{"id":15585,"date":"2018-02-04T14:04:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T19:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=15585"},"modified":"2018-02-04T14:04:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T19:04:16","slug":"trumps-pick-for-u-n-migration-post-said-accepting-syrian-refugees-was-foolish-and-delusional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/trumps-pick-for-u-n-migration-post-said-accepting-syrian-refugees-was-foolish-and-delusional\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s pick for U.N. migration post said accepting Syrian refugees was \u2018foolish and delusional\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/syrian-refugee-pic.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Do you remember right after 9\/11 when everyone said that we would never back down to terrorists? Our leaders proclaimed that we would NOT live our lives in fear or let these acts of terror change our way of life&#8230;remember that? Well, this is the absolute opposite of that.<\/p>\n<p>Choosing not to help refugees is SO fucking un-American. We should be ashamed as a country for letting our fears cause us to treat people in need like terrorists because of where they are from&#8230;because they are trying to ESCAPE the terror. #WTFAmerica ?!?<br \/>\nAnd you politicians using that same fear to further your political agenda of surveillance and suppression and your party line policies&#8230;you know who you are&#8230;<br \/>\nFuck you, and then go fuck yourselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2DZyJXq\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2DZyJXq<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember right after 9\/11 when everyone said that we would never back down to terrorists? Our leaders proclaimed that we would NOT live our lives in fear or let these acts of terror change our way of life&#8230;remember that? Well, this is the absolute opposite of that. Choosing not to help refugees is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-15585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15791,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/portugal-is-one-of-the-few-european-countries-that-hasnt-been-at-war-with-the-arabs\/","url_meta":{"origin":15585,"position":0},"title":"Portugal is one of the few European countries that hasn&#8217;t &#8216;been at war&#8217; with the Arabs","date":"February 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"America, lately anyway, treats the rest of the world like shit...at least for all the #ShitholeCountries. Rich countries, nuclear countries, and mostly-white countries are the exceptions, of course. No wonder we're targeted, instead of respected. When we tell refugees to return home to be killed or tortured, closing our borders\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12446,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/canada-pm-will-not-halt-illegal-border-crossing-despite-opposition\/","url_meta":{"origin":15585,"position":1},"title":"Canada PM: will not halt illegal border crossing despite opposition","date":"February 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Amazing. There could be terrorists among the refugees crossing the border to escape tyranny, discrimination, and hatred. Why isn't Canada afraid of terrorists? They could build a wall...http:\/\/reut.rs\/2lt4f7u","rel":"","context":"In &quot;blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15214,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/dhs-calls-pennsylvania-police-shootings-a-terror-attack\/","url_meta":{"origin":15585,"position":2},"title":"DHS calls Pennsylvania police shootings &#8216;a terror attack&#8217;","date":"December 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm a bit fed up with how the government and press decides what is a terrorist attack...because it seems like it's only terror if the perpetrator's name is Ahmed or Mohammad...which is a bunch of racism on a bun. Look. Terrorism is defined by the act, not the actor. 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