Trump stands behind his unconstitutional words

One of the most disturbing things about president Obama is his flagrant circumventing of the Constitution in order to get what he wants. For example, he would love it if all of the guns in America were confiscated and thrown in the trash heap, which, of course, goes against our Second Amendment.

Obama is an ideologue and a socialist who is intolerant to other ideologies that conflict with his. 

He calls an American's right to challenge Islamic ideology a hate crime, which is actually a thought crime when you come down to it.

 He has no problem with anyone lampooning Christianity, or with derogatory "art" like the ""Piss Jesus," and he certainly doesn't talk about the disproportionate number of "hate crimes" against the Jews, which is the highest of any group. But say anything against Islam and he goes "all Mohammad" over you.

He and Attorney General Loretta Lynch want to keep you from exercising your First Amendment right of freedom of expression. When it comes to discussing the problems we are seeing in America with radical Muslims who want to kill us, you better be careful what you say.

When it comes to immigration, the U.S. Constitution has nothing to say about non-Americans insofar as their rights are concerned. They are not protected by the Constitution to enter this country and we should have final say as a majority if they are to be allowed in.

In spite of this, Obama wants to bring in thousands of Syrians, people who ISIS promised to blend with and infiltrate into the U.S. in order to kill us. The majority of Americans disapprove of this move, including many Democrats. 

But Obama's ideology trumps the majority.

So Americans are angry and frustrated. There used to be a time when the majority ruled in the nation's decision-making, but now it seems we have a monarch who does what fits his ideology. 

Enter Donald Trump.

Mr. Trump is saying things that angry, frustrated Americans feel deeply about--the need to protect our country by doing whatever it takes. Americans feel they have little or no voice to do that, so Trump has become that voice. His anger is our anger.

The Republican presidential candidate said that his plan to protect us would be to shut the door on Muslims and not allow them entry to the United States. The plan would include refugees, tourists and possibly Muslim Americans returning from trips abroad.

Really?

Americans with passports are not to be denied entry back to America. Period. 

If you deny Americans this Constitutional right, then what right will you decide to deny them in the future? It is no different than taking away our Second Amendment right to own a gun, or our First Amendment right to speak our mind.

But Trump, when challenged, doubled down on his plan.

"We have no idea who is coming into our country, no idea if they like us or hate us," he told supporters in South Carolina. "I wrote something today that is very salient .  .  .  and probably not very politically correct, but I don't care."

We love that Trump isn't politically correct. And he's absolutely correct in saying that we don't know who is coming into our country; those are the people who need to be denied access, not Muslim Americans.

We need to do a better job discovering our security threats. We know many are home-grown, but many come across our porous borders. We certainly don't need to welcome them with open arms from Syria and other Muslim nations. Therefore, we need to stop being politically correct, just like Donald Trump.

However, as conservatives we need to care if we are honest in our belief that the U.S. Constitution is the greatest document ever penned for any nation on earth. If we believe that, then we need to follow it.

But I also know that we are at war with radical Islam.

I am not at all suggesting that we allow non-Americans, particularly those people from Muslim nations, to come into our country. They cannot be accurately vetted and we shouldn't trust the information Islamic countries would provide to us as part of the vetting process.

I agree with Trump on not allowing refugees in--I don't trust strangers who belong to the same religion that clearly sees itself as superior and wants a world caliphate--but if you keep American Muslims from re-entering the country, you are doing nothing different than what Islam does to Christians and Jews. 

It's wrong. It creates more enemies than the security it provides. It is not smart.

When Trump calls for sweeping proposals to create a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States," the condemnation he gets from jihadist-supporting groups like CAIR, appears to have some credibility. 

You never want to give Muslim Brotherhood associated groups any credibility.

Trump has lots of appeal because he appeals to our anger and fears. His words are tough, but I don't believe he has thought things out completely. 

Yes, we  need to "bomb the shit out of ISIS," as he said. We definitely need to win the war against Islamic terrorism. But to win it, we need to be as smart as we are tough, and alienating an entire religion (I use the term 'religion' loosely) is not a winning strategy.

We need a strategy because Obama doesn't have one.


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