instead of fighting to regain it. Anger that the finger-waggler who played a major role in allowing the situation to become so dire because he had a campaign promise to keep involving the removal of troops from Iraq before the job was done. Now it’s just a big mess that he’s too afraid to clean up. That’s anger, not fear.
“We win by prioritizing our security as we’ve been doing. Refusing to compromise our fundamental American values: freedom, openness, tolerance. That’s who we are. That’s how we win.” It’s been this administration’s brand of freedom, openness, and tolerance that has gotten us into this predicament. The White House’s sympathies, its priorities, and the direction of its ire are sorely, grievously misplaced. Obama’s so worried about offending people who are not American, but he forgets who pays his salary.
“May God continue to bless the United States of America and God bless our troops.”
Oh, right. The troops. The troops who come back to America only to become dependent wards of the state which they fought so hard to defend–many who are now homeless themselves. All the while, their Commander-in-Chief devotes billions in resources toward finding homes here for thousands of people from foreign lands.
Us versus them. Them versus us. They hate the West and its infidelic ways, and they will stop at nothing to destroy us. So we have to destroy them. Utterly. Joe’s boss had better figure out who the real enemy is, but he probably won’t.
