By declaring their states closed to refugees, governors are engaging in flat-out fearmongering.
What a nice change for America, to see the South rising up to keep brown-skinned people out instead of in.
A mounting list of governors are declaring their states closed to Syrian refugees. The usual Southern suspects have been joined by the likes of Governors Rick Snyder of Michigan, Ohio's John Kasich, ostensibly the embodiment of sane Republicanism in the 2016 presidential field and Republican Charlie Baker of Massachusetts.
These governors’ objections to the Obama administration’s resettlement plans revolve around the belief that Syrian refugees, the majority of whom are Muslim, have not been properly “vetted.” (Just like Obama!) So some of them could be ISIS operatives trying to sneak into America to launch terrorist attacks and weaken the country.
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the (more...)
