Posted on 10/22/2018 3:09:46 PM PDT by tired&retired
Two people burn a United States flag during a protest in favor of the caravan of migrants that is currently stuck on the Guatemala-Mexico border, in front of the American embassy, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Friday, Oct. 19, 2018.
It appears they set multiple flags on fire as this picture from the BBC shows a second flag set ablaze and treated like garbage:
Thank you for saying that. While I posted this thread, I do have compassion for most of the people who are just pawns for the others.
re: “I’m talking about the US government and its actions to Honduras. Dinesh has nothing to do with this, ...”
You don’t understand this do you?
YES or NO - was it democrats in power that did Honduras wrong (LIKE the democrats did back then to the Indians, *and* Dinesh D’Souza documents that fact)?
I saw on Fox News that they are headed to California.
they must need voters for next month ,LOL
I just watched over 5 minutes of an interview with Ramos on FOX and 90% of the refugees passing him are young men. Very few children or women. Not the news feed we normally see but I would bet, especially those that arrive at the US border, will be predominantly young men. Not a fair representation of the typical flight of refugees. Definitely not family units in most cases.
The US is partly to blame, from the actions taken by the Obama administration. It is a FACT that President Maduro had his boot on the neck of the gangs: and we forced him to stop and negotiate.
You do not negotiate with gangs. You kill them. En mass. That in return had a similar impact in El Salvador not one year later.
Republican, Democrat, or Independent....It was the US Government. Do you LOGIC much?
Have a heart people. They just want to rape and pillage for awhile and then go home and live like kings. We should have welcomed the Golden Horde with open arms also. Yes, they still would have raped and pillaged, but just imagine how good you would feel about the situation.
Have a heart people. Having a heart does not mean that we become stupid and vulnerable..
We need a big wall with a big door in it... and screen all who pass through it for approval.
Makes the use of beehive rounds on the terrorists who try to invade the U.S. more palatable.
That was a joke. The Golden Horde were the Mongols. They won every battle until the Egyptians fielded the first ever hand cannon regiment.
The hand cannon was widely used in China from the 13th century onward and later throughout Europe in the 14th century until at least the 1560s, when it was supplanted by the matchlock arquebus, which is the first firearm to have a trigger.
Hand cannons first saw widespread usage in China sometime during the 13th century and spread from there to the rest of the world. In 1287 Yuan Jurchen troops deployed hand cannons in putting down a rebellion by the Mongol prince Nayan. The earliest artistic depiction of a hand cannon – a rock sculpture found among the Dazu Rock Carvings – is dated to 1128, earlier than any recorded or precisely dated archaeological samples, so it is possible that the concept of a cannon-like firearm has existed since the 12th century.
The oldest extant hand cannon bearing a date of production is the Xanadu Gun, dated to 1298. The Heilongjiang hand cannon has been dated to no later than 1288, but this dating is based on contextual evidence; the gun bears no inscription or era date. Other specimens also likely predate the Xanadu and Heilongjiang guns and have been traced back to the Western Xia period, but these too lack inscriptions and era dates.
The earliest reliable evidence of hand cannons in Europe appeared in 1326 and evidence of their production can be dated as early as 1327. The first recorded use of gunpowder weapons in Europe was in 1331 when two mounted Germanic knights attacked Cividale del Friuli with gunpowder weapons of some sort. By 1338 hand cannons were in widespread use in France.
During the 14th century the Arabs seem to have used the hand cannon to some degree. Cannons are attested to in India starting from 1366. The Joseon kingdom in Korea acquired knowledge of gunpowder from China by 1374 and started producing cannons by 1377. In Southeast Asia soldiers were using hand cannons at the very latest by 1390 when they employed them in killing the king of Champa, Che Bong Nga.
Japan was already aware of gunpowder warfare due to the Mongol invasions during the 13th century, but cannons were not mentioned until 1510 when a monk acquired one during his travels in China, and firearms were not produced until 1543, when the Portuguese introduced matchlocks which were known as tanegashima to the Japanese.
re: “Republican, Democrat, or Independent....It was the US Government. Do you LOGIC much?”
Fail.
Fail in several categories, including comprehension.
Have a good day.
Overall great comment by you.
That WAS Obama’s doing, and it was DESPICABLE, and intentionally and malignantly done to feed his desire to “keep Honduras fascist” just like he wants to do everywhere.
We have missed an opportunity to try to undo Obama’s deceits there.
I wish those Hondurans who fought that constitutional (+) battle then would fight harder there now. The people fleeing north ought to fight there, too, instead of leaving.
You are getting flack here because you seem to be agreeing it is OK for some people in one poorly working country (among many many like that) to essentially invade these US “without fail,” unlike what anyone else is allowed to do.
ISIS creeps hold women and children as human shields. How it this different?
“The Caravan” knows nice folks like us Americans do not really want to hurt them. They are their own human shield.
Therefore, what they are doing, if not actually a violent invasion, is at least a form of stealing, extortion, and passive aggressive violence with invasion. It is always going to be wrong, really wrong. It’s making us all mad!
It is a losing battle here on Free Republic if you really are trying to justify these “caravans.” I do not think you think that, you are just clarifying, but emotions are up.
We need ONLY WELL CONTROLLED immigration with true diversity (immigrants from everywhere, not just pushy or nearby countries) and time and plans (like you cannot all just live on one spot like Minnesota and take over things) for proper assimilation into American culture to take place. And some cultures asimilate easier and faster. Try to move here from England, way harder than from Somolia! Makes no sense. But giving in to huge mobs pushing their way in using babies as human sheilds sets a really bad precedent. We can’t permit that!
However, I do think thsat everyone should read and think about your comments because there is some real meat in them.
I repeat that I am glad that you point out the fact that [Obama with the usual cabal of democrats and Rinos] intentionally and disgustingly struck out malignantly at Honduras in 2009 right when they were making progress in proper government. That really pissed me off at the time and I am still pissed about it.
I suspect you know more about all that then most of us, and it would be good for you to continue educating and reminding us on those issues.
Thanks!
Great comment of yours, House Atreides:
“Perhaps you need to encourage them to start a MHGA (Make Honduras Great Again) movement and take charge of building up their own country.”
Well, who wouldn’t welcome them with open arms after that. Unbelievable!
The perfect solution would be for them to go live with the Obamas, I mean who wouldn’t jump at that opportunity?
If you can’t see the difference between Hispanics and Muslims, you need some help.
California is friendlier to them and easier to get into.
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