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Friday, October 11, 2024 - 04:54 AM

INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE VOICE OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

First Published in 1994

INDEPENDENT CONSERVATIVE VOICE OF
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

With President Obama in Denial and Determined to Bring in as Many as 200,000 Muslim Refugees from Syria and Elsewhere,  Private Citizens Seek Help from State and Local Government

Concerned citizens around the world are alarmed at the casual attitude the American president has taken in response to the slaughter of 129 innocent people in Paris by Islamic Terrorists. Similar attacks have and could again take place in America at any time.  Local citizens and elected officials are calling on the Governor and County Council to stop the flow of potential Islamic terrorists into local communities as refugees. Governor Haley and Greenville County Council Chairman Dr. Bob Taylor appear fully in support of the refugee program with no inclination to budge. Citizens will attempt to change their minds. 

“President Obama lectured everybody on how we have to accept Muslims as well as Christians or we’re all just a bunch of bigots.”

President Obama insists that ISIS, that carried out the murders in Paris, “does not in any way represent Islam.”

Rush Limbaugh said American Citizens are truly concerned about attacks within our borders now, especially  in the wake of what happened in Paris as well as the ongoing influx of Muslim refugees from Syria into the United States.

Talk Show Host Michael Savage responded to Obama by saying: “We have  leaders who are so spineless or insane or drugged, that they are not leaders. They’re going to kill all of us.”

On Tuesday afternoon before the regular meeting of Greenville County Council, a group of citizens gathered outside the county office building to call on council to pass a resolution asking the Governor to stop the flow of refugees into Greenville County until they are carefully and thoroughly vetted.

The day before, on Monday, a group of lawmakers sent a letter to Governor Haley requesting that she suspend South Carolina’s participation in the controversial refugee resettlement program.

“We owe it to out citizens to be extra vigilant and not take unnecessary risks,” said Senator Lee Bright, Representative Mike Burns and Representative Bill Chumley, in a letter to Haley. “Until such time as the United States Government, particularly the intelligence community, attains the ability to properly vet these refugees, we request that you suspend South Carolina’s participation in this program.”

“In just the last few weeks we have learned even more about how little vetting and investigation is being done to ensure that the individuals being resettled are not part of a criminal element, or even more concerning, that there may be radical Islamic terrorists smuggled in with legitimate refugees.”The international Islamic terrorist organization the Islamic State has openly bragged that they have an ongoing operation to insert trained terrorists into Western democracies by mixing them with the horde of refugees coming out of the war-torn Middle East and North Africa.”

“We hope that you will agree that we can no longer continue to ignore the threat to our country posed by these radicals.”

South Carolina Senator Danny Verdin released a letter to Governor Haley, Monday, November 16th. Verdin called on the Governor to use her executive authority to “place South Carolina’s participation in this program on hiatus until we can be absolutely certain that the noble goals of this humanitarian effort are not being subverted for nefarious purposes.”

In his letter to the Governor, Sen. Verdin said that “the way the attack on Paris was carried out proves that the radical Islamic movement has the will and the wherewithal to carry out such attacks . Furthermore, the Islamic State has openly bragged that it is using the international refugee resettlement program as a means to smuggle terrorist operatives into Western countries.

“In light of these very serious threats, it is critical that South Carolina’s role in the refugee resettlement program be reevaluated in light of the developing international crisis.”

Representative Tommy Stringer added his weight to the refugee debate  in a letter to Governor Haley. Stringer said that in light of the terror attacks in Paris, “common sense dictates that we should not accept refugees from countries we are at war with. Since our president seems unconcerned, the decision falls on your shoulders to suspend South Carolina’s involvement with the ORR federal refugee resettlement program.”

While efforts are being made at the local level, Congressman Jeff Duncan reminded the White House that “it is the primary responsibility of the United States federal government to provide for the common defense.

“I call on President Obama to immediately halt the resettlement of any refugees from Syria and other countries with known radical Islamic terrorist cells, at least until ISIS has been defeated and an improved refugee vetting process has been established.”