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With the recent arrest of a Salvadoran national for the murder of missing intern Chandra Levy, the issue of crime attributed to illegal aliens is and should be on the minds of millions of Americans.
Ingmar Guandiqua who was is in this country illegally, is currently in prison for the assault of two other women in Washington D.C. He was actually arrested only a few days after Levy’s disappearance on burglary charges, though law enforcement was aware of his illegal status, Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not notified due to the District’s sanctuary policy.
While Chandra Levy may be the most well known American who has been killed by an illegal alien, she is only one in a staggeringly large and ever-growing group.
The federal government does not keep comprehensive statistics on the number of crimes committed in this country by illegal aliens. Taking a look at the results of a few independent studies, it is not surprising that they don’t.
In 2006, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) released the results of a study which found that 4,380 Americans are murdered every year by illegal aliens. The study also concluded that 4,745 Americans are killed every year by illegal aliens driving drunk.
In 2005, the Government Accountability Office announced the results of a study which examined the criminal history of 55,322 illegal aliens who were incarcerated in federal, state, and local institutions during the year 2003. The results of that study follow:
The 55,322 illegal aliens in the study accounted for a total of 459,614 arrests (or eight arrests per illegal alien). Their arrests represented a total of nearly 700,000 criminal offenses (or 13 offenses per illegal alien). 36 percent of those studied had been arrested at least five times previously.
Peter Wagner, the author of “The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration,” summed up the situation when he told WorldNetDaily: “While the vast majority of illegal aliens are decent people who work hard and are only trying to make a better life for themselves and their families, it is also a fact that a disproportionately high percentage of illegal aliens are criminals and sexual predators.That is part of the dark side of illegal immigration and when we allow the ‘good’ in we get the ‘bad’ along with them. The question is, how much ‘bad’ is acceptable and at what price?”
Speaking of the price we are paying, the Ohio Jobs and Justice Political Action Committee has set up an on-line memorial for victims who were killed by illegal aliens. They continuously update the site and have an extensive list of victims’ names, along with some information on the victim, as well as a brief history on the criminal case. What follows is a small sampling of some of the more recent cases:
Victim: Breanna Slaughter-Eck
Age: 12
In late 2008, Breanna was riding her bicycle in San Jose, California when she was allegedly hit and killed by unlicensed illegal alien Adriana Fierro DeMarin, who now sits in jail awaiting trial.
Victim: Nayashieka Cooper
Age: 19
Ms. Cooper and her 3 year old son were walking down a street in Athens, GA, when Mexican national Abel Gonzalez-Perez ran her over and immediately fled the scene (police captured him three days later). Her little boy sat by his mother and watched helplessly as she lay dying next to him.
In January 2009, Gonzalez-Perez pled guilty to DUI, vehicular manslaughter, and hit and run.
Victim: Lila Meizel
Age: 83
Ramon Alvarado, Jose Alvarado, and Ana Rodas are all in the country illegally and have been arrested for the 2008 murder of Mrs. Meizel. The three allegedly beat the elderly woman to death, then burned her body in an attempt to cover-up the crime scene.
Even though the Alvarado cousins had several prior arrests, local authorities never notified ICE of their immigration status because Montgomery County, MD has a sanctuary policy in place.
Victim: Dean Knospe
Age: 71
On January 22, 2009, Mexican national Eulalio Haro was convicted in the 2006 hit and run death of Mr. Knospe. Haro who was driving under the influence, hit Knospe who was riding his motorcycle, and drove away, leaving him to die on the road.
Haro had been previously deported after serving a prison sentence for another crash in 1993, but re-entered the country illegally.
Victim: William Sullo III
Age: 30
In November 2008, Ecuadorian national Jose Maldanado Luzuriaga was arrested for the murder of Mr. Sullo. Police allege that he killed Mr. Sullo who worked as a bartender at the Salute Restaurant in Philadelphia, PA, because he refused to serve him anymore alcohol and later had him removed from the bar.
Luzuriaga allegedly waited outside the bar for Sullo to leave, and upon seeing the bartender exit the building, rammed his F-150 pickup truck into him. He has been charged with criminal homicide, attempted homicide (he nearly ran over another bartender in the parking lot), reckless endangerment, and not possessing a driver’s license.
Luzuriaga told police that he had been living in the U.S. for five years.
The on-line memorial goes on and on with names of Americans both young and old who have been sacrificed for political reasons. Not Congress nor our former or current President will actually defend our border, and stop the flow of illegal immigration into the United States.
For many years, the Republicans wanted to keep the border open to fill the country with cheap labor, which benefits business owners by undercutting wages for everyone. The Democrats have sought to keep the border unprotected to bring in millions of potential new voters, which is why that party pays so much lip service to the plight of illegal aliens.
Whether they seek workers willing to work for sub-standard wages, or voters who will keep them in power…It is the American people who have been sold-out by both parties.
Every time I learn that a family has been attacked, or a child has been killed by an illegal alien, I think this must be the tipping point. There are certain dates in this ongoing tragedy which stand out more than others.
Such as on June 22, 2008, when three members of the Bologna family were gunned down by Salvadoran national and MS-13 gang member Edwin Ramos. Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16 were shot to death by Ramos with an AK-47 as they sat in their car on a crowded street, in the city’s Excelsior District
Or on September 10, 2008, the day the parents of 3-year-old Marten Kudlis buried their son at Fairmount Cemetery, while waiting for his ice cream in a Denver Baskin and Robbins.
Guatemalan national Francis Hernandez slammed into a pickup truck, which was then pushed into the ice cream shop’s window. The toddler was sitting at a table in front of that window, and was sent flying as the truck came crashing through it.
This nation sits on the brink of an economic meltdown, while our cities are becoming hunting grounds for predatory criminals. We have enough problems in this country without importing them from foreign lands.
Because we live with it everyday, most Americans understand and fear this growing threat. However, our elected representatives continue to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the mounting death toll.
A weary nation must ask the question…How many Americans have to die before the border is secured?
Until that question is answered…Keep your families close, and go with the understanding that you and you alone are responsible for your own safety.
written by Eee Zee
Police in Leesburg, Virginia are currently searching for Salvadoran national Carlos Felipe Centeno, 21 for the molestation of a 5-year-old girl. Centeno who is in this country illegally, works as a house painter.
On March 19, police distributed a wanted poster, which describes Centeno as between 6 feet and 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighing 200 to 240 pounds. He may be riding a blue Magna bicycle.
Centeno also has an outstanding warrant for another case, in which he is accused of committing forcible sodomy.
Anyone with any information on the whereabouts of Centeno should call Detective Doug Shaw at 703-771-4521 , or to leave an anonymous tip call the Leesburg Crime Line as 703-443-TIPS.
On March 12, a Loudon County jury convicted Honduran national Arnold J. Mancia-Morales, 25 of raping a 75-year-old woman in her Sterling Park home. The attack occurred in August 2008. The jury recommended that the illegal alien spend the rest of his life in prison.
Mancia-Morales broke into the woman’s home by smashing-in her glass door sometime after midnight. Awoken by the noise, the woman went to investigate, and was attacked.
Before he was sentenced, the victim’s daughter told the jury how her mother’s life has been impacted by the attack. She told a heart wrenching account of finding her mother one morning, curled up in the fetal position on the floor, weeping, holding onto a book of scriptures and crying out-loud that she wished she had just been killed.
Her daughter said: “I didn’t know what to do, so I just held her.”
Her daughter told the court that her mother now goes to counseling and no longer goes out after dark. She added: “She is always looking over her shoulder.”
Commonwealth’s Attorney James E. Plowman told reporters: “This is an atrocious case, and the victim continues to struggle to deal with this”
Mancia-Morales is no stranger to the courts. In 2006 he was convicted of felony burglary, and four misdemeanor charges between 2007-2008, two of which were assaults. In 2007, he forced himself on a young girl at the Sterling library, he received a 100-day sentence for the attack, but all of the time was suspended.
Incredibly, the day after his sentencing for the rape of the 75-year-old woman, Mancia-Morales was charged with the brutal rape of a 51-year-old woman in the Newberry section of Sterling Park. That attack took place in April 2008.
Northern Virginia has been particularly hard-hit with crimes committed by illegal aliens, following that region’s construction boom of recent years. Of course, the construction industry is dominated by illegal aliens who provide builders with very cheap labor.
The region, along with D.C. has become a stronghold for the violent Salvadoran gang known as MS-13.
written by Eee Zee
Federal officials have accused 12 people and three companies of illegally luring foreign workers to the United States to work for low pay and live in substandard conditions, prosecutors announced today in Kansas City.
A federal grand jury indicted the defendants on racketeering, marriage fraud, identity theft and other counts in a scheme that involved forced labor trafficking and immigration violations in 14 states.
The enterprise — based out of companies headquartered in Kansas City, Mission and Overland Park — allegedly employed hundreds of illegal aliens as construction workers and as cleaners and housekeepers at hotels, resorts and casinos in Missouri, Kansas, Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, South Carolina and Wyoming.
“The indictment alleges that this criminal enterprise lured victims to the United States under the guise of legitimate jobs and a better life, only to treat them as modern-day slaves under the threat of deportation,” said James Gibbons, acting special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in a written statement.
The employees purportedly were required to pay exorbitant prices for apartments rented by the businesses, which “ensured that the workers did not make enough to repay their debt, purchase a plane ticket home or pay their own living expenses while in the United States,” according to a statement from prosecutors.
“Many of their employees allegedly were victims of human trafficking who were coerced to work in violation of the terms of their visas without proper pay and under the threat of deportation,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Matt Whitworth. “The defendants also required them to reside together in crowded, substandard and overpriced apartments.”
Those named in the indictment, which a grand jury returned in secret on May 6, were: Abrorkhodja Askarkhodjaev, 30, Nodir Yunusov, 22, Rustamjon Shukurov, 21, citizens of Uzbekistan living in Mission; Ilkham Fazilov, 44, Nodirbek Abdoollayev, 27, both citizens of Uzbekistan living in Kansas City; Viorel Simon, 27, Alexandru Frumasache , 23, both citizens of Moldova living in Kansas City, Kan.; Kristin Dougherty, 49, of Ellisville, Mo.; Andrew Cole, 53, of St. Charles, Mo.; Abdukakhar Azizkhodjaev, 49, a citizen of Uzbekistan living in Panama City, Fla.; and Sandjar Agzamov, 27, and Jakhongir Kakhkharov, 29, both citizens of Uzbekistan who recently left the U.S.
Three companies controlled by Askarkhodjaev also were charged: Giant Labor Solutions, LLC, headquartered in Kansas City; Crystal Management, Inc., in Mission; and Five Star Cleaning, LLC, in Overland Park.
Authorities had arrested eight of the 12 defendants as of this morning, according to Don Ledford, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
written by Eee Zee
Senator Harry Reid’s stance on “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” is reported in two recent news articles. The first of the two articles appeared on June 6th in the Washington Post.
What an irony!
This June 6th was the 65th anniversary of the massive offensive coordinated by then Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight D. Eisenhower under what he called “Operation Overlord.” It is most commonly remembered as “D-Day!”
How many American soldiers and their allied comrades were killed or grievously wounded defending our country and our allies?
It is important to never forget those sacrifices and never forget what they were fighting for!
It is absolutely clear that Reid is determined to ram Comprehensive Immigration Reform through the legislative process notwithstanding the great resistance that this proposal met two years ago from the citizens of our country. As I will also make clear in this commentary, Comprehensive Immigration Reform would create incredible risks for our nation.
Let us consider Harry Reid’s own words: Passing immigration reform is “going to happen this session,” Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), referring to the 111th Congress. “But I want it this year if at all possible.”
At a press conference with Hispanic leaders touting the Supreme Court nomination of the Sonia Sotomayor, Reid said that he wants Congress to pass a bill with tougher border security measures, improved employer sanctions, a guest-worker program and a path for citizenship to the country’s illegal immigrants – a policy critics have called “amnesty.”
“We have to have a pathway for legalization,” Reid said. “I believe what we need to do is have penalties, fines, I think they have to learn English, stay out of trouble, pay their taxes, and then they don’t go to the end of the line, they go to the back of the line. But at least it keeps them so that they are not subject to arrest and that they are more productive than they are.”
If you have read my commentaries, listened to my statements in the media or know of my testimony before Congressional hearings on the issue of “Comprehensive Immigration Reform, you know that I am adamantly and unequivocally opposed to Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
There are many reasons I oppose Comprehensive Immigration Reform but first and foremost, my concerns can be summed up by two words:
“NATIONAL SECURITY!”
Reid stated that improved employer sanctions and tougher border security measures are what are needed to justify a path to United States citizenship for illegal aliens. This statement ignores the two most important issues.
First of all, at present, USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) is utterly unable to cope with its workload today. Without the addition of potentially 20 million or more applications to be presumably filed by aliens who cannot prove their identities and hence their date of entry into the United States. Furthermore, because they are “undocumented” there will be no way for the adjudicators at USCIS to know anything about the backgrounds or affiliations or intentions of millions of illegal aliens whose presence in the United States represents a violation of law.
Fraud permeates the entire bureaucracy at USCIS. There have been a succession of reports issued by the GAO that make it clear that most aliens are easily able to commit fraud successfully and acquire resident alien status and United States citizenship even though they lied on their applications. Marriage fraud is as commonplace as snowflakes in a blizzard, perhaps, in part, because each and every day a veritable blizzard of applications are filed with USCIS by aliens seeking all sorts of immigration benefits including resident alien status and United States citizenship.
In fact, each year, more than 6 million applications are filed with USCIS.
In all too many cases, immigration fraud enabled terrorists and spies to acquire security clearances and jobs in sensitive positions. A young Lebanese woman by the name of Nada Nadim Prouty entered our country on a student visa in 1988. She overstayed her authorized period in the United States, failing to depart from the Unite States when required and then took a job as a waitress in a restaurant in further violation of our immigration laws. She then acquired resident alien status by entering into a marriage fruad and subsequently naturalized. She went on to parlay her certificate of naturalization and her language skills in Middle-Eastern languages into a job at the FBI as a special agent and then, at the CIA.
When it was discovered that she was accessing sensitive databases on Hezbollah, a terrorist organization, her superiors became alarmed. She had no “Need to Know” the information contained in those databases. As the investigation ran its course, it was discovered that the man who had arranged for her marriage is now a fugitive and wanted for allegedly funneling millions of dollars from his chain of restaurants in Michigan to Hezbollah.
Of 94 terrorists who were identified as operating in the United States in the decade leading up to the attacks of 9/11, some 59 of those individuals were found to have used immigration fraud to either enter the United States and/or embed themselves in the United States.
The situation of rampant fraud also emboldens more aliens to file more applications that contain fraud. As more applications are filed, the bureaucracy is made to run ever faster, further eroding any effort at quality control.
Yet, even after the publication of so many of those GAO reports that are supposed to be used by members of Congress to alert them to problems within the agencies over which they are supposed to exercise oversight, Harry Reid and the other “usual suspects” on Capitol Hill absolutely never, ever discuss the many problems at USCIS and a lack of integrity of the system that they would have process millions of applications that would undoubtedly filed by millions of illegal aliens who will do just about anything to remain here.
Also you must realize that at a time when so many opinion poles have made it clear that virtually all Americans, irrespective of political orientation believe that our immigration levels are far too high, a massive program to place so many millions of illegal aliens on a “pathway to United States citizenship” would also furnish those millions of aliens with the absolute right to petition the government, once they become citizens, to enable their parents and their siblings and their siblings nuclear families with green cards.
Stop and let that sink in.
If an alien naturalizes (acquires United States citizenship) he (she) is immediately entitled to file an application to provide resident alien status for his mother, his father and each of his brothers and sisters and their spouses and children!
To provide a hypothetical case – if such an alien had 6 brothers and sisters, not unusual in many countries around the world, especially “Third World” countries, and if each of these siblings were married and had an average of 5 minor, unmarried children, on the day of naturalization, this alien would be able to file applications for a total of 60 family members. If his mother and father were alive, then he would have the absolute right to petition the United States government to permit 62 relatives to enter the United States as lawful immigrants.
Now multiply that possibility by the millions of illegal aliens who may well want to have their parents and their siblings all join them in the United States if Harry Reid has his way and provides them all with a “pathway to United States citizenship!”
The open borders crowd has a name for this multiplication chart – “Family Reunification.”
Those of us who want an immigration system that has even a modicum of integrity calls this “Chain Migration.”
In 1986 Senator Ted Kennedy and his cohorts who jammed the first amnesty through the process, told their colleagues in the Congress, and the citizens of our country, that the program was essential to finally clear up the immigration mess and create a system with integrity. They stated that at most some 1.1 million aliens would avail themselves of the opportunity to come out of the “shadows.”
By the time the bureaucratic dust settled, somewhere between 3.5 and 4 million aliens applied for amnesty.
There are two possible reasons for these much greater than predicted numbers.
First of all, there may have been an underestimate of the true number. Second, and I can assure this was a significant part of the problem, aliens falsely claimed to have entered the United States prior to the cutoff date that the program established. The amnesty of 1986 created a “cottage industry” of fraud document vendors who prepared and sold bogus supporting documents to enable the additional 3 million illegal aliens to claim that they had resided in the United States for the requisite period of time.
I can tell you with absolute certainty that if our nation enacts an amnesty program now, that the same sort of fraud and chicanery will run rampantly through the system.
Harry Reid links improved employer sanctions to his Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Here is the fallacy of this. With a massive Comprehensive Immigration Reform program, virtually every illegal alien will no longer be illegal in the eyes of the law. Millions of illegal aliens will suddenly be legal and they will have the necessary documents to get any job in any industry that they want! This at a time when the unemployment rate has soared to 9.4%.
Reid’s claim about improved employer sanctions is the same as saying that he will put stronger locks on our doors and then make damned certain that everyone who wants one, will get a key to the front door!
He also stated that the aliens would have to pay a fine.
This is the way that proponents of “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” deflects the criticism that this program would constitute an “amnesty.”
Here is my response to that.
The issue of whether or not Comprehensive Immigration Reform constitutes amnesty is not the real question. The real issue is whether or not this program would deter future illegal immigration.
As you may know, I have said that no one would break into an amusement park if they could not get to go on the rides. I have also said that no one would stay in the amusement park at the end of the day when they shut down the rides and turn off the lights. In order to understand the impact of the fines, you need to consider the amusement park analogy one more time.
What do you find when you go to the amusement park? You find long lines of people standing for hours in the hot sun, willing to fork over lots of money simply for the purpose of getting to go on the rides! If the amusement park patrons are not deterred by the long lines and the expensive fees, why would illegal aliens be deterred by having to pay a fine?
Many of them have already placed their lives in grave danger by trekking through the desert with smugglers who may have raped the women and forced them to carry drugs or other contraband on their bodies at great expense for the “services” provided by the smugglers.
I am not certain what Harry Reid had in mind when he said that the aliens would have to “stay out of trouble.”
Many of these illegal aliens have already committed identity theft and may have violated other laws along the way. Reid and company are, from what I have been told, pushing for a confidentiality provision that would shield the illegal aliens from the scrutiny of law enforcement authorities the way that the 1986 Amnesty did. You may not know this, but under the 1986 amnesty, the applications that were filed by the millions of illegal aliens could not be shared with any other law enforcement agency even if the alien was a suspect in a murder or other felony. We were not supposed to share those amnesty applications and relating material with the FBI, DEA or local cops. Those illegal aliens were shielded by our own government in a way that if we attempted to do this where a lawful immigrant or United States citizen was concerned, we would have been charged with a felony – obstruction of governmental administration! If we divulged the amnesty files the agents of the INS could be subject to the loss of their jobs and a criminal prosecution!
The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, that I had re-named the “Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act” would have required the United States government (YOU the taxpayer) to pay the legal fees for those illegal aliens!
Who pays for your accountant or tax preparer when you file your income tax returns?
Additionally, that piece of legislative detritus would have required the beleaguered adjudications officers at USCIS to process a minimum of 100,000 applications for amnesty each and every day – in addition to their other work that they cannot even keep up with now!
The idea of the “Witness Protection Program” is to have the government provide an informant with a new identity to enable him to hide from those who would do him harm for assisting law enforcement and prosecutors. This makes perfect sense to protect those who assist law enforcement.
However, Comprehensive Immigration Reform is, in essence a “Witness Protection Program” for illegal aliens whose intentions and affiliations are unknown and unknowable. What exactly would Harry Reid and company reward these illegal aliens for?
As we saw with the 1986 amnesty – when the government rewards those who violate the law with a green card and a pathway to citizenship, the message is heard loudly and clearly: Violate our borders, violate our laws and you will not only be allowed to get away with it – you will be rewarded for doing this!
Finally, let us consider this statement from Mr. Reid: But at least it keeps them so that they are not subject to arrest and that they are more productive than they are.”
The entire benefit of hiring illegal aliens (for the unscrupulous employer) is to be able to exploit them. Exploitation is possible only when the person being exploited can be threatened for not cooperating.
Once an illegal aliens is “legalized” that alien can no longer be exploited. As an INS agent during the amnesty of 1986 I saw ever so many instances where illegal aliens were legalized. They then approached their employers and told them that they wanted to continue to work for that employer but wanted prevailing wages and appropriate compensation for working overtime and on weekends.
They demanded that safety standards be met and that money be paid into the Social Security.
Most of them were fired and their employers simply hired the next wave of illegal aliens.
It is impossible that even members of Congress could be this foolish as to not understand the situation as I have explained it above. Clearly those politicians who favor Comprehensive Immigration Reform are eager to place their selfish political goals ahead of what is best for Americans and America! Ours is supposed to be a representative form of government.
What I want Mr. Reid and his cohorts to tell me is who, exactly, do they represent? In less than two years, more than one third of the seats in the United States Senate will be up for election. In less than two years, every single seat in the House of Representatives will be up for grabs!
The politicians have become accustomed to expecting that the power of the incumbency is on their side. We only have ourselves to blame for this. We the People need to take every opportunity to confront those who were elected to represent us and make it clear that if they fail to represent us, we will find someone who will!
The large scale apathy demonstrated by citizens of this nation has emboldened elected representatives to all but ignore the needs of the average American citizen in a quest for massive campaign funds and the promises of votes to be ostensibly delivered by special interest groups.
There is much that we cannot do but there is one thing that We the People absolutely must do – we must stop sitting on the sidelines! The collective failure of We the People to get involved in make our concerns known to our politicians have nearly made the concerns of the great majority of the citizens of this nation all but irrelevant to the politicians. I implore you to get involved! We live in a perilous world and in a perilous era. The survival of our nation and the lives of our citizens hang in the balance.
This is neither a Conservative issue, nor is it a Liberal issue – simply stated, this is most certainly an AMERICAN issue! You are either part of the solution or you are a part of the problem! Democracy is not a spectator sport! Lead, follow or get out of the way!
written by Eee Zee
by Geert Wilders
Why I am in America Fighting for Free Speech?
Freedom of expression is under attack. This is a theme I am addressing here in America this week as part of the Free Speech Summit being held in Florida under the sponsorship of the Florida Security Council. And it is clear that a serious discussion of the threats to our freedoms in the West cannot come too soon.
For example, my friend Rep. Adam Hasner, the majority leader of the Florida House of Representatives was attacked in a press release issued by the national office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Monday for daring to appear at a private event with me this past weekend. Because of that appearance, CAIR is demanding that Rep. Hasner step down or be removed from his position.
This attack on a friend and fellow legislator is of grave concern to me. CAIR’s assault on Rep. Hasner strikes at the very heart of our most basic freedoms. In fact, it is but the latest episode in that organization’s long-running and determined effort to silence its critics. Indeed, CAIR seeks to suppress all those who dare to challenge the theo-political-legal program that authoritative Islam calls “Shariah.” In so doing, they are seeking to impose what amount to Shariah blasphemy codes.
It is especially important to note that Adam Hasner is not only being attacked for comments he made that are deemed offensive by those who seek to impose Shariah in America. His career is now being threatened for comments made by others in his presence – in this case, by me. Thus the Islamists are infringing not only on this country’s constitutionally protected freedom of expression but also freedom of association.
If a high-ranking public official – elected by the people and appointed to his leadership position by his peers – cannot speak honestly and openly about his concerns, and do so in places and the company of his choosing, without fear of suppression or other retribution, who among us is safe?
I know these threats firsthand. Even before the international release last year of my short documentary film, Fitna, I have faced constant death threats and protests. My name has appeared on assassination lists. I have been subject of an Al-Qaeda death fatwa. I will be charged with blasphemy and contempt of Muslims by Jordanian prosecutors. I face prosecutions in my own country and elsewhere. I was recently banned from the United Kingdom because the Home Secretary believed my mere presence in the country constituted a national security threat.
In this trying time let us recall that in the darkest hours of World War II, when the world faced a global threat from German Nazism, Italian Fascism and Japanese Imperialism, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill challenged his people to rise to the occasion and fight. He told them, “Never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
This is why I am in America this week talking about the fight we now must wage in the West to defend our liberties. Freedom of association is one of the basic liberties guaranteed not only by the US Constitution but by the European Convention of Human Rights. And yet CAIR wants to silence and punish Rep. Hasner for associating with me. If America needs a poster child for the threat to our freedoms from Islamic extremism, no better example than CAIR could be found.
This episode underscores that the threat to freedom posed by creeping Shariah imposed by CAIR’s type of stealthy jihad is not just a problem in the Middle East, or Europe. It is also a problem in America.
I will not be bullied by Islamic thugs who want to use our freedoms to destroy those very same freedoms. And I will not stand by as they seek to do it to others.
Founded and directed by members of the international network of the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR has an explicit agenda to subvert our freedoms and impose Islamic Shariah law on non-Muslims. This is not speculation on my part. This is the testimony of one of CAIR’s founders and chairman emeritus, Omar Ahmed, who told a California audience in 1998 that this was their agenda. “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant,” he said. “The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” When CAIR officials say that this is their ultimate objective, we should believe them.
In just the past few weeks, the Council on American Islamic Relations has sought to silence another courageous lawmaker, Rep. Peter King, the ranking member on the Homeland Security Committee in the US House of Representatives. His “offense”? Rep. King correctly observed that CAIR and other Muslims were not providing enough assistance to the law enforcement authorities in combating terrorism-related activities in American mosques.
CAIR has attempted to silence other critics, as well. They have sued bloggers; they have defamed journalists who have asked too many questions about their terrorist ties; and they have tried to intimidate publications that have published articles challenging their putative “civil rights mission.” If they get away with it, CAIR will seek to threaten the careers of more politicians with the courage to say things and associate with those of challenge Shariah and the effort to impose it in this country.
It is utterly hypocritical that, on the one hand, CAIR claims to be defending freedom of religion in attacking Rep. Hasner when, on the other, they actively seek support from Islamic regimes that are among the worst of the worst human rights abusers on the planet – and notorious for suppressing religious freedoms.
I have been told that in an Arabic News article that CAIR officials have solicited and received financial support from Saudi Prince Al-Walid Bin Talal, whose country outlaws any religious expression except its own Wahhabi strain of Islam. You can’t even own a Bible or wear a cross in the country run by their patrons, and yet CAIR wants to lecture us about religious freedom?
The land for CAIR’s Capitol Hill office in Washington D.C. was purchased with a $250,000 donation from the Saudi-backed Islamic Development Bank and the deed to their headquarters is held by the foundation of United Arab Emirates Defense Minister Gen. Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum. Sheik al-Maktoum’s country prohibits any non-Islamic religious proselytizing and threatens anyone caught with distribution of non-Muslim religious literature with imprisonment.
In September 2006, CAIR hosted an exclusive dinner with former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami. Under Khatami’s regime religious minorities were severely persecuted, non-Muslims were regularly harassed, and hundreds of student protestors murdered. The fact that CAIR chose to honor this dictator who is still a senior member of the Islamic theocracy in Iran tells us much.
Whether it is in America or back home in my own country, we are under attack by groups like CAIR who aim to silence their critics. This is why I am here in America. I aim to continue to fight regardless of the threats and intimidation and I am asking Americans to join with us. And when they attack good men like Rep. Adam Hasner, we must realize that they are attacking each and every one of us and the freedoms that we hold dear.
written by Eee Zee
Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps
Note: A little-known $385 million contract for Halliburton subsidiary KBR to build detention facilities for “an emergency influx of immigrants” is another step down the Bush administration’s road toward martial law, the writer says.
Also see: FEMA Concentration Camps: Locations and Executive Orders – Friends of Liberty (undated) 3sep04
BERKELEY, CA — A Halliburton subsidiary has just received a $385 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to provide “temporary detention and processing capabilities.”
The contract — announced Jan. 24 by the engineering and construction firm KBR — calls for preparing for “an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs” in the event of other emergencies, such as “a natural disaster.” The release offered no details about where Halliburton was to build these facilities, or when.
To date, some newspapers have worried that open-ended provisions in the contract could lead to cost overruns, such as have occurred with KBR in Iraq. A Homeland Security spokesperson has responded that this is a “contingency contract” and that conceivably no centers might be built. But almost no paper so far has discussed the possibility that detention centers could be used to detain American citizens if the Bush administration were to declare martial law.
For those who follow covert government operations abroad and at home, the contract evoked ominous memories of Oliver North’s controversial Rex-84 “readiness exercise” in 1984. This called for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to round up and detain 400,000 imaginary “refugees,” in the context of “uncontrolled population movements” over the Mexican border into the United States. North’s activities raised civil liberties concerns in both Congress and the Justice Department. The concerns persist.
“Almost certainly this is preparation for a roundup after the next 9/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters,” says Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst who in 1971 released the Pentagon Papers, the U.S. military’s account of its activities in Vietnam. “They’ve already done this on a smaller scale, with the ‘special registration’ detentions of immigrant men from Muslim countries, and with Guantanamo.”
Plans for detention facilities or camps have a long history, going back to fears in the 1970s of a national uprising by black militants. As Alonzo Chardy reported in the Miami Herald on July 5, 1987, an executive order for continuity of government (COG) had been drafted in 1982 by FEMA head Louis Giuffrida. The order called for “suspension of the Constitution” and “declaration of martial law.” The martial law portions of the plan were outlined in a memo by Giuffrida’s deputy, John Brinkerhoff.
In 1985, President Reagan signed National Security Decision Directive 188, one of a series of directives that authorized continued planning for COG by a private parallel government.
Two books, James Mann’s “Rise of the Vulcans” and James Bamford’s “A Pretext for War,” have revealed that in the 1980s this parallel structure, operating outside normal government channels, included the then-head of G. D. Searle and Co., Donald Rumsfeld, and then-Congressman from Wyoming Dick Cheney.
After 9/11, new martial law plans began to surface similar to those of FEMA in the 1980s. In January 2002 the Pentagon submitted a proposal for deploying troops on American streets. One month later John Brinkerhoff, the author of the 1982 FEMA memo, published an article arguing for the legality of using U.S. troops for purposes of domestic security.
Then in April 2002, Defense Dept. officials implemented a plan for domestic U.S. military operations by creating a new U.S. Northern Command (CINC-NORTHCOM) for the continental United States. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called this “the most sweeping set of changes since the unified command system was set up in 1946.”
The NORTHCOM commander, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced, is responsible for “homeland defense and also serves as head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)…. He will command U.S. forces that operate within the United States in support of civil authorities. The command will provide civil support not only in response to attacks, but for natural disasters.”
John Brinkerhoff later commented on PBS that, “The United States itself is now for the first time since the War of 1812 a theater of war. That means that we should apply, in my view, the same kind of command structure in the United States that we apply in other theaters of war.”
Then in response to Hurricane Katrina in Sept. 2005, according to the Washington Post, White House senior adviser Karl Rove told the governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, that she should explore legal options to impose martial law “or as close as we can get.” The White House tried vigorously, but ultimately failed, to compel Gov. Blanco to yield control of the state National Guard.
Also in September, NORTHCOM conducted its highly classified Granite Shadow exercise in Washington. As William Arkin reported in the Washington Post, “Granite Shadow is yet another new Top Secret and compartmented operation related to the military’s extra-legal powers regarding weapons of mass destruction. It allows for emergency military operations in the United States without civilian supervision or control.”
It is clear that the Bush administration is thinking seriously about martial law. Many critics have alleged that FEMA’s spectacular failure to respond to Katrina followed from a deliberate White House policy: of paring back FEMA, and instead strengthening the military for responses to disasters.
A multimillion program for detention facilities will greatly increase NORTHCOM’s ability to respond to any domestic disorders.
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San Jose Mercury News – Women, Latinos boost Clinton
Women, Latinos boost Clinton
VICTORY IN NEVADA SIGNALS STRENGTHS IN CALIFORNIA RACE
By Mary Anne Ostrom
Mercury News
Article Launched: 01/20/2008 01:39:43 AM PST
I wonder how many mexicans Hillary had to suck (remember sucking isn’t sex) to pull this off.
LAS VEGAS – Women and Latino voters helped Hillary Clinton pull out a win in Nevada caucuses Saturday, a sign that her campaign can count on those groups when the race moves on to California in just over two weeks. To cheering supporters gathered at Planet Hollywood casino on the Strip, she said, “I guess this is how the West was won.”
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Latino Community, Female Voters Push Clinton Over the Top – washingtonpost.com
For all the predictions of a key labor endorsement tipping the scales against her, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ties to the Latino community and her connections to female voters provided the critical margin for her victory in Nevada’s Democratic caucuses yesterday.
The support of those two key voting blocs, along with her continued strong showing among union and working-class households, provides the New York senator with a potentially critical edge as the campaign moves toward Feb. 5, when 22 states, including key Western and Southwestern states with similar demographics as Nevada, cast their ballots in a near-national primary.
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Gov’t Identifies Agent Killed At Border, Was Hit By Suspected Smuggler’s Vehicle Trying To Flee Into Mexico – CBS News
(AP) A U.S. Border Patrol agent killed after being struck by a fleeing vehicle along the border in southeastern California was identified Sunday as a 32-year-old husband and father of two.
Senior Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar was trying to stop a suspected smuggler who had illegally entered the country from Mexico when he was hit, according to Agent Michael Bernacke, a spokesman for the agency’s Yuma sector.
The incident happened in the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area about 20 miles west of Yuma at about 9 a.m. Saturday.
Bernacke said Aguilar was trying to place spike strips in the path of a Hummer and a Ford pickup truck on Interstate 8 when the suspected smuggler’s vehicle hit and killed him.
Both vehicles fled into Mexico.
The FBI is leading the investigation, along with other federal, state and local authorities. Bernacke said Mexican authorities also have been contacted and that they are lending their full support to capture those involved.
“Today we mourn the loss of one of our own,” Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar said in a statement. “This serves as a tragic reminder of the dangers our agents face every day while securing our nation’s border and our way of life.”
Bernacke said Aguilar was from El Paso, Texas and lived in Yuma with his family.
After a phone call was placed to Aguilar’s home, family members declined to comment through a man who identified himself only as Border Patrol Agent Ruiz.
“They’re still not strong enough to make any comments,” Ruiz said. “He (Aguilar) was a terrific guy and everyone here took a big loss. We’re all trying to cope, especially the family. We’re trying to be as supportive as we can, and be here for them.”
The Imperial Sand Dunes are the largest dunes in California, extending north of the border for 40 miles and averaging five miles wide.
The area is popular with off-road vehicle enthusiasts but also is frequently used by smugglers trying to bring people or drugs into the country from Mexico.
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US border agent hit, killed by suspect’s car | Reuters
PHOENIX, Jan 19 (Reuters) – A U.S. Border Patrol agent trying to stop a suspected drug smuggler was struck and killed by the suspect’s car in southern California on Saturday, border police said.
The unidentified agent was hit as he tried to stop a sport utility vehicle on a road about 20 miles (32 km) west of Yuma, Arizona, at around 9:30 a.m. local time, Border Patrol agent Jeremy Schappell said.
“The agent was laying a spike strip across the road when the vehicle swerved and struck him. He died at the scene,” Schappell said in a telephone interview.
He said Border Patrol agents had been pursuing two vehicles that were suspected of smuggling narcotics north from Mexico, near the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, in southeast California.
After the incident, both vehicles fled the scene.
The dead agent’s name was not released by the patrol.
Last year, the U.S. Border Patrol arrested more than 880,000 people crossing illegally from Mexico and seized hundreds of tons of narcotics.
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Dope “pedaling” took on a whole new meaning in recent days after U.S. border police nabbed two Mexicans smuggling bundles of marijuana into the United States loaded onto bicycles.
Border Patrol agents in Calexico, California, said on Monday they arrested the two men after they slipped over the All American Canal from Mexico in a raft early on January 4.
“Once on the north bank, the two individuals were observed getting out of the raft and dragging what appeared to be large bundles of contraband onto the shoreline,” the Border Patrol said in a news release.
“The two individuals then pulled bicycles out of the raft and loaded the bundles into prefabricated boxes attached to the bike frames,” it added.
Agents arrested the two men shortly afterward as they pedaled along a darkened farm road with 110 pounds of pot valued at $88,000 packed into their panniers.
The marijuana, bicycles and both men were turned over to the Imperial County Sheriff’s Office, the Border Patrol said.
Each year, Mexican smugglers haul hundreds of tons of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines over the border to market in the United States in a clandestine trade worth billions of dollars.
Much of the contraband is packed into vehicles and driven north through the ports of entry, or walked up over the wilds of the 2,000-mile (3,200-km) border on foot or on horseback.
Smuggling on bicycles is less common.
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HUMAN EVENTS
President Quietly Creating ‘NAFTA Plus’
by Jerome R. Corsi (More by this author)
Posted: 05/24/2006
Without announcing his intentions to do so, President Bush has decided to support the creation of a North American Union through a process of governmental regulations, never having to bring the issue before the American people for a clear referendum or vote.
The Bush Administration has decided to “back-door” the creation of a North American Union political entity that would effectively erase our borders with Mexico and Canada and create several super-regional governing bodies that would have jurisdiction over the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Illegal aliens are killing more Americans than the Iraq war, says a new report from Family Security Matters that estimates some 2,158 murders are committed every year by illegal aliens in the U.S. The group says that number is more than 15 percent of all the murders reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the U.S. and about three times the representation of illegal aliens in the general population.
Mike Cutler, a former senior special agent with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (the former INS), is a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and an advisor to Family Security Matters (FSM). He says the high number of Americans being killed by illegal aliens is just part of the collateral damage that comes with tolerating illegal immigration.
“The military actually called for the BORTAC team, … the elite unit of the Border Patrol, to be detailed to Iraq to help to secure the Iraqi border,” Cutler notes. “Now, if our military can understand that Iraq’s security depends in measure on the ability to protect its border against insurgents and terrorists, then why isn’t our country similarly protecting our own borders?” he asks.
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Family Security Matters
Illegal Aliens Kill More Americans Than Iraq War
By The Editors
As noted in Illegal Alien Crime Wave in Full Swing, in April 2005, the GAO released a report on a study of 55,322 illegal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local facilities during 2003. It found the following:
Of the 55,322 illegal aliens studied, researchers found that they were arrested a total of 459,614 times, averaging about 8 arrests per illegal alien.
· They were arrested for a total of about 700,000 criminal offenses, averaging about 13 offenses per illegal alien.
· 49% had previously been convicted of a felony, 20% of a drug offense; 18% a violent offense, and 11%, other felony offenses.
· 81% of the arrests occurred after 1990
· 56% of those charged with a reentry offense had previously been convicted on at least 5 prior occasions.
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FrontPage magazine.com :: Hometown Jihad: The School Gym that Terror Built by Patrick Poole
Siraj Wahhaj, a Brooklyn, NY imam, says that he isn’t convinced Osama bin Laden was behind 9/11. He was named by US Attorney Mary Jo White as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993
World Trade Center bombing. He served as a defense character witness for blind hate sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman in the trial for that act of terrorism that anticipated the horror of 9/11. He says that Muslims should appoint their own emir (leader) and take over America and install the Islamic caliphate. And he serves on the advisory board for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), both of which were just named by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirators in a current HAMAS terrorism financing trial in Texas (see my article, “CAIR Fingered by Feds”).
And when Sunrise Academy (the only full-time Islamic school in Central Ohio), located in my hometown of Hilliard, Ohio, needed to raise money in March 2006 to build a sports complex for their school, they turned to Wahhaj for help. His financial appeal was so successful they invited him back in February of this year for yet another school fundraiser.
Regular FrontPage readers might remember Sunrise Academy as the operational hub for Muslim Brotherhood political analyst, international HAMAS promoter, notorious anti-Jewish ideologue, 9/11 conspiracy theorist, and protégé of “Theologian of Terror” Youssef al-Qaradawi, my Hilliard neighbor Dr. Salah Sultan, who has been the subject of five previous articles in my “Hometown Jihad” series here at FrontPage:
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And the political class still wants to control everything.
The American people are not fools. We understand that when whole peoples are on the move and change is in the air, change could mean worse. We ask: Will the flood of immigrants wreck the life that we have built here for people like us? Will the immigrants successfully assimilate? Will they take my job? Will they pay my Social Security and my Medicare?
Americans understand that by amnestying the millions of illegal immigrants we are ratcheting up the welfare state another notch. We are giving the political class more power and more money, and we know that it will use our money to buy the votes of the newly amnestied immigrants. We know that no good can come of that.
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Jihad Watch
Why Jihad Watch?
Because the West is facing a concerted effort by Islamic jihadists, the motives and goals of whom are largely ignored by the Western media, to destroy the West and bring it forcibly into the Islamic world — and to commit violence to that end even while their overall goal remains out of reach. That effort goes under the general rubric of jihad.
Jihad (in Arabic, “struggle”) is a central duty of every Muslim. Modern Muslim theologians have spoken of many things as jihads: the struggle within the soul, defending the faith from critics, supporting its growth and defense financially, even migrating to non-Muslim lands for the purpose of spreading Islam. But violent jihad is a constant of Islamic history. Many passages of the Qur’an and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad are used by jihad warriors today to justify their actions and gain new recruits. No major Muslim group has ever repudiated the doctrines of armed jihad. The theology of jihad, which denies unbelievers equality of human rights and dignity, is available today for anyone with the will and means to bring it to life.
Jihad Watch is dedicated to bringing public attention to the role that jihad theology and ideology plays in the modern world, and to correcting popular misconceptions about the role of jihad and religion in modern-day conflicts. We hope to alert people of good will to the true nature of the present global conflict.
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May 12, 2007, 11:47PM
Voters welcome ban on illegal immigrant leases
Critics expected to continue fight despite the plan’s success
By THOMAS KOROSEC
FARMERS BRANCH — By a decisive margin, voters in this north Dallas suburb approved an ordinance Saturday prohibiting landlords from renting apartments to most illegal immigrants.
With all votes counted, the bitterly contested ordinance passed by 67 percent of the vote.
“We are fed up with the federal government’s inaction on immigration,” said City Councilman Tim O’Hare, who sponsored the rental ban. “We are not going to wait. We are going to take care of it.”
Bill Brewer, a Dallas lawyer who has filed two lawsuits against the rental measure and financed much of the campaign against it, said he would ask for a court to enjoin enforcement “very soon.”
“If this ordinance was intended, as we believe, to target Latinos and drive them out, that is unconstitutional and we think the courts will agree,” he said.
Nina Perales, southwest regional counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said her group would act quickly to prevent the ordinance from going into force.
If not blocked in court, it will go into effect on May 22.
Two pro-ordinance candidates running for open seats on the city’s five-member council also were elected by wide margins.
Saturday’s election, which was overseen by poll watchers from the U.S. Justice Department, was the first time a local measure aimed at undocumented residents has gone before voters, although similar apartment laws have been adopted in Hazelton, Pa., Valley Park, Mo., and Riverside, N.J.
Turnout for the controversial measure was expected to be the largest in city history.
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Unabashedly Unhyphenated
It’s unconscionable that we have American kids being shortchanged by schools beset by the challenges imposed upon them by increasing numbers of illegal aliens. Perhaps the most lamentable travesties occur every time an American child is denied the opportunity to achieve the best results that his or her abilities might allow because the children of alien criminals forced costs shifts or social discordance in a public school.
How many American children must have their lives permanently altered for the worse before their plight starts to matter to those who misplace their compassion only with interlopers while ignoring the needs and futures of our native sons and daughters?
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Family Security Matters
Report: Billions Flowing out of U.S. from Illegal Remittances
By Michael Cutler
The President has been trying to paint a rosy picture pertaining to our illegal immigration crisis. Last year he claimed that because arrests along the Mexican border were up, it should be interpreted that the Border Patrol was doing its job and the Border Patrol was dealing with the flood of illegal aliens across that border. This year the Border Patrol is claiming to be making fewer arrests and the President is now claiming that this indicates that there are fewer illegal aliens crossing our border with Mexico. It would seem that no matter what the statistics are, the President would find a way of showing that the crisis along our border with Mexico is being taken care of. It is a bit like saying, “Heads they win; tails we lose!”
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