Archive for April, 2010
April 30th, 2010
As some of you may be aware, New York Times columnist Linda Greenhouse wrote a column a couple of days ago comparing the new Arizona immigration law to Nazi Germany, apartheid era South Africa, and states that “the system of internal passports was one of the more distasteful features of life in the Soviet Union”. (I would love to know what the “tasteful” features of life in the Soviet Union were.) Then, Ms. Greenhouse further states that “breathing while undocumented is now a perilous activity anywhere in Arizona”. Note to Ms. Greenhouse and the rest of the liberal elites—it is supposed to be a crime to be an undocumented immigrant in every state (hence the term “illegal immigrant”). That is why legal immigrants are supposed to carry their green cards with them everywhere at all times.
However, I don’t think that most liberals really grasp this fact, because a few days ago on MSNBC when Contessa Brewer was foaming at the mouth about the possibility of “families turning in families”, the headline on the screen read “Law Makes It A Crime To Be Illegal Immigrant”. (Thank you Captain Obvious.) Not to mention, we’ve all seen liberals and members of the MSM get all lathered up in self-righteous outrage over the new AZ law—Richard Cohen of The Washington Post called it “the Anglos last stand”. And, of course, even Barack Obama weighed in calling the bill a “misguided piece of legislation that threatened to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and their communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe. ”
Now, my problem is not with President Obama calling the AZ law “misguided”. My problem is with Obama calling the AZ law “misguided” and then not proposing a solution of his own—or following John McCain’s advice and sending 3000 National Guard troops to seal the border (yeah, yeah, I know that McCain is late to the party—but, better late than never I always say). Someone needs to tell President Obama to take Thomas Paine’s advice and “Lead, follow or get out of the way”. And, since it’s quite obvious by now that Obama’s raison d’etre seems to be preening in front of the cameras and giving speeches rather than governing, I suggest that he get out of the way and let the grown-ups handle this one. Besides, dumping on “Jesusland” just to make your base happy is not leadership.
OK—I must admit that I’m not completely surprised by President Obama’s inaction regarding our border crisis, because, during the 2008 election, he did say that “we should teach our children Spanish”—therefore, Obama’s total indifference to the people of Arizona should have been somewhat predictable. However, I do find it quite annoying, to say the least, that President Obama would send out the SWAT team—in full riot gear—to intercept 30-40 grannies protesting his speech in IL (H/T Moe Lane), and yet he won’t send the National Guard to AZ to secure our border from invasion by the Mexican drug cartel, but I digress.
Now, I definitely would love the pleasure of responding to Ms. Greenhouse, but before I do, I would first like to explain just exactly how bad things are for the good people of AZ in order to establish that their fears are indeed legitimate, and not based on anti-Hispanic sentiment.
I assume that most of you who haven’t been living a rock have heard about Robert Krentz, but for those of you who haven’t, Robert Krentz was the Arizona Rancher who was recently murdered by an illegal immigrant that he was trying to help (his brother thinks that he was bringing him water). (Oh, and for all of you dog lovers like me, the illegal immigrant shot and killed Mr. Krentz’s dog as well.) Now, what makes this story particularly heartbreaking, was that Mr. Krentz was known as a good Samaritan who would bring illegal immigrants water and help injured ones cross the desert in 120 degree heat. Furthermore, Mr. Krentz continued to be a good Samaritan despite the fact that in 1999, his house was broken into (by illegal immigrants) and $700 worth of items were stolen. Not to mention, in 2007, his wife wrote a letter to Congress begging for help because she thought that her family’s lives might be in danger. (See embed below where Megyn Kelly explains how Krentz found 290 pounds of Marijuana on his property the day before he was killed.)
Oh, and here is Glenn Beck explaining how Phoenix, Arizona is now the second largest kidnap capital in the world after Mexico City—try putting that on your travel brochures. (See embed below—watch first two minutes to get the idea.)
And, here is Geraldo Rivera doing a story about how the lawlessness in Mexico (which Geraldo says is “more vicious than anything going on in Afghanistan or Iraq”) has spilled over into our country, and how the Mexican drug cartels have, literally, invaded Phoenix, Arizona. (See embed below—watch 2:20 to get the idea.) Furthermore, here is John McCain telling Bill O’Reilly that illegal immigrant smugglers are intentionally causing car accidents along the AZ state freeways.
And finally, here is the AP doing a story on how nine decapitated bodies were found in a Mexican border town just a few miles from San Diego (see embed below), and here is The New York Times doing a story on how people in Mexico City wear bullet-proof clothes.
(See Frugal Cafe for more details of border violence.)
OK—now I know what you all are asking: “How long has the violence on the border been this bad?” Well, at least since 2005. How do I know this? Because in 2005, Janet Napolitano who was then the governor of AZ, but is now Obama’s head of the Department of Homeland Security, issued a state of emergency and stated the following—
Gov. Janet Napolitano on Monday declared a state of emergency along Arizona’s border with Mexico, freeing up $1.5 million in disaster funds to help border counties combat booming illegal immigration and drug smuggling.
Napolitano criticized the federal government for “moving too slow” on border security, evolving into a hot-button, election-year issue in Arizona and across the country.
“This is a federal responsibility, and they’re not meeting it,” Napolitano said. “I’ve just come to the conclusion (that) we’ve got to do what we can at the state level until the federal government picks up the pace.”
However, a couple of days ago when Senator Lindsey Graham asked Ms. Napolitano if our southern border was secure, she issued the following response—
“I believe it is as secure as it ever has been.”
Translation: “Now that I’m not the AZ governor anymore, it’s not really my problem or the Obama Administration’s problem. You hicks in AZ are SOL if you think that we’re going to help you. However, be prepared for us to demagogue on this issue and call you all “RAAAAACISTS!!” if you try to help yourselves.”
By the way, between Janet Napolitano’s botching of the panty bomber and, now, not foreseeing this disaster in AZ (when she is their former governor), how in the world does she still have a job? But, I digress.
Alright, now that I have established how violent our southern border is, and how Arizona’s security is threatened by illegal immigration, I would also like to discuss how much illegal immigration stresses out AZ financially—especially since AZ has almost a 10% unemployment rate. A few days ago, Pat Buchanan wrote an excellent column titled, “Whose Country is This?” where he explains how African Americans and low income Americans are most hurt by illegal immigration. He, then, further illustrated the financial burden that illegal immigration has been on Arizona’s schools, hospitals and public services when he wrote the following—
“Obama has done everything but his duty to enforce the law.
Undeniably, making it a state as well as a federal crime to be in this country illegally, and requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone they have a “reasonable suspicion” is here illegally, is tough and burdensome. But what choice did Arizona have?
The state has a fiscal crisis caused in part by the burden of providing schooling and social welfare for illegals and their families, who consume far more in services than they pay in taxes and who continue to pour in. Even John McCain is now calling for 3,000 troops on the border.
Police officers and a prominent rancher have been murdered. There have been kidnappings believed to be tied to the Mexican drug cartels. There are nightly high-speed chases through the barrios where innocent people are constantly at risk.
If Arizona does not get control of the border and stop the invasion, U.S. citizens will stop coming to Arizona and will begin to depart, as they are already fleeing California.”
However, another great column about how Illegal immigration hurts America’s poor was written in 2006 by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof—it’s titled, “Compassion That Hurts”. (Yeah, I know. I couldn’t believe it either.) Here is a sample of some of Kristof’s column—
“I used to favor a program to allow in guest workers, thinking it would be good for them and also great for America by providing a source of low-cost labor — just as it was good for America to admit our own ancestors. And illegal immigrants overwhelmingly are hard-working people who keep the economy humming, so they deserve respect rather than xenophobic resentment and a marginalized life in the shadows.
But I’ve changed my mind on a guest worker program, because of growing evidence that low-wage immigration hurts America’s own poor.
It’s often said that immigrants take jobs that Americans won’t take. But look at employment statistics, and you see that even among maids and agricultural workers, only four out of 10 people are immigrants.
I can’t write about this issue without thinking of Elmer, a neighbor when I was growing up. He’s a high school dropout now in his 50’s, but when I met him in 1971, he was earning $26 an hour in a union job. He’s very hard-working, but for the last decade he’s been reduced to janitorial jobs paying not much over minimum wage. People like Elmer haven’t been heard from in the immigration debate, but they have the most at stake.”
Oh, and speaking of compassion, I don’t know what’s compassionate about allowing immigrants to die in the desert, which is what frequently happens when they are smuggled through the AZ desert. And, I don’t know what’s compassionate about paying them slave wages either (H/T Jaded).
[On a side note, this discussion about compassion has reminded me of a recent argument that my husband got into with another blogger. This blogger posted on a website that he loved illegal immigration, because he loved having someone who would clean his huge house for forty dollars. When my husband responded to him and explained to him that illegal immigration hurts the poorest Americans (and African Americans), the man responded by calling my husband a “RAAAAACIST!!”. Man, these people are so predictable, but I digress.]
Anyway, now that I have established how violent our southern border is, and how taxing illegal immigration is on Arizona’s services and job market, I would like to take a look at the infamous AZ law, before responding to Linda Greenhouse. A few days ago, Byron York wrote an excellent column where he clearly explained how all of this talk about about the AZ police “asking brown people for their papers” was literally crazy talk. In his column, York explained that the new AZ law specifically forbids racial profiling, that the AZ police have to already have pulled you over for another infraction of the law before they can ask for proof that you are in the country legally, and that if the person in question has a driver’s license, then that is considered to be sufficient proof of legal status. I have pasted some excepts of Byron York’s column below.
“The chattering class is aghast at Arizona’s new immigration law. “Harkens back to apartheid,” says the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Cynthia Tucker. “Shameful,” says the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne. “Terrible…an invitation to abuse,” says the New York Times’ David Brooks.
Has anyone actually read the law? Contrary to the talk, it is a reasonable, limited, carefully-crafted measure designed to help law enforcement deal with a serious problem in Arizona. Its authors anticipated criticism and went to great lengths to make sure it is constitutional and will hold up in court. It is the criticism of the law that is over the top, not the law itself.
Critics have focused on the term “reasonable suspicion” to suggest that the law would give police the power to pick anyone out of a crowd for any reason and force them to prove they are in the U.S. legally. Some foresee mass civil rights violations targeting Hispanics.
What fewer people have noticed is the phrase “lawful contact,” which defines what must be going on before police even think about checking immigration status. “That means the officer is already engaged in some detention of an individual because he’s violated some other law,” says Kris Kobach, a University of Missouri Kansas City Law School professor who helped draft the measure. “The most likely context where this law would come into play is a traffic stop.”
For example: “Arizona already has a state law on human smuggling,” says Kobach. “An officer stops a group of people in a car that is speeding. The car is overloaded. Nobody had identification. The driver acts evasively. They are on a known smuggling corridor.” That is a not uncommon occurrence in Arizona, and any officer would reasonably suspect that the people in the car were illegal. Under the new law, the officer would get in touch with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to check on their status.
But what if the driver of the car had shown the officer his driver’s license? The law clearly says that if someone produces a valid Arizona driver’s license, or other state-issued identification, they are presumed to be here legally. There’s no reasonable suspicion.
Is having to produce a driver’s license too burdensome? These days, natural-born U.S. citizens, and everybody else, too, are required to show a driver’s license to get on an airplane, to check into a hotel, even to purchase some over-the-counter allergy medicines. If it’s a burden, it’s a burden on everyone.”
OK—since I have not only successfully established that AZ is indeed in a state of crisis with regard to illegal immigration, but also established that the law does not turn AZ into a police state, I would like to, now, take this opportunity to respond to Linda Greenhouse.
Dear Ms. Greenhouse,
It has not escaped my attention that you and your liberal friends in the MSM have been huffing and puffing over the recent AZ law that—you know—does what the federal law is supposed to do, but refuses to do—i.e., shut down the border. In fact, just today, The New York Times wrote another scathing op-ed condemning the state of AZ. However, I can’t help but notice that you people seem to be high on over the top rhetoric, but low on actual solutions to a real problem.
I mean, just yesterday, I heard Megyn Kelly explain that AZ has roughly the same crime rate as NY, even though New York has SIX TIMES the population of AZ. Furthermore, a lot of these people who are currently committing crimes in AZ, are the exact same people who were kidnapping people, cutting off fingers, and killing kids when they previously lived in Mexico (and some of them are the Mexican police). (See embed below.)
But hey, I can understand why you and your ilk don’t want to seal the border. I mean, who cares if a few illegal immigrants might die crossing the desert, be taken advantage of and have to work for slave wages in the US, or possibly get kidnapped in Phoenix and get their fingers cut off or get killed—you guys might get some new voters who will vote “Democrat” if you make these guys citizens in, say, ten years. And in the meantime, you all get someone to clean your house and mow your lawn for real cheap (I know, good, cheap help is hard to find). Man, you guys really had a good thing going until those “bitter clingers” from AZ had to come in with their whole “law and order” nonsense. You would have to be a redneck and a Nazi to care if your state had been invaded by the Mexican drug cartel, right? And really, who cares about low income Americans, like Nicholas Kristof’s friend Elmer, who are worried about their jobs. We all know that they are just a bunch of ignorant bigots anyway.
So, since you didn’t offer any solutions to the problems that the good people of AZ (and the rest of the nation) face, I thought that I could offer some suggestions that you might agree with.
My first suggestion is called “Operation Canadian Buddy System”. I say that we come up with a buddy system with Canada where we send about 12-20 million low skilled workers, criminal gang members, drug smugglers, and hard-working individuals who have lost their jobs to Canada (this program is very similar to what the Mexican government has done to us). Now, of course, we don’t consult the Canadians about “Operation Canadian Buddy System”—that would be silly—we just do it. Hey, it would certainly solve a lot of our unemployment and crime problems. Now, when we send our citizens up there, we would give them maps (just like the Mexican government does to their citizens) and parkas (instead of jugs of water). And, if the Canadian government complains about all of the illegal immigrants that we are sending their way, we will simply just call them “RAAAAACISTS!!” and inform them that they are not “illegal aliens”—they are “undocumented workers”.
Wait—what’s that you say Ms. Greenhouse? You don’t think the Canadian government will fall for that for one second? You think that the Canadian government will deport all of those people the first chance that they get? Well, you are probably right. I mean, it’s common knowledge that both the Canadians and the Europeans have much stricter immigration laws than we have, and much stronger border security (and we know that liberals think that everything that the Europeans and Canadians do is superior to everything that Americans do). In fact, as George Will pointed out last week on “This Week”, we are the only developed nation (that shares a border with a narco state) that doesn’t secure its borders. Furthermore, the Mexican government (which has been quite vociferous in denouncing the AZ law), is notorious in how badly it treats its illegal immigrants, and has been cited several times by The Red Cross for human rights abuses (H/T Erick Brockway). So, Ms. Greenhouse, if the Europeans, Canadians and Mexicans would never put up with the chaos on our southern border, then, tell me, why are we?
OK—my second suggestion is called “Operation Let’s Send All of the Illegal Alien Criminals to Linda Greenhouse’s Neighborhood”. Well first of all, Ms. Greenhouse, it’s pretty obvious that most of the people that will be caught by this new law will be criminals, since there is no racial profiling and only way that a police officer will come into “lawful contact” with an otherwise law abiding person is through a traffic stop (and the law says that a driver’s license is sufficient documentation, and illegals without licenses will probably take the bus). Now, since you seem to not be bothered by open borders and think this whole sovereignty thing is silly, I say that we dump all of the drug smugglers, gang members, kidnappers and criminals, that are caught by this new law, in your neighborhood (don’t worry, we’ll send you a bullet proof blouse). Granted, some of your neighbors might protest a bit about having to pay higher taxes in order to support these people, having their hospitals over-run, having an increase of traffic accidents and kidnappings, and about not feeling safe when they go outside after dark. However, I say just respond by calling them “RAAAAACISTS!!”. (I’m telling you, the race card works on liberals every time.)
Wait–what’s that you say? You think that severed heads and multiple kilos of drugs in the hallway might ruin the whole feng shui of your building? Yeah, I tend to agree with you that those things would indeed drive down the value of a Manhattan flat—plus I heard that co-op boards can be a pain about such things. Well then, on to my next suggestion.
Finally, my third and final suggestion for dealing with the immigration crisis is called “Operation Give Your Job at The New York Times to an Illegal Immigrant”. OK—let’s be honest here Ms. Greenhouse. Since you don’t seem to be troubled by illegal immigrants taking jobs from poorer American citizens and driving down their wages, I thought that maybe you wouldn’t mind if The New York Times hired some illegal Mexican, Canadian or, say, Indian journalists who would work for half the price, and without any benefits.
Wait—what’s that you say? You like your job and don’t want to give it up and don’t think that your co-workers do either? And, you don’t think that your co-workers would want illegal immigrants coming in and driving down their wages? Well, I’ll be darned!
Well Ms. Greenhouse, you just exhausted all of my suggestions. The only other one that I have is the obvious one—for President Obama to send 3000 National Guard troops to secure our southern border. However, we both know that he’s not going to do that because it would upset the liberal members of his base too much (like you) and it would take away valuable time from his whole “Celebrity-in-Chief” act. Furthermore, the Senate Majority Leader seems to think that climate change is more important to pass this year than immigration. (Seriously?!) So, since neither you nor your president seem to have any solution to the crisis in AZ, I would suggest following Thomas Paine’s advice and just getting out of the way of the Arizonans and letting them do what they think is best—hey, at the very least you can withhold judgment and refrain from implying that they are Nazis or in favor of apartheid (especially since their new law seems to be working).
Oh, and one more thing. The fact that, as previously stated, Arizona has almost a ten percent unemployment rate, has roughly the same crime rate as New York, has the largest rate of kidnappings in America, and has had several policemen and a rancher recently murdered tells me that things are seriously out of control for Arizonans, and I wouldn’t wish their situation on my worst enemy. And, the fact that seventy percent of Arizonans support this law (and fifty-one percent of AZ Democrats do as well), and that the majority of Hispanics in Arizona support this law, tells me that these people are not “RAAAAACIST!!”—they’re desperate.
By the way, you know what’s so sad about this whole situation in AZ? If you guys in New York were in a similar situation where you were being invaded by drug cartels from a country “with more violence than Iraq and Afghanistan” (to quote Geraldo Rivera who is actually very pro-illegal immigrant and once sparred with Bill O’Reilly over the subject), we in the red states would not be judging you and implying that you were Nazis if you went all Giuliani on them—we would have your back and be demanding that the president and Congress do something to help you. I guess the difference between liberals and conservatives is that we believe in the whole “There are no red states or blue states—there is only the United States” thing all of the time—you guys only seem to believe it during an election year.
Have a nice weekend! 
Sincerely, Susannah
PS—Ms. Greenhouse, the only part of your column that I liked was when you wrote that you were going to personally boycott AZ. I think that’s best for all parties involved. However, I don’t think that you will be missed. I mean, I can’t picture the people of AZ saying, “Omigod, our state’s on fire and we are the kidnap capital of America! It sure would improve things if we had a snooty liberal from NY down here to judge us.”
PPS—On a personal note, when my husband and I moved recently from GA to SC, I was following him in my car when a SC policeman pulled me over. The first thing that he did was ask for my driver’s license. (Were my civil rights violated?) The officer who pulled me over was African American. I make this point only to say that when he asked for my license, I didn’t accuse him of just pulling me over because I was white, or tell him “Your mama has my driver’s license”. I just gave the man my license, apologized for my crappy driving (he said that I was weaving—I probably was), explained that I was tired from moving all day, and then he let me go without giving me a ticket and even gave me directions. Now, if I had accused him of racism and and made the “your mama” quip to him, do any of you think that I would have gotten a beer summit with the president? Nah, I probably would have spent the night in the clink for being an @&shole—and I would have deserved it too.
This diary was originally posted on The Minority Report.
April 30th, 2010
It took the pledging of lives, fortunes and sacred honor to initially secure our nation’s borders against King George III, and it appears that Arizonans may have to make similar sacrifices to secure theirs against Barack Hussein Obama, the Forty-Fourth President of the United States and Mexico.
Maintaining self government, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is about to get much harder
One week, Presidents Obama and Clinton tell us that law-abiding Tea Partiers protesting against ObamaCare could incite violence against government akin to the Oklahoma City bombing.
The next week, the Administration of the Chief Executive of the Federal Government and Der Schleikmeister accuse Arizonans and their State Chief Executive of Nazi-like “show me your papers” oppression and racism for enforcing illegal immigration laws nearly identical to the federal laws Obama swore to uphold, by means akin to how vagrancy and loitering laws have been carried out with the overwhelming support of Americans in thousands of towns and cities for all of our history.
In between those weeks the President of all Americans urged only those Americans with brown skin and/or an excess of estrogen to vote on Election Day 2010.
ObamaDems have obvious contempt with those that would stand in the way of ObamaDemUnion voter lines from Guadalajara to Flagstaff, only this time with the veiled threat of a race war.
The same it seems ObamaDems not only have contempt for the consent of the governed, but even after imposing their ObamaCare will despite losing Town Halls, Tea Parties and the “Kennedy seat”, they will not be satisfied until they personally destroy their opposition with slanderous lies.
The chasm between Obama and the American people is not limited to those in the Grand Canyon State.
Obama’s War against America: The Western Front
Upon seeing the vicious overreaction of ObamaDems, the media and the racial-grievance industry, to the signing of the Arizona law by its Republican Governor, Jan Brewer, my first thought was of the many small towns in North Carolina that were overrun with too many illegals, too fast. It made me realize for the first time, the magnitude of what they have had to deal with in the Copper State.
My second thought was, what took you so long! My, we are a compassionate people. Or is it weakness that we slouch towards Gomorrah so long before looking up?
At that moment I finally understood what Arizona had been suffering under for more than a decade and my heart went out to them. The President’s daily attacks against the good people of Arizona is vulgar, ugly and truly dangerous.
If we are going to save America, it will take bold moves like AZ’s. It won’t happen merely thru debate and votes. Oh that it were so. No, it will take risks.
Do not accept the false premise that most whites are racists that want massive round ups and deportations of illegals
Obama plays upon the liberal Democrat and media inspired false premises of majorities of racist whites that desire massive round-ups of illegals and mass deportations. The same “racists” that gave Barack Hussein Obama the nukes and The Oprah the ratings? The same bigots that loved Lucy’s Arnez?
Daniel Day Lewis in his Oscar-winning role as Oil Man Plainview in 2006′s motion picture, There Will be Blood, famously said:
I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people…I don’t like to explain myself.
Well, Obama’s got some ‘splainin to do and probably ought get his eyes checks and he’ll see that the majority of police interrogations in the border states are conducted by brown cops talking to other brown people!
Obama vs. The good people and good name of the people of Arizona
We won the amnesty debate a few years ago thanks to Talk Radio grass roots refutations of Dubya, McCain and Lindsey Graham, the latter of which told La Raza that Americans opposed to the bill were racists. The left always spoke of Republican candidates for President wanting to round up millions on buses bound for Mexico City, but couldn’t even point to statement by Tom Tancredo endorsing such a policy.
We have to combat this meme, because I fear that Obama’s attack on the good name of the people of Arizona may have already inspired a trumped up crisis in Arizona that could get ugly, at the left’s instigation, and we will need to stay unified to stay strong against a reckless media in a highly charged atmosphere.
Which is why I hope Marco Rubio uses the obvious “out” he has to retract his premature, cowardly, knee-jerk, politically correct ”police state fears” statements since he admitted in the written statement that it was based only on “news reports” and not the actual provisions of the Arizona law.
“Show me your papers” under just laws
There has been much and mostly false reporting on the actual provisions of the law, very often from the lips of the Attorney General of the United States and the Constitutional Scholar-in-Chief. These are the same whiz kids that had Obama embarrass himself at the State of the Union with suggesting that a cornered Supreme Court had overturned 100-year old race-based ban on corporate contributions to campaigns.
The law (text) expressly prohibits legal status inquiries based solely on race or national origin, and specifically does not authorize random stops for questioning by allowing legal status inquiries only if the officer is already in lawful contact with the suspect.
One is not required to have documents to prove citizenship but having a drivers license is prima facie proof of citizenship. The law signed by Governor Brewer mirrors federal legislation and incorporates most of the major liberal Supreme Court precedents on “stop and frisk” jurisprudence since the very liberal Terry v. Ohio (1968) case allowed police to question a passerby if he had “articulable suspicion” that the suspect had committed a crime
People can be stopped now and have been so stopped for 40+ years, under Terry, whose standard is more lenient than the Arizona law.
It turns out that the iconic Nazi/Communist road block demands for papers analogy is misleading. Byron York points out how often we all are required to show our “papers”:
Many of the situations in which we are asked to produce ID are the result of laws passed by our representatives, Democrats and Republicans, that are, overall, good things. But they require Americans to produce their papers, in the form of a driver’s license, quite frequently. If Americans responded with “Go to hell” and “See you in court” each time they were asked to produce their license, both hell and court would be very crowded.
P.S. — All the discussion above relates to people who are American citizens. In addition to the situations requiring a driver’s license, some people might not know that since the 1940s, federal law has required non-citizens who are in the United States permanently to carry on their person, at all times, the official documents proving that they are here legally — green card, work visa, etc. That has been the law for 70 years, and the new Arizona law does not change it.
The substance of Nazi/Communist laws were unjust in substance, not because of the use of identification papers. Our laws are just. It is just that those that honor are laws are respected by the enforcement of the laws they obey against lawbreakers.
Respect for the rule of law made America a Shining City on a Hill, not the surrender of our borders at the whim of the rule of a man. A man who stopped building the fence before the stimulus was passed.
There was blood in the initial securing of our borders and the rule of law by the consent of the governed over the rule of a sovereign King in 1775; the re-birth of freedom in 1865; and the defeat of tyranny in 1945. What makes us think that we can save an America, in many ways less free today than before the Revolution, merely through political action?
Reagan and Newt Revolutions weren’t
Yes, by all means we must work towards electoral super majorities that can repeal ObamaCare and much of the entitlement edifice, but given those weakened by addiction to government as mommy and daddy, why should we imagine that reasoned free speech and elections alone will deliver us?
No, it will require great sacrifice up to and quite possibly including the shedding of blood because the Left indicates it will not go quietly when we see it create a crisis by re-visiting the amnesty that We the People soundly rejected less than three years ago by insisting that the border be secured before any change in the law.
We saw the reason behind the ObamaDem Left’s obsession with allowing illegals to free run of the country when Candidate Hillary opposed changing New York’s Motor Voter law allowed illegals to get drivers licenses and automatically registered new drivers to vote without requiring proof of citizenship.
Meanwhile legal immigrants must carry green cards at all times and citizens are required to produce theirs scores of times a day to pursue happiness. It seems checking papers is only a Nazi-like crime if visited upon a paperless interloper.
The Vampire exposed to the Noon Day Sun
The Dem-o-Bats’ ObamaCare law will suck the blood from life, liberty and pursuits of health happiness, literally, thru funding abortions; financial mandates; and limiting health care choices by driving doctors and insurance companies out of business.
We the People know it and we know Obama knows we know it and that his oppressive majorities will end in November. All the more reason for Obama to seize every opportunity to gin up a crisis that can’t be wasted.
The modern, post-1963 and especially post-1972 Democratic Party is akin to the un-dead in there subversive victim-dependant, bigoted, race-based identity politics; and appeasement abroad policies.
I pray we will drive the stake through its heart that we only pinched in the 80s and 90s. The Gipper killed the Evil Empire and inflation for 25 years of heaven on Earth. Newt slowed the slouching with Bill’s midnight basketball games but outrage died and government kept on growing.
Now, a man with contempt for America has less Nukes to protect us from enemies abroad, but yields leftist populist pitchforks at anyone not an author named Barack Obama that makes a profit; cops in Cambridge; and all folks in Arizona except for the brown ones?
Post-script Update:
This law is written with more protections against random stops than the law fashioned by federal statutes and Supreme Court precedent. In fact, if Obama-Holder-Sharpton wanted to go to states other than AZ and trump up an alleged random stop, they could do so today and could have done so any day since 1968.
I am all in on the mid- to long- term strategy of winning elections for the GOP to try and get the White House and super-majorities in Congress to repeal ObamaCare and drastically restructure the whole entitlement edifice. I also support efforts to win at the grassroots and in the election of conservatives as executive committeemen, etc.
I just don’t believe, given the power of liberals in the culture and politics and the widespread addiction of Americans to big government, that we can save this country without sacrifices up to and including the kinds of sacrifices made by those that wrested a We the People from a King and saved it from Nazis and Commies.
There will be blood, because the Left won’t go quietly into the night, if they ever do “go.”
We will not save the nation from quite possibly a worse tyranny today than existed in 1776, solely thru polite debate and votes.
No, the people will push back and the left will start a violent fight. This is how things happen. The people of Arizona have had enough. That they passed this law concentrated my mind on what they have put up with for decades. I look at the little towns in NC that have been ruined and only hope that rising Phoenix can show us the way of courage.
Disabuse yourself of the notion that great things are accomplished without suffering. Ask Nathan Hale, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King.
Mike DeVine’s Atlanta Examiner, Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
April 24th, 2010
A decade of global cooling and the Icelandic volcano concentrates the mind on how puny is man.
While liberals and Democrats fretted over SUV exhaust or human breathing overheating the planet with CO2 for over a decade, the Sun decided to cool it and Earth decided to trump all SUV and all other auto emissions ever emitted, in two days.
Then comes the first, First Citizen of the World
Elected in Berlin on July 24, 2008, First Citizen of the World, Barack Obama went on to consolidate his power by capturing the chief executive position in the government of the United States of America.
Gone was the cause of all the problems of Obama’s world constituency: George W. Bush.
America could now get on with making reparations to the world for all its misdeeds in Iraq, Cuba, etc, and earn the love of the World. The US would throw in lower seas to boot.
America could also now overcome its fatally flawed constitution and be fundamentally changed by smart, un-Bushlike, compassionate government-trained: social workers, ceo pay-setters, auto company executives, tax-cheats at Treasury, Rand Rahm’s thugs. Did I mention really, really smart people, with none named Bush?
But a funny thing happened on the way to the ObamaDemocrat-created Utopia. Obama met the endower of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness he so longs to direct: Nature and Nature’s God.
The I’m not George Bush or George Washington Apology Tour
It seems that bowing before despots doesn’t earn their love. Slapping their Queen on the back, locking their Prime Minster in a waiting room and returning a bust of Churchill doesn’t make Britain’s heart go pitter-patter for Purple Mountains Majesty. Betraying Israel, Poland, Georgia, Ukraine and the Czech Republic not received as an endearment.
Iran taunts the youngster. The Russia bear sees life beyond hibernation licking their lips over their recent domination of nuclear weapons talks as Obama goes out of his way to chastise Georgia. (A green light akin to the one Bush41 allegedly gave to Saddam just before he invaded Kuwait. Obama has insulted France, Turkey and Germany for good measure. It seems Obama is only loved abroad by the scum of the earth in Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, etc.
Finally, B. Hussein Obama reached out to al Qaida by scheduling Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s OJ-Trial at the scene of his act of war, eh ah crime.
Then, nature pushed back even in New York City and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Republican Scott Brown ran for Ted Kennedy’s US Senate seat by running against ObamaCare and civil rights for 911 terrorists and temporarily stopped ObamaCare in its tracks. His victory and the NYC mayor’s opposition to the KSM trial have put the trial on hold.
Liberal Democratic Party Liberalism and Executive Overreach
If you will hurry up and pass this stimulus, we will keep unemployment under 8%. So we mortgaged the future and all we got were unnecessary state jobs saved that we still have to pay for. Did I mention that you need to hurry?
Obama takes over General Motors in order for US taxpayers to fund UAW pensions and salaries as welfare for idle Chevy lug nut tighteners. Fringe benefit that owner of GM can disadvantage its Toyota competitor with the club of government.
The EPA carbon tax rejected by the Congress may be crammed down our throats via EPA regulations, much like worthless mortgages are being crammed down taxpayers throats while all cheer that some poor bank CEO is getting his comeuppance. Not!
Americans that voted for Obama are getting theirs, as Nature would insist, but a digress.
Lets end the Bush tax cuts; impose new sin and business taxes; and mandate new charges for individuals, businesses and state governments for health care and insurance.
Nature took its course as the economy tanked, deficits octupled and Americans were told what light bulbs they could use and how much salt they could consume. And if you are 105-years old, take a pill and die.
Tea partiers were created in the same mold as Crispus Attucks in the 18th Century, Andrew Jackson in the 19th, and Southern and other post-Proposition 13 Reagan Democrats became Republicans. They lived under the natural result of tyranny by expert dictators desirous of controlling the lives of others.
2010 as 1982
Even before ObamaCare passed, and really even before ObamaDems started pushing socialized medicine bills, the failure of the stimulus had already destined them to electoral collapse. Obama is int he same boat as was Reagan in1982. Both inherited economies in crisis and neither got in fixed before the mid-term. Reagan’s GOP suffered a terrible defeat. So will the Dems.
Add to that basic accountability trait of human nature, the substance of the ObamaCare law and the procedure ObamaDems used to enact it. Even if the bill had not been pushed thru, the Dems were going to be held accountable for backing it, especially given the ferocity of their steadfastness in snubbing their noses at Town Halls, Tea Parties, New Jersey, Virginia and even the Brown-out in Massachusetts.
Nature’s God
The acolyte of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has ended the National Day of Prayer.
Let that sink in.
The man that always calls Louis Farrakhan “Minister”, bans Rev, Franklin Graham from a tribute to military, adding insult to injury. Those bitter clingers just don’t know how to behave to our Religion of Peace friends.
Much as Arizonans don’t know how to treat our Mexican friends south of the border just as Obama pushes for amnesty before Newt II arrives next January.
Camel-not
JFK cut taxes and caused the 60s boom. Obama is destroying the private sector by taking over auto, student loan, health, and much of the mortgage loan industries.
JFK stood up to the Soviets. Obama caved to the Russians.
JFK pointed us to the Moon. Obama guts NASA.
As Bill Clinton, in the role of Merlin the Magician says to Obama as King Arthur in a Rush parody: This is Camel-not because you don’t know Jack!
Americans with out enough jack are learning the nature of effect of liberal ObamaDem policies on how much jack they can earn under ObamaDems vs life under Nature’s God.
I’m thinking our Creator wins that argument in 2010 and 2012.
Nothing would thrill me more than to see World Citizen Obama able to travel his domain unfettered by American executive power on January 21, 2013.
Mike DeVine’s Atlanta Examiner, Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Originally published at The Minority Report
April 22nd, 2010
If every television producer in Hollywood depicted “The Prophet” of Islam on their programs this week, would all of them be targeted for assassination next week?
Yes, which means the circumstance for such Los Angeles denizens visavis Islamists will not have changed since last week and at least since the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. All Americans have been under a sentence of death for being infidels all the years they refrained from blaspheming the religion of peace.
In fact, many more would have been killed by Islamist terrorists soon after September 11, 2001 had not the water-boarding of Khalid Sheik Mohammed uncovered the plot to bomb LAX.
South Park Conservatives
I am proud of South Park for their mocking of the Muslim weaklings who wouldn’t know they were gazing upon the founder of their religion, who had to resort to forced conversions to garner enough adherents to pay for a mosque, if they saw him.
Christ a cast member
One of the main stream (cowardly) media accounts I read concerning the threats to kill the show’s producers stated that the depiction was self-censured because Muslims consider depicting Mohammed as blasphemous. But that characterization of the reason for editing the original program is obviously a lie since South Park blasphemously mocked Jesus Christ so much over the years that they finally made him a regular member of the cast.
Christians don’t kill people for blasphemy.
Come to think of it Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants, Evangelicals and all of the sects of Christianity, that I am aware of over the last 400 years, that are not lead n by Jim Jones don’t kill anyone for any reason, much less innocent men, women and children. But if one considers capital punishment laws in America to be religious laws, then fine, we plead guilty to executing a few of those who kill innocent others, after a fair trial and ten years of appeals.
Obama bows to Minister Farrakhan
Has anyone heard our President condemn the threats? Or has Barack Hussein Obama praised South Park for their self-censorship respecting Osama bin Laden’s acolytes?
Would a man who bows so low before Saudi royalty, that you wonder if he lost a contact lens, condemn those trained to kill the infidel in Saudi Wahhabist schools? Would a man that always refers to America’s greatest anti-Semite by the honorific of “Minister”, when Calypso Louis Farrakhan would do, have caved and accepted a post-911 gift to New York City from a Saudi prince that Mayor Rudy Giuliani rejected due to the condition of a reduction in U.S. support for Israel a change in U.S. policy towards Israel.
Even more interesting is whether Cynthia McKinney would have thrown her cell phone at Obama if he got the money before she denounced America and begged the Arabian Muslim to help poor blacks in her district, but I digress.
Would Barack and Cynthia be safe from Islamists after such appeasement?
Ask the families of the fallen on 911 and at Fort Hood.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Originally published at The Minority Report
April 21st, 2010
Not much of an audience for accepting responsibility for McVeigh’s mass murder in Arkansas
Do my eyes and ears deceive me, but does Bill Clinton seem to be actually celebrating the 15th Anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing as some sort of second President’s Day in honor of the earnestly bitten lip that calmed a nation in anarchy, thus preventing any more domestic terror during the 21-hour breaks between Rush Limbaugh programs?
In his NYT column and television appearances, the Empire State’s First (adopted) citizen never tells us exactly who said what and when to inspire and incite the OKC bombers. He conveniently omits McVeigh’s own justification of revenge for the 86 killed by the US military at Waco. More Americans were killed under Commander-in-Chief Clinton in Texas in one day than were terrorists killed at his direction in all of the other 49 states and all other nations on Earth combined during his eight years in office.
After 911, why do they hate us?
After 911, the Arkansas ex-patriot flew to Europe with bodyguards and asked why Osama bin Laden hated us, implying that America’s government had somehow brought the attack on ourselves and that if we would only change our policies, we could cause Islamists to love us.
That self-loathing was soon to be followed by a 2003 Davos, Switzerland praise for the Mullah-Terrorist-State government of Iran. You reckon when the world’s largest sponsor of terror on Earth is praised by a former President of the United States despite the terror, that said nation might be encouraged to commit more terror?
Or is it Rush Limbaugh’s demands for an aggressive US war on terror that inspires would be mass murderers?
Would Bill and Obama’s perfect world be one in which Osama sends us a list of demands we must meet for his promise not to bomb the Pentagon?
After OKC and before the next one, how dare they hate us!
After the OKC bombing, then President and former Arkansas Attorney General, Bill Clinton blamed talk radio for daring to “hate” his government and connected the dots between opposition to HillaryCare and 168 dead in Oklahoma. I guess he skipped torts, proximate cause and logic at Georgetown and Yale. Or did he just bone up more on prevarication, hubris and lip-biting?
The anti-obesity advocate feigns to be worried about the words of folks angry with Democratic Party-led government inciting others to violence against their government, yet, when he used the word “pardon” in 2008, he put convicted terrorists back on the streets.
Terrorist-Pardoner-in-Cheif
Think maybe Bill’s use of the word “pardon” risked causing more terror attacks than Limbaugh’s use of the moniker “Der Schliekmeister” to refer to the definer of the word “is” (We have to guess at what words Bill refers to as incitement since he cites none to justify his vile charges) or the use of the word “no” by 70+% of Americans, including Tea Partiers, in response to pollsters’ question of support for ObamaCare, bailouts, and $1.3Trillion budget deficits.
President Barack Hussein Obama joined in Bill’s derision of Tea Partiers this week, but do you think granting KSM a New York show trial might encourage a would be terrorist to seek martyrdom or fame?
OBL said Clinton’s use of the word “withdraw” in Somalia after Black Hawk Down convinced him that al Qaida could defeat the “weak horse”.
Did I mention that Bill Clinton pardoned Puerto Rican terrorists to help Hillary win New York? Who knew there were so many such voters in the Empire State? But then again, Hillary did go on a “listening tour”. Guess Rick Lazio should have joined her and listened to that FALN terror constituency.
Did you know that Obama mentor, ghost writer and terrorist Bill Ayers was a guest at Bill Clinton’s White House?
But Hillary would be better than Obama, right?
Hillary joined Obama last week in the bash our greatest ally for revenge for Britain’s crimes against Kenya by publicly re-visiting the issue of the sovereignty over the UK’s Falkland Islands. No word on when Obama will re-open negotiations with the Cherokee over sovereignty in North Georgia, but Hawaii and other golf meccas seem safely ensconced in the Union.
It has become fashionable lately, given the extreme leftist regime under Obama, to imagine how wonderful would have been a President Hillary and to wax nostalgic about the Clinton years.
Hillary only looks good by comparison with what is and what people imagine she would be. She would be the same liberal she has always been that tried to socialize medicine 15 years ago, although, technically, Bill’s defenders always conveniently forget that Hillary was not President of health care, and that it was President Bill Clinton that proposed ObamaCare in 1993 and made a last ditch plea to democrats on Capitol Hill in 2010 just before the vote that made it law.
America is more than who was and is President, i.e. Congress matters
I too admit to waxing nostalgic about life before this second great depression, but I don’t wax with Alice in Wonderland where the brilliant feeler of pain single-handedly extended the Reagan Recovery for eight more years.
The 90s world I lived in was conserved by Republican opposition to Bill Clinton’s policies. If we had the greater numbers of GOP congressmen in 2010 as we had in 1993-4, ObamaCare would not be the law of the land.
Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray starts with a “D”
The unrepentant, living picture of Dorian Gray walks the Earth soulless, having sold out to the monstrosity the Democratic Party since the assassination of President John F Kennedy. Or did Bill become a buyer of souls long ago when he took a train to Moscow, having found Oxford too right wing? One wonders if Clinton-logic would convict the loather of the military for inciting violence against the government.
Prosecutors may be able to get grand juries to indict a ham sandwich, but not “climates of hate”
Soon after JFK was killed by a communist, the media told us that We the People were responsible for the “climate of hate” within which the tax-cutting anti-communist hawk was killed.
Then, we told the same thing after his brother was killed by a Palestinian terrorist.
More evidence that Bill and Hillary suck too! Not just Obama. (Hint: Its the “D” after their names)
Hillary’s suspension of disbelief and refusal to condemn Moveon.org’s General “Betrayus” ad.
Senator Hillary’s 2007-8 votes joining Senator Obama’s against funding troops during war.
Bill’s recent revelation that, despite his signing of the Defense of Marriage Act, he was always was for gay marriage.
Bill’s recent derision of Al Gore’s discredited man-made global warming religion, despite Bill’s own missionary work for the MMGW church and advocacy of draconian energy taxes based upon the pagan earth worship theology.
It’s always all about Bill and the desperate attempt to salvage a legacy
Bill won no wars and was impeached while Muhammed Atta and Co. plotted for two years to continue the terror against the Paper Tiger that began with the 1993 WTC bombing and continued at the Khobar Towers, African embassies and the USS Cole.
It seems that punching Chris Wallace in the knee as punishment for asking him a tough question about his anti-terror policies as President doesn’t earn him a spot on Mount Rushmore. There will be no V-W Day (Victory in Waco Day) in his honor.
At least he got Osama’s night watchman and an aspirin factory, but I hear that the widow and headache sufferers may be incited to violence by the words Clinton spoke afterward and that there are too many tea partiers in Little Rock for comfort.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Originally published at The Minority Report
April 20th, 2010
As some of you are aware, last Friday, I wrote in a Live Wire for The Minority Report that Charles Blow of The New York Times was an idiot and a racist. (And, my girl Jaded was kind enough to put my Live Wire in a Red Hot on Redstate—thank you Jaded.) Normally, I believe that name-calling is the hobgoblin of puny minds, and I loathe people who carelessly toss around the term “Raaacist!!” without any proof. However, if you read Mr. Blow’s column, you will most probably agree that Charles Blow definitely deserves the title of “racist idiot”.
In Charles Blow’s ridiculous column, he discusses his impression of a Dallas Tea Party that he attended–and yet he spoke to no one else there (he admitted this fact on Laura Ingraham’s radio show). (If you are interested, here is a good promotional video of the Dallas Tea Party.) There were so many offensive things in Mr. Blow’s column, that I don’t even know where to begin—like when he wrote that seeing a black doctor, a Mexican immigrant and a Vietnamese immigrant on stage together reminded him of “a bizarre spoof of a Benetton ad”, or when he complained about how many white people were at the Tea Party. However, what I found to be particularly appalling was when Mr. Blow referred to the minorities speaking at the Dallas Tea Party as “a political minstrel show”. What Charles Blow implied by calling the Dallas Tea Party “a political minstrel show” is that African Americans and minorities should all think alike and be liberals—and if they dare to think for themselves or speak at a Tea Party, then they are “putting on a minstrel show” for the white man. Now, in his nasty column, Mr. Blow singled out Alfonzo “Zo” Rachel, an African American conservative comedian who was performing at the Dallas Tea party, as part of “the political minstrel show”.
By the way, someone needs to inform Mr. Blow that it is quite normal for a comedian to perform for an audience—it’s what they do for a living. Was Bill Cosby putting on a “minstrel show” when he used to perform for predominately white audiences? What about Oprah Winfrey? Her audience is mainly white as well. Oh, and what about MSNBC? As our own Lori Ziganto points out, their entire staff is white. So if a black pundit is a guest on MSNBC, is he putting on a “minstrel show”? But, I digress.
Anywho, Zo finally got around to responding to Charles Blow, and it was a sheer delight to see Zo tell that pompous New York Times columnist just how much his column blows (pun most definitely intended). (H/T to Aaron Gardner and Big Journalism for the video. Please read Aaron’s excellent column about the “minstrel show” incident here).
Man, that was a thing thing of beauty, wasn’t it? 
Y’all have a good night. (I know that I will after seeing Zo hand Blow his you-know-what.)
This diary was originally posted on The Minority Report.
April 16th, 2010
OK—As some of you are aware, I recently wrote a diary titled, “Dissent is the Highest Form of Patriotism”. In this diary, I discussed how Andrew Breitbart proved that the allegations from the DNC and the MSM that the Tea Party is fueled by racism and violence is one gigantic hoax. Furthermore, I also demonstrated how the left often resorts to acts of civil disobedience, threats, name-calling, and sometimes out-right violence, when they protest or try to suppress dissent. Some examples of this behavior are threatening voters with nightsticks, throwing food at people, posting death threats to Eric Cantor and shooting up his office, calling people “Raaaaaacists!!”, “hooligans”, “The Mob”, “Nazis” and writing in the WaPo that “I want to knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon heads.”
Our own Caleb Howe even covered the story of SEIU union thugs beating up an African American conservative (Kenneth Gladney) for handing out “Don’t Tread on Me” flags, and then slapping the camera woman in the face (see embed below).
Moreover, I also embedded a video of the actual March 20th Tea Party protest (where the protesters were falsely smeared as “Raaaaacists!”) in order to demonstrate just how orderly and respectful our side is compared to their side when protesting.
Well, well, well—after viewing some of the more recent news stories that have been reported on over the last few days, I’m beginning to think that I was even more prescient than I realized in regard to liberals being more aggressive protesters than conservatives. (Not to pat myself on the back or anything—I’m just being honest.)
First of all, you had a video recently made public that showed some Harry Reid supporters throwing eggs at The Tea Party Express bus and at Andrew Breitbart—and one of Reid’s supporters even went so far as to threaten violence against Breibart, even though he was just standing around doing nothing provocative.
Second of all, you had Michelle Malkin reporting on what a bust the “Crash the Tea Party Movement” was (that was organized by desperate leftists that were going to try to infiltrate the Tea Party in order to make them appear racist, because all of their past attempts to smear them have failed). In her blog, Ms. Malkin even has a picture of some idiot walking around with a picture of a noose while other real Tea Party members are holding up signs pointing him out as an infiltrator.
Furthermore, our own Moe Lane reported that Politico interviewed an African American Obama supporter (who wore an Obama T-shirt to a Tea Party) saying the following regarding his experience at the Tea Party—
Brooks Alexander, a 23-year-old Olney, Md., hotel worker and Obama supporter who wore an Obama t-shirt to the evening rally, said infiltrators were being disrespectful.
“They’re doing a disservice not only to themselves, but to the people who are here trying to express their views,” said Alexander, who is African American and said he traveled to the rally to verify for himself liberal accounts blasting the tea party as racist.
“All my friends told me I was crazy to come down here in an Obama shirt,” he said. “Obviously I have political disagreements [with the tea party], but I cannot lie. I cannot say that people have been anything but nice to me. They have been shaking my hand. One guy told me I had a lot of [guts] for coming down here. I will definitely walk away from this with a new understanding of the tea party.”
Man, those Tea Parties sound like a real “scary”, “raaaaacist” bunch, don’t they?
However, speaking of scary, Michelle Malkin has reported that LA governor, Bobby Jindal’s campaign fundraising chief, Allee Bautsch, and her boyfriend were savagely beaten leaving Brennan’s Restaurant after the SRLC (Southern Republican Leadership Conference). The Louisiana blog, The Hayride has all of the details, including multiple videos of people protesting the SRLC right outside of Brennan’s. Now, neither the Hayride, nor Michelle Malkin are 100% sure that the attacks were political in nature. However, the victims were horrifically beaten (Bautsch had her leg broken in four places and has had five screws put in it, and her boyfriend had his jaw and his nose broken), they weren’t robbed by the perpetrators, and there were numerous protesters surrounding the SRLC, so it’s fair to say that I wouldn’t at all be surprised if the attacks turned out to be political. (Put it this way—if this kind of attack had happened anywhere near a Tea Party protest, the MSM would be all over it and already jumping to conclusions.)
And finally, this video is a perfect compilation of left wing protests being contrasted with conservative protests. Watch it and tell me which group you honestly think is scarier.
Just a thought, but maybe the reason why smarmy, self-important liberals, like Anderson Cooper and Janeane Garafalo, feel so free to call us all “Raaaaacists!” and “teabaggers” (which is a vile oral sex term) is because they aren’t at all afraid of us, because they KNOW we aren’t violent or racist.
I mean, could any of you IMAGINE wearing a Palin or a McCain T-shirt to a left wing rally or to a protest group with people similar to the ones in the videos or the links that I provided for you? You would have to be certifiable to do that in my humble opinion. Furthermore, could you imagine what would happen to you if you called those left wing protesters a lude term like “teabagger”? At best they would throw food at you—at worst, you might end up in the hospital.
Y’all have a nice weekend.
This diary was originally posted at The Minority Report.
UPDATE: As if everything that I’ve shown you isn’t overwhelming enough, Return to Revolution was kind enough to give me a link to pictures of protesters issuing death threats to George Bush and a link to numerous pictures of protesters likening Bush to Hitler. Could any of you imagine what the left would do if Tea Party protesters showed up with pictures half as heinous as these?! (I’m DEFINITELY not advocating that they do, I’m just pointing out the extreme double standard.) I mean, just today Joe Klein accused Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck of sedition for simply speaking at Tea Parties, so you be the judge.
Oh, and Return to Revolution also gave me this video that Caleb Howe shot of anti-war protesters at the Democratic Convention calling US soldiers “Nazis” and ‘baby killers”. Classy, huh?
April 16th, 2010
DeVine Law on Sears for Stevens, views from Stone Mountain
Sears for Stevens, tanning coffins and not sine die
Republican appointee turncoat and betrayer of the Constitution, John Paul Stevens added insult to Gerald Ford’s GOP injury this week by announcing his retirement from the court while the most left-wing President and Senate in our nation’s history are poised to affirm more constitution re-writing oligarchs to join Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer (with Justice Anthony Kennedy sometimes making cameo appearances as oligarch no. 5).
We regret that this version of John Paul (as opposed to the heroic “Jones” version”) gave his but one life for his country by tearing down the institutions that made it great through his judicial activism. And for George Will’s benefit, when we bemoan judicial”activism” we do not mean any and all refutations of deference to any and all legislative bodies. No, we mean unconstitutional deference to legislative bodies, or vice versa. The job of a Supreme Court justice is to follow the constitution, which very often does mean deferring to the self-government of We the People via their elected representative, which was decidedly not the case when McCain-Feingold & Co. violated the First Amendment, but I digress.
That said, as when Justice Souter retired, I now endorse former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears for U.S. Supreme Court, as her name has again been floated as a possible nominee by President Barack Obama.
As I wrote in detail at the time, we can expect no constitutional conservative to be nominated by a president dreaming Marxist father dreams who famously stated that the Constitution contained “fatal flaws” via only “negative liberties” that restrained a government he wants to control our lives. And ChiefJustice Sears is no judicial conservative, but I think she would be the best choice under the circumstances and would be a conservative vote on some issues.
In Georgia, she upheld death penalties and has been a frequent speaker on the importance of marriage and having children within marriage. She is friends with fellow Georgian, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas, despite his pariah status among some of her liberal friends.
Sears is only 55 years old and is a Protestant, of which the SCOTUS is bare. I don’t attach any significance to a nominee’s religious beliefs, but that a majority-Protestant nation has only Catholics and Jews on the nations highest court could be a factor for the politically correct, identity politics bean counters, aka Media and Democrats.
It will still be understandable for Republicans to oppose Sears, given the nominator and some of her political/judicial liberal views, but as for me and my house, we admire Sears and hope she gets nominated and affirmed for the court.
Gamecock welcomes Karla Drenner (D-Avondale Estates-86)-sponsored Tanning Bed bill
When Gamecock was but a young bantam he remembers being warned not to get inside abandoned refrigerators and not to stay out in the sun too long while his mother and aunts baked to peeling. We remember Ronaldus Magnus bemoaning his non-sun block protected Hollywood days when the skin cancer cells came home to roost on his nose during his fabulous presidency.
Can you imagine an America never rescued by a Ronald Reagan that had been debilitated or worse by tanning ray skin cancer? I don’t want too! And as counsel for The Sun in the slander suit against Al Gore (Liability now established. The only remaining issue is how much of Gore’s Tennessee property will be sold to pay damages…), I fully understand that said planet is immune from lawsuits and regulation via Galactic immunity.
But before one crawls into a coffin-like “tanning bed”, we are glad that Karla Drenner works so well with majority party Republicans in the Peach State where many peach-toned constituents seek darker hues in unnatural ways.
We congratulate Representative Drenner for getting HB 853, one of only two-Democratic Party sponsored bills to pass the House (129-28) before Cross-Over Day and probable passage into law (unless the Senate burns it to a crisp) so that Doonesbury Zonker and George Hamilton-types are informed of the risks that almost took Nancy’s Ronnie away from before his time!
US Census – importance to Georgia
South Carolina leads the nation in Census response. That should be enough incentive for Georgians to get on the ball over the next few weeks to ensure that we garner more conservative electoral votes to make Obama go the one-term Carter-way in 2012.
Seriously, it is important for all residents to be counted for many reasons, including getting some of the bailout money back from Obama’s high taxes.
More later here this weekend on the view of the high and low lights of the current legislative session and all things Georgia law and politics from Gamecock’s Stone Mountain of Roost.
Topics to include:
Georgia Legislature
Baker v Perdue – 10th amendment lawsuit – Ga. Atty Gen refuses to bring lawsuit
HB 1086 – Failed Constitutional Amendment opposing ObamaCare, but with many Democrat votes and followed up by regular bills that oppose mandates
HB 819 – Public Gathering Gun Law
HB 307 – Budget – (Hospital) Bed (Sick) Tax – Closure of Medicaid “loop-hole” a necessary measure?
SB 529 – Crime of abortion with intent to kill based on race, color or gender thankfully not passed?
HB 1055 – Budget – the “Fees” (tax) bill – increased court filing fees to $100 in Superior Court and $50 in State Court - DeVine Law supports such mild barriers to lawsuits
HB 1023 – JOBS Act – Does puny $9M bill sharing some bad aspects like the Obama non-stimulus bill and former President Jimmy Carter’s failed tax credits for new jobs?
Stuckey Benfield – Shame the Expungement Bill not passed!
GA Ethics Bill – puny bill for generally puny topic
GA-9 – Nathan Deal – puny ethics violation allegations – resigned after ObamaCare vote
GEORGIA SUPREME COURT
Tort reform med maldamagecaps violate right to jury trial Atlanta Ocuplastic Surgery, PC vs Nestlehutt et al, but Clear and convincing evidentiary standard in emergency room med mal cases upheld
Allowed deathpenalty trial delay cased by lack of funds for indigent defense not violation of constitutionalright to speedy trial (Weis v State)
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Originally published at The Minority Report
April 10th, 2010
Two years ago, poultry’s greatest oracle saw 2008′s Summer of $4.00 /gallon gasoline as the beginning of the end of this affluent society’s fetish with faux man-made global warming-moral preening. Getting to work and buying food trumped feel-good, paganistic gaia worship.
Now, twenty years after a generation was indoctrinated by Al Gore and two years into the Great Recession, comes this:
By a 55% to 32% margin, most voters continue to believe finding new sources of energy is more important than reducing the amount of energy Americans now consume. Support for finding new sources of energy has been this high or higher for months.
Complete Cockstradamus-confirming Rassmussen poll results here and previous energy and environmental prognostications here.
Too bad we have a representation without consideration regime instead of a government that reflects the wishes of We the People. I think the disconnect portends a future affirmation of a long-running Cockstradamus forecast of civil disobedience before any GOP super-majorities could reverse the ObamaDem socialism and now Mark Levin agrees.
Braves-Gamecock
Early last Spring when future Braves Hall-of-Famers, John Smoltz and Tom Glavine were struggling with facing up to the end of their careers, Cockstradamus predicted that both would either be Braves broadcasters or employed as coaches or in the front office by the Atlanta Braves.
Both are in the broadcast booth this year and Smoltz is arguably the most entertaining color commentator ever.
The year of the Chicken is coming
When will civil disobdience start? 2011? Not sure, but I am confident that next year will see a significant increase in the number of households that keep and raise chickens for food, thanks to the refusal of ObamaDems to allow us to bail ourselves out of this deep recession in which the under-employment rate rivals that of the bulk of the years of the Great Depression at upwards of 18% and higher.
The chicken is a very efficient recession-blunter what with the eggs, breasts, thighs, wings, alarm clock and strong male role model.
Cock-a-doodle-do, and yes, the only debate left about Tiger Woods is by how many strokes will he win this weekend’s Masters.
Cockstradamus says by 2 strokes over Lee Westwood.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Originally published @ Examiner.com, where all verification links may be accessed.
April 8th, 2010
Since the first unveiling of the various interations of Democratic Party-sponsored health care reform last summer, the American people have sent unequivocal, vocal and electoral messages of their disgust and opposition to the socialist America tipping point that was the passage of the ObamaCare legislation last month.
The 21st Century tea partiers inspired to dump over-water mortgages into Lake Michigan as Obama rescued delinquent mortgagors, switched gears to protest a loss of Liberty to pursue health happiness much larger than even the liberties restricted by King George’s, that were so intolerable to the Founders and the original tea partiers in Boston Harbor in the 18th Century.
Town Hall meetings held by Democratic Party Representatives on recess after their first votes for socialized medicine before the 2009 vernal equinox loudly rang the bell of Liberty in opposition to massive Medicare cuts bearing no relation any reform, but rather more resembling a robbery.
Then, every time the politically aroused were given a chance to register their disgust with ObamaDems in special elections, they booted the jack asses out in Virginia, New Jersey, and, most poignantly in the late Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts, where it appeared the election of Scott Brown had stopped socialised medicine in in its tracks.
Then came polls showing that the Democrats were already labeled as far left socialists in the voters minds due to their prior votes, and that they would suffer massive losses in 2010′s mid-term election no matter if they passed ObamaCare or not, especially given the deep recession that has sealed their fate in any event.
So, they defied representative democracy and imposed the personal Marxist dreams of ObamaDems on America by making the private insurance industry a public utility on the way to utter destruction; discouraging even more doctors from staying in practice, not to mention discouraging gifted students from becoming doctors in the first place; massively raising taxes on businesses small and large; saddling the states with massive unfunded Medicaid and Medicare mandates; and required, beginning in four years, that all subjects of the King by his insurance policy from his local agents, e.g. Blue Cross Blue Shield, et al…).
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi told us prior to the vote on the $2Trillion+ bill that Americans would realize how much they like the legislation, after it passes and everyone had a chance to read it!
The reading has continued, and next week, we will see the state of reading comprehension in a portion of the Sunshine State. Hopefully, the sun that didn’t shine on Pelosi’s bill before it passed will enlighten former voters Bob Wexler, far leftie Democrat (but I repeat myself, since ALL 60 Democrat senators voted for ObamaCare, and all but 34 of the 200+ Dem Representatives voted for same, but none of whom also voted against ObamaDems’ stimulus that wasn’t and currency-destroying budgets).
That’s right, the first special election after the passage of health care reform is in a previously-proven far left Democratic Party house district, much like the Ted Kennedy seat in the senate was the last vote before its passage.
So, tea partiers, irate seniors on Medicare, newly-enlightened Democrats and reliable Republicans, Do Not Be Discouraged! Get out and vote for Republican Edward Lynch to represent Florida House District 19 in Washington so that the building of the roster to repeal the blood-sucking, Dem-o-bat ObamaCare can begin!
P.S. Inspired by The Minority Report’s Pilgrim at Redstate.
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Originally published @ Examiner.com, where all verification links may be accessed.
