I work in database application development, which is my non-sequitur way of saying we should talk about the Trump transition team plans to create a database of immigrants from Muslim majority nations. Honestly, I have a hard time trying to figure out where to start with this. I thought I might as well start with NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio’s response to this:
.@BilldeBlasio on proposed deportations: NYPD sees anything creating “a rift” between police and communities as “counterproductive.” pic.twitter.com/yT2mInW5rO— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 16, 2016
He’s by far, not the first mayor to respond in this kind. It’s not a shock that mayors of large cities are standing up to say they want their cities to be a refuge and safe place for immigrants, in defiance to this announcement. What is infuriating and terrifying, is that all of Congress isn’t rejecting this. It’s lunacy to me that our government isn’t disqualifying him or making it known he will be impeached on day one of his trying to implement anything close to this.
I don’t wear a gold star on my clothes, and either did my grandparents. That’s because brave soldiers from USA and around the world stood up and stopped that from happening to the millions of Jewish, Polish, Russian etc masses who were being registered into “databases”, and eventually rounded up. Yeah, I know, they didn’t have databases. They had paper. And we see what the result was. Families were torn apart. Communities were decimated. Many were deported. Many were killed. Of course that didn’t happen over night.
It started with the idea of a “database”. Registering people from one culture, race, religion. It started as “We need to get a handle on this. Some of them are criminals.” Well, there are some white American criminals too. Some of them wear hoods. Should we make a database of them, until we get a “handle” on it? No, we shouldn’t. We don’t register people according to their nationality, race or religion. Our country is as diverse as the entire world, because we welcome people from the world to come here, from here to travel there, and for all to find opportunity TOGETHER.
We are better than this. We have to be, or our country will not be as great as the idea we claim it to be. I want to stop terrorism, and I have not seen any facts or reputable research ever finding that registering immigrants will help stop domestic terrorism. In fact, while I’m not a full fledged journalist, who will find the best research, I believe the majority of our domestic “terrorist” attacks have been with guns, and done by non-Muslim American citizens. Many of them white. We can’t make our biggest cities places of fear. We can’t create an atmosphere where people are afraid that they, their friends or family will be rounded up and deported. Where kids worry that they will be separated from their parents, because of what they see on the news or because they are being harassed by other kids in school.
That last part has already been happening. So this is where we need to start. I have a readership of like 12 people, and I think 6 of those are my parents re-clicking on the same post because they kept getting bored. We need the media, with actual readership and viewership, to call out President-elect Trump now. Every press conference and every question has to report on an incident of hate. Make him respond to every damn incident.
Then make him respond to the pressure from Congress, to his appointment plans for Steve Bannon. He is the wrong person to have anywhere near the White House, or near any strategy work for the President of the United States. We need serious people with experience and knowledge of the jobs being filled in his Administration. They need respect for the job, and equal respect for all Americans. Appointing someone with a record of promoting white nationalist goals, is the opposite of the resume any President of this country should be looking for in a candidate in his administration.
He may have to look outside the well of sycophants he clung to, during his disrespectful and boastful campaign of vanity and ego. If he really wants to make good on his promises to help this country, he needs to work on making this country great, like he and his supporters say they want it to be. If he can’t find an AG, who believes in the vital importance of the 3 branches of government, then he may just need to cross the aisle. Real leaders can swallow their pride and do that. Can he? The head of the EPA should believe in climate change. Our Secretary of State shouldn’t have any conflicts of interest in their previous businesses or work, that could even potentially hurt our standing in the global community.
Good Republicans must stand up to this onslaught of unqualified candidates, who have conflicts of interest or ideology. If their candidacy would not be in the best interest of this country, then Trump should be disqualifying them from the list. If he is going to prop up these candidates, then the Republican led Congress and Republican party should. Everyone who voted for him, and the party he is now the head of, should care about how he staffs this Administration. It can’t just be up to Democrats, to stand in opposition. We need Republicans who care about not just the welfare of their party, but this country, to insist that the Trump administration be run 1) the way he promised it would be and 2) the way a good Republican administration should be run.
I mean besides, I really don’t want him impeached. Then we would have a President Pence. Not really wanting a database of the LGBT community, so gay conversion therapy camps can be started and HIV/AIDS can spread like wildfire across this country.
No, we’ve got to stay the course. So does Trump. So does the Republican party. So does the media. So do the citizens of this country. It’s on all of us.
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