Refugees

I sadly watched the panic that our lawmakers have exhibited over allowing a single Syrian refugee into our country without extra special restrictions and certifications. Why have they panicked?

Our congressmen and women are worried that one of the Syrians will be a terrorist and cause them to lose the next election if they had voted NO on the bill that was approved in the House.

The yes voters realized that if there is a single incident before the next November election that those no voting congresspeople will be subject to “soft on terrorism” attacks, so the yes vote was a defensive position.

Voting no would have risked their permanent careers. They will do anything to keep their faces in the public trough.

What they clearly haven’t figured out is that it’s really easy for a foreign national to get a business or tourist visa and come here quite legally and create mayhem.

Or they do, and know that the public is so used to those visa and border threats that they just don’t matter and won’t affect electability.

And as you know, our borders are so porous that it’s ridiculously easy to enter the United States either legally or not. That’s why tons of drugs come through every month.

Fortunately thousands of miles of ocean to the east and west, and friendly nations to the north and south have been our best protection against terrorism.

Do you remember the story of the man who got so tired of driving guns bought in Georgia to sell illegally in New York? He started smuggling them by the dozen onto airplanes bypassing TSA’s alleged security!

So much for keeping us safe.

Grandstanding against the vast majority of women and children that are escaping mayhem is a shame.

That’s especially as a European ship carrying nearly a thousand Jews escaping persecution from the Nazis in 1939 was turned back. A quarter died because of it, shot, gassed or starved to death. The rest managed to escape by other means.

As I wrote some time ago, when, for a few weeks the press was full of hysterical stories about people from Central America flooding our borders and claiming political refugee status, I wrote about a practical solution to that problem.

And if our public servants are determined not to help the Syrian refugees that are fleeing from Syria, here and all over Europe because of the turmoil created by Georgia W. Bush and Barrack Obama (one, stupid, one naive)  then this is a compromise.

Read the obvious solution here.