NO Fence, NO Border, NO Sovereignty - We've been had...again.

"SUCKERS!"

Someone asked how to find how their rep voted on this last minute deal/Scam to prevent a fence from being built. There was no "vote" by our congress, these are "instructions" from "the leaders" in total contrast to the bill that was passed and signed to appease the masses. NOW, you can kiss this republic goodbye if we're stupid enough to keep electing these people.

But today, everyone is too interested in a pervert resigning from Congress to notice our congressional check and balance formula MEANS NOTHING. There goes one!

The 9th circuit court of appeals ruled today it is discrimination to ask for citizenship proof to vote. That should finish off Randy Graff in Arizona. So the courts are worthless as a check. There goes two!

The executive branch? Three strikes, we're out!
TheTownCrier

Lawmakers' last-minute deal creates loophole in U.S.-Mexico fence
Source: The Seattle Times

Oct 6, 2006

WASHINGTON — No sooner did Congress authorize construction of a 698-mile fence on the U.S.-Mexican border last week than lawmakers rushed to approve separate legislation that ensures it will never be built, at least not as advertised, according to Republican lawmakers and immigration experts.

GOP leaders have singled out the fence as one of the primary accomplishments of the recently completed session. Many lawmakers plan to highlight their $1.2 billion down payment on its construction as they campaign in the weeks before the midterm elections.

But shortly before recessing late last Friday, the House and Senate gave the Bush administration leeway to distribute the money to a combination of projects, not just the physical barrier along the southern border. The money may also be spent on roads, technology and "tactical infrastructure" to support the Homeland Security Department's preferred option of a "virtual fence."

What's more, in a late-night concession to win over wavering Republicans, GOP congressional leaders pledged in writing that Native American tribes (like the one tribe who gets paid for smuggling and doesn't want a fence!), members of Congress, governors and local leaders would get a say in "the exact placement" of any structure and that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff would have the flexibility to use alternatives "when fencing is ineffective or impractical."

The loopholes leave the Bush administration with authority to decide where, when and how long a fence will be built, except for small stretches east of San Diego and in western Arizona. Homeland Security officials have proposed a fence half as long, lawmakers said.

"It's one thing to authorize. It's another thing to actually appropriate the money and do it," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.

The fine-print distinction between what Congress says it will do and what it actually pays for is a time-honored result of the checks and balances between lawmakers who oversee agencies and those who hold their purse strings.

In this case, it also reflects the GOP's political calculations that voters do not mind the details, and that key players — including the administration, local leaders and the Mexican government — oppose a fence-only approach, analysts said.

President Bush signed the $34.8 billion homeland-security budget bill Wednesday without referring to the barrier. Instead, he highlighted the $1.2 billion that Congress provided for an unspecified blend of fencing, vehicle barriers, lighting and technology such as ground-based radar, cameras and sensors.

"That's what the people of this country want," the president said. "They want to know that we're modernizing the border so we can better secure the border."

Bush and Chertoff have said repeatedly that enforcement alone will not work and that they want limited dollars spent elsewhere, such as on a temporary-worker program to ease pressure on the border. At an estimated $3 million to $10 million per mile, the double-layered barrier would cost more than $1.2 billion.

Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., who chairs the Senate subcommittee that funds the Department of Homeland Security, said that before the legislation was approved, the department had planned to build 320 miles of fencing, secure 500 miles of hard-to-traverse areas by blocking roads, and electronically monitor the rest of the 2,000-mile-long frontier.

"I think there'll be fencing where the department feels that it makes sense," Gregg said, estimating that "at least 300 to 400 miles" will be built.

Congress withheld $950 million of the $1.2 billion, pending a breakdown by Chertoff of how he plans to spend the money. It is due in early December.(Remember!! Grover Norquist's brother is head of finance for HSD.)

Asked whether Homeland Security would build 698 miles of fence, department spokesman Russ Knocke would not say. Instead, he noted that department leaders announced last month that they will spend $67 million to test a remote-sensing "virtual fence" concept on a 28-mile, high-traffic stretch of border south of Tucson over eight months, and then adjust their plans.

"We plan to build a little and test a little. ... Stay tuned," Knocke said.

The split between GOP leaders hungry for a sound-bite-friendly accomplishment targeting immigration and others who support a more comprehensive approach also means that the fence bill will be watered down when lawmakers return for a lame-duck session in November, according to congressional aides and lobbyists.

The office of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, on Thursday released a letter from House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., promising to ensure that Chertoff has discretion over whether to build a fence or choose other options. Homeland Security officials also must consult with U.S., state and local representatives on where structures are placed.

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SO MUCH FOR THE BORDER FENCE
Nealz Nuze | Friday, October 6, 2006 | Neal Boortz

With great fanfare the other day, the president signed a bill approving a 700-mile border fence on the U.S.-Mexican border. Setting aside the fact that that's about 1,300 miles too short, it was seen as at least the administration doing something about illegal immigration.

But wait...stop the presses! All is not what it seems.

You see, the bill the Congress passed and the White House signed was just a "down payment" on the fence...$1.2 billion to be spent to start the construction. It is expected to cost much more than that. But today we get word that they money doesn't even have to be spent on the border fence....it can just be spent on border security, or whatever the Department of Homeland Security decides.

In fact, media reports today say the border fence might not ever be built. Evidently right after the proposal passed the Congress, lawmakers went to work to undermine it and be sure that it never happened. So there you have it...once again the do-nothing Congress continues to thwart the will of the people when it comes to the illegal alien invasion.

No wonder the GOP is losing its grip on Washington....they can't even do anything as simple as protect the border.

MUST SEE... HUCKABEE explains the collusion conspiracy of Hillary and her henchmen! LIZ CHENEY is connected!

GO watch this video!  

Huckabee - March 05, 2022 - Huckabee - Watch TBN - Trinity Broadcasting Network

Hillary is at the center of all this Russia Hoax and trying to overturn the 2016 election....  She is tied to all of the players... particularly the powerful DC law firm of Latham & Watkins where PHIL PERRY* worked...

Who??

 Liz Cheney's corrupt husband who we talked about years ago after ripping off the Department of Justice and playing open border advocate.

And Trump... NO connections to any of these deep staters! ZERO. YOU have been played by the media!

Huckabee - March 05, 2022 - Huckabee - Watch TBN - Trinity Broadcasting Network

Huckabee breaks down the Deep State's web of connectionHuckabee • 50m

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PHILIP PERRY.....WHO??

That is Mrs. Philip Perry.   Liz Cheney is the mother of his five children, who had been accused of corruption and cronyism and said a few years ago, "The term 'revolving door' implies people going in and out of government in order to obtain monetary gain. The reason people go into government is to serve their country. It's not appropriate to describe that as a 'revolving door.'"

.....right......

Phil Perry is the poster boy for K street/whitehouse cronyism and revolvingdoorism!

In 2007, TheTownCrier wrote several articles detailing some of the questionable 'work' Perry headed at the Justice Dept.  One is titled, "Exposing the Dept. of Job Security (who is Philip Perry?)".

In his position as the General Counsel for the DHS, appointed by his friend Michael Chertoff, Perry supervised over 1,500 lawyers, and advised Secretary Chertoff, who had been a close associate at their lobbying/lawyer firm and the White House on the Department's legal and policy issues.   Issues of influence for Perry included, but were not limited to, "the transit of people and cargo, comprehensive immigration reform, and critical infrastructure such as chemical plants."

BUSH/McCain/Kennedy COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM! AMNESTY! HELLO!

'Transit of people and cargo'....NO ONE in the Bush DOJ EVER did anything to enforce those laws!

 "Perry’s questionable behavior extends far beyond nepotism and delaying investigations. He’s also a pro at jumping back and forth between government and the private sector, doing what he can to benefit industry along the way. After Bush became president, Perry moved from being a junior partner at the DC law firm Latham & Watkins to holding the position of Associate-Attorney General for the Department of Justice. He then moved to the Office of Management and Budget as General Counsel, where he had a hand in drafting plans for DHS. In 2003, he returned to Latham & Watkins as a member of their Homeland Security practice group and lobbied on behalf of Lockheed Martin and other companies."

One article on Mr. Perry you should read is, 'Dick Cheney’s Dangerous Son-in-Law, Philip Perry and the politics of chemical security'  by Art Levine.

It details nefarious dealings when Perry was general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), another powerful Bush/Cheney appointment.

The point here is that the OMB is supposed to be impartial, a 'guide' to the administration, not to make policy decisions at the VP's behest!   When you're running an administration that isn't corrupt you don't appoint a relative as a watchdog! HELLO!

[snip](A colleague, Michael Chertoff, would later head the Department of Homeland Security.) In 2000, when Cheney became George W. Bush’s running mate, Perry found himself in the inner circle of advisers surrounding his father-in-law. Friends describe him as intellectually brilliant and extremely discreet. Fittingly, in the vice president’s debate-prep sessions, Perry played the role of moderator. The Republican political consultant Mary Matalin, who worked with him in the mock debates, described Perry to Legal Times as “very, very, very strategic.”

When the election of 2000 was resolved, Perry took on the title of “policy coordinator” for the Bush-Cheney presidential transition. By early 2001, he had been appointed as the acting associate attorney general at the Department of Justice, the department’s third-ranking official. It was a dramatic promotion.

While Perry mostly stayed out of the news, the summer brought some unwelcome attention. The Department of Justice, it was reported, would stop pursuing a breakup of Microsoft. Since Perry oversaw the antitrust division, and Cheney had previously met with Microsoft’s CEO, some critics smelled a fix.[snip]

In January 2007, during the uproar over the imprisonment of Ramos and Compean, two border agents and the false statements made by the Justice Dept., Perry announced his intention to step down as general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security and was rumored to be returning to Latham & Watkins. Elizabeth Cheney, Perry’s wife, had given birth to the couple’s fifth child in July 2006. 

We will likely never know how deeply Perry was buried in the pathetic prosecution and imprisonment of these two border agents for doing their jobs.   We do know of other problems  he handled for DHS that point directly to him.

TheTownCrier (towncriernews.blogspot.com)

March 8, 2022

Mike Huckabee

Here’s more proof that when liberal media outlets begin a story with “Experts say…” there’s a very good chance you’re about to get a snow job. If it’s a story about anything Donald Trump said, you can count on it. The self-appointed “fact-checkers” were constantly telling us that Trump was lying about something, according to “experts,” when it later became obvious that he was right. And now, here’s yet another example.

Just before the 2020 election, Trump was speaking at a rally in Grand Rapids, where he was boasting about making America energy-independent for the first time and bringing gas prices down to $2 a gallon or less. He then said, “If Biden got in, you’d be paying $7, $8, $9, then they’d say, ‘Get rid of your car.'”

https://www.westernjournal.com/video-trumps-bold-prediction-2020-comes-true-americans-live-reality-bidens-america/

Democrat Congresswoman Barbara Jordan: “Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave.”

Just How Temporary are 'Guest Workers?' Let’s Ask Their Grandchildren

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Just How Temporary are 'Guest Workers?' Let’s Ask Their Grandchildren

by Mac Johnson
Posted Oct 24, 2005

In what a cynic would say was move to extricate himself from a “QuagMier” with his base, President Bush last week appeared to reverse course on illegal immigration. Apparently, he’s now against it.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff declared before Congress that:

Our goal at DHS (Homeland Security) is to completely eliminate the 'catch and release' enforcement problem, and return every single illegal entrant, no exceptions. It should be possible to achieve significant and measurable progress to this end in less than a year.

President Bush then reinforced this comment in a separate venue, stating:

We've got to work to ensure that those who are caught are returned to their home countries as soon as possible.

Before I go any further, just let me say that these statements are among the most welcome announcements from the Bush administration since it revealed that the first bomb had fallen on Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan four years ago. If the administration follows through on it’s promise, it will be a historic moment -- the moment that the overwhelming majority of the American people (Republican, Democrat, and Independent) finally had their wishes on illegal immigration acknowledged by their allegedly representative government. So, Huzzah! Hooray! And Halleluiah!

Now, unfortunately, I have to go further. It is a well-known fact that the last words of many a rodent have been “Look! Free Cheese!” So what is the potential trap upon which we find this enormous hunk of Immigration Cheddar? It is the fact that enforcement will be bundled with a so-called “Guest Worker” program.

Or, as Secretary Chertoff stated at the same Senate hearing in which he announced the administration’s new found sense of responsibility for law enforcement:

We're going to need more than just brute enforcement . . . We're going to need a temporary worker program as well.

First, let me say that we have no idea what “brute enforcement” can accomplish. We’ve never tried it. Right now we have “no enforcement.” So what do you say we start with pansy enforcement and work our way up to brute enforcement before we start bad-mouthing it? As a matter of fact, let’s declare December to be “National Brute Enforcement Month,” because I have really high hopes for it.

That being said, let’s look at just how “temporary” any proposed guest worker program is likely to be. This is not a subject we have to leave to our imagination either (like brute enforcement) because this idea has actually been tried in a very similar nation. “Guest worker” is a direct translation of the German term “Gastarbeiter.”

After World War II, Germany introduced a sweeping deregulation of its economy, that surprisingly (along with the “Marshall Plan” and Germany’s pre-welfare state work ethic) resulted in two decades of runaway growth, known in German as the “Wirtschaftswunder,” and in English as the German “Economic Miracle.”

In just a few years, Germany went from a nation of nearly total unemployment, a ruined infrastructure, and endless refugee camps for displaced Germans from the East, to a thriving nation whose growth seemed limited only by the number of workers it could lay its hands upon.

Labor shortages, of course, are a normal part of all economic expansions. Such wonderful problems have long been among the primary forces driving economic and technological innovations aimed at making existing workers more efficient. Such productivity innovations are a long-term phenomenon, however, and in the 1950’s Germany had recent experience with a much shorter-term solution to chronic labor shortage: imported foreign workers.

During the war, with manufacturing needs high and civilian workers in short supply, Germany solved the labor shortage by bringing in huge numbers of foreigners from the occupied territories -- some of them voluntarily, even. These workers significantly increased Germany’s strained wartime productivity. Those who survived Allied bombs and the moral expediencies of a wartime economy then promptly fled Germany upon her collapse.

Faced with the labor shortage of the Economic Miracle, Germany decided to simply revive the wartime practice, but with higher wages and fewer guards. To make the new program more palatable, they called the imported workers “Guest Workers”, rather than “Alien Workers” (fremdarbeiters) as they had been called during the war.

The idea was very appealing: the country would import large numbers of Turks, Italians, Greeks, Yugoslavs, Spaniards and Moroccans to cheaply do the jobs that “no German wanted to do.” Such impoverished foreigners would be happy as pie with piddly wages (by German standards) and then they would all go home after a few years. This second part was very important to the Germans, who had never been a nation of immigration and were rightfully proud of their long history as a distinct and continuous people.

So how did it work? Great -- right up until the part where the guests were supposed to go home. They didn’t. Employers became dependent on them and were reluctant to find and train replacements or adapt through innovation. And the workers found life as a janitor in Germany somewhat more attractive than life as a Goatherd in the backwoods of Anatolia.

So the employers and guests both fought for constant renewals and extensions and loopholes. The (very comfortable) guests then brought in their families at the first opportunity (or married other guest workers) and baby guests were born. Today, it has been forty to fifty years since the guest worker agreements were signed (depending on the guest-providing country in question), and the guests are still there.

There are two million Turkish guests, one million Yugoslav guests, half a million Italian guests, one third of a million Greek guests and a quarter million Polish guests, along with thousands of Moroccan, Tunisian, Middle Eastern, Russian, and assorted other guests. Guests are now 10% of Germany’s population. And many of these guests were born in Germany, being the children and grandchildren of Germany’s “temporary” workers from the fifties and sixties. Oh, and they’ve tired of the guest room, so they all expect to be made citizens now.

Germany was totally sincere in it’s original intent to have the guest workers be temporary, had no pre-existing pro-alien political lobby and no immigrant community for the newcomers to bond with -- and yet it has still not managed to be rid of its guests. So explain to me how America can ever make a guest worker program work. Especially since we grant citizenship to any and all that are born here, regardless of whether their mothers are here permanently, temporarily, illegally, or just visiting their guest worker husbands when the birth occurs.

An American guest worker program cannot work as anything other than a back-door amnesty for our current illegal aliens.

But, of course, that is the whole point of the program. Bush knows it. Chertoff knows it. And unfortunately for them, most conservatives know it.

Now, what was that part about brute enforcement again?
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LIZ CHENEY. Take a good look...this is the face of GOP elitism!

TheTownCrier has been on a long break, enjoying the pleasures and duties of life.  But something has to be said as I watch my fellow 'conservatives' get all twitterpatted over the latest, great GOP hope...well, keep hoping, my friends!

You are doing it again!!! Searching desperately for someone to save the Republican party and all of us from Socialist Hell, and grasping at NON conservative straws!  Remember Marco Rubio and all that vetting that NONE of you bothered to do before you promoted him as the face of AMNESTY???? 

HOW soon you forget! Or did you just ignore all the facts in the first place?  Either way...STOP it or you give us another candidate out of the Kennedy wing of the Republican party.  NO MORE BUSHES, NO MORE CHENEYS,!!
They were the SAME administration! Birds of a feather, and all that!
WAKE UP!  They are not conservatives!

Headline:  In Wyoming, a Cheney Run Worries G.O.P.

Here is a sample of some of the comments from the blind faithful!

"Liz Cheney - daughter of Dick - taking on the GOPelite"

"I for one will do anything that will bring Liz Cheney to power!!!"

"Liz takes on Obummer by speaking the truth and calling a radical a radical and the GOP(elite) is scared to death of her .... why the GOP(e) has lost my support & that of many other conservatives tired of holding their noses to vote "the lesser of two evils". This won't work with me any more."

WHAT the HELL country have you so called 'conservatives' been living in for the last 3 decades??? WAKE UP!  Do you LIKE being a part of the STUPID party?

The real irony here, is the folks making these undeserving comments HATE this amnesty push!  Yet, they'll adore some hack to prominence who supports amnesty and worse!

The men in Liz's life.........

DICK CHENEY

Liz is Dick Cheney's daughter...THAT alone should make you run the other way!  What good did he EVER do the republican party or this country for that matter?
Her father and mother and her lesbian sister Mary all hold liberal social views that should worry you social conservatives.  Mary once said, 'I think you'd be hard-pressed to find any daylight at all between Liz's and my father's views."
Cesar Conda,  of current Amnesty fame, was Dick Cheney's domestic policy advisor. 

GEORGE W. BUSH

Liz was appointed by Pres. G.W. Bush  in 2002 to the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs for 2 years then took a break to help with the re-election of her dad.
In 2005, she returned to the US State Department and was appointed the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State For Near Eastern Affairs and Coordinator for Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiatives.  In this position, Cheney supported and coordinated U.S. multilateral efforts to promote and support democracy, expanded education and economic opportunities in the Middle East and Northern Africa.   Cheney oversaw the launch of two semi-independent foundations for those areas, the Fund of the Future (worth $100 million), to provide capital for small businesses and the Foundation of the Future (worth $55 million), to promote freedom of the press and democracy.  In that capacity, Cheney endorsed a draft of a new Iraqi constitution.

The lady flat knows how to spend our money in places that hate us and I recall that many of us were unhappy with parts of that Iraqi constitution which instituted Islam as a state religion and called universal health care a 'right' among other questionable 'rules' and 'rights' .

Liz held an important 2nd position at State Dept. She is typical of the people retired Rep. Duncan Hunter called "Knuckleheads at the department of State" during the time she served.  This is also the same time when Bush's  State Dept. allowed 'refugees' like the tens of thousands of Somali's  and others generously brought to our country,  who now cause so many problems.

 One has only to remember the recent history  of  those lovely Chechan Boston bombing brother refugees, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to know how many bad apples the State Department  ushered in while Liz Cheney was close to the helm.

Cheney signed on in June 2007 to serve as one of three national co-chairs for Fred Thompson's 2008 presidential campaign. Another co-chair was Spencer Abraham, who once hired Cesar Conda as his chief of staff as he now holds the same position for Marco Rubio.   After Thompson dropped out of the race, Cheney announced that she would work for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, serving as a senior foreign policy advisor.   Cesar Conda also worked as an advisor for Romney in his last run and was a mentor to Paul Ryan.

PHILIP PERRY.....WHO??

That is Mrs. Philip Perry.   Liz Cheney is the mother of his five children, who had been accused of corruption and cronyism and said a few years ago, "The term 'revolving door' implies people going in and out of government in order to obtain monetary gain. The reason people go into government is to serve their country. It's not appropriate to describe that as a 'revolving door.'"

.....right......

Phil Perry is the poster boy for K street/whitehouse cronyism and revolvingdoorism!

In 2007, TheTownCrier wrote several articles detailing some of the questionable 'work' Perry headed at the Justice Dept.  One is titled, "Exposing the Dept. of Job Security (who is Philip Perry?)".

In his position as the General Counsel for the DHS, appointed by his friend Michael Chertoff, Perry supervised over 1,500 lawyers, and advised Secretary Chertoff, who had been a close associate at their lobbying/lawyer firm and the White House on the Department's legal and policy issues.   Issues of influence for Perry included, but were not limited to, "the transit of people and cargo, comprehensive immigration reform, and critical infrastructure such as chemical plants."

BUSH/McCain/Kennedy COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM! AMNESTY! HELLO!

'Transit of people and cargo'....NO ONE in the Bush DOJ EVER did anything to enforce those laws!

 "Perry’s questionable behavior extends far beyond nepotism and delaying investigations. He’s also a pro at jumping back and forth between government and the private sector, doing what he can to benefit industry along the way. After Bush became president, Perry moved from being a junior partner at the DC law firm Latham & Watkins to holding the position of Associate-Attorney General for the Department of Justice. He then moved to the Office of Management and Budget as General Counsel, where he had a hand in drafting plans for DHS. In 2003, he returned to Latham & Watkins as a member of their Homeland Security practice group and lobbied on behalf of Lockheed Martin and other companies."

One article on Mr. Perry you should read is, 'Dick Cheney’s Dangerous Son-in-Law, Philip Perry and the politics of chemical security'  by Art Levine.

It details nefarious dealings when Perry was general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), another powerful Bush/Cheney appointment.

The point here is that the OMB is supposed to be impartial, a 'guide' to the administration, not to make policy decisions at the VP's behest!   When you're running an administration that isn't corrupt you don't appoint a relative as a watchdog! HELLO!

[snip](A colleague, Michael Chertoff, would later head the Department of Homeland Security.) In 2000, when Cheney became George W. Bush’s running mate, Perry found himself in the inner circle of advisers surrounding his father-in-law. Friends describe him as intellectually brilliant and extremely discreet. Fittingly, in the vice president’s debate-prep sessions, Perry played the role of moderator. The Republican political consultant Mary Matalin, who worked with him in the mock debates, described Perry to Legal Times as “very, very, very strategic.”

When the election of 2000 was resolved, Perry took on the title of “policy coordinator” for the Bush-Cheney presidential transition. By early 2001, he had been appointed as the acting associate attorney general at the Department of Justice, the department’s third-ranking official. It was a dramatic promotion.

While Perry mostly stayed out of the news, the summer brought some unwelcome attention. The Department of Justice, it was reported, would stop pursuing a breakup of Microsoft. Since Perry oversaw the antitrust division, and Cheney had previously met with Microsoft’s CEO, some critics smelled a fix.[snip]

In January 2007, during the uproar over the imprisonment of Ramos and Compean, two border agents and the false statements made by the Justice Dept., Perry announced his intention to step down as general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security and was rumored to be returning to Latham & Watkins. Elizabeth Cheney, Perry’s wife, had given birth to the couple’s fifth child in July 2006. 

We will likely never know how deeply Perry was buried in the pathetic prosecution and imprisonment of these two border agents for doing their jobs.   We do know of other problems  he handled for DHS that point directly to him.

CESAR CONDA

Pro Amnesty, anti enforcement open border HACK.  Pal of all things Grover Norquist.  

The guy who pulls Marco Rubio's strings.  Mentor to Paul Ryan.   Advisor to Mitt Romney.  Domestic policy advisor to Dick Cheney.  FRIEND of Liz. 

Florida Elections: The Crist to Rubio Switch (A former Dick Cheney assistant changes his mind)  National Review ^ | 02/09/2010 | by Cesar Conda

[snip]  Charlie Crist, if elected, would make a fine U.S. senator, and would probably be a reliable Republican vote on most issues. But I think Marco Rubio is more likely to be a leader when it comes to putting foward innovative conservative policy reforms and alternatives to America's problems.
I've rounded up a group of friends, including Rep. Paul Ryan, Mary Matalin, Liz Cheney, ..... among others, to host an evening reception in my offices (901 7th Street, N.W., Washington) for Rubio after his speech before CPAC on Thursday, February 18. I'd invite all Corner readers to come over to meet Marco, who I believe will be Florida's next U.S. Senator.
— Cesar Conda was assistant for domestic policy to Vice President Dick Cheney and senior economic policy adviser to the 2008 Mitt Romney for President Campaign.

QUESTION:   How does a player like Conda get to be a lowly state rep's chief of staff...WHO hired WHO????

According to an article today, " Since leaving public office, Liz co-founded a non-profit called Keep America Safe which advocates for Republican ideals. She currently serves as the chairwoman of the conservative group."

Interestingly, we're unable to access their website, keepamericasafe.com and others just won't load.  She and Wm. Kristol...you know that great 'conservative' Icon (yeah, I'm a comedian) are joined in that endeavor, whatever it stands for. 

 This may explain  it, "As of the early 2013, KAS appeared to be largely inactive. Although its website provided links to outside news sources covering current events, materials on the group’s resource pages—such as links to materials by neoconservative writers like Elliott Abramsand reports from the Center for Security Policy—all dated back several years. The group reported just over $200,000 in contributions in 2011, compared to over $535,000 in 2010"

Somewhere, sometime, Liz may have said she is not for 'amnesty'....so did Bush, Conda and Rubio & Ryan!   Actually, she's avoiding the subject and there just isn't anything to quote her on.  But you can know someone by the company they keep, and Liz is hanging out with ALL the wrong men.

It will be interesting to find out the powers that be behind a Liz campaign for office when there is a conservative GOP Senator already in place...Enzi....who isn't an amnesty freak......this all has the smell of a Grover Norquist operation.
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UPDATE:  Well, look here....who is singing the praises of Liz Cheney? The same rag that loves John McCain.....BEWARE...the media is picking our candidates...the ones THEY want! 

 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/07/08/liz-cheney-for-senate/

Some really interesting comments at the link above....Wyoming citizens aren't impressed with Liz the carpetbagger!

MARK LEVIN!! SHAME ON YOU.  Yesterday you endorsed Liz Cheney.  You've been on a rampage for a week about the elitist ROTTEN insider GOP and ya endorse this woman withouth bothering to vet her.  SHE is another Marco Rubio! Yeah, I know, you think me and others are NOBODY bloggers...well, I've known you for 14 years and I haven't been wrong yet! WAKE THE HELL UP before you push another traitor on us! YOU are better than that!
TTC     7/19/13 

UPDATE #2:  TOLD YOU SO!  Norquist and his pal  Cesar Conda are behind trying to oust Enzi and smear Rand Paul for supporting him!

[snip]Paul’s campaign was half-unsurprised, half-amused. They’d seen this coming a week before, when former Cheney policy adviser Cesar Conda emailed some fellow neoconservatives and asked them to “help us get the word out about Rand Paul’s troubling and dangerous views on foreign policy.”* Fun on its own, but by weighing in personally, Cheney had confirmed a white-knuckle panic among their least favorite Republicans..... Conda, who tried to organize that late anti-Paul surge in 2010, is now chief of staff to Sen. Marco Rubio. (He chose not to comment for this story.)"

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/07/liz_cheney_running_for_wyoming_senate_seat_neoconservatives_hope_dick_cheney.html 

PSST!!!! Philip Perry...husband of Liz and father of her 5 babies......#1 LAWYER for MONSANTO/Roundup/gmo everything...Perry is the guy they send to court to devour small farmers and YOU! 
NOW, who do you think owns Liz Cheney?  Hmm??? 
 http://www.lw.com/people/PhilipJPerry

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WHAT have we here.....aw...just one of Obama/Rubio's 'dreamers' who DESERVE citizenship!

Illegal Alien Pleads Guilty to Gang Rape in Michigan
http://www.examiner.com/article/ill ... s-guilty-to-gang-rape-michigan
 Jul 5, 2013
Author: Dave Gibson

Illegal Alien Pleads Guilty to Gang Rape in Michigan 

On Monday, Felipe Lopez-Velasquez, 17, pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual conduct and robbery in a Kent County courtroom for a gang rape which occurred on September 10.



Lopez-Velasquez, along with an accomplice repeatedly raped a 21-year-old Grand Valley University student at a Grand Rapids bus stop.
The pair grabbed the victim as she was exiting a bus in a Southside neighborhood.
WOOD-TV reported:
“ In a sworn affidavit, a Grand Rapids detective said that a composite sketch led to tips that identified Lopez-Velasquez. The detective said that the 21-year-old victim and a witness picked Lopez-Velasquez out of a police lineup.
A prosecutor recommended that a judge sentence Felipe Lopez-Velasquez, who was 16 at the time of the incident, to six years and nine months to 11 years and three months in prison at the minimum. He was charged as an adult.
Lopez-Velasquez is scheduled to be sentenced on August 15.
His accomplice, Marco Vazquez, 14, was also charged as an adult, and has already pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree sexual assault and robbery. He is currently serving a five-year sentence.
Related articles:
Illegal alien charged with child rape in Michigan
Illegal alien charged with repeated sexual abuse of a young girl in Michigan 
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Won't hear this on the news!


White House's Fast And Furious Claims Another Victim
Investor's Business Daily | July 8, 2013 | IBD EDITORIALS


Scandal: The administration's gun-running fiasco claims the life of a Mexican police chief, revealing that the weapons have made it into the hands of drug cartels deep inside Mexico.
It's been lost in the litany of Obama scandals, but Fast and Furious, like Benghazi, is one that has produced a body count, in this case one that's still rising as the White House and Department of Justice continue to restrict and hinder access to related documents. Attorney General Eric Holder remains in contempt of Congress for his role in the ongoing cover-up.
President Obama's contempt for the rule of law hit a new low when, on the eve of a vote to hold the AG in contempt of Congress, he granted Holder's 11th-hour request to hide sought-after documents on Operation Fast and Furious under the cover of executive privilege.
One internal document obtained by the Los Angeles Times shows how deadly Fast and Furious was and continues to be with the death Luis Lucio Rosales Astorga, police chief in the city of Hostotipaquillo. He was shot to death Jan. 29 when gunmen intercepted his patrol car and opened fire. A bodyguard was also killed.
A semi-automatic WASR rifle, the firearm that killed the chief, was traced back to the Lone Wolf Trading Company, a gun store in Glendale, Ariz. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) allowed illegal purchasers to buy the firearms at the Lone Wolf store in the Phoenix suburb and other gun shops in the Southwest.
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.....and the beat goes on.....

The SBI Net contract -”virtual fence”- LOOK who will handle the money!

Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff announced Thursday, the implementation of a high tech, high priced deal with Boeing for "virtual border security". What will be interesting about this is if David Norquist, recently appointed by Pres. Bush to handle the finances at homeland security does as bad a job as he did with handling the more than questionable spending on Haliburton with the Defense Dept. Norquist is the brother of Grover Norquist, the White House policy maker for immigration/amnesty/open borders and founder of the Islamic Institute.

May 27, 2006 - The Senate also confirmed David L. Norquist as Homeland Security’s chief financial officer, and former Secret Service director Ralph Basham as commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Several Senators including Joe Lieberman challenged documented missteps and questionable spending of billions in defense contracts handled by Norquist.

DHS Nominee for CFO Grilled About Role in Hiding Alleged Overcharges by Halliburton

Department of Homeland Security chief financial officer nominee David Norquist faced more questions at his confirmation hearing about Halliburton subsidiary KBR than about his plans to handle the department’s complex financial management system.

Senators on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Monday focused on Norquist’s role at the Department of Defense in allowing prime Iraq contractor Halliburton subsidiary KBR to conceal alleged overcharges in an investigation by a United Nations oversight board.

As the deputy undersecretary of defense and comptroller, Norquist was asked by the panel about more than 450 redactions in documents drafted by the Defense Contract Audit Agency. That agency found more than $177 million in overcharges, according to committee ranking member Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn.

DOD provided the documents to the U.N. oversight board, claiming the redactions were necessary to protect proprietary information for KBR.

It is “very troubling that a contractor implicated in an overcharging scandal would be given the final say on what information to provide to the U.N. oversight board,” Lieberman said.

“This episode is relevant to today’s hearing because DHS needs a CFO who puts taxpayers first, who is committed to sound financial management and transparency and who is willing to confront agencies that may be shirking their legal responsibilities.”

From Chertoff's press release, he states,

"Now, what is SBI Net? Well, SBI Net, first of all, is a partnership -- a partnership with Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, which will be the prime contractor and the integrator for our technology effort at the southern border and at the northern border. What we are looking to build is a virtual fence, a 21st century virtual fence

The SBI Net contract is an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity type of contract with a performance period of three years, and three one-year option periods. What that means in plain English is we're not buying the entire contract at once. We have the overall framework. We have the partner. We have the general terms of the contract. But we will be rolling out segments of this, starting in the highest priority, highest traffic areas.

One of the critical requirements that we laid down in this process of procurement was the government always had to have control of the driver's seat. We have a partner here. We look forward to working with the partner. But the control of the process lies with the government, and that means at every step of the way, as we roll out additional segments of the border under this contract, we will have the opportunity to negotiate the best price. We'll have the opportunity to look for alternatives, if we think there are cheaper or better alternatives that have become available. And we will be driving the process using the operators as the principal decision-makers here at every step of the way.

More current news on Norquist:

Group: Abramoff-implicated Norquist visited White House 155 times

The Secret Service revealed yesterday, as a result of a suit brought on by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), that Grover Norquist, former associate of Jack Abramoff, had been cleared to visit the White House 97 times in the five-year period leading up to the scandal, including 6 meetings with President Bush himself. Records relating to the case indicate that Norquist, through the group Americans for Tax Reform, channeled money between Abramoff clients and grassroots campaigns, skimming hundreds of thousands of dollars off the top in the process. CREW insists that during settlement discussions with the Secret Service, it was revealed that records destroyed by the Secret Service--but still retained by the White House--show that Norquist visited the White House a minimum of 155 times.

Trackback!

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Cronyism, Pandering, Incompetency. What a legacy!

The President nominates David L. Norquist, brother of Grover Norquist to Chief Financial Officer at the Department of Homeland Security.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2006/07/cronyism-pandering-incompetency-what.html

Exposing the Dept. of Job Security (who is Philip Perry?)

First, Philip Perry is the son in law of Dick Cheney.

Source: Project on Government oversight
URL Source: http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2007/02/exposing_the_de.html

Richard Skinner, Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and David Walker, Comptroller General with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), appeared today before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to discuss management and contract problems within DHS. The particular programs under scrutiny were the Secure Border Initiative (SBI) and Deepwater, but the hearing also highlighted more fundamental concerns about contracting and transparency in the Department.

In his written testimony (pdf) for a similar hearing yesterday in the House Homeland Security Committee, Walker stated:

...DHS has not made its management or operational decisions transparent enough so that Congress can be sure it is effectively, efficiently, and economically using the billions of dollars in funding it receives annually, and is providing the levels of security called for in numerous legislative requirements and presidential directives. Our work for Congress assessing DHS’s operations has been significantly hampered by long delays in granting us access to program documents and officials, or by questioning our access to information needed to conduct our reviews. We are troubled by the impact that DHS’s processes and internal reviews have had on our ability to assess departmental programs and operations. Given the problems we have experienced in obtaining access to DHS information, it will be difficult for us to sustain the level of oversight that Congress has directed and that is needed to effectively oversee the department, including the level of oversight needed to assess DHS’s progress in addressing the existing transformation, integration, and programmatic challenges identified in this statement.

Walker’s testimony further relates that these sort of impediments were encountered during his investigation of the Deepwater and SBI programs. A Tuesday article by Chris Strohm for the publication CongressDaily looks at one of the main individuals at DHS behind both Skinner and Walker’s investigative difficulties:

Walker said the problem is "systemic" and not the fault of any single individual. But he complained that GAO has had to go through the office of General Counsel Philip Perry. Perry is married to Elizabeth Cheney, a former State Department official who is one of the vice president's two daughters. Walker said it is his understanding that people from Perry's office have to review documents GAO seeks before they are released and selectively sit in on interviews with department employees.

"When you have more lawyers in a meeting than program people, you know you got a problem. Something needs to be done about this," Walker said. "There needs to be an understanding that if the general counsel's office is going to get involved, it's clearly got to be the exception rather than the rule," he added. "Right now the system is structured to delay, delay, delay ... We haven't had a situation where they refuse information but it might take months to get it."

Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner said his investigations have also been hindered. "We're experiencing the same problem," said Skinner, who added his office is "oftentimes" told who they can interview and that it sometimes takes weeks to get documents.

Perry’s questionable behavior extends far beyond nepotism and delaying investigations. He’s also a pro at jumping back and forth between government and the private sector, doing what he can to benefit industry along the way. After Bush became president, Perry moved from being a junior partner at the DC law firm Latham & Watkins to holding the position of Associate-Attorney General for the Department of Justice. He then moved to the Office of Management and Budget as General Counsel, where he had a hand in drafting plans for DHS. In 2003, he returned to Latham & Watkins as a member of their Homeland Security practice group and lobbied on behalf of Lockheed Martin and other companies.

An article by Art Levine in the most recent addition of the Washington Monthly chronicles Perry’s exploits over the course of his career. By the time Perry joined DHS, he was a veteran advocate for the chemical industry and government contractors, and he had also made the right connections in government. Levine states:

Enter Philip Perry. When Michael Chertoff was nominated to head the DHS in 2005, he had asked Perry to join him as the department’s general counsel. The two were not only colleagues at Latham & Watkins but also members of the conservative Federalist Society, and they were of like minds in their general distrust of government regulation of business. By the summer of 2006, as various bills competed for attention, Perry’s services were in great demand. “Industry went back to the well,” says one DHS official.

To no surprise, Perry’s “revolving door” habits haven’t ended with his position at DHS. Secretary Chertoff announced on Jan. 23 that Perry would be resigning from DHS by Feb. 6, presumably to rejoin his old law firm. Although Perry’s exit will undoubtedly be an improvement for DHS accountability, the enormous problems that he had a hand in creating at the Department still remain.

Today’s hearing on DHS is proof of that fact. Members of the House Committee, particularly Reps. Kucinich, Duncan, and Hodes, condemned the extensive underhanded dealings between industry and government officials that have resulted in huge losses for taxpayers. Rep. Duncan proclaimed at one point that the Deepwater and SBI programs are “emblematic” of the contracting problems discussed in yesterday’s NYT editorial.

Furthermore, the GAO and DHS Inspector General’s concerns have kept the Department on GAO's “high-risk” list (pdf), meaning that the stakes involved are high and much remains to be accomplished. As Congress continues with its hearings and investigations, it’s also possible that even more problems and cases of corruption will come to light. Finally, if his past is any prelude to the future, Perry will return to the scene like a villain in a low-budget horror movie sequel.

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From what we've found, it appears Philip Perry may have also been involved with the Ramos/Compean prosecution and resulting 'confusion' over statements, testimony, investigation by Homeland Security. Perry resigned this month to 'spend more time with family'.

Remember Skinner is the one who admitted to congressmen last week that Homeland Security had 'misled them' about statements Ramos and Compean made to the Homeland security investigator.

Perry's wife Elizabeth (daughter of Dick Cheney), was #2 at the State Dept for Mid eastern affairs until recently.

Under the Radar! Identity Theft law signed by Bush???

Well, I saw nothing reported on this one and we're having problems locating text of the bill. The White House calls it "The Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2007". It is not listed under that name on Thomas.gov.

We did find a listing of the bill here, furnished by a group opposed to it.

One section of the bill addressing the use of Social Security numbers could interfere with the legitimate use of those numbers in identifying employees for purposes of immigration compliance, wages and benefits.

The National Retail Federation, the world's largest retail trade association, expressed concern today regarding the credit freeze provision and other requirements of a national uniform standard for data breach notification that would be created under an identity theft bill being considered by a Senate committee.

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is scheduled to vote this afternoon on S. 1178, the Identity Theft Protection Act of 2007, sponsored by committee Ranking Member Ted Stevens, R-Alaska. See complete text of the Identity Theft Protection Act of 2007 below.

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According to several sources, one thing it doesn't do is mention one word about immigration, border enforcement or misuse of social security numbers by illegal aliens.

One thing it does is provide victims the means to collect damages.....right! How much do you suppose you'll get from an illegal alien. LOL!

Another thing it does is - "Providing fake IDs for non-terrorism-related crimes would carry a two-year prison term."

Please give your expertise on this, but I'm pretty sure the penalty was stiffer for this before! In other words are identity theft ring leaders now only facing 2 years?

Also, "A provision imposing mandatory five-year prison terms would apply to people convicted of using or providing fake IDs to help terrorists. "

Five years? Isn't that at least aiding terrorism/treason/ something!!!! Or are 11 year prison sentences only for border agents under the DOJ gun?

After signing the bill, President Bush remarked, "If America shows weakness or uncertainty in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy."

DUH

This bill is a result of the President's task force to write the bill.

About the Task Force

The President’s Task Force on Identity Theft was established by Executive Order 13402 on May 10, 2006, launching a new era in the fight against identity theft. Recognizing the heavy financial and emotional toll that identity theft exacts from its victims, and the severe burden it places on the economy, President Bush called for a coordinated approach among government agencies to combat this crime.

The President’s charge was to craft a strategic plan aiming to make the federal government’s efforts more effective and efficient in the areas of identity theft awareness, prevention, detection, and prosecution. To meet that charge, the Task Force, chaired by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and co-chaired by Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras, focused on several areas: (NOT IMMIGRATION!)

Chertoff and Carlos M. Gutierrez of Commerce were also on the 'task force".

NEWS you missed! BEST of the WEB.

Homeland Security Head Michael Chertoff says he has a "gut feeling' about a terrorist attact!! MIKE! YO....what you feel in your 'gut' is hunger! Go eat something! Oh, and SHUT UP!

MIKE CUTLER FINALLY GETS TO SPEAK! Thank you Glenn Beck. Cutler is one of the unsung heroes of the American people. He speaks to groups, appears on the news, testifies before congress and NEVER self promotes or tries to sell you something! Listen to him!
Aired 7/10/07, CNN


Michael Cutler is a former special agent for the INS and is now a senior fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. He also has a background in counterterrorism.

Mike, you have real experience out there with counterterrorism.

MIKE CUTLER, SENIOR FELLOW, CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES: Right.

BECK: And you`ve also been with the snakes in Washington. Which is more terrifying to you?

CUTLER: Well, sometimes I think one is the ally of the other. Look, by the way, thank you for having me on your program.

BECK: You bet.

CUTLER: The bottom line is this. You know, if you look back at December 7, 1941, America was attacked. We weren`t a superpower back then. But I`ll tell you what, in less than four years America did what had to be done. We built fleets of ships that never existed before, fleets of aircraft, atom bombs. You name it, we did it.

We won the war, declared the war safe for democracy and moved on. We`re coming up on the sixth anniversary of 9/11, and we still don`t even have enough passports that we can implement the Western Hemisphere travel initiative. We still have a visa waiver program. Our borders are still wide open. And we`re being told we`re waging a war on terror.

Meanwhile, look, you have the secretary of state going to Pakistan and chastising Musharraf for creating a wild, wild west on the border with Afghanistan. Meanwhile, we have our own wild west.

BECK: Yes. That`s why America is so angry, because none of this makes any sense.

CUTLER: But it`s not even just the border. Look, last year U.S. CIS, the division of DHS that gives out citizenship and immigration benefits, claimed that they lost -- are you ready for this -- 111,000 immigration files and then went ahead and naturalized 30,000 aliens without their files.
Could you imagine a bank doing business that way? "Here`s your mortgage. We don`t know where your paperwork is, but have a nice house.


BECK: Because this is my biggest fear. That I sense so much frustration. I sense the people saying these people don`t even -- they not only don`t represent me, they don`t even know who I am. And when a big tragedy comes our way, I think the American people are going to disown this government and say, "I`m done with you."

CUTLER: Well, that`s a real fear. Look, 14 percent of the Americans give Congress their approval rating. Could you imagine if -- imagine if CNN, God forbid, gave you a 14 percent approval rating. But you know my point. We know that governments have to lead -- can only lead when they have political legitimacy.

What political legitimacy does our government have when 14 percent of Americans give Congress a passing grade and just over 20 percent gave the president a passing grade? Clearly, there`s a lot of anger and a lot of frustration.
They tried to ram this piece of legislation through the Senate the other day. I came to call that bill the Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act of 2007.

And that bill was concocted in the dead of night behind the closed door session between Senator Kennedy and some of the other fools on the Hill, as I call them, and, meanwhile, the American people understand that it makes no sense to provide millions of illegal alien who are undocumented. We don`t know their names. We don`t even know their nationalities.

That bill would have given them official identity documents that would have enabled terrorists to embed themselves in our country, which is why I gave it the name that I gave it.

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A MUST read from our brilliant youth!

Elaine DeIorio, 18 and homeschooled, writes from Ocala, FL and is now a junior at the University of Florida, majoring in Political Science and is focusing on the intelligence, homeland security field after graduation.

Don't tread on me

By: Elaine DeIorio 07/10/07

EDITORIAL - History was made June 28, 2007. History that has its roots in the 18th century Colonies of the United States of America. The colonists of that time disagreed with the policies of its present government – Great Britain. They felt what the government was doing was unfair and needed to be stopped. When all else failed, the colonists eventually resorted to taking up arms against its government.

Sound familiar? It should. Think about the recent developments and final outcome of the Senate’s immigration bill. Whether you agreed or disagreed with the provisions in the bill matters not. The facts remain the same.

Certain senators tried to quickly pass a massive, yet mysterious bill that hardly a senator had read. Yet this was a bill that could hugely impact the entire country. Again, it matters not if you supported or did not support the bill. A few aspects of the bill can be generally agreed upon.

1.) More time was needed to research the economic and social impact the bill would have on the American people. Senators are the people’s voice in the government. How could the people have any say or opinion in a bill that not even their elected officials had read?

2.) A main facet of the bill was de facto in contrast to the American tradition of the rule of law. No matter the pros and cons or the good and bad amendments, an inescapable fact was the rewarding of illegal acts. Crossing the border illegally and remaining in this country illegally are, in fact, against the law. Not only did this bill not punish the illegal immigrants, it gave them a “free pass.” No matter the rationalization, the bill is still contrary to the basic principle of law – punishment of illegal acts. As Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said, “It [the bill] does not meet our highest ideals.”

Americans across the nation became aware of this bill. And they didn’t like it. In fact, most people were so convinced the bill was bad for this country that they decided to tell their senators exactly how they felt. Nevertheless, the Senate turned a deaf ear.

News of and dissatisfaction with the immigration bill swept the nation coast to coast. Talk radio, internet blogs, e-mail chains and other forms of grassroots efforts helped inform citizens, and in many cases, incite them to action. Still, the Senate moved forward with the legislation.

Like the patriot colonists in 1776, American citizens decided to take a stand. Though the colonists struck back with arms, the American people fought back through phone calls, e-mails, faxes, and personal visits to their senators.

"This immigration bill has become a war between the American people and their government. ... This vote today is really not about immigration, it's about whether we're going to listen to the American people," said Senator Jim Demint (R-SC).

This country was founded on the principles of representation. The senators were elected to represent the wishes of the people, and are therefore responsible to them.

And so the people spoke. The phone in every office of every senator on Capitol Hill was ringing with concerned citizens insisting that the bill be killed.

And still the Senators pushed on.

Now enraged at being ignored by their elected officials, the American people redoubled their efforts. Voice and e-mail inboxes filled with messages faster than the staffers could empty them. “Vote no!” the American people insisted.

Some senators listened. Support for the bill diminished slowly as a few seemed to remember their duty of representing the wishes of their constituents. Others, surprisingly, read the bill to see what all the fuss was about. As Senator Sessions had said all along, “In terms of lawfulness, decency, morality and the national interest, the American people are head and shoulders above Members of Congress...”

Perhaps it was time the American people had their way.

Opposition to the bill only grew among the US citizenry. Letters to the editor sprung up like grass after a summer rainstorm. Even television and radio commercials played nationwide. The issue was ubiquitous. It was huge.

It began as a few secluded campfires dotting the landscape of the vast, dark nation. Then it became hundreds, and then thousands, and then an immense, unstoppable blaze that slowly, steadily, moved across the country toward D.C. And finally, the US Senators felt the heat within their palatial confines of Capitol Hill.

And then there was a vote.

And 53-46 the bill failed.

A minority of senators lost that day, yet the American people won, along with the ideals of representation and self-government that originated in the era of the American Revolution.

The US Senators should have learned a valuable lesson. The American people have not lost the spirit of their forefathers – the spirit and the knowledge that they, as American citizens, are in charge of the country. As former State Representative Dennis Baxley (R-FL) often said,

“This seat in the House is not mine. It didn’t belong to the representative before me, and it doesn’t belong to whomever comes after me. It belongs to you, the people. I just come and sit here for a little while, to carry out the people’s wishes. But it will always belong to you.”

That is what our patriot forefathers intended for this country. When the people speak, the government should listen. This is what the American people never forgot, but what the US Senators needed to be reminded of. This is the spirit of the original colonists who fought against the government for what they thought was right. And this is the spirit that inspired the motto on the flag of those colonists, and what is still true today. The American people told the Senate very clearly, “Don’t tread on me.”

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Deported sex offender arrested again in Butler County {illegal)
The Dayton Daily News ^ | July 11, 2007 | Staff Report

HAMILTON — An illegal immigrant previously convicted of a sex offense and deported back to Mexico was arrested Tuesday in Butler County.

A tip led Butler County Sheriff's deputies to Jose Valenzuela, 37, living in the 1200 block of Pater Avenue in Hamilton.

Valenzuela was convicted in 1998 of gross sexual imposition involving a juvenile girl and was deemed a sexually oriented offender by the court, according to the sheriff's office.

He was required to register with the sheriff's office annually for 10 years, but in 2004, the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement office deported him.

Deputies received information that Valenzuela was back in Butler County and took him into custody for failure to register.

Officials said when they asked why he came back to Butler County after deportation, Valenzuela said, "they never told me I couldn't come back." (Dee Dee DEE!)

Sheriff's officials said they will be seeking a second deportation.
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Driving people crazy is easy to do. You don't have to give them electric shocks or put them all in solitary, all you have to do is make them doubt the evidence of their senses until they whimper, "What the hell is going on?" This is where America is now. There's a war on, and it's not in any of the places likely to become... --- Florence King, November 22, 1999.
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Future paleontologists will record the present invasion of illegal aliens as descended from a prehistoric species known as Tyrannosaurus Mex.

Eleanor Clift says Bush is right on immigration. He can’t get much more wrong-er

One way to test Ted Kennedy’s sincerity about the plight of illegal aliens is to build a tunnel that goes directly from Tijuana to Hyannis Port.

Muslims are murderous fanatics. Inasmuch as killing them with kindness hasn’t worked, let’s try killing them without kindness.

Speaking of recent invasions, 2000 Mexican soldiers had a tough time taking the Alamo which was less of a fortress than it was a Taco Bell without a drive-up window.

Bill Richardson has Latino blood which, presumably, he’s been saving in a jar to prove to his constituents he’s not pure gringo.

The composition of the United States Senate breaks down this way – ninety-nine Senators of “questionable” loyalty - and one patriot named James Inhofe.


by Norman Liebmann

Homeland Insecurity - Outsourced and Corrupt - Feeling reassured now?

Some still refuse to watch the Lou Dobbs show on CNN. I know, for years we've had it pounded in our heads about CNN, the Clinton News Network. The exception to that rule is Lou Dobbs and you're missing some vital truths from a broadcaster who dares take on the status quo!

The following portion of transcript describes what is really going on at DHS, and it isn't security!

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/06/ldt.01.html
Aired 3/6/06
CNN, Lou Dobbs Tonight

The Department of Homeland Security frequently proclaims it's doing everything possible to protect us and this country from a terrorist attack. It turns out, however, the truth is somewhat different.

The Department of Homeland Security itself is anything but secure. It turns out private guards at the department's headquarters in Washington now say they don't have enough training, nor equipment to provide security to headquarters.

At one point, guards emptied an envelope containing suspicious white powder into the air outside the building. The company that provides those guards, Wackenhut Services, is, by the way, owned by a firm based in Great Britain.

Feeling reassured now?

Still ahead here, charges of bribes, green card giveaways and fraud inside the U.S. immigration bureaucracy. Ready for a guest worker program? We'll have a preview of an explosive new report here next. And how the agency responsible for investigating foreign transactions has consistently violated U.S. law.

DOBBS: A shocking new government report is expected to charge the Bush administration with gross mismanagement of this country's immigration system. The report says the Bush administration's so- called temporary guest worker program has no chance of succeeding because of widespread fraud within our nation's immigration bureaucracy.

CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT : The Bush administration's top homeland security official is again promoting the temporary worker program opponents say is a thinly-disguised illegal alien amnesty.

MICHAEL CHERTOFF, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: If we don't do some kind of a temporary worker program, I think it's going to be impossible to address the challenge of what could be eight to 11 million illegal migrants who are currently in this country.

WIAN: That estimate is probably low, and even so, the agency that would be in charge of a guest worker program is already overwhelmed and plagued by fraud. What's more, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service is not expected to be up to the task for at least five years. Those are just some the findings of a Government Accountability Office draft report now in the hands of two congressional committees and the Department of Homeland Security.

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley recently gave colleagues a preview, saying, "You'd all be shocked if you learned about the internal fraud and abuse at CIS. Officials are being bribed. Visas are being given away. Green cards are being sold."

The year-long study found CIS denied 19,000 applications for citizenship or immigration benefits due to fraud last year. Many of the other 800,000 rejected applications were also likely frauds but denied for other easier to prove reasons. Fraudulent applications are rarely prosecuted.

ROSEMARY JENKS, NUMBERSUSA: If your application is denied based on fraud and you're not prosecuted, then there is nothing that bars you from continuing to apply again and again and again until you get what you're looking for. In the 1986 amnesty, we gave a green card to at least one of the terrorists who blew up the World Trade Center in 1993. And here we are, we're set to do it again.

WIAN: More than 5,000 applicants for immigration benefits are identified as potential national security threats each year. The Bush administration last month asked Congress for nearly a quarter of a billion dollars for the citizenship and immigration service this year to begin implementing its temporary worker program.

DOBBS: The anti-fraud effort, of course, the fraud on the part of those applying for visas and even citizenship in this country. But at the same time, Casey, you're reporting that the institution, the bureaucracy itself, has corruption within it, at least according to Senator Grassley.

WIAN: And Senator Grassley was very clear about that in a hearing on Thursday that received very little attention. The overwhelming fact from this report is that the Citizenship and Immigration Service has absolutely no idea how widespread the fraud is because so many of these applications are denied for other reasons.

DOBBS: None of this even goes to the issue of compatibility of computer systems and databases that are absolutely critical to following the flow of those entering this country.

WIAN: Actually, there is a mention of the computer systems, and that's -- they're five years away of getting computer systems up and running that would detect fraud across the different homeland security agencies.

Senator Chuck Grassley will be talking about his efforts to uncover fraud inside our immigration bureaucracy on Wednesday.

TUCKER: The latest poll by Quinnipiac University found that 88 percent of those asked think illegal immigration is a serious problem. Put another way, 94 percent of Republicans and 86 percent of Democrats see illegal immigration as a serious issue .