Republicans refuse to Help the Needy because they're Racist

US President Barack Obama's decision  that the United States will take in some 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year has been met with scorn by the Republican party.

Some 31 states, including Alabama, Michigan and Texas have refused to accept refugees from the Syrian conflict citing security concerns. They fear that jihadi extremists will sneak in to the country under the cover of refugees and inact terrorist attacks on American soil. Interestingly all but one of these 31 states have republican governors. Perhaps if we were talking about refugee foetus' the Republicans would show a little more compassion.

Turning away refugees is disgusting. These are people who are fleeing persecution and war in their own lands. A war that we have to accept a level of responsibility for instigating. Just saying “Sorry, go back to Assad” frankly isn't good enough. It's the literally the same as sending Jews straight to Hitler (which America also did to Anne Frank.)

Helping people = good.

Not helping people = bad

Not helping because of prejudice = double bad.

Not helping someone because of their skin colour or religion is exactly the type of thing America is supposed to stand against. The whole “all men are created equal” is part of the Declaration of Independence. It doesn't say all men are created equal except Muslims, or Syrians, or slightly brown people. That's not very Christian.

Jesus would be spinning on the cross.

This phenomenon is not exclusive to the United States. Governments around the world on the “right” side of Politics are using the recent terrorist atrocities in Paris as an excuse to deny refuge to those displaced by the Syrian conflict. In Europe far-right parties such as the Front National and the UK Independence Party have called for the closing of borders and restriction of movement.

If you live in America you're more likely to be murdered by a child with a machine gun than an Islamic fundamentalist. Forget about ISIS killing people on the streets: the American police have killed more civilians on US soil than terrorists.

The Agenda of the Media and it's role in terrorism.

Regarding these hard times: I feel the media are tarring all Muslims with the same brush as these psychopathic bastards who attacked France last night.

This is the same media that want us to believe that 20,000 refugees will adversely affect a population of 65,000,000 people. The SAME media not so long ago would have us believe that all Irish people are IRA, and further back that Russians want to nuke us.

Truth is the news, the newspapers,  and the snakes who put the skew on the content out there are trying to (and I can not stress this next part enough, so I'm putting it in caps)  SELL YOU A PRODUCT.

It is in the interest of the privately owned and ran media to fuck your brain into submission. To allude to,  and play up certain "facts" so people buy their newspapers and watch their channels, and keep their sponsors happy with bountiful advertising revenue. They are unscrupulous in their greed.

The organisation orchestrating the attacks last night knows this too, and are using the greed of the media corporaions and the indoctrination of the media consumers to their own ends, to force us apart.  To make colleagues, and neighbours, friends and in some cases families distrust and ultimately kill each other.

If you have a God,  pray.

If like me you don't, life dealt me the gifts of empathy and sympathy.  Both of which are with our neighbours France.