More Afghani Rapists
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 2:18 am
Douglas Mercer
July 16 2021
Here come the towel heads!
So lock up your daughters.
Do you ever get the feeling that our rulers want to always do the right and honorable thing by foreigners but when it comes to us they'd sooner piss on us than look on us? If there are "refugees" from war torn areas they bend over backwards (if we're lucky) to accommodate them and resettle them in America. If we happened to be the cause of that war then it's even more imperative. It's simply the moral thing to do.
After fighting a pointless war in Vietnam, the horror of the dead was not enough. No, not in the insane country that America had become by then. The full bill was yet to come due. In the wake of our ignominious loss we had to welcome hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese here to make amends you know. After all these had been our allies and they had been plucky and dogged in their support. If we left them behind they would be at the tender mercies of the Viet Cong. And you know what that means.
Boo hoo.
"The Ford administration was grappling with two critical questions. First, whether it was America's moral responsibility to repatriate Vietnamese who supported the United States during the war. And second, how might such a resettlement be accomplished."
People say that the Vietnamese in Westminster, California (aka Little Saigon) are a good example of a model minority. Though they do have gang problems they certainly beat negros or Mexicans, but that's a really low bar to set. And as for their economic prowess never forget that when they came here the government fell all over itself giving them loans with cheap rates, the kinds of loans White people could never get. So that was the seedbed of those tacky strip malls with the nail salons, the immigration lawyer, acupuncture, the knock off hand bags store, and those restaurants which serve meals larded with meats which seem decent going down but within an hour make you queasily pause to consider their provenance. All in all they are probably good for the tax base which is what our elites want. But other than that they add absolutely nothing to our culture or country, subtract quite a bit from it, and they live clannishly like they never left the old country, and they speak a particularly brutal form of dog language.
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter spoke about America's moral responsibility to those fleeing Vietnam: "The refugees who are now leaving Southeast Asia were our allies in the recent Vietnam War. They are leaving a country that had taken away their basic rights. They believe in individual worth, individual initiative and personal freedom. They're more philosophically attuned to us than the communist regime that has taken over."
Right, they are reading John Locke and wearing Adam Smith ties. They want free trade, free markets, and limitless social freedom. It's the entire neo-liberal smorgasbord if you think about it long enough.
"We now know the dire consequences for those who were unable to leave Vietnam before the fall of Saigon. Many Vietnamese who remained were marked as collaborators with the U.S. and were sent to "reeducation camps," which included brutal forced prison labor and ideology training."
Not that they need an excuse to flood our country with alien races but this is their favorite: we screwed up that country so bad by waging war on it that now we are obliged to bring in the people who helped us as a matter of honor.
Now that it looks like America's "longest war" is going to end it's time to bring the towel heads in. That's what they say, at least. We can hear the same woof and warp as before. They know the playbook, it's so eerily similiar it's really just a cut and paste job We fought an expensive and meaningless war and now we're on the hook for a couple hundred thousand foreigners to inundate us because they once aided us in our criminal enterprise.
One way or another we always pay.
"It's the right thing to do"
In order to soften up Americans for the Afghan invasion they made a TV Series called The United States Of AL.
The series follows Al, an interpreter from Afghanistan who moves to Columbus, Ohio with his friend Riley a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.
Naturally, good times, misunderstandings, and hijinks ensue.
So now this Al fellow gets to be in our living rooms showing that he is a real good guy, not threatening at all, and gets to fire off quick one liners and snappy sarcastic dialogue. Who wouldn't welcome such a person into his neighborhood? He's just like us, only more so. He's just the wacky friend who doesn't quite yet get all the references, but he's certainly not going to rape your daughters.
Reza Aslan is the show's executive producer and it's not a surprise that the show works "hand in hand" with No One Left Behind, a non-profit dedicated to "ensuring that America keeps its promise to our interpreters from Iraq and Afghanistan."
We made promises? Why wasn't I informed about that? I don't recall mortgaging my future on behalf of stone age throwbacks. And that's something I would have remembered.
The show also works with the International Refugee Assistance Project, which provides legal and systemic advocacy to refugees.
Man, those refugees are really set up.
Aslan came to America at age 7 in 1979 with his family as they fled the Iranian Revolution (see a pattern here?).
A banner headline about him: " Author Reza Aslan worries that immigrants aren't protected."
A ludicrous statement from him: "We all have our piece in the American story. Whether as a new immigrant, native to this land, a descendent of slavery or those who came to our nation seeking a better life. Because for all of us, America is home."
"Forty-six years later, in the wake of another war, President Biden now faces the same questions with regards to Afghanistan. For thousands of Afghans today, prison labor may seem like an attractive option—as opposed to the summary executions that the Taliban carried out on those supporting coalition forces."
"Both the HOPE for Afghans Act and current international law fall disastrously short in protecting other segments of the Afghan population who will undoubtedly lose significant freedoms, if not their lives, with greater Taliban control of the country. This is especially true for Afghan women and girls, who face threats not only to their safety but risk a return to pre-2001 Afghanistan with severe barriers to education and work outside the home."
Here comes the endless parade of horribles. Got it? You don't want death on your hands, do you? Could you live with yourself? That's what they hope will be most people's reaction as they emotionally manipulate people into feeling guilty so they cave to the notion that it's a moral duty to allow these people in, resettle them, counsel them, and give them inordinate amount of money sot that they can be as comfortable as possible in their (not ours anymore) new country.
Would that they were so solicitous of us. Would that they would pass bills, show the same passion, the same sense of urgency, take care to cut the red tape, would that they would lavish this kind of attention and care on the White people who keep them afloat, keep their lights on. But instead it's just a thumb in our eye and utter disdain.
"Representative Jason Crow and members of the Honoring our Promises Working Group introduced the Averting Loss of Life and Injury by Expediting SIVs (ALLIES) Act, a bill designed to protect our Afghan partners and expedite the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) process as the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan. The ALLIES Act was introduced alongside 24 bipartisan members of Congress."
When it comes to Jason Crow I prefer Jim Crow.
And when it comes to the scare stories they don't hold back, they really lay it with with a trowel boy:
"As the Taliban continues to retake territory, the stakes for both those who assisted the U.S. (translators, guides, contractors, et cetera) and their families have never been higher as they face escalating threats, including the risk of death."
"In a situation such as this, bureaucratic delays can literally mean death for those involved."
Stop the presses and drop everything, this is priority number one, all must fall before this. We (that is they) made a sacred pledge. And the numbers are staggering:
"The State Department has sought to correct the initial failures of the program, and since 2014, authorized 26,500 Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) to Afghan nationals under the Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009."
"To address the current refugee crisis resulting from the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Biden pledged that "those who helped us are not going to be left behind." And in Congress, the House recently passed the HOPE for Afghan SIVS Act, which is a critical step to ensure a swifter visa process for the estimated 18,000 Afghans who worked with the U.S. in support roles. The administration is also exploring Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as temporary havens while refugees are being processed for settlement in America."
You know those numbers will rise. This is just the apertif. They'll find thousands of Afghans who once picked up some trash within ten miles of an American compound, or who waved at passing jeep, or just wants to come here, and it will be come one come all.
Oh yeah and didn't we all hear stories about when those Afghans who were our allies couldn't find a goat with a sweet enough disposition so they'd take out their base lusts on boys? And our men over there knew about it but turned a blind eye to boy rape because, well, the alliance you know. Remember that?
"Members of Congress complained about a U.S. soldier being forced out of the military because he intervened in 2011, attacking an Afghan police commander he believed was raping a child."
"The State Department, in its annual human rights report, has consistently said that sexual abuse of children remains pervasive in Afghanistan. And it documents the practice called “bacha bazi” — which means dancing boys. Bacha Bazi involves the sexual abuse of boys, often by powerful or wealthy local businessmen, who sexually abuse young boys trained to dance in female clothes."
Boy rape is so endemic to these people that certain categories of it have even been bestowed with their own name. Dollars to donuts that some of those "businessman will sneak over hear under the cover of these "laws" and "programs" they seem so hell bent on creating and they'll bring their perversion and lasciviousness along with them. Dance lads, dance!
Here comes the towel heads!
Locks up you daughters---and your sons.
Allies indeed.
***
Just put your neck on the chopping block. That's what they want us to do. Unhinged lunatic Williams James expressed it best, he said that it is more important to be moral than to survive, best to be dead right as it were.
"Don't you wand to be thought well of? Have a nice eulogy?
In truth survival is the only morality. It's the fame of a dead man's deeds that are remembered, not his sentimental fantasies of so-called rectitude.
"Although it is impossible right now to reliably estimate the possible number of refugees, the U.S. has to be ready to meet a potential moral commitment on a scale similar to the 125,000 Vietnamese refugees granted asylum in the U.S. following that war."
When the say it's impossible to estimate it's because they are already planning on revising and revising it upwards and upwards. You can bet on that.
Not that they need it but they trot out the old song and dance about the protocols we signed and the conventions we are a party to, to show that it's all legal, all according to international norms, all according to Hoyle, so move right along bigot, nothing to see here.
"For interpreters, translators and others who supported the U.S., these individuals and their families can now rightfully claim that they face the threat of "persecution" for reasons of "race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion." Their political choices have made them targets for Taliban retaliation and thus they qualify as refugees under international and U.S. law. This designation offers them protection under the United Nations 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocols related to the status of refugees as well as under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program."
When I hear UN convention, when I hear the word "protocol" I reach for my gun.
"The international community must be ready for the potential outflow."
It's funny but when you read the technical literature on immigration and refugees, you learn that the world "flow" and most especially "flows" is actually a technical term they use, as in "the flows they are experiencing," or "flows from war ravaged areas" or "there will be more flows this year than last" and the like.
"For those women and other groups who succeed in reaching international boundaries in the future or identify themselves to U.S. authorities while the embassy remains in Kabul (estimated at six to 12 months by skeptical U.S. intelligence officials), provisions for expatriation and asylum must be made."
"It's the right thing to do."
"Must be made."
"The Afghan SIV Program was created in 2009 to provide safety for Afghan interpreters, contractors, and security personnel who worked with the U.S. government in Afghanistan. The application process has been plagued by delays since the program was established and faces severe backlogs, with wait times routinely stretching for years. Since the Biden Administration announced its plans to withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, Crow has called on the Administration to expedite this visa process, as Afghan SIV applicants and their families are increasingly under threat by the Taliban."
Expedite, clear backlogs, move heaven and earth, by all means necessary, whatever it takes. When are elites make up their mind about something it's amazing how quickly they can move in one direction.
"The ALLIES Act would increase the Afghan SIV cap by an additional 8,000 visas and remove burdensome application requirements that slow down the application process without impacting national security."
Why, why not just bring them in by the planeloads right now, one on top of the other, drop them off in small rural towns across America, pay their rent, and give them fistfuls of cash and all the follow up support services they need?
“When I served in Iraq and Afghanistan, I worked closely with local translators and contractors who were critical to our safety and the success of our mission. They performed this service at great risk to themselves and their families, but with the understanding that the U.S. would stand by them,” said Rep. Jason Crow. “Now it is time for the U.S. to honor our promises and protect our Afghan partners. The ALLIES Act would expedite the SIV application process by increasing the SIV cap and removing burdensome requirements. I’m proud to work on this commonsense legislation with my colleagues in the Honoring our Promises Working Group.”
They keep speaking of this "understanding" yet if there really was such an understanding (rather than a fervent wish) they really should have been up front about it to us, and not shock us with obligations we never were aware that we incurred.
"While the program has suffered unacceptable delays and backlogs since its creation, the imminent withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan has placed thousands of our allies at risk for retribution. Today, I’m proud to co-lead legislation with my colleague Congressman Crow that will authorize additional SIVs and remove unnecessary hurdles for our allies to find safety in the United States—just as we promised,” said Congressman Kinzinger. “More needs to be done to fulfill our promise to our Afghan allies. The Administration must begin evacuating those most at risk for retribution from the Taliban. Again, I want to thank Congressman Crow for his leadership in crafting this legislation.”
Kinzinger was the guy who is such a Ruling Class tool that not too long ago his family wrote an open letter in which they publicly disowned him. I'm sure their only regret at this point after he continually inaugurates fresh outrage after fresh outrage is that they can only disown him once.
“Alliance with Afghan wartime allies forged bridges to the Afghan people and their linguistic skills proved essential in building close working relations with local nationals. Now, with the U.S. withdrawal date in Afghanistan drawing closer, their lives are endangered more than ever as terrorist organizations like the Taliban seek retribution. The ALLIES Act will increase the cap of Afghan SIVs and ensure Afghan interpreters can move expeditiously through the SIV process so they can leave Afghanistan as soon as possible. The American Legion vigorously supports the ALLIES Act because it will protect the lives of Afghan interpreters and recognize their contributions as loyal allies who stood shoulder to shoulder with U.S. servicemembers,” said Chairman Steve Brennan, The American Legion National Security Commission.
“No One Left Behind continues to strongly support Reps. Crow and the Honoring Our Promise Working Group's bipartisan work to expedite the SIV process for allies. This Afghan Allies Protection Act and the issues surrounding the SIV program have now spanned 3 administrations, 7 Congresses, 5 Secretaries of State, and 7 Secretaries of Defense. We have documented 300 interpreters and their families who have been killed while waiting for their visas - likely a low estimate. There is a very real human cost to our government's bureaucratic failings,” said James Miervaldis, Chairman of No One Left Behind."
Specifically, the Allies Act would:
-Increase the Afghan SIV cap by an additional 8,000 visas;
-Remove the requirement for a “credible sworn statement” regarding the threat applicants face for having worked for or on behalf of the U.S. government, since both public and clandestine reporting confirm that Afghans who have worked for the U.S. face heightened risk of retribution from the Taliban.
-Remove the requirement for International Security Assistance Force or Resolute Support employment to be “sensitive and trusted”, expanding the field of qualified applicants.
"Crow started the Honoring Our Promises Working Group in April, following the Administration’s announcement of a September 11th withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. The lawmakers’ goal is to expedite legislative efforts to protect Afghan partners. Crow introduced the HOPE for Afghan SIVs Act alongside Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), bipartisan legislation to temporarily waive the medical examination requirement for SIV applicants, which is cost prohibitive and difficult for many applicants to safely receive."
Waive the sworn statement, waive the medical requirement, ease the burdens, speed up the process.
Wave them in.
Here come the towel heads!
***
Tippie Hedren is that Aryan Goddess who was rocketed to international fame for her role in Alfred Hitchock's The Birds. She also was one of those big humanitarians who stick their noses in where the don't belong. Story is that in the 1970s she visited Vietnamese Refugee camps and taught the women there how to do nails; since that time these Vietnamese women have colonized the nail salon business far and wide, they have become a by word for it.
"Hedren played a role in the development of Vietnamese-American nail salons in the United States. In 1975, while an international relief coordinator with Food for the hungry, she began visiting with refugees at Hope Village outside Sacramento, California when she learned the women were interested in her manicured nails, she employed her manicurist to teach them the skills of the trade and worked with a local beauty school to help them find jobs. H jobs. Hedren'work with the Vietnamese-Americans was the subject of several documentaries: Happy Hands, directed by Honey Lauren, which won Best Documentary Short at the Sonoma International Film Festival in 2014 and "Nailedit: Vietnamese and the Nail Industry" which won the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) 2014 Documentary Fund Award. CND and Beauty Changes Lives Foundation (BCL) have announced the BCL CND Tippi Hedren Nail Scholarship Fund to support professional nail education and will be administered starting January 1, 2014."
Here's the thing: it never would have occurred to this person to do the same thing for any group of struggling White women. And on the absolutely remote chance that she did no one would have made a movie about it. And there certainly would have been no awards.
But just at the mention of some black or brown or yellow foreigner and their hearts begin to melt. Combine that with "national honor" that we have to keep promises made at some unspecified time in some unspecified way and well, before you can say Bacha Bazi---here come the towel heads.
July 16 2021
Here come the towel heads!
So lock up your daughters.
Do you ever get the feeling that our rulers want to always do the right and honorable thing by foreigners but when it comes to us they'd sooner piss on us than look on us? If there are "refugees" from war torn areas they bend over backwards (if we're lucky) to accommodate them and resettle them in America. If we happened to be the cause of that war then it's even more imperative. It's simply the moral thing to do.
After fighting a pointless war in Vietnam, the horror of the dead was not enough. No, not in the insane country that America had become by then. The full bill was yet to come due. In the wake of our ignominious loss we had to welcome hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese here to make amends you know. After all these had been our allies and they had been plucky and dogged in their support. If we left them behind they would be at the tender mercies of the Viet Cong. And you know what that means.
Boo hoo.
"The Ford administration was grappling with two critical questions. First, whether it was America's moral responsibility to repatriate Vietnamese who supported the United States during the war. And second, how might such a resettlement be accomplished."
People say that the Vietnamese in Westminster, California (aka Little Saigon) are a good example of a model minority. Though they do have gang problems they certainly beat negros or Mexicans, but that's a really low bar to set. And as for their economic prowess never forget that when they came here the government fell all over itself giving them loans with cheap rates, the kinds of loans White people could never get. So that was the seedbed of those tacky strip malls with the nail salons, the immigration lawyer, acupuncture, the knock off hand bags store, and those restaurants which serve meals larded with meats which seem decent going down but within an hour make you queasily pause to consider their provenance. All in all they are probably good for the tax base which is what our elites want. But other than that they add absolutely nothing to our culture or country, subtract quite a bit from it, and they live clannishly like they never left the old country, and they speak a particularly brutal form of dog language.
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter spoke about America's moral responsibility to those fleeing Vietnam: "The refugees who are now leaving Southeast Asia were our allies in the recent Vietnam War. They are leaving a country that had taken away their basic rights. They believe in individual worth, individual initiative and personal freedom. They're more philosophically attuned to us than the communist regime that has taken over."
Right, they are reading John Locke and wearing Adam Smith ties. They want free trade, free markets, and limitless social freedom. It's the entire neo-liberal smorgasbord if you think about it long enough.
"We now know the dire consequences for those who were unable to leave Vietnam before the fall of Saigon. Many Vietnamese who remained were marked as collaborators with the U.S. and were sent to "reeducation camps," which included brutal forced prison labor and ideology training."
Not that they need an excuse to flood our country with alien races but this is their favorite: we screwed up that country so bad by waging war on it that now we are obliged to bring in the people who helped us as a matter of honor.
Now that it looks like America's "longest war" is going to end it's time to bring the towel heads in. That's what they say, at least. We can hear the same woof and warp as before. They know the playbook, it's so eerily similiar it's really just a cut and paste job We fought an expensive and meaningless war and now we're on the hook for a couple hundred thousand foreigners to inundate us because they once aided us in our criminal enterprise.
One way or another we always pay.
"It's the right thing to do"
In order to soften up Americans for the Afghan invasion they made a TV Series called The United States Of AL.
The series follows Al, an interpreter from Afghanistan who moves to Columbus, Ohio with his friend Riley a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.
Naturally, good times, misunderstandings, and hijinks ensue.
So now this Al fellow gets to be in our living rooms showing that he is a real good guy, not threatening at all, and gets to fire off quick one liners and snappy sarcastic dialogue. Who wouldn't welcome such a person into his neighborhood? He's just like us, only more so. He's just the wacky friend who doesn't quite yet get all the references, but he's certainly not going to rape your daughters.
Reza Aslan is the show's executive producer and it's not a surprise that the show works "hand in hand" with No One Left Behind, a non-profit dedicated to "ensuring that America keeps its promise to our interpreters from Iraq and Afghanistan."
We made promises? Why wasn't I informed about that? I don't recall mortgaging my future on behalf of stone age throwbacks. And that's something I would have remembered.
The show also works with the International Refugee Assistance Project, which provides legal and systemic advocacy to refugees.
Man, those refugees are really set up.
Aslan came to America at age 7 in 1979 with his family as they fled the Iranian Revolution (see a pattern here?).
A banner headline about him: " Author Reza Aslan worries that immigrants aren't protected."
A ludicrous statement from him: "We all have our piece in the American story. Whether as a new immigrant, native to this land, a descendent of slavery or those who came to our nation seeking a better life. Because for all of us, America is home."
"Forty-six years later, in the wake of another war, President Biden now faces the same questions with regards to Afghanistan. For thousands of Afghans today, prison labor may seem like an attractive option—as opposed to the summary executions that the Taliban carried out on those supporting coalition forces."
"Both the HOPE for Afghans Act and current international law fall disastrously short in protecting other segments of the Afghan population who will undoubtedly lose significant freedoms, if not their lives, with greater Taliban control of the country. This is especially true for Afghan women and girls, who face threats not only to their safety but risk a return to pre-2001 Afghanistan with severe barriers to education and work outside the home."
Here comes the endless parade of horribles. Got it? You don't want death on your hands, do you? Could you live with yourself? That's what they hope will be most people's reaction as they emotionally manipulate people into feeling guilty so they cave to the notion that it's a moral duty to allow these people in, resettle them, counsel them, and give them inordinate amount of money sot that they can be as comfortable as possible in their (not ours anymore) new country.
Would that they were so solicitous of us. Would that they would pass bills, show the same passion, the same sense of urgency, take care to cut the red tape, would that they would lavish this kind of attention and care on the White people who keep them afloat, keep their lights on. But instead it's just a thumb in our eye and utter disdain.
"Representative Jason Crow and members of the Honoring our Promises Working Group introduced the Averting Loss of Life and Injury by Expediting SIVs (ALLIES) Act, a bill designed to protect our Afghan partners and expedite the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) process as the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan. The ALLIES Act was introduced alongside 24 bipartisan members of Congress."
When it comes to Jason Crow I prefer Jim Crow.
And when it comes to the scare stories they don't hold back, they really lay it with with a trowel boy:
"As the Taliban continues to retake territory, the stakes for both those who assisted the U.S. (translators, guides, contractors, et cetera) and their families have never been higher as they face escalating threats, including the risk of death."
"In a situation such as this, bureaucratic delays can literally mean death for those involved."
Stop the presses and drop everything, this is priority number one, all must fall before this. We (that is they) made a sacred pledge. And the numbers are staggering:
"The State Department has sought to correct the initial failures of the program, and since 2014, authorized 26,500 Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) to Afghan nationals under the Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009."
"To address the current refugee crisis resulting from the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Biden pledged that "those who helped us are not going to be left behind." And in Congress, the House recently passed the HOPE for Afghan SIVS Act, which is a critical step to ensure a swifter visa process for the estimated 18,000 Afghans who worked with the U.S. in support roles. The administration is also exploring Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan as temporary havens while refugees are being processed for settlement in America."
You know those numbers will rise. This is just the apertif. They'll find thousands of Afghans who once picked up some trash within ten miles of an American compound, or who waved at passing jeep, or just wants to come here, and it will be come one come all.
Oh yeah and didn't we all hear stories about when those Afghans who were our allies couldn't find a goat with a sweet enough disposition so they'd take out their base lusts on boys? And our men over there knew about it but turned a blind eye to boy rape because, well, the alliance you know. Remember that?
"Members of Congress complained about a U.S. soldier being forced out of the military because he intervened in 2011, attacking an Afghan police commander he believed was raping a child."
"The State Department, in its annual human rights report, has consistently said that sexual abuse of children remains pervasive in Afghanistan. And it documents the practice called “bacha bazi” — which means dancing boys. Bacha Bazi involves the sexual abuse of boys, often by powerful or wealthy local businessmen, who sexually abuse young boys trained to dance in female clothes."
Boy rape is so endemic to these people that certain categories of it have even been bestowed with their own name. Dollars to donuts that some of those "businessman will sneak over hear under the cover of these "laws" and "programs" they seem so hell bent on creating and they'll bring their perversion and lasciviousness along with them. Dance lads, dance!
Here comes the towel heads!
Locks up you daughters---and your sons.
Allies indeed.
***
Just put your neck on the chopping block. That's what they want us to do. Unhinged lunatic Williams James expressed it best, he said that it is more important to be moral than to survive, best to be dead right as it were.
"Don't you wand to be thought well of? Have a nice eulogy?
In truth survival is the only morality. It's the fame of a dead man's deeds that are remembered, not his sentimental fantasies of so-called rectitude.
"Although it is impossible right now to reliably estimate the possible number of refugees, the U.S. has to be ready to meet a potential moral commitment on a scale similar to the 125,000 Vietnamese refugees granted asylum in the U.S. following that war."
When the say it's impossible to estimate it's because they are already planning on revising and revising it upwards and upwards. You can bet on that.
Not that they need it but they trot out the old song and dance about the protocols we signed and the conventions we are a party to, to show that it's all legal, all according to international norms, all according to Hoyle, so move right along bigot, nothing to see here.
"For interpreters, translators and others who supported the U.S., these individuals and their families can now rightfully claim that they face the threat of "persecution" for reasons of "race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion." Their political choices have made them targets for Taliban retaliation and thus they qualify as refugees under international and U.S. law. This designation offers them protection under the United Nations 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocols related to the status of refugees as well as under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program."
When I hear UN convention, when I hear the word "protocol" I reach for my gun.
"The international community must be ready for the potential outflow."
It's funny but when you read the technical literature on immigration and refugees, you learn that the world "flow" and most especially "flows" is actually a technical term they use, as in "the flows they are experiencing," or "flows from war ravaged areas" or "there will be more flows this year than last" and the like.
"For those women and other groups who succeed in reaching international boundaries in the future or identify themselves to U.S. authorities while the embassy remains in Kabul (estimated at six to 12 months by skeptical U.S. intelligence officials), provisions for expatriation and asylum must be made."
"It's the right thing to do."
"Must be made."
"The Afghan SIV Program was created in 2009 to provide safety for Afghan interpreters, contractors, and security personnel who worked with the U.S. government in Afghanistan. The application process has been plagued by delays since the program was established and faces severe backlogs, with wait times routinely stretching for years. Since the Biden Administration announced its plans to withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, Crow has called on the Administration to expedite this visa process, as Afghan SIV applicants and their families are increasingly under threat by the Taliban."
Expedite, clear backlogs, move heaven and earth, by all means necessary, whatever it takes. When are elites make up their mind about something it's amazing how quickly they can move in one direction.
"The ALLIES Act would increase the Afghan SIV cap by an additional 8,000 visas and remove burdensome application requirements that slow down the application process without impacting national security."
Why, why not just bring them in by the planeloads right now, one on top of the other, drop them off in small rural towns across America, pay their rent, and give them fistfuls of cash and all the follow up support services they need?
“When I served in Iraq and Afghanistan, I worked closely with local translators and contractors who were critical to our safety and the success of our mission. They performed this service at great risk to themselves and their families, but with the understanding that the U.S. would stand by them,” said Rep. Jason Crow. “Now it is time for the U.S. to honor our promises and protect our Afghan partners. The ALLIES Act would expedite the SIV application process by increasing the SIV cap and removing burdensome requirements. I’m proud to work on this commonsense legislation with my colleagues in the Honoring our Promises Working Group.”
They keep speaking of this "understanding" yet if there really was such an understanding (rather than a fervent wish) they really should have been up front about it to us, and not shock us with obligations we never were aware that we incurred.
"While the program has suffered unacceptable delays and backlogs since its creation, the imminent withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan has placed thousands of our allies at risk for retribution. Today, I’m proud to co-lead legislation with my colleague Congressman Crow that will authorize additional SIVs and remove unnecessary hurdles for our allies to find safety in the United States—just as we promised,” said Congressman Kinzinger. “More needs to be done to fulfill our promise to our Afghan allies. The Administration must begin evacuating those most at risk for retribution from the Taliban. Again, I want to thank Congressman Crow for his leadership in crafting this legislation.”
Kinzinger was the guy who is such a Ruling Class tool that not too long ago his family wrote an open letter in which they publicly disowned him. I'm sure their only regret at this point after he continually inaugurates fresh outrage after fresh outrage is that they can only disown him once.
“Alliance with Afghan wartime allies forged bridges to the Afghan people and their linguistic skills proved essential in building close working relations with local nationals. Now, with the U.S. withdrawal date in Afghanistan drawing closer, their lives are endangered more than ever as terrorist organizations like the Taliban seek retribution. The ALLIES Act will increase the cap of Afghan SIVs and ensure Afghan interpreters can move expeditiously through the SIV process so they can leave Afghanistan as soon as possible. The American Legion vigorously supports the ALLIES Act because it will protect the lives of Afghan interpreters and recognize their contributions as loyal allies who stood shoulder to shoulder with U.S. servicemembers,” said Chairman Steve Brennan, The American Legion National Security Commission.
“No One Left Behind continues to strongly support Reps. Crow and the Honoring Our Promise Working Group's bipartisan work to expedite the SIV process for allies. This Afghan Allies Protection Act and the issues surrounding the SIV program have now spanned 3 administrations, 7 Congresses, 5 Secretaries of State, and 7 Secretaries of Defense. We have documented 300 interpreters and their families who have been killed while waiting for their visas - likely a low estimate. There is a very real human cost to our government's bureaucratic failings,” said James Miervaldis, Chairman of No One Left Behind."
Specifically, the Allies Act would:
-Increase the Afghan SIV cap by an additional 8,000 visas;
-Remove the requirement for a “credible sworn statement” regarding the threat applicants face for having worked for or on behalf of the U.S. government, since both public and clandestine reporting confirm that Afghans who have worked for the U.S. face heightened risk of retribution from the Taliban.
-Remove the requirement for International Security Assistance Force or Resolute Support employment to be “sensitive and trusted”, expanding the field of qualified applicants.
"Crow started the Honoring Our Promises Working Group in April, following the Administration’s announcement of a September 11th withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. The lawmakers’ goal is to expedite legislative efforts to protect Afghan partners. Crow introduced the HOPE for Afghan SIVs Act alongside Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), bipartisan legislation to temporarily waive the medical examination requirement for SIV applicants, which is cost prohibitive and difficult for many applicants to safely receive."
Waive the sworn statement, waive the medical requirement, ease the burdens, speed up the process.
Wave them in.
Here come the towel heads!
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Tippie Hedren is that Aryan Goddess who was rocketed to international fame for her role in Alfred Hitchock's The Birds. She also was one of those big humanitarians who stick their noses in where the don't belong. Story is that in the 1970s she visited Vietnamese Refugee camps and taught the women there how to do nails; since that time these Vietnamese women have colonized the nail salon business far and wide, they have become a by word for it.
"Hedren played a role in the development of Vietnamese-American nail salons in the United States. In 1975, while an international relief coordinator with Food for the hungry, she began visiting with refugees at Hope Village outside Sacramento, California when she learned the women were interested in her manicured nails, she employed her manicurist to teach them the skills of the trade and worked with a local beauty school to help them find jobs. H jobs. Hedren'work with the Vietnamese-Americans was the subject of several documentaries: Happy Hands, directed by Honey Lauren, which won Best Documentary Short at the Sonoma International Film Festival in 2014 and "Nailedit: Vietnamese and the Nail Industry" which won the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) 2014 Documentary Fund Award. CND and Beauty Changes Lives Foundation (BCL) have announced the BCL CND Tippi Hedren Nail Scholarship Fund to support professional nail education and will be administered starting January 1, 2014."
Here's the thing: it never would have occurred to this person to do the same thing for any group of struggling White women. And on the absolutely remote chance that she did no one would have made a movie about it. And there certainly would have been no awards.
But just at the mention of some black or brown or yellow foreigner and their hearts begin to melt. Combine that with "national honor" that we have to keep promises made at some unspecified time in some unspecified way and well, before you can say Bacha Bazi---here come the towel heads.
