Oh brother, not in my backyard
Cher's Janus-facedness reminds of George Clooney

The internet rocked with laughter at Cher's recent spin-about on immigrants. On Sept. 5, 2017, the plasticized and fright-wigged Tinsel Town termagant tweeted her self-righteousness for all the world to read.

"Those Who Can Must Take a DREAMER In2 Their Home and Protect Them !! I'm Ready 2 Do This and  [praying hands emoji] OTHERS IN MY BUSINESS WILL DO THE SAME !! SANCTUARY"

But following President Trump's recent proposal to direct all illegal immigrants to Sanctuary Cities like Cher's own, she abruptly switched songs:

"I Understand Helping immigrants, but MY CITY (Los Angeles) ISN'T TAKING CARE OF ITS OWN,"  she said, from her surgically sculpted mouth's other side, "WHAT ABOUT THE 50,000+ [U.S. flag emoji] Citizens WHO LIVE ON THE STREETS.PPL WHO LIVE BELOW POVERTY LINE,AND HUNGRY? If My State Can't Take Care Of Its Own (many are VETS) How Can It Take Care Of More"

Cher's conflictive admonitions may actually indicate an emergent rationale for locating illegals in less-populous parts of the country. The coastal, smugly 'woke' in hoity-toity zip codes may conclude they already bear sufficient burden, and presume to administer other states' citizenship affairs. 

La-di-frickin'-da.

Cher's whirling reminded me immediately of George Clooney.

For years, the actor advocated unchecked immigration. He also was vocal in his denunciation of President Trump. And, though he probably wouldn't phrase it this way, Clooney ultimately learned the error of his advocacy.

"A makeshift refugee camp has sprung up in Lake Como, the popular celebrity hideaway in Italy favored by stars George Clooney, Richard Branson, and Madonna," the New York Post related, in July of 2016.

"Hundreds of migrants heading toward Northern Europe have erected tents and flimsy dwellings around the exclusive town's railway station," the Post said.

The paper later added: "Lake Como has long been a destination favored by the powerful and wealthy, many of whom are attracted by its stunning lakeside villas built in Roman times."

England's Daily Mail, that same month, dubbed Lake Como "Paradise Lost."

The Daily Mail depicted the area. It noted Clooney maintained a L.7.5 million mansion there, and that Richard Branson was "rumored to have a house there." Donatella Versace also once lived nearby.

A local hotel was said to charge L.2,000 per night, with previous guests including President Kennedy, Madonna, and Bruce Springsteen. Princess Margaret, Kirk Douglas, Barbra Streisand, and Elton John were reported to have dined at Lake Como's Isolo Comacina.

But open-borders agitation had despoiled the once-luxurious spot. And when Switzerland closed its border to migrants, the blocked mass settled in Clooney's Italian neighborhood.

The owner of a local restaurant said "I don't want them here. Italy has enough problems without trying to solve the problems of the world."

"You see them arriving at the San Giovanni station," said a housewife. "They are not poor hungry refugees, but they are big and strong."

The Clooneys relocated to their English mansion. But trouble followed.

On July 10, 2017, LifeAndStylemag.com reported "Life and Style has exclusively learned that George Clooney has recently made plans to move back to L.A. for the safety of his family, after the latest spate of terror attacks in England."

"He doesn't feel that Amal and the twins are safe, living in the English countryside," a source explained. "He's determined to move his family to L.A., where where he feels much more secure."

Life And Style cited "very serious threats" the actor had allegedly received because of his "humanitarian work." (Don't visible anti-Trump agitators in need of sympathetic PR often claim to have received 'threats' of one type or another? Eric Swalwell. Ilhan Omar. CNN. Maxine Waters. MSNBC's Katy Tur. FNC's Kat Timpf.)

"As soon as Amal found out she was pregnant, he hired former Secret Service agents to assess all his property...His mansion in Studio City (Calif.) was deemed the most secure, and it's within minutes of a police station," a Clooney "insider" told Life And Style.

(How many regular folks who'd confront the fruit of Hollywood open-borders shouts be able to retain "former Secret Service agents?" I believe the answer is zero.)

Breitbart's Daniel Nussbaum observed that "The move for the Clooneys comes as both George and Amal have been among the most vocal and active celebrity advocates for open borders and the free flow of refugees between countries. 

"In February of last year, the actor met privately with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and praised the German leader's acceptance of refugees from Syria and other countries."

A year earlier, Clooney reportedly told SkyNews "The United States needs to do more. As we know, 10,000 refugees a year is not enough, that's clear."

Of course, there is tremendous irony in the George Clooney Story. A blithering Hollywood idealist urges refugees swarm across borders; subsequently fears jeopardy ensuant from his advocacy; and packs up his family and flees to an America more secure thanks to President Trump -- the very statesman against whom Clooney had long and loudly remonstrated.

("Donald Trump is not going to be president," Clooney had notoriously snickered, during a campaign-season press conference.)

Now illegals may pop up, en masse, in pricey sanctuary domains fancifully moralistic stars like Clooney and Cher had erected.

Celebrities are used to lecturing the rest of us about supposed moral imperatives. Armed security details, opulent, walled mansions, and exclusive, undisturbed social bubbles have for years allowed them to wag fingers without having to deal with human consequences.

But those days may soon be over. 



Note: Consider that, at least for some open-borders advocates, there may be a larger philosophical belief undergirding related actions. That was given voice by President Obama, when he addressed the 2015 National Prayer Breakfast.

Obama dismissed Americans' outrage over ISIS terrorism. Using faith to justify violence is "not unique to any one religion or region," the former chief executive admonished. 

That was true. But the former academic used it as a springboard into murky waters.

He cited the Christian crusades of early centuries, as if by so doing, he was putting current-day ISIS terrorist atrocities in an acceptable light.

The apparent thinking was that no peoples or regions should advance unless all existent do likewise, and at exactly the same pace. And that it is unfair to expect the relatively brutish to respect more civilized and sophisticated societies' superior understandings of human rights, religious liberty, and intellectual freedom and expression.

Those who insist primitive mores be imported into lands of higher station, and that promotion of assimilation be considered somehow a sign of intolerance, are espousing illogic with world-rending ramifications.

Put bluntly: The Western culture faith that says wife-beating, female genital mutilation, and rape are wrong is superior to others that not only encourage those, but impute to them Divine sanctification. It's bizarre that point must today even be articulated, but here we are.