Posted on 08/28/2004 6:49:37 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
Is there is an invisible army of terrorists gathering in America today? The mainstream media and the Bush administration do not want to talk about it.
In July, Defense Watch reported that, in Arizona, an area called the Naco Strip has become a primary route of illegal entry by “significant numbers of Arab-speaking males.” It took a small town weekly newspaper, the Tombstone Tumbleweed, to reveal that, “males of possible Syrian and Iranian descent have been detained in the past few weeks.” Since October 1, 2003, 5,510 illegal aliens designated “Other Than Mexican” (OTM) have been apprehended while crossing the Arizona terrain. These OTM’s are not here to pick vegetables, mow lawns, pluck chickens, or wash cars.
Just do the math. If only five Muslim terrorists crossed the border every day for a year that would add up to 1,825 people ready to do the bidding of Osama bin Laden. If this has been going on for just the years since 9-11, that’s an army of 5,475. Then, too, there are an estimated 2.9 million Muslims in America. Extremists, worldwide, are estimated to be about ten percent of the overall population. Applied to the U.S., that represents a potential 290,000 American Muslims sympathetic to the Islamist cause. No matter how you slice and dice the numbers, it suggests that a substantial threat exists and is exacerbated by the failure to stop terrorists at our borders.
They constitute a virtual army of terrorists who, if not apprehended, could create a day of havoc from coast to coast when al Qaeda gives the signal. When that day comes, remember that you read about it here first.
Or, as some argue, there’s no proof that any al Qaeda operatives have crossed the border. If, however, any were captured, normal counter-terrorism procedures would be to deny this and seek to extract information from those in custody.The 9-11 operatives were here thanks to sloppy immigration procedures and, in the case of illegal aliens, the estimates are that eight to twelve million live among us. That is a huge margin for error.
The topic the Bush administration wants to stay away from until after November 2, Election Day is immigration. Some have called the Bush administration immigration policies “schizophrenic”, but they are not. They are globalist, i.e., the views of someone for whom national borders should be regarded as outmoded while we all join hands in one big, global neighborhood.
One can understand the “schizophrenic” label, given the hue and cry about Bush’s so-called unilateralism and willingness “to go it alone”, but this is the same administration that supports a variety of policies that are globalist, most of which come straight out of the United Nations. The way civics is taught in our schools today is designed to create generations of globalists for whom our national sovereignty and the Bill of Rights are just a bunch of 18th century “ideas.”
There are a number of problems with this see-no-evil immigration policy. On August 10, Jerry Seper of the Washington Times, reported that, under President Bush’s guest-worker program, “Millions of illegal aliens in the United States would be free from arrest and deportation, have access to tax-deferred savings accounts and Social Security credits, and get unrestricted travel to and from their home countries.” This constitutes a massive dollar transfer to Mexico.
Homeland Security Undersecretary, Asa Hutchinson, responsible for the nation’s borders and transportation security, has apparently lost his senses. In a recently reported response to questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Hutchinson supported the Bush immigration policies while acknowledging that the “incentives” being offered illegal aliens are generous to a fault. The National Border Patrol Council that represents 10,000 of the non-supervisory agents called the guest-worker plan a “slap in the face to anyone who has ever tried to enforce the immigration laws of the United States."
In January 2004, the Mexican government acknowledged that the number of their people entering the US illegally had increased 66% from 1990 to 2002. Naturally, Mexico’s president, Vicente Fox, wants Bush to grant de facto amnesty to an estimated eight to eleven million illegal aliens already working in the United States, the majority of whom are Mexican. Amnesty and any other program of this nature is simply a reward for breaking the laws of the United States of America. There are even some voices suggesting they should be given the right to vote!
One little discussed cost of the open door policy being pursued by the Bush administration is the increase in the cost of law enforcement where illegal aliens gather in numbers. Right now, according to Seper, “About 80,000 illegal criminal aliens, including convicted murders, rapists, drug dealers, and child molesters who served prison time and were releases, are loose on the streets of America, hiding from federal immigration authorities.”
They don’t have to hide that hard. According the figures for 2002 from the former Immigration and Naturalization Service and from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, more than 375,000 known illegal aliens have been ordered deported, but have disappeared pending immigration hearings. Lee Boyd Malvo, the sniper who terrorized the Washington area, was one of them.
Recently, Brazil agreed to step up the policing of the Triple Border Area with Paraguay and Argentina. According to a Washington Times editorial, “It has long been identified as a fund-raising, training and procurement haven for diverse terrorist groups, including al Qaeda and Hezbollah.” The ease with which terrorists could be infiltrated into the US from these South American strongholds cannot be underestimated.
When the facts are examined, there are few good reasons to permit the massive daily influx of Mexicans and other illegal aliens, but there is one very good reason to shut it down completely.
Let's see:
"Mr McCain I agree we need to do something to shut the swiftboat vets up!! To hell with the 1st amendment!"..."Secretary Powell please see to it that the Rat demands for UN observers to our elections are heeded. Invite them in yesterday. Be sure you get that Hastings guy also."...."Leaving the borders wide open is not amnesty and neither is my plan to allow illegals to become legal illegals"....."Let's just let N Korea become a nuclear power and let our children worry about the nukes landing on their heads in later years"......"I refuse to try to do anything about judges in the supreme kangaroo court or anywhere else legislating from the bench. Elections require I piss off as few people as possible."....."We have to be the party of inclusion."......"I repeat: Tell those swiftees to shut up. I believe Kerry served honorably and should be proud of his service."..........
Why am I not then surprised at your premise regarding the policies of the current administration? In fact, the premise of this story is quite likely an understatement.
And no, the argument that a vote for someone else is a vote for EFnK is just plain wrong. It also assumes a blind belief in the media propaganda that tells us that only the two main party's can win, which in effect is allowing THEM to control the election. That is not the American way...though it has been allowed to become it, sadly.
Getting back to the article: The islamonazis [the insidiousness at the very least] in earler times would have been locked up and/or sent packing. The new political warrior mantra is: "Do no harm to my political future even if it means the destruction of the nation state and innocent lives, including those of our children." [But hey...what are children but protoplasm anyway right?? We've allowed 44 million to CONTINUE be slaughtered without serious challenge even though we are in power and I occupy the most powerful position on the face of the earth..what's a few more?!]
We've spent 10 billion on "security" but haven't spent 280 million on explosive detectors for airports. We've eroded rights, but then when we catch an islamonazi filming dams in the US with an invalid visa, we let him go.....So WHY are we bothering to erode rights?? For the white male gun owners? For the Christiana's? It sure as heck ain't to protect us from islamics!!
We've refused to speak out forcefully against the lies and hypocrisy of the media and the left. Why? Could it be that they are all friends on the same side, ultimately..the side of globalism? The side that could care less what happens to this country or to our children? In short, we have stopped short of true war on terror, in a quite obvious attempt to avoid actions which could be detrimental to political futures, at the expense of children's futures! [Ooops now I sound like jesse...YICK!!]
I think the time has come to an end for lukewarm "patriotism," [and that term is being used gratuitously] even if it be from our "leaders." Throw them all out, tar and feathered, and start over. Reserve more sinister punishments for the outright traitors in our midst including congressman and the media.
/ longest rant in indie's tenure [brought about by a CINO republican blasting the 1st amendment, disparaging the swift vets, and saying Kerry should be proud of himself and did not lie...in other words the straws that broke the camel's back]
I know that. Ross Perot's gonna win it all. He'll be standing on the bumper peering under our hood in no time.
Great idea!!
Sorry, no time to freep him "but good". The sky is falling and I must go and tell the King! :-)
That may be, but I remember the incident well because one of our Corporals who took it with us, chewed us out for saying that some of us would shoot because we trusted our own government
He also stuck up forr the 2nd ammendment while some of us said we would confiscate weapons because we were told to, after all, our government couldn't be wrong, could they?
Thank Goodness for that Corporal, because he cheweed us out like he did, we all grabbed our surveys and changed the answers to what they should have been.
I wondered what that survey was about, to hear of it 20 years later, and knowing what I know now, ...
I wonder if it is someone's idea of a joke.
I just find it amazing that our government would actually ask those questions so openly if they really wanted to know such things...but it seems by being open, we gave straight answers.
I remember the questions about gun confiscation, doing civil work in place of sitting around the barracks all day, hurricane relief, and I also remember being asked if we would shoot at Americans if ordered to do so.
I remember adding in the survey a comment on how Marines should be used for forest fires, hurricane relief, disaster relief, but I didnt agree with UN type work, I said they should draft their own people first, not us.
Respectfully Jim this not at issue. How do we convince an administration to change policy, if no one is allowed to criticize the policy.
Run your own poll here and see how many of the people that are critical of the administration policy on immigration will not vote for President Bush. I doubt you will find any, unless they are DU Trolls.
Otherwise, if you want to kill this thread, why not just pull it?
Did the form have an official Jimmy Carter survey number on it? If not, chances are it was a hoax.
Naa, they brought him out, named him James Carville and put him on Crossfire!!
Those of us in border states are well aware... I was disappointed that the RNC Platform Committee cut down Tom Tancredo in putting something into the platform to get tough on the borders.
And they ain't all foreigners neither!
Beat you to it. The overwhelming majority of Freepers are anti-illegal immigration.
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=10
Knew that before I took the official poll, but at least we got a number. Now, if you are poll driven, watch the poll we run after the Republican Convention. Any guesses as to how many FReepers will like to see Bush voted out?
Possible but not likely.
Your post # 83: BRAVO!!!!
hey, that is funny.
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thank God for the 2nd Ammendment.
See also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=35
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=36
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=39
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=48
You didn't clarify, was you whole previous post sarcasm then?
There's really not that many big problems facing us Jim. Common sense seems to be lost in D.C.
1. Government is growing larger and more intrusive in all respects. This is not being reversed and is escalating to the point where government is in every part of our lives and businesses, and goes far beyond the terrorist issue. This is not even debatable.
2. Government needs to reform our trade laws, and address this massive outsourcing crisis.
3. Government is spending our money faster than they can take it from us. This needs to stop now.
4. Government needs to control our borders and immigration policies. This includes going after and prosecuting companies/employers that hire people that are in our country illegally. They are clearly not doing this, and has become apparent to most of us that they have no desire to do this. The effects of this invasion of millions has become an epic domestic crisis, not to mention a national security time bomb.
Common sense tells us these issues that should have never been allowed to tumble out of control in the first place. If our leadership in this country had America and the American people's best interest in mind, these would not be issues today. They are not even being addressed.
The descent, and anger of the people is justified, as these issues are now affecting every single American in this country.
He started by asking my grandmother whether or not he was in Mexico, and she said, "No. You're in Texas."
He was hiding a large, boxy, bulky item under his long wool coat, and asking my grandmother for some food. He took out a roll of American bills and Mexican pesos and asked my grandmother which did she prefer for payment for the food. She passed some food through the door to him and said, "no charge and please be on your way."
She then had a neighborhood kid go and get my grandfather, and my mom remembers her parents speaking in hushed tones. That night, he and some men went "patroling" and they found this guy in an old burned-out barn.
My mom eavesdropped as she heard her dad telling her mom that this guy had a fire going in this old barn, and that he was speaking a "funny and strange" language into a radio.
My grandma asked my grandpa what the men did with this guy, but my grandfather refused to speak of it further. To this day, my mom is convinced that this was some type of Nazi spy that was lost and had perhaps paratrooped into "Mexico" but ended up on the wrong side of the border.
When/if that day comes, this article is the last thing I'll be thinking about.
My biggest concern will be "how many of these rag heads can I bag before Tom, ElRoy, John, and Jim finish off everyone in the area."
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