The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Monday 5 June 2017

"WATERED DOWN"? THAT'S WHAT DONALD TRUMP NOW THINKS ABOUT HIS OWN ADMINISTRATION'S TRAVEL BAN PLAN

It seems US President Donald Trump has just got up from a deep slumber of three months to realize that the reworked Travel Ban plan that bears his signature has been watered down to the extent that it is worthless and its original and a much tougher version is needed to be restored. Donald Trump had signed the "watered down" version on March 6. And like his earlier attempt to enforce a nation-wide travel ban plan targeting a particular community, this, too, was stayed by the US courts.

After the London Bridge terror attack on June 3 that left seven dead and dozens injured, Trump has slammed the re-drafted version of own his administration's Travel Ban order an attempt to be "politically correct", in a series of tweets, he has said that "the US Justice Department should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to the US Supreme Court and the Justice Department should ask for an expedited hearing of the watered down Travel Ban before the Supreme Court - and seek much tougher version!"

Donald J. Trump‏ @realDonaldTrump
The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.
3:59 PM - 5 Jun 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/871675245043888128

Donald J. Trump‏ @realDonaldTrump
The Justice Dept. should ask for an expedited hearing of the watered down Travel Ban before the Supreme Court - & seek much tougher version!
4:07 PM - 5 Jun 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/871677472202477568

It raises a pertinent question then - why Donald Trump allowed this watered down version to go through? Did he not study it before putting his signature or was he convinced that the modified version of Travel Ban kept his idea of travel ban intact, as the US courts later concluded?

On March 15, a Hawaii court blocked the Trump Administration’s second attempt to reintroduce the controversial Travel Ban plan saying it was biased and discriminatory. The ban was upheld by a Circuit Court of Appeals on May 25. Trump had signed the new executive order on March 6, weeks after the first futile attempt to ban immigration from some Muslim majority countries.

In the new executive order on Travel Ban, that, according to Trump is a watered down and politically correct version, three months after he signed it, the Trump administration had made some minor changes to the first version of the executive order which was issued on January 27 so that it could evade the courts. For example, the second order excluded Iraq from the list of countries facing the ban, i.e., Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yemen and Sudan, and featured exemptions for green card holders, permanent US residents and for those already having a US visa.

But the courts weren’t satisfied. Comparing both versions of the Travel Ban executive order, the judge of the Hawaii found "significant and unrebutted evidence of religious animus driving the promulgation of the executive order and its related predecessor."  

Trump had termed the decision of the Hawaii court an "unprecedented judicial overreach." When his first Travel Ban executive order was stayed, he had slammed "the opinion of the so-called judge which essentially took law-enforcement away from their country" and claimed that the "decision was ridiculous and would be overturned!" He has continued his tirade against the US judiciary which he finds is rigged and compares it with that of the third world countries.

While alleging the courts to be "slow and political", he claims that in order to help keep the US safe, his administration is "extreme vetting" people coming into the U.S..

Donald J. Trump‏ @realDonaldTrump
In any event we are EXTREME VETTING people coming into the U.S. in order to help keep our country safe. The courts are slow and political!
4:14 PM - 5 Jun 2017
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/871679061847879682

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