I submit this excerpt from a paper on the UN refugee conventions in the hope that we as a community will become as educated as we can about what our laws are with respect to refugees seeking asylum.
Last week Trump's White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer accused Iran of attacking a U.S. naval vessel. There were just two problem's with that statement: 1) no U.S. naval vessel was attacked, and 2) no Iranian vessel did any attacking.
The paragraph made me chuckle a bit:
The Archdiocese of St. Louis is deeply saddened and disturbed by the Boy Scouts of America’s announcement that the organization will allow transgender youth into its programs.
Two openly transgender people are running for positions on Minneapolis' City Council this year.
One of the worst crimes being committed on the planet is the deforestation of tropical rain forests in Indonesia. Indeed, investment in palm oil is responsible for a massive release of greenhouse gases and toxic wildfires in Indonesia, which produced a deadly miasma of gases that killed an estimated 100,000 people in 2015.
It may be the right time for this type of confrontation.
As the Trump administration prepared to challenge a ruling against its executive order on refugees and travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, experts said the US had been brought to the brink of a full-blown constitutional crisis.
(Three years ago on the eve of the Super Bowl I published this at TOP. Thought I'd re-publish here today, in light of how the cross-section of fascism includes the massive pro sports industry residing squarely at the heart of corporatism and militarism. NFL coaches Rex Ryan and Bill Belichick are on record having publicly "endorsed" Trump, and the Fraternal Order of Police swung their weight behind him too.
Justice is blind and also slow. In America Justice remains slow but is no longer blind, overtly giving power to elites and corporations. Many inequities in law we experience today are the results of a two-tiered "justice" system. As the purpose of this essay is not to concentrate on judicial failings, and by extension societal failings, but to discuss a topic in which restrictions are antiquated, racist in origin, and empirically self-defeating.
