The useful idiotics of Colorado Springs welcome the invaders

[funkymonkey1111]

http://gazette.com/colorado-springs-...rticle/1572732

don't worry, they're "fully vetted"

About 120 Colorado Springs residents rallied Tuesday on the steps of City Hall in support of refugees - especially Syrians - about 12 hours after deadly terrorist explosions ripped through the Brussels airport and subway.

Banners and speeches urging compassion and human kindness continued the community's strong opposition to City Councilman Andres Pico's March 7 proposal, "A Resolution Declaring Opposition to the Relocation of Refugees from the United States Refugee Resettlement Program to the City of Colorado Springs."


About 400 people emailed their objections to the council, and many testified in person March 7 and 8 and again during the council meeting Tuesday after the rally.


Pico said the proposal, which he will modify and reintroduce April 11, is intended to increase community security and prevent Islamic State terrorist infiltration among incoming refugees.


The opposite inference has been drawn, however, from its title and closing paragraph: "City Council hereby declares its opposition to the relocation of refugees to the City of Colorado Springs from the United States Refugee Resettlement Program until, and unless they are certified by the federal government not to pose a security threat."


Middle Eastern refugees undergo an intensive vetting system including multiple security background checks, iris scans and other biometric information, in a procedure that takes 18 to 24 months.


The Rev. Nori Rost, of All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, told the council that the attacks in Belgium illustrate "what our Syrian brothers and sisters experience every day in their homeland. This is what they are fleeing; this is not what they are. Hospitality is the hallmark of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. There is no need for banning refugees from our city. All this does is uphold our national reputation as a bully."


Responded Pico: "There was absolutely nothing in that resolution banning refugees."

"I read the resolution," Rost replied, "and I know that. But that was the spirit."

"No, it was not," Pico declared.


Monday, the councilman met with Lutheran Family Services, the refugee resettlement agency for southern Colorado. He met with Catholic Charities on Friday and earlier attended a special "Refugees 101" class at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

But some fear the information provided has fallen on deaf ears, particularly since Pico said Monday he will reintroduce some version of his proposition.

"I was hoping the whole resolution was going to go away," said council President Pro Tem Jill Gaebler. "To me, it's just about who we are and how we are perceived, and we have enough issues being the town where Doug Bruce lives."


Bruce, a felon now starting a two-year prison sentence, is the author of the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, which limits taxation in the city and state.


Other speakers cited the city's profile as the birthplace of Amendment 2, which would have banned civil rights for gays and lesbians but was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court as being unconstitutional.


At the rally, the Rev. Clare Twomey, of Vista Grande Community Church, cited a Holy Week message from the Episcopal bishops that rejected "the notion that we can ensure the safety of some by sacrificing the hopes of others."

"It's Holy Week," Twomey said, "and that is a time we Christians are reminded that the man we worship went to the mat for this," defending the rights of the downtrodden.


Joy Garscadden, operations manager for the Citizens Project, said her best friend is a Somali refugee, "and it took him two years to get here."


Pico's resolution is "basically the written equivalent of shaking your fist in the wind. You can't guarantee that no one will commit a crime ever," Garscadden said. "It's based on fear and pandering to how little people know about what the process actually entails. This isn't how we build strong community, by excluding people and playing to their strongest fears."


"The voices of hate and vitriol do not represent the community of Colorado Springs," said former state Rep. Dennis Apuan, who organized the rally.

[roberth]

Idiots.

Unfortunately not a true letter but....

Dear Concerned Citizen:

Thank you for your recent letter criticizing our treatment of the Taliban and Al Qaeda detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The administration takes these matters seriously, and your opinion was heard loud and clear here in Washington. You'll be pleased to learn that, thanks to concerned citizens like you, we are creating the Terrorist Retraining Program, to be called the, "Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers" program, or LARK for short. In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided to place one terrorist under your personal care.

Your detainee has been selected and scheduled for transportation to your residence next Monday. Ali Mohammed Ahmed bin Mahmud is to be cared for pursuant to the standards you personally demanded in your letter of admonishment. We will conduct weekly inspections to ensure that your standards of care for Ahmed are commensurate with those you so strongly recommended in your letter.

Although Ahmed is a sociopath and extremely violent, we hope that your sensitivity to what you described as his "attitudinal problem" will help him overcome this character flaw. Perhaps you are correct in describing these problems as mere cultural differences.

Your adopted terrorist is extremely proficient in hand -to-hand combat and can extinguish human life with such a simple items as a pencil or nail clippers. He is also expert at making a wide variety of explosive devices from common household products, so you may wish to keep those items locked up, unless you feel that this might offend him. Ahmed will not wish to interact with your wife or daughters since he views females as a subhuman form of property. This is a particularly sensitive subject to him. He has been known to show violent tendencies around women who fail to comply with the dress code that he considers appropriate, but I'm sure that over time they will come to enjoy the anonymity offered by the bhurka. Just remind them that it is all part of respecting his culture and his religious beliefs. Thanks again for your letter. We truly appreciate it when folks like you inform us of the proper way to do our job. Take good care of Ahmed and good luck!

Cordially,

Donald Rumsfeld

[vossman]

That is awesome. If it was only true.

[ColoradoTJ]

I seen this yesterday and thought about bashing my head into a brick wall for no other reason that it makes about as much sense as this.

[Zundfolge]

If you're going to go march to demand more refugees you should be required to house as many of them as you can take in your own home.

[HoneyBadger]

If you're going to go march to demand more refugees you should be required to house as many of them as you can take in your own home.

If confronted, they would all shout at you that "of course" they would take them into their own home. However, when it comes time to actually house the refugees, these people are nowhere to be found... Just like the progressives that demand higher taxes to help the poor, but of course hardly donate any of their own money (if any) to charity. *cough* Bernie Sanders *cough*

[roberth]

If you're going to go march to demand more refugees you should be required to house as many of them as you can take in your own home.

I'd love to see it but it'll never happen, (D) just don't operate that way.

[Guylee]

I always laugh when they say refugees are being "properly vetted." How, exactly?

[ray1970]

I support the people of Colorado Springs.

Especially if it keeps the refugees that far from my place.

[68Charger]

They are "well intentioned".... But as the saying goes "The road to hell is paved with good intentions"