Batter Up!

It’s the bottom of the ninth with two outs, bases loaded, and the count is 3 and 2. Morality is on first, National Sovereignty on second, and Personal Freedom is ready to come home. We are praying for a home run, but at this point we’ll accept a walk.

It is not surprising that we have entered into an era of universal skepticism. More than sixty million people voted for a dramatic change in the way that we do business in Washington – we want it to run more like a business so we elected a businessman. A business must continue to provide good service to its customers, something that Washington has failed to do for decades. Our so-called government leaders, the people whom we entrust with the responsibility of protecting “we the people” and respecting our Constitution, thereby ensuring the continued existence of our unique and exceptional Republic, have become an elite group of corrupt, power-hungry demagogues, whose only concern is self-interest and maintaining their exalted positions – at any cost. This total lack of integrity has allowed them to align themselves with the worst elements in our society, those who wish to transform America into a nation of third world slaves dependent on the New World Order. What other explanation can there be to explain their ongoing and vicious attacks on our President, a patriot who is fighting to halt our precipitous slide into darkness?

The recent ruling by the 9th Circuit court of appeals against President Trump’s totally reasonable and necessary travel ban is a frightening example of overreach which the late Robert H. Bork warned against in his book “The Tempting of America – The Political Seduction of The Law”. In it he wrote, “Those who now dominate public discourse on the importance of the Constitution as law argue that it is not. To admit that it is, would make their arguments to allow departure from it, illegitimate. They tend to have values antagonistic to a traditional bourgeois society. It is not too much to say that these people see the Constitution as a weapon in a class struggle about social and political values.”

In an interview with Megan Kelly in 2016, Newt Gingrich stated that, “In 2001 C.I.A. estimated that roughly 5% of the 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide subscribe to radical Islam”. The Muslim threat is not some fabrication in the minds of extreme Islamophobic racists, but a real and present danger, something that has been ignored or minimized for far too long. Former DHS investigator Philip Haney accused the DHS under Jeh Johnson in the Obama administration, of shutting down his investigation of Muslims who posed potential threats to America. The investigation was shut down because the agency considered it politically incorrect to investigate Muslims.

It is ironic that Minnesota, one of the states challenging the travel ban, has allowed at least 22 Somali “refugees” whom we had welcomed with open arms and government largess, to leave America and join al-Shabab in Somalia, while more than a dozen have left to join militants in Syria. The solution arrived at by the Obama administration, Jeh Johnson and others, was to grant $300,000 dollars to the Somali community in order to dissuade their “youth” from becoming radicalized. Recently, in a continuation of the Obama Administration’s program, the Trump administration offered the group a $500,000 grant – it was refused. There were at least four groups which were offered these grants designed to counter Islamic extremism. More than 20 percent of the roughly $10 million awarded by the Homeland Security Department has been rejected. The most obvious reason is that unlike the Obama administration which gave the money with no requisite accountability, the new administration will expect these groups to actually make an effort to discourage Islamic extremism in their community. This refusal on the part of so-called “moderate Muslims” to assist in the battle against Islamic extremism, only highlights the complete lunacy of the 9th Circuit Court of appeals decision against the President’s travel ban. The judges said that while “the public has a powerful interest in national security and in the ability of an elected president to enact policies… the public also has an interest in free flow of travel, in avoiding separation of families, and in freedom from discrimination.”  – Yes, they are actually willing to risk the threat of terrorism over travel inconvenience!   

Just today we learn that since 9/11, 72 individuals from the 7 countries on the travel ban have been convicted of terrorism.

 Are the actions that this President is proposing really unreasonable?