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Sep
01

Michelle MalkinAn indignant President Obama complained last week, "I can't spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead." Fine. How about plastering a copy of his presidential oath of office there instead? The oath says to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" — not international law or global diktats.

Case in point: Last week, Obama's State Department handed in America's first-ever report to the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights. There is a section on "values and immigration," which essentially singles out Arizona's immigration enforcement law as a human rights deficiency "that is being addressed in a court action."

In response, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer rightly blasted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration for succumbing to "internationalism run amok."

No one should be surprised, of course, that the Department of Blame America First is prostrating itself before the likes of repressive U.N. Human Rights Council members Libya, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and China. No one should be surprised that Obama's globalist panderers couldn't simply keep their mouths shut and refrain from trashing Americans with whom they disagree. [In fact, that is precisely Obama's modus operendi.]

The inclusion of Arizona in a politically correct catalog of human rights and wrongs is more than "downright offensive," as Brewer put it. It's a national travesty. [It is turning on a member of your family: tasteless and distasteful and embarrassing for those who have to witness it.]
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Jul
29

When Obama could have passed comprehensive immigration reform, like when he had the 60 Senate Democrat majority, he didn't do anything at all. Nothing!

Now, all of a sudden (not really), it becomes an issue with him – when he really can't pass it.

The opportunism and hypocrisy to manipulate America's Latinos into forgetting his previous inaction is transparent and obvious. Polls show him losing Hispanics due to high and continuing unemployment and losing congressional seats in the bargain, so Obama has dug up the immigration proposals of former President George W. Bush, dusted them off and made them his own.

Pandering to a segment of the population. Pretending to really care and do something.

Pandering and pretending are the operative words here.

He is full of empty words. A whole lot of hot air and no honesty behind it.

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Dick Morris on Townhall

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Jul
28

Ken Connor      Imagine for a moment that you are a property owner whose neighborhood is constantly victimized by acts of trespassing, theft, and even murder. You and your neighbors have repeatedly had your possessions stolen, family has been threatened and even physically harmed. This has gone on for years and despite contacting local law enforcement authorities to report the crimes against your property, you have been told that help is on the way.

But help never comes.

The police say they have the matter under control; they say that the security of your person and property is their top priority, and yet they continue to do nothing in the face of the grow.

It slowly becomes clear that you and your neighbors have been abandoned. The police aren't coming to help you, and nothing is going to change anytime soon.

Suffice it to say, such a scenario would only go on so long before you and your neighbors became desperate. Frustrated and having no other options, neighborhood residents decide to take matters into their own hands in order to protect themselves.

In such a situation, it would be logical  to take legal action against the police department. After all, the police's primary reason for existence is to protect the people from assaults on their persons and property. But no! Instead of the people, whose lives have been threatened and property damaged, suing the police, the police announce they are bringing suit against the residents for illegally usurping the role of law enforcement. "If your lives and property are being threatened," so the argument goes, "the only entity legally authorized to protect you is us, the police. Whether or not we choose to actually protect you is irrelevant; you have no right to take action on your own behalf."

That is stupid but this is exactly what's happening in Arizona.

The citizens of the state have been living under the siege of illegal immigration for years. They have a daily battle to protect life, property, and vital resources. The recent passage of bold new immigration legislation was the people's way of saying they'd had enough. The Feds weren't coming. The Feds aren't coming.

For too long the Potentates of the Potomac did nothing – and in response to Arizona's attempt to protect itself, these self-important, self-serving jerks are suing!

"It's our job to secure the borders and prosecute illegal immigration" they say. "This is our area of authority, and you have no legal right to defend yourselves, regardless of whether we choose to defend you or not."

Not only is this a gross example of federal bureaucratic arrogance run amok, it is a severe assault on the Constitution and our republic. Despite what the President and his Attorney General might choose to believe, the issue of illegal immigration is not merely political – it is a grave matter of national security. The recent passage of immigration legislation in Arizona wasn't a "misguided" act motivated by racism, it was a desperate act of self-defense.

The consequences of the federal government's choice to sue one of its states in this manner will not be minimal. Hopefully the people of Arizona will prevail in their battle to protect their borders and their property. Other states are poised to follow suit. When all is said and done, it's likely that it will be the President, not the people of Arizona, who was guilty of making a misguided decision.

– from Townhall.com

And this Judge Susan Bolton — What part of "you shall uphold the Law" does not apply to this judge who stopped Arizona's law before it even began? What part of illegal does she not understand?   What an Idiot.

"Requiring Arizona law enforcement officials and agencies to determine the immigration status of every person who is arrested burdens lawfully-present aliens because their liberty will be restricted while their status is checked," Bolton said in her decision.

Bull crap.  Is carrying your driver's license a burden to you? That is your ID.

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Jun
30

… is your state next if you decide on a law Obama does not like?

Obama is responsible for securing the borders of the United States. – That's ALL of the states.  Yet he refuses to uphold the Federal Law in place to do so.  This forced Arizona to try and do it alone.  Does Obama say anything positive? Nope. He threatens and postures. He acts as though no Federal law already existed saying the SAME THING as the Arizona law!

He is not stupid, so that leaves motive and intent. What exactly are they? Pandering for votes perhaps?

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Jun
22

The federal government is now telling American citizens to stay out of three southern Arizona counties. It is too dangerous because of armed smugglers from Mexico.

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu: Quite frankly I’m telling you as a sheriff that we don’t control that part of the county. My county is larger than the state of Connecticut and we need support from the federal government. It’s their job to secure the border and they haven’t done it. In fact President Obama suspended the construction of the fence.

FOX News reporter: Would you like to see some of the president’s outrage about the oil spill and some of the butt-kicking that he’s talked about doing applied there on the border as well?

Sheriff Paul Babeu: Even with that, you say one thing and then you’re out at a fundraiser in California and you don’t go to the funeral of the people who died in the explosion. You know its one thing to say something slick on television in a ten second soundbite but we need action. And, it’s shameful that we as the most powerful nation on earth can win wars and liberate countries throughout history yet we can’t even secure our own border.

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Jun
03
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We know Dick Lamm as the former (Democrat) Governor of Colorado, In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was at an immigration overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of America’s finest minds and leaders.
 
A brilliant college professor by the name of Victor Davis Hanson talked about his latest book, ‘Mexifornia,’ explaining how immigration – both legal and illegal was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.

Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America.
 
The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the United States. He said, ‘If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let’s destroy America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that ‘An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.”’Here is how they do it,’ Lamm said:

 

To DESTROY AMERICA

 

tri  FIRST:   turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country.
History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way: ‘The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy.’ Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, and Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons, Corsicans and Muslims.’
 
tri  SECOND:   invent ‘multiculturalism’ and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture.
Make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal; that there are no cultural differences. Make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due solely to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds.
 
tri  THIRD:   celebrate diversity rather than unity
…and we could make the United States an ‘Hispanic Quebec ‘ without much effort.  As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: ‘The apparent success of our own multi-ethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentriy and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.’ Lamm said, ‘I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to en sure that we have various cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities.’
 
tri  FOURTH:   make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated.
I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school.’
 
tri  FIFTH:   start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority.’
I would get all minorities to think that their lack of success was the fault of the majority.  Get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of ‘Victimology.’
 
tri  SIXTH:    stress differences rather than similarities
include dual citizenship, and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity.  Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other – that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games. A common enemy, Persia , threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece fell. ‘E Pluribus, Unum’ — From many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the ‘pluribus’ instead of the ‘Unum,’ we will ‘Balkanize’ America as surely as Kosovo.’
 
tri  SEVENTH:   place all subjects off limits. Make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of ‘diversity.’ I would find a word similar to ‘heretic’ in the 16th century – that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like ‘racist’ or ‘xenophobe’ halt discussion and debate. Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established multiculturalism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of ‘Victimology,’

tri  EIGHTH:   make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them.’
 
In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound silence followed.

Finally he said,  tri  ‘Lastly, I would censor Victor Davis Hanson’s book ‘Mexifornia.’ His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel America deserves to be destroyed, don’t read that book.’

There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous cloud above every attendee at the conference. Every American in that room knew that everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet pervasively across the United States today.

tri Discussion is being suppressed.

tri Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our educational system and national cohesiveness.

tri Even barbaric cultures that practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate ‘diversity.’

tri American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as corporations create a Third World in America. Take note of California and other states. To date, ten million illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell’s book ’1984.’ In that story,

tri three slogans are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building: ‘War is peace,’ ‘Freedom is slavery,’ and ‘Ignorance is strength.’
 
Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference that our nation and the future of this great democracy is deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we don’t get this immigration monster stopped within three years, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in its path, especially The American Dream.

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