Posted on 08/11/2003 8:46:25 AM PDT by DPB101
That time frame suggests against Mr. Zigler being a holdover...
Ziglar was elected as the 35th Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate in October 1998. Prior to his election, he served as Managing Director of Paine Webber Incorporated in the firm's Municipal Securities Group. He was a member of the Paine Webber Operating Committee, the Municipal Securities Group Executive Committee and served as the Chairman of the Municipal Securities Group Operating Committee. During that time, Mr. Ziglar had responsibility for the National Infrastructure Finance Group and the West Coast General Markets Group.
In addition to his 23 years in the public sector finance industry, he has worked in various capacities of the federal government. He served as Assistant Secretary of Interior for Water and Science from 1987 to 1988, where he directed the operations of the Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Mines. He served a member of the Senior Advisory Group on Water Governance of the Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations and was the joint recipient of the Water Statesman of the Year Award from the National Water Resources Association in 1988.
Looks to me like he is a career guy and perpetual bureaucrat.
Good riddance to James Ziglar, the hopeless head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) who announced his resignation last week.This is a man whose main qualifications for the nation's top immigration enforcement job were his boyhood friendship with Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott and his effortless ability to suck up to Sen. Ted Kennedy.
This is a man whose law enforcement background consisted of less than three years as the U.S. Senate's sergeant-at-arms and doorkeeper, protecting the Senate gavel and playing Senate hall monitor.
This is a man who freely admitted before his confirmation that he had "no discernible experience in immigration law and policy."
This is a man whose idea of increasing U.S.-Mexican border security was to give his beleaguered agents pepperball guns . . .continued
Under Ziglar's "leadership," INS did little to close the loopholes exposed after 9-11. His resignation as INS director was demanded, and rightfully so. At least he found the "right" audience as a speaker; I can't think of any organization--aside from the ACLU--that would actually applaud his drivel.
Did he wear that goofy little uniform I see hotel doormen wearing?
To say that there are only two basic positions on the new security laws, Ashcroft or the ACLU, with us or the enemy, is nonsense. There are a lot of ctitical opinions on the PATRIOT act from Conservatives and Libertarians who detest the ACLU. But of course these "flyover country" types aren't considered to be fully human by the East Coast Establishment (and their Quislings) and their opinions can be safely ignored.
It is almost inconceivable that international terrorist attacks could have occured in America of 1950, and even if they had it would have been a simple matter to round up the terrorists, most of whom would have stuck out like a sore thumb, throw them out and prevent them from coming back or coming in the first place. But when you invite the world to colonize your nation you invite the world's crime, strife, wars, and hatreds in at the same time, and militarized police and PATRIOT acts are necessary to keep a lid on the unnatural society that results. To choose multiculturalism as the pinnacle of public morality is to ultimately choose a police state. (A somewhat amusing example of this conflict between Mutli-culti and freedom is the spectacle of Grandmothers being forced to be felt-up at airports so that the system can pretend that it is not singling out Arabs and Southwestern Asians.) Arguments about security arrangements or the failure of the CIA or FBI to prevent 9-11 are just red herrings to avoid discussing the real problem.
2,000 illegal aliens from the Middle East have been deported. Out of what, 50,000? 100,000? A million? They should all be rounded-up and deported, both as a matter of upholding the concept of democratically-made law, and so we won't have to curb our freedoms because of their presence.
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