Posted on 06/08/2011 7:36:21 AM PDT by yoe
The errors in National Public Radio's coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-3 decision to (uphold Arizona's E-Verify law) were so blatant and verifiable that the segment would have made a good candidate for one of NPR's famous April Fools Day reports. But the falsehoods that listeners heard in the (Top Court Upholds Arizona Employer Sanctions Law) are no joke. There has been no correction in the story online, which would indicate no one within the organization caught the errors.
I don't believe that "All Things Considered" intentionally lied to listeners. Supporters of unchecked illegal immigration spend millions of dollars every year on media mis-education campaigns. That's their right. But that's no excuse for professional reporters to fail to test the accuracy of their sources or to engage in inadvertent advocacy.
Falsehood #1
The first major error occurred before the host and legal affairs correspondent even got to the Supreme Court's decision. NPR's correspondent started things off by inaccurately describing a different Arizona bill (SB 1070) as requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone "they think on the street is illegally in the country." That's nonsense. Only after a (Arizona House of Representatives House Majority Research...) does that law impose any obligation on the officer. This fundamental misunderstanding about SB 1070 from the legal affairs correspondent does not bode well for NPR's coverage of that case should it reach the Supreme Court.
Falsehood #2
The correspondent briefly recovered long enough to describe the mandatory E-Verify component of Arizona's employer sanctions law, but then inexplicably said, "Now, E-verify is a sort of a pilot computer-data-check system that Congress specifically made voluntary because about one out of five workers is erroneously reported as illegal because of mistaken name spellings, similar names, things like that." Wow. I still can't believe....
(Excerpt) Read more at numbersusa.com ...
Well then you need to WAKE UP!
Defund NPR now!
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FR excerpting software is going to have to be updated for these quirky "may copy and must post in entirety" policies.
“I don’t believe that “All Things Considered” intentionally lied to listeners.”
I listen often. I do believe that “All Things Considered” intentionally lied to listeners.
E-Verify empowers a critical element in a budding nationwide electronic police state. What most people don't see is what happens when these powers they think are so non-invasive are combined.
What happens when E-Verify abets a massive industry in fake ID? Add biometric-ID to the requirements.
What happens when people want tracking food distribution in case of terrorism? You would add the National Animal Identification System, capable of tracking the movements and transactions involving 300 million animals. Oh, but what about other kinds of food? Did you know that SB-510 mandated tracking of all food, from farmer to store (there's a minimum size of operation, but that won't last)?
Let's see... the capability to track 300 million people plus biometric ID. Got it.
What happens when sexual predators released from jail? How about GPS bracelets tracked by cell phone. Now, scale that up to the fact that every cell phone now has a GPS receiver. Now they know where you are.
A national sales tax? Why, reporting every transaction to the Federal government! What kind of information systems will then become necessary to enforce it??? Then they'll know EVERYTHING you buy.
What happens when it becomes plain that it is easy to construct weapons of mass destruction from commonly available goods. Why, the "security" freaks would preclude anyone with such associations from buying those goods, putting a search of the purchaser's records (without probable cause) before they are allowed to buy.
How much different is that from the POWERS inherent to E-Verify?
All those software systems are now in place or getting there. They'll be able to monitor where you are, where you go, where you live, what you buy, and where you can work, even what you say. They'll even have Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) to detect what you might be thinking.
Such systems for monitoring and control were the stock in trade of the NAZI Party. Such systems are attendant to both the Brady Bill, the PATRIOT Act, and E-Verify, and please don't tell me that they won't be abused because they already have been.
With each such step, we allow the Feds to put the pieces in place for totalitarian control to a degree never achieved in the entire history of the world. E-Verify is exactly such a step. Why advocate for such a system when it is totally unnecessary? There are far more efficient and effective ways to get illegals out of the country. Bounty systems are proven to work, they adhere to Constitutional letters of marque, AND have the protections for the falsely accused of both civil and criminal liability for false arrest, harassment, and imprisonment.
NPR has a little bit different take on what “truth” is. They believe in the Party Line. Truth is what is in accord with the Party Line and, of course, can change- do a 180 even- instantly if the Party Line changes. To some it is a pure political power technique. To others who are more idealistic, truth really is malleable and is determined by intentions.
BTTT
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I occasionally listen to NPR out of San Diego for the chuckles. Everyone should try it so you can hear what racist, elitist, soccer mom cr@p is spewed out of NPR utilizing our dollars.
Very interesting post. I agree in principle, but sill support e-verify.
There are ~ 40 million illegals in the US. Included among them are people and drug traffickers, jihadis, those who tromped across the border, visa overstays, and the extended families of anchor babies.
Unfortunately, in our PC world the chance of getting a bounty passed is nil. I strongly resent the fact that the political elite of both parties have allowed the situation deteriorate to the point where I support e-verify. Then again that may have been the plan all along.
So, you would buy the rope to hang yourself because the alternative is politically untenable? Do you really think that with all the money in bogus ID out there that they won't fake credentials using valid SSNs? They'll implement that faster tan E-Verify will be.
How will you feel when the "solution" becomes an implantable chip?
Uh, no. I knew all of that and even included some of it in the post above.
Ping!
It's far less of a stretch to regard such a thing as "necessary and proper" to the function of protecting the U.S. from invasion, than to regard many of the other things the U.S. government does as being "necessary and proper" to any legitimate purpose.
Of course, the bigger problem is that even when the U.S. catches invaders, it seldom punishes them in any meaningful way. While one might reasonably argue that the U.S. shouldn't be enforcing E-Verify unless or until it makes bona fide efforts to punish the invaders it catches, I don't see any realistic way of catching and punishing invaders without some process of identifying who is and is not allowed to be here.
From the post above:
If you think bounties "unrealistic" compared to violation of the constitutionally enumerated powers, then pray tell, what is it about them that is so unrealistic if it is not bowing to political preferences of the complicit and their pet illerati? Apparently you then believe "necessary and proper" sits right along with the commerce and "general welfare" clauses for rubber limitations to suit.
The means exist. The will to exercise the means does not. So in the absence of will, you would submit to the tender mercies of the historic usurpers in the vain belief that they won't abuse yet another stretcher? Please, you're smarter than that.
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