[Vaquero]

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Benjamin Franklin.

I understand your desire to be protected from those who would commit mayhem on American citizens. folks here at Free Republic were a little more forgiving of this during the less draconian presidency of GW Bush. But he was not all sweetness and light either and in retrospect it was a mistake to take away some of our liberty to stop the scumbags that blew up our buildings and planes.

what should have happened was that there should have been a concerted effort to block non citizens from Islamic countries from entering and/or giving them citizenship. They are a stealth bunch who would lie to their own mothers to get in and eventually gain citizenship. nothing in our constitution says we have to let anyone in as citizens. the protections are there for those already citizens

[444Flyer]

And with the current embrace of Islam by this administration, can you even trust they would preempt an event for fear of being seen as Islamaphobic? The current system is rooted in the paranoia possessed by the ruling elite (think Nan Pelosi with that gavel in hand) being created under Obama, and that paranoia is insatiable. The system is designed for the control of the law abiding population. It's what power obsessed tyrants have done in history past. And it is a terrible thing to be witnessing in this nation.

[Augustinian monk]

“what should have happened was that there should have been a concerted effort to block non citizens from Islamic countries from entering and/or giving them citizenship. They are a stealth bunch who would lie to their own mothers to get in and eventually gain citizenship. nothing in our constitution says we have to let anyone in as citizens. the protections are there for those already citizens”

I have had the same idea. Of course, I wouldn’t have gone about it blatantly (b/c of friction it might cause with other nations in the world. But require so much red tape and screening that the process takes years and years.