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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Islamic insurgents trying to overthrow the government of Somalia cut off the right hands and left legs of four young men accused of theft on Thursday, bringing their strict brand of justice to the capital for the first time, witnesses said.
Somalia has been reeling from a pitched battle between the transitional government and the insurgents, particularly in the capital, Mogadishu, where hundreds have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in recent weeks alone.
Responding to what he called an urgent request by Somali officials, the State Department spokesman, Ian Kelley, said Thursday that the United States had provided Somalia’s government with weapons and ammunition “to repel the onslaught of extremist forces” that were “spoiling efforts to bring peace and stability” to the nation.
The Shabab, one of the principal Islamic groups fighting to topple the government, was behind the punishment. It has imposed harsh sentences in other parts of the country that it controls and, at least once, stoned to death a teenage girl who said she had been raped, an act that drew international condemnation.
But residents described the amputations on Thursday as the first in the capital since a clan-based Islamic court carried out similar sentences about 15 years ago. Analysts said the Shabab, which is accused of having links to Al Qaeda, might be trying to win popular support in the capital by showing that it could achieve stability in the chaotic nation through a firm enactment of Shariah, or Islamic law.
The issue has emerged as a contentious element in the battle for control. The government is led by moderate Islamists who have, at least officially, agreed to make Shariah the basis of Somalia’s legal system, a move that could politically isolate the more extreme wing of the insurgency by undermining its claims of legitimacy.
But the government’s enactment of Islamic law seems to have been delayed, in part because it is struggling to simply survive, much less carry out new measures. So it remains unclear exactly how the government’s interpretation of Shariah would be practiced.
The amputations of the four young men, who had been accused of stealing items like a cellphone or a pistol, took place near a former animal market in front of a crowd of more than 100 people, many of them women and children. Some shouted “God is great” at the spectacle, witnesses said, while others fell to the ground in shock and fear.
The Shabab said it would care for the men until their wounds had healed.
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Few among the general public noticed during the 1990s as America’s intelligence apparatus was methodically undermined and dismantled by such officials of the Bill Clinton Administration as Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick. During the same period, Clinton Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary was busy obliterating color-coded security badges at the Los Alamos nuclear lab in New Mexico, and taking other outrageous measures that compromised America’s vital technology for the sake of “political correctness.” Consequently, America’s missile and nuclear technology hemorrhaged to the Communist Chinese.
To people like O’Leary, America’s security and nuclear secrets were only of secondary consequence, if even that. She believed that the differing security classifications would be injurious to the sensibilities of those employees with lesser security clearances. So she scrapped the system in preference to a single-color badge that did not identify the clearance level of its bearer. During this time, vital design plans of the W-88, America’s most sophisticated nuclear warhead, were leaked to China.
Meanwhile, Clinton crony Bernard Schwarz of Loral Space Systems was “legally” divulging rocket technology to the Chinese. Thus he ensured that if they intended to, they could build missiles capable of delivering those improved warheads to American soil. Bill Clinton defended the actions of Schwarz in ludicrous terms, claiming bogusly that the information would be utilized by the Chinese for “peaceful” purposes, such as the development of space launch vehicles.
Of course Clinton and his minions knew full well that this response was fraudulent to its core, and was only intended to placate media lapdogs who did not want the episode to look bad on the evening news. The answer might have assuaged the perennially ignorant, but every engineer with even an elementary grasp of rocketry knows that the technology necessary to put a satellite into orbit is identical to that needed to lob a warhead onto the next continent. Only the targeting information of the missile is different.
In fact, up until the development of the Saturn series of moon rockets, every major launch vehicle in America’s space fleet was an ICBM, modified to only the slightest degree. Yet on such a flimsy basis, America taught Communist China how to construct functional ballistic missiles by which they may someday wage nuclear war against us.
It is telling that, in the upheaval following North Korea’s launch of its own ballistic missile during this past weekend, dictator Kim Jong-Il attempted to defuse the provocative action by offering the identical claim, that the missile test was only intended to launch a satellite into orbit. Forget his past zeal to develop a functional nuclear bomb, or the possibility that he may in fact have succeeded in testing such a device. His reassurances of “peaceful” intentions should be sufficient to allay our fears until the other shoe (or something far worse) drops.
Worse yet, Kim’s transparent ploy may succeed. The toothless response to his action by the rest of the world, and in particular the United States, sends an undeniable signal to him, along with every other aspiring tinhorn dictator on the planet, that the great nation states of the past order no longer possess the will to take real corrective action. And with Barack Obama’s disgraceful and embarrassing pandering to the Europeans and Muslims during his G-20 visit, he has made it clear that this nation no longer possesses its former resolve to prevent proliferation and aggression by such regimes. On the contrary, Obama publicly offered his regrets for decisive past actions that deterred and prevented the ascendancy of many dangerous aspiring tyrants during the past century.
According to the press, collegiality and even love now abounds among nations that excoriated the United States and its former President, George W. Bush, only months ago. In wonderful contrast, they extol America for its openness and professed willingness to sit down and talk with adversaries. At least that is the picture that Obama’s leftist cohorts want the general public to receive. Unfortunately, the truth is far less rosy. And the likelihood of a day of reckoning for all of this foolishness is far greater.
Despite media coverage that portrays Obama’s European visit as a resounding success, he was unable to garner any significant European commitment to the Afghanistan theater of the terror war. Empty words from the European leaders should apparently be a sufficient response to empty words from the chief of a watered-down America.
In a manner reminiscent of the humiliations of the Carter years, America’s prestige has begun to plummet among the world community. Of course world leaders are quick to express their preference for the current situation. A diminished America represents less competition, both economically and diplomatically, to their own aims and aspirations.
Sadly, this situation is being heralded by the Obama Administration and the liberal media as a great gain for this nation. It is anything but. In a world of inherently hostile, and often barbaric entities that are constantly vying for power, American vulnerability is entirely likely to be perceived as a window of opportunity for those who would raise their own international standing by tearing this nation down, just as was the case among the militant Islamists during the last decade, culminating in the attacks of September 11th.
Governing cannot be indefinitely conducted from a mindset that ignores ramifications and consequences. Though the backlash may not be immediate, in the face of a unilateral disarmament, and the substitution of resolve with passivity, it is inevitable. The Obama Administration, in its current governing and diplomatic mode, is reverting to a mentality that is even more myopic and dangerously shortsighted than that of the Clinton years. Obama’s sycophancy towards European leftists and Middle Eastern Muslims during his recent trip abroad cannot be construed as anything else.
The blindly idealistic intrigues of the Clinton Administration played well on the nightly news, at least until their awful consequences became apparent. Not having learned the painful lesson, America has embarked on that path once again.
Barack Obama and his fellow ideologues believe their Ivy League intellectualism is sufficient to build a bridge to the Seventh Century. But to the practitioners of a religion that only understands strength and force, this manner of pandering only represents weakness. As such it is essentially entreating the world for a repeat of the attacks on America.
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If the U.S. Senate rejects race-based justice, Sonia Sotomayor will never sit on the Supreme Court.
Because that is what Sonia is all about. As The New York Times reported Saturday, the salient cause of her career has been advancing persons of color, over whites, based on race and national origin.
Subjects = Illegal immigration, Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Supreme Court, President Barack Obama, racial quotas, National Council of La Raza
“Judge Sotomayor, whose parents moved to New York from Puerto Rico,” writes reporter David Kirkpatrick, “has championed the importance of considering race and ethnicity in admissions, hiring and even judicial selection at almost every stage of her career.”
At Princeton, she headed up Accion Puertorriquena, which filed a complaint with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare demanding that her school hire Hispanic teachers. At Yale, she co-chaired a coalition of non-black minorities of color that demanded more Latino professors and administrators.
At Yale, she “shared the alarm of others in the group when the Supreme Court prohibited the use of quotas in university admissions in the 1978 decision Regents of the University of California v. Bakke.”
Alan Bakke was an applicant to the UC medical school at Davis who was rejected, though his test scores were higher than almost all of the minority students who were admitted. Bakke was white.
After Yale, Sotomayor joined the National Council of La Raza and the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund. Both promote race and ethnic preferences, affirmative action and quotas for Hispanics.
But why should Puerto Ricans like Sotomayor, who were never subjected to slavery or Jim Crow — their island was liberated from Spain in 1898 by the United States — get racial or ethnic preferences over Polish- or Portuguese-Americans?
What is the justification for this kind of discrimination?
Like Lani Guinier, the Clinton appointee rejected for reverse racism, Sonia Sotomayor is a quota queen. She believes in, preaches and practices race-based justice. Her burying the appeal of the white New Haven firefighters, who were denied promotions they had won in competitive exams, was a no-brainer for her.
In her world, equal justice takes a back seat to tribal justice.
Now, people often come out to vote for one of their own. Catholics for JFK, evangelicals for Mike Huckabee, women for Hillary Clinton, Mormons for Mitt Romney, Jews for Joe Lieberman and African-Americans for Barack Obama. That is political reality and an exercise of political freedom.
But tribal justice is un-American.
In the 1950s and 1960s, this country reached consensus that denying black men and women the equal opportunity to advance and succeed must come to an end. Discrimination based on race, color or ethnicity, we agreed, was wrong.
Sotomayor, however, has an exception to the no-discrimination rule. She believes in no discrimination, unless done to white males and to benefit people like her.
How can any Republican senator vote to elevate to the Supreme Court a judge who, all her life, has believed in, preached and practiced race discrimination against white males, without endorsing the Obama-Sotomayor view that diversity trumps equal justice, and race-based justice should have its own seat on the high court?
Down the path Sotomayor would take us lies an America where Hispanic justices rule for Hispanics, black judges rule for blacks and white judges rule for white folks.
It is an America where who gets admitted to the best colleges and universities is not decided on grades and academic excellence, but on race and ethnicity, where advancement in jobs and careers depends not on aptitude and ability, but on where your grandparents came from.
On principle, Republicans cannot support Sonia Sotomayor.
And politically, if they do, why should the white working man and woman ever vote Republican again, as it is they who are the designated victims of the race-based justice of Sonia Sotomayor?
It was Richard Nixon who brought the white working class, North and South, into his New Majority, when he increased the Republican presidential vote from 43 percent in 1968 to 61 percent in 1972. Ronald Reagan solidified this base.
But why should the white working and middle class stay with the GOP? Its presidents exported their jobs to Mexico, China and Asia, and threw open America’s doors to tens of millions, legal and illegal, from the Third World, who have swamped their cities and towns. If the GOP will not end race-based affirmative action, which threatens the futures of their children, why vote for the GOP?
Why should white folks vote for anyone who says, “We are against race discrimination, unless it is discrimination against you”?
Obama would not have selected Sotomayor if he did not share her convictions. And there is nothing in his writings or career to hint at disagreement. Thus it comes down to the senators, especially the Republicans. A vote for Sonia Sotomayor is a vote to affirm that race-based justice deserves its own seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
But if that happens, it will not only be the race consciousness of Hispanics that will be on the rise in the good old U.S.A.
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California state parks generate about $4.3 billion in direct spending from visitors, according to a California State University Sacramento survey released Tuesday.
The average park-goer spends about $57.63 per visit, including $33 outside of the park, according to the report commissioned and funded by the California Parks and Recreation Department and conducted by the university’s Department of Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration. About 74.9 million people visited state parks a year.
About 12 percent of the park visitors were from outside of the state, and they spent much more than the average — about $185 per visit.
Under the budget proposal, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has considered closing some state parks to cut costs as the state faces a $24 billion shortfall.
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Illegal aliens depressed wages in Arizona to the tune of $1.4 billion in 2006 and dipped lower-skilled legal workers’ pay by 4.7 percent.
That is according to a study by a Harvard University economist commissioned by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. The MCAO had the study done as part of its defense of the state’s new employer sanctions law.
Business and Hispanic groups have challenged that law questioning its validity and arguing it would hurt the state’s economy.
The study by Harvard economist George Borjas said hiring illegal aliens depresses wages because they work for lower pay and sometimes are paid under the table. The study said illegal aliens primarily impact wages and jobs held by legal workers with lower education levels. Borjas said that illegals make up 10 percent of all state workers and decrease all wages by 1.5 percent.
Before our last election for change:
As the left proclaims that there will be a massive Latino voter turnout in 2008, more and more cities across the nation are claiming that they can’t stop voter fraud among illegal aliens.
Study: Illegals depress wages by $1.4 billion in Arizona- Source=Phoenix Business Journal .
They cost the state about $1.4 billion in services, this is only Arizona.
Arizona consistently has one of the nation’s highest rates of fatal hit-and-run crashes.
And some statistical evidence suggests the state’s large number of illegal aliens is one reason.
But to many traffic safety experts and insurance industry officials, there is at least circumstantial evidence that people illegally in the country contribute to the hit-and-run problem.
The seven states with the highest rates of fatal hit-and-run crashes are also the seven states that have the most illegal aliens, according to two think tanks. Both the Pew Hispanic Center and Center for Immigration Studies rank Arizona fifth and put its illegal immigrant population at about 500,000, or 9 percent of all state residents.
Arizona led the nation in another category that may be tied to illegal immigration: one in 12 drivers in fatal accidents had no license at all. New Mexico and Texas, two other border states, ranked second and third in that measure. Arizona’s high rates of unlicensed drivers and hit-and-run crashes are “joined at the hip,” said Dave Willis, a senior research scientist at the Texas Transportation Institute who has studied traffic safety issues for 30 years. Gustavo Soto, a supervisory agent with the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector, said smugglers of illegal aliens or illegal drugs often are involved in fatal hit-and-runs in this part of the state. “They’re driving reckless, and they’re driving in shoddy vehicles,” Soto said.
Ahr said smugglers and illegal aliens often leave the scene of a wreck to avoid being deported. Many of the vehicles used to transport illegal aliens are stolen or rented, he added. If the government can turn its back on health care for military veterans, as it announced it would last week, then cutting off illegal aliens shouldn’t be too tough.
“All veterans and their families are painfully aware of the uphill struggle to obtain medical services at Veteran’s Affairs hospitals and clinics. We have to provide a ream of personal, financial, and military documentation just to get “in” the system. Once the information is validated then we are informed what our “share” of the medical expenses will be. If we submit the information in March, and we lose our job in April, we have to wait a full year for the VA to reassess our co-payment. With past funding cuts it is not unusual for a veteran to have to travel across several counties to reach a VA medical center.
Meanwhile, the illegal simply presents himself to the nearest hospital for a complete smorgasbord of free medical services. This “squatter” enjoys all of the freedoms that the veteran has fought for, with none of the pain, suffering, or expenses associated with them…
The Florida Hospital Association surveyed 28 hospitals and found that health care for illegal aliens totaled at least $40 million in 2002! So you can see this problem is nation wide!
Illegal aliens may not know much about medical care. But one thing they do know: they get a better deal in the U.S. than they do in Mexico.
Illegal aliens have cost billions of taxpayer-funded dollars for medical services. Dozens of hospitals in Texas, New Mexico Arizona, and California, have been forced to close or face bankruptcy because of federally-mandated programs requiring free emergency room services to illegal aliens. Taxpayers pay half-a-billion dollars per year incarcerating illegal alien criminals. Immigration is a net drain on the economy; corporate interests reap the benefits of cheap labor, while taxpayers pay the infrastructural cost. Research shows “the net annual cost of immigration has been estimated at between
“the net annual cost of immigration has been estimated at between $67 and $87 billion a year. The National Academy of Sciences found that the net fiscal drain on American taxpayers is between $166 and $226 a year per native household. Even studies claiming some modest overall gain for the economy from immigration ($1 to $10 billion a year) have found that it is outweighed by the fiscal cost ($15 to $20 billion a year) to native taxpayers.”
80% of cocaine and 50% of heroin in the U.S. is smuggled across the border by Mexican nationals. Drug cartels spend a half-billion dollars per year bribing Mexico’s corrupt generals and police officials, and armed confrontations between the Mexican army and U.S. Border Patrol agents are a real threat. There have been 118 documented incursions by the Mexican military over the last five years. I do not use splc as a source, they are not reliable and truthful.
I knew this man that fell and hit his head and he had to wait almost 2 weeks to get into a Dr at the VA.But he got real sick before his appointment so his daughter took him to the hosp she worked at instead.He complained about it because he couldn’t afford it he knew it would cost him more then he got from SS that month.But she took him anyway.It was discovered that he was bleeding inside his brain from the fall.He died 4 days later.That was my father and Im the one that works at the hosp where he died.I see it everyday.Illegals coming in to our ER and not paying an dime.But my father didn’t come in because he couldn’t afford it,he would just wait for his appointment with the VA.So do you think our govt treats illegals better then they do their Vets I would have to say yes.My father if he had lived would have been hounded day and night for this payment while the illegal would go on his merry way.At least until he needed free services again.An again he would get that service and not pay.You probably know someone that don’t see a Dr, because like my father, worried that he wouldn’t be able to pay while the illegal mother will come in a pop out a kid every year without a care in the world.When will our govt open its eyes to these people and see that yes, there are many good ones out there but they are still illegal and our citizens should always come first before an illegal whether in the hosp or at the grocery store.If the welfare system is going broke then they need to be the 1st to go.Even our lazy americans that has lived off of welfare all their lives has more right to welfare then an illegal.At least they are americans.
written by Eee Zee
Illegal immigrants depressed wages in Arizona to the tune of $1.4 billion in 2006 and dipped lower-skilled legal workers’ pay by 4.7 percent.
That is according to a study by a Harvard University economist commissioned by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. The MCAO had the study done as part of its defense of the state’s new employer sanctions law.
Business and Hispanic groups have challenged that law questioning its validity and arguing it would hurt the state’s economy.
The study by Harvard economist George Borjas said hiring illegal immigrants depresses wages because they work for lower pay and sometimes are paid under the table. The study said illegal immigrants primarily impact wages and jobs held by legal workers with lower education levels. Borjas said that illegals make up 10 percent of all state workers and decrease all wages by 1.5 percent.
Before our last election for change:
As the left proclaims that there will be a massive Latino voter turnout in 2008, more and more cities across the nation are claiming that they can’t stop voter fraud among illegal aliens.
Study: Illegals depress wages by $1.4 billion in Arizona- Source=Phoenix Business Journal .
They cost the state about $1.4 billion in services, this is only Arizona.
Arizona consistently has one of the nation’s highest rates of fatal hit-and-run crashes.
And some statistical evidence suggests the state’s large number of illegal immigrants is one reason.
But to many traffic safety experts and insurance industry officials, there is at least circumstantial evidence that people illegally in the country contribute to the hit-and-run problem.
The seven states with the highest rates of fatal hit-and-run crashes are also the seven states that have the most illegal immigrants, according to two think tanks. Both the Pew Hispanic Center and Center for Immigration Studies rank Arizona fifth and put its illegal immigrant population at about 500,000, or 9 percent of all state residents.
Arizona led the nation in another category that may be tied to illegal immigration: one in 12 drivers in fatal accidents had no license at all. New Mexico and Texas, two other border states, ranked second and third in that measure. Arizona’s high rates of unlicensed drivers and hit-and-run crashes are “joined at the hip,” said Dave Willis, a senior research scientist at the Texas Transportation Institute who has studied traffic safety issues for 30 years. Gustavo Soto, a supervisory agent with the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector, said smugglers of illegal immigrants or illegal drugs often are involved in fatal hit-and-runs in this part of the state. “They’re driving reckless, and they’re driving in shoddy vehicles,” Soto said.
Ahr said smugglers and illegal immigrants often leave the scene of a wreck to avoid being deported. Many of the vehicles used to transport illegal immigrants are stolen or rented, he added. If the government can turn its back on health care for military veterans, as it announced it would last week, then cutting off illegal aliens shouldn’t be too tough.
“All veterans and their families are painfully aware of the uphill struggle to obtain medical services at Veteran’s Affairs hospitals and clinics. We have to provide a ream of personal, financial, and military documentation just to get “in” the system. Once the information is validated then we are informed what our “share” of the medical expenses will be. If we submit the information in March, and we lose our job in April, we have to wait a full year for the VA to reassess our co-payment. With past funding cuts it is not unusual for a veteran to have to travel across several counties to reach a VA medical center.
Meanwhile, the illegal simply presents himself to the nearest hospital for a complete smorgasbord of free medical services. This “squatter” enjoys all of the freedoms that the veteran has fought for, with none of the pain, suffering, or expenses associated with them…
The Florida Hospital Association surveyed 28 hospitals and found that health care for illegal aliens totaled at least $40 million in 2002! So you can see this problem is nation wide!
Illegal immigrants may not know much about medical care. But one thing they do know: they get a better deal in the U.S. than they do in Mexico.
Illegal aliens have cost billions of taxpayer-funded dollars for medical services. Dozens of hospitals in Texas, New Mexico Arizona, and California, have been forced to close or face bankruptcy because of federally-mandated programs requiring free emergency room services to illegal aliens. Taxpayers pay half-a-billion dollars per year incarcerating illegal alien criminals. Immigration is a net drain on the economy; corporate interests reap the benefits of cheap labor, while taxpayers pay the infrastructural cost. Research shows “the net annual cost of immigration has been estimated at between
“the net annual cost of immigration has been estimated at between $67 and $87 billion a year. The National Academy of Sciences found that the net fiscal drain on American taxpayers is between $166 and $226 a year per native household. Even studies claiming some modest overall gain for the economy from immigration ($1 to $10 billion a year) have found that it is outweighed by the fiscal cost ($15 to $20 billion a year) to native taxpayers.”
80% of cocaine and 50% of heroin in the U.S. is smuggled across the border by Mexican nationals. Drug cartels spend a half-billion dollars per year bribing Mexico’s corrupt generals and police officials, and armed confrontations between the Mexican army and U.S. Border Patrol agents are a real threat. There have been 118 documented incursions by the Mexican military over the last five years. I do not use splc as a source, they are not reliable and truthful.
I knew this man that fell and hit his head and he had to wait almost 2 weeks to get into a Dr at the VA.But he got real sick before his appointment so his daughter took him to the hosp she worked at instead.He complained about it because he couldn’t afford it he knew it would cost him more then he got from SS that month.But she took him anyway.It was discovered that he was bleeding inside his brain from the fall.He died 4 days later.That was my father and Im the one that works at the hosp where he died.I see it everyday.Illegals coming in to our ER and not paying an dime.But my father didn’t come in because he couldn’t afford it,he would just wait for his appointment with the VA.So do you think our govt treats illegals better then they do their Vets I would have to say yes.My father if he had lived would have been hounded day and night for this payment while the illegal would go on his merry way.At least until he needed free services again.An again he would get that service and not pay.You probably know someone that don’t see a Dr, because like my father, worried that he wouldn’t be able to pay while the illegal mother will come in a pop out a kid every year without a care in the world.When will our govt open its eyes to these people and see that yes, there are many good ones out there but they are still illegal and our citizens should always come first before an illegal whether in the hosp or at the grocery store.If the welfare system is going broke then they need to be the 1st to go.Even our lazy americans that has lived off of welfare all their lives has more right to welfare then an illegal.At least they are americans.
written by Eee Zee
Sure, President Obama’s appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is blatantly racist. Few dispute this fact, even members of the Hispanic community.
The smiling senorita was chosen simply because she is a Latina. If Sotomayor had been a lily-white Methodist from Minnesota, she would not have received the slightest chance for consideration.
Her gender also serves to affirm the patronizing nature of Obama’s appointment.
Strange to say, the mass media is applauding the president’s appointment not because of Sotomayor’s judicial acumen, let alone her rather abysmal courtroom record, but rather because of the fact that she is brown and from the Bronx barrio.
Few commentators note that 60% of Sotomayor’s rulings were overturned by the Supreme Court – - a fact, as Wendy Wright, president of the Concerned Women for America, notes that should cause legislators to “pause and take a good look at her record.”
But a good look at her judicial record is secondary to the good look at her Puerto-Rican ancestry.
Sonia’s supporters, however, are quick to point out that she pulled herself up by the proverbial bootstraps – - that she went from a housing project to Princeton University.
Few note that Ms. Sotomayor received her education in the heyday of affirmative action – - a time when functional illiterates were entry to the hallowed halls of ivy for the sake of diversity – - a time when standardized test scores, including law board examinations, were adjusted to compensate for “cultural disadvantages.”
Race remains a concern in the Sotomayor appointment – - particularly because of her strong ties to La Raza, the Latino answer to the KKK.
As a member of the National Council of La Raza, Ms. Sotomayor said: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion as a judge than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
La Raza teaches that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington State make up an area known as “Aztlan” — a fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America.
These areas belong to the Latinos and Latinas and must be surrendered to “La Raza” once enough immigrants, legal or illegal, come to constitute a majority, as in Los Angeles. Once this is achieved, the current borders of the United States will simply be obliterated.
But the “reconquista” won’t end with territorial occupation and secession. The final plan for the La Raza movement includes the ethnic cleansing of Americans of European, African, and Asian descent out of “Aztlan.”
Miguel Perez, a La Raza spokesman at Cal State-Northridge, has been quoted as saying: “The ultimate ideology is the liberation of Aztlan. Communism would be closest [to it]. Once Aztlan is established, ethnic cleansing would commence: Non-Chicanos would have to be expelled — opposition groups would be quashed because you have to keep power.”
And so, our new Supreme Court appointee and self-professed advocate of La Raza approves of the reformation of the United States, the creation of a separate Chicano country, and widespread ethnic cleansing.
This assertion may not raise conservative eyebrows, let alone Christian opposition to Sotomayor’s ascendancy to the Supreme Court, save for the fact that La Raza and other Latino activist groups have expressed widespread anti-Jewish sentiments and support for radical Islam. This finding is supported by articles in “The Voice of Aztlan” with such lurid titles as “That Shitty Little Country Israel,” “Pat Tillman Got What Was coming to Him,” and “Osama bin Laden: the ‘Pancho Villa’ of Islam.”
Intrepid columnist Michelle Malkin maintains that all Americans should be aware of the following fifteen facts regarding La Raza (“The Race”):
15. “The Race” supports the issuance of driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.
14.”The Race” demands in-state tuition discounts for illegal alien students – - discounts are not available to law-abiding U.S. citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants.
13. “The Race” opposes cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state, and federal authorities.
12. “The Race” calls for the immediate removal of fences along the Mexican border.
11. “The Race” joined the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed lawsuit attempt to prevent federal officials from entering immigration information into a key national crime database.
10. “The Race” decried Oklahoma’s tough immigration-enforcement-first laws, which cut off welfare to illegal aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions, and strengthened local-federal cooperation and information sharing.
9. “The Race” initiated a lawsuit to prevent Proposition 227, California’s bilingual education reform ballot initiative, from becoming law.
8. “The Race” condemned common-sense voter ID provisions as an “absolute disgrace.”
7. “The Race” has opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.
6. Former “Race” president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton’s Hispanic outreach adviser, said this: “U.S. English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks.” He was referring to U.S. English, the nation’s oldest, largest citizens’ action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States.
5. “The Race” spawned and supported a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, including Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA). The late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized MEChA as “the most anti-American groups in the country.”
4. “The Race” has conducted a smear campaign against staunch immigration-enforcement leaders and has called for TV and cable news networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves.
3. “The Race” sponsors and supports militant ethnic nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars (at least $8 million in federal education grants). The schools include Aztlan Academy in Tucson, Ariz., the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los Angeles, whose principal inveighed: “We don’t want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don’t need a White water fountain . . . ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction.”
2. “The Race” has honed the practice of the politically correct shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing relentlessly to lower home-loan standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in federal “mortgage counseling” grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks, and partnering with banks that do business with illegal aliens.
1. “The Race” thrives on ethnic supremacy — and the politically correct elite’s unwillingness to call it what it is. Prominent historian Victor Davis Hanson observes: “[The] organization’s very nomenclature ‘The National Council of La Raza’ is hate speech to the core. Despite all the contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the meaning of ‘race’ in Spanish, not ‘the people’ — and that’s precisely why we don’t hear of something like ‘The National Council of the People,’ which would not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism.”
Sotomayor, let’s remember, is a leader of La Raza – - an individual who has shaped its policies, its ideology, and its racist demands.
“No one,” President Obama said today, “can oppose this appointment.”
I oppose it, and, if you are a red-blooded American, you should oppose it as well.
written by Eee Zee
Sure, President Obama’s appointment of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is blatantly racist. Few dispute this fact, even members of the Hispanic community.
The smiling senorita was chosen simply because she is a Latina. If Sotomayor had been a lily-white Methodist from Minnesota, she would not have received the slightest chance for consideration.
Her gender also serves to affirm the patronizing nature of Obama’s appointment.
Strange to say, the mass media is applauding the president’s appointment not because of Sotomayor’s judicial acumen, let alone her rather abysmal courtroom record, but rather because of the fact that she is brown and from the Bronx barrio.
Few commentators note that 60% of Sotomayor’s rulings were overturned by the Supreme Court – - a fact, as Wendy Wright, president of the Concerned Women for America, notes that should cause legislators to “pause and take a good look at her record.”
But a good look at her judicial record is secondary to the good look at her Puerto-Rican ancestry.
Sonia’s supporters, however, are quick to point out that she pulled herself up by the proverbial bootstraps – - that she went from a housing project to Princeton University.
Few note that Ms. Sotomayor received her education in the heyday of affirmative action – - a time when functional illiterates were entry to the hallowed halls of ivy for the sake of diversity – - a time when standardized test scores, including law board examinations, were adjusted to compensate for “cultural disadvantages.”
Race remains a concern in the Sotomayor appointment – - particularly because of her strong ties to La Raza, the Latino answer to the KKK.
As a member of the National Council of La Raza, Ms. Sotomayor said: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion as a judge than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”
La Raza teaches that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington State make up an area known as “Aztlan” — a fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America.
These areas belong to the Latinos and Latinas and must be surrendered to “La Raza” once enough immigrants, legal or illegal, come to constitute a majority, as in Los Angeles. Once this is achieved, the current borders of the United States will simply be obliterated.
But the “reconquista” won’t end with territorial occupation and secession. The final plan for the La Raza movement includes the ethnic cleansing of Americans of European, African, and Asian descent out of “Aztlan.”
Miguel Perez, a La Raza spokesman at Cal State-Northridge, has been quoted as saying: “The ultimate ideology is the liberation of Aztlan. Communism would be closest [to it]. Once Aztlan is established, ethnic cleansing would commence: Non-Chicanos would have to be expelled — opposition groups would be quashed because you have to keep power.”
And so, our new Supreme Court appointee and self-professed advocate of La Raza approves of the reformation of the United States, the creation of a separate Chicano country, and widespread ethnic cleansing.
This assertion may not raise conservative eyebrows, let alone Christian opposition to Sotomayor’s ascendancy to the Supreme Court, save for the fact that La Raza and other Latino activist groups have expressed widespread anti-Jewish sentiments and support for radical Islam. This finding is supported by articles in “The Voice of Aztlan” with such lurid titles as “That Shitty Little Country Israel,” “Pat Tillman Got What Was coming to Him,” and “Osama bin Laden: the ‘Pancho Villa’ of Islam.”
Intrepid columnist Michelle Malkin maintains that all Americans should be aware of the following fifteen facts regarding La Raza (“The Race”):
15. “The Race” supports the issuance of driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.
14.”The Race” demands in-state tuition discounts for illegal alien students – - discounts are not available to law-abiding U.S. citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants.
13. “The Race” opposes cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state, and federal authorities.
12. “The Race” calls for the immediate removal of fences along the Mexican border.
11. “The Race” joined the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed lawsuit attempt to prevent federal officials from entering immigration information into a key national crime database.
10. “The Race” decried Oklahoma’s tough immigration-enforcement-first laws, which cut off welfare to illegal aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions, and strengthened local-federal cooperation and information sharing.
9. “The Race” initiated a lawsuit to prevent Proposition 227, California’s bilingual education reform ballot initiative, from becoming law.
8. “The Race” condemned common-sense voter ID provisions as an “absolute disgrace.”
7. “The Race” has opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.
6. Former “Race” president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton’s Hispanic outreach adviser, said this: “U.S. English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks.” He was referring to U.S. English, the nation’s oldest, largest citizens’ action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States.
5. “The Race” spawned and supported a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, including Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA). The late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized MEChA as “the most anti-American groups in the country.”
4. “The Race” has conducted a smear campaign against staunch immigration-enforcement leaders and has called for TV and cable news networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves.
3. “The Race” sponsors and supports militant ethnic nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars (at least $8 million in federal education grants). The schools include Aztlan Academy in Tucson, Ariz., the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los Angeles, whose principal inveighed: “We don’t want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don’t need a White water fountain . . . ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction.”
2. “The Race” has honed the practice of the politically correct shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing relentlessly to lower home-loan standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in federal “mortgage counseling” grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks, and partnering with banks that do business with illegal aliens.
1. “The Race” thrives on ethnic supremacy — and the politically correct elite’s unwillingness to call it what it is. Prominent historian Victor Davis Hanson observes: “[The] organization’s very nomenclature ‘The National Council of La Raza’ is hate speech to the core. Despite all the contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the meaning of ‘race’ in Spanish, not ‘the people’ — and that’s precisely why we don’t hear of something like ‘The National Council of the People,’ which would not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism.”
Sotomayor, let’s remember, is a leader of La Raza – - an individual who has shaped its policies, its ideology, and its racist demands.
“No one,” President Obama said today, “can oppose this appointment.”
I oppose it, and, if you are a red-blooded American, you should oppose it as well.
written by Eee Zee
Schwarze-Nigger: Don’t blame state budget deficit on illegal aliens
Gov. Arnold Schwarze-Nigger on Friday disputed claims that illegal aliens caused California’s $24.3 billion deficit, while he praised their economic contributions and said he is “happy” they have access to services.
The Republican governor, answering wide-ranging questions from The Bee’s editorial board and its readers, also vented about roadblocks to his authority posed by political foes and warned that government can’t sustain the current level of “unbelievable benefits” for public-sector workers.
In response to dozens of questions from readers who say the state ought to wipe out the deficit by eliminating services for illegal aliens, the governor said it is a “myth” that those illegal aliens are to blame.
He said the cost of services to illegal aliens, which has been estimated at $4 billion to $5 billion annually, is a “small percentage” of the deficit California faces.
“Yes, it is something that ought to be dealt with, but the fact of the matter is, I think it’s an easy scapegoat for people to point the finger and say, ‘Our budget is out of whack because of illegal aliens.’ ”
“It’s not,” he added. “Our budget is out of whack because we have self-inflicted wounds that the Legislature and this state has never really sat down and had the will to go and make the necessary changes that have to be made.”
The governor noted that the federal government requires California to provide emergency health care and education to illegal aliens. Schwarze-nigger in 2006 renounced his 1994 vote for Proposition 187, the initiative to block most services for illegal aliens, which courts deemed unconstitutional.
“You know something, as far as I’m concerned, I’m happy that they can get the services,” he said Friday. “Because I would like to have the services if I’m somewhere in another country … if I have an accident with a motorcycle and I go to an emergency room, I don’t want someone to say, is he here legally?”
Schwarze-nigger also highlighted the economic contributions of illegal aliens.
“Everything we eat today is picked and created by undocumented aliens, to a large extent,” he said. “And every time we go to a restaurant and every time we go and move into a building, a lot of those buildings are built by undocumented aliens’ hands.”
Schwarze-nigger has two budget proposals that affect aliens. He proposed asking the federal government to deport up to 8,000 illegal aliens in state prisons to save $182 million. He also wants to save $120 million by eliminating benefits for newly legal low-income aliens who do not yet qualify for federal assistance.
The governor has said he believes the United States should enforce tougher border controls, and he has advocated for immigration changes such as a guest worker program.
A Federation for American Immigration Reform study released in 2004 said illegal aliens cost the state $9 billion annually, including $7.7 billion on education. But University of Southern California demographer Dowell Myers has disputed that number and said it is difficult to quantify the full economic impact of illegal aliens.
Jim Gilchrist, president of the Minuteman Project, accused the governor of “pandering to political correctness.” He acknowledged that costs of some goods and services could increase without illegal aliens, but he said that would be outweighed by tax savings.
“The money for services comes from increased sales taxes, increased property taxes, increased DMV fees,” he said.
Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, praised the governor for saying illegal aliens are not to blame.
“Our economy is very, very dependent on the immigrant work force,” he said. “They’re a very disciplined, very stable, very productive work force. Our economy would collapse without them.”
Facing a $24.3 billion deficit after signing a $92 billion spending plan in February, the Republican governor accepted some blame for what has transpired since he was elected on the promise of fiscal rescue.
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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.
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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
Schwarze-Nigger: Don’t blame state budget deficit on illegal aliens
Gov. Arnold Schwarze-Nigger on Friday disputed claims that illegal aliens caused California’s $24.3 billion deficit, while he praised their economic contributions and said he is “happy” they have access to services.
The Republican governor, answering wide-ranging questions from The Bee’s editorial board and its readers, also vented about roadblocks to his authority posed by political foes and warned that government can’t sustain the current level of “unbelievable benefits” for public-sector workers.
In response to dozens of questions from readers who say the state ought to wipe out the deficit by eliminating services for illegal aliens, the governor said it is a “myth” that those illegal aliens are to blame.
He said the cost of services to illegal aliens, which has been estimated at $4 billion to $5 billion annually, is a “small percentage” of the deficit California faces.
“Yes, it is something that ought to be dealt with, but the fact of the matter is, I think it’s an easy scapegoat for people to point the finger and say, ‘Our budget is out of whack because of illegal aliens.’ ”
“It’s not,” he added. “Our budget is out of whack because we have self-inflicted wounds that the Legislature and this state has never really sat down and had the will to go and make the necessary changes that have to be made.”
The governor noted that the federal government requires California to provide emergency health care and education to illegal aliens. Schwarze-Nigger in 2006 renounced his 1994 vote for Proposition 187, the initiative to block most services for illegal aliens, which courts deemed unconstitutional.
“You know something, as far as I’m concerned, I’m happy that they can get the services,” he said Friday. “Because I would like to have the services if I’m somewhere in another country … if I have an accident with a motorcycle and I go to an emergency room, I don’t want someone to say, is he here legally?”
Schwarze-Nigger also highlighted the economic contributions of illegal aliens.
“Everything we eat today is picked and created by illegal aliens, to a large extent,” he said. “And every time we go to a restaurant and every time we go and move into a building, a lot of those buildings are built by illegal aliens’ hands.”
Schwarze-Nigger has two budget proposals that affect aliens. He proposed asking the federal government to deport up to 8,000 illegal aliens in state prisons to save $182 million. He also wants to save $120 million by eliminating benefits for newly legal low-income aliens who do not yet qualify for federal assistance.
The governor has said he believes the United States should enforce tougher border controls, and he has advocated for immigration changes such as a guest worker program.
A Federation for American Immigration Reform study released in 2004 said illegal aliens cost the state $9 billion annually, including $7.7 billion on education. But University of Southern California demographer Dowell Myers has disputed that number and said it is difficult to quantify the full economic impact of illegal aliens.
Jim Gilchrist, president of the Minuteman Project, accused the governor of “pandering to political correctness.” He acknowledged that costs of some goods and services could increase without illegal aliens, but he said that would be outweighed by tax savings.
“The money for services comes from increased sales taxes, increased property taxes, increased DMV fees,” he said.
Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, praised the governor for saying illegal aliens are not to blame.
“Our economy is very, very dependent on the immigrant work force,” he said. “They’re a very disciplined, very stable, very productive work force. Our economy would collapse without them.”
Facing a $24.3 billion deficit after signing a $92 billion spending plan in February, the Republican governor accepted some blame for what has transpired since he was elected on the promise of fiscal rescue.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarze-nigger on Friday disputed claims that illegal aliens caused California’s $24.3 billion deficit, while he praised their economic contributions and said he is “happy” they have access to services.
The Republican governor, answering wide-ranging questions from The Bee’s editorial board and its readers, also vented about roadblocks to his authority posed by political foes and warned that government can’t sustain the current level of “unbelievable benefits” for public-sector workers.
In response to dozens of questions from readers who say the state ought to wipe out the deficit by eliminating services for illegal aliens, the governor said it is a “myth” that those illegal aliens are to blame.
He said the cost of services to illegal aliens, which has been estimated at $4 billion to $5 billion annually, is a “small percentage” of the deficit California faces.
“Yes, it is something that ought to be dealt with, but the fact of the matter is, I think it’s an easy scapegoat for people to point the finger and say, ‘Our budget is out of whack because of illegal aliens.’ ”
“It’s not,” he added. “Our budget is out of whack because we have self-inflicted wounds that the Legislature and this state has never really sat down and had the will to go and make the necessary changes that have to be made.”
The governor noted that the federal government requires California to provide emergency health care and education to illegal aliens. Schwarze-nigger in 2006 renounced his 1994 vote for Proposition 187, the initiative to block most services for illegal aliens, which courts deemed unconstitutional.
“You know something, as far as I’m concerned, I’m happy that they can get the services,” he said Friday. “Because I would like to have the services if I’m somewhere in another country … if I have an accident with a motorcycle and I go to an emergency room, I don’t want someone to say, is he here legally?”
Schwarze-nigger also highlighted the economic contributions of illegal aliens.
“Everything we eat today is picked and created by undocumented aliens, to a large extent,” he said. “And every time we go to a restaurant and every time we go and move into a building, a lot of those buildings are built by undocumented aliens’ hands.”
Schwarze-nigger has two budget proposals that affect aliens. He proposed asking the federal government to deport up to 8,000 illegal aliens in state prisons to save $182 million. He also wants to save $120 million by eliminating benefits for newly legal low-income aliens who do not yet qualify for federal assistance.
The governor has said he believes the United States should enforce tougher border controls, and he has advocated for immigration changes such as a guest worker program.
A Federation for American Immigration Reform study released in 2004 said illegal aliens cost the state $9 billion annually, including $7.7 billion on education. But University of Southern California demographer Dowell Myers has disputed that number and said it is difficult to quantify the full economic impact of illegal aliens.
Jim Gilchrist, president of the Minuteman Project, accused the governor of “pandering to political correctness.” He acknowledged that costs of some goods and services could increase without illegal aliens, but he said that would be outweighed by tax savings.
“The money for services comes from increased sales taxes, increased property taxes, increased DMV fees,” he said.
Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, praised the governor for saying illegal aliens are not to blame.
“Our economy is very, very dependent on the immigrant work force,” he said. “They’re a very disciplined, very stable, very productive work force. Our economy would collapse without them.”
Facing a $24.3 billion deficit after signing a $92 billion spending plan in February, the Republican governor accepted some blame for what has transpired since he was elected on the promise of fiscal rescue.
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The author, Lou Pritchett, is a well-known public speaker who retired after a successful 36-year career as the VP World Sales for Proctor and Gamble.
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AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
Dear President Obama:
You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me. You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.
You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.
You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.
You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.
You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don’t understand it at its core.. You scare me because you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming others.
You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.
You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ‘blame America’ crowd and deliver this message abroad.
You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.
You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.
You scare me because you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.
You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.
You scare me because you have begun to use ‘extortion’ tactics against certain banks and corporations.
You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.
You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.
You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.
You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.
You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O’Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.
You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.
Lou Pritchett
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Harvard University will announce tomorrow that it will establish an endowed chair in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies, in what is believed to be the first professorship of its kind in the country.
Harvard President Drew G. Faust described the academic post as “an important milestone” in an ongoing effort by faculty, students, and alumni to raise the profile of LGBT studies at the university.
The university has received a $1.5 million gift from the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus, a 4,900 member group, to endow the F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality. Matthiessen, who Harvard says stands out as an unusual example of a gay man who lived his sexuality as an “open secret” in the mid-20th century, was an American studies scholar and literary critic at Harvard and chaired the undergraduate program in history and literature.
A growing number of colleges have begun offering academic programs related to sex, sexuality, and sexual orientation, though LGBT studies is a relatively young discipline. The City University of New York began the first gay and lesbian studies program in 1986.
“This is an extraordinary moment in Harvard’s history and in the history of this rapidly emerging field,” Mitchell L. Adams, a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, said in a written statement. “And because of Harvard’s leadership in academia and the world, this gift will foster continued progress toward a more inclusive society.”
Adams is expected to announce the gift during the caucus’s annual commencement dinner tomorrow. The caucus, composed of alumni, faculty, staff, and students, was founded in 1984 to advocate for Harvard’s gay community.
The new professorship will allow Harvard to invite scholars studying sexuality or sexual minorities to teach in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for one semester.
The visiting professorship will advance LGBT studies at Harvard by exposing students and faculty to cutting-edge ideas as leading thinkers rotate through the position, Harvard officials said, as well as help expand the field. It will also funnel new scholars to Harvard’s women, gender, and sexuality department.
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