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Anti-Illegal Immigration Group Calls for ‘Safe Passage’ of Illegals Out of U.S.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 28/Jul/2010 21:42
AFP July 27: Mexican immigrant Luis Manuel, 29, walks along the U.S.- Mexico border after being deported from Arizona.
“An anti-illegal immigration group is calling on the Obama administration to ensure a smooth exit for illegal immigrants who are trying to leave the U.S. due to the weak economy and Arizona’s strict new immigration law.
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) is urging U.S. citizens to pressure the White House and the Homeland Security Department to establish “safe departure” border checkpoints along the U.S. border for illegal immigrants so they can leave without fear of being detained or prosecuted for immigration crimes.
“The peaceful and gradual exodus of illegals from Arizona shows there is no need for comprehensive immigration reform amnesty,” William Gheen, president of the group, said in a written statement. “Comprehensive immigration enforcement works and has the desired effect without mass deportations.”
Gheen said the safe passage would ensure that illegals “leave in an orderly fashion, instead of trying risky desert crossings, paying money to the cartels for passage south, or fleeing to other states.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/27/anti-immigrant-group-calls-safe-passage-illegals/
The “foremost†mission of America’s space exploration agency?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Opinion on 28/Jul/2010 21:35
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden told Al Jazeera that his “foremost†mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. No, this is not a story from The Onion.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden: “When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — he [Obama] charged me with three things.
One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering,” Bolden said in the interview.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/05/nasa-chief-frontier-better-relations-muslims/
Penn Jillette, Not Having the Courage to Confront Islam is Bullsh*t
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Opinion, Threat Watch on 28/Jul/2010 21:21
Illustration by Bosch Fawstin
by David Swindle
It’s always a sad day when someone you admire tremendously, who has entertained and challenged you for years lets you down and reveals themselves to really stand up only for themselves instead of the ideas of freedom they claim to support.
Reason Magazine highlights some deeply discouraging remarks from Penn Jillette, the libertarian co-host of the extraordinarily great Showtime show “Penn and Teller’s Bullsh*tâ€:
Reason Magazine: Are there any groups you won’t go after?
Penn: We haven’t tackled Scientology because Showtime doesn’t want us to. Maybe they have deals with individual Scientologists—I’m not sure. And we haven’t tackled Islam because we have families.
Reason Magazine: Meaning, you won’t attack Islam because you’re afraid it’ll attack back …
Penn: Right, and I think the worst thing you can say about a group in a free society is that you’re afraid to talk about it—I can’t think of anything more horrific.
Y’know there are a whole lot of prominent people — who do have families — who have had the courage to tell the truth about Islam. Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, Mark Steyn, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Geert Wilders… It’s actually a fairly long list with people who would be much more prominent targets than Penn and Teller.
When Jillette says things like he has here it accomplishes one thing: it empowers the enemy. It tells them to keep making threats and to keep killing people because ultimately it works because we in the West are too complacent, comfortable, and selfish to care.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who would be willing to put their lives on the line to hide and protect Jews in Nazi Germany, and those who looked the other way and lived comfortably as the Holocaust happened. The situation is pretty much the same in our age.”
“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.†-George Orwell
“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”
-Thomas Paine
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.â€
–Albert Einstein
‘To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.’
– Ayn Rand
“No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.” Winston Churchill on Islam
Don't get your hopes up. They only play brave people on TV.
Once a Muslim, now an Objectivist, Bosch Fawstin talks about Islam
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Opinion on 28/Jul/2010 21:10
The book is a collection of illustrations, cartoons & essays that serves as a preview for The Infidel, a story about twin brothers whose Muslim background comes to the forefront of their lives on 9/11. One responds by creating a counter-jihad superhero comic book called Pigman, as the other fully submits to Islam. Their separate paths inevitably brings them back together into an escalating conflict that is echoed by Pigman's battle against his arch enemy, SuperJihad.
From Mohammed to Ayn Rand
by David Swindle
“Whether it’s a religion or a political movement, the most effective critics are always those who were once believers. Whether it’s David Horowitz dissecting the American Left, Bart Ehrman challenging fundamentalist Christianity, or Ayaan Hirsi Ali critiquing Islam, those that have been on the inside can cut the deepest.
Not all critics write academic tomes. Ex-Muslim cum Objectivist Bosch Fawstin’s new book will contain several essays explaining his challenging, often controversial views on Islam and the War on Terror. But as a cartoonist, Fawstin is the ideal person to make the definitive anti-Jihad superhero: Pigman.
Bosch Fawstin: The enemy is Islam, the so-called moderate Islam of the West is not really true Islam at all.
BF: They say Islam, we say anything but Islam, leaving the troubling impression that the enemy’s religion is something other than Islam.
There is no “Political Islam” or “Totalitarian Islam” that is distinguishable from Islam itself.
Islam is normatively political and totalitarian. We have evaded the true meaning of Islam in the name of respect for religion. But we cannot avoid the consequences of doing so.
Mohammed was a Muslim and his religion was Islam; he was not an Islamist practicing Islamism. He was a Muslim who practiced Islam and engaged in its violent Jihad, forcing Islam into a world it failed to get into on merit.
And any Muslim who is peace-loving and tolerant is by implication condemning their violent, intolerant “prophet” and the means by which their religion was spread.
How Islam spread tells us exactly what Islam means. When the moral standard for an entire culture is a bad guy who crossed the line as a way of life, it explains why his most devout followers are the most violent among Muslims.
We can try our best to stay clear of Islam, but Muslims have proven that they will never keep Islam to themselves unless they are forced to.
It is a faith that sanctions any evil against those who are not part of it. Our not calling this evil by its name, Islam, is sanctioning it and leaving ourselves at the mercy of those who will stop at nothing to bury all we hold dear.”
http://www.islam-watch.org/ExMuslims/Mohammed-to-Ayn-Rand.htm
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.â€
–Albert Einstein
Marines conduct a security halt during a dismounted patrol
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 28/Jul/2010 19:48
Marines with Lima Company, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct a security halt during a dismounted patrol on a training area near Camp Buehring, Kuwait Aug. 10, 2009. The 22nd MEU is ashore conducting sustainment training in Kuwait. The MEU is currently serving as the theater reserve force for U.S. Central Command.Photo by Cpl. Justin Martinez
Federal judge blocks key parts of Arizona immigration law SB 1070
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 28/Jul/2010 19:29
“A federal judge in Phoenix on Wednesday blocked key provisions of Arizona’s controversial immigration law from taking effect as scheduled Thursday, granting in part an injunction requested by the Obama administration.
U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton ruled that the injunction would apply to the portion of the state law that requires police to try to determine the immigration status of a person they arrest, stop or detain while enforcing other laws if they reasonably suspect the person is in the United States illegally.
Bolton said in her 36-page ruling that it was “not in the public interest” for Arizona to enforce provisions that preempt federal enforcement of immigration law.
Also put on hold were parts of the law requiring foreigners to apply for or carry certain documents, making it a state crime for undocumented workers “to solicit, apply for or perform work,” and mandating verification of the immigration status of any arrested person prior to release, the ruling said.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/28/AR2010072801794.html
Rangel introduces Bill to Create Cumpulsory Draft.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Law, News on 28/Jul/2010 18:28
By Chelsea Schilling
“A bill introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., would reinstate a compulsory military draft during wartime and require U.S. citizens not selected for military duty to perform a “national-service obligation” – as defined by President Obama – for a minimum of two years.
Rangel introduced the Universal National Service Act, or H.R. 5741, on July 15. The measure was referred to the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel on July 23.
Rangel introduced similar bills in 2003, 2006 and 2007. His current bill does not have a co-sponsor.
Rangel took to the floor of the House to reintroduce H.R. 5741, stating, “I have introduced legislation to reinstate the draft and to make it permanent during time of war. It is H.R. 5741, and what this does is to make everyone between the ages of 18 and 42 – whether they’re men or women, whether they’re straight or gay – to have the opportunity to defend this great country whenever the president truly believes that our national security is threatened.”
- The bill provides for a national-service obligation – either military or civilian – for every citizen and permanent resident, male and female, of the U.S., aged 18 to 42.
- Persons may be inducted to perform military service only if a declaration of war is in effect, or if the president declares a national emergency necessitating the induction of persons to perform military service and immediately informs Congress of the reasons for the declaration.
- Defines “national service” as either military or civilian service as defined by the president that promotes national or homeland security.
- Gives the president the authority to establish the numbers of persons to be selected for military service and the means of selection.
- Requires those not selected for military service to perform their national-service obligation in a civilian capacity for a period of two years.
- Directs the president to prescribe the regulations necessary to carry out the act.
- Deferments for education are only permitted through completion of high school, to a maximum age of 20.
- Deferments may be made for physical or mental disability, or under claims of conscientious objector.
Rangel: “What troubles me most about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is the total indifference to the suffering and loss of life among our brave young soldiers on the battlefield,” Rep. Rangel said. “The reason is that so few families have a stake in the war which is being fought by other people’s children.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio ready for SB 1070 protests
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Law, News on 28/Jul/2010 11:20
“The sheriff of the most populous county in Arizona [Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio] says he’s “not going to put up with any civil disobedience” when the state’s new immigration law takes effect.
Arpaio says that if protesters want to block his jail, he’ll put them in it.
The Arizona law, which takes effect Thursday, requires officers enforcing other laws to check a person’s immigration status if they suspect the person is in the country illegally.
He says it’s “a crime to be here illegally and everyone should enforce” the law.
Pressure builds as ruling on Arizona bill SB1070 is just hours away.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Law, News on 28/Jul/2010 11:13
“PHOENIX – A ruling on the implementation of SB1070 is expected in just hours.
In an interview on CNN Tuesday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said she expected the decision at any time, but no later than Wednesday.
It is unclear how Judge Susan Bolton might rule in the multiple court cases filed against implementation of the law.
Brewer spoke openly on CNN about the controversial law, addressing concerns over the possibility of racial profiling. She explained that is not the intent of the law, saying she had similar concerns but is confident officers will not take the responsibility lightly.
SB1070 takes effect Thursday, creating a potentially volatile mix of police, illegal immigrants and thousands of activists, many planning to show up without identification as a show of solidarity.”
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/state/brewer-expects-ruling-on-sb1070-in-matter-of-hours
Arizona Woman pulls her registration from Arizona State University in protest of illegal immigrant grads
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 28/Jul/2010 11:06
“MESA, AZ – After watching the story of two Arizona State University graduates who admitted they are not U.S. citizens, the Mesa woman [Amber Kunau] says she decided not to enroll at the school.
Kunau said she recently pulled her registration from Arizona State University after seeing the story of two ASU graduates who admitted they were not U.S. citizens and went to Washington, D.C. fighting for the DREAM Act.
The two students, Dulce Matuz and Erika Andiola, spoke to ABC15 Sunday and described how they came to the United States as children, graduated college and hope the DREAM Act passes for a path to citizenship.
“After that story broke I changed my mind and talked to my husband about not attending ASU and he agreed,” said Kunau.
“I think it is really unfair that ASU is knowingly allowing illegal immigrants to attend their school,” said Kunau.
Kunau said the cost of her education at ASU for the psychology program would be around $21,000.
“I believe everyone should have the opportunity for a good education don’t get me wrong on that,” said Kunau. “There are many students that could also use that money that are here legally and I’m pretty sure those girls got some kind of financial aid.”
University spokesperson Julie Newberg released the following statement via email:
“ASU complies with all state and federal laws. Under Arizona law, students must be citizens or legal residents, or have lawful immigration status, in order to qualify for in-state tuition status or financial aid paid from state monies.”
Steve Irvin on the Texas/Los Zetas story: It’s “the Glenn Becks and Bill O’Reillys of the world.”
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 28/Jul/2010 10:57
Steve Irvin, journalist and anchor of ABC15 News
“I don’t really need to read many of the far right wing blogs flagellating in cyberspace these days.
Not when there’s a whole battalion of their readers ready to accuse our news organization of a deep-seeded conspiracy for failing to repeat the rants of a few misinformed idiots.
The latest of these dispatches arrived over the weekend, when a number of viewers demanded to know why we, as “the media,†weren’t reporting that the Los Zetas drug cartel had taken over two ranches in the Laredo, Texas area.
The reports, which arrived all the way from Pennsylvania (which is very close to Laredo) quoted sources within the Laredo police department who “confirmed†this was an “act of war.â€
Google this, and you’ll find a number of corroborating reports which manage to say the EXACT same thing, as if they’re all repeating…the exact same thing. Amazingly, none of these “reporters†appears to have actually picked up the phone and called the Laredo police department to verify the story.
And none of the viewers who e-mailed the station did either.
My point is, the reason we didn’t report the story is… IT ISN’T TRUE. In fact when the Laredo Morning Times published its own story Saturday discounting the rumors of a drug cartel takeover and subsequent standoff, reporter Nick DiGeorgiu called around to police and the Webb County Sheriff’s office, and got a general shoulder-shrugging about it, although officials said the phone had been ringing off the hook from various minuteman groups.
Simply put… not confirmed…. Not true.
Another reporter who lives in the area actually drove up and down the road where drug cartels had supposedly taken over the ranches. That reporter noted zero police presence in the area at the time… when supposedly a standoff was happening.
The point is, these rumors circulate and bubble up from the ether on almost a daily basis now. They are published with a mouse-click, and shared and duplicated with three more mouse clicks. They feed into the paranoia that already exists among extremists who believe “the media†is really an arm of a presidential administration promoting the Obama “socialist agenda.â€
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/local_news/news_blogs/commentary%3A–the-%22conspiracy%22-revealed
Mexican Drug Cartel Seize Texas Ranches; Laredo Police: “We have been advised to say nothing.”
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 28/Jul/2010 10:53
“There’s a story unfolding in South Texas, of a possible hostile takeover of two Texas ranches located near Laredo by a Mexican drug cartel. The source of the story, the site Diggers Realm which posted they’d received a tip-off two Texas ranches located south of Laredo had been seized by a Mexican drug cartel with the ranchers escaping without incident. According to Examiner. com, the local authorities, the Laredo Police Department, won’t officially confirm the story, while officials within the department, under conditions of anonymity, confirmed a Mexican drug cartel hostile takeover of the two Texas ranches with the Laredo Police Department seeking help from the Federal government. DBKP talked with the spokesperson for Chief Carlos Maldonaldo of the Laredo Police Dept. who told us:
“We have been advised to say nothing. The Webb County Sheriff is taking the lead on this and they’re advising that they can’t confirm anything either.â€
Why “take the lead†if something hasn’t occurred?”
Act of War in Texas? Or is it a Hoax?
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 28/Jul/2010 10:37
There has still been no coverage in the mainstream media about drug cartels seizing at least two American ranches in Texas.
Seems like this kind of thing would be more newsworthy than, say, Lindsay Lohan’s latest rehab mishap. But I’m sure the good folks at CNN, CBS, NBC and ABC know what they’re doing.
“In what could be deemed an act of war against the sovereign borders of the United States, Mexican drug cartels have seized control of at least two American ranches inside the U.S. territory near Laredo, Texas.
“We consider this an act of war,†said one police officer on the ground near the scene. There is a news blackout of this incident at this time and the sources inside Laredo PD spoke on the condition of anonymity.â€
Word broke late last night that Laredo police have requested help from the federal government regarding the incursion by the Los Zetas. It appears that the ranch owners have escaped without incident but their ranches remain in the hands of the blood thirsty cartels.
The hostile takeover of the ranches has met with silence with local and national media.â€
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-10317-San-Diego-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m7d24-Los-Zetas-drug-cartel-takes-control-2-US-ranches-in-Texas
“As a native Texan who resided in South Texas and a former rancher, I find it interesting several internet bloggers have branded this story as a hoax because 1) The bloggers talked to the Laredo Police Department and the Webb County Sheriff’s Office who couldn’t confirm the story but didn’t deny it, 2) The bloggers cited the local media story who reported the local authorities couldn’t confirm the story with none of the authorities denying it, and, 3) The FBI, who gave a statement they won’t comment on rumors.
Armed with the “facts†the story was pronounced a hoax. A story originally reported by the site Digger’s Realm on July 24th at 4:11 AM. Examiner.com reported on the story on July 24th at 11:18 AM. The conclusions the story is hoax, based on a local media report and phone calls to the local authorities, were made within less than 24 hours after the story originally broke.
We believe there’s the possibility members of the Los Zetas gang, in the midst of a violent war with the Mexican military in Nuevo Laredo, hightailed it across the border seeking out a hideout on the ranches. Ranches purportedly located near Laredo in Webb County, TX, an area of 3,376 square arid miles of mesquite trees and prickly pear cactus. The Los Zetas gang members discovered by the ranchers who contacted the local authorities.
The local authorities, armed with the knowledge Las Zetas gang members are known to be extremely dangerous, potentially armed with assault weapons, grenades, and shoulder to arm rocket launchers, contacting the federal authorities for help. The possibility the federal government ordered the operation to be kept secret. Which isn’t so far-fetched when you compare this story to an earlier incident which occurred “sometime in Mayâ€, when the story was finally reported, and who reported it.
I find it fairly amusing bloggers are willing to declare this story a hoax. Amusing in that, 1) The very same local media failed report the incident which occurred in May. A story which involved Homeland Security, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, a nearby Sheriff’s Department, and the Mexican military. A story which wasn’t reported until weeks after the incident occurred.
A story which involved a Los Zetas plot to blow up the 5-mile long Lake Falcon Dam. Homeland Security issuing a warning, U.S Customs and Border Agents, local enforcement officers at the dam. The discovery of explosives, a plan, and Los Zetas gang members handing out handbills and using blowhorns warning Mexican citizens on the other side of the border to “get outâ€. The potential disaster of billions of water flooding an area inhabited by 4 million people on both sides of the border with the local news media, failing to file a report.
Laredo, TX, located 73 miles from the Falcon Dam, the nearest “local†media. The news source who reported the story, the Houston Chronicle who reported the Los Zetas Falcon Dam Plot incident on June 2nd. According to the Chronicle, the incident occurred “sometime in Mayâ€.
Also reported by certain bloggers, the assertion the hoax is an attempt to promote racial hatred against illegal immigrants which isn’t amusing, and shows a total lack of comprehension of the ethnicity of South Texas and Texas ranchers. Neither Examiner.com or Digger’s Realm reported “white†ranchers were involved, or, illegal immigrants.”
At least 17 Executions Around Mexico this Week
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 28/Jul/2010 10:26
“Organized-crime involvement is suspected in the killings of 17 people in two Mexican states, authorities said Monday.
Officials in the southern Pacific coast state of Guerrero said six people were found dead inside an SUV.
Five of the victims were bound with adhesive tape, while the sixth was wrapped in a black plastic garbage bag and accompanied by a message from the killers, the state Public Safety Office said in a statement.
Separately, two people were gunned down Sunday night inside a pool hall in the town of Ajuchitlan del Progreso.
Though authorities have yet to identify any victims or a motive in either case, the killings bore the hallmarks of organized crime, the statement said.
Nine people were slain in the western state of Sinaloa, a spokesman for the state Attorney General’s Office told Efe Monday.
Four bodies were discovered inside a burned-out SUV in Culiacan, the state capital, the spokesman said, adding that 22 shell casings from an AK-47 assault rifle were collected at the scene.
In the town of Navolato, four people who had been kidnapped elsewhere were found shot to death near a technical training school. Another person turned up dead in the community of El Quemadito.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/executions-around-mexico-this-week.html
8 Severed Human Heads Dumped in Durango, Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 28/Jul/2010 10:22
“Eight severed human heads were found Tuesday in the Mexican city of Durango, capital of the likenamed northern state, authorities said.
Police were directed to some of the heads by a series of anonymous telephone calls that began shortly before 7:00 a.m., the Durango state Attorney General’s Office said.
The eight heads were scattered among various roads on the edge of the city, according to a statement from the AG office, which said authorities had yet to find the corresponding bodies or identity the victims.
While some of the heads were found as a result of the phone calls, others were discovered by maintenance workers in city parks.
All of the victims were unidentified men between the ages of 25 and 30, the AG office said. The actual bodies have not been found.
The gruesome discoveries in the state capital come two days after the arrest of the warden at the Cereso 2 prison in Gomez Palacio, Durango, on accusations she allowed inmates to leave the facility to carry out killings.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/07/severed-human-heads-dumped-in-durango.html