{"id":292485,"date":"2017-01-31T07:45:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T06:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-wicked-precedent\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T07:45:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T06:45:03","slug":"trumps-wicked-precedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-wicked-precedent\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Wicked Precedent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So Donald Trump is going to\u00a0f**k them all<\/a>. No excuses for such filthy words today. I\u2019m only quoting the man whose Pentagon offices he just used to disgrace himself \u2013 and America. For it was Secretary of\u00a0Defence James \u2018Mad Dog\u2019 Mattis<\/a> who told Iraqis in 2003 that he came \u201cin peace\u2019 \u2013 he even urged his Marines to be compassionate \u2013 but said of those who might dare to resist America\u2019s illegal invasion of their country: \u201cIf you f**k with me, I\u2019ll kill you all.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no getting round it. Call it Nazi, Fascist, racist, vicious, illiberal, immoral, cruel. More dangerously, what Trump has done is a wicked precedent. If you can stop them coming, you can chuck them out. If you can demand \u201cextreme vetting\u201d\u00a0of Muslims from seven countries, you can also demand a \u201cvalues test\u201d\u00a0for those Muslims who have already made it to the USA. Those on visas. Those with residency only. Those \u2013 if they are American\u00a0citizens \u2013\u00a0with dual citizenship. Or full US citizens of Muslim origin. Or just Americans who are Muslims. Or Hispanics. Or Jews? Refugees one day. Citizens the next. Then refugees again.<\/p>\n

No, of course, Trump would never visit such obscene tests on Jewish immigrants \u2013 for they\u00a0would be obscene, would they not? \u2014 and nor will he stop Christians from Muslim countries. America has always condemned sectarian states, but now Trump declares that he approves of sectarianism. Minorities will be…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo by Karl-Ludwig Poggemann | CC BY 2.0 So Donald Trump is going to\u00a0f**k them all. No excuses for such filthy words today. I\u2019m only quoting the man whose Pentagon offices he just used to disgrace himself \u2013 and America. For it was Secretary of\u00a0Defence James \u2018Mad Dog\u2019 Mattis who told Iraqis in 2003 that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-292485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}