Tuesday, February 28, 2017

THE BAN ...

.... IS STILL BANNED 
.... AND IT STILL AIN'T RIGHT

So, as we all know by now, the Ninth District Judges ruled against the implementation of the Trump Muslim (not Muslim!) Travel Ban (not a Ban!), and cited certain substantial deficiencies that needed to be addressed before the order met Constitutional standards.

As the Trump White House staff set about making what it termed merely ‘technical’ and ‘inconsequential’ revisions to the Order foisted upon them by ‘so called’ judges, they also commissioned an intelligence report from the Department of Homeland Security that would serve to support the major underpinnings of the ban … but instead Trump World was served up the truth:







The body of research and facts in the DHS report actually knocked down the following ‘core claims’ of the Trump Muslim (not Muslim!) Travel Ban (not a Ban!):

1) Citizenship is unlikely  to be a reliable indicator of potential terrorist activity,

2) More than  half of  the terror attacks in the United States have been carried by native born U.S. citizens,  

3The foreign terrorists came from altogether 26 countries (but no country  producing an overwhelming percentage led by : Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Cuba, Ethiopia, Somalia and Uzbekistan, as reported below:



























Although the DHS report does not support any fact based, logical rationale for targeting the 7 countries originally included in the Ban, the White House’s revised Order still stubbornly targets only those same countries ... 

…because that's the way they like it (uh-huh,uh-huh).  

The White House then ordered that the above report be “spiked” (trashed) and that an intelligence document containing ‘other’ facts supporting the Travel Ban Executive Order's original ‘core claims’ be created.

Ordering up ‘intelligence’ tailored to predetermined conclusions?  …. Conclusions in search of evidence… conjuring other, scripted, alternative facts….  

Does the Trump World 'get' that the United States Presidency isn't an extravagantly produced 
(cast of millions) 4 year theatre engagement, or a clever con - or that 'Intelligence,' 'analysis' and 'truth' 
are actual, serious things?

Here lives, for real, are saved or lost, improved or demolished. Not actors, not sets… real drama. Outcomes are often permanent, irrevocable. Success is aided by solid facts, truth, knowledge, training, ferocious care, appreciation, empathy, respect for humankind as well as the consequences of one’s actions… and the luck of the draw.

Mercifully,some patriot ‘spiked’ this DHS report to the Associated Press. I suspect that ‘spiking’ or ‘leaking’ - whatever one calls it - will go on frequently for now, because right now,obviously,Trump World hasn't got 
- or doesn't want- 
a clue:















What is it with Trump World?
  Collective, unhinged ego?
 Incompetence? Ignorance?
    Terminal narcissism?Unbridaled greed?   
 Fascism? Bannonism? Putin Love?
Whatever it is
 it ain't right.


INDIVISIBLE! INDIVISIBLE! INDIVISIBLE! INDIVISIBLE! INDIVISIBLE! INDIVISIBLE! 


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