White House Spokesman Used Quebec Massacre of Muslims to Justify Administration's Own Attacks

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Link to tweet

“We condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms. It’s a terrible reminder of why we must remain vigilant, and why the president is taking steps to be proactive, rather than reactive, when it comes to our nation’s safety and security,” press secretary Sean Spicer said at his daily briefing on Monday.

Spicer did not specifically identify the policies he was referring to.

But the “proactive, rather than reactive” language is similar to the rhetoric Trump and his allies have used in defending his “temporary” ban on refugees and by visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries, which has caused a worldwide uproar.

Spicer used similar words when asked directly about the travel ban later in the briefing, saying Trump was not going to “wait and react.”

“There is nothing nice about searching for terrorists before they can enter our country. This was a big part of my campaign. Study the world!” Trump himself wrote on Twitter earlier Monday.

read: https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/01/30/the-white-house-just-cited-the-quebec-mosque-attack-to-justify-trumps-policies.html

watch press briefing:

[Barack_America]

1. The WH is going to be "vigilant" against the alt-right?

[riversedge]

3. Does Barron know that??

[guillaumeb]

4. Alt-right terrorists like abortion clinic bombers and KKK members?

Not quite.

[enough]

2. So let's see, Canada should have been vetting white citizens to search for

potential terrorists?

[heaven05]

5. A bunch of fools

running this country who think we are all fools....surprise take your BS back to the pile you shoveled it from. Spits-sir is a POS

[lunasun]

6. A white supremists who also had made hateful remarks about women? Troll?

Sounds like one of their own ...so what is he talking about??

The actual shooting suspect is 27-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette, a white French Canadian who is, by all appearances, a rabid anti-immigrant nationalist. A leader of a local immigration rights groups, François Deschamps, told a local paper he recognized his photo as an anti-immigrant far-right “troll” who has been hostile to the group online. And Bisonnette’s Facebook page – now taken down but still archived – lists among its “likes” the far right French nationalist Marine Le Pen, Islam critics Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the Israeli Defense Forces, and Donald J. Trump (he also “likes” the liberal Canadian Party NDP along with more neutral “likes” such as Tom Hanks, the Sopranos and Katy Perry).

[etherealtruth]

7. does this mean we are going to start vetting white supremacists?

I think Bannon would be out

[arthritisR_US]

11. That very question came to my mind and they would

need to start that vetting in the WH!

[etherealtruth]

12. they would all be gone n/t

[arthritisR_US]

13. They sure would, the whole bloody lot of them. nt

[oasis]

8. See what Lyin' Sean Spicer has to say when asked about it tomorrow. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. So that was at 1:30pm ET, over an hour after the Quebec police said only the white guy

is a suspect: https://twitter.com/sureteduquebec , and that had been reported in the media.

[arthritisR_US]

10. I was livid when I watched it on the Canadian news because

it was terrorism perpetrated by white supremacists against the very people the WH is condemning.

[eleny]

14. They ought to be taking responsibility for it

[Fast Walker 52]

15. seriously! When I first saw a mosque was targeted I figured it was Trump-inspired

fucking assholes