"Here's Johnny!"
When he writes "we show the Muslim world that there are a lines they cannot cross" he does not include the US border.
Posted on 02/08/2006 6:47:52 PM PST by Willie Green
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It seems that the U.S.A. has a history of waiting until the horse is gone before securing the proverbial barn door. In some cases it´s simply expensive or inconvenient, but in some cases it is downright dangerous.
Although few on the left are willing to admit, it´s pretty well known that Bill Clinton had at least three chances to take bin Ladin into custody and refused. We all know that we brought Saddam to his knees during the first Gulf War and sailed away without finishing the job, necessitating the second Gulf War.
We all know that our Congress usually takes so long in passing meaningful legislation that by the time it becomes law it is, many times, toothless and obsolete.
But one of the most dangerous things happening in our nation right now is the situation at our southern borders. Everyday illegals cross the international border of Mexico with impunity. Our cities are inundated with unpapered, non-English speaking aliens.
I have no problem with honest people coming to this country seeking a better life for them and their families, but when they come in illegally I am dead set against it. We don´t even know they´re here and we have no way of knowing what kind of people they are.
Are they Islamic sympathizers bent on destroying us and our way of life? Are they violent gang members who hire out to do murder and mayhem? Are they drug traffickers, fugitives from the law, disease carriers or political malcontents?
The fact is that when they simply walk across our borders we have no way of knowing who or what they are. Is this not insanity?
It has been proven that most politicians have not got the guts to deal with the situation. It´s not a Democratic or Republican thing, nor a left or right thing, it´s simply a political hot potato that will continue to grow bigger and hotter until it eventually explodes in one way or another.
These illegals are straining the budgets of every border state and now some politicians want to give them what´s tantamount to having undocumented American citizenship, allowing them to participate in social programs and entitlements.
There is no way that this situation is ever going to resolve itself. This is a festering sore that becomes bigger and more infected every passing day and, at sometime in the future, will manifest itself in some catastrophic result in this nation. Whether it comes in the form of a nuclear attack or some contagious, out-of-control disease, when it hits I hope that people in this nation will remember how our state and federal politicians left us vulnerable and defenseless, all in the cause of trying to buy themselves a few more votes.
In my book they´re all culpable - the president, Congress, Senate, governors and legislatures. It´s way past time to shut the barn door.
Charlie Daniels is a successful country music artist and enjoys writing a weekly column.
bttt for now, that's all I have time for--but he is right!
Yes Sir, it is that.
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This time, it's for real. This situation on the mexican "border" will go down as GWB's legacy. It is truly, BUSH'S FAULT!
omg you're a bush hater......ZOT
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You said what needed saying better than I could have. MNjohnnie's homepage makes it seem like he's got his head on straight, but this reply#3 makes me doubt it.
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lol, me too, I agree with Charlie. Now let's start sending them home and doing something about this mess none of us want.
He's a big boy that's been called worse by better.
This is a festering sore that becomes bigger and more infected every passing day and, at sometime in the future, will manifest itself in some catastrophic result in this nation. Whether it comes in the form of a nuclear attack or some contagious, out-of-control disease, when it hits I hope that people in this nation will remember how our state and federal politicians left us vulnerable and defenseless, all in the cause of trying to buy themselves a few more votes.
He's right.
I know it's hard for you, but please, do try to keep up. Charlie refers to these programs not once, but twice.
" We all know that our Congress usually takes so long in passing meaningful legislation that by the time it becomes law it is, many times, toothless and obsolete."
AND
"... now some politicians want to give them what´s tantamount to having undocumented American citizenship, allowing them to participate in social programs and entitlements."
"Preacher man talkin' on TV,
puttin' down the rock & roll.
Wants me to send a donation
'cause he's worried about my soul.
Say's Jesus walked on the water,
and I know that's it's true,
but sometime I think that ole preacher
man wants to do a little walking too"
One of all time great lyrics!
The CDB might like a certain song.
http://www.mercurynews.com
Posted on Wed, Feb. 08, 2006
Mexican man held in Boston terror hoax faces psych evaluation
ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO - A Mexican man accused of making a phony threat of a nuclear attack on Boston was ordered held without bail Wednesday.
Jose Ernesto Beltran Ortiz must undergo a psychiatric evaluation, said U.S. Magistrate Judge Louisa Porter, who scheduled a hearing March 9 to review the results.
Beltran pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges of passing on false information about a terror attack and lying to federal officials. He faces up to eight years in prison if convicted. Dorn Bishop, his attorney, said he declined to seek bail because his client couldn't afford it.
He was arrested in October by Mexican authorities in Mexicali, a border city about 120 miles east of San Diego, and extradited to the United States on Sunday.
The threat prompted authorities to alert the public and increase airport and subway security. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney skipped President Bush's inauguration to return home.
"It was a tremendous waste of public and law-enforcement resources on both sides of the border," said FBI spokeswoman April Langwell. "There were hundreds of FBI agents affected from San Diego to Boston and all the way in between."
Beltran is one of the first people to be charged in the United States under a law passed in 2004 that makes it a crime to pass along false information about a terrorist attack, Langwell said.
A three-count indictment says Beltran called California Highway Patrol emergency dispatchers from a cell phone on Jan. 17, 2005, to report that a nuclear warhead would be smuggled through a cross-border tunnel linking Mexicali and Calexico, Calif.
Beltran allegedly told dispatchers that he recently smuggled four Chinese chemists and two Iraqis into the United States, and the Iraqis were to deliver the nuclear warhead and the Chinese were to place it in Boston.
The FBI declared a false alarm within days, but the scare ignited a media frenzy and a nationwide hunt for the supposed terrorists.
According to the indictment, Beltran guided U.S. authorities to a package that he had promised to toss over the border fence. The package contained Mexican visas for three people identified as Chinese nationals, airline tickets from Beijing to Mexico City and from Mexico City to Mexicali and baggage claim receipts.
Sold To the fatman with the fiddle!
Seriously though, I respect him for coming out on this issue.
Me too!
True but being called racist and nazi tends to shut them up doesn't it, especially when they're celebrities.
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