Posted on 09/15/2015 1:25:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Via the Daily Caller, note that he’s talking specifically about refugees here, not migrants. Migrants seek a better job market in a wealthier economy; refugees seek safe haven from being persecuted or killed if they stay where they are. One of the headaches Germany and its EU partners are suffering right now is figuring out how many of the many thousands from the Middle East who are pounding on Europe’s door are true refugees and how many are merely migrants.
How will Beck distinguish between the two, and then distinguish the refugees from aspiring terrorists? He says he has a plan for that.
“I asked if my audience could raise $10 million before Christmas to bring the Christians in from Syria,” Beck explained. “We will vet them ourselves. We have former CIA people that are going over and they’re vetting everybody right now. We can save more people by Christmas than Oscar Schindler saved. Okay? Well, what are you going to do with them? What are you going to do with them? How are you going to get them in here? State Department won’t let them in. Really? Because I know some bridges over a river in Texas that doesn’t seem to matter. It doesn’t seem to matter. And if they want to say, ‘Now you can’t bring those people in, now you can’t, that’s somehow illegal, we’ll put you in jail’ – I will so gladly grace a jail for the justice cause of saving people’s lives. I don’t need your permission at all to do the right thing! That’s who we need to be now! Forget about Washington! You don’t need permission to do the right thing.”
He mentions Christians specifically there when asked whom he’s planning to smuggle but elsewhere he’s less clear. “When we can watch them and see a boy laying face down in the sand and we don’t accept them into our country,” he told the Caller, “we don’t have a light that we’re holding by that door anymore.” That’s a reference, I take it, to Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old boy from Syria who drowned off the coast of Turkey en route to Greece and washed up on the beach, where his body became the subject of a now famous news photo. If I’m not mistaken, Kurdi and his family are Muslim, not Christian; they also appear to be migrants, not refugees, as they had found safe haven in Turkey after leaving Syria. In fact, according to one passenger on the boat that carried Kurdi, the boy’s father was a smuggler who was bringing refugees to Greece for a payday. Point being, vetting people is much harder than it seems. Mark Krikorian:
[R]efugees from the Islamic world cannot be properly vetted. I don’t mean only that the Obama administration has a frivolous approach to “violent extremists,” or that the Department of Homeland Security hasn’t shown itself especially competent in this regard. Rather, it is impossible to weed out jihadists from a refugee flow. Who are we going to check with, the Damascus police department? It’s not like any document claiming to be from Syria can be relied on; fake Syrian passports, for instance, are in great demand.
James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, acknowledged the problem the other day, noting that “We don’t obviously put it past the likes of ISIL to infiltrate operatives among these refugees.” But even he was overly optimistic, claiming that the U.S. has a “pretty aggressive” system of background checks before admitting refugees. I have no doubt our people are doing their best, but James Bond and Superman could team up to do the background checks and they’d still fail, given the utter lack of any information to go on…
Of course, one way of addressing the security concerns would be to resettle only Christians from Syria, which some countries are considering. Even that would entail careful scrutiny to make sure they weren’t Muslims who studied “Christianity for Dummies” just to pass the test.
A question for Beck and a question for everyone else. For him: Would he exclude families with children Alan Kurdi’s age from his refugee operation if they’re Muslim? For everyone else: Isn’t his plan the correct Christian approach to this problem? I know one prominent Christian who’d be pretty excited about it, I think.
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Glenn is undermining all the good stories he unfolded, books he wrote, etc. What a shame.
Why Does No One Care?’ Beck Asks if This Is Why Americans Aren’t Doing More for Persecuted Christians in the Middle East | VIDEO |
I always got a kick of how one of the biggest nerds in Hollywood played the epitome of cool.
‘Mutica! Frig YEA! ;)
If he really cared, he would do it secretry with his own damn money.
Is there a Baker Act in his state? He needs to be Baker Acted.
If you wanted to do it, it would be eezy-peezy.
Bring em into Saudi Arabia.
Get the Saudis to issue Saudi passports.
Put em on a plane.
They can come right in with no checks.
OR
Get them into Me-he-co and just have them walk across the border and say “Yo reclamo el asilo político”.
I wonder if Beck ever went after Conservatives for breaking the law by following their conscience. Human trafficking is illegal and then putting taxpayers responsible for their well being once they arrive is immoral
I wonder if the folks who give to these frequent Beck-a-Thons ever follow up on whether he does what he says he’s going to do?
“Yeah, I’m going to “secretly” smuggle hundreds of thousands of refuges after announcing it on my national radio show”. Lol
Sadly, folks are sending cash. “Little old ladies handing bags of coins to the security forces at his church.”, as he claimed this morning. Apparently the exalted one can’t be approached by commoners.
He and his sidekick also joked about “All the proceeds going to the refugee effort ... after the 99% administration fee. Ha, ha, ha.”
But, of course, in every joke there is an element of truth so I’m sure he’s either skimming or pocketing all of it when he’s prevented from bringing anyone in that couldn’t have gotten here anyway. That could be a crap-load of money.
God, I hate Glenn Beck.
If only someone could come up with a plan to smuggle Glenn Beck OUT of the US. Then we’d be on to something.
I have an idea..I will take 2 Syrian Christians and let them stay if Syria can take Glenn Beck off our hands..he has already said that Tea Partiers who support Donald Trump are racist..yeah he has pulled out the “You are a racist” card..he sounds more and more like Obama and the left each day..makes me wonder if we have all been conned and Beck is really a leftist dip sh*t who has supported Obama from the start
smuggle Glenn Beck OUT —
Put him in a burka.
Now, about vetting. Seriously, we can’t do that for Syrians. And I hear that some muslims are ‘converting’ to Christianity to obtain refugee status. Now, to convert to mormon is just the next step.
Note that mormons have to proselyte from Christians. They have to ‘correct’ them and explain ‘a newer revelation’. Their message is meaningless as it stands alone.
Glenn Beck: I have a plan to smuggle Syrian refugees into the U.S. and all I need is you to buy the Food Insurance survival food I am selling.....
Yes, he’s talking about Christians.
However, I do not trust him or my government take be 100% certain that’s exactly what they are, and frankly, I’d rather they stay in their own country.
I am not for importing the rest of this lunatic earth into my country, and I don’t really care what religion they are.
According to Forbes, he’s worth $100 mil,
This reminds me of Pastor Gas for some reason.
Thats a lot of conned people.
Yep.
Isn’t it interesting how easily people say that the US isn’t the worlds cop until their own pet project calls for the US to be world cop? At which point it’s like history began this morning! It’s different!
FRAUDS.
This “Beck” is deranged. Who listens to this clown anymore?
This week, he’s Oskar Schindler. Last month he was MLK. A regular ‘Walter Mitty’.
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