The right to keep and bear arms is not just for citizens. Self-defense is a universal right for all, including foreigners. Even illegal aliens, as long as they are not violent criminals, should not be denied this most important right. WND: unarmed victims beaten, burned to death.
Link: McCain to attend convention of 'reconquista' group.
Sen. John McCain, the de facto Republican presidential nominee, announced today he will attend the national convention of La Raza, a radical Hispanic lobby tied to the movement to reconquer the Southwestern U.S. that was part of Mexico before the Mexican-American War that ended in 1848. The convention will be held in San Diego July 14. Though La Raza bills itself as a civil rights organization, the group's name literally means "The Race."
Link (WND): Tancredo to pope: Stop promoting amnesty.
The pontiff, asked by reporters on his flight to the U.S. Tuesday if he would address Hispanic immigration, said the U.S. must do "everything possible to fight ... all forms of violence so that immigrants may lead dignified lives." Tancredo, a former Catholic, told House colleagues, "I would like to know what part of our lax immigration policy is considered 'violent.' I fail to see how accepting more refugees than any other nation while providing free health care, free education, free housing and free social service benefits to millions of illegal aliens in this country is any way 'degrading' to them or 'undignified.'"
MEXICO CITY: The Absolut vodka company apologized Saturday for an ad campaign depicting the southwestern U.S. as part of Mexico amid angry calls for a boycott by U.S. consumers. The campaign, which promotes ideal scenarios under the slogan "In an Absolut World," showed a 1830s-era map when Mexico included California, Texas and other southwestern states. Mexico still resents losing that territory in the 1848 Mexican-American War and the fight for Texas independence. But the ads, which ran only in Mexico and have since ended, were less than ideal for Americans....
This is the "apology":
"As a global company, we recognize that people in different parts of the world may lend different perspectives or interpret our ads in a different way than was intended in that market, and for that we apologize."
This Absolut Vodka ad...
...looks a lot like this t-shirt I picked up on a Princess cruise to Mexico:
Granted, it does say "United States" but there is no border and it does look like the large "Mexico" in red-white-and-green sits atop the whole region. Is the US just a region of Mexico? Odd to encapsulate so much of US on a shirt depicting Mexico, isn't it? Are SF, LA and SD merely northern points along the "Mexican Riviera"? Consider as well that the official name of the country south of US is Estados Unidos Mexicanos, or United Mexican States.
Same area we patrolled in 2005.
Link: Deported MS-13 member busted at U.S. border -- Newsday.com.
The man jumped the fence at the U.S.-Mexico border at around 6:30 a.m. at a border station near a mountainous region about 35 miles east of San Diego, Endicott said. The border crossing is situated north of Tecate in the Baja California region of Mexico.
Link: Leprosy outbreak causes concerns in Northwest Arkansas (KFSM.com).
So now, Bingham, and others like Mayoral candidate Nancy Jenkins, say government help is the next step. Jenkins says she's angered the federal government has been so lax with border patrol. She says, "We've just opened the borders and said, 'Come on in! Bring your diseases! Bring 'em!' Why are we doing that? Those who have it need to be quarantined and treated, or sent back to their country." Dr. Bingham is requesting the public take action, and write everyone from legislators, and presidential candidates, to Congress, and the Health Department. Shey says, "the only way to truly protect our community and our economic growth, is to think of this as a very important, panic-mode attempt to treat leprosy: before it gets out of hand." Doctors say leprosy will appear as a discoloration, or nodules, on the skin, especially the fingers, toes, arms, and face. With treatment, it is curable, but it can take from six months, to two years, to completely disappear. Springdale is also reporting over 100 cases of tuberculosis.
This group sounds a lot like the one I was with in July 2005.
Link: Sierra Vista Herald | The Bisbee Daily Review.
BISBEE — A local border watch group recently changed its operational name and some of its tactics due to the types of illegal immigrants its members are encountering. Cochise Borders Civil Defense Corps is now officially known as Cochise County Militia. Advertisement Bill Davis, the director and founder of the group, said he is authorizing the carrying of rifles and shotguns, in addition to handguns. Members also can wear military-type battle dress uniforms, camouflage gear and face paint. “The people we are running into are armed and are wearing camo clothes. Sometimes they are military. Sometimes they are the police dressed as military. They are escorting the gun smugglers over,” he said. “We’ve got to fight fire with fire.”
Link: Orange Ukraine - Words and Deeds.
Protect Family Values, Respect for Parents, and Children's Rights (+) I'm giving this promise a tentative positive after reading about the new budget. It looks like both the promises to new mothers and disabled children have been covered. This positive is conditional on the budgeted payments actually coming into effect, of course, as well as dealing with the majority of other sub-pledges. sub-pledges include: a) Reverse population decline (-) b) Increase support for new mothers tenfold (+) c) guarantee good healthcare for pregnant women. d) provide assistance to those raising children or caring for the elderly e) revive state kindergartens and nurseries, ban the sale of preschools (-) f) provide credit to homebuyers (-) g) eliminate child homelessness (-) h) provide free medical care to disabled children (+) i) establish a family doctor system (-) I'm going to give this more minor issue a weak negative rating. As with everything else, the benefits for families are on the budget, but the economy is so weak it is questionable whether or not they are affordable.
Per W.Ex's correspondents in Ukraine, annual payments are now 12,000, 25,000, and 50,000 hryvnas, respectively, for one, two, or three children (about $2400, $5000, and $10,000, respectively, in US dollars). These are very large payments by Ukraine standards. More evidence that the sin of abortion leads to more sin and unaffordable statist largesse. (Witness the invasion of illegals in the US.)
Will Bush dare call them "vigilantes"? That's how he labeled my fellow minutemen. Link: WorldNetDaily: Terrorists' new mission: Protect President Bush.
JERUSALEM – Members of the most active West Bank terror organization are set to participate in security forces being deployed to protect President Bush during his visit to the Palestinian territories next month, WND has learned.
Just down the road from us...had a feeling how this would turn out...
Police have arrested the man they believe raped a woman inside her car on the side of the I-5 freeway after he offered to help her with her stranded vehicle Saturday morning....
....currently in custody with an immigration hold....
For the archives, posting this 2003 article from WND re Islamic terror base in Paraguay.
One of the areas I patrolled in 2005 as a California Minuteman is reputed tobe the site of apprehension of one of these terrorists.
Link: WorldNetDaily: Terrorist base south of border.
International law-enforcement authorities combating terrorism have growing concerns about a major influx into the Latin American nation of Paraguay of Arabic-speaking visitors carrying European passports. Some of these "Europeans" could not even speak the language of their so-called mother land, according to a report in the latest issue of Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, an online premium intelligence newsletter published by WND. Many of the visitors and emigres travel to the triple border region where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet. This region, often described as a lawless area, is nicknamed by some intelligence station agents as "The Muslim Triangle meeting zone."
Mexico is one of the few countries in the world with some form of constitutional RKBA. Unfortunately, regulation of guns is heavy despite this protection. I think everyone realizes that failing to secure the border will lead to nightmarish politics for RKBA as we know it, but at least we are not completely starting from scratch in assimilation with regard to this essential element of American freedom.
Link: Gun politics in Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Constitution of 1917 (Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos de 1917), the current constitution in force and heavily-amended, grants Mexican citizens (and, theoretically, perhaps, all inhabitants) the right to possess firearms. However, this right does not include military firearms suitable for use in a militia, unlike in the United States where the Second Amendment is often interpreted as only protecting arms suitable for use in militias.
UPDATE: This video of a vet acting to enforce flag code (after authorities refused) has become one of the most viewed video clips on the internet:
Regarding Chertoff's name, "-ov" or "-off" in Russian is simply a suffix for names, without other meaning. More interesting is the Russian translation of "devil":
ДЬЯВОЛ; ЧЕРТ; БЕС; САТАНА; НАСТОЯЩИЙ ДЬЯВОЛ; СУМЧАТЫЙ ДЬЯВОЛ; СУМЧАТЫЙ ВОЛК; КОВАРНЫЙ ЧЕЛОВЕК; СТРАШНЫЙ ЧЕЛОВЕК; ЭНЕРГИЧНЫЙ ЧЕЛОВЕК; НАПОРИСТЫЙ ЧЕЛОВЕК; ДЬЯВОЛЬСКАЯ ШТУКА; ТРУДНОЕ ДЕЛО; ЧЕЛОВЕК; ПАРЕНЬ; ЖУРНАЛИСТ, ВЫПОЛНЯЮЩИЙ РАБОТУ ДЛЯ ДРУГОГО; ЛИТЕРАТОР, ВЫПОЛНЯЮЩИЙ РАБОТУ ДЛЯ ДРУГОГО; МАЛЬЧИК НА ПОБЕГУШКАХ; УЧЕНИК В ТИПОГРАФИИ; ЖАРЕНОЕ МЯСНОЕ ИЛИ РЫБНОЕ БЛЮДО С ПРЯНОСТЯМИ И СПЕЦИЯМИ; ВОЛК-МАШИНА
The second word on the list, "ЧЕРТ" (bolded, in red), is pronounced "chort" (there is supposed to be an umlaut over the "E") rather than "chert" but difference in pronunciation may be considered de minimis given the practical limits of transliteration.
Chertoff says we can't enforce immigration laws (WND).
The Reanimators who brought "comprehensive immigration reform" back to life (GOP in red):
Alphabetical by Senator Name
| Akaka (D-HI), Yea Alexander (R-TN), Nay Allard (R-CO), Nay Barrasso (R-WY), Nay Baucus (D-MT), Nay Bayh (D-IN), Nay Bennett (R-UT), Yea Biden (D-DE), Yea Bingaman (D-NM), Yea Bond (R-MO), Yea Boxer (D-CA), Yea Brown (D-OH), Yea Brownback (R-KS), Yea Bunning (R-KY), Nay Burr (R-NC), Yea Byrd (D-WV), Nay Cantwell (D-WA), Yea Cardin (D-MD), Yea Carper (D-DE), Yea Casey (D-PA), Yea Chambliss (R-GA), Nay Clinton (D-NY), Yea Coburn (R-OK), Nay Cochran (R-MS), Nay Coleman (R-MN), Yea Collins (R-ME), Yea Conrad (D-ND), Yea Corker (R-TN), Nay Cornyn (R-TX), Nay Craig (R-ID), Yea Crapo (R-ID), Nay DeMint (R-SC), Nay Dodd (D-CT), Yea Dole (R-NC), Nay |
Domenici (R-NM), Yea Dorgan (D-ND), Nay Durbin (D-IL), Yea Ensign (R-NV), Yea Enzi (R-WY), Nay Feingold (D-WI), Yea Feinstein (D-CA), Yea Graham (R-SC), Yea Grassley (R-IA), Nay Gregg (R-NH), Yea Hagel (R-NE), Yea Harkin (D-IA), Yea Hatch (R-UT), Nay Hutchison (R-TX), Nay Inhofe (R-OK), Nay Inouye (D-HI), Yea Isakson (R-GA), Nay Johnson (D-SD), Not Voting Kennedy (D-MA), Yea Kerry (D-MA), Yea Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea Kohl (D-WI), Yea Kyl (R-AZ), Yea Landrieu (D-LA), Nay Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea Leahy (D-VT), Yea Levin (D-MI), Yea Lieberman (ID-CT), Yea Lincoln (D-AR), Yea Lott (R-MS), Yea Lugar (R-IN), Yea Martinez (R-FL), Yea McCain (R-AZ), Yea McCaskill (D-MO), Nay |
McConnell (R-KY), Yea Menendez (D-NJ), Yea Mikulski (D-MD), Yea Murkowski (R-AK), Yea Murray (D-WA), Yea Nelson (D-FL), Yea Nelson (D-NE), Yea Obama (D-IL), Yea Pryor (D-AR), Yea Reed (D-RI), Yea Reid (D-NV), Yea Roberts (R-KS), Nay Rockefeller (D-WV), Nay Salazar (D-CO), Yea Sanders (I-VT), Nay Schumer (D-NY), Yea Sessions (R-AL), Nay Shelby (R-AL), Nay Smith (R-OR), Nay Snowe (R-ME), Yea Specter (R-PA), Yea Stabenow (D-MI), Nay Stevens (R-AK), Yea Sununu (R-NH), Nay Tester (D-MT), Nay Thune (R-SD), Nay Vitter (R-LA), Nay Voinovich (R-OH), Yea Warner (R-VA), Yea Webb (D-VA), Yea Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea Wyden (D-OR), Yea |
"You know, I've heard all the rhetoric -- you've heard it, too -- about how this is amnesty. Amnesty means that you've got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that," Bush said, according to the official White House transcript.
Gentlemen, our individual chance of having to deal with these monsters is thankfully remote, but it's likely that one of us will have to, especially as time goes on. Let's give them a reception to write home about. For example, in the appropriate circumstances, a well-placed shot, from close proximity, to the cranial-occular cavity, preceded perhaps by genuflection for an upward trajectory (avoids collateral damage in the event of penetration). That might just do the trick, depending on the mechanism used for detonation.
Large teams of newly trained suicide bombers are being sent to the United States and Europe, according to evidence contained on a new videotape obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
FYI as it has some relevance, here are some pictures of the Great Wall of the United States, taken during my previous involvement as a California Minuteman:
If we, as Catholics, tolerate priests who advocate taxation without representation (open borders) and other forms of legalized theft, what else can we expect? Well, maybe this:
Link: 'Snuff' the Gun Shop Owner, Priest Says (CNSNEWS.COM)
An Illinois gun-rights group says it plans to complain to the Catholic Church after a Chicago priest at the weekend appeared to call for the murder of a suburban gun shop owner.
My country and my Church had both better figure out that they need each other, and quick. Without a strong and credible Church, America will keep sliding into immorality (which incidentally makes it more of a target for militant Islam). Without America, who will defend the Church?
Link: My Way News - Mexico City Lawmakers Pass Abortion Bill.
Mexico City lawmakers voted to legalize abortion Tuesday, a decision likely to influence policies and health practices across Mexico and other parts of heavily Roman Catholic Latin America.
Link: WorldNetDaily: NAFTA Superhighway hits bump in road.
Last Thursday, the Texas Senate unanimously approved Senate Bill 1267, requiring the study of long-term partnerships such as the Texas Department of Transportation recommended in the construction of TTC-35, a four-football-fields-wide NAFTA superhighway financed and operated for 50 years by the Cintra investment consortium in Spain.
The Texas Senate action takes place less than two weeks after the Texas House passed by a 137-2 margin House Bill 1892 that includes virtually identical language to the anti-TTC bill passed by the Senate.
Good news, but shameful it took so long to ban such a horrific procedure that has no medical value. How could any of its supporters (direct or indirect) be considered Catholic and/or American? With the borders wide open, will this decision stick or be emasculated by a grotesquely expansive health exception?
Link: Parasite is a growing concern for healthcare professionals - Los Angeles Times.
In 1996, using an experimental test, the American Red Cross found that one in 9,850 blood donors in the L.A. area tested positive for the parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi. Two years later, it was one in every 5,400. By 2006, a more refined test detected the parasite in one in 3,800 donors. About 10% to 30% of infected people develop symptoms of chronic disease, experts say.
Link: More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says (OneNewsNow.com).
Illegal aliens are killing more Americans than the Iraq war, says a new report from Family Security Matters that estimates some 2,158 murders are committed every year by illegal aliens in the U.S.
Link: WorldNetDaily: Law would make Minutemen guilty of 'domestic terrorism'.
A. An individual or group of individuals commits domestic terrorism if the individual or group of individuals are not affiliated with a local, state or federal law enforcement entity and associate with another individual or group of individuals as an organization, group, corporation or company for the purpose of patrolling to detect alleged illegal activity or to individually patrol for the purpose of detecting alleged illegal activity and if the individual or group of individuals is armed with a firearm or other weapon.
You mean, like this? The groups I participated in were well armed (especially during the July '05 incident) but there was a third group (Friends of the Border Patrol) I did not participate with because that group's rules limited carry to LEO's only. Predictably, that group ended up being assaulted by a mob, resulting in injuries and theft of membership lists, etc. The border is a dangerous place. (And as jimmyb of Conservative UAW Guy reminds us: free speech isn't free.)
(Via Ride Fast & Shoot Straight.) AWB was proven ineffective, yet Mexico advocates its re-passage, blaming our guns for their crime. We must listen carefully, as one out of ten Mexicans are already here in the US. Their voices will be heard on this issue, more and more.
What is causing all this?
Joe Farah addresses irony of Tony Snow's recent statement that border agents "must obey the law."
Link: WorldNetDaily: Border agents sent to prison. Excerpt:
In an interview with WND, an angry Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., called President Bush a "disgrace" for refusing to pardon Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos, ....
"This is the worst betrayal of American defenders I have ever seen," Rohrabacher said of the president. "It's shameful this was done by someone who is in the Republican Party. He obviously thinks more about his agreements with Mexico than the lives of American people and backing up his defenders."
For brief discussion of treason, sedition, see Link: Treason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Excerpt:
In 1964, the anti-Communist activist John A. Stormer wrote a book called None Dare Call It Treason, which unexpectedly sold seven million copies with little or no advertising. The title phrase comes from a 17th-century epigram by John Harington:
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Link: WorldNetDaily: Tancredo prepares White House bid. Excerpt:
Regarded by many as the leading opponent of illegal immigration in Congress, Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado announced today he's taking a step toward a presidential run with the launch of an exploratory campaign committee.
Tancredo is rated "A" on guns by GOA.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has launched www.FAIRAPPROVED.ORG, empowering American consumers who want to protect their country and their vote from the uncontrolled flood of illegal immigrants too numerous to assimilate (and instill with gun culture) in time to prevent formation of a permanent, balkanizing, fifth-column voting block and underclass. THE "FAIR APPROVED" SEAL should result in mass self-deportation over time and may be the best way yet around businesses who won't follow the law and politicians who won't enforce it. PLEASE FORWARD THIS INFORMATION TO BUSINESSES YOU REGULARLY PATRONIZE. I actually think many businesses who are now non-compliant will appreciate this program as it allows them to compete on a level playing field.
Link: WorldNetDaily: Volunteers 'with heat' to support National Guard. Excerpt:
Gun-carrying volunteer members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have launched patrols along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona in support of National Guard troops who just 48 hours earlier were attacked by gunmen and had to retreat, according to officials.
Interesting speaker at today's monthly meeting of the Orange County chapter of the Thomas More Society (a Catholic lawyers group): Bishop Peter Esterka, Auxiliary Bishop of Brno and Bishop for Czech Catholics in Diaspora. This gentleman was one of only three to have escaped across the Czechoslovakian border alive in 1957.
Continue reading "Communism in the Church - Today's Meeting of Thomas More Society" »
Link: WorldNetDaily: Mel Gibson's apocalyptic stupidity. Excerpt:
Western civilization has values worth protecting – liberty and equality of opportunity – and those values give it strength. Those values make us stronger than our enemies, unlike the Mayans. Equating all civilizations, as Gibson does, is what undermines Western values.
Link: WorldNetDaily: Time for voting test.
Joe Farah ponders bringing back the Voting Test. Such tests were previously abused to exclude voters on the basis of race, but what are Americans to do as their vote is being canceled out by uneducated and un-American immigration cheats?
Here is a recap of the immigration debate our parish had last Thursday:
[Posted the following article last year on my other blog. Reposting here because of an immigration debate our parish is having.]
This is a brief account of my involvement as a California Minuteman on the electric and stormy night of July 30, 2005, in high-desert Jacumba, CA -- how a transactional lawyer with no government military experience found himself crouched behind a boulder with a battle rifle (unloaded) and four ten-round mags of .308, ready to provide cover for fellow Minutemen across the street in the event a certain SoCal gang made good on its threat to come down and shoot us all.
Continue reading "Minuteman's Log, Night of July 30, 2005 - Dave Duringer" »
Link: WorldNetDaily: Illegal aliens murder 12 Americans daily. Excerpt:
"Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That's 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001."
Link: WorldNetDaily: New U.S. dollar coins hide 'In God We Trust'.
New US dollar coin relegates "E Pluribus Unum" (out of many, one) and "In God We Trust" to the thin edge, apparently the result of atheist and multicultural, anti-melting pot, pro-illegal immigration interests.
Link: Rick Roberts' blog (760 KFMB AM - San Diego, CA - Talk Radio).
Minutemen in the San Diego area were successful in getting developers to clear out a migrant shantytown, by organizing a campout of 250 volunteers.
I did not participate in this event, but I did help out at the border in July and October of 2005, an experience I'll never forget.
Link: Wall Street Journal: OpinionJournal - 7/22/2006 interview of Milton Friedman and his economist wife Rose (68 year marriage!). Excerpt:
"[quoting Mr. Friedman:] "In principle, you ought to have completely open immigration. But with the welfare state it's really not possible to do that. . . ."
Link: ISN Security Watch - UN to consider arms trade treaty – US opposes. (Originally published here by Center for Defense Information, which is affiliated with World Security Institute.) Excerpt:
"The resolution, which passed by a vote of 139 -1 (with 24 abstentions), is the first step towards an international arms trade treaty (ATT)."
Guess which country was the lone vote against this? America is truly exceptional. Even Switzerland flaked out. (And Costa Rica fans should know it was one of the lead countries pushing the measure.) This is why we must, for the sake of freedom in every corner of the world, remain a melting pot, and for that we must regain control over our borders. We can continue to handle a great deal of immigration (and will in fact be stronger for it), as long as we have that control and the immigration is legal and fair.
Link: The Seattle Times: Election 2006: Midterm voters sound the call for change.
"Democrats also got almost three fourths of the Hispanic vote despite an intense Republican effort to win their support."
Yet our Roman Catholic teaching is that we must not vote for candidates who are wrong on key moral issues (abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, human cloning, homosexual "marriage"). [I would add "self-defense" to this list, as a sine qua non for the basic right to life.]
