Tuesday, August 17, 2010

TEXAS EXECUTES GANG LEADER FOR MURDER OF 2 GIRLS

MEXICANS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT AND CRIMINALLY PRONE CULTURE IN THIS HEMISPHERE!


The girls were gang raped for more than an hour and forced to perform oral sex. They were kicked, had teeth knocked out and hair pulled out. Their ribs were broken. A red nylon belt was pulled so tightly around Ertman's neck the belt snapped. Shoe laces were used to strangle Pena.

Texas executes gang leader for murder of 2 girls

By MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press Writer Michael Graczyk, Associated Press Writer

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – The leader of a former gang of Houston teenagers who raped and murdered two young girls walking home from a neighborhood party 17 years ago was executed Tuesday in Texas.

Peter Anthony Cantu, 35, was strapped to a gurney in the Huntsville Unit prison death chamber and administered a lethal injection at 6:09 p.m. CDT. He took a single deep breath before slipping into unconsciousness, then was pronounced dead eight minutes later as relatives of his victims, Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena, looked stoically through a window a few feet from him.

Asked by the warden if he had any last statement, Cantu replied: "No." He never looked at the witnesses, including his victims' parents.

"Nothing he would have said to me would have made any difference," Adolfo Pena, who lost his daughter in the attack, said after watching Cantu die. "He did a horrendous crime to these two girls. He deserved to die and 17 years later, he died. Not soon enough.

"It's been a long time coming," said Pena, who wore a T-shirt bearing pictures of both girls.

Two of Cantu's fellow gang members were put to death earlier, Derrick O'Brien in 2006 and Jose Medellin in 2008. Two other members avoided the death chamber when the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed executing those who were under 18 at the time of their crime. A sixth person convicted in the case was 14 years old at the time of the attack and is serving a 40-year prison term, the maximum sentence for a juvenile in Texas.

Cantu declined to speak with reporters as his execution date neared. In recent years, he stayed clear of trouble and was classified among the best-behaving inmates on death row.

"He has matured remarkably," his appeals lawyer, Robin Norris, said. "He's a guy who fully accepts his responsibility."

"Nobody wants to hear that but it's the absolute truth," trial lawyer Robert Morrow, who remained in touch with Cantu over the years, said.

Trying to make it to Pena's home before an 11:30 p.m. curfew in June 1993, Jennifer, 14, and Elizabeth, 16, took a shortcut after leaving the party that led to a railroad bridge near where the gang members were hanging out drinking and initiating a new member. The group spotted the girls and grabbed Pena, who screamed. Ertman tried to help her friend.

What happened next was "a feeding frenzy," according to Donna Goode, a former Harris County assistant district attorney who was one of Cantu's prosecutors.

The girls were gang raped for more than an hour and forced to perform oral sex. They were kicked, had teeth knocked out and hair pulled out. Their ribs were broken. A red nylon belt was pulled so tightly around Ertman's neck the belt snapped. Shoe laces were used to strangle Pena.

"You're talking about absolute brutality — strangled with hands, strangled with ligatures, belts, shoestrings," Don Smyth, Goode's prosecution partner, recalled. "And just to be sure, they were stomped on their faces and their throats were crushed.

Goode said the evidence showed Cantu was the ringleader, "kind of the alpha male of the group."

Morrow said the victims were "so sympathetic and rightly so. I don't think anybody on our side would disagree with that."

A tip led authorities to the bodies. A day later, Cantu's brother, upset after hearing the teens gloat about having fun with the girls, provided the tip to police that led to the arrests of the six.

Cantu was the first of five to be tried, convicted and sentenced to die.

Speaking from the death chamber four years ago, O'Brien, 31, called his involvement in the murders "the worst mistake that I ever made in my whole life."

Medellin, 33, who was born in Mexico, similarly apologized before he was put to death.

Jennifer's father, Randy Ertman, who witnessed all three executions, said before Cantu was put to death Tuesday that the apologies meant nothing to him, that it was too late for apologies.

"It don't bother me a bit," he said of witnessing. "It's crazy. But you've got to be mentally prepared ... to get through it. Whatever you throw at me, I can take it. I have to think that way. It's hard but I can take it."

Ertman said if the death penalty was intended as a deterrent, all five members who had been sentenced to die should have been hanged from trees outside Houston City Hall years ago.

"That would be a deterrent," he said.

All of Cantu's appeals had been exhausted and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a plea to commute his sentence to life in prison.

Cantu's execution was the 16th this year in Texas, the nation's busiest death penalty state.

MEXICO EXPORTS THEIR VAST POOR - Helps Keep Loot in Mex Billionaires' Pockets

Mexico gives cell frequencies to television giant
By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
(08-17) 13:53 PDT MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) --
Mexican officials trying to dilute a near-monopoly on cell phone services have awarded valuable frequencies to a company that holds a near-monopoly in broadcast television.
Government regulators say the new radio wave concessions approved Monday by the Federal Telecommunications Commission will provide more competition for the phone empire built by the world's richest man, Carlos Slim, whose companies control 73 percent of Mexico's cell market.
Critics of the deal alleged Tuesday that the process appeared to favor a consortium headed by Grupo Televisa, which controls about 70 percent of Mexico's broadcast television audience.
"This only confirms the hypothesis that the commissioners and president of the regulatory agency have a boss: the monopolies," said Oscar Romero of El Barzon, an activist group for consumers and debtors.
The government ruled almost all of Televisa's potential competitors out of the bidding and disqualified the remaining bidder. The Telecommunications Commission defended the unopposed auction, saying it will still create a more equitable distribution of frequencies:
"It meets the need of modifying our country's highly concentrated market structure," the commission said in a news release.
Government rules prevented bidders who already controlled significant chunks of cellular frequency from participating in the bidding — ruling out most potential competitors against Televisa SA de CV and its partner, Comunicaciones Nextel de Mexico SA de CV.
Officials then accepted a Televisa-Nextel bid with a much lower upfront payment than that offered by other companies in similar auctions. Looking at the entire payment over the 20-year life of the concession, the consortium acknowledged it got a slightly lower total price than offered by competitors. It will pay a total $1.45 billion over the whole period.
"We were left alone in that band to bid against ourselves," Nextel Mexico President Peter Foyo said, noting that "this could have been much, much more money if we had had competitors."
Foyo said the process "was done fair and square."
"Obviously, you're going to have one more competitor out there" for Slim's company, he noted, "whereby consumers are going to have one more choice, and by Charles Darwin's way of thinking, we're going to get our consumer better prices and service."
The Federal Competition Commission earlier said it accepted the low price because the priority was getting more competitors into the market, not getting the most money from bidders.
Foyo said the frequencies would be used for voice and data 3G cell service, and possibly to carry Televisa programming.
Some critics say the decision undermines the government's claim it is battling monopolies.
"I think the outcry that giving it to Televisa has raised is because it just doesn't make sense ... when you say you are trying to fight monopolies all over, and then you take one of the biggest monopolies or duopolies and you just give it more power," said Jonathan Heath, an independent Mexico City-based economist.
In a country where sectors like telecommunications, television, cement, grains and banking are dominated by a limited number of huge companies, some experts say there is some logic to promoting competition by getting powerful forces from one industry to invade another tycoon's territory.
"It is almost a matter of religious doctrine, that a duopoly (in which two businesses control an industry) is better than a monopoly," said Federico Estevez, a political science professor at Mexico's Autonomous Technological Institute.
Mexico anti-monopoly commission provided a hint that Slim's telephone empire might soon get the chance it has long sought to enter Televisa's home turf, broadcasting.
"The commission stresses the need to auction off its frequencies as soon as possible, and also assign permits for a third television broadcast network," it said.
That was widely interpreted as a signal to Slim.
"It is going to go to Slim, that's clear," Estevez said. "Who else is going to be able to pay for it?"
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EXPORTING POVERTY... we take MEXICO'S 38 million poor, illiterate, criminal and frequently pregnant

........ where can we send AMERICA'S poor?



The Mexican Invasion................................................
Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift them

March 30, 2006 edition

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0330/p09s02-coop.html

Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift them
At this week's summit, failed reforms under Fox should be the issue, not US actions.

By George W. Grayson WILLIAMSBURG, VA.

At the parleys this week with his US and Canadian counterparts in Cancún, Mexican President Vicente Fox will press for more opportunities for his countrymen north of the Rio Grande. Specifically, he will argue for additional visas for Mexicans to enter the United States and Canada, the expansion of guest-worker schemes, and the "regularization" of illegal immigrants who reside throughout the continent. In a recent interview with CNN, the Mexican chief executive excoriated as "undemocratic" the extension of a wall on the US-Mexico border and called for the "orderly, safe, and legal" northbound flow of Mexicans, many of whom come from his home state of Guanajuato. Mexican legislators share Mr. Fox's goals. Silvia Hernández Enriquez, head of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for North America, recently emphasized that the solution to the "structural phenomenon" of unlawful migration lies not with "walls or militarization" but with "understanding, cooperation, and joint responsibility." Such rhetoric would be more convincing if Mexican officials were making a good faith effort to uplift the 50 percent of their 106 million people who live in poverty. To his credit, Fox's "Opportunities" initiative has improved slightly the plight of the poorest of the poor. Still, neither he nor Mexico's lawmakers have advanced measures that would spur sustained growth, improve the quality of the workforce, curb unemployment, and obviate the flight of Mexicans abroad. Indeed, Mexico's leaders have turned hypocrisy from an art form into an exact science as they shirk their obligations to fellow citizens, while decrying efforts by the US senators and representatives to crack down on illegal immigration at the border and the workplace. What are some examples of this failure of responsibility? • When oil revenues are excluded, Mexico raises the equivalent of only 9 percent of its gross domestic product in taxes - a figure roughly equivalent to that of Haiti and far below the level of major Latin American nations. Not only is Mexico's collection rate ridiculously low, its fiscal regime is riddled with loopholes and exemptions, giving rise to widespread evasion. Congress has rebuffed efforts to reform the system. Insufficient revenues mean that Mexico spends relatively little on two key elements of social mobility: Education commands just 5.3 percent of its GDP and healthcare only 6.10 percent, according to the World Bank's last comparative study. • A venal, "come-back-tomorrow" bureaucracy explains the 58 days it takes to open a business in Mexico compared with three days in Canada, five days in the US, nine days in Jamaica, and 27 days in Chile. Mexico's private sector estimates that 34 percent of the firms in the country made "extra official" payments to functionaries and legislators in 2004. These bribes totaled $11.2 billion and equaled 12 percent of GDP. • Transparency International, a nongovernmental organization, placed Mexico in a tie with Ghana, Panama, Peru, and Turkey for 65th among 158 countries surveyed for corruption. • Economic competition is constrained by the presence of inefficient, overstaffed state oil and electricity monopolies, as well as a small number of private corporations - closely linked to government big shots - that control telecommunications, television, food processing, transportation, construction, and cement. Politicians who talk about, much less propose, trust-busting measures are as rare as a snowfall in the Sonoran Desert. Geography, self-interests, and humanitarian concerns require North America's neighbors to cooperate on myriad issues, not the least of which is immigration. However, Mexico's power brokers have failed to make the difficult decisions necessary to use their nation's bountiful wealth to benefit the masses. Washington and Ottawa have every right to insist that Mexico's pampered elite act responsibly, rather than expecting US and Canadian taxpayers to shoulder burdens Mexico should assume.

LOS ANGELES - MEXICAN WELFARE AND DRUG CAPITAL OF AMERICA Under Occupation

Los Angeles and its suburbs are in grave danger of becoming outposts for Mexican drug- and immigrant-smuggling cartels, according to local law enforcement officials.

In Mexico, the Gulf and Zeta gangs are among the most violent, known for beheading opponents, setting off car bombs and shooting up border cities from Tijuana to Matamoros. In L.A., they've set up "distribution centers" not just in the slums, but also the San Fernando Valley and on the well-heeled Westside near Santa Monica.

THE MAYOR OF THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE OF LOS ANGELES, IS A RABIDLY RACIST MEXICAN, ANTONIO “TACO RUNT” VILLARAIGOSA.
“THE NEW LEADERSHIP OF THE AMERICAS... IS MEXICAN!”

“REMEMBER: (PROPOSITION) 187 IS THE LAST GASP OF WHITE AMERICA IN CALIFORNIA!”
“IF THEY’RE SUPPORTING LEGISLATION THAT DENIES THE UNDOCUMENTED DRIVER’S LICENSE, THEY DON’T BELONG IN OFFICE, FRIENDS. THEY DON’T BELONG HERE!”
ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA - CHAIR OF THE AZTLAN MOVEMENT OF MEX SEPARATISTS
LA RAZA MEMBERS
9. Antonio Villaraigosa, Chair of MEChA (student wing of Aztlan movement) at UCLA, former CA assemblymember, former CA Assembly speaker, currently Los Angeles City Mayor, and formerly Councilman at Southwest Voter Registration Project Conference in Los Angeles, 6/1997 "Part of today's reality has been propositions like 187 (to deny public benefits to illegal aliens, 1994), propositions like 209 (to abolish affirmative action, 1996), the welfare reform bill, which targeted legal immigrants and targeted us as a community. That's been the midnight. We know that the sunny side of midnight has been the election of a Latino speaker - was the election of Loretta Sanchez, against an arch-conservative, reactionary hate-mongering politician like


Media Miss Cartels' War In U.S.
Posted 08/16/2010 06:58 PM ET
Media: As Mexico's drug war and Arizona's bid to defend itself take center stage, the growth of cartels in Los Angeles is another leg of the story. But to know about it you need to read Spanish.
Los Angeles and its suburbs are in grave danger of becoming outposts for Mexican drug- and immigrant-smuggling cartels, according to local law enforcement officials.
"We have detected the Gulf cartel and Los Zetas," Alvin Jackson, head of the Narcotics Division of the L.A. Police Department, said in a recent interview. "They are operating on a middle and street level."
In Mexico, the Gulf and Zeta gangs are among the most violent, known for beheading opponents, setting off car bombs and shooting up border cities from Tijuana to Matamoros. In L.A., they've set up "distribution centers" not just in the slums, but also the San Fernando Valley and on the well-heeled Westside near Santa Monica.
Five other Mexican cartels — Sinaloa, Beltran-Levya, La Familia, Arellano Felix and Carillo Fuentes — also operate in L.A. They're busy recruiting gangs to carry on the same mayhem they're engaged in south of the border, Jackson said.
Steven Martinez, who heads the FBI in Los Angeles, agreed with Jackson's observations.
You'd think this would be news that merits front-page coverage in, say, the city's newspaper of record, the Los Angeles Times. But it's not. Jackson's and Martinez's assessments were reported in La Opinion, a Spanish-language daily that has no English translation.
It's not that the Times doesn't cover the cartel war in detail from Mexico. But when it comes to what's going on in Joe Friday's precincts, something that might have some relevance to its readers, the paper is derelict.
Perhaps it has something to do with the Times' near-monopoly on news in a one-newspaper town. Or maybe it's the paper's historically cozy relationship with the city's political machine, which panders to the Latino vote.
As illegal immigrants inundate the city and cartels come in behind them, the City Council declares L.A. a sanctuary city and wastes time boycotting Arizona for trying to beat back the same problems.
This is going to create serious problems down the road. L.A. District Attorney Steven Cooley told the Washington (not the L.A.) Times that gangs and drug traffickers may create gang- and cartel-controlled city governments.
It's already evident, he said, along the 710 Freeway towards the Port of Long Beach — a corridor that encompasses illegal-immigrant-majority towns such as Bell, the city whose officials were caught feathering their nests with million-dollar salary packages. The 710, by the way, has seen actual cartel shootings.

YOU'RE INVITED! The Mexican Drug Cartel & Gangs! COME ON OVER! THE LOOTING IS GOOD!

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WHEN OBAMA, THE LA RAZA DEMS, AND THE HISPANIC CAUCUS (LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY) ARE HISPANDERING FOR MEX SUPREMACY, NOTHING COMES OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS ABOUT THE STAGGERING CRIME TIDAL WAVE THAT COMES WITH THE MEX INVASION AND OCCUPATION.

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR CHARACTERIZES LOS ANGELES AS THE MEXICAN GANG CAPITAL OF AMERICA.

IN THE SMALL CITY OF SALINAS (POP. 130,000) THERE HAVE BEEN NEARLY 3 DOZEN GANG RELATED MURDERS IN LESS THAN TWO YEARS!

THERE HAVE BEEN 2000 AMERICAN MURDERED BY ILLEGALS THAT FLED THE BORDER TO AVOID PROSECUTION.

MEXICANS ARE THE MOST SAVAGE AND VIOLENT PEOPLE IN THE HEMISPHERE!

PICK UP ANY CALIFORNIA NEWS PAPER AND DO A SEARCH FOR “MEXICAN GANGS”!
Mexican drug gangs 'spread to every region of US'

Mexican heroin production is growing
Mexican drug gangs have expanded their activities in the US with heroin production doubling in 2008, the US justice department says in a report.
Despite US funding for the war on drugs, trade in marijuana, ecstasy and methamphetamine also grew, the National Drug Threat Assessment said.
The report found that Mexican groups were active in every region of the US.
Gangs were moving an estimated $40bn (£27bn) in cash back into Mexico across the border each year, it added.
Mexico has long been the main conduit for illicit drugs smuggled into the US but this report suggests that the efforts to halt the flow on both sides of the border have had only a limited impact, the BBC's Richard Lister reports from Washington.
In 2007 the US pledged $1.4bn (£0.9bn) over three years to fight the drugs cartels but the following year heroin production in Mexico rose from 17 to 38 metric tons.
This, the report says, led to lower heroin prices and more overdose deaths in the US.
Network growth
The report found that Mexican heroin was poised to take a "more significant share" of the market in US cities where South American heroin has traditionally dominated.
For Asian heroin, the US continued to be a secondary market, it said.
The assessment says that Mexican drug suppliers have increased their co-operation with American street and prison gangs to expand their distribution networks.
Speaking in Mexico City earlier this week, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for more efforts to tackle the social issues such as poverty that fuel the drugs trade.
Mexico, which has some 50,000 troops engaged against the cartels, has suggested that American money and equipment has not arrived quickly enough.

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INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants 2006 (First Quarter) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants CRIME STATISTICS 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens. 83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens. 86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens. 75% of those on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens. 24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally 40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally 48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally 29% (630,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our state and federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually 53% plus of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens. 50% plus of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from south of the border.

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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Thursday, April 9, 2009

Plus, outrage after President Obama prepares to push ahead with his plan for so-called comprehensive immigration reform. Pres. Obama is fulfilling a campaign promise to give
legal status to millions of illegal aliens as he panders to the pro-amnesty, open borders lobby. Tonight we will have complete coverage.
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, February 16, 2009
Construction of the 670 miles of border fence mandated by the Bush administration is almost complete. The Border Patrol says the new fencing, more agents and new technology
have reduced illegal alien apprehensions. But fence opponents are trying to stop the last few miles from being finished.
LA RAZA NANCY PELOSI HAS VOWED THE WALL WILL NEVER BE BUILT. SHE HAS LONG ILLEGALLY HIRED ILLEGALS AT HER ST. HELENA, NAPA CA WINERY!
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Friday, October 16, 2009

E-Verify- the single most successful federal program aimed at keeping illegal immigrants out of the workforce- is once again threatened. This time, E-Verify was stripped from a Senate Amendment behind closed doors and without explanation. Instead of becoming a permanent program E-verify has been reduced to only three years. Critics are calling this a stall tactic and an attempt at killing an employment enforcement system. We will have a full report tonight.

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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

New attempts to put comprehensive immigration reform back on the front burner. Congressman Luis Gutierrez -- the chair of the Democratic Caucus Immigration Task Force -- is unveiling new legislation that would call for amnesty for the up to 20 million illegal immigrants in this country.
Congressman Gutierrez will join me tonight


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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

The Obama administration could be weakening a successful joint federal and local program aimed at keeping illegal immigrants off our streets. "287 G" gives local police the training and authority to enforce federal immigration law. Supporters of the program believe the ministration wants to limit the program to criminal illegal immigrants already in custody -- limiting the investigative authority of police.
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009

And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border.
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Federal contractors now must use E-verify to check the status of their employees on federal projects. The rule which goes into effect today will affect almost 169,000 contractors and some 3.8 million workers. The E-verify program has an accuracy rating of 99.6% but has been repeatedly challenged by the U.S. Chamber of Congress. We will have a full report tonight.
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
And there are some 800,000 gang members in this country: That’s more than the combined number of troops in our Army and Marine Corps. These gangs have become one of the principle ways to import and distribute drugs in the United States. Congressman David Reichert joins Lou to tell us why those gangs are growing larger and stronger, and why he’s introduced legislation to eliminate the top three international drug gangs.
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Immigration experts are appearing on Capitol Hill today to release the results of a study showing the cost of illegal immigration on the criminal justices system in the 24 U.S. counties bordering Mexico–more $1 billion in less than a decade.
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Plus drug cartel violence is spreading across our border with Mexico further into the United States. Mexican drug cartels are increasingly being linked to crimes in this country. Joining Lou tonight, from our border with Mexico is the new “border czar” Alan Bersin, the Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Representative for Border Affairs.

Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, February 16, 2009
Plus, even open border advocates agree that the most effective way of fighting illegal immigration is to crack down on the employment of illegal aliens. Yet, those same groups are
opposed to E-Verify, which has an initial accuracy rate of 99.6% making it one the most accurate programs ever. E-Verify was stripped from the stimulus bill but who stripped it out and who is opposed to verifying employment status is still not clear.

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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Tuesday, January 13, 2009

In Colorado, over 1,300 illegal aliens are being investigated for applying for improper tax refunds. The ACLU has written a letter to the judge threatening to sue if the judge convenes a grand jury to investigate the case. We will have all the latest developments of the case as well as the ACLU’s bullying in pursuit of their amnesty agenda.
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Tuesday, February 3, 2009

And WILLIAM GHEEN, the president of Americans for Legal Immigration, breaks down his push for E-Verify—and why the Obama administration is wrong to delay its implementation when it comes to federal contractors
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latimes.com
U.S. arrests 2,000 in Mexican drug trafficking probe
Associated Press
8:23 AM PDT, June 10, 2010
Law enforcement agencies have arrested more than 2,000 people in a 22-month investigation targeting Mexican drug trafficking organizations in the United States.

The probe, called Project Deliverance, focused on the transportation of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and marijuana along the Southwest border.

Over 400 of the 2,000 arrests were made Wednesday. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder is scheduled to hold a news conference on the operation Thursday.

The Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement worked on the effort with state and local law enforcement agencies.

EVER SPREADING MEXICAN SUPREMACY - And You're Paying For It!

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THE EVER SPREADING MEXICAN SUPREMACY


“Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established multi-culturism, having the large foundations fund the! doctrine of 'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws.” ….Gov. Dick Lamm (Colorado)


BUT THE THING IS…

OUR MEXICAN OCCUPIERS LOATHE THE GRINGO’S LANGUAGE!

MILLIONS ARE SPENT BY STATES ALL OVER THE NATION TO ACCOMMODATE LA RAZA RACISM AND PROVIDE BI-LINGUAL TO COURTS, HOSPITALS, AND SCHOOLS.

GO INTO ANY SERVICE BUSINESS IN LOS ANGELES, AND THE ILLEGAL WORKING THERE WILL BARELY GRUNT IN ENGLISH, THEY SO LOATHE THE GRINGO’S LANGUAGE!

IN LOS ANGELES AT PUBLIC SANTEE EDUCATIONAL COMPLEX, WHICH IS MOSTLY AN ILLEGAL STUDENT BODY, OR THE CHILDREN OF ILLEGALS, CLASSES ARE TAUGHT IN SPANISH! BOOKS AND HANDOUTS ARE IN SPANISH, AND SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES END IN VIVA MEXICO! VIVA MEXICO!

WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW?

YOU’RE LIVING ON THE WRONG PLANET IF YOU THINK MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS, MOST IN AMERICAN JOBS WITH STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER, ALSO OBEY LAWS THAT ONLY CITIZENS MAY VOTE.

THEY’RE OUT THERE VOTING BY THE MILLIONS, HENCE THE “LATINO VOTE” WE SEE THESE HISPANDERING POLITICIANS SELL US OUT TO!

VIVA LA RECONQUISTA!

“Where there’s a Mexican, there’s Mexico!” President Calderon


RASMUSSEN REPORT



58% Favor English-Only Election Ballots
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The U.S. Justice Department has told a major Ohio county to print bilingual ballots for the November election or it will be sued by the government. But most voters believe that election ballots in this country should be printed only in English.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 58% of Likely Voters favor English-only ballots. But this is down 10 points from June 2006. Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree and say election ballots should be printed in both English and Spanish.
The Political Class is more emphatic. While 68% of Mainstream voters believe ballots should only be in English, 78% of those in the Political Class think they should be available in English and Spanish.
Still, 84% of all voters think English should be the nation’s official language. Just 13% disagree.
This finding has remained constant in surveys for over four years.
(Want a free daily e-mail update? If it's in the news, it's in our polls). Rasmussen Reports updates are also available on Twitter or Facebook.
The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters U.S. Voters was conducted on August 11-12, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Three-out-of four voters (75%) also continue to believe that companies should be allowed to require their employees to speak English on the job. Only 16% oppose such a requirement.
Just 12% of voters believe that requiring employees to speak English is a form of racism or bigotry. Seventy-nine percent (79%) reject that notion and believe the requirement is not racist or bigoted.
Both these findings, too, are virtually unchanged from when the questions were first asked in November 2007.
Seventy-six percent (76%) of Republicans and 60% of voters not affiliated with either major party say election ballots should be printed only in English. Fifty-eight percent (58%) of Democrats believe they should be printed in English and Spanish.
But most Democrats agree with Republicans and unaffiliateds that English should be the official language of the United States. There is little disagreement on this question across all demographic categories.
There is also majority agreement across all groups about requiring English on the job and a common belief that such a requirement is not bigotry or racism.
In the mist of the 2008 campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama said it is more important for American children to learn to speak Spanish than it is for new immigrants into this country to learn to speak English. Voters strongly disagreed, with 83% saying a higher priority should be placed on encouraging immigrants to speak English as their primary language.
In a separate survey at the time, 42% of voters said most government officials encourage immigrants to retain the culture of their home country rather than to fully embrace American culture and society. Thirty-two percent (32%) disagreed. But 83% expressed more anger at the government for the way it handles immigration than anger at the immigrants themselves who are looking for jobs.
With midterm elections less than three months away, nearly two-out-of-three voters (65%) remain at least somewhat angry at the current policies of the federal government in all areas, including 40% who are Very Angry.
Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters oppose the Justice Department’s decision to challenge Arizona’s new immigration law in court. Fifty-four percent (54%) think the Justice Department instead should take legal action against cities that provide sanctuary for illegal immigrants. Even more think the federal government should cut off funds to these “sanctuary cities.”
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of voters favor passage of a law like Arizona’s in their own state. Most voters (53%) now say it’s better for individual states to act on their own to enforce immigration laws rather than relying on the federal government for enforcement.
Fifty six percent (56%), in fact, believe the policies of the federal government encourage people to enter the United States illegally.
Most Americans still oppose granting U.S. citizenship automatically to children born in America
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FIFTEEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LA RAZA “THE RACE”
by Michelle Malkin
Only in America could critics of a group called "The Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of left-wing identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors have succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate."
Both Barack Obama and John McCain will speak this week in San Diego at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, the Latino organization whose name is Spanish for, yes, "The Race." Can you imagine Obama and McCain paying homage to a group of white people who called themselves that? No matter. The presidential candidates and the media have legitimized "The Race" as a mainstream ethnic lobbying group and marginalized its critics as intolerant bigots. The unvarnished truth is that the group is a radical ethnic nationalist outfit that abuses your tax dollars and milks PC politics to undermine our sovereignty.
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Here are 15 things you should know about "The Race":
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15. "The Race" supports driver's licenses for illegal aliens.
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14."The Race" demands in-state tuition discounts for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding U.S. citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants.
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13. "The Race" vehemently opposes cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state and federal authorities.
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12. "The Race" opposes a secure fence on the southern border.
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11. "The Race" joined the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed lawsuit attempt to prevent the feds from entering immigration information into a key national crime database -- and to prevent local police officers from accessing the data.
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10. "The Race" opposed the state of Oklahoma's tough immigration-enforcement-first laws, which cut off welfare to illegal aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions and strengthened local-federal cooperation and information sharing.
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9. "The Race" joined other open-borders, anti-assimilationists and sued to prevent Proposition 227, California's bilingual education reform ballot initiative, from becoming law.
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8. "The Race" bitterly protested common-sense voter ID provisions as an "absolute disgrace."
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7. "The Race" has consistently opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.
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6. Former "Race" president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton's Hispanic outreach adviser, said this: "U.S. English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks." He was referring to U.S. English, the nation's oldest, largest citizens' action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States. "The Race" also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding the terms "illegal" and "amnesty."
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5. "The Race" gives mainstream cover to a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA). The late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized the organization as "a radical racist group … one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West."
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4. "The Race" is currently leading a smear campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called for TV and cable news networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves -- in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up their foes. The New York Times reported that current "Race" president Janet Murguia believes "hate speech" should "not be tolerated, even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights."
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3. "The Race" sponsors militant ethnic nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars (at least $8 million in federal education grants). The schools include Aztlan Academy in Tucson, Ariz., the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los Angeles, whose principal inveighed: "We don't want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain … ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction."
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2. "The Race" has perfected the art of the PC shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing relentlessly to lower home loan standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in federal "mortgage counseling" grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks and partnering with banks that do business with illegal aliens.
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1. "The Race" thrives on ethnic supremacy -- and the elite sheeple's unwillingness to call it what it is. As historian Victor Davis Hanson observes: "[The] organization's very nomenclature 'The National Council of La Raza' is hate speech to the core. Despite all the contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the meaning of 'race' in Spanish, not 'the people' -- and that's precisely why we don't hear of something like 'The National Council of the People,' which would not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism."
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The fringe is the center. The center is the fringe. Viva La Raza.
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LA RAZA “THE (MEXICAN) RACE” ….
“For The Race, everything! For others Nothing!”
LA RAZA IS THE FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL PARTY IN AMERICAN. IT IS THE FASCIST PARTY FOR MEXICAN SUPREMACY AND THE EVER EXPANSION OF THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE.
THERE ARE 90 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS THAT ARE PART OF THE CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS.
SELLING OUT AMERICANS FOR THE ILLEGALS’ ILLEGAL VOTES ARE THE LA RAZA DEMS.
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Your Tax Dollars To Fund Illegal Immigration
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United States Representative Ruben Hinojosa from Texas has introduced a bill that will fund the pro-illegal immigration group: The National Council of La Raza (NCLR). This bill, the Hope Fund Act of 2007 (H.R. 1999) would appropriate $5 million to NCLR in 2008 and $10 million each year thereafter.

The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration”

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DICK LAMM, GOVERNOR OF COLORADO
Thoughts on the LA RAZA Invasion
We know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an immigration overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of America's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor by the name of Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest book, "Mexifornia," explaining how immigration - both legal and illegal was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.

Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America. The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the United States. He said, "If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let's destroy! America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that 'An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.'"

"Here is how they do it," Lamm said: "First, to destroy America, turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country." History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way: "The histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy." Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, and Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans."

Lamm went on: Second, to destroy America, "Invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural differences. I would make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due solely to prejudice and
discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds.

Third, "We could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: "The apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentricity and what it meant to be an American, we! are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together." Lamm said, "I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have
various cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities."

"Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school."

"My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology.' I would get all minorities to think that their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all
minority failure on the majority population."

"My sixth plan for America's downfall would include dual citizenship, and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece fell. "E. Pluribus Unum" -- From many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'pluribus' instead of the 'Unum,' we will balkanize America as surely as Kosovo."

"Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits; make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a word similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'xenophobe' halt discussion and debate. Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established multi-culturism, having the large foundations fund the! doctrine of 'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them."

In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound silence followed. Finally he said,. "Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson Davis's book "Mexifornia." His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel America. deserves to be destroyed, don't read that book."

There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous cloud above every attendee at the conference Every American in that room knew that everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet pervasively across the United States today.

Discussion is being suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our educational system and national cohesiveness. Even barbaric cultures that practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate 'diversity.' American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as corporations create a Third World in America - take note of California and other states - to date, ten million illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell's book "1984." In that story, three slogans are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building: "War is peace," "Freedom is slavery," and "Ignorance is strength."

Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference that our nation and the future of this great democracy is deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we don't get this immigration monster stopped within three years, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in its path, especially The American Dream.

THESE ARE THE FUCKERS WE HAVE SQUANDERED AMERICAN LIVES AND BILLIONS FOR!

.... WHILE OUR OWN BORDERS ARE CALCULATEDLY LEFT OPEN FOR MORE MEXICANS TERRORIST!

August 16, 2010
In Bold Display, Taliban Order Stoning DeathsBy ROD NORDLAND
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban on Sunday ordered their first public executions by stoning since their fall from power nine years ago, killing a young couple who had eloped, according to Afghan officials and a witness.

The punishment was carried out by hundreds of the victims’ neighbors in a village in northern Kunduz Province, according to Nadir Khan, 40, a local farmer and Taliban sympathizer, who was interviewed by telephone. Even family members were involved, both in the stoning and in tricking the couple into returning after they had fled.

Mr. Khan said that as a Taliban mullah prepared to read the judgment of a religious court, the lovers, a 25-year-old man named Khayyam and a 19-year-old woman named Siddiqa, defiantly confessed in public to their relationship. “They said, ‘We love each other no matter what happens,’ ” Mr. Khan said.

The executions were the latest in a series of cases where the Taliban have imposed their harsh version of Shariah law for social crimes, reminiscent of their behavior during their decade of ruling the country. In recent years, Taliban officials have sought to play down their bloody punishments of the past, as they concentrated on building up popular support.

“We see it as a sign of a new confidence on the part of the Taliban in the application of their rules, like they did in the ’90s,” said Nader Nadery, a senior commissioner on the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. “We do see it as a trend. They’re showing more strength in recent months, not just in attacks, but including their own way of implementing laws, arbitrary and extrajudicial killings.”

The stoning deaths, along with similarly brazen attacks in northern Afghanistan, were also a sign of growing Taliban strength in parts of the country where, until recently, they had been weak or absent. In their home regions in southern Afghanistan, Mr. Nadery said, the Taliban have already been cracking down.

“We’ve seen a big increase in intimidation of women and more strict rules on women,” he said.

Perhaps most worrisome were signs of support for the action from mainstream religious authorities in Afghanistan. The head of the Ulema Council in Kunduz Province, Mawlawi Abdul Yaqub, interviewed by telephone, said Monday that stoning to death was the appropriate punishment for an illegal sexual relationship, although he declined to give his view on this particular case. An Ulema Council is a body of Islamic clerics with religious authority in a region.

And less than a week earlier, the national Ulema Council brought together 350 religious scholars in a meeting with government religious officials, who issued a joint statement on Aug. 10 calling for more punishment under Shariah law, apparently referring to stoning, amputations and lashings.

Failure to carry out such “Islamic provisions,” the council statement said, was hindering the peace process and encouraging crime.

The controversy could have implications for efforts by Afghan officials to reconcile with Taliban leaders and draw them into power-sharing talks.

Afghan officials, supported by Western countries, have insisted that Taliban leaders would have to accept the Afghan Constitution, which guarantees women’s rights, and not expect a return to Shariah law.

The stoning deaths were confirmed by Afghan officials in the area on Monday. Mahbubullah Sayedi, a spokesman for the Kunduz governor’s office, condemned the executions, and said there was ample provision in Afghan law for prosecuting someone if they were accused of adultery or other social crimes.

“We have courts here, and we can solve such cases through our judicial organizations,” he said. “This act is against human rights and against our national Constitution.”

The couple eloped when the man was unable to persuade family members to allow him to marry the young woman. She was engaged to marry a relative of her lover, but was unwilling to do so, according to Mr. Khan.

Mohammed Ayub, the governor of nearby Imam Sahib district, also confirmed the stoning deaths, which took place in the local bazaar in Mullah Quli village, in Archi district, a remote corner of Kunduz Province close to Tajikistan.

The couple eloped to Kunar Province, in eastern Afghanistan, staying with distant relatives, but family members persuaded them to return to their village, promising to allow them to marry. (Afghan men are legally allowed to marry up to four wives). Once back in Kunduz, however, they were seized by the Taliban, who convened local mullahs from surrounding villages for a religious court.

After the Taliban proclaimed the sentence, Siddiqa, dressed in the head-to-toe Afghan burqa, and Khayyam, who had a wife and two young children, were encircled by the male-only crowd in the bazaar. Taliban activists began stoning them first, then villagers joined in until they killed first Siddiqa and then Khayyam, Mr. Khan said. No women were allowed to attend, he said.

Mr. Khan estimated that about 200 villagers participated in the executions, including Khayyam’s father and brother, and Siddiqa’s brother, as well as other relatives, with a larger crowd of onlookers who did not take part.

“People were very happy seeing this,” Mr. Khan maintained, saying the crowd was festive and cheered during the stoning. The couple, he said, “did a bad thing.”

A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabiullah Mujahid, praised the action. “We have heard about this report,” he said, interviewed by cellphone. “But let me tell you that according to Shariah law, if someone commits a crime like that, we have our courts and we deal with such crimes based on Islamic law.”

Mr. Nadery, from the human rights commission, pointed to a string of recent such cases of summary justice by the Taliban. In northwestern Badghis Province on Aug. 8, a 41-year-old widow, who was made pregnant by a man she said promised to marry her, was convicted of fornication by a Taliban court. She was given 200 lashes with a whip and then shot to death, according to Col. Abdul Jabar, a provincial police official, who said the killing was ordered by the local Taliban commander, Mullah Yousef, in Qadis district.

President Hamid Karzai’s spokesman, Waheed Omer, said: ““President Karzai was deeply saddened and grieved when he heard that news. Nine years ago and we still see the Taliban doing events like that in Badghis.”

Time magazine focused widespread indignation on Afghanistan recently by putting on its cover a picture of an 18-year-old woman from Oruzgan Province whose nose and ears were cut off by her Taliban husband after she had fled her child marriage to him.

Amnesty International condemned the latest stonings, calling them the first such executions since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. “The Taliban and other insurgent groups are growing increasingly brutal in their abuses against Afghans,” said Sam Zarifi, an Amnesty International official.


Sharifullah Sahak contributed reporting.

OBAMA'S ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN WORKER - And You Thought He Was a Paid Wall Street INFOCOMMERCIAL?

SOME HAVE REFERRED TO THE BANKSTER BOUGHT PRESIDENT AS A “SOCIALIST”. HE IS OF SORTS. OBAMA’S “CHANGE” REALLY MEANT AN ACCELERATED VERSION OF WALL STREET’S RAPE AND PILLAGE, ALONG WITH OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED, THAT WE LIVED UNDER DURING THE 20 YEARS OF BUSH, HILLARY, BILLARY, BUSH, AND THEIR WAR PROFITEER-DONOR, DIANNE FEINSTEIN!
DURING THIS PERIOD 38 MILLION ILLEGALS FLOODED OVER OUR BORDERS. WE ARE NO MEXICO’S WELFARE, BIRTHING CENTER, JOBS AND JAILS PLAN.
IT’S ALL WORKED NICELY TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED. ERGO, MOST OF THE FORTUNE 500 ARE MAJOR DONORS TO THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY OF LA RAZA AND THE U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS A MIGHTY ADVOCATE FOR OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY, NO WALL, AND NO ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS AGAINST HIRING ILLEGALS, EVEN IF THEY HAVE STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS! IT IS IN FACT BARACK OBAMA’S LA RAZA ASSAULT ON THE AMERICA MIDDLE CLASS!

HERE’S WHAT OBAMA DID FOR WALL ST, AND AGAINST THE AMERICAN WORKER IN DETROIT.
OH, AND HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THE MEXICAN LA RAZA – OBAMA ASSAULT ON LEGALS IN ARIZONA?


The “return of Detroit”
Wall Street celebrates the destruction of workers’ jobs and wages
17 August 2010
The announcement by General Motors last week that it recorded a $1.3 billion second-quarter profit—its second consecutive gain after ten quarterly losses—has been hailed as the “return of Detroit” by financial analysts, government officials and the media.
A little more than a year after the US automaker emerged from the “quick and surgical” bankruptcy ordered by the Obama administration, GM is expected to file papers this week for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of stock later this fall. Wall Street experts say GM’s share value and earning potential have risen exponentially, and the IPO is expected to be one of the largest stock sales in history.
The New York Times set the celebratory tone last week, declaring, “After a dismal period of huge losses and deep cuts that culminated in the Obama administration’s bailout of General Motors and Chrysler, the gloom over the American auto industry is starting to lift.”
Previous cost-cutting efforts had failed or stalled, the Times complained, but “auto analysts say the current makeover has a more permanent feel, largely because of the presence of the outsiders at the top and the lessons learned from the near-death experience of last year’s bankruptcies at GM and Chrysler.” The industry, the Times noted approvingly, has gotten rid of “the excesses of the past,” including over-production, and “shed workers, plants and brands.”
A “new breed of management” has taken over, the newspaper wrote, who are “determined to keep the Big Three lean, agile and focused on building better cars that earn a profit.”
For workers, the “gloom” has certainly not been lifted from Detroit, where the real unemployment rate is 50 percent and suburban areas face record demand for emergency food assistance.
The return to profitability at GM has been accomplished through brutal cuts in labor costs, included the shuttering of dozens of plants and the elimination of 50,000 jobs—20 percent of GM’s global workforce—including 30,000 hourly and salaried positions in North America.
The most important factor in GM’s rebound is its success in imposing a 50 percent cut in the wages of newly hired workers. The reduction of US auto workers’ wages to the near-poverty level of $14 an hour represents a historic retrogression to the levels of exploitation that existed in the darkest days of the Great Depression, prior to the mass struggles that established the United Auto Workers.
The end of so-called “middle-class” wages in auto was the centerpiece of the bailout of GM and Chrysler engineered by the Obama administration’s Auto Task Force last year. It established a new benchmark for the permanent slashing of wages across the entire economy and the lowering in US workers’ living standards towards those of super-exploited workers in Asia and other parts of the “emerging world.”
This historic assault on working class living standards is at the core of the administration’s pledge to double exports in five years and revive US manufacturing as a cheap-labor export platform.
This is what Wall Street and the New York Times are celebrating.
These wage cuts, moreover, are only the beginning. In order to maintain profitability, Peter Morici, an economist at the University of Maryland, told the Times, the automakers “need to reduce their costs more if they’re going to be competitive in the long term with the Japanese, the Koreans and ultimately the Chinese.”
One of the new “outsiders” in control of the auto industry is Daniel F. Akerson, who was named to succeed Edward Whitacre as CEO of GM last week. Akerson has no experience in manufacturing. He is the managing director and head of the global buyout division of the Carlyle Group, a powerful and politically connected private equity firm. He specializes in buying distressed companies, stripping them of their assets and slashing labor costs, before re-selling the companies, generally for returns of 20 percent or more for big investors.
“Many on Wall Street regard Mr. Akerson as the right kind of executive to reassure investors that GM will continue making tough decision and avoid reverting to its plodding, spendthrift ways,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
Akerson was brought onto GM’s board last year by Obama’s Auto Task Force, “which liked his reputation and thought he could be a good option if a new CEO were needed at some point,” the Journal wrote.
The White House has essentially handed over the auto industry to the most parasitic sections of the financial elite—speculators and fast-buck artists whose corporate “turnaround” schemes have left millions of workers without jobs or pensions, and Detroit and other industrial cities in ruins.
Obama chose two Wall Street financiers—Steven Rattner and Ronald Bloom—to head his Auto Task Force. In forcing the bankruptcy of GM and Chrysler, spinning off unprofitable factories and dealerships, wiping out tens of thousands of jobs, dumping health care obligations and other “legacy costs,” and halving wages, the Democratic administration moved even more quickly and ruthlessly than the private equity firms.
The end result of this assault on auto workers and their communities will be a multi-billion-dollar windfall for Wall Street insiders and rich investors, who will make out like bandits from the sale of GM stock in the upcoming IPO.
From day one, the Obama administration, the auto bosses and Wall Street have depended on the United Auto Workers union to impose these attacks on the workers. Not only did the UAW suppress all opposition from the workers, it functioned as the direct instrument of Wall Street and the government in the impoverishment of its own members. In return, the UAW executives were given major ownership stakes in the auto companies. They will get their cut, worth many millions of dollars, from the IPO bonanza.
In a speech to an industry gathering earlier this month, newly installed UAW President Bob King made clear that the union was committed to removing all obstacles to profit-making. Disparaging the “20th century UAW” for seeing the employers as “adversaries rather than partners” and negotiating contracts that stipulated work rules and job classifications, King declared that the “21st century UAW recognizes that flexibility, innovation, lean manufacturing and continuous cost improvement are paramount in the global marketplace.”
No struggle to defend jobs and living standards is possible without a complete break with the UAW and the building of rank-and-file committees to mobilize workers in the factories and neighborhoods to fight.
This struggle is in essence a political struggle and requires a new political perspective. The disaster facing auto workers is the result of the long-standing support of the unions for the capitalist system, their hostility to socialism, and their subordination of the working class to the Democratic Party. The unions combine a policy of labor-management “partnership,” which denies that the workers have any interests independent of those of the corporations, with economic nationalism, which seeks to pit American workers against their class brothers and sisters internationally.
The most basic needs of the working class—jobs, decent wages and working conditions—can be defended only through a political struggle against the two big business parties and the profit system which they defend.
Jerry White
WSWS.ORG
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TRY AMNESTY FOR 38 MILLION MEXICAN FLAG WAVERS!

FAIR Slams Administration and Congressional Leadership for Rejecting Permanent Reauthorization of E-Verify

(Washington, D.C. October 8, 2009 ) House-Senate conferees finalizing the Homeland Security Appropriations bill, yesterday, undermined the long-term security of American workers by removing language that would have made the E-Verify program permanent. Instead, the conference agreement limits reauthorization to just three years.
E-Verify is the nation’s essential worksite verification tool that allows employers to voluntarily determine whether workers are legally authorized to work in the U.S. by electronically verifying their Social Security numbers. Over 140,000 employers are using the system, 1000 are joining each week, and according to the Department of Homeland Security, E-Verify has a 99.6 percent accuracy rate.
The decision to extend E-Verify for only three years is further evidence of the Obama administration's and the congressional leadership's effort to raise a smokescreen while it dismantles all effective controls against illegal immigration, charged the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
Conferees also stripped other safeguards in the Senate bill that were intended to protect American workers from losing jobs to illegal aliens. These provisions included a requirement that federal contractors use E-Verify to determine the employment eligibility of new and existing employees working on federal contracts, and language to prevent the repeal of a rule that required employers to take action upon the receipt of "no-match" letters, issued to employers whose workers' Social Security data cannot be confirmed. A third provision would have ensured all employers can use E-Verify to determine employment eligibility of existing workers in addition to new hires.
"A three-year extension of E-Verify was the bare minimum this administration and the congressional leadership could support and still make any credible claim that they are prepared to enforce U.S. immigration laws," said Dan Stein, president of FAIR. "All that would have been required to make E-Verify a permanent federal program is for conferees to have adopted provisions that were already part of the Senate bill. The fact that they did not speaks volumes about the priorities of this Congress and the Obama administration."
"Unfortunately, at a time when American workers most need the full commitment of their government to protect their jobs, what they got was a half-hearted gesture. E-Verify is the real meat and potatoes of worksite enforcement and dries up the jobs magnet which is the reason illegal aliens come and the reason they stay. The program offers a meaningful solution to our immigration crisis and needs a permanent reauthorization, not a temporary stay of execution. The Obama administration and congressional leaders demonstrated, once again, that their goal is to minimize the enforcement of laws against illegal immigration," concluded Stein.





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THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!

“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”

MOST OF THE FORTUNE 500 ARE GENEROUS DONORS TO LA RAZA – THE MEXICAN FASCIST POLITICAL PARTY. THESE FIGURES ARE DATED. CNN CALCULATES THAT WAGES ARE DEPRESSED $300 - $400 BILLION PER YEAR!
“The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.” Christian Science Monitor