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		By: Tom Grey		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Grey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Dems have gone from a tribe believing in the superiority of their own, American white tribe, to now believing that it is better to be a victim.  Which is not quite the same, but also not far, from believing that being inferior is better, or superior.
Pretty clearly anti-logical, but this is excused by the PC-Klan as being because logic is a province of the white male tribe.  The superior, thus inferior, tribe. Obviously, this means other tribes, who are measurably inferior on some metric or other, and thus superior, don&#039;t need to be logically consistent, or even logical at all.

The Dems are busy trying to make tribes so as to divide America, hoping more American tribes will support the Dems.

Only repeated and massive failure, in gaining reported votes, will stop the Dems.

It will also be necessary that colleges stop discriminating against pro-lifers and Reps.  That might be an earlier step, after colleges which do discriminate lose their tax-exemptions due to their semi-illegal discrimination. (It ain&#039;t illegal if they ain&#039;t gettin&#039; caught).]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Dems have gone from a tribe believing in the superiority of their own, American white tribe, to now believing that it is better to be a victim.  Which is not quite the same, but also not far, from believing that being inferior is better, or superior.<br />
Pretty clearly anti-logical, but this is excused by the PC-Klan as being because logic is a province of the white male tribe.  The superior, thus inferior, tribe. Obviously, this means other tribes, who are measurably inferior on some metric or other, and thus superior, don&#8217;t need to be logically consistent, or even logical at all.</p>
<p>The Dems are busy trying to make tribes so as to divide America, hoping more American tribes will support the Dems.</p>
<p>Only repeated and massive failure, in gaining reported votes, will stop the Dems.</p>
<p>It will also be necessary that colleges stop discriminating against pro-lifers and Reps.  That might be an earlier step, after colleges which do discriminate lose their tax-exemptions due to their semi-illegal discrimination. (It ain&#8217;t illegal if they ain&#8217;t gettin&#8217; caught).</p>
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		By: DNW		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[parker on February 4, 2019 at 3:56 pm at 3:56 pm said:

&lt;blockquote&gt;I have absolutely no compasion for people who enter illegally. That doesn’t mean I want them to starve, I just want them tossed out of the country.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;


One naturally asks: why don&#039;t they fight back in their own country to get what they consider as rightfully theirs, if they are suffering an injustice?

The answers of course, are relatively obvious: first among them is that they, the &quot;victims&quot;  are too weak, or too incompetent, or too fearful, or too inhibited to do so. 

Which then leads to the question as to:  Why Americans should suffer the injustice second hand, rather than rectifying the problem &quot;over there&quot;?

Using Maduro, or the Mexican political class as examples of those who don&#039;t seem to have any qualms about doing unto their own citizens: why then should we who are subject to the fallout generated by these punk regimes, have qualms about what means we use to get to the root of the problem?

It&#039;s not as if we would actually have to risk any American lives, given the technologies at our disposal.

And that answer is pretty obvious too: That most folks - or enough of a fainting and hand flapping kind to make a difference - would rather let their tyrannical neighbors beat their children and shovel shit over the fence, than allow the men of the family to go next door and handle the tyrant by whatever means are necessary.

You can see this anytime the crowd starts shrieking when someone who has previously been aggressively obnoxious is seen getting his ass handed to him. They start shouting &quot;stop, stop!!&quot; without knowing or caring about the facts. Their primary concern is mercy for the provocateur who caused it all. They don&#039;t care about causes and the right or the wrong of it. Every man here who has been in a physical confrontation in mixed company in public, has experienced it or witnessed it and knows exactly what I am talking about.

Again for the umpteenth time: what obligation do Americans have to be put upon, by people who cannot, or will not defend themselves, much less be put on, even at second hand by the effects of their persecutors?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>parker on February 4, 2019 at 3:56 pm at 3:56 pm said:</p>
<blockquote><p>I have absolutely no compasion for people who enter illegally. That doesn’t mean I want them to starve, I just want them tossed out of the country.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>One naturally asks: why don&#8217;t they fight back in their own country to get what they consider as rightfully theirs, if they are suffering an injustice?</p>
<p>The answers of course, are relatively obvious: first among them is that they, the &#8220;victims&#8221;  are too weak, or too incompetent, or too fearful, or too inhibited to do so. </p>
<p>Which then leads to the question as to:  Why Americans should suffer the injustice second hand, rather than rectifying the problem &#8220;over there&#8221;?</p>
<p>Using Maduro, or the Mexican political class as examples of those who don&#8217;t seem to have any qualms about doing unto their own citizens: why then should we who are subject to the fallout generated by these punk regimes, have qualms about what means we use to get to the root of the problem?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not as if we would actually have to risk any American lives, given the technologies at our disposal.</p>
<p>And that answer is pretty obvious too: That most folks &#8211; or enough of a fainting and hand flapping kind to make a difference &#8211; would rather let their tyrannical neighbors beat their children and shovel shit over the fence, than allow the men of the family to go next door and handle the tyrant by whatever means are necessary.</p>
<p>You can see this anytime the crowd starts shrieking when someone who has previously been aggressively obnoxious is seen getting his ass handed to him. They start shouting &#8220;stop, stop!!&#8221; without knowing or caring about the facts. Their primary concern is mercy for the provocateur who caused it all. They don&#8217;t care about causes and the right or the wrong of it. Every man here who has been in a physical confrontation in mixed company in public, has experienced it or witnessed it and knows exactly what I am talking about.</p>
<p>Again for the umpteenth time: what obligation do Americans have to be put upon, by people who cannot, or will not defend themselves, much less be put on, even at second hand by the effects of their persecutors?</p>
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		By: Surellin		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Surellin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Other alternative - deport their sorry selves.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Other alternative &#8211; deport their sorry selves.</p>
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		By: DNW		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot; The pressure of a hunger strike depends, of course, on those in power having a sense of morality, because truly tyrannical regimes couldn’t care less if those in its prisons or detention centers starve themselves to death. Fewer mouths to feed.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&quot;A sense of &quot;morality&quot;. 

Mouths to feed aside: Someone, if they feel capable, remind me why non-tyrants, libertarians for example, should care if an antagonist or criminal starves itself to death. And remember, as good secularists and presumptive atheists, no religious answers are allowed; and furthermore &quot;affect&quot; is a stupid answer as it cannot suffice as grounds for a public law in a pluralistic society, nor extend beyond its own reach as an emotional impulse.

Reciprocal and distributive moral imperatives, without God, demonstrable syllogistically, is what we are after.

Are we going to find anyone sensitive-right or left who can give such an answer? 

No. I think the evidence of 40 or 50 years of failure on that score [John Rawls&#039; complex exercise in circular argument, standing as the acme of such futility]  pretty much establishes the case in practical terms.

But if any progressives or sensitive conservatives think they have an answer that solves the problem while accounting for man as a rational and self-interested animal, they are welcome to try an give an answer.

Progressives of course don&#039;t even try anymore. That&#039;s why they have descended beneath reason, and now dwell in the swamps of political emotion: expressive of a &quot;will&quot; they cannot truly explain or even coherently own.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>&#8221; The pressure of a hunger strike depends, of course, on those in power having a sense of morality, because truly tyrannical regimes couldn’t care less if those in its prisons or detention centers starve themselves to death. Fewer mouths to feed.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;A sense of &#8220;morality&#8221;. </p>
<p>Mouths to feed aside: Someone, if they feel capable, remind me why non-tyrants, libertarians for example, should care if an antagonist or criminal starves itself to death. And remember, as good secularists and presumptive atheists, no religious answers are allowed; and furthermore &#8220;affect&#8221; is a stupid answer as it cannot suffice as grounds for a public law in a pluralistic society, nor extend beyond its own reach as an emotional impulse.</p>
<p>Reciprocal and distributive moral imperatives, without God, demonstrable syllogistically, is what we are after.</p>
<p>Are we going to find anyone sensitive-right or left who can give such an answer? </p>
<p>No. I think the evidence of 40 or 50 years of failure on that score [John Rawls&#8217; complex exercise in circular argument, standing as the acme of such futility]  pretty much establishes the case in practical terms.</p>
<p>But if any progressives or sensitive conservatives think they have an answer that solves the problem while accounting for man as a rational and self-interested animal, they are welcome to try an give an answer.</p>
<p>Progressives of course don&#8217;t even try anymore. That&#8217;s why they have descended beneath reason, and now dwell in the swamps of political emotion: expressive of a &#8220;will&#8221; they cannot truly explain or even coherently own.</p>
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		By: Andy		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2019/02/04/the-power-of-the-weak-hunger-strikes-and-forced-feeding/#comment-2421866</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 13:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[They must think we are all stupid. &quot;A lawyer for two of the Texas detainees, Ruby Kaur, … said her clients face a language barrier, as they do not speak English and have not been provided a translator who can speak their language, which is Punjabi.&quot;

The lawyer&#039;s last name is Kaur, which is the most common last name for female Sikhs. The native language of Sikhs is Punjabi, so it is very likely that Ruby Kaur speaks Punjabi or, if she is an upstanding member of that community, she knows somebody who does.

A historical anecdote on a hunger strike. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Irish_hunger_strike

On 5 May, Sands died in the prison hospital on the sixty-sixth day of his hunger strike, prompting rioting in nationalist areas of Northern Ireland.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They must think we are all stupid. &#8220;A lawyer for two of the Texas detainees, Ruby Kaur, … said her clients face a language barrier, as they do not speak English and have not been provided a translator who can speak their language, which is Punjabi.&#8221;</p>
<p>The lawyer&#8217;s last name is Kaur, which is the most common last name for female Sikhs. The native language of Sikhs is Punjabi, so it is very likely that Ruby Kaur speaks Punjabi or, if she is an upstanding member of that community, she knows somebody who does.</p>
<p>A historical anecdote on a hunger strike. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Irish_hunger_strike" rel="nofollow ugc">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Irish_hunger_strike</a></p>
<p>On 5 May, Sands died in the prison hospital on the sixty-sixth day of his hunger strike, prompting rioting in nationalist areas of Northern Ireland.</p>
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		By: JTW		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 12:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If they refuse to eat the food provided to them, they&#039;ve just reduced the cost of keeping them. 
I say let them... If they want to eat they can either accept the food provided on the conditions provided or get the hell back to where they came from, probably Honduras or Nicaragua.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If they refuse to eat the food provided to them, they&#8217;ve just reduced the cost of keeping them.<br />
I say let them&#8230; If they want to eat they can either accept the food provided on the conditions provided or get the hell back to where they came from, probably Honduras or Nicaragua.</p>
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		By: Snow on Pine		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Snow on Pine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 12:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If whoever wants to can just stroll across our borders, unhindered, plunk themselves down, and demand to be a U.S. citizen, then, we have no country; we&#039;re just a publicly paid for and maintained smorgasbord, that anyone in the world can sit themselves down and chow down at, forever.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If whoever wants to can just stroll across our borders, unhindered, plunk themselves down, and demand to be a U.S. citizen, then, we have no country; we&#8217;re just a publicly paid for and maintained smorgasbord, that anyone in the world can sit themselves down and chow down at, forever.</p>
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		By: Snow on Pine		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Snow on Pine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Aliens have absolutely no legal or moral &quot;right&quot; to enter the U.S., to become citizens, or to acquire the benefits of that citizenship.

On the other hand, the U.S. government has every right to set conditions aliens must meet in order to gain entry into this country, and any other conditions once they enter, including whether and how they can work their way towards citizenship.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aliens have absolutely no legal or moral &#8220;right&#8221; to enter the U.S., to become citizens, or to acquire the benefits of that citizenship.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the U.S. government has every right to set conditions aliens must meet in order to gain entry into this country, and any other conditions once they enter, including whether and how they can work their way towards citizenship.</p>
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		By: Snow on Pine		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Snow on Pine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A hunger strike is basically blackmail--i.e. &quot;do what I want or the kid gets it&quot;--moral judo, trying to use the enemy&#039;s morality and kindness against them, to force them to do what you want them to do--and I don&#039;t think that you should give in to blackmail.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A hunger strike is basically blackmail&#8211;i.e. &#8220;do what I want or the kid gets it&#8221;&#8211;moral judo, trying to use the enemy&#8217;s morality and kindness against them, to force them to do what you want them to do&#8211;and I don&#8217;t think that you should give in to blackmail.</p>
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		By: March Hare		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[March Hare]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 06:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m having a difficult time believing they are unable to find interpreters who speak Punjabi. Most Punjabis I know are Sikhs who speak excellent English.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m having a difficult time believing they are unable to find interpreters who speak Punjabi. Most Punjabis I know are Sikhs who speak excellent English.</p>
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