Hi Vanessa,
I'm not the spokesperson for Toledo's Syrian Refugee vigil on Sunday, although I'll be there.
I didn't think this was something that a city official should opine about, but I heard from a friend of mine that some official of
Pontiac, MI said they weren't taking any Syrian refugees. What fearful, xenophobic, cheap crap!
In that case, the mayor of Toledo should stand up and say that every Syrian refugee who will fit in Toledo is welcome.
Our tax money paid to invade Iraq, kill a million people and destabilize the region until we have what we have today. The very least we can do is say what every person I met in Iraq said to me, "Welcome!"
Mike Ferner
419-729-7273
“We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers?...Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us. How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.” --Wendell Berry