{"id":129181,"date":"2015-12-19T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T18:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/19\/so-lets-discriminate-based-on-nationality-then-shall-we.html"},"modified":"2015-12-19T17:30:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T00:30:39","slug":"so-lets-discriminate-based-on-nationality-then-shall-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/19\/so-lets-discriminate-based-on-nationality-then-shall-we.html","title":{"rendered":"So let&#039;s discriminate based on nationality then, shall we?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I can see wanting to restrict folk, even with US passports, traveling to and from Da&#39;esh controlled territories from entering the US without some sort of check. But changes to the Visa Waiver Program just passed by Congress have a whole cascade of consequences, both planned and unplanned. Bad move.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2015\/12\/18\/congress-just-put-iranian-americans-and-others-at-risk-for-becoming-second-class-citizens\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/iIgld3r2QUdD__0UXKB6fI2hzbN8LsR-lXOlnKmrXKTUshOsHGtvFrgbNWGDbR_vmQbj7-uhibtwaD6JRwbcieL6DOE0y13drei8P7c47ZeHOAS7fr0IIQpySutisVVh7k9LkRqNmqnigSt2yn0=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2015\/12\/18\/congress-just-put-iranian-americans-and-others-at-risk-for-becoming-second-class-citizens\/'>Congress Just Put Iranian-Americans and Others At Risk for Becoming Second-Class Citizens<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nChanges to the Visa Waiver Program punish people based on their heritage &mdash; and could cause Americans to be similarly punished.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/VBdR7YnjUxe'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I can see wanting to restrict folk, even with US passports, traveling to and from Da&#39;esh controlled territories from entering the US without some sort of check. But changes to the Visa Waiver Program just passed by Congress have a whole cascade of consequences, both planned and unplanned. Bad move. Congress Just Put Iranian-Americans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/19\/so-lets-discriminate-based-on-nationality-then-shall-we.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So let&#039;s discriminate based on nationality then, shall we?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23766,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/the-gop-war-on-nutrition-continues.html","url_meta":{"origin":129181,"position":0},"title":"The GOP War on Nutrition Continues","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Nov-11 10:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Every time Michelle Obama opens her mouth to suggest that, y'know, maybe feeding kids junk food every day isn't good for them, the Right immediately screams out that she's some sort of Nutrition Nazi, out to rob kids of their God-endowed Freedom Fries. 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