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Revolt at State?
Internal Memo at State Department Opposes Trump’s Travel Ban
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s temporary ban on entry visas for people from seven predominantly Muslim countries has opened fissures across his administration, with bureaucrats struggling to enforce a law they had no warning of, military officers cautioning that it will hurt their partners in conflict zones like Iraq, and diplomats lodging a protest against the message it is sending the world.
Inside the State Department, officials are circulating a so-called dissent cable, which warns that closing the nation’s doors to more than 200 million people to weed out a handful of would-be terrorists will not make the nation safer and might instead deepen the threat.
The memorandum began to take shape late last week, as word of Mr. Trump’s executive order leaked out. The sponsors quickly gathered over 100 signatures, an unusually large number, but a draft of the memo was still being refined over the weekend.
Dissent memos are an established way for diplomats to register objections to American policy.
Last summer, 51 State Department officials signed one protesting former President Barack Obama’s policy in Syria, which they asserted had been “overwhelmed” by the violence there. They handed the cable to Secretary of State John Kerry.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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I never knew about this "dissent channel" at the State Department.
Kind of a cool outlet for the diplomatic corps to speak their mind openly to provide feedback to the White House.
However, the message from the White House in the daily press briefing was, "Get on board or get out."
And they said Obama had hubris.
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Wow.
Not even a full month and we're already at the "Show us your papers" stage.
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TheLagerLad wrote:
I never knew about this "dissent channel" at the State Department.
Kind of a cool outlet for the diplomatic corps to speak their mind openly to provide feedback to the White House.
However, the message from the White House in the daily press briefing was, "Get on board or get out."
And they said Obama had hubris.
The Great Uniter at work !
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Resist
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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"Get on board or get out." - Lager
Such is life in within a totalitarian regime. But, hey, democracy had a good run in America.
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"Get on board or get out." - Lager
Such is life in within a totalitarian regime. But, hey, democracy had a good run in America.
Kind of looking that way. 
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
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Well, they are up to 1,000
State Dept. Dissent Cable on Trump’s Ban Draws 1,000 Signatures
NAIROBI, Kenya — It started out in Washington.
Then it went to Jakarta. Then across Africa.
One version even showed up on Facebook.
Within hours, a State Department dissent cable, asserting that President Trump’s executive order to temporarily bar citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries would not make the nation safer, traveled like a chain letter — or a viral video.
The cable wended its way through dozens of American embassies around the world, quickly emerging as one of the broadest protests by American officials against their president’s policies. And it is not over yet.
By 4 p.m. on Tuesday, the letter had attracted around 1,000 signatures, State Department officials said, far more than any dissent cable in recent years. It was being delivered to management, and department officials said more diplomats wanted to add their names to it.
The State Department has 7,600 Foreign Service officers and 11,000 civil servants.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Well, they are up to 1,000
State Dept. Dissent Cable on Trump’s Ban Draws 1,000 Signatures
NAIROBI, Kenya — It started out in Washington.
Then it went to Jakarta. Then across Africa.
One version even showed up on Facebook.
Within hours, a State Department dissent cable, asserting that President Trump’s executive order to temporarily bar citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries would not make the nation safer, traveled like a chain letter — or a viral video.
The cable wended its way through dozens of American embassies around the world, quickly emerging as one of the broadest protests by American officials against their president’s policies. And it is not over yet.
By 4 p.m. on Tuesday, the letter had attracted around 1,000 signatures, State Department officials said, far more than any dissent cable in recent years. It was being delivered to management, and department officials said more diplomats wanted to add their names to it.
The State Department has 7,600 Foreign Service officers and 11,000 civil servants.
Will the next step be a massive "You're Fired" tantrum ??
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"