Obama's Going Full-on Mussolini After the Mid-Terms

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

Full-on Mussolini???  !!    You mean like he's gonna take our guns? And make us eat arugula?  And impose Sharia?  And invalidate the Constitution?  And make Nairobi the new capitol?

I heard he has plans to invade Ethiopia.

[Yorkshire pud]

I heard he has plans to invade Ethiopia.

Only because he's a Marxist Muslim, who has ambitions (in the next two years or so) to take over America all on his own. Then you'll be sorry you disregarded QK, Rutger and PB, Seriously.

[SciFiAuthor]

Perhaps you could explain why they try to escape to the US in crowded leaky rafts through shark infested waters, slipping away at night when hopefully they won't be seen and blown out of the water by their wonderful government? 

Why their athletes and entertainers defect when they get a chance, and why more would do so if it didn't mean putting their extended families at risk?

It's interesting that the European left gives Cuba a pass. It's a known human rights offender that incarcerates thousands of political prisoners without trial each year, often using torture and beatings according to Human Rights Watch . . . yet it gets a pass. They'll also complain about our sanctions against Cuba, yet get all hot bothered over Robert Mugabe for doing the same thing as Fidel. Sanctions against Zimbabwe and Mugabe's coercive politics are good but sanctions against Fidel and his coercive politics is bad. You'd think the light bulb would eventually go on and the leftists would realize how bizarre and contradictory that is.

Hell, Fidel sanctions Cuba on his own. It wasn't legal to import microwave ovens into the country until 2008, not that anyone could afford them down there anyway. Damned capitalists and their kitchen aids.

[SciFiAuthor]

Even before this, we've had people immigrate here, become citizens, and continue to agitate on behalf of issues and causes back in their homeland.

I've always been a bit bothered by this.  Sure, as Americans they're free to do so, but I believe immigrants should assimilate and become Americans, or go somewhere else - not continue on with their former political lives.

Living on the West Coast, I guess it makes sense that the examples I'm familiar with involve people from East Asia - places like Vietnam, China, Laos, even Korea.  Sometimes they get arrested there and want us to bail them out. 

I'm not saying the issues themselves aren't valid or that I don't support them, but it seems like taking advantage, an abuse of their new citizenship.

Another example is Salmon Rushdie.  He leaves Pakistan for the West, then writes a book deeply insulting and offensive to Moslems.  When he gets the expected response, our taxes are supposed to be used to provide security to protect him. 

These people put our countries in lousy situations that are not of our doing.


Moslems heading off from the West to fight on behalf of ISIS is more of the same, except they are clearly the enemy and a danger to us.

I agree, I don't think it's a good idea to import people that openly hold subversive ideology. We can legally still denaturalize immigrants for subversive activities, but the bar is rather high so it remains rare.

I have mixed feelings on Salman Rushdie, one the one hand yes, he wrote an offensive book. And yes, that's a perfectly legitimate way to get a book to hit and he made plenty of money off it. But I also like pissing Iran off, in which case having a safe and sound Salman Rushdie is a good thumb of the nose to the Ayatollahs and their fatwa.