By Thomas Madison
Donald Trump is being vilified by the media, liberals, and even members of the Republican party for suggesting that perhaps there should be a halt to allowing unvetted Muslims into our country. For that his detractors are claiming that anyone advocating such a radical proposal is a bigot, a racist, an Islamophobe, a clone of Adolf Hitler, and worse, and even demanding that he get out of the race for president as he or anyone advocating such a policy is unfit for the office of President of the United States.
Those very same sniveling whiners from the left and the media did not bother to check their history. Had they done just a teeny bit of background research, which any halfway decent journalist and their leftist nutjob pals should always do before embarrassing themselves, they would have discovered that there is modern precedence for Trump’s proposal, and that it is not such a far-fetched idea. President Jimma Cotta banned Muslims from the US in 1980 when he banned all Iranians from immigration to the US. Iran is an Islamic state.
The likely reason the whiners conveniently misremembered history and neglected to mention this precedent is because the “decider” who imposed the ban was an unapologetic leftist crybaby in his own right, James Earl Carter, who leaned on the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, otherwise known as the Immigration and Nationality Act, to impose his ban policy.
Now the progressive fruitcakes are clamoring in concert that Trump is a monster and his proposal to ban Muslims is unconstitutional. NO, it isn’t! Nowhere in our constitution does it promise wide-open borders and allowing every potential jihadist on the planet to enter the US and kill us all. That is simply NOWHERE in our constitution!
So, come on, you whimpering whiney wussies from the left, study your damned history next time BEFORE you embarrass yourselves in public with your ignorance!
Trump is right again!
From Daniel Greenfield, FRONTPAGE MAG
Trump is a monster, a madman and a vile racist. He’s just like Hitler. Or Jimmy Carter.
During the Islamic Revolution’s Iranian hostage crisis in which Islamists took over the country, Carter issued a number of orders to put pressure on Iran. Among these, Iranians were banned from entering the United States unless they oppose the Shiite Islamist regime or had a medical emergency.
Here’s Jimmy “Hitler” Carter saying it back in 1980.
Fourth, the Secretary of Treasury [State] and the Attorney General will invalidate all visas issued to Iranian citizens for future entry into the United States, effective today. We will not reissue visas, nor will we issue new visas, except for compelling and proven humanitarian reasons or where the national interest of our own country requires. This directive will be interpreted very strictly.
Apparently barring people from a terrorist country is not against “our values” after all. It may even be “who we are”. Either that or Carter was a racist monster just like Trump.
While Iran was a nation, it was targeted because it was overrun by Shiite Islamists who were engaging in terrorism against America. Sunni Islamists like ISIS have a big footprint in far more countries than Iran did so a visa ban targeting them needs to be much broader in scope than going after one country.
Meanwhile here’s how the Iranian students who had become notorious for Anti-American protests in the US were treated.
Carter orders 50,000 Iranian students in US to report to immigration office with view to deporting those in violation of their visas. On 27 December 1979, US appeals court allows deportation of Iranian students found in violation.
In November 1979, the Attorney General had given all Iranian students one month to report to the local immigration office. Around 7,000 were found in violation of their visas. Around 15,000 Iranians were forced to leave the US. The ACLU protested, lawyers sued over the deportations and lost. First Amendment objections were set aside by a Federal Appeals court.
Meanwhile any Iranians entering the US were forced to undergo secondary screening.
Interestingly enough, Carter did this by invoking the Nationality Act of 1952. A law originally opposed by Democrats for its attempt to restrict Communist immigration to the United States.
“If this oasis of the world should be overrun, perverted, contaminated, or destroyed, then the last flickering light of humanity will be extinguished,” Senator McCarran said of the law. He was a Democrat.
Now unlike Muslims, Iranians were not necessarily supportive of Islamic terrorism. Many were and are opponents of it. Khomeini didn’t represent Iran as a country, but his Islamist allies. So Trump’s proposal is far more legitimate than Carter’s action. Carter targeted people by nationality. Trump’s proposal does so by ideology.
