01-30-2017, 12:49 PM -
(01-30-2017, 12:17 PM)Roger H. Sterling Wrote: Are we all aware that Trump's list of 7 countries was compiled by the Obama administration? So the whole "but whatabout Saudi Arabia etc" argument is useless.
No it isn't. Because the Obama administration compiled that list as countries of concern. Not to keep all their people out! The Obama administration wouldn't have even dreamt of doing anything like this.
In any case, Trump isn't even the biggest problem here. That's Bannon, Mr White Supremacist himself, who kicked the Joint Chiefs of Staff off the National Security Council only yesterday, and is now part of the NSC: completely unprecedented, and a clear threat to Defense Secretary Mattis being able to do his job at all. Bitter rivalries under Trump, with him floating above and encouraging the most radical arguments to win, is straight out of the Hitler playbook.
And it's also the CBP: Customs and Border Patrol, or as I shall refer to them henceforth, Trump's brownshirts. CBP's union are in his pocket; and over the weekend, CBP staff ignored a federal court order, refused to allow Congressmen to see if any detainees were being held, and refused even to disclose whether detainees were being held. There are reports that a number of detainees have been moved to private locations.