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.
NAFTA! We're doomed! FTAA! A sell out! Gosh, maybe I should have gone to the protests in New York?
Uh Joe, there is no outsourcing crisis.
And BTW, you are calling for more govt. intrusion in telling businesses how to operate. Quite hypocritical of you, IMO.
I just found out, that they were ambushed. More details coming later.
Where are you, SA?
We don't want him voted out Jim, we want him to address the issues.
What legacy will he leave, who will succeed him? Who do you think will be the candidates in 2004, for both parties?
As it turns out I am pretty near the end of my life cycle, so most of what is happening today will not drastically affect my life, but I would like to die believing there is hope for the culture that keeps the world livable.
I believe that any conservative who lives in a deciding state has a duty to reelect the President no matter how distasteful the thought may be to them. Allowing a liberal-socialist self-certified traitor to gain the office would insure a leftist Supreme Court for the next generation or more. Kerry's ascension would also undo all the work (and betray the sacrifices of our military personnel) that has been done trying to reign in the fanatics still waging religious war on us.
Why does everyone automatically think we have to go with roundups and cattle cars? Prosecuting illegal aliens' employers would trigger a voluntary mass exodus. Secondary disincentives include denial of all services not protected by Federal mandate and restrictions on the billions of remittance dollars they send out of the country. No mass roundups, no martial law, no judicial expense - a literal fortune in taxpayer money saved.
The only obstacle is forcing lawmakers to turn a deaf ear to the cries from some of their best contributors as they're being led away. Manage this like negotiated plea bargaining - make the politicians give up a few until the illegals are stampeding, then taper off prosecutions. Their incentive would be heading off investigations that could find them taking the perp walk themselves.
Back to the subject - There's a government-connected gang in Brazil who specialize in getting OTM's into our country (only one in 10 holders of Brazilian passports here turn out to be actual Brazilians). Closer to home a Mexican gang puts their clients through a crash "Mexicanization" course before sneaking them in. Once here terrorists have a ready-made support network already in place - 80% of all the mosques in America. Only 20% of our Islamic neighbors' shrines are free from Saudi-Wahhabist funding and influence.
As long as the cult of Islam is regarded as a religion precious little can be done about it under the law. It's tight control over its adherants insures lack of useful cooperation with our authorities. Anti-profiling policies borne of political correctness gives our enemies a definite edge. They surely appreciate we Americans discounting the possibility that they intend us further harm.
Well, if Bush doesn't fix all of this to your complete satisfaction by November, by all means, vote him out. Let Kerry take a shot at it. And if Kerry doesn't fix it in four more, vote him out too. And if the Republican that follows Kerry doesn't fix it, vote him out. Sooner or later they will get tired of it all and decide to listen to the voters. Simple.
Never seen such action out of you! Whassamater, DVD player broken?
Hmmm... sarcasm? Me? Never.
Here is how the government is "reforming" our trade laws. They pledge to raise the living standards throughout the hemisphere (by lowering ours).
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I remain confident that the United States can play an important and constructive role in helping the region tackle the challenges it faces in terms of sustaining long term growth and raising living standards throughout the hemisphere.
--B. Taylor Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs
Hear, hear, well said Joe.
Just watch the coverage of the convention protesters. They won't be invisible for three or four days. Then they will be back in hiding after much media appreciation.
Congress should pass a law outlawing Islam as a valid religion in the U.S. That ought to solve everything. Ooops. Guess they'll have to repeal the first amendment first.
Justifiable anger, yes, but where are we descending to? Oops. Never mind. Figured out where we're all going if we don't change our ways.
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Whatever.
The Answer is YES, they are supported, aided and abetted by the CPUSA and DSA aided democRATS(more precisely, demoCommiecRATS)!!!!
"...Okies to Oklahoma."
HEY!!!
I represent that remark! ;-)
Jim Robinson wrote:
Well, if Bush doesn't fix all of this to your complete satisfaction by November, by all means, vote him out.
Let Kerry take a shot at it. And if Kerry doesn't fix it in four more, vote him out too.
And if the Republican that follows Kerry doesn't fix it, vote him out.
Sooner or later they will get tired of it all and decide to listen to the voters.
Simple.
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Welcome back JR.
Good to hear you once again speak with the clarity of vision you had back in '98.
Was it, OWK, -- who once wrote; -- "Gawd, but I love it when you post like that" -- ?
They are not just my problems.
As I stated, they are now affecting every single American in this country.
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