In the Name of Tolerance and Diversity- the Poisoned Pill of Political Correctness
Imagine, for a moment, you live in New York City- a vertical forest of concrete and steel, overrun with vehicular creatures below which crawl along the many miles of asphalt trails, beneath. Imagine while you love being there, whether resident or visitor, that something inside you yearns for the simple breeze in your face that comes from riding a bicycle. So you mount the two-wheeled conveyance, and head down a street set aside for fellow cyclists who yearn for the same sensation…
Unbeknownst to you, there is another who has been living here for a few years, courtesy of a program designed to diversify the countries from which entry visas are granted to foreigners based solely upon random selection. No effort is made to determine whether or not the person selected (who is also allowed to bring along their relatives into the United States) has any intention to assimilate, seek citizenship or embrace the tenets of our republic. After all, the whole point of the Diversity Visa Program is to guarantee diversity of those coming into a country whose population is already the most diverse in the entire world. Introduced by Sen. “Chuck” Schumer (D-NY) in 1990 as part of a larger bill overwhelmingly passed by both houses of congress, and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, provides up to 50,000 immigrant visas annually, drawn from random selection among all entries to individuals who are from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. One of these countries is Uzbekistan, from which Sayfullo Saipov emigrated in 2010. Following the call for jihad against the west, Saipov goes to a Home Depot store in New Jersey, rents a pickup truck for a nominal fee, drives to Manhattan and races some fifty miles per hour down the bike path- running over dozens, killing eight and injuring eleven more. Having exacted such carnage, the terrorist assailant then exits the rental truck, brandishing pellet and paintball guns in a failed attempt to commit suicide by cop, thereby waylaying his journey into a heaven of seventy two willing, waiting and wanting virgins.
Once again, all in the name of tolerance and diversity, the poisoned pill of political correctness exacts its toll among the most tolerant, at the hands of radicalized member of the world’s most intolerant religion, that being Islam.
“Allahu Akbar!” the battle cry of all such jihadists, is once again echoed on the sidewalks of New York.
Yet, in spite of the fact that such a modus operandi rears its ugly head for the eighth time since the beginning of summer, when calls for such vehicular attacks against the west were initiated by ISIS, President Donald Trump’s call for extreme vetting and a temporary halt to such immigration is met with accusations of racism and islamophobia by the globalist, politically-correct classes in both parties of congress, courts and colleges, alike. Never mind the fact we now face the very real possibility that such a scenario repeats itself again and again here in the United States.
Evidently, slaughter of innocents is the price we must pay so that we can prove to the world that we tolerate, encourage and promote the acceptance of those who, themselves, wish to annihilate our culture, our freedoms and our populace, all in the name of jihad…
…in short, a politically-correct policy of suicidal stupidity.
-Drew Nickell, 1 November 2017
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