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More than 1,000 in Boston protest Massachusetts governor's anti-refugee stance

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Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:25 UTC

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Boston to protest against the efforts of Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker to stop the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the state, local media reported Saturday.

According to The Boston Globe newspaper, the event that brought together some 500 people took place Friday night.
"Don't give into racist fear! Refugees are welcomed here," the people chanted, as quoted by the media outlet. Speakers from several refugee organizations gave speeches in support of the refugees and calling for compassion.

Baker was one of the governors calling to stop the refugee resettlement program in fears that the security measures in place were not enough to stop extremists from entering the country disguised as refugees.

On Thursday, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would block the presidential administration from resettling some 10,000 Syrian refugees as well as Iraqi refugees to the United States in 2016, as was announced by Obama earlier in the year. The move followed the deadly attacks in Paris last week which claimed lives of at least 130 people. The Islamic State extremist group claimed responsibility for the attacks.

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horseofadifferentcolor · 2015-11-22T22:00:40Z

This is nice to see. On my local news in Texas the racist animals are out in full force. I wonder if Trump and all his racial insanity was put in place before to unify all these sick humans that can not seem to see past there nose. Just a thought I had after reading comments from a local source. Comment section was full of folks wanting Trump for Prez because he would close the borders. Disgusting!
I think I am going to go put on my Tshirt I bought from here that says NO NATIONS NO BORDERS JUST PEOPLE.

just thinking · 2015-11-23T15:44:47Z

A friend of a friend wrote this and sent it to prime minister Trudeau he wants it to go viral please share if you agree your choice.

November 16, 2015
To the H...onorable Justin Trudeau, Members of Parliament, and Provincial Premiers:
Will We Learn Nothing From Paris?
I am a proud Canadian, and proud of our heritage of being a true global leader in Humanitarian efforts. Given the events of recent years and more importantly the recent week, however, I believe prudence requires a pause in our assistance package for Syrian refugees, and indeed all refugees and asylum seekers. I say this not in a tone of political partisanship, but one of Citizenship. Any Parliament, be it Liberal, Conservative, or NDP has as its first mandate the protection of our country and its citizens. This must take precedence over all other considerations and activities.
As a Retired Firefighter/Fire Officer of the City of Calgary, I have an experience I believe is timely and valuable. In my final assignment at the end of my career, I asked for and received a transfer to work on the Airport Crash Rescue Unit at the Calgary International Airport. A requirement for all staff working at the Airport is to undergo a police background check. In between the time the background check is initiated, and the time it is competed, an employee must be accompanied by another employee who has the appropriate screening and credentials. I can’t remember precisely how long it took for the RCMP to conduct my check, but it was several months. Bear in mind that this is for a person who was born in Calgary; completed primary, secondary and post-secondary education in Calgary/Lethbridge; had passed a security clearance to gain employment as a Calgary Firefighter, and had worked in this civic institution for 18 years at the time. I had also been vetted by the Provincial Government’s Lieutenant Governor Norman (Normie) Kwong to sit as a long-term member of the Alberta Labour Relations Board. In short, it would not be difficult to find information on me. I was also required to be finger printed as part of the process.
When the day arrived and I was notified that I had passed the security clearance, I was escorted to the terminal building by a colleague to pick up my coveted airport pass. While in the waiting room, I met and visited with what seemed to be a very nice man of Arab descent, who if memory served was from Jordan. During our discussion, he indicated that his pass had only taken two weeks to get, as opposed to the months mine had taken. He left after receiving his pass, and so when my turn came I asked the RCMP Sargent why on earth it would take so long for me to acquire a clearance when this person who indicated he was a recent arrival to Canada received his in two weeks or less. The answer I received haunts me to this day.
The answer: “We can’t really do that much of a search on these people. They often arrive without even a passport or Birth Certificate, and unless they appear on an INTERPOL watch list, we generally let them pass. Often the police departments from these fractured countries are unable or unwilling to provide information or detailed data, and we simply have to go with what we can learn. We also make sure they have no criminal record while in Canada, which for many of these folks is a very short period of time”…….or words to that effect.
In the couple of years I spent at the airport, I never stopped thinking about that. These people were everywhere: loading aircraft luggage, cleaning the airport with access to virtually all areas right up to the jet ways, acting as security guards and everything in between. It was then and there that I realized that the issue of security was truly an illusion in our country. I do not say these things lightly. I represented Calgary and its 1500 members as the President of the Calgary Firefighter’s Association in New York in 2002 at the 911 Memorial which was attended by 77,000 firefighters from all over the world. The hole at ground zero was still a testament a year later as to the impact of what can happen when a country lets its guard down.
So my questions to the Current Government and to the two opposition parties, and to our provincial leaders, in light of the recent events in France are:
1. “Who are the refugees”? How can you possibly screen 25,000 people adequately in such a short period of time to ensure that none of these people pose a threat to me and my country?
2. What specific process(es) is/are engaged to determine the identity of who these people are?
3. What agency is tasked with performing the background checks, and has the capacity to conduct appropriate checks on what amounts mathematically to about 800 people per day if they are all to arrive by Christmas. I note that in the U.S.A., the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson admitted that “we don’t know a whole lot about these people” and that we have “no real protocol for screening refugees” – My guess and fear is if they can’t do it between the DHS, FBI, and CIA, there is no reasonable hope that Canada can possibly have any credible system. I believe Canadian citizens are entitled to know this. I would commend to you the words of Governor Greg Abbot of Texas who today said: “Given the tragic attacks in Paris and the threats we have already seen, Texas cannot participate in any program that will result in Syrian refugees — any one of whom could be connected to terrorism — being resettled in Texas.” That seems like a very reasoned approach at the moment.
4. Bill C-45 (2003), which became an amendment to the Criminal Code of Canada after the Westray Mine accident, allowed the courts to find officers of corporations criminally negligent if their actions either willfully or by gross negligence contribute to the preventable death of an employee. Does this legislation reach to the political elite if, in the future, an innocent citizen is harmed or killed by a refugee because the sitting government failed to properly screen them? If not, we need to amend it. As I read the Act, Clause 1(1) extends the reach of Bill C-45 to “all organizations”…..which I assume includes political parties. Would you concur with this view?
5. What is the projected, long-term cost per refugee and what current, existing benefits will suffer because of this for existing citizens?
6. What is the demographic make-up of the refugees being allowed into the country? What percentage are women, children, married men accompanying a family, and single men?
7. Will refugees be required to undergo a polygraph test, be finger printed, and be drug tested as is required of several types of employment for Canadian Citizens such as the Clagary Fire Department?
8. Will Refugees be screened for infectious diseases including TB, HIV, hepatitis, leishmaniosis, meningitis, and the host of other physiological problems which have been identified with these disadvantaged people?
9. Why are neighboring, wealthy countries of Syria with similar cultures such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait not accepting ANY refugees?
10. There are reportedly 19 million refugees globally from places as diverse as Libya to Myanmar. Are we to take them all? In the case of Syria, is it not better to spend our money pushing for a UN peacekeeping force to be deployed and contributing our resources in that fashion so that these people can have the opportunity to stay put and rebuild their own country? How we managed the war in Cyprus comes to mind. Is that not the road we should be following instead of pretending that we are blind to what the USA and Russia are doing there?
11. Terror attacks appear to be occurring in random places with high civilian populations with little if any police or military presence. I have never been that concerned with gun restrictions, however like our brothers and sisters in France; we Canadians live a country with severe gun restrictions. Can you comment on how Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms squares with my inability to carry or possess (without significant restrictions) a weapon for self-defence? Put another way, how can I possibly have the right to Security of Person where I don’t have a reasonable ability of self defense? Do you intend on travelling anywhere (inside or outside of the country) without armed guards? While you will no doubt have me look to the south (USA) for reasons not to re-consider this, I would point you east, to Switzerland, which is one of the most heavily armed, yet peaceful nations on earth.
In all of this, I am not suggesting that as a nation we turn a blind eye to those in need. We do have an enviable reputation in the wold that each of us is proud of. Having said that, we unfortunately live in an ever-changing world. For all of the forgoing reasons, I would ask that the sitting government halt the refugee program until it can be demonstrated to all Canadians that every single refugee being allowed access to our country, and being offered benefits that most of us have worked a lifetime to fund, have been thoroughly vetted. I would also argue that it is time to re-open the debate on gun legislation from a constitutional perspective. We don’t have a “second amendment” as our U.S. brothers, but without the right to meaningful self-protection, the Canadian Charter guarantee of “Security of Person” is starting to ring very hollow.
In closing, are we going to learn anything from Paris? While social media is replete with people stating “we are Paris”, my suggestion is we make immediate alterations to the issues noted above, before that Facebook slogan changes from an echo of support to a prophesy.
Respectfully,

D. S. (Scott) Wilcox
Cold lake, Ab.

just thinking · 2015-11-23T16:00:39Z

Amerika

The Wasteland of Obsessions The dead United States once prided itself on a vast range of things that we used to excel at doing: But all that has changed, now that we have discovered how much fun it is to break every law of nature and of men and women everywhere. We have even gone so far as to outlaw the categories we used to call men and women, or boys and girls, “because all those old established names are sexist, racist categories that no 'civilized nation' can be allowed to use any longer.” People are no longer allowed to even mention anything that might make any other person 'even slightly uncomfortable': While at the same time the Politically-Correct obscenities who have awarded themselves the absolute rulership over the schools, education and medicine, as well as the boards of supervisors, not to mention the administration that overseas the cops, the judges, the courts and the entire congress as well as the Tarnished House: That's the condition of the world in the law-less U.S. A. at the moment... It's crystal clear that we've become fascinated with just how far 'we' can take the literal prosecution of men and the rape of all women, in this newly formed obscenity that refuses to yield to any law that might deny anyone, anything in this newly permissive place that has decided to rule absolutely over anyone that even hesitates for a moment before engaging in whatever they have been directed to do... This started back in the twentieth century with sex-beyond-any limits, mostly for the filthy rich and the college-addicts to whatever was deemed to be 'popular' regardless of any formerly recognized cultural norms. By the time we moved into the twenty-first century, the cutting edge creatures had dumped all the norms and just began to live the twisted dreams that often involved death or permanent damage, as “just part of the fun”. While that was going on, the world was going through massive changes throughout the distant corners of the planet; most of which involved the rape and plundering of most of the women of whatever race or religion, just because it had become very popular to terrorize women everywhere, by threatening to rape or torture them, before selling or killing them after they had been used to the content of those that found these practices useful, or to satisfy whatever inadequacies they had discovered, while they are smashing the world they too had been born into, just because they could. So if SEX is the most frequently violated crime committed by the thugs that think they're men, then the second most abused law in the onslaught that has just hit Europe & the USA has to be the human wave of migrants and terrorists that are flooding across the borders of every state and region across the world, just because they can: And in that process they can now rape and punish women at will just to convince themselves of how virile and masculine they've become, now that they can terrorize whole towns and villages, while they entertain themselves by raping the local women at will, again, “just because they can”? But America is slightly different than Europe is, because America has a lot more room, and yet it's “president” refuses to keep the undocumented Refugees out of the country, as the US Immigration laws spell out. In fact this fake-president seems to think it is his sworn duty to insure that as many illegals as possible are brought into the country that he's supposedly the “president” of? Why is this? - See more at: [Link]

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