Support Arizona!

July 19, 2010

It is good to be home.  I spent a couple weeks traveling to DC and the Northeast.  My son looked at a few colleges and took a class at Georgetown, but now we are home and ready for the push to school start and November elections.

I wrote earlier about the travesty of the United States ceding territory to the drug dealers from Mexico.  The people in the state of Arizona recently passed legislation that will help them stem the flow of illegal immigration into the State.  The Federal government, under the “leadership” of our socialist president has seen fit to sue Arizona for passing a law that covers enforcement activity that is a Federal responsibility.  Unlike that idiot Holder, I actually read the law, and it mirrors the Federal statute on illegal immigration.

Holder decided that this law was terrible without reading it.  Why does the Federal government believe they are the solver of all problems?  Oh yea, they are a bunch of socialists!  They have healthcare, car companies, banks, investment firms, mortgage lenders, and many other institutions that belong in the private sector.  Those liberals believe they know what is best for us.  Now they believe that they know what is best for Arizona.

Back when Big Sis Napolitano was governor of Arizona, she sent a bill to the Republican led Federal government for the cost of incarcerating illegal immigrants.  The bill was for $217 million.  I guess she thought it was a good political move and brought to attention the incredible hardship illegal immigration brings to the State of Arizona.  She also declared a state of emergency along the border.  Now that she is part of the socialist administration, I guess this is no longer an issue. 

A recent study by Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) puts the cost of illegal immigration at $113 BILLION.  Guess what part of this incredible figure the feds pay for: $29 billion.  That leaves the states to pick up the rest of the tab.  Why shouldn’t states pass laws to protect themselves? 

The people of Arizona have the right to be secure.  They have the right to protect themselves from the illegal invasion of their borders.  They have the right to enforce laws that the representatives of the people enact.  I am pro-immigration.  Besides the fact that we are all immigrants, I and my brothers are married to women born outside this Country.  Let me re-phrase, I am pro-legal immigration.  If the Federal government wants to increase the number of immigrants allowed in the Country, adjust the quotas.  We cannot afford to let this continuous flaunting of our laws to continue.  The law abiding and tax paying citizens deserve to have their taxes and limited resources used to the betterment of the Country, not to have those hard earned taxes used to pay for the consequences of illegal immigration.


Where Do You Get Your News?

May 31, 2009

My brother John sent me a link to a news story about the Justice Department dropping voter intimidation charges on members of the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia.

Here is the link:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/protecting-black-panthers/

I had seen the story before, but what raised my interest and generated my desire to write this blog was the website that John got the story from.  The Washington Times.  I had seen the story on Fox News, but I didn’t recall seeing it anywhere else.  That got me thinking, Where do you go to be well informed about the happenings around the Country?

Everyone that knows me knows I dislike and distrust the media.  I believe that a free press is a cornerstone of our liberty.  Without investigative reporting, officials may be tempted to trample the rights of citizens without consequences.  We are governed because we allow ourselves to be.  The free press is suppose to be one of the checks and balances in our system of government. 

Unfortunately, our current media outlets filter news stories and information to shape public opinion and society norms.  The vast majority of media outlets have become agents of ideology rather than purveyors of facts.  They claim to “report news” when they in fact produce “editorial comment”.

Back to the story John sent me…I did some searching of news sites.  Guess what?  No network news site, not ABC, NBC, CBS, nor CNN, MSNBC, or my local fish wrapper, The Miami Herald, have word one on the Justice Department dropping charges in this voter intimidation case.  You can read the article and ask yourself, why don’t I know about this?

Isn’t the Justice Department supposed to protect the rights of the citizenry by enforcing laws against intimidation of voters?  And when a socialist President has his representative (the Attorney General) drop charges in a case like this, who do we rely on to bring this outrage to the people?  An unbiased and free press.  We don’t have that anymore.  So what is a person of conscious to do?  Maybe start blogging…maybe make it easier for people to get all sides of a story or even know that there is a story, as in this case.

There is a place that is developing into a storehouse for information, YouTube.  Now when I see a story, the first thing I do is look on YouTube for information.  I looked at YouTube and found many videos on this story.  There are almost 2 million views of the various videos.  So the “mainstream media” can bury their heads in the sand, be an agent of the government’s current ideology, and pretend things don’t exist or only report stories that fit their political ideals.  Thankfully, there are people in this Country willing to stand up and report the good and bad.  That is the only way that the government will continue to work for us, rather than the other way around.

In case you want to see the video of voter intimidation, here it is, but remember that as far as the U.S. Government is concerned, this is fine:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU


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