Kenders' Musings

There have been some interesting new developments in the case of the Americans at Pulacharke. The first and the most important one is–that Ed Caraballo was released and walked out of Pulacharke on Sunday afternoon at about 3:00 pm. He went directly to the airport and was sent home. Today, he is here in the United States and is home. So there is one small victory here; one of the Americans was set free.

Another interesting development in this weird saga is the fact that Tolo TV (Afghan News) and many other reports out of Southeast Asia reported that Jack and Brent were also released, which is not the case. They had to back pedal a little bit, because they fully expected Jack and Brent to walk out of Pulacharke at the same time that Ed did. That didn’t happen.

Now I’m not sure of the specifics of the agreement under which Ed left Pulacharke, because I don’t trust the media to tell the truth. Already I’ve noticed some of the obvious spin in the media with regard to their reporting of Ed’s release.

Here are just a few examples.

He said he was freed two months early under a decree issued by the Afghan government for prisoners with less than 12 months left on their sentences.

That’s quite an interesting sentence, because the fact is…the decree issued by the Afghan government for ‘amnesty’ involves terrible crimes, none of which were the crimes that Ed was charged with. In addition, Ed had a longer time to serve even with his reduced sentence than a mere 12 months. So something is quite wrong with this reporting.

Let’s take a look at another one.

He has consistently denied being an active member of Idema’s group and said he believed he was chronicling a legitimate counterterrorism operation when he was arrested.

This is cleverly written, insinuating that Jack’s operation was not legitimate. Apparently people are depending upon what. The denials coming out of Washington, or the lies of known terrorists or Taliban-lovers like Karzai who is releasing and “forgiving” about 200 of them per month? And people wonder why we’re having trouble with the Taliban again. Puhleez.

Parliament signed a release order for all of the members of Task Force Saber, but Karzai required that Jack sign a similar Amnesty agreement as they had offered him three times previously. Jack refused. Then Parliament decided to just release them on Mujahadeen Day (April 28th), the day of Afghan Holy Warriors. The US Embassy promptly stepped in and started lodging “informal” objections to a declaration of innocence, claiming they are all ‘guilty’. Then the Ministry of Justice ordered them all released Sunday morning.

So far it is only confirmed that Caraballo left, and it is confirmed he is home now in the United States.

For those that say they were “convicted” in a “court of law,” just respond with this:

• No sworn witnesses,
• no evidence presented,
• only newspapers articles used as evidence against them,
• no cross-examination,
• a trial which was barely translated with always incorrect translation,
• the defense statement was stopped after ten minutes,
• both defense attorneys were threatened with arrest if they tried to present evidence of actual innocence or complain about the lack of legal rights,
• Afghan lawyers for Bennett and Banderas were threatened with arrest and death if they attempted to defend their clients,
• and only one person in the trial gave a statement under oath (on the Koran), and that was Jack Idema.

And lawyers against Idema in US civil cases are saying they were “convicted by a fair trial”. HA!

Anybody read the applicable Afghan law lately? Well here it is!

Afghan Laws:

RIGHT TO HAVE AN ATTORNEY PRESENT WHEN BEING QUESTIONED.

Att. 38 Interim Criminal Code for Courts (Defence Counsel Presence)

1. The defence counsel has the right to be present at all times during the interrogation of the suspect.

2. The suspect and the defence counsel have the right to be present during searches, confrontations, line-up procedures and expert examinations as well as during the trial.

3. In the investigation phase the Saranwal and the judicial police shall notify the suspect and his defence counsel of searches, confrontations, line-up procedures and expert examinations in order to allow them to be present. This duty can be waived only when there is an urgent need to conduct the said operations, which is defined as when it is a flrgrante delicto crime or there is a fear of the loss of evidential facts.

This most certainly was denied them, because their attorneys didn’t show up until mid-August and they were detained on July 6.

RIGHT TO ABSTAIN FROM MAKING INCRIMINATING STATEMENTS.

Art. 30 Afghan Constitution (Chatper 2, Art. 9) para. 21: Confession to a crime is: a voluntary confession before an authorised court by an accused in a sound state of mind; Art. 5 Interim Criminal Code for Courts (Suspect and Accused):

Art. 30 Afghan Constitution (Chatper 2, Art. 9) para 6. The suspect and the accused have the right to abstain from making any statement even when they are questioned by the relevant police or judicial authorities;

They were tortured in order to extract self-incriminating statements, so this was denied them, also.

RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT.

7. The police, the Saranwal and the Court are duty bound to clearly inform the suspect and the accused before interrogation and at the time of arrest about his or her right to remain silent, right to representation at all times by defense counsel, and right to be present during searches, line-ups, expert examinations and trial;

Art. 53 Interim Criminal Code for Courts, Item 3g: g. The accused can testify if he does not avail himself of the right to remain silent and the accused or his defense counsel can ask questions to the witnesses and the experts;

This was denied them, ask anyone who listened to Ezmerai’s screams on the streets of Kabul as he was being electrocuted.

RIGHT TO COUNSEL.

Art. 31 Afghan Constitution (Chapter 2, Art. 10) para. 1: Every person upon arrest can seek an advocate to defend his rights or to defend his case for which he is accused under the law. para. 2: the accusation and to be summoned to the court within the limits determined by law. para. 3: In criminal cases, the state shall appoint an advocate for a destitute.

Art. 11 Law on the Structure and Competencies of Courts: Every person upon arrest has the right to appoint a defence counsel to defend himself in regard of the accusation and evidence against him. In criminal cases a defense counsel shall be appoint3ed for destitute persons according to the provision on law;

Bennett’s attorney was threatened to be killed if she went ahead and represented him; etc.

RIGHT TO DEFENDANT/ATTORNEY CONFIDENTIALITY.

Art. 31 Afghan Constitution (Chatper 2, Art. 10) para. 4: The confidentiality of oral, written or telephonic communications between an advocate and his accused client are immune from invasion.

This one is a laugh, since the mail embargo, etc..

RIGHT TO HAVE COUNSEL APPOINTED IF UNABLE TO PAY.

Art 19 Interim Criminal for Courts (Legal Aid) 1. The suspect or the accused financiallly unable to appoint a defense attorney is entitled to have a free defence attorney appointed for him or her in the following manner: a. The investigatin Saranwal or the Court adjudicating the case, on the petition of the person, appoints a defence attorney for the destitute person from amongst the lawyers officially permitted to wok as defence attorney. b. The person for whom an attorney has been appointed reserves the right not to accept the appointed defence attorney and to defend himself in person. c. The fees of the aforesaid attorney shall be paid from the State budget and its extenet shall be fixed by regulation.

RIGHT TO HAVE IMPROPERLY COLLECTED TESTIMONY OR EVIDENCE INVALIDATED.

Article 29 of Afghan Constitution, Para. 1: Any statement, testimony, or confession obtained form an accused or of another person by means of compulsion, is invalid; para 2: Confession to a crime is: a voluntary confession before an authorized court by an accused in a sound state of mind; Interim Criminal Code for Courts, article 5: Their (Suspect and Accused) statements shall be made in condition of absolute moral freedom;

This didn’t happen…

RIGHT TO LAWFUL HANDLING AND COLLECTION OF EVIDENCE.

Art. 7 Interim Criminal Code for Courts; The evidence which has been collected without respect of the legal requirements indicated in the law is considered invalid, and the Court cannot base its judgment on it; Art. 30 Afghan Constitution (Chapter 2, Art. 9) para. 1: Any statement, testimony, or confession obtained from an accused or of another person by means of compulsion, is invalid;

The evidence was stolen from the evidence room and at one point, part of it was returned -destroyed and edited–in front of the MSM and the court, yet nobody reported a word of this.

RIGHT TO TIMELY NOTIFICATION OF CHARGES.

Art 42. Interim Criminal Code for Courts (Preparation of the Trial) 2. The deed concerning the commencement of trial shall fcontain the name of the accused and the indication of the alleged crime with its factual circumstances in reference to the related law provisions and shall be served in the accused and his defence counsel; the victim and the Saranwal at least five days in advance;

Perhaps the charges were told to them when they were playing ‘dance with the scorpion’.

RIGHT TO ACCESS EVIDENCE.

Art 43. Interim Criminal Code for Courts (Access of the Accused to the Findings of the Investigation) 1. The accused and his defence counsel are eneitled to examine the documents contained int he file mentioned in the last paragraph of article 39 (act of indictment, file containing all the deeds formed during the investigations) and the objects under seizure.

Again, this one is a joke considering the house in Kabul was completely cleared out of computers, tapes, and film that could have been used as evidence to support their defense.

RIGHT TO BE PRESENT AT ALL CASE HEARINGS.

Art. 53 Interim Criminal Code for Courts (Conduct of the Hearing) Item 2. The accused and his defence counsel have the right to be present.

3. The Court proceedings are conducted according to following order; a. At the opening of the hearing the Court reads out the act of indictment; (…) g. The accused can testify if he does not avail himself to the right to remain silent and the accused or his defence counsel can ask questions to the witnesses and experts; i. The primary Saranwal and the defence lawyer can ask questions of the accused.

Didn’t happen.

RIGHT TO ADEQUATE TIME TO PREPARE DEFENCE.

Art. 56 Interim Criminal Code for Courts (Concurrent Crimes and Circumstances) 1. If from the deeds of the investigations or during the trial it results that there are alleged additional crimes and/or facts contributing as aggravating circumstances which have not been incluced in the act of indictment, the Court, at the request of the Primary Saranwal, makes the related accusation to the accused and/or to his defence counsel, when present, giving them adequate time to prepare the defence.

Didn’t happen…they were scrambling to put their case together when their evidence was stolen, and the lawyers showed up over a month after their arrest.

RIGHT TO CALL WITNESSES.

Art 51 Interim Code for Courts (Admission of Witnesses and Experts) 1. The Primary Saranwal submits to the Court the list of the witnesses and experts he wants to be heard together with the act of indictment, indicating the reasons of the relevance of their testimony and exams. 2. The accused and/or his defence counsel have the right to present their own lists of witnesses and experts indicating the reasons of the relevance of their testimony and exams. 3. The Court can exclude those witnesses or experts that in its view do not appear material for the adjudication of the case.

Weren’t allowed to call witnesses.

RIGHT TO BE PRESENT DURING DEPOSITIONS.

Art. 55 Interim Criminal Coce for Courts (Evidentiary Value of Investigative Activities)

1. The reocrs of the testimonies of the witnesses as well as of the expert exam, collected during the investigative phase, can have the value of evidence as basis for the decision only if it results that the accused and/or his defence counsel were present during the operations and were in a position to raise questions and make objections.

2. Otherwise the related deeds have the sole value of clues.

RIGHT TO CONFRONT AND QUESTION ACCUSORS.

Art 14 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: 3. In the determination of any criminal charge against him, everyone shall be entitled to the following minimum guarantees, in full equality: (e) To examine, or have examined, the witnesses against him and to obtain the attendance and examination of witnesses on his behalf under the same conditions as witnesses against him;

Art 31 Afghan Constitution (Chapter 2, Art 10) para. 2: The accused upon arrest has the right to be informed of the attributed accusation and to be summoned to the court within the limits determined by law.

RIGHT TO HAVE ADEQUATE TRANSLATIONS.

Art 135 Afghan Constitution (Chapter 7, Art. 20): If parties involved in a case do not know the language in which the trial is conducted, they have the right to understand the material and documents related to the case through an interpreter and the right to speak in their mother language in the court.

Art 20 Interim Criminal Code for Courts (Interpreter) 1. The suspect or the accused who does not know the language used during the investigations and the trials or who is deaf, dumb or deaf and dumb shall be given an interpreter for, at least, explaining to him the charge and the indictment and for assisting him during the interrogations and confrontations. Art 14 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

3. In the determination of any criminal charge against him, everyone shall be entitled to the following minimum guarantees, in full equality: a. To be informed promptly and in detail in a language which he understands of the nature and cause of the cahrge against him; f. To have the free assistance of an interpreter if he cannot understand or speak the language used in court;

And that is AFGHAN LAW. Should I continue with the Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Manual and the Policy Defining FAM as the documentary and evidentiary basis for all State Department operations? Perhaps I will, in another post, for simpletons like Kathryn Cramer, who in my opinion, doesn’t take a ‘deep dive’ on anything and would prefer instead the Dr. Suess version.

Clearly if you have any of this documentation sitting in front of you and have knowledge of what happened in this case (like a lot of the journalists who had front row seats and paid to see the court documents when that privilege was denied the defense), you would know that policy, procedure and law (Afghan and American and International) were completely thrown out the window in the case of Jack Idema and the other two Americans, Brent Bennett and Ed Caraballo. So if that is the case, then under what Afghan law were they declared guilty when the evidence was stolen, they didn’t have representation until mid-August, and were immediately tortured upon their ‘arrest’–and they had a soviet interpreter and didn’t understand what was going on half the time, the interpreter was intentionally mis-interpreting what was being said and interjecting his own bias into the proceedings, and the sitting judges were members of the Taliban–ideological brothers to the terrorists the Americans supposedly tortured– that were set free and who later participated in a bombing at Bagram AFB?

None of the terrorists who claimed they were ‘hung from the ceiling’ in the ‘basement’ - ever swore on the Koran, and any muslim knows that means they were lying.

And here’s more proof of that:

Actually, Cao, you might be the first person to be able to wade through the bullshit and publish the facts. They were terrorists, they got caught, Idema caught them, and then they lied. Like, here’s a good one: the terrorists were supposed to be hanging upside down in a basement. Problem was there was no basement in the house, I know, I sent a team there to photograph it. Nor has ONE piece of evidence ever been shown against them- Just anonymous sources who have all either dissapeared or been identified, and now fired.

Good job, keep it up, and never let them see you sweat.

Comment by Command Sergeant Major Donald

So for the people who are stupid enough to say something like “The Superpatriots were convicted under Afghan law…” Puhleez. Stick a sock in it.

We will continue to blog about this until their release, and I have some definite questions to ask the American government and the people involved, how this could have ever have happened to Americans in a foreign country to begin with.

The most important thing we should push for is a CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION.

So what can we do? Well, anyone reading this with their own blog can sign up for the weekly Free Jack Idema Blogburst by emailing Cao or Rottweiler Puppy for details. I’d urge everyone to do this, as we’re still terribly short on takers. If you want to know more about the story, Cao’s Blog has a large section devoted to Jack Idema. There’s also a timeline here, and, of course, a huge amount of information is available over at SuperPatriots, without whose work none of us would have learned about Jack’s story.

You can also contact the following people and make your feelings known:

Secret US EMBASSY Fax: – 301-560-5729 (Local US Fax: Goes RIGHT TO Ambassador)
c/o US Ambassador Ronald Neuman
6180 Kabul Place
Dulles, VA 20189-6180

US Consul Russell Brown – 011-93-70201908 (Fired)

US Consul Addie Harchik- 011-93-70201908 (denied them water and mail at Thanksgiving)

US Embassy Translator Wahid – new – 011-93-70201902

US Embassy Translator Bashir Momman– 011-93-70201923

US Consul (friend of Jack’s Now fired) Dawn Schrepel– 011-93-70201908

Embassy of Afghanistan (Good guys, Northern Alliance)
2341 Wyoming Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Ph: 202-483-6410, Fax: no. 202-483-6488

Ambassador Massoud Khalili (wounded with Massoud)
Islamic State of Afghanistan
Embassy of Afghanistan
New Delhi, India

H.E. Said Tayeb JAWAD (Afghan Ambassador- powerful in US)
Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington
2341 Wyoming Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008
Tel: (+1-202) 483 6414
Fax: (+1-202) 483 9523

Mr. Jahed Hamrah, Consul General (pro-Taliban)
CONSULATE GENERAL OF
AFGHANISTAN IN NEW YORK
360 Lexington Avenue,
11th Floor New York,
New, York, NY 10017
Tel.: (+1-212) 972 2276 or 972 2277
Fax: (+1-212) 972 9046

Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense
1000 Defense Pentagon – Room # 3E880
Washington, DC 20301-1000
Ph: (703) 692-7100
Fax: (703) 697-9080

Lt General William Boykin
Deputy Undersecretary
of Defense for Intelligence
1800 Defense Pentagon – Room # 3E836
Washington, DC 20301
Ph: (703) 697-0170
Private Fax: (703) 697-9080

Stephen Cambone
Principle Deputy Secretary for Intelligence
1800 Defense Pentagon – Room # 3E
Washington, DC 20310-0100

General Peter J. Shoomaker
Chief of Staff, Department of the Army
200 Army Pentagon – Room # 3E528
Washington, DC 20310-0200
Ph: (703) 695-2077 / Fax: (703) 614-5268

The Honorable John D. Negroponte
Director National Intelligence
New Executive Office Building
725 17th Street, N.W., Room 4203
Washington, DC 20503

The Committee
On Homeland Security
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515

Chairman Peter Hoekstra
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
H-405, U.S. Capitol
Washington, DC 20515-6415;
Office: (202) 225-4121 / Fax: (202) 225-1991
Toll Free: (877) 858-9040

M. Cherif BASSIOUNI
Independent Expert of the Commission on Human Rights
On the Situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
UNOG-OHCHR
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Ph: +41(0)22 917 97 27 Fax: +41(0)22 917 90 18
Email

Senator Steven Saland (Jack’s Rep and Neighbor)
9 Jonathan Lane
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603

Senator Elizabeth Dole (Jack’s Rep)
United States Senate
310 New Bern Avenue, Suite 122
Raleigh, NC 27601
Ph: 919.856.4630
Fax: 919.856.4053

Senator Elizabeth Dole (Jack’s Rep)
United States Senate
555 Dirksen Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Ph: 202.224.6342
Fax: 202.224.1100

Senator Richard Burr (of Interest)
United States Senate
217 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-3154 / Fax: (202) 228-2981

Senator Bill Nelson (in the fight on Jack’s Side)
United States Senate
Hart Senate Office Building
Room 716
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-5274 / Fax: 202-228-2183
FL Fax 407-872-7165

Senator Dianne Feinstein (Bennett’s Representative)
United States Senate
Hart Office Building, Room 331
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-3841

Representative Mike McIntyre (Jack’s Representative)
United States Congress
2437 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2731 / Fax (202) 225-5773

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (reference Captain Bennett- CA citizen)
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841 / Fax: 916-445-4633

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My, wasn't that a big barrel of fun?

All that marching, and demanding, and threatening, and cajoling....but what did you accomplish today?

The streets were still packed with people out working, the DMV was packed to the gills (I know...I went by there), the stores were open, and the economy clicked away like always...only my local Jack in the Box wasn't open, and the only people that were hurt by that were the whiny little punk ass kids that took the day off for "la revolucion", and lost themselves a day of pay.

Your marches in our streets simply made our case for us, and it allowed us to get the word out that you are liars and thieves, and that this issue is about people obeying the law.....we aren't taking any rights away from any one by demanding that people follow the law....THAT is what a society DOES....

But thank you for marching and proving our point.....I can't wait to see what kind of reaction your march on DC elicits....

Did you know that I heard a blurb on the news that today taxpayers in California posted taxes that were well above what was expected?

I will have more on that later, but the point is that on the very day you march to close down our (that is "our" as in yours and mine) economy, record tax receipts are reported....

That is called "irony", and it is a word that you should look up, because it is also ironic that the very thing you are marching for is something that you already have if you belong here, and is something you need to EARN by coming here LEGALLY if you don't belong here, and the irony is in the fact that the louder you make demands, the madder the citizens of America get, and the sooner you will be sent packing to where you started out from, and if you whine loudly enough, we will take away your ability to even come back for a legal try, because AMERICA HATES A WHINER!!!!!

We don't need any more whiners....we have Streisand.....

We have the right to secure our border!!!!

We have a right to know just who is living and working in our country!!!!

We have a right to demand to you follow the rules to come here, and while you are here!!!

We have a right to kick you out if you are not here by our leave!!!!

We are the Citizens of The United States of America!!!!

I asked a cop yesterday what the plan was for today, May 1st regarding the planned criminal alien action and their wishes to disrupt the the very country that purport to love.

He said he was gonna go out and buy a plasma screen TV, and that it was a mandatory work day and everybody had to be in to work today. When I asked him if he had heard anything about ICE wandering around at the edges of the city mustering manpower and resources he just smiled and shrugged and said "I can't wait to see what happens."

This should be good.

BLOGGER REACTION TO MAY 1 - A DAY WITHOUT LATINOS

By Heidi at Euphoric Reality

Today is the much ballyhooed Day Without Latinos......otherwise known as Nothing Gringo Day...officially (yes, as in politically-official) known as the Great American Boycott of 2006: No Shopping, No School, No Work.

Amboy Times has some helpful advice for the title of these strikes/boycotts/stick-it-in your-eye rallies: "I recommend a less confrontational title, perhaps 'Bite The Hand That Feeds You Day' or how about boycotting all the free medical care, schools, and other government services? They could call it 'No Payroll Taxation Means No Government benefits Day' - hmm...a bit wordy, that one...”

Whatever the name, illegal aliens (presumably of Latino descent only, since this is all about THEM, nevermind the hundreds of thousands of illegals from Ireland, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, etc.) intend to show us that THEY are the engine that drives the American economy. They hope to wreak havoc on our economy to prove that we can never live a day without them because "THEY are America."

Pro-immigration activists say a nationwide boycott and marches planned for May 1 will flood Americas's streets with millions of Latinos to demand amnesty for illegal immigrants and shake the ground under Congress as it tackles reform.
[...]
"There will be 2 to 3 million people hitting the streets in Los Angeles alone. We're going to close down Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Tucson, Phoenix, Fresno," said Jorge Rodriguez, a union official who helped organize earlier rallies credited with rattling Congress as it debates the issue.

Organizers of the May Day marches, which have strong support from big labor and the Roman Catholic church, vow that America's major cities will grind to a halt and its economy will stagger as Latinos walk off their jobs and skip school.

Various city leaders, contrary to their appointed duties, are having the opposite kind of reaction you'd expect. In the spirit of truly compassionate sycophants, they plan to aid and abet the lawbreakers:

Teachers' unions in major cities have said children should not be punished for walking out of class. A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Unified School District said school principals had been told that they should not try to keep students in class but instead should walk with the children to help keep order.

In Chicago, Catholic priests have helped organize protests, sending information to all 375 parishes in the archdiocese.

Personally, while I don't like it, I have to thank them for spitting in America's face over and over. That bitter froth is starting to wake up the apathetic to just how wrong everything is. As Right As Usual points out: "The more the Aliens gain 'strength', the more natives get their backs up. Take a hint, Pedro - you DON'T have the right to petition the government - it isn't YOUR government. That's a right granted to CITIZENS of the USA."

BobGriggs.com voices the sentiment of an ever-growing contingent of appalled Americans:

"I have finally reached the boiling point on illegal immigration. We are a nation of laws, including those that control how visitors can enter this country, how long they can stay and how they can become permanent citizens. I expect those visitors to obey the same laws that citizens are expected to follow; and I expect my government to enforce the law when those visitors choose to ignore it.

It’s bad enough when the invaders (and that’s what they are) sneak across the border by night, then hide in the undocumented crevices of society. It is quite another thing to then demand, by the light of day, that their lawlessness be excused. Such have been the marches staged across the nation and in my Capitol– thousands of lawbreakers protesting my representatives’ efforts to control our borders and stop the lawlessness.

It angers me when the interlopers so brazenly demand the protection of the same law that they flaunted with their very first steps on American soil. My blood boiled as I watched student illegals skip the classes that you and I paid for to protest that you and I aren’t doing enough. I fumed as I watched illegals, waving the Mexican flag, insist that I 'treat them like Americans'.”

Kit at Euphoric Reality reports that Tulsa is planning a HUGE rally for immigrants where cooperation with the masses and the enabling of lawbreakers is the order of the day. Event organizers, having learned from previous rallies that defiant Mexican flag-waving is counter-productive to their claims that "We are Americans, too", has urged participants to only carry U.S. flags and "wear white as a symbol of hope". They are also referring to their movement as A Day Without Immigrants. Yes, yet another rally nickname, but this one apparently aims to be more generically "inclusive".

...CSA (American Dream Coalition, or Coalicion del Sueño Americano) President, Rev. Victor Orta II, said that arrangements had been made with Tulsa Public Schools, Broken Arrow Schools, and Union School District for high school students to be allowed to leave at 1:30 p.m. in order to give parents the opportunity to take their children to the rally if they wish.
....
Orta also wished to dispel rumors in Tulsa's Latino community that the Tulsa Police Department (TPD) is planning on using the event as a way to corral undocumented individuals, or that federal immigration officers would be undercover at the rally.

"I spoke personally with [acting Police Chief] Bill Wells," Orta said, "and he assured me that a policy was established several years ago that 'no officer of ours is allowed to ask anyone for immigration papers, and that policy has not changed'."

Orta described his discussions as being "very positive," adding that [Police Chief] Wells will be a podium guest and possibly a speaker at the rally, and the only police presence at the May 1 event is to be for security reasons. Orta is scheduled to meet with Sheriff Stanley Glanz this week to work out similar arrangements with county officers.

Tulsa Community College (TCC) has volunteered the free use of its downtown parking lots for rally attendees in another sign of the cooperative spirit many organizations in the community are showing in what is seen as perhaps the most critical time in the history of Latino immigration.

Whoops - there it is again - Latinos only, I guess. It is all about THEM, after all. Fortunately, contradicting Reverend Orta's assurances, an eyewitness trucker one hour south of Tulsa reported seeing 30 ICE vehicles and approximately 10 white government buses heading north toward the city tonight. Are the government vehicles carrying refreshments for the rallying masses or dare we hope that our government has plans to do the right thing?

Similarly, Right on the Right wonders if something is brewing in LA. Another eyewitness spotted something hopeful - go here to find out what he saw - and approached an officer:

"I asked one of the deputies what the deal was, and he said 'The deal with what? I don't see anything.'

This boycott tomorrow in L.A. is going to get very interesting. Did anyone else notice that the cops are being really nice in helping to block off streets and herd people into certain areas? The planned route down Wilshire from MacArthur park to La Brea is easily an area that could be cordoned off with the right amount of troops and some strategic planning.

Viva La Revolucion my ass!!!!"

One has to wonder if anyone has remembered to tell the California legislators that they're coddling a huge mass of people who are lawbreakers to a man! They seem to have forgotten that laws are meant to be followed, and instead they are busy issuing obsequious statements of support.

Pamibe reports that "California’s state senators on Thursday endorsed Monday’s boycott of schools, jobs and stores by illegal immigrants and their allies as supporters equated the protest with great social movements in American history:

By a 24-13 vote that split along party lines, the California Senate approved a resolution that calls the one-day protest the Great American Boycott 2006 and describes it as an attempt to educate Americans “about the tremendous contribution immigrants make on a daily basis to our society and economy.”

So I have to ask the obvious: with civic leaders, law enforcement officers, and lawmakers like that, who needs laws??? Apparently, not America.

Make no mistake, the immigration reform being debated endlessly in the Senate is NOT what the illegals really want. It's too complicated, too much work, and will cost a fine – so forget that! Besides, if they cared so much about citizenship, they'd have at least started paperwork somewhere. Remember the illegals I interviewed during the last pro-illegal rally? None of them in 5, 10, or 15 years had ever bothered to apply for citizenship. Too hard, too much work. And why bother - when they get what they want without it?! American citizenship is NOT what really matters to illegal aliens. What is sacred and meaningful to true Americans is nothing more, to them, than convenient access to the world's largest labor market. That's it.

But nevermind, because "earned citizenship", as President Bush cozily calls it, will not cut it anyways. Illegal aliens and their advocates don't have any intention of settling for having to earn their way, no matter how easy the Senate reform may make it for them. They want ever-so-much MORE than that!

"We want full amnesty, full legalization for anybody who is here (illegally)," Rodriguez said. "That is the message that is going to be played out across the country on May 1."

Ace In The Hole acknowledges the blatant slap in the face:

"And so it goes... Want in one hand and SPIT in the other...

If our politicians and lawmakers want to keep their jobs, they'd better remember THIS: there's a hell of a lot more than 12 million AMERICANS that ARE here legally, and we VOTE...

Short of taking to the street and engaging in ARMED confrontation, the voting booth is our ONLY option, but something else the politicians had better consider, there are MANY Americans, right now, that are armed and ready, this nation is on the verge of open hostilities, armed conflict committed by our CITIZENS against ILLEGAL INVADERS, and I can't say that this is at all an unimaginable option to be honest about it...

IF the PRESIDENT of the USA would do his job, instead of kissing every Mexican ass he can find, this could ALL be avoided...

Close the border, deport the ILLEGAL INVADERS and restore order to this nation... Wake up President Bush, YOU are personally destroying the southwestern United States with YOUR inaction and incompetent administration of this nation...

Mr. Bush had better decide which side of this fight he's on, because at the moment, it appears he's damn sure on the side of the Mexicans and IF the voters of the USA have ANY sense at all, we will vote OUT any politician that supports Mr. Bush on this amnesty debacle, no matter WHICH party they belong to..."

Frustration with our do-nothing government abounds. Publius Rendezvous states: "The debates within our Senate pertaining to illegal immigration do nothing but illustrate what many have ascertained for quite some time - our Senators know how we feel on this issue, but have blatantly ignored our concerns. What has been glossed over by our 'thorough' MSM is that Congress' approval ratings are worse than President Bush's. And, I assert that their utter disregard for our sentiments directly correlates with such."

AmboyTimes asks: "So what can a poor gringo do? How about 'Nothing Mexican Day'? ...Our leaders in government may be spineless, but we still have control over our own spending, and we can send a message to illegals and the Mexican government that we're not going to take this lying down. There is no reason why this won't work, and we can do it (si ,se puede) without protesting, breaking laws, race-baiting or even calling names."
BobGriggs.com has taken that concept even further and suggests 'Nothing Mexican on Cinco de Mayo'. As seen on Fox and Friends: "This year, Cinco de Mayo will be a celebration of my hope that America will repulse the current invasion of illegal aliens. I will not patronize my favorite Mexican restaurant nor any other Hispanic-owned or “Mexican-themed” business on May 5 or the week thereafter. Neither will I employ the services of any company that I know to employ illegal aliens. If you feel as frustrated and as voiceless as I do, please join me in my mini-protest and support America’s sovereignty with your dollars on Friday, May 5."

The Independent Conservative respectfully disgarees:

"I must say that while I feel his anger, given we live in the same county that is loaded with illegals. I think his response should be a little more measured than an all out boycott of all that has Mexican heritage. The protesters that favor illegal immigration are not representative of all Mexicans. While far too many are on their side, we should be careful not to respond to their anti-American/anti-White actions by treating all Mexicans as if they are in agreement with the activity of the Mexican protesters.

So how does one separate those who are in league with condoning illegal activity, from those who do not? Simple, you ask. Just as I’ve shown via my own actions, I think all Americans should strive to do the same every day. I know it may not be doable for all purchases, but try as best you can to always only support businesses that do not employ illegals and do not take part in these protests.

I think instead of boycotting a Mexican restaurant on Cinco de Mayo, that it would have a far greater impact if Americans walked into a Mexican restaurant, asked to speak to the owner and asked 'were you open on May 1?' If they say no, then leave. Also ask 'do you employ illegals?' If they say yes, then leave. That will show them you are serious about taking your money elsewhere. And alternatively, you might find a business owned by people who have Mexican heritage, but wish to be 100% American and respect our laws."

Kender's Musings has yet another perspective, one I call the "Stay Home and Stay Stupid" strategy:

"I agree with this boycott...because [it] is going to backfire on these people, and the disruption they cause to millions of LEGAL CITIZENS who, in the course of living their legal lives of doing their duty to make this country great are going to have to endure millions of whiny criminals and their supporters blocking the streets and taking up airtime on our TV's, making their day that much harder.

Anyone that takes the day off to protest should be fired. But that may only happen in a handful of cases. On the other hand, this protest is going to hurt the educations of the kids that are out in the middle of this, and that is fine by me.

Outlined below is my support for this boycott. As far as I am concerned these people can boycott for the rest of their lives. They are much cheaper to hire when they are legal citizens without a decent education.

I Agree with the Boycott

That's right, I agree with the boycott.

Especially for the kids.

Everybody listen up, on May 1st stay home from school.

Do NOT go to school. Stay home and sleep, go protest and work on that car in your driveway while hanging clothes on the line tied between the apartment building and the dead tree, and I will tell you why:

Because when you stay home from school your school loses valuable money that is used to educate your stupid asses, and maybe if your education drops to a low enough level you will be forever stuck cleaning the toilets, washing the cars and mowing the lawns of the people that know what it means to be an American, and your lower economic status will be assured, hence your power in society will be limited to threatening to leave the rest of us with long grass and dirty dishes at the restaurant.

Jarhead's Firing Range agrees with the boycott too, but for different reasons:

"Illegal immigrants plan feeble attempt to strike back at the hand that feeds them. Border jumping criminals are rallying behind a plan to boycott all things American on May 1st. This will include not going to work, and not spending money at any American owned business establishments. It will also be carried out inside the cesspool known as Mexico.

These idiots fail to realize that American owned companies are the largest source of employment in Mexico. They whine that the wages paid there are not enough. -Then don't take the job?

As far as their boycott here in the states, I'm all for it. I hope that those that employ these criminals will actually be hurt by this. Perhaps they'll not hire criminals in the future. Hopefully, every illegal that doesn't go to work on May 1st will be fired. I won't hold my breath waiting for that to happen though."

Speaking of protests south of the border, Independent Conservative points out that if the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico keeps this up, they might end up causing the pro-illegal crowd to realize that their massive protests have been the best recruiting tool for all of us who wish to send illegals back over the border:

US Lobbyists Denounce Mexico’s ‘Nothing Gringo’ Boycott (WSJ.com registration required to view the entire article)
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“This is like shooting oneself in the foot,” Rubin said. “U.S. companies have been the first to lobby, launching a huge lobbying effort for immigration reform. … Why hurt something that is helping you?”
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South of the border, Mexicans are targeting American stores and chain restaurants - “That means no Dunkin’ Donuts, no McDonald’s (MCD), Burger King (BKG.XX), Starbucks (SBUX), Sears (SHLD), Krispy Kreme (KKD) or Wal-Mart (WMT),” reads one email making the rounds.

Wal-Mart/Walmex is the biggest private employer in Mexico. Huge shocker there, huh? Wal-Mart is like the slum lord of the planet.

Amber and Chaos offers sound advice for furious Americans watching the legislative branch of our government get hi-jacked: "If you are angry as I am about the demonstrations going on [today], then [today] is the time to express your outrage. Write your Senators and Congressperson...do something that could, potentially, put some backbone into our congresspeople on the issue of Immigration Reform. Tell them that if they do NOT vote for a strong secure-border plan, nothing else they do has any meaning for you, and you are going to vote against them, when you get a chance."

While you’re at it, remind them of our laws. Woman Honor Thyself has a quick synopsis of the laws our lawmakers are so willing to overlook [Title 8:Section 1325. Improper entry by alien]: "Know THE LAW, my dear friends. Knowledge is power. What part of LAW do the folks up in Washington and the lefty do-gooders fail to comprehend?"

Meanwhile, A Cool Change has his own plans for boosting the economy that will supposedly be staggering without the contributions of illegal aliens: "Illegal aliens and their supporters have been urged not to buy anything on May 1 to demonstrate just how important they are economically to the United States. (So they buy extra on April 30 or wait until May 2. Big deal.) I’m participating in my own way. I’ve been postponing a much needed trip to Sam’s Warehouse for about two weeks now, and boy do I have one heck of a shopping list."

Third World County scoffs at how seriously the illegal alien lobby takes itself: "... the boycott scheduled for tomorrow in support of Reconquista is B.S.... BTW, I’ve scheduled a shopping trip for tomorrow (May 1). I figure it’s time I bought some Mexican flags to burn on May 5."

On a related subject, Freedom Folks reacts with epithet-laced fury to a Hispanic Marine who has defiantly chosen to side with lawbreakers:

"If any American serviceperson finds their loyalties divided they are in the wrong goddamn job!
[...]
I reiterate, should you find your loyalties divided, here's a thought...Get the fuck out! Go back to the country you seem to feel an allegiance for. When you don that uniform you become an exemplar, what that means, and I'm gonna type this slow because clearly you're an idiot, is you cannot then wave your fucking uniform as a banner for LAW-BREAKING, you ignorant sack of shit!!

If you think I'm being too hard on this individual, I would retort -- I don't think I'm being hard enough. When you swear an oath it either means something or it doesn't, if it doesn't mean anything to you that tells me you are a faithless motherfucker not worth pissing on if you were on fire.

I truly cannot tell you how upset I am with this "Marine." This alleged "hero." Because to me when you start advocating for law-breaking you lose hero status pretty goddamn fast.

Is this the price of granting the children of illegals entrance into the proud tradition of the most fearsome fighting machine in the history of mankind? That we must grant them special --above the law -- privileges?

That price is too high for any nation to pay and remain a strong nation.

Quietly, but presciently, Bear Creek Ledger reminds us of some serious national security concerns and cautions us that amid all the hullaballoo, we are still perilously vulnerable: “As Senators and the Administration diddle over amnesty for illegal aliens (which will include members of Hezbollah and MS-13) they are leaving our US borders unprotected. There is no intent by these Senators to stop the flow of illegal aliens over the border thereby ignoring the National Security of our country. All the Republican Senators consider is supposedly "cheap" labor and the Democrats are trolling for votes. Guess with the first suicide bomber (if that truly is the first) all the same Senators will come out pointing the finger at anyone but themselves. I think as we will see in the coming weeks Rep. Hastert will also abandon any veneer of protecting the borders by the House of Representatives."

That is, unfortunately, a very probable prediction.

So...now you know what the Guard the Borders Bloggers think about this, and what some plan to do about it. What about you?

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This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst. It was started by Euphoric Reality, and serves to keep immigration issues in the forefront of our minds as we’re going about our daily lives and continuing to fight the war on terror. If you are concerned with the trend of illegal immigration facing our country, join our Blogburst! Just send an email with your blog name and url to euphoricrealitynet at gmail dot com.

It is temporary (we are under construction) but I figured since I am being l blinded mentally by the idiocy of so many people "boycotting" the country that they claim to love that you can be blinded in a more literal sense of the word on the day that should make patriots wanna claw someone eyes out due to frustration......

I just had an urge for a chocolate shake.

You know those urges you get late in the evening that say "Yeah, that would go over perfectly right now."

I had one hit me for a chocolate shake, so I did what I so often do, and that is run around the corner to the Jack in the Box.

This particular JIB occassionally screws up the order (I am sure they teach 'em that in drive up window school), but no more than any other fast food joint. As I said, it is occassional, unlike my late night flights to this particular JIB.

But that all ended tonight.

In the interest of fair disclosure I must divulge that I once worked for Jack in the Box, as a "Mystery Guest" which was a program they had inhouse that other companies call "Secret Shoppers". I had fun at that job, driving to the various JIBs and running the scenarios the schedule had laid out for me and then reporting in to give the man on the street perspective.

The program ended while I was in it, and now they just hand out receipts with a chance to win money if you call in and give your opinion.

I always wondered if me working for them had any bearing on their decision....

Anyway, this JIB is staffed with what seems to be all latinos, and I asked the manager if they would be open tomorrow. He said "No".

"Why?" I asked, knowing that this could get ugly.

"Nobodies coming in. I'm not even coming in."

"Why not" I pressed.

"We're going on revolucion." he loudly exclaimed.

"Cool, got the corporate number?" I asked

He pointed out the number for customers on teh window and said "right there"....I said "Never mind, you guys have fun on your protest, it'll make a great statement, I used to work for JIB corporate, I'll give the office a call myself."
And I drove off.

Jack in the Box is now added to the ever growing list of companies that I refuse to do business with, right alongside "Target" (refuses to support veterans ogranizations) Smart'n'Final (french owned) several other french owned companies and Wal Mart (hate to deal with their clientele out here, can afford better so I shop better).

Jack in the Box corporate will be hearing from me in the morning....I hope they hear from you too.

I was just at a major local park that includes a dam complex, and noticed about 38 ICE vehicles with about 15 Sherrifs Department busses in a locked parking lot. There were two helicopters that had been landed there also and some of those light APCs that the military uses to move troops through war zones.

I asked one of the deputies what the deal was, and he said "The deal with what? I don't see anything."

This boycott tomorrow in L.A. is going to get very interesting.

Did anyone else notice that the cops are being really nice in helping to block off streets and herd people into certain areas?

The planned route down Wilshire from MacArthur park to La Brea is easily an area that could be cordoned off with the right amount of troops and some strategic planning.

Viva La Revolucion my ass!!!!

Reposted from April 5th. In honor of the fact that alleged millions of people that support criminals are planning to basically commit what amounts to treason by trying to attack the economic viability of the United States tomorrow I am going to state again that I agree with this boycott, but not because I agree with the ideals of those organizing this action or think that we should reward millions of criminals in our midst, but because this boycott is going to backfire on these people, and the disruption they cause to millions of LEGAL CITIZENS who, in the course of living their legal lives of doing their duty to make this country great are goiing to have to endure millions of whiny criminals and their supporters blocking the streets and taking up airtime on our TV's, making their day that much harder.

Anyone that takes the day off to protest should be fired. But that may only happen in a handful of cases. On the other hand, this protest is going to hurt the educations of the kids that are out in the middle of this, and that is fine by me.

Outlined beloew is my support for this boycott. As far as I am concerned these people can boycott for the rest of their lives. They are much cheaper to hire when they are legal citizens without a decent education.

I Agree with the Boycott

That's right, I agree with the boycott.

Especially for the kids.

Everybody listen up, on May 1st stay home from school.

Do NOT go to school. Stay home and sleep, go protest and work on that car in your driveway while hanging clothes on the line tied between the apartment building and the dead tree, and I will tell you why:

Because when you stay home from school your school loses valuable money that is used to educate your stupid asses, and maybe if your education drops to a low enough level you will be forever stuck cleaning the toilets, washing the cars and mowing the lawns of the people that know what it means to be an American, and your lower economic status will be assured, hence your power in society will be limited to threatening to leave the rest of us with long grass and dirty dishes at the restaurant.

So stay home, little latino children, and make sure your stupid friends of whatever color do the same.....stay home, stay stupid, do the American citizens that understand what it means to be American a favor....I can pay you a hell of a lot less that way.

the stoopidpats have disabled comments!!!

Bwahahahah

Gatorade's new "Rain" version of their sports drink, the Lime flavored one, tastes what I imagine Lemon Pledge would taste like if I were to be stupid enough to drink it.

My advice; Don't buy it!!!

In a move that surprised nobody that was paying attention, California legislators, in a vote of 24-13 that split along party lines passed a resolution that supports the planned nationwide boycott by criminal aliens and their supporters.

SACRAMENTO - State senators on Thursday endorsed Monday's boycott of schools, jobs and stores by illegal immigrants and their allies as supporters equated the protest with great social movements in American history.

By a 24-13 vote that split along party lines, the Senate approved a resolution that calls the one-day protest the Great American Boycott 2006 and describes it as an attempt to educate Americans "about the tremendous contribution immigrants make on a daily basis to our society and economy."

"It's one day ... for immigrants to tell the country peacefully, 'We matter ... (we're) not invisible,'" said Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, the resolution's chief author. She said immigrants make up a third of California's labor force and a quarter of its residents.

So teh Democrats now hate business so much that they want them to lose millions of dollars in revenue in their never ending quest for more votes. Apparently they think so little of the legal citizens of the country they help guide that they feel safe passing a resolution that basically states "Criminal aliens are here to stay, and we don't have the intestinal fortitude to remove them."

Asshats!!!

...due to the fact that a show I have been promoting is on tonight. My doorman and security guys bailed on me, (can you believe people are bailing on paying gigs?) and now the venue for tomorrow night added in a band an moved everyone back 45 minutes.

Load in and sound check is at 6, doors open about 7:30 and the show starts at 8:30, so I have a long night ahead of me. This is one of Rick Kurek's last shows in the southland for the foreseeable future, as he is moving to London soon, so if you're a fan of Rick's get down to the Joint tonight.

Rock and roll is a harsh mistress and a royal bitch.

Tenn. girl received life-saving gift from Ohio soldier killed in Iraq

Some give all.

I wish to thank everyone for their comments and emails regarding this post. The comments that surmised that the arguments below are indicative of the criminal aliens that are marching in our streets and demanding non-existent rights are correct in realizing that these are the very arguments they use, but I am placing a twist on these arguments, and using them for another issue entirely that will serve to highlight just how hollow the arguments are.

Instead of illegal immigration, make these arguments apply to a kidney transplant.

All I want is a better life for myself.

Criminal aliens are stating that this is all about a better life for themselves, and so am I.

But they say it will take up to ten years before I can do that legally, but that is ten years I cannot afford to wait.

The wait for a kidney transplant is 7-10 years, but if I can find someone whose kidney matches mine and steal it from them, I should be allowed to do so, and if you say otherwise you are a hateful cretin that wishes bad health on me.

What about my family? They are suffering right along with me.

This is about family unity. I can no longer travel easily with my family, and being in need of a transplant is tearing the unity of my family apart.

My employer is getting a raw deal too......I can't do all the work he wants me to do and because of the laws he can't do anything about it.....How's that fair to him?

The criminal aliens employers must, on some level, fear that they may be prosecuted for their continued criminal activity of employing those that are not here legally, and my employer is under similar stress, for with my "disability" he cannot fire me for missing work and slowing down, because I am "disabled" and thus protected.

And what about all of the other people just like me? They all simply want a better life for themselves also......But some of them aren't going to be able to get it....Some of them, they say, aren't eligible and so they will have to just live with it.

The people like me, on dialysis, that simply want a better life are also entitled to "find" a kidney against the will of the donor. Those that have other medical problems are also entitled to secure those things they may need to improve their life, and you have no right to say otherwise.

You know what? It doesn't matter what they say......I deserve it, I am entitled to it, it is my right as a human, and I am not gonna let anyone stand in my way.....I am gonna go get what is mine, and I don't care about the laws that state I can't do it......you can't stop me, do you understand me?

I am entitled.

Now, the arguments that those that support open borders are making, when placed in another equally absurd light ring rather hollow, don't they?

In a press release dated today, Sunday, April 23rd, the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, a group with ties to terrorist groups that has been fighting to trick the citizens of the United States into believing that they are a peaceful organization and not chasing the dream of Sharia Law showed once again that the only people they will laud are those that bow to them and accept the role of dhimmi on their knees.

CAIR: IN TRIBUTE TO ACTIVIST, A CALL TO FORGIVE -
Peace Group's Aim: Praising Va. Man, Not Blaming Killers
Jerry Markon, Washington Post, 4/23/06
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/22/AR2006042201202.html

Tom Fox lived for peace but died a violent death, shot multiple times, his body dumped in a trash-strewn Baghdad neighborhood after he was kidnapped.

Yet colleagues of the Virginia peace activist suggested absolution for his killers yesterday at a memorial service that celebrated his life. Titled "Reflections on Compassion and Forgiveness," the service featured a black banner in Fox's memory: "To those who held Tom we declare: God has forgiven you."

It was the message of Christian Peacemaker Teams, the Toronto- and Chicago-based peace group that Fox served in Iraq after he quit his job running a grocery store in Springfield. The Rev. Carol Rose, the organization's co-director, told more than 200 of Fox's friends and colleagues that the banner was hung in Baghdad after his body was discovered last month. . .

Inside the church, there were a few tears but more smiles as speakers recalled Fox's courage and commitment. They remembered him as kind and quiet, a man who rarely raised his voice but had a yell that sounded like Kermit the Frog when he did. Fox's license plate and e-mail address, they said, contained the words "inner light."

Emily Smith, a representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Fox's work reflected the close ties between Muslims and the Christian peacekeeping community. "All of us, people of many faiths, have been touched by Tom's life and death," she said.

Linked in the title is the "THE SATIRICAL POLITICAL BELIEFS ASSESSMENT TEST", which includes such gems as:

7: The Center for Public-Health Dietary Self Control releases a study that says eating just one jelly donut is as harmful to human health as smoking 10,000,000 cartons of cigarettes. Do you...
CONS: keep eating jelly donuts.
LIBL: demand that jelly donuts be removed from vending machines, and public school cafeterias.
LBRT: hoard jelly donuts before they are regulated off grocer's shelves.
COMM: hoard jelly donuts so you can sell them on the black market.

Go read the rest....like I said, it's cute.

From Tucson today comes the news that the ACLU is not going to be able to kick the Minutemen Corps. off of public trust land.

Ray Ybarra of the ACLU wanted the Arizona State Land Department to send the Minutemen packing, because we all know that the ACLU just can't stand the fact that there are Patriots at the border, doing the job the government won't do while stemming the flow of criminal aliens that feed the great beast of socialism that drives the wet dreams and fondest fantasies of the ACLU.

As it turns out, people did have permits, and those that didn't have them promised to get them online.

On Tuesday, deputy state Land Commissioner Richard Hubbard called it a misunderstanding by the employee. He said the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps volunteers were invited by the landowners to do ranch work in addition to their patrols, which gives them the right to be there.
"They are authorized to be there under the terms of the lease," Hubbard said.
Ranch owner Pat King, whose ranch includes some state trust land that she leases, said she has a contract with the group for the volunteers to monitor cattle, pick up trash and fix fences on her property, King's Anvil Ranch.
She called the ACLU members misguided, out-of-town youngsters who don't understand what people- and drug smugglers have done to her land and the valley.
"Those American Civil Liberties Union persons up there are not concerned about me at all," King said. "So they are not really the American Civil Liberties Union are they? Because they don't give a darn about what has happened to my constitutional rights to property."

No, Pat, the ACLU could give not one ounce of care about you, your situation or your freedom to conduct business. They only care about letting criminal aliens sneak into this country to usurp our sovereignty and steal our resources.

Ybarra and about 60 other volunteers have been monitoring the Minuteman volunteers since they began their patrol April 1. The wrangling is the latest in a series of nonphysical skirmishes between the groups.
Ybarra says the volunteers shine high-powered flashlights on them as they drive by. O'Connell accuses the ACLU of berating and harassing them on their patrols and of interfering with Border Patrol apprehensions. He said the group will consider legal action.

Well what a dingdang surprise that is....the ACLU will consider legal action.

Let me tell you something, I am firmly convinced the members of the ACLU consider legal action if their paper is late in the morning, when they don't get a receipt for their 8 dollar latte or when their panties just get too wadded up. I have never seen a group that was so blasted sue happy, and wish to remind you fine people of that old saying:

When the revolution comes it will be the lawyers that will be first against the wall.

The open borders groups in the United States that are working hand in hand with Socialist Workers groups and Communist factions, and are advocating no less than policies that will substantially weaken our country, endanger our citizenry, lower our standard of living and threaten the health of our children are hoping that you, dear citizen, are too busy shopping and watching American Idol to pay attention to what is happening under your noses and too apathetic to get out there and stop it.

Luckily, millions of American Citizens have recognized what is occurring, and have been flooding our representatives with letters, emails, faxes, phone calls and visits telling these elected officials exactly what we, the people that put them where they are, want done.

But we are not finished. If anything, we must ramp up our pressure on our elected officials, explaining to them why they should not cave to criminal factions that demand our laws be ignored and changed to cater to the legions of law breaking invaders that have flooded our country and flouted the very system that would see you and I in jail for being so brazen as to think that the law did not apply to us.

If the law applies, these people must return home and apply for visa's and citizenship the same way that millions of others have done it.

If the law doesn't not apply, which seems to be their reasoning, then due process and constitutional protections do not apply either, and mass round-ups and deportation should begin ASAP.

Countering the "talking points" of the open borders groups should be a high priority of the citizens of the United States, and to help you do just that when you call your elected representatives, below is a list of talking points from the website linked in the title.

Don’t Gut ‘Legalization’ Before It Starts
Dozens of hidden traps in the Senate and House bills sabotage the “legalization” programs and will exclude tens of thousands of people. This would undermine the very purpose of earned legalization, which is to encourage undocumented immigrants to come forward and become full members of American society.

Legalization should be earned the same way by all. One should apply for a visa or work permit, and immigrate to the country legally. We should not reward those that ignore our laws. It is not fair to those that do not ignore them.

Don’t Turn Our Local Police Into Federal Immigration Agents
Asking local law enforcement to ask those who look like immigrants about their immigration status would be a public safety disaster. It will lead to racial profiling and undermine community policing strategies that are aimed at building trust and solving local crimes. This is why police officials from across the country oppose this idea.

Our law enforcement is tasked with enforcing the laws of the land. If you were to kidnap a child and take them to another state, it becomes a Federal issue. The same goes with bank robbery, and we would not expect our local police to not apprehend a kidnapper or a bank robber simply because these crimes fall under the jurisdiction of authorities with broader powers than they possess. Simply put, our police forces should deal with crimes and criminals as they find them, and not catagorize them in 'local', 'state' or 'federal' concerns.

Let Every Person Have Their Day In Court
The Senate proposals put unchecked power in the hands of bungling bureaucrats in the Department of Homeland Security – the people who brought you the Katrina relief effort. Citizens, green card holders, and the undocumented could all be affected. Due process is the foundation of American justice and should be preserved for all.

How about this? Let every person have their day in line at the consulate? The Department of Homeland Security oversees Immigration Control and Enforcement (ICE, formerly INS), and ICE is tasked with securing our border and monitoring the people that enter and leave our country. We should let ICE handle that part of their responsibilities that is paramount to the protection of the citizens of this counrty, Control and Enforcement. Due process has strangled the system, making it virtually impossible to deport anyone, and has been wrongfully applied to the criminals that have snuck in here. Simply put, if you are not a legal citizen of this country, the rules, laws, rights, responsibilities and protections do NOT apply to you, you are under no obligation to serve in the military, have sworn no allegiance to this country and therefore do not enjoy the protections that go hand in hand with the duties of the American citizen.

Stop Cruel Deportations – Keep Families Together and Communities Strong
The Senate and House bills will rip families apart by permanently separating children from parents and spouses from each other, often for minor infractions for which deportation is an unfair and excessive punishment. The government would send back countless families seeking safety from war, persecution, and violence.

Children of parents that are here illegally should go with their parents, and should be given teh option of returning when they are 18 if they so choose to become a full fledged citizen of this country. Canada specifically has a law that states if your parents are not legal citizens at the time of your birth then you are not a citizen of Canada. Why can't we enact that? Deportation for being here illegally is not excessive or unfair, but is the natural and expected consequence for being here illegally. Unfair and excessive punishment for being in the country illegally would be taking people out back and shooting them in the head. I am not in favor of that. However I am in favor of placing those that sneak in here illegally at the back of the line, and making sure that the line is at least three years long. If there are no consequences for your actions then what is to stop people from taking any action they please?

Build Bridges Not Jails
Immigration reform should bring immigrants out of the shadows, not consign them to mandatory detention and deportation. Locking innocent people up in jails and military bases without meaningful review – even those who pose no flight risk or danger to the community – is not the American way.

We cannot hammer this point home enough. People that sneak into our country and ignore our laws and flout our immigration system aARE NOT INNOCENT!!!! As stated before, if you are going to ignore our laws and systems, proving that you don't believe they apply to you, then obviously the protections that go along with those laws do not apply to you either, therefore due process does not apply, and you have no right to a hearing. You cannot pick and choose which laws apply to you, either they all do, or none of them do. The "Amercian Way" is the way of law and order, fairness and justice.....even our President has to wait in line at McDonalds, and if that fact doesn't explain our system to you, then nothing I say will.

Choose Freedom, Not Fear
We are at a crossroads in America. We have to make a choice about what kind of a country we want to be. Do we want to live with pre-dawn raids on innocent families, Federal agents crawling through our communities, armed military camps, thousands of deaths along our walled borders? Or will we support a positive vision of America made strong, secure, and vibrant by full participation of immigrant families?

They are correct. We are at a crossroads in this country, and here is the kind of country that I want. I want a country that respects the rule of law, watches out for her citizens and protects them from those that would do them harm. I want a country that fears nothing because it is strong enough to defend itself against those that would see it fall. I want a country that is wise enough to realize that life isn't fair, and that you can only raise up so many people before the weight starts to drag you down, and raising up those that you have a first responsibility to is your highest calling and your first duty and shows whether you have the wisdom to lead the people that placed you in power, or if you are indeed a pandering coward whose legacy will be one of appeasement ridicule.

Those that have broken our laws, and refuse to adhere to them and demand special treatment are not "Americans" at heart, in practice or in reality, and never will be. Americans are a law abiding and noble people, and those that don't understand that do not deserve a shot at the American Dream, because part of the American Dream is BEING an AMERICAN, and helping to make this country great, and there is nothing great about being a criminal!!!!

From La Raza comes the entertaining and downright false "Common Myths About Undocumented Immigrants".

Just a quick note about this, the emphasis is mine.

96% of "undocumented men" in the U.S. are employed, which exceeds the rate of legal immigrants and U.S. citizens by 15 percentage points.

So what they are saying here is that the rate of employed legal immigrants and U.S. citizens is 15 percentage points higher than the 3% unemployment rate of criminal aliens? So that would mean that unemployment is around 18%.

OK....that bitch went down in flames.

Next;

The Social Security Administration reports that it holds approximately $420 BILLION from the earnings of immigrants who are not in a position to claim benefits.

Is it just me or is that one big freaking bag of change just waiting to finance a big ass wall and more ICE agents?

Four Hundred and Twenty Billion.

We could finance another war with all of that chi-ching.

What the hell?

What do you think?

A Welfare State With Illegal Immigration Offers Businesses a Better Deal Than Slavery

by Darnell MaGavock at Indpendent Conservative


Let me start by saying I don’t endorse either slavery or illegal immigration. But looking at things from the economic standpoint of a company that hires illegals today versus the use of slave labor in the 18th and 19th centuries, illegal immigration offers companies a better deal than any slave owner ever had. The reason is the modern day welfare state that is known as America.


During American slavery, the slave owner was responsible for the total care of the slave. Although slave masters did this “on the cheap” they had to provide housing, food, clothing and medical care for the slave and their entire family. This resulted in the institution of slavery being more of a loss than gain over time. The only other option was to grant freedom to slaves who were a great expense, but that involved the strain of possibly breaking a family. Separating families often resulted in the other slaves trying harder to escape to be with loved ones. Non-profitable slaves were not sellable, because nobody else wanted the burden. This was the slave master’s dilemma, that people like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin figured out. They realized that slavery was not financially good over time - because the “free labor” was not really “free”, given the need to provide full care to the slave labor force. This was in addition to the expense of buying a slave in the first place.


Today’s employer of illegal immigrants does not have any of the hassles experienced by slave owners. The employer of illegals offers them a very small salary and no benefits. Which means such an employer never runs the risk of going cash-flow-negative on labor costs. They can adjust wages at will, because they will always find an illegal that is willing to accept the rate. This is the reason Cesar Chavez once disliked illegal immigration. If one set of illegals tried to “strike” for better wages, the company would simply replace them with new illegals that were willing to accept the pay rate offered to them.


So the employer of illegals has no direct issues with having to fund housing, medical or the expense of educating the children of illegal immigrants. These are expenses that American taxpayers have been funding. Government (funded by taxpayers) helps illegals secure home loans and encourages banks to give them out. Government (funded by taxpayers) is picking up the medical expenses of illegals. Government (funded by taxpayers) is educating the children of illegal aliens.


You may have seen the CNN Special “Immigrant Nation: Divided Nation”. If you did, you saw profiles of illegals that live in my county of Gwinnett Georgia. The show often tried to make granting amnesty to illegals look like a good thing, but like the slave master’s dilemma, even the tax paying illegals do not come close to covering the expenses involved in caring for them.


Excerpts from, Transcript of CNN Special Report - Immigrant Nation: Divided Nation

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HINOJOSA: Ten years ago when I first came to Georgia, I asked people if there was a Latino neighborhood, or barrio. I got a lot of strange looks.


Now I’m here in the heart of just one of the many Latino barrios in Georgia. I can get some of the best tacos outside of Mexico right here 24 hours a day. The home of Martin Luther King, the state that gave us the civil rights movement, is now home to half a million Latinos, a 300 percent increase in a decade.

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HINOJOSA: Estimates vary, but somewhere between 7 and 20 million people are living in this country illegally, one of the largest populations of undocumented immigrants in the world. Most of them come across this border. According to the U.S. government, over 1 million were caught last year alone.


This latest wave of immigrants has spread far beyond the southwest and the West Coast. Latino immigrant communities are now fixtures across the nation, especially in the south, in places like Gwinnett County, Georgia.

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HINOJOSA: Rosa first came to Georgia two years ago, all alone.


Last year, unable to bear the separation any longer, Rosa paid a smuggler $5,000 to wade her children across the river at night, but they were caught at a checkpoint and immediately deported. Rosa faced a difficult decision.


ROSA (through translator): I told my daughter, you have two options. I either stay in Mexico with you, or I will leave for the States for another year in preparation to bring the two of you. Then my daughter told me to return to the States so I could bring them eventually.

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HERCHEK: I’m afraid that America could become a third world country. We’re importing poverty by millions every year.

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HINOJOSA (on camera): The numbers say it all. Ten years ago, these schools served very few Spanish-speaking students. In 2003, one out of 10 students listed Spanish as their primary language, $26 million will be spent in Gwinnett County in English language services.

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HINOJOSA: Federal law says people are entitled to emergency medical care, whether or not they’re in this country legally. In one year Georgia paid $58 million in emergency Medicaid reimbursement for undocumented immigrants.

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The smugglers will be paid almost $6,000 by Rosa if they were successful, would show border agents false papers for the children. They didn’t make it.


Despite their fake papers, Junior and Rosita were detained. The smugglers were arrested. The children were returned to Mexico and reunited with their grandmother. Despite the set back, Rosa vows to try again.


ROSA (through translator): I will keep trying to bring them. The sooner the better. If in 15 days I find someone to bring them here, then we will try again with them.

…

Unlike slavery, with illegal immigration the burden of expenses is carried by the entire nation. So instead of individual plantation owners having to endure the expenses of supposedly cheap labor, it is a burden carried by taxpaying Americans.


It is my family that endures pain, while waiting behind illegals for medical care. It is my tax dollars that pay for education of illegals, that by school rules have 6 years to learn English and many drop out before ever finishing school. So they take up much space and expense, while not even learning much during the process. While school time is spent on illegals, it diverts resources and teaching time away from children in a legal family. And I’m not even going to get into the issues with gangs. (That would require its own post.)


The issues I see here in Gwinnett County, Georgia will only get worse with anything that encourages illegal immigration or makes them feel they will be rewarded. And the issues will get worse for America. The nation will not be able to sustain the expense of this dilemma for much longer. It is causing the nation to engage in a race to the bottom and then we all lose.


America’s borders need to be secured and the only means made for immigration should be via the current legalization process. What employers of illegals see as a “resource” is really a great expense. Immigration requires regulation to prevent this nation’s collapse.


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This has been a production of the Guard the Borders Blogburst. It is syndicated by Euphoric Reality, and serves to keep immigration issues in the forefront of our minds as we’re going about our daily lives and continuing to fight the war on terror. If you are concerned with the trend of illegal immigration in our country, join the Blogburst! Send an email with your blog name and url to euphoricrealitynet at gmail dot com.

Linked in the title is a long overdue tale that describes in short detail the facts surrounding foreign remittances, explains that they are, like it has long been suspected, a huge source of income for other countries and, if you have the foresight to extrapolate the outcome of this trend, foretells the destruction of Americas middle class.

Today, remittances are the largest, fastest-growing and most reliable source of income for developing countries. Poor nations received $167 billion from overseas workers last year, according to the World Bank, more than all foreign aid.

According to the World Bank, the number of international migrants swelled from 120 million to 175 million during the 1990s, and the sums they send home each year have more than tripled in this decade.
Fed by millions of such transactions, Mexico's annual remittance inflow has doubled since 2002 and reached $20 billion last year, second only to petroleum as a generator of wealth for the country.

Other developing nations also depend heavily on their migrants' money. Brazilian laborers in Japan send home more than $2 billion a year, out-earning their country's coffee exports. Remittances bring in more than tea exports do in Sri Lanka and tourism in Morocco.

So on the backs of exploited, low wage laborers third world countries raise their standard of living, but not by exploiting them at home, for there is not a market to do that in their home countries. Instead their citizens immigrate to other countries and work cheaply, sending money home to better the lives of their families. A noble thing, I will grant you, but a practice that is most assuredly hurting our country. That is money that is taken out of our communities to be used elsewhere, and low age laborers, especially of the "illegal" variety, depress wages for the legal citizens of the communities that they invade.

One end of the lifeline is the field near Salinas where Erasmo Alonzo started work before dawn one morning.

For eight years, he had been stooping over those fields for up to 10 hours a day, reaping a chronic back pain that felt "like an ugly wound." But on that July morning, he moved as nimbly as his youthful co-workers as they extracted row after row of lettuce from the soil with 12-inch knives.

Alonzo had been off the day before, a Sunday, and devoted part of the day to the ritual that defined his purpose in America: wiring money home to Mexico.

"It is a struggle to get a decent amount together, but I send $500 every two or three months," he said. On this Sunday, he had wired home $200 and paid 10% in commission to a licensed agent of AFEX, a worldwide transfer company.

The companies that transfer the money are raking in the profits hand over fist, and certainly wouldn't mind seeing an even greater amount of money transferred through their service. One must wonder how much their lobbyists make and how big an impact they have on immigration legislation.

The people that make up a main focus of the story are Erasmo Alonzo and his wife Catalina Sanchez. He went to California to pick lettuce because he had no job prospect in his home town, and when he was hurt, she came up and worked the fields with him for three years. More telling is this:

One by one, the couple's two sons and two daughters joined the seasonal clandestine treks to California, picking lettuce for $7.29 an hour and contributing to the family's $800-a-month apartment in Salinas.

An entire family, sneaking into this country, working, sending money back to their home town. Not one mention of "I came to America because I love it and I want to be an American." This is simply a case of theft. Not the classic example of theft, which is stealing something from someone who has earned it, but a more pernicious form of theft. This form of theft appears to be simply a case of people trying to survive, but one can liken it to a thief that breaks in and cooks your dinner, while handing the contents of your cabinet out the window and then doing the dishes before he leaves. Sure, you had dinner and the kitchen is clean, but what are you gonna make for breakfast now that all of your food has gone out the window and the cook left?

Foreign remittances are draining our economy. The people that send this money home are, it seems, here for one reason and one reason only, to work and send money home, and they don't seem to want to be an American and are most likely criminal (illegal) aliens in the vast majority of cases. Remember the vast seas of foreign flags in attendance during the early rallies and marches against immigration reform? Sure, they switched to American flags in the more recent marches, but that is not because they wish to be an American citizen and take part in our country on an equal footing. It is because they have a good PR team telling them that they are angering the very people that should be angry they have snuck into our country and ignored our laws and perhaps because with "legal" status they can make even more money to send home.

Think about this. If you could work in another country, doing menial labor, making far more than you are now, and send it home for someone to invest and use to give yourself and your family a better life, would you do it? Of course you would. It is simply human nature to try to make things as easy on yourself and those you care about, and doing that is much easier than actually immigrating here legally and trying to stand toe to toe with people that have a better grasp of the language and better contacts in the community.

Many criminal aliens have no incentive to stay here and become an American citizen. Why would they? Right now they can sneak in almost at will, and face no real consequences for breaking our law, and the benefit is they can make themselves much richer at home.

If these people are given amnesty and allowed to work here as long as they wish another side effect comes into play that doesn't get enough attention; Social Security. If remittances are propping up the economies of these countries now, imagine what it would be once many of these criminal aliens are allowed to start drawing Social Security in a few years. A Social Security check that here in the U.S. would be barely enough to allow you to scrape by every month would allow you to live quite well in many third world countries.

Imagine the hit to the SS fund when 10 million checks start heading out to third world countries because their citizens had the balls to break our laws and sneak in here to depress our wages and our elected officials didn't have the balls to enforce our laws and realize that the money made within these borders should stay within them, not be funneled out to people that will spend that money there. In effect, money sent abroad to a "retiree" would stay in the community that that person lives in, and not here in the United States. Figuring that the SS payment now is, from the limited and short survey of people I know on Social Security, about $550.00, and we are looking (hypothetically) at 30 years in the future, the payment will probably be higher, (say 750.00) and even one million checks going out every month would put the figure at SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS!!!!

That is, in this lowball estimate, almost 8 BILLION A YEAR!!!

Admittedly, that is not a huge amount in the grand scheme of things, considering that right now criminal aliens reportedly cost us in excess of 50 billion a year, but any money that we send out of the country is money that is no longer circulating through our communities, and it is the circulation of this money, the constant earn and spend that makes a middle class large and powerful.

That we are slowly losing this middle class is an indication that things are seriously flawed with the policies and procedures that are being followed, or more rightly, not followed. The fact that our government appears unwilling to change this circumstance should call into question just who they are working for; you, the American citizen or the criminal aliens that would steal our greatness.

There is a great album called Radio K.A.O.S. by Roger Waters (of Pink Floyd fame) about a young man that is paralyzed and uses a computerized wheelchair and...Well, go get the album for yourself, but there is a song on it called "The Tide is Turning", and it is about the mindsets of the planets populace coming to grips with the fact that the way they are going about things is not the answer. It is a great song, and was the one that popped into my head when I read the email this morning from A.J. Whitehead.

A. J. Whitehead, the founder of Anti-CAIR-net.org and the man that recently had a lawsuit by CAIR against him dismissed because HE WAS TELLING THE TRUTH sent along a nice little link to a story that shows our courts may be starting to "get it."

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of an American Muslim civil rights group's defamation lawsuit against former U.S. Rep. Cass Ballenger, who linked the group to terrorists in a 2003 interview.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations sued Ballenger for $2 million, saying the congressman's comments damaged its reputation and good name. The group has denied any links to terrorism.

Go read the whole thing and let yourself have a bit of hope today. Maybe, just maybe, the tide is turning.

In an astounding email CAIR takes up the issue of a "Spanish" Muslim woman that came to Florida to visit her son, who is now living with his father, and was arrested for "being connected to someone they view as suspicious."

Safana Jawad, an Iraqi born woman whose ex-husband is now a U.S. citizen has been detained and will be deported tonight, and Homeland Security Department agents have refused to identify the suspicious person.

Her ex-husband, Ahmad Maki Kubba, has been lauded by Florida Governor Jeb Bush as a symbol of progress in Iraq for organizing a trip to Nashville in January 2005 for about a dozen friends to vote in the Iraqi election.

Kubba believes his ex-wife was singled out because she wears a head scarf.

Well, let's look a little deeper shall we?

Kubba spent 40 days in one of Saddams prisons for speaking out against the dictator and left Iraq in 1979 after being sentenced to death. His father, he says, died during a beating by Saddam's regime.

Now he has an ex that is living a Spain (a hotbed of radical Islam and a country full of cowardly appeasers) and tries to come to the U.S. to visit and is held for having ties to suspicious people.

I don't know why they got divorced, but the fact is that his ex is in Spain, connected to a suspicious person and trying to enter our country, and CAIR has the chutzpah to call it a racial issue?

It is an issue of security, plain and simple. If this person she is connected with is suspicious to the U.S. government than chances are they have done something to arouse that suspicion, and not telling her gives that person a chance to decide of their own free will if they will continue on their course and eventually get captured or killed by anti-terrorism forces or if they will decide that they like being alive and free better, and that, my friends, is the epitome of freedom, the chance to decide your own destiny, free of outside influences.

Why, if they told Jawad who that suspicious person was, they might decide that if they are being watched close enough to keep Jawad from entering the U.S. then maybe they are doing something foolish and should stop it. Then again, they may decide that they are being watched too closely and cut off ties to people that may lead our intelligence forces to those that would do us harm.

Either way, for CAIR to play a race card when the issue is definitely one of security is reprehensible but standard practice, really, we expect no less from them.

But stopping people possibly connected to "suspicious persons" is also what I expect our people guarding our borders to do....Good job guys....Keep it up!!!!

One of the pasttimes of this site is exposing hypocrisy.

Being a white guy there is an awful lot of it out there from where I sit, from the fact that I can't start a Miss White America Contest to counter the obviously racist Miss Black America Contest because I would be....a racist....go figure.

I also can't start a "White Entertainment Television" or have a magazine called "Ivory", but "Black Entertainment Television" and "Jet Magazine" have a place on your TV screen and on the magazine rack, and anyone that calls that racism is denounced as a hate mongering asswipe that should be locked away for years and is actually in danger of being arrested for "inciting hate speech".

That's fine. I don't need a Miss White America or a WET channel (unless the "WET" channel featured hot chicks in wet t-shirts...then I need one badly), but theer is one form of hypocrisy that needs to stop, and soon.

The hypocrisy of people that are allowed, even defended, when they say that they wish to have sex with young boys, when anyone that claims they wish to have sex with young GIRLS is branded a pedophile.

Don't get me wrong...I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH YOUNG GIRLS. I learned long ago (in my younger days) that younger girls are a sad second to women that have a few more years under their panty bands.

Sex with young children is bad, and I imagine that there are studies that show that the increase of hormones in beef and dairy products is causing our young women to blossom at a younger age. I know one thing, the girls in high-school when I was in high school did NOT look like the girls in high school look today. I stopped talking to females at the mall years ago, when I figured out that I was getting carded to get in bars at the age of 20 something and there were 15 and 16 year old girls that were simply walking in and ordering.

Now, that hyposcrisy aside, and the fact that sex with children is bad, and that most GIRLS look older today at a specific age than they did 15 years ago, men looking at mostly grown young women and admiring them is natural.

Men looking at not quite grown young men and wanting to play footsie with them is NOT!!!!

As I covered the other day, and Suzie has picked up on, there is a somewhat new website that is advocating and extolling the virtues of having sex with young boys.

I will be posting more on this tomorrow, when I am not so angry. You see, I have a young son, and pedophile freaks like this worry me greatly......it is thi skind of person that very well could be the cause of me getting thrown in prison for murder, for that is probably what I would do to someone that hurt my son like that, and I make no apologies for that stance either!!!!

Go check out suzies post regarding this...there is an ever growing coalition of parents that are bloggers that are working to get this crap taken down.....I will be one of them.