Resist Now! Houston Chronicle nails it!

Yssup Rider's Avatar
Right on!

Tonight's little tantrum by Twitler was yet another kick in the nation's gut.

I wonder who feels like a winner now?

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opin...w-10892771.php

Resist now!
The president's order was misguided.


Copyright 2017: Houston Chronicle
January 29, 2017

Where else could Lady Liberty be but in New York Harbor, gateway to a vibrant nation of exiles and refugees? She has held high her beacon of light, hope and new beginnings since 1886.

And now, her light has been extinguished, the ideals engraved on her pedestal defaced into mockingly ironic graffiti. With one cruel and ill-conceived executive order, this nation has entered a disorienting dusk.

How long the torch of liberty remains dark depends on the strength and fierce commitment of liberty-loving Americans everywhere. With every legal, nonviolent means available, this nation must resist a president in thrall to a man who, until invited into the White House, presided over a noxious website that traffics in white supremacy, anti-semitism, bizarre conspiracy theories and fake news. It's apparently Stephen K. Bannon's cowardly nativist notions that the president was implementing when he temporarily banned people from seven predominantly Muslim nations from entering the country and indefinitely suspended the resettlement of refugees from Syria, the world's most pressing humanitarian crisis. Trump's order also threatens legal permanent residents.

We can point the accusatory finger at the president's in-house ideologue - just named a full member of the National Security Council - and yet the buck stops with Trump. His cruel and intemperate campaign language has become, with shocking immediacy, cruel and intemperate action. His order, craven and xenophobic, irrational and counter-productive, is an affront to American values.

It was sickening over the weekend to hear Texas Congressman Roger Williams, as well as numerous Trump sycophants, defending this travesty. Listening to Williams, a mild-mannered former car dealer from Weatherford, we could imagine him in decades past rationalizing our internment of Japanese Americans or calmly explaining why we couldn't take in Jews from Nazi Germany. Might be terrorists, you know.

The words of various apologists for the president's unconstitutional order brought to mind John Kasich's presidential campaign ad from way back in November 2015. The ad paraphrased the haunting words of the late German pastor and concentration-camp survivor Martin Niemoller, who warned that by ignoring threats against others, there would be "nobody left to speak for me."

Not to be alarmist, but that warning is beginning to look prescient, particularly in America's most diverse city, a city that long has welcomed refugees and immigrants, that recognizes and celebrates their contribution to this community.

We must resist. In the courts, in the streets, through phone calls and emails to our elected representatives, we must speak out on behalf of sacred American values. We must stand tall against this move by the president. As tall as that majestic lady who lifts her lamp "beside the golden door."
gfejunkie's Avatar
Resistance is futile...

Yssup Rider's Avatar
This is a fucking nightmare.

Even for you, gfe(forbidden topic).
Resistance is futile...

Originally Posted by gfejunkie
When they come for you you will say, but wait I supported you. I am not the bad guy. But no one will care or help
Yssup Rider's Avatar
People who are so old they fart dust are on the secondary roundup list...

Be afraid gfe(forbidden topic).
pussycat's Avatar
I'm from Houston and the Chronicle is a disgrace and always has been. Houston has become an island of far left, politically correct insanity with an militant LGBT activist as a Mayor. The rest of Texas, save the People's Republic of Travis County, view Houston today as a laughing stock.
PrettyBoyG's Avatar
I'm from Houston and the Chronicle is a disgrace and always has been. Originally Posted by pussycat
Go back and read some of the dumb shit you post in these forums. You are you last person to be calling something a disgrace.
Yssup Rider's Avatar
Exactly whose mayor is a militant LGBT, puddytat?
H.R. Humpendump's Avatar
Leave it to Assup. I cant believe how many Americans want to resist peace, prosperity and the constitution.
I just wish these jackasses would take their politics elsewhere. Getting very tired of seeing the same two or three people pollute this site.
lustylad's Avatar
Cheer up, bubba... assup the pig (aka oinkboy) has been released from his confinement here. He has "taken his politics elsewhere" and is now back to polluting the national Political Forum wid his widdle Twidler tantrums.

Carry on!
That is great news lustylad! And I must say, I like your avatar!
lustylad's Avatar
That is great news lustylad! And I must say, I like your avatar! Originally Posted by bubba42
Ditto for yours, bubba! Who is she? You probably recognize mine - Julia Oppai, Japanese porn star extraordinaire.
Yes I recognized her. I'd know Julia's perfect form anywhere. My avatar is Shion, or Rion Utsunomiya.
I say we move on to a truly meaningful debate that's more representative of this board and the ALL the horny 'tards it brings together...

"lustylad vs bubba42, who's got the better avatar??"