Patriot Act Stopped … for Now

A few freshmen Congressmen, including a handful of Tea Party candidates, joined with a number of Republicans and a lot of Democrats to defeat an attempt to rubber stamp an extension of the Patriot Act.   The Patriot Act, legislation drafted in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attack on America, was designed to give our government enhanced ability to spy on people they considered a terrorist threat.

The Act allowed the government to invade America’s privacy in ways that had previously been illegal, such as roving wiretaps without strong probable cause or even requiring a judge’s consent.

Those were desperate times and the government felt it needed such tools to get the information they wanted quickly in order to prevent the possibility of additional terrorists attacks.

Congressmen, concerned for their constituents and wanting to demonstrate their patriotism, supported the bill, even though many had grave misgivings that once this Act was passed, it might be difficult to restore Americans’ right of privacy.

While this vote is seen as a defeat for the Republicans leadership who expected their rank and file colleagues to do as they were told, it is actually a victory for the nation in that it shows our Congressmen are listening to their constituents, not their party’s arm-twisters, when it comes to the right of privacy and the ever-expanding power of the federal government.

I consider those Congressman who voted against the extension to be heroes.  The list of Republicans who voted against the bill and their party’s leadership are security-conscious and patriotic members of Congress.  Their ratings on border and immigration policy are excellent.

They voted against passage because they put principle ahead of party politics.  They believe that the Patriot Act needs to be improved, both in its effectiveness as a deterrent to terrorism and refined to protect the rights and freedoms of law-abiding citizens.

Most likely, the Republican leadership will intimidate the freshmen into voting for it and they will pass under a less-stringent rule later this year.

But, in the meantime, the Congress has some time to think about why American grandmothers are being patted down and strip-searched at airports while our borders are wide open and terrorists are waltzing through whenever they choose.

The Patriot Act that I would love to see would bring our troops home and deploy them on our borders where they kill or capture all the drug smugglers; restore American sovereignty; and scare the Hell out of would-be illegal aliens!

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Why We Have to Fire Napolitano NOW!

The Department of Homeland Security is tasked with protecting the nation and, presumably, it’s inhabitants, from all enemies, foreign and domestic.  It’s leader, therefore, should be among the best and the brightest available.  Someone from the military  or, perhaps, someone from our intelligence community, but, in any event, a seasoned professional, certainly not a politician.

Former Gov. Janet Napolitano is a politician.  Not just any politician, but a politician who, as governor of Arizona, was known to be for open borders and welfare for illegals — a really terrible choice to head an agency tasked with securing our borders and keeping us safe.

Throughout her tenure, Secy. Napolitano has assured the nation that our borders are secure, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.  Under her watchful eye, kidnappings became the fastest growing crime in her home state of Arizona.  Cross-border incursions became a daily event and the body count of American farmers, ranchers and even military personnel began to climb.

Read the article below and then go to our website’s Legislative Action Center where you can find the petition to FIRE Napolitano NOW! Every days we delay means another few thousand illegal aliens, another few tons of narcotics and, without question, another terrorist will enter our country.

The female police chief of Guadalupe, Mexico, has not been seen or heard from since being abducted two days before Christmas.

Erika Gandara was a former radio dispatcher for the police department in the town of 9,000, which is just across the U.S. border, one mile from Fabens, Texas. The previous police chief was murdered and decapitated; his head was found in an ice chest. Gandara, 28, a single woman with no children, was the only applicant for the job and its salary of $580 per month.

One policeman was murdered during Gandara’s first week on the job. By the time she became chief, the entire force of eight patrolmen had either been killed or fled. She was the sole law enforcement representative in a Juarez valley town that was part of the war between competing drug cartels for access routes into the U.S.

Relatives feared for her safety and urged Gandara to keep a low profile. But she refused, posing with her rifle for newspaper interviews. Then, at 6 a.m. on December 23, 10 gunmen pulled up to her residence, dragged her out of the house and set the home on fire. She has not been seen or heard from since.

Many of the houses in Guadalupe have been burned down by the cartels, for whom drug-running is no longer enough. They want complete political control over towns and territories along access routes to U.S. highways and the lucrative drug market. So while the violence in big cities like Juarez has gotten a lot of media attention, little has been written about small towns like Guadalupe, where the situation is even worse.

“We have no police, no security, no electricity, no water, nothing,” said one 25-year-old woman who was afraid to give her name. She stood outside her stone house making a small fire from roof tarp just one mile from Texas — but the scene seemed more like the Stone Age.

Guadalupe is not the only town in Mexico without a police force. In a small town near Monterrey, the entire force quit after two officers were found beheaded. And this week, the police chief of Nuevo Laredo, just across the border from Laredo, Texas, was gunned down along with two of his bodyguards.

Many of those who live in the towns without police protection have fled to other areas, or across the border to the U.S. But many are unable to leave.

“My house is here,” one construction worker told me. “I have nowhere to go and no money to leave. So at night when there is shooting we all just stay inside. Of course we are scared.”

In the debate over how to handle the violence now raging in Mexico, the concern is that small towns like Guadalupe, where the locals are left to fend for themselves against powerful drug cartels, may be the first in a growing area of territory along the Mexican-U.S. border where the state has been defeated.

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Red Skelton’s Pledge of Allegiance

One of America’s favorite entertainers, Red Skelton reminds us what the Pledge of Allegiance actually stands for.  Play this for your children and all those who may have forgotten.

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The Muslim Brotherhood – Another Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

Although many Americans,  who have chosen Islam as their faith, may respect our Constitution, enjoy all of our freedoms, and want nothing to do with primitive sharia law, they will have no choice in the matter because radical Islamists intend to establish sharia law throughout the world, including the United States.

The Muslim Brotherhood, that supposedly peaceful and benign group,  is finance by Saudi petrodollars, through such conduits as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Muslim Students Association (MSA), North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), or many other Islamist organizations.

The Brotherhood was founded by Hassan al-Banna (“the Guide”) in 1928 in Isma’iliyaa, Egypt. It’s stated purpose is to bring the world under sharia law administered by a single world-wide Islamic nation.

The particular brand of Islam promoted by Banna is Salafism, a fundamentalist form of Islam that promotes Islam as a religion and as a political entity — no separation between church and state.

During the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s the Brotherhood began sending Salafist Muslims into Western countries to settle, spread Salafism, raise families, and to establish mosques and Salafist communities.

Despite the fact that the movement proceeded slowly at first, Western countries including the United States and Canada loosened their immigration policies in the 1060′s and from that point, Muslim Fundamentalist immigration has proceeded expeditiously.

In the weeks following 9/11, authorities found a 14-page plan to “establish an Islamic government on earth” known as “The Project.” This plan corroborates a Brotherhood memorandum, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” uncovered by the FBI and presented in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial. The Brotherhood plan is no secret.

The plan begins with educating and forming the Muslim person, then forming the Muslim family as the basis for Muslim society – with emphasis on preparation for martyrdom. This would first happen in Muslim countries. Once the current Muslim countries are all governed through sharia law, the Muslim collective would then take aim on the one-time Muslim holdings in Europe. When that is complete, the Muslim Nation would then strive to achieve world dominance.

The first stage of this plan is “propaganda, communication and information” through classroom indoctrination (Muslim schools – madrases) to recruit activists and to establish media outlets to spread the Islamist message while refuting opponents.

The second stage involves the “formation, selection and preparation” in establishing charities, clinics, schools and other services to endear themselves to the local populations. It also stresses military preparedness by creating “rovers, battalions and secret apparatus” to lead the way to eventual revolution. This second stage also stresses martyrdom and identifies them as “the troops of God” armed with “Islamic morality.”

The third and final stage is execution. Those rovers and battalions in Muslim communities would rise up to conquer “every obstinate tyrant.” Although the plan has violent overtones, the emphasis is placed on influencing the media, controlling education and ingratiating the movement with an unsuspecting population. This is being done today before our very eyes. CAIR is using the current administration to help “educate the public in the greatness of Islam;” school children are taking field trips to mosques and encouraged to participate in Muslim prayers.  Islamists attempt to influence American law with sharia. Recently a judge used sharia to adjudicate a case in New Jersey and the Oklahoma voters passed a proposition to keep sharia law out of Oklahoma (U.S. Border Control filed an amicus brief defending the state’s actions.)

The Muslim Brotherhood seeks to spread Islam around the world using nonviolent means.  However, Hamas and al-Qaida are violent Brotherhood offshoots. Though the Brotherhood may not support terrorism, it has never rejected it when the opportunity presented itself. Once powerful centers of trained Islamists are in place the time will be right for their violent jihad and Islamist takeover of a country.

Making matters worse, our politically correct media refuse to provide factual reporting on the Muslim Brotherhood.  This enabled President Obama to betray a strong ally in the middle east, Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarek, and invite a takeover of the only Arab country to make peace with Israel without a huge outcry from the American people.

In taking this action, President Obama joins former President Jimmy Carter as being one of the most destructive presidents in American history and earns a permanent seat in U.S. Border Control’s Hall of Shame!

The only good news is that the American people are beginning to recognize the threat sharia poses to our free, secular society.  In a recent poll conducted by U.S. Border Control, 94% of those surveyed said ‘yes’ on limiting immigration from Muslim countries.

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The state with the most illegal alien workers also has the highest unemployment

A few months ago, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said publicly that the claim that illegal aliens are working construction jobs in Nevada (17 percent of those jobs) is “absolutely without foundation.”

However, on Tuesday, The Pew Hispanic Center released a report which shows that illegal aliens make up 10 percent of Nevada’s workforce. That is up from 2009, when illegal aliens accounted for 9.4 percent of those working in the state.

It is no coincidence that Nevada also has the nation’s highest rate of unemployment. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the state’s unemployment rate is now 14.5 percent.  Of course, Nevada is not the only state in which U.S. workers are being replaced illegal aliens.

In 2007, the Fiscal Policy Institute released a study revealing that there were 374,000 illegal aliens employed in New York City, accounting for 10 percent of the city’s total workforce.

A 2010 study by the Pew Hispanic Center found that while every demographic of native-born workers has lost millions of jobs during this deep recession, foreign-born workers have actually increased their employment numbers.

Since June 2009, immigrants (including illegal aliens) have gained 656,000 jobs, while U.S. born workers lost 1.2 million jobs during that same period. The Pew study found that 57 percent of those that they refer to as “immigrant” workers, were actually non-citizens.

The official national unemployment figure given monthly by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is now listed at 9.4 percent, but represents only those Americans currently receiving unemployment checks, and is not truly indicative of the dire employment situation now facing the U.S.

When we account for those who are no longer eligible for benefits as well as for those who are now only working part-time, the actual unemployment number is around 20 percent.

In 1931, the second full year of the Great Depression, the average rate of unemployment was 16.3 percent, with U.S. unemployment peaking at 25 percent in 1933. We now sit in between those two disastrous figures, with an ever-worsening economy.

    With U.S. unemployment now at depression levels, we simply can no longer tolerate an illegal alien population numbering in the tens of millions.

This problem cannot be fixed with more useless so-called Stimulus bills which do nothing more than increase the national debt.  Nor, do American workers need handouts, we simply need jobs, and those jobs will not be forthcoming as long as illegal aliens are doing them.

We must demand that our elected officials order the immediate removal of all illegal aliens, place our military along the Mexican border, vastly increase interior enforcement, and enact mandatory prison sentences for those who hire illegal aliens.

With 1 in 5 Americans out of work, we simply cannot afford to allow one job go to an illegal alien. The issue of illegal immigration is now a fight for the survival of the American family.

As I always say…For every illegal alien with a job, there is an American without one.

Dave Gibson, Immigration Reform Examiner
Dave Gibson, a former legislative aide to a state senator, has been working as a freelance writer for many years.

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Domestic Violence as Grounds for Asylum in the U.S.?

Domestic Violence as Grounds for Asylum in the U.S.?

If domestic violence becomes acceptable grounds for the US to grant asylum, this nation is doomed!

Sure, it would be nice if the United States had the capacity to intervene to make every person on the planet happy; keep everyone’s stomach full; have all children eating nutritious meals as they march off to school; provide a nice job for anybody who felt like working; offer a nice house with a white picket fence around it; and, prevent anything bad from happening to anybody, anywhere.

WAKE UP!  We cannot take care of our own homeless people; our police can barely respond to our own cases of domestic violence; we can barely feed our own hungry; our infrastructure is collapsing all around us; and our kids are getting dumber every year, thanks to a faltering public school system.

America is not suffering from a lack of people.  We have plenty of people, skilled and unskilled.  We really don’t need any new immigrants to fill job slots, pick grapes, become scientists, doctors or work in our factories.

What we need is a reality check!  Look around.  The factories are gone.  The stores are closing.  Foreclosures and backruptcies are taking people’s homes and businesses daily.

We need an administration that can face up to these facts and start making hard decisions.  We need to end all government programs that encourage people to stay on welfare and unemployment.  Yes, we have a shortage of jobs, but, certainly, no shortage of work that needs to be done.

It’s time to hand out brooms, picks and shovels to the unemployed and give them the opportunity to help rebuild our country, starting with cleaning up our inner cities and rebuilding our roads and bridges.  In the process, we might also teach this generation about pride in accomplishment.

Yes, I am sorry that some lady from Mexico gets beaten up by her husband.  But it’s not my problem.  My problem is my fellow Americans who need help evey bit as much as people from other countries.

So let Mexico handle its own cases of domestic abuse while we tend to our people.  Seem fair?  Then call your Congressman today and tell him to strongly oppose any attempts by this Administration to dissolve what is left of our national borders.

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Border Alert – Hezbollah Support Structure Broken Up By Mexican Authorities

July 7, 2010 – San Francisco, CA – PipeLineNew.org – Demonstrating the necessity of sealing the United States’ Southern border is news reported by the Kuwait based al-Sayassah newspaper, detailing a successful move by Mexican security officials to break up a sophisticated Hezbollah support network operating out of the troubled country. The plot was led by Jameel Nasr, a frequent visitor to Lebanon, who was arrested at his residence in Tijuana. [source, Jack Khoury, Mexico thwarts Hezbollah bid to set up South American network, Haaretz, July 7, 1010, http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/mexico-thwarts-hezbollah-bid-to-set-up-south-american-network-1.300360].

U.S. based national security researchers have long noted the increasing presence of Iran’s proxy army Hezbollah in Latin and South America, especially in Hugo Chavez’ Venezuela. In one of many articles appearing about this matter on these pages, in April we noted: “According to a just released DOD report made available to Congress, the al-Quds force, the elite core of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, has markedly strengthened its position in the Venezuelan stronghold of dictator Hugo Chavez. Al-Quds has been deeply involved in Islamic terrorism for decades including the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut and the 1996 bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, which was home to many American defense workers in the region.  [source, Pentagon Study Sounds Alarm - Iranian Al-Quds Force Presence in Venezuela Increasing, PipeLineNews.org, April 21, 2010].

Earlier this year Representative Sue Myrick [R, NC] warned of the increasing relationship between Hugo Chavez and Iran.

“US Representative Sue Myrick (NC-09) today released a video about the need for the State Department to designate Venezuela as a Special Interest Country, and the importance of securing our borders. Rep. Myrick has also signed on as a co-sponsor of House Resolution 872, which calls for Venezuela to be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism for its support of Iran, Hezbollah, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC).” [source, Myrick Releases Video On Designating Venezuela As A Special Interest Country, http://myrick.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=22§iontree=21,22&itemid=401].

The danger represented the establishment of a Hezbollah beachhead South of the border, further complicates team Obama’s representation that the border is more secure than ever and the corollary claim that illegal immigration is all about poverty stricken Mexicans fleeing to the U.S. in search of work that Americans won’t do.  It seems that in its haste to compartmentalize this thoroughly politicized issue, the administration is ignoring the significant national security threat posed by a border which is porous to Islamist operatives funded by one of the world’s chief exporters of terrorism, Iran.
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Hiding in the Shadows No More

Today’s illegal aliens aren’t hiding in the shadows. They’re activists, campaigning for candidates, illegally registering and voting elections; and taking over our universities, poisoning the minds of their classmates.

The Collegian ( California State Universty (CSU) at Fresno) newspaper recently reported what appears to be a blatant example of what is wrong both with our immigration policies and our universities, especially in California!

A student journalist, Michael Kincheloe, has shown the courage to be a great reporter. He told the truth about one of his classmates. Will he get a Pulitzer or get shunned by the media elites?

ASI PRESIDENT RAMIREZ THREATENS RESIGNATION AT SENATE – The Collegian

By Michael Kincheloe January 28, 2011

Associated Students, Inc. President Pedro Ramirez (an illegal alien) was once again the main topic of discussion at Wednesday’s ASI meeting. Ramirez revealed that he may resign from office if surgery is necessary for an eye injury that he received in a traffic accident on Jan. 9.

Formal reviews had been scheduled for the offices of Ramirez and Vice President of Finance Cesar Sanchez, but the actions were postponed by the student senate after the American Civil Liberties Union questioned the legality of the process.

With a number of media present, attendance was standing-room only. The public comment session occasionally became raucous, with Fresno State senior Neil O’Brien speaking first.

O’Brien has paperwork verifying that a Pedro Ramirez with the same birth date and address as the ASI president is registered to vote in Tulare County. “Illegally registering to vote is, I believe, a federal offense,” O’Brien said, “which I believe is a felony.”

Federal laws authorize the prosecution of non-citizens for registering and voting in elections. Aliens can be prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. § 1015(f), which criminalizes making a false statement or claim about citizenship “in order to register to vote or to vote in any Federal, State, or local election (including an initiative, recall, or referendum),” and under 18 U.S.C. § 911, which prohibits making a false claim of citizenship. The penalty can be a fine, imprisonment not more than five years or both.

Yes, this is what is happening today on our college campuses. Illegal aliens are getting into college; are getting preferential tuition rates in many states; and you, the dumb taxpayer, are subsidizing all of this nonsense, even though your own kids cannot afford to go to college!

Angry? I hope so because if America doesn’t wake up soon … it will be too late!

Want to do something about this?

Call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and ask them what they are doing about this. I.C.E.: 1(866)347-2423

Then call CSU-Fresno President, Dr. John Welty; let him know that he has been reported to I.C.E. for “aiding and abetting” an illegal alien, and that you hope he goes to jail for it. That number is 559.278.2324

Then you might want to call President Obama and tell him he really doesn’t have to keep worrying about those poor illegal aliens who are “hiding in the shadows.” They’re out and doing a lot better than many Americans, thanks to his insane immigration policies.

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California Assemblyman Introduces Arizona-type Bill

Is there hope for California? Perhaps so. Hats off to Tim Donnelly for stepping up to the plate! We need more assemblymen like Tim. If you’re a Californian, call your assemblyman today and have him sign on to the bill.

Dee Wilson

Amplify’d from www.ocregister.com

California lawmaker has introduced a bill similar to Arizona’s tough anti-illegal immigration law, according to news reports.

The measure by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, would make it a crime in California to be in the country illegally, according to FoxNews.com.

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Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, has introduced a bill that is similar to Arizona’s SB1070. Donnelly is pictured here with Arizona’s controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
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The freshman assemblyman, who calls himself a minuteman from San Bernardino County, had pledged to introduce a bill similar to Arizona’s SB1070. However, some analysts have said that AB 26 is unlikely to go far in a heavily Democrat-controlled Assembly, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The bill would end “sanctuary cities” and require all employers to use E-Verify, a free, federal program that is Internet-based and allows employers to check the eligibility of employees to work in the United States, according to assemblyman’s website.

The bill would also make it a misdemeanor to be in the country illegally and increase the penalty for those convicted of trafficking people into California for the purpose of sex slavery, according to news reports.

Read more at www.ocregister.com

 
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Global Warming?

Hey Sen. Gore, how’s global warming business these days? I imagine this 30-state blizzard and the deep freeze throughout the northern half of the nation is having a chilling effect on your credibility. Yes, it’s way off-topic but I am hoping it will warm your heart on this cold winter’s night. : ) http://bit.ly/gSJqgs

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