In a truly shocking and facially unconstitutional plan, Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump is calling for a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the United States. The plan would violate a host of domestic and international protections, as I discussed today with the Washington Post.
Trump stated that “[i]t is obvious to anybody the hatred [among Muslims] is beyond comprehension. Where this hatred comes from and why, we will have to determine. Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life.”
Trump said he would ease the ban in the case of Muslims serving in the U.S. military and allow them to return home. that is still well short of constitutional — or rational — plan. For Muslim citizens, such a plan would be grossly unconstitutional under the first and fifth amendments. The latter prohibits The depriving of individuals of “life, liberty, or property,” without due process of the law and an implicit guarantee of equal protection of the laws.
It is certainly true that the constitutional protections often turn on whether someone is consider a “person” under the United States Constitution. In Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), the Supreme Court struck down a Texas statute denying funding for education to unauthorized immigrant children. Being present within the United States does afford protections of due process and equal protection. Outside of the country immigrants without resident status face a more difficult challenge. However, international law and conventions afford protections for travel and religion.
The law would harken back to the disgraceful period of the Chinese Exclusion laws. We have long rejected immigration limits based discriminatory classes of this kind. Indeed, the Immigration and Nationality Act protects potential refugees facing “fear of persecution” on account of their “religion.” Yet under President Trump we would now formally impose such a discriminatory element, a move that would make the United States a pariah around the world and immediately extinguish our relations with Islamic countries.
Immigration policy has cleared resonated as a draw for Trump. However, this proposal would openly embrace raw prejudice and blind rage as motivating factors for governmental policy. It would clearly fail in denying reentry for citizens or residents. As for non-citizens abroad, they are accorded protections under international law. Under Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, people have the right to leave or enter a country and that “everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.” There is no doubt murky aspects to such rights and a long-standing question of their enforceability. However, this proposal rests on flagrant religious discrimination against one group. It seeks to “protect” the United States by denying the very essence of who we are as a nation.
This could bring it all down. The Zionists don’t want you to know.. no plane hit WTC 7.
http://www.buenavistamall.com/WTC-7-collapse.gif
*it is not…we are doing…
but yeah, I used to think that Trump was a democrat trojan horse…then a rep tool to make other candidates look good… then that he is really runnign for himself now that he thinks he can win…am not sure what to think anymore
Nick Spinelli
1, December 10, 2015 at 10:42 am
56% of Americans think Islam is incompatible w/ Western values. 43% are Dems! Another attack, and that Dem % will exceed 50%.Trump could not exist w/o Obama and the corrupt duopoly. Obama is Trump’s fuel, but Republicans are his target.
——————————– Nick, check your numbers, you are off again.
May I add that Obama would not exist without Bush the Crusader who, in the name of Jesus, invaded the wrong country and bankrupted 2 countries in the process?
Olly, i is not radicalized islamic extremists dealing the final blow, we are dong all the work ourselves.
Bush gave the first cut and Obama is deepening it, the next prez, Trump or Hillary, will saw right through the bone ….and there we are.
AlQaeda sought to bankrupt us…check!
isis sought to divide us… check!
po – how about we start with Mohammad the Warrior Prophet.
Start what, paul?
i lost the thread.
You often lose the thread, I am not surprised.
Glad you said often, Paul, and not always, which characterizes you.
This is Trump’s group of traitors;
http://www.buenavistamall.com/Zionists.jpg
Hillary Clinton – The Israeli Candidate for US Presidency
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/12/09/hillary-clinton-the-israeli-candidate-for-us-presidency/
Donald Trump is an Israeli Zionist Agent
Zionists Use Donald Trump to Fix Another Election
by Henry Makow Ph.D.
“Like a turd that won’t flush, Donald Trump is back again to serve his Illuminati Jewish masters
This time around, his role is to win the GOP nomination and throw the election to Hillary Clinton, the Illuminati bankers’ preferred candidate.”
Trump and Hillary Clinton are a large part of the evil political system that has taken over America
http://henrymakow.com/donald_trump_is_masonic_false.html
Nick Spinelli
1, December 10, 2015 at 10:16 am
If folks are interested in a legitimate assessment of Islam, read and watch Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She is brilliant, eloquent, and really easy on the eyes
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Nick, would you please enlighten us as to Ayaan’s legitimacy? The same New atheist Ayaah?
The one supported and empowered by the same islamophonic network that sources all of your fears and hatred about Islam?
Last I knew, her story is mostly invented.
But yeah, the same someone who claimed to have escaped away from patriarchal islam to run right into the arms of white patriarchy, only the so call liberal kind?
It can’t be the same Ayaan that calls for waging war on islam, is it?
It is a brilliant strategy for Hillary to plant Trump into the GOP race. Either conservatives wake up to this reality or we get the last President of our republic…Hillary Clinton.
The evildoers are trying to divert the focus as usual. The real enemies are the Zionist Jews, Israel and American traitors within the U.S. They are the real terrorists, they create terrorists and false flags. They are voted and appointed in. The candidates are Zionist stooges with more of the same policies. The election process is fixed with Zionist stooges. The new boss will be the same as the old boss, murdering and stealing oil.
Here are two of the satanists at the core of the evil.
http://buenavistamall.com/obamanetanyahu.jpg
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/polltracker/cbs-nyt-december-trump-lead Trump gains, and Cruz is in second place. Both are extremists. Trump is an extremist on some things and Cruz is one on everything. This turn of events is not one bit surprising if the comments on this blog over the past few years are representative of the republican party and I assume they are. The Clinton campaign can just sit back and watch the craziness unfold while the republican establishment worries about an electoral wipe out.
The big prize in all of Obama’s fundamental transformation efforts is STILL the collapse of our constitutional republic. Our system is overwhelmed and Obama’s foreign/immigration policy will get progressives on the right and left calling for more government infrastructure. So now the Senate has passed legislation, as I understand it, that gives the President an ISIS Czar. While progressivism has been a death by a thousand cuts over the last 100 years, we are literally witnessing radicalized Muslim extremism delivering the final blow.
Well done!
56% of Americans think Islam is incompatible w/ Western values. 43% are Dems! Another attack, and that Dem % will exceed 50%.
When you have a feckless prez who lectures us on Islam instead of recognizing the 800lb. gorilla in the room, RADICAL ISLAMISTS, then people get angry and fearful. You create demagogues when leaders don’t tell us the truth. Demagogues find a fear/anger, often which is righteous fear/anger, and then exploit it. Trump could not exist w/o Obama and the corrupt duopoly. Obama is Trump’s fuel, but Republicans are his target. The billion dollar question being, is he a Hillary Trojan Horse? Or, WAS he a Hillary Trojan Horse that has now gone rogue?
Carter Banned Iranians From Coming To US During Hostage Crisis
Trump Is Just Like Hitler. Or Jimmy Carter.
http://www.infowars.com/carter-banned-iranians-from-coming-to-us-during-hostage-crisis/
Trump caused controversy earlier this week when he suggested putting a halt to all Muslim immigration UNTIL A PROPER VETTING PROCESS COULD BE PUT IN PLACE TO IDENTIFY TERRORISTS.” Not quite as sensational when you look at it that way.
If folks are interested in a legitimate assessment of Islam, read and watch Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She is brilliant, eloquent, and really easy on the eyes.
Sorry, ralph, I caught you in a lie, and now, in response, you double down on the irrationality.
This is your quote:”“like Bolshevism in the past, it [Islam] is an armed doctrine…”. You even took pains to remove the original subject [islamic extremism] and replaced it with IT in order to dissimulate the original subject of that sentence, then followed up with ISLAM, bracketed, as an added designation of what the subject was.
This is the real quote: “Islamic extremism today, like Bolshevism in the past…”.
Most of us rational people can tell islam from Islamic extremism…kinda like we can tell Christianity/Judaism/Buddhism from their extremist counterparts…unfortunately, not most of us as rational 🙂
So, to summarize, you took a quote by someone whom you claimed makes your case, then you chopped that quote and removed some words to make it say something else, THEN, added a new word making the whole topic about something completely else from what Thatcher was talking about.
If the courts did that, they would be sanctioned.
if the media did that, they would be sanctioned.
I thereby and hereby sanction you to write a 1000 times,” I will never be deceitful again”…with your fingernails on Nick’s windows painted black.
it is as if I quoted you thusly: “po, my quotation is out of context. Like the courts in their opinions do and the media do all of time in their “reporting”, I do not quote the points that support my conclusion the strongest. Yes, i am an idiot”.
You see, Ralph, i agree wholeheartedly with your statement above. Discard my previous paragraphs.
Paul,
The largest constituency that does not respect the supremacy of the constitution are the progressives. Their form of honor killings happen in abortion clinics and they are applauded. We have some morally bankrupt people in this country that have no business denouncing Sharia Law and yet leave the other assaults on our constitutional republic unchallenged. THAT is the hypocrisy.
“right now no one knows what the hell is going on, other than we are being played somehow.”
Well said, po. If nothing else, I think most of us here can agree to that!
po, my quotation is not out of context. Like the courts in their opinions do and the media do all of time in their “reporting”, I quote the points that support my conclusion the strongest. Thatcher may have attempted to qualify her answer, but her statement is what it was, unchanged. The quotation is real. Besides, in quoting Thatcher, I’m not citing her as an ultimate authority. On the contrary, Thatcher has been an Islamopanderer extraordinaire. But the fact that even SHE said what she did say about Islam makes my cite all the more powerful. As for your references to Jesus and Jews to Islam, they are irrelevant and just plain dumb. Muslims could care less about Jesus and Muslims HATE Jews, even more than they hate Christians. I have explained many times before about what Islam is all about, but your lack of study, education, and even just plain common sense prevents you from grasping even the simplest of concepts. So, let’s pretend you are a child (which is easy to do in your case) like the young Muslim child in the following video, and you are receiving your first lesson in Islam: