One of these days, Michael Moore is going to quit being an Obama apologist and acknowledge that this abominable behavior, this exercise in racial profiling extraordinaire can only be laid at the feet of one person: Barack Hussein Obama. For the President to try to lecture on racial divisions still tearing this country apart and at the same time presiding
Homeland Security (Photo credit: Phantamage)
over the racist, Islamophobic assumptions so rampant in his Department of Homeland Security is such a paradoxism that it would be funny if it didn’t originate in the darkest base side of human behavior.
In the first place, these agents didn’t know that Emad Burnat was Islāmic or Christian. Many Palestinians are Christians. Emad could be Islāmic and not a terrorist, he could be Christian and not a terrorist or he could be Christian and a terrorist. Let us not forget who planted the device in Oklahoma City or the device in the Olympic Fountain Square in Atlanta. But Customs and Immigration assumed that since his skin was brown, his flight originated in Jordan and he lived in the West Bank that he was Islāmic and a terrorist. Period. Judgement made without trial. Sentence to be carried out when the next flight departed for Amman, Jordan.
The pattern of extrajudicial acts becomes more and more apparent as a part of the overall Obama Administration’s policy. We can make snap judgements that a man living in a certain house is Osama bin Laden, murder him and dump him in the ocean before anyone can determine who the US has murdered in the name of its citizenry. Murder a 16 year-old because he is allegedly the son of a US citizen that the Obama administration had determined is a terrorist and can therefore murder without a trial. Even though the boy is a US citizen and has committed no crime of any kind, the official explanation is that “his father was bad, he should have had a better father”. According to the Obama Administration policy, having a bad father means that you are a threat to the national security of the US and therefore subject to extrajudicial murder. Constitution? What Constitution? We don’t need no stinking Constitution! We just make it up as we go along!
Barack Hussein Obama is in need of immediate impeachment. Not for the reasons that all the right wingnuts want: because he happens to be black. I had high hopes for this Ivy League president. A smart man who knew the hurts of the street and the hardships that people endure there. A constitutional law professor who would put the country back on the rule of law after 7 years of dismantling of the Constitution be the little moron from Texas. Who then turns out to be worse than George W. Bush. Who knows what the Constitution demands and does otherwise anyway. Who has a clear understanding of what it’s like to be black in the United States and then walks across the porch to become the houseboy. Who has been told repeatedly about the blood, hurt, pain, incarceration and humiliation that has been endured so that he can be where he is and turns his back on it and walks into the all-white boy club and closes the door behind him. He turns his thugs loose on people of color across the US, spreading beatings, bloodied heads, choking gas, lethal bullets disguised as “less than lethal”, humiliations, false arrests…all of the same things that civil rights leaders endured to get Mr. Obama to the place he occupies today. It’s more than ironic. It is positively treacherous. And here is a story that highlights exactly the wrongs that Mr. Obama perpetrates on a daily basis, a story written by one of the loudest apologists for the betrayals of Barack Hussein Obama in the US.
More signs of troubling anti-Islamic behavior by federal customs officials.
Michael Moore
February 20, 2013
Tuesday night was the Motion Picture Academy sponsored dinner in Beverly Hills honoring the directors and producers of this year’s five nominated films for Best Documentary. The dinner was an occasional tradition my wife and I started six years ago when we took our fellow nominees (we were nominated for ‘Sicko’) out for a meal to get to know each other. The Academy liked the idea, so this year it is holding dinners during Oscar Week for each of the separate branches’ Oscar nominees.
Thus, last night, as an elected Governor of the Documentary Branch, I and my fellow Governors – Michael Apted and Rob Epstein – were co-hosting the nominee dinner for the documentary filmmakers. But one of the nominated directors was not there – Emad Burnat, the co-director of the Oscar-nominated ‘5 Broken Cameras.’ This exceptional, award-winning movie about how Emad’s village in the West Bank used non-violence to oppose the Israeli’s government’s decision to build a wall straight through their farms and village – only to see (and capture on camera) Israeli soldiers shooting unarmed Palestinian civilians – had become the first Palestinian documentary ever to be nominated by the Academy.
The theme restaurant and control tower at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
While we awaited Emad’s arrival from the airport – he and his family had already spent nearly six hours at an Israeli checkpoint as he was attempting to drive to Amman to catch their plane – I received an urgent text from Emad, written to me from a holding pen at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
Here is what it said, in somewhat broken English:
“Urgent – I am in the air port la they need more information why I come here
Invitation or some thing
Can you help they will send us back
If you late
Emad”
I quickly texted him back and told him that help was on the way. He wrote back to say Immigration and Customs was holding him, his wife, Soraya, and their 8-year old son (and “star” of the movie) Gibreel in a detention room at LAX. He said they would not believe him when he told them he was an Oscar-nominated director on his way to this Sunday’s Oscars and to the events in LA leading up to the ceremony. He is also a Palestinian. And an olive farmer. Apparently that was too much for Homeland Security to wrap its head around.
“They are saying they are going to put us on the next plane back to Amman,” he told me.
I immediately contacted the Academy CEO Dawn Hudson and COO Ric Robertson, who in turn told Academy President Hawk Koch. They got ahold of the Academy’s attorney who is also partners with a top immigration attorney and they went to work on it. I called the State Department in DC.
I told Emad to give the Homeland Security people my name and cell number and to have them call me ASAP so I could explain who he was and why they should let him go.
After being held for somewhere between one and two hours, with repeated suggestions that the U.S. may not let him into the country – saying that they may send him back home – the authorities relented and released Emad and his family.
I texted him to say we would not start the dinner until he arrived. When he got there, he was fairly shaken and upset.
He told us that this sort of treatment is something he is used to “on a daily basis under Occupation.” He gave an eloquent and moving impromptu speech, in his usual soft-spoken voice, to his fellow nominees. He said this was his 6th trip with his film to the U.S. this year and that this was the first time he was detained. He said they wanted to see some “official document” that he was an actual nominee. I said, “Doesn’t Immigration have Google?”
The Americans in the dining room apologized to Emad for the way our government and its security police treated him. We then sat down and ate some good ol’ American roast beef.
(Tonight at 7:30 pm in the Academy’s theater on Wilshire Boulevard, I will host a discussion on stage with all the documentary nominees and show clips of their films. Emad Burnat will be there. The event is open to the public.)
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