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Nov. 17, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 17, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #2
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The UK Daily Mail says today that the mastermind of the Paris massacres has been bragging all over the place about how he traveled across Europe at will to plot murder and mayhem, despite being on all kinds of wanted lists.
Abdelhamed Abaud has shuttled between Syria and Europe exploiting the migrant crisis on European Union borders.
The 27-year-old has been able to plan two atrocities and brainwash hundreds of young men to join the Islamic State, including his 13-year-old brother.
In fact, he's recruited two brothers that he has known since childhood to carry out Friday's murder, or murders of 129 people.
He was even featured.
Do you know that ISIS has a magazine?
They do.
They have a uh uh it's called a propaganda magazine called Dabiq, D-A-B-I-Q, and they brag in in their propaganda magazine.
They're bragging about this guy being able to get into any country he wants despite being on border lists, despite being from Syria, nobody stopped him.
He's been able to go wherever he wants to go.
He's bragging about it.
And his name is Abdelhamid, that's one name, Abaud, is his uh last name.
Okay, this subject of the Syrian refugees in the United States.
I read a story this morning, I can't remember the source.
The upshot of it is that in the very recent period of time, say some years, and maybe maybe just a few months, there are thousands of Syrian refugees that have been admitted into the country, and only 53 of them, not 53%, only 53 total of the tens of thousands are Christian.
The rest are Islamists.
As Ben Carson says, you know, Ben Carson, I'm I'm waiting for the media to figure out what the first I in ISIS stands for.
Islamic.
You know, the media's out there, but these are not no no no, no, this is not Islam, this is not Muslim, this is this is not no, no, no.
These are not religious people, it's a weird ideology.
By the way, that happens to have some truth to it.
But the religion is an ideology.
But they're trying to say, don't confuse this with with with the Islamic.
Islam is a religion of peace.
These guys are just militant ideologues.
Well, they named themselves the Islamic state.
Anyway, the argument raging is what to do with these refugees.
And the left just seems eager as they can be.
Once again, to everybody else, in utter defiance of common sense.
They say it is the maximum expression of the American experiment.
And what do they say the American experiment is?
The American experiment is the only experiment.
This is the way they describe the founding of the country, by the way, as it suits their purposes.
Here we have this lone experiment in the world of human freedom.
And as such, we must be open to one and all.
We must be tolerant of everything.
Otherwise, we are not being true to who we are.
We are Not being true to our values.
And this is what Obama means, by the way.
This is my opinion.
I'm not quoting leftists here.
When you hear Obama's Obama constantly refer to, this is not who we are.
This is not what America is.
He is using the same definitions that these leftist intellectuals are hyping.
That this is an experiment.
It's an ongoing experiment.
America's an ongoing experiment, and the results are not in yet.
We are still in the test phase, and we are being really tested now.
And we're not American if we don't let anybody in who wants to come in, whether they're coming from the southern border, whether they are terrorists or whether they are just poor, whether they're uneducated, it doesn't matter.
America means if you're oppressed, if you're starving, if you're thirsty anywhere in the world, you can come here.
That's what America is.
And any limits on that are not who we are.
Any limits on that violate this great American experiment of freedom.
Now that is one of the most half-baked explanations and definitions of America I've ever heard.
It is totally absent any concern for American sovereignty.
It is totally absent any concern of American national security.
And the reason it is is because, remember, under girding this whole experiment thinking of theirs is that we are owed a lot of payback, folks.
I've played the sound bites for you today.
I played those sound bites to prove to you that when I tell you who these people are, I'm being truthful.
This is who they are.
This is what they think.
The soundbites I played today from two prominent libs prove it.
We're guilty.
And so when there are refugees all over the world, this Syrian refugee thing, it just happened.
Bernie Sanders says it's because of climate change.
It's hot where these people live, and they're trying to escape to at least where there's some ice to put in their water.
They're just broiling out there, and climate change is making them move north.
And we must accept them.
The fact that there are Syrian refugees because of the turmoil in the Middle East is of secondary importance, or maybe not even rank that high.
They're just people in need.
They're stuffering and it's starving, and America welcomes all.
Whether we can afford it or not.
Really, this is a smoke screen for the fact that they don't like the way America was founded.
They don't like that America is predominantly Judeo-Christian.
They don't like that America's predominantly a Western civilization country, and that's what they're trying to tear down.
And they're tearing it down by allowing all of these people to emigrate and migrate and come as refugees who have no interest in becoming Americans, who have no interest in assimilating, and why would they?
We're guilty of sin.
Why would they want to become what we are?
While we torture, we rape, we murder.
We overthrow democratically elected Middle Eastern regimes.
We have CIA black sites.
We spy on our citizens.
Why in the world would they want to come here and become part of that?
That's understandable, they would want to come here and not become part of that.
They want these refugees and these illegal immigrants to come here because that's part of the plan to water down and dilute what America is all about.
So in the midst of this, a bunch of governors are saying we don't want these refugees.
We don't want them in our states.
The leftist intellectuals and the president media standing up and saying, Well, it's not you decide.
You don't have the right to decide.
The federal government has total say-so over who gets into the country, who is a citizen, and who isn't, and how they get here.
You governors have nothing to say about it.
Andy McCarthy has a piece at National Review some months ago about this, and he quotes a an opinion from the Supreme Court by Anton and Scalia.
They're related way of thinking.
Scilia says, imagine yourself back at the time they are negotiating the country, trying to convince all the colonies to become part of the United States, and doing constitutional.
You tell these states that they're not going to have any say so over who lives in their states.
You think they're going to sign up for this country, they're going to make fast tracks for the exits at Constitution Hall, and they're going to be out of there.
There is no way, Scalia writes, that this would ever, ever have been part of the founding of this country.
That the governors, that the states have no say so.
You people have forgotten.
When this country was formed, the federal government ranked lowest on the totem pole.
The states were supreme.
The founders of this country were scared to death of centralized government.
They had spent their lives fighting it, escaping it, and establishing a new country that de-emphasized a federal government and promoted individual liberty and freedom and states and state sovereignty.
It's the concept called federalism.
Now we've gotten to the point where everybody seems to want to anoint and empower the federal government power over everything, particularly when a Democrat president is in office.
So the Reuters' story, Obama Congress heading for budget showdown over Syrian refugees.
Some U.S. Republicans sought to use a must pass spending bill on Monday to block Obama's plan to accept thousands of Syrian refugees, saying the Paris attacks had proven they posed too much of a threat to the United States.
Republican Representative Brian Babin circulated a letter asking that lawmakers include a provision in the spending bill to defund the plan to admit 10,000 Syrians this year.
Said the terrorist attack in Paris by militant Islamists is a loud clanging alarm bell to Congress.
And the American people warning us why we must block Obama's reckless and foolish plan.
Speaker to House Paul Ryan just this morning said they're working on legislation that would create a pause in all of this.
But all Obama has to do, I fear, all Obama has to do is threaten to veto this spending bill to which they're attaching the limit on Syrian refugees.
All he's got to do is threaten to veto it, which will shut down the government, and the Republicans will give in.
Well, they have up to now, whenever anything, whenever a presidential veto in a spending bill might result in a shutdown of the government, who caves?
But back to the constitutionality of this.
I mentioned uh Andy McCarthy earlier, who has written extensively on this.
Well, first, let me set it up with a couple of more news stories that would help make this make more sense.
LA Times.
Momentum builds among states to reject Syrian refugees after Paris attacks.
They go on to describe how Islamophobic the Republicans are and how racist this is and how unlike an un American this is to limit these dire people in need who are suffering and starving.
And who the hell do we think we are to tell them they have no refuge here?
Who do we think we who do these Republicans think they are?
And then a number of intellectuals are cited.
Think tank specialists, in which it is said that the states have no say-so over this.
If Obama wants these refugees in, if the federal government wants them in, the states have to take them.
And then there's a CNN story.
Authority over admitting refugees to the country, though, rests with the federal government, not with the states.
Though individual states can make the acceptance process much more difficult, experts say.
American University law presser Stephen Vladek, or maybe it's Vladik, I don't know how they pronounce it, V-L A D E C Kut it this way, quote, legally, states have no authority to do anything, because the question of who should be allowed in this country is one the Constitution commits to the federal Government, unquote.
He's wrong.
But Vladek noted that without the state's participation, the federal government would have a much more arduous task.
Well, why?
Wait a minute now, Mr. Vladek, Professor Vladek, if the states have no say so, and Obama can say you and bring these refugees in no matter what the governors want, then why is it more arduous?
If the governors have no power, if the governors can't say no.
You want to hear the truth, as interpreted by constitutional scholar Andrew McCarthy.
Nowhere in the Constitution was the national government vested with an enumerated power, meaning spelled out over immigration enforcement.
They read that to you again.
Nowhere in the Constitution was the federal government vested with an enumerated a specific power over immigration enforcement.
Congress was empowered only to set the terms for naturalization to determine who qualifies for American citizenship.
The police power, the power to enforce laws within their respective territories, was left to the states.
Left to the representative governments closest to the people whose lives, liberty, and property were most affected by the manner of enforcement.
This is exactly the way the country was founded.
The founding fathers went as they went to great lengths to avoiding vesting all of this power in the federal government.
They didn't trust it.
The first ten amendments to the Constitution limit the federal government.
Folks, if I'm at look, this again is another of many illustrations of why Catherine and I are writing these Rush Revere children's history books.
Because otherwise, people are being taught something that's totally untrue.
Essentially, what kids and everybody's being taught today is the federal government's big, the federal government's great, the federal government's omnipotent, the federal government is benevolent, the federal government is the source of all that matters.
And whenever you have a grievance, the federal government's where you go.
Whenever there's good in the country, the federal government did it.
When there's problems in the country, the federal government had nothing to do with it.
The founders of this country distrusted centralized power.
This isn't even arguable.
The fact that this is being obliterated in education curricula all over this country is worse than a shame.
Nowhere in the Constitution was the federal government vested with an enumerated power over immigration enforcement.
Congress was empowered to set the terms for naturalization to determine who qualifies for American citizenship.
The police power to enforce the laws within their respective territories was left to the states, to the governors.
If they don't want these people here, there's a clear argument.
And the federal government can't make them, except we live in a world where everybody thinks the federal government is all powerful and infallible, and you have no choice but then to bend over and take it.
And it's simply not the case.
Did you hear the news yesterday that the French had destroyed an ISIS command post in Raqqa?
In Sydia.
Yeah, I heard that.
We mentioned it here yesterday.
A lot of people did.
Hey, go!
Go frogs, the frogs went in there, and they totally decimated that command post in Raqqa.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Except nobody asked a very important question.
The U.S. has been bombing ISIS targets for a year.
Why was the command post still there to be bombed?
No, no, seriously, folks.
I'm asking seriously.
We are the United States of America.
We have more bombs.
We have bigger bombs.
We just, I mean, we bomb Central.
We can hit targets the size of a thumbnail from miles away.
Why was that command post still there?
We've been bombing ISIS targets for a year.
And it goes to the answer to the question everybody had yesterday.
Why isn't Obama ripping into ISIS in this speech?
What uh that he his press conference yesterday.
What what what explains why why are we so pussyfooting here around with ISIS?
And we'll leave Ferris had an answer for it.
We'd play that for you.
But there is even more evidence of it today.
Real world on the ground evidence today of Obama's allegiance with Iran and Syria.
When I say Obama's allegiance to the United States as a strategery has aligned with the Iranians and Syria.
And there's evidence in the news today of that, not just Waleed Farris's opinion.
The evidence backs up his opinion.
And I'll get to that.
Plus, we're going to get to phone calls when we get back because people have been on so long.
Hang on.
And back to the phones.
We go to uh Patty.
Patty in Bellevue, Florida.
Great to have you here.
Welcome.
Hi, how are you, Rush?
Thanks for taking my call.
God bless you and God bless America.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
And I need to preface this by saying I'm a veteran, so I've probably got mental issues.
But I'm an angry white woman.
And I am sick to death of these flipping liberals.
So since they want to do so much for our country, I think what they should do, including our president, is all line up and call ISIS and volunteer their flipping nets.
You mean if they think they're if if they think ISIS is justified.
Absolutely.
They should join.
Absolutely.
Volunteer their nets and say, Well, no, that's a bit of that cures it.
That's a little bit of an extreme example, don't you?
Take out that patty.
Well, like I say, veteran with mental issues, the helicopters are probably circling.
But I am sick of this mess that I hear each and every day.
I serve the country.
I'm a patriot, and I'm probably not allowed to say it, but God bless Donald Trump.
Hey, by the way, the the latest polls are out, and I hate look, folks.
I I I called this, he's up nine points.
Thank God.
He's up nine points, and it's he's he's the he's coming out the minute these incidents happen, he's all over them.
He's gonna bomb ISIS's oil.
Um he's not gonna worry about taking names and all that sort of stuff.
Uh he hasn't he hasn't weakened on the immigration issue.
Uh I I just saw it, I haven't had a chance to print it out.
I'll do that in in a moment.
It's it's uh I think it's a Boston poll or New Hampshire, Massachusetts polls.
I've don't quote me on that.
I'll find it here in just a second.
It came right before this segment began.
And I just had a chance, look at the headline, Trump up nine, and and so I don't know what the real I don't think that means he's 51.
It's nine in the in a poll that showed him, but anyway, he's just vaulting over everybody in poll after poll after poll.
Well, thank heaven somebody here in America's got some sense.
Well, it's it's you know, you're I I I I I admire uh independent creative thought.
And you clearly have gone there with your call.
All these leftists, the soundbites we've played today, praise one clarification.
I don't want to be misunderstood.
They are not praising ISIS for their murderous and terrorist activity.
They are saying they understand why.
They are humanizing ISIS on the basis of our evil.
The United States mistakes, United States transgressions, United States human rights violations, uh torture and rendition and black sites, just the the the litany that that I constantly share with you, that the liberals believe.
All of that is being used to justify, not support, but to justify what ISIS is doing.
And then when you have one of these guys coming out, oh yeah, they've got health care.
If you're a member of ISIS, you've got health care.
Unsaid Is they don't have that here.
We don't have health care for everybody.
We still have people who don't have ISIS.
So ISIS joins Cuba in being better than the U.S. when it comes to health care.
And these people are dead serious, folks, is the point that I'm trying to convey.
They actually believe and they act on this and they teach it.
In junior high, in middle school, high school, all the way up into college, they teach this stuff.
They think ISIS is great because they have restaurant regulation.
They make sure that they're restaurants and the food is sanitary.
As though we don't.
Or maybe we're not a factor there.
It's just, hey, these guys are not what you've heard.
They're not the total brutes that you've heard.
So they do good things for their followers.
If you don't follow them, they'll chop your head off and put it on a stick.
And even that we're supposed to understand because a brilliant technique to keep people in line.
On the one hand, you give them free health care and make sure restaurant food sanitary.
On the other hand, if they diss you, you chop their head off and you put it on a stake in the middle of town, and that's the way they keep people in line.
And all that mean stuff they do, well, we have to understand it because we are the ones that have ticked them off.
This is what they're teaching.
I can't repeat this enough.
I'm sorry if you people are we get it, Rush, we get it.
Yeah, you do.
But this stuff needs to be said over and over again to make an impression on as many as possible.
So here comes Patty saying, hey, you like them so much, go join them.
Well, I like the thinking.
It's a way of putting it in perspective.
Here's uh here's Johnny in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Lottie, sorry.
Lonnie, how are you?
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hey, thanks, Rush.
I I don't think I can match Patty's passion, but uh uh I would like to thank you for that insight you just gave us on the Francis raid on that training ground.
I will admit that I've heard about it several times, but nobody else made that connection.
It's in the back of our mind.
We're thinking, well, why hasn't anybody hit that before?
But it's those kind of insights that you have constantly.
That's why we listen to you.
Well, thank you, Rick.
It seems so simple.
I can't claim ownership of all of them.
I I can't claim ownership for all of them, uh understandably, but no, it it it it is a good question.
So the French take out this uh this this headquarters at Raqqa.
Right.
And nobody stops to think, well, we've been attacking them for a year.
Why is it still there?
Exactly.
Uh well, one thing that about the the author earlier who uh was talking about all the uh reasons why uh Islam hates us and why the justifying these violent jihads, I think it's got to be really frustrating for you.
I know it's frustrating for me, because this isn't a matter of debate.
This is a matter of history.
This person knows nothing about the history, nothing about the facts on the ground.
And if you were just asked one simple question, what Arab democracies have there ever been?
Well, that was what what is this duly elected democratic government in the Middle East that we overthrew?
Right.
I mean, you know, he would fumble, he'd hem and haw, and he would say the Iranian government that supposedly the CIA overthrew in 1952, but the Iranians are not Arabs.
That was a Russian puppet government.
You know, and and if you look at what happened in Egypt after the Muslim Brotherhood took over, it's one and done with these people.
They, if if they ever win an election, that's the only one that I know of in in history, then that will be the only one there is.
They're going to seize power, they're going to take over, and they know that, they have to know that, but I have a feeling these people are so brainwashed and so ignorant that they really don't.
They are believing their own rhetoric.
And it's it's got to be frustrating.
Well, no, what's frustrating to me is not them.
They are who they are, and they're always going to be, and they always have been.
In fact, I've always argued there should be a bunch of them around as as displays in museums and so forth.
You know, a little glass cage where a couple of liberals live, so we never forget who they are or what they believe.
But the problem I have is that they're teachers.
They are professors.
They are regurgitating this stuff in the form of propaganda.
They are literally polluting and corrupting the minds of American students.
America's citizens don't come out of the womb thinking this stuff, and they don't go to kindergarten thinking this stuff.
They may be close, depending on their parents, but this stuff is all taught, this anti-Americanism, this hatred, this biased and distorted view.
I mean, the very idea that we overthrow democratically elected government anywhere.
I mean, we don't even do that here.
We're the we're the premier democratically elected government in the country.
We've never overthrown ourselves.
We've never not had an election.
You know, I remember Mr. Schnerdley, you remember back in the early days of this program, the focus of evil in the modern world was a gusto pinochet.
They hated Pinochet.
And the fact that we overthrew Pinochet, they loved.
They hated Pinochet.
Well, we it's depending on where you lose Pinochet, Pinnah.
You've got to be careful, the uh the way you pronounce it.
But I can remember during the course of this program all this anti-CAI CIA criticism or supposedly overthrowing duly elected governments in Central America and in South America and so forth, and the church committee.
There's just been a uh a raging hatred for this country that's irrational and not borne out in any fact.
And meanwhile, we have we have an absolute pure 100% terrorist regime, which cares not for duly elected anything, they care not for sovereign anything, they care not for free anybody, overthrowing mass murdering, what have you, and they are offered the excuse.
They are exempted from criticism, precisely because it allows these leftists to further their agenda that it's all our fault.
But again, the real thing to point out is all of this criticism of America is happening after seven years of Barack Hussein Oh, who was gonna welcome in their utopia.
You know, if I were them in a way, I'd be mad too.
Seven years uninterrupted, seven years essentially unopposed to implement this utopia, seven years unstopped to do everything in your power to prove that the previous 230 years were bogus, seven years to fix all the things that were wrong, seven years to get rid of racism, seven years to get rid of slavery, seven years to get rid of bigotry, seven years, I mean you wanted to get rid of all these horrible things.
And after those seven years, the very people who thought they were going to get all this wonderful stuff are angrier and more outraged, miserable and unhappy than ever.
Do these people not realize that by justifying ISIS on the basis that we are the bad guys, they're indicting their own president.
They're indicting the policies and the regime of Barack Hussein, oh, there are any Republican fingerprints on any of this.
That's why they always have to find a way to worm their way back to Iraq and George W. Bush, which they do.
And here's a dirty little secret about the Syrian refugees.
Do you know what the voting tendencies of Muslim Americans is.
Would you would you believe me if I told you that the statistics are that 80% of believers in Islam vote Democrat.
You'd believe it.
Okay, so would it make sense to you know That all of these Democrats can't wait for all of these Syrian Muslim refugees to settle in America.
We're not talking about going through citizenship.
We're talking about granting them refugee status.
So you couple that with illegal immigration and the voting characteristics of that group of people demographically and this, and you can see that all of this is about the furtherance of the Democrat Party agenda and hell with whatever it means to the country at large.
Okay, this next is eye-opening.
It's Loretta Lynch, the Attorney General testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Department of Justice oversight.
So it's oversight hearings.
Randy Forbes, Republican Virginia says, look, Madam Attorney General, making it clear any list that targets a city or state in the U.S., if you bring terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, wouldn't it be reasonable to conclude that that can enhance that city's ability to be one of those targeted lists?
This is about closing Club Gitmo.
This is about relocating Gidmo prisoners in American cities.
And the Congressman's asking her, well, look.
Any list that targets a city or state in the U.S., if you put a gidmo terrorist there, would it be reasonable to conclude that that could enhance the city's ability to be one of the targets?
And we're talking about terrorist prisoners.
We're going to release them.
We're going to send them, say, City A. He's asking, doesn't that even make that city a bigger target since we're actually putting a terrorist prisoner in it?
I think there are any number of factors.
Would you not agree that that would be a factor that would enhance that ability?
I think there are any number of factors.
Would that be a factor?
There are any number of factors.
But you would disagree that that would be one of those many number of factors?
Congressman, I don't agree or disagree.
I'm not going to tell you anything, Congressman.
You can babble up here all you want.
I'm going to tell you there are a lot of factors.
So Forbes then said, so you, as the attorney general, you do not have an opinion on whether or not bringing terrorists from Club Gitmo and locating them in a city or state would have any capability at all of putting that city on a hit list, say for ISIS.
You don't have an opinion on that?
Congressman, I think there are any number of factors.
I'm asking you, would that be one of those factors?
I believe I've indicated there'd be any number of the government.
No, you've indicated you wouldn't answer the question.
And Madam Attorney General, I think that's atrocious that you don't even have an opinion of that.
Oh, she's got an opinion on it, Congressman.
She's just not going to tell you.
What she's telling you, Congressman, it doesn't matter.
We're doing this politically.
We're getting these, we're getting this place shut down because Obama promised his voters.
We got an election coming up.
The Democrat base expects that place to be closed.
We're closing it.
Well, what about the impact on terrorism in the locations you're going to put these?
Well, I don't have to get any number of factors.
She's got a pat.
I think there are any number of factors.
This is I don't know, borders on insolence, disrespect.
I mean, I this is any number of factors.
But here again, just to re-emphasize, this is the Obama administration telling Congress, screw you guys.
We're going to shut this place down and we're going to put them somewhere in the United States.
And the hell with it.
We've got to shut it down because our base demands it be closed.
We haven't done it yet.
We've got to do it by the next.
She's not going to say that.
So then Bob Goodlat, Republican Virginia, said, Do you agree with the FBI director when he says that vetting Syrian refugees is extremely difficult, if not impossible?
Certainly the not only the Department of Justice, but all of our agencies will make every effort to vet every refugee coming into this country from the databases to the interviews that those individuals are subject to to the biometric screening as well.
Let me go on.
Certainly there are challenges to that process because of the situation in Syria.
Biometrics?
Biometric script.
Biom would biometric screening had uh would it have identified the sonarives?
What about this little kid in his clock bomb?
Well, that's the point.
Biometrics.
Well, we'll we'll know their body fat, though.
We'll know whether climate change has harmed them where they live.
They're not in any database anywhere.
There's no way to vet them.
You can't vet people for whom there aren't any records.
Yeah, I glanced at this thing in a hurry and I misspoke.
Trump did not go up nine points.
He has a nine-point lead over Ben Carson in a University of Massachusetts survey.
It's 31 Trump, 22 Carson, 13 Cruz, 9 Rubio, and Carly and Kasich are tied at 4%.
I don't see Jeb on the list here.
Hang tough, folks.
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