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Those
are among the 13 states across the nation that have decided to take a stand
against Syria that really shows just how clueless our state government official
can be.
PERSONALLY,
I FIND it embarrassing that the Great Lakes region is so overwhelmingly in
favor of this nitwit-ish gesture that won’t do a thing to make us any safer
than we were last week.
As
much as I like to think of Illinois as the one piece of the Great Lakes region
that shows some common sense, it now seems that Minnesota is the piece of
sanity. Heck, I have several aunts who live in the greater Minneapolis
metropolitan area.
Perhaps
I ought to think of moving there! It would make as much sense as anything else –
even if I’d have to start thinking of Fran Tarkenton as some sort of athletic
legend.
I’m
finding myself discouraged by the political reaction to the attacks last week
throughout Paris. We truly seem determined to give in to our fears and
ignorance. Because the reality is that we don’t have much of a clue (just a few
suspicions) about what actually happened last week.
OR
WHAT MOTIVATED people to think that trying to cause mayhem would actually
accomplish something toward swaying people toward their “cause.” Which truly
isn’t clear anyways.
The
idea of anyone willing to kill on behalf of their religious beliefs is
something I will never be able to comprehend. And I don’t care if it’s someone
whose deadly actions are on behalf of Christ and Christianity.
None
of it seems to have any sense attached to it.
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With
regards to our governors thinking they can ban Syrian refugees from actually locating
in our states, it seems like a futile gesture. Particularly in the case of
Illinois and Chicago, where we have so many ethnic groups having settled into
the city.
A
PLACE LIKE Chicago is exactly where newcomers to this country ought to be located.
Of course, I suspect that’s also what makes the xenophobic amongst us so
fearful of our wonderful city.
We
don’t get all paranoid about people who aren’t like us. Well, actually, we do.
We just know how to glare at each other, as opposed to thinking we can use the
letter of the law to ban people.
We
laugh at buffoons like Donald Trump when he says that he’d close mosques across
the nation if he becomes president. We certainly don’t turn out in force to
vote for him!
What
is most pathetic about these whole circumstances is that we’re giving aid and
comfort, so to speak, toward those people who really do have their ideological
and religious hang-ups toward western society. Our paranoia is making those
people feel stronger as though we fear them and make them feel stronger about
themselves.
WHICH
IS WHY I refuse to give in to those news reports about the Twitter posts that
tell us ISIS sympathizers are amongst us – including outside of buildings right
on Michigan Avenue.
In
part because the news organizations that seem determined to play them up are
places like the Washington Times, which probably would enjoy the idea of
Chicagoans rising up in arms to chase out anyone who looks a little too Arab
for the ideologues’ preference. (Or the ones who semi-seriously say that
Dearborn, Mich., ought to become the front of our effort to “fight back”
against Islam).
All
of this fear-mongering does little more than make us ignorant of the true
threats that exist toward our society – one that is something we ought to be
concerned about preserving.
And
I certainly wish my own Great Lakes region weren’t so willing to be at the
heart of this ignorance.
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