[On Illegal Immigration and 2nd Amendment] The Press Is Our Enemy

Townhall ^ | February 16, 2009 | J.M. Powers

[2ndDivisionVet]

I think we all realize that our open southern border is a real problem. Illegal aliens are raping, murdering, stealing our identities and assaulting our citizenry, not to mention sucking up welfare dollars by the billions and devastating our medical facilities and our economy in general.

What do we hear from the media? We need the illegal aliens here, the Mexicans are doing the jobs that Americans won’t do. Well, for once, the media is right.

But it’s not picking cabbage or washing dishes that Americans won’t do, Americans have always done that. So what job won’t Americans do?

There are two huge industries that need workers…and Americans won’t do it. Americans don’t do it. In order for these multi-billion dollar businesses to survive, Illegal Aliens have to do the work.

I’m talking about Drug and Human Trafficking and they are both big business. Someone has to run these drugs. Someone has to sell these drugs. Someone has to kidnap American Citizens and sell them to prostitution rings. Someone has to kidnap American Citizens and hold them for ransom. And Americans just won’t do it.

Mexico City leads the world in kidnappings. But guess who is number 2? Moscow? Nope. Bogota, Columbia? Nope. How about Phoenix, Arizona? You got it. The internationally enormous Phoenix, Arizona. Why would Phoenix be number 2 in the world for kidnappings? Very simple…its proximity to the U.S.-Mexico Border. A person is kidnapped every day in Phoenix. They are held for ransom or sold into prostitution rings.

What is our government doing about this alarming problem? When Compean and Ramos, two border patrol agents, shot a drug smuggler/illegal alien, Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila of Mexico in the buttocks as he tried to escape, the two hero border patrol agents were given medals of valor….no wait, that’s what should have happened. Nope, they were sentenced to 11+ years in prison.

The guy they shot had 800 pounds of marijuana in his van. After he was released, he went back to Mexico and was caught again bringing massive amounts of drugs into our country.

But never fear! ABC News has the answer. In the online article about the Phoenix kidnapping problem (Kidnapping Capital of the U.S.A.), they refer to a “Related” story, blaming the problem on our right to own guns (U.S. Guns Arming Mexican Drug Gangs; Second Amendment to Blame?). But they don’t stop there. Their “Related Story” links go on:

U.S. Guns: Drug Gangs’ Weapons of Choice

U.S. Guns: 'Weapons of War' in Mexico

In the ‘U.S. Guns Arming Mexican Drug Gangs’ article, ABC states the problem, as they see it,

“But U.S. efforts to stop the smuggling of tens of thousands of guns to Mexico, including high-powered assault weapons, have been hampered by lenient American gun laws and the Bush administration's failure to give priority to anti-gun smuggling efforts”

In the article, that statement is followed by this sorry excuse for journalism,

“officials tell ABC News for a report Tuesday on ABC News' "World News With Charles Gibson."”

So apparently ABC wants us to believe that multiple “officials” made the exact same statement, and all of them are unnamed. Oh I know, maybe all of these officials said the same thing all in unison and they couldn’t tell who all said it. Yeah, that’s probably it.

ABC, who holds a chair in Barrack Obama’s Department of Propaganda, thinks that disarming American Citizens will solve everything.

Well, it might. Just look at Australia. After banning private gun ownership in 1996 and subsequently confiscating 650,000 guns, crime dramatically dropped…oh wait, I had that report upside down. I guess it didn’t work. Homicides are up 3.2%. Assaults are up 8.6%. Armed Robberies are up 45%. In Victoria, gun homicides are up 300%. And there has been a reported “Dramatic Increase” in home burglaries and assaults on the elderly.

In 1997, the UK banned private gun ownership and in the 2 years following the ban, the use of handguns in crime rose by 40%.

But hey, just because it has failed everywhere it has been tried, doesn’t mean it won’t work here.

Now let’s take a look at the opposite scenario. In 1981, Kennesaw, Georgia had a crime rate much higher than the national average, (4,332 per 100,000 as opposed to the national average of 3,899 per 100,000). But in March of 1982, the town passed an ordinance requiring each head of household to own and maintain a gun.

But despite the predictions of increased violence and “Wild West” style showdowns, there hasn’t been a single resident involved in a fatal shooting since the passage of that law. Ah, but what happened to the crime rate? Well, it went from 4,332 per 100,000 in 1981 to 2,027 per 100,000 in 2005. Yeah, but that’s a “per capita” rate, what happened to the population? Prior to the law, Kennesaw had a population of 5,242. In 2005, the population had increased to 28,189.

So ignoring empirical evidence, facts and logic, the media thinks making it easier for illegal aliens to come here and abolishing the Second Amendment is the solution to our crime problem. But hey, when has the press ever been interested in facts and logic?

And now that their messiah is in office and the love affair has moved to the next level, hang on to your guns, the assault is coming. The President is limited in his power, the Press is not. The War on our Freedom is here…the President is a pawn, the Press is the Enemy.

The good news is, the Press only has the power we the people give them, so let’s join together and strip them of their power. Stop watching and reading network news, start writing letters. Let them know how you feel about their Anti-American bias, slander and outright lies. Stop patronizing their sponsors and let them know why. Get your news from only reliable sources like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Mark Levine and others like them. Patronize their sponsors and let them know why. Stop reading the New York Times and Newsweek and start reading the Washington Times and National Review. Together we can stop this attack on our Constitution, together we can cut them off at the knees.

Write your elected officials, write the networks, write the papers, write the sponsors and write them all often. Don’t wait for your voice to be heard, make it heard.

I have tried to make it a little easier by supplying the contact information of just a few of the biggest Enemies of the State.

ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3068843

CBS News: Contact Us or http://www.cbscorporation.com/contact_info/index.php

NBC/MSNBS News: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10285339/

CNN: http://www.cnn.com/feedback/

New York Times: letters@nytimes.com or http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/infoservdirectory.html

Newsweek: Editors@newsweek.com or http://www.newsweek.com/id/38406

LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/services/site/la-contactus,0,3944908.htmlstory

[iacovatx]

“The MSM is our enemy, but 80 % of the retards still get their news that way. Conservatives are to blame for not investing in these areas and shunning the arts, teaching and journalism fields. The result is a Marxist influenced elite that intends to establish a dictatorship over us.”

That is the most concise and accurate post about the problem and the solution I’ve ever read. I can’t fund a new information service but I would gladly work with someone interested in starting one of substantial size.

[techno]

Now how many people really believe that allowing Obama and his merry men and women to confiscate their guns in order to hand them to their deputies Bill Ayres, Bernadine Dohrn and your local Jihadi terrorist and the like will make them feel safer.

Do you really believe that the Messiah will protect you and your family from danger and harm?

If you do, you must work for Obama or be one of his Brown Shirts.

[taraytarah]

...the President is a pawn, the Press is the Enemy.

That's so right......The media does not belong to him. He belongs to it. However, the pawn has his eye on becoming global king, and will shed the useful idiots that get him there.

[CPT Clay]

Great article!

[JrsyJack]

Build the wall from sea-to-sea...it will keep the Mexicans in Mexico and the guns in America; problem solved.

[Dante3]

Thanks for posting it.

[joydocsusie]

Bad Week — Congress Decides Illegal Aliens Share Stimulus Jobs with U.S. Workers

UNBELIEVABLE — Democratic Leadership Requires Stimulus Job Access for Illegal Aliens — Secret Negotiations
By Roy Beck, Wednesday, February 11, 2009
AND BAILED-OUT BANKS ARE GIVEN BACK PERMISSION TO FIRE AMERICANS AND REPLACE WITH FOREIGN WORKERS ...... ........ .......... House Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Reid and the Obama White House were absolutely certain about one thing for the House/Senate negotiating committee on the Stimulus Bill: There was to be no special restriction to keep illegal aliens from getting new jobs created by the bill at a cost of $250,000 to $500,000 each.

It isn’t wholly the illegals fault if IT WASN’T FOR THE DEMOCRATS and Hussein we would have more money!

[joydocsusie]

Bad Week — Congress Decides Illegal Aliens Share Stimulus Jobs with U.S. Workers

UNBELIEVABLE — Democratic Leadership Requires Stimulus Job Access for Illegal Aliens — Secret Negotiations
By Roy Beck, Wednesday, February 11, 2009
AND BAILED-OUT BANKS ARE GIVEN BACK PERMISSION TO FIRE AMERICANS AND REPLACE WITH FOREIGN WORKERS ...... ........ .......... House Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Reid and the Obama White House were absolutely certain about one thing for the House/Senate negotiating committee on the Stimulus Bill: There was to be no special restriction to keep illegal aliens from getting new jobs created by the bill at a cost of $250,000 to $500,000 each.

It isn’t wholly the illegals fault if IT WASN’T FOR THE DEMOCRATS and Hussein we would have more money!

[joydocsusie]

Bad Week — Congress Decides Illegal Aliens Share Stimulus Jobs with U.S. Workers

UNBELIEVABLE — Democratic Leadership Requires Stimulus Job Access for Illegal Aliens — Secret Negotiations
By Roy Beck, Wednesday, February 11, 2009
AND BAILED-OUT BANKS ARE GIVEN BACK PERMISSION TO FIRE AMERICANS AND REPLACE WITH FOREIGN WORKERS ...... ........ .......... House Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Reid and the Obama White House were absolutely certain about one thing for the House/Senate negotiating committee on the Stimulus Bill: There was to be no special restriction to keep illegal aliens from getting new jobs created by the bill at a cost of $250,000 to $500,000 each.

It isn’t wholly the illegals fault if IT WASN’T FOR THE DEMOCRATS and Hussein we would have more money!

[Jet Jaguar]

You can say that again!

[kennyboy509]

All that writing and calling won’t work.

I tired of doing that.

What we need to do is start gathering PERSONAL data on them and publish in on a another un afiliated web site NOT FREE REPUBLIC.

Fight fire with fire.