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whose skills belong to another time and whose dignity and livelihood have been sacrificed to a world that had moved on.

a macabre and dystopian reality was unleashed on thousands of Muslims under hostile scrutiny at those glass boxes.not least because it represents a first-order violation of democratic justice—namely an endorsement of the principle of collective blame: the punishment and banishment of many based on the acts of a paltry few (or in this case.

)The 2016 election season that culminated with Trumps surprise victory was rife with dissections of American dissatisfaction.The casual acceptance of the logic of collective blame hands a rabid and malevolent Trump administration permission to expand the ban from the given seven to an even larger number.it would seem to be a matter of simple fairness to extend the same empathy to millions of others whose skills also do not match the economies of the countries where they were born.

/ Wikimedia Columns C o l u m n s Welcome to the United States! These are words that hundreds of thousands of people traveling to America yearn to hear after they hand their documents to the immigration officials sitting in glass box at the airport.And alongside these accounts came many an earnest plea for more privileged Americans to show greater empathy toward this hypothetical everyman—a tragic collateral casualty of recent economic history.

but you are still unlucky by birth—and you are now also subject to humiliation and detention by the whim and fiat of an American president even if you never broke the law.

now touting the Pakistan threat as a foil to the Trump administrations travel ban and insisting that the real danger has been ignoredusing ssh to log onto my Pi and vi to edit the configuration.

often using a version designed for lower power systems.Theres still plenty out there to surprise me.

But then late one night I was up on our small roof terrace.from graphs showing what birds are most common at what time of day.