{"id":292771,"date":"2017-02-01T19:40:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T18:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-left-is-self-destructing\/"},"modified":"2017-02-02T01:53:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T00:53:34","slug":"the-left-is-self-destructing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-left-is-self-destructing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left Is Self-Destructing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The mindlessness is unbearable. Amnesty International tells us that we must \u201cfight the Muslim ban\u201d because Trump\u2019s bigotry is wrecking lives. Anthony Dimaggio at CounterPunch says Trump should be impeached because his Islamophobia is a threat to the Constitution. This is not to single out these two as the mindlessness is everywhere among those whose worldview is defined by Identity Politics.<\/p>\n<p>One might think that Amnesty International should be fighting against the Bush\/Cheney\/Obama regime wars that have produced the refugees by killing and displacing millions of Muslims. For example, the ongoing war that Obama inflicted on Yemen results in the death of one Yemeni child every 10 minutes, according to UNICEF. Where is Amnesty International?<\/p>\n<p>Clearly America\u2019s wars on Muslims wreck far more lives than Trump\u2019s ban on immigrants. Why the focus on an immigration ban and not on wars that produce refugees? Is it because Obama is responsible for war and Trump for the ban? Is the liberal\/progressive\/left projecting Obama\u2019s monstrous crimes onto Trump? Is it that we must hate Trump and not Obama?<\/p>\n<p>Immigration is not a right protected by the US Constitution. Where was Dimaggio when in the name of \u201cthe war on terror\u201d the Bush\/Obama regime destroyed the civil liberties guaranteed by the US Constitution? If Dimaggio is an American citizen, he should try immigrating to the UK, Germany, or France and see how far he gets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/02\/paul-craig-roberts\/left-self-destructing\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mindlessness is unbearable. Amnesty International tells us that we must \u201cfight the Muslim ban\u201d because Trump\u2019s bigotry is wrecking lives. Anthony Dimaggio at CounterPunch says Trump should be impeached because his Islamophobia is a threat to the Constitution. This is not to single out these two as the mindlessness is everywhere among those whose [&hellip;]<\/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-292771","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\/292771","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=292771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}