And that’s all you need to know about America’s press. It’s just that she has the guts to say what all the other journalists wish to.
BZ
Helen Thomas, Unplugged: Racist, Anti-Semite
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Mexico Tried To Open Office In California To Provide ID For Illegals
In clear response to Arizona’s approved SB 1070 regarding illegal immigrants (from the Washington Examiner):
Mexico opens California office to provide ID for illegals
By: Sara A. Carter
National Security Correspondent
June 3, 2010
The Mexican government is opening a satellite consular office on Catalina Island — a small resort off the California coast with a history of drug smuggling and human trafficking — to provide the island’s illegal Mexican immigrants with identification cards, The Washington Examiner has learned.
The Mexican consular office in Los Angeles issued a flier, a copy of which was obtained by The Examiner, listing the Catalina Island Country Club as the location of its satellite office. It invites Mexicans to visit the office to obtain the identification, called matricular cards, by appointment.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican whose district includes Catalina Island, said handing out matricular cards will exacerbate an already dangerous situation.
“Handing out matricular cards to Mexicans who are not in this country legally is wrong no matter where it’s done,” he said. “But on Catalina it will do more damage. It’s a small island but there’s evidence it’s being used as a portal for illegals to access mainland California.”
Rohrabacher added, “If there were a large number of Americans illegally in Mexico and the U.S. consulate was making it easier for them to stay, Mexico would never permit it.”
But wait; because their plot was discovered, there is now a Plan B. Again, from the Washington Examiner:
Mexican government officials have moved their satellite consular office from the Catalina Island Country Club to a Catholic Church – citing protection under the Vienna Convention – after it was discovered that they did not have the appropriate paperwork to issue the island’s illegal immigrants identification cards.
Since The Washington Examiner reported that the management of the club, on the island of Catalina, discovered that the event was not a multi-cultural celebration as they had been told and refused to allow the Mexican government to set up shop.
The Mexican officials will provide “matricular” card services to Mexican nationals at St. Catherine’s Church, on the island.
San Francisco & Los Angeles: Hate Arizona’s Law? Hate California FIRST!
San Francisco has decided it is time to boycott Arizona with regard to its illegal immigration law SB 1070.
Los Angeles has also decided to emulate this boycott.
Perhaps I should refer those two entities to the current California Penal Code extant, 834b:
(a) Every law enforcement agency in California shall fully
cooperate with the United States Immigration and Naturalization
Service regarding any person who is arrested if he or she is
suspected of being present in the United States in violation of
federal immigration laws.
(b) With respect to any such person who is arrested, and suspected
of being present in the United States in violation of federal
immigration laws, every law enforcement agency shall do the
following:
(1) Attempt to verify the legal status of such person as a citizen
of the United States, an alien lawfully admitted as a permanent
resident, an alien lawfully admitted for a temporary period of time
or as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of
immigration laws. The verification process may include, but shall not
be limited to, questioning the person regarding his or her date and
place of birth, and entry into the United States, and demanding
documentation to indicate his or her legal status.
(2) Notify the person of his or her apparent status as an alien
who is present in the United States in violation of federal
immigration laws and inform him or her that, apart from any criminal
justice proceedings, he or she must either obtain legal status or
leave the United States.
(3) Notify the Attorney General of California and the United
States Immigration and Naturalization Service of the apparent illegal
status and provide any additional information that may be requested
by any other public entity.
(c) Any legislative, administrative, or other action by a city,
county, or other legally authorized local governmental entity with
jurisdictional boundaries, or by a law enforcement agency, to prevent
or limit the cooperation required by subdivision (a) is expressly
prohibited.
cooperate with the United States Immigration and Naturalization
Service regarding any person who is arrested if he or she is
suspected of being present in the United States in violation of
federal immigration laws.
(b) With respect to any such person who is arrested, and suspected
of being present in the United States in violation of federal
immigration laws, every law enforcement agency shall do the
following:
(1) Attempt to verify the legal status of such person as a citizen
of the United States, an alien lawfully admitted as a permanent
resident, an alien lawfully admitted for a temporary period of time
or as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of
immigration laws. The verification process may include, but shall not
be limited to, questioning the person regarding his or her date and
place of birth, and entry into the United States, and demanding
documentation to indicate his or her legal status.
(2) Notify the person of his or her apparent status as an alien
who is present in the United States in violation of federal
immigration laws and inform him or her that, apart from any criminal
justice proceedings, he or she must either obtain legal status or
leave the United States.
(3) Notify the Attorney General of California and the United
States Immigration and Naturalization Service of the apparent illegal
status and provide any additional information that may be requested
by any other public entity.
(c) Any legislative, administrative, or other action by a city,
county, or other legally authorized local governmental entity with
jurisdictional boundaries, or by a law enforcement agency, to prevent
or limit the cooperation required by subdivision (a) is expressly
prohibited.
Before you venture out of state, you ignorant ninnies, perhaps you should cast some views to your own state first.
But, of course, you are completely ignorant of your own state laws. Hence your defeatist and wrongful castigations of other states.
You amaze me. Your arrogance and, moreover, your ignorance is astounding. Do you do any research, do you consider any portion of history at all?
Clearly, you are all products of recent public California schooling. Other states could not possibly produce politicians quite so stupid.
BZ
SCOTUS Decides: Sanity Finally Returns to the Miranda Advisement
From the Washington Times.com:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that suspects must tell police explicitly that they want to be silent to invoke Miranda protections during criminal interrogations, a decision one dissenting justice said turns defendants’ rights “upside down.”
A right to remain silent and a right to a lawyer are the first of the Miranda rights warnings, which police recite to suspects during arrests and interrogations. But the justices said in a 5-4 decision that suspects must tell police they are going to remain silent to stop an interrogation, just as they must tell police that they want a lawyer.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a major step towards sanity regarding the prior overbearing applications of Miranda v Arizona. It was previously incumbent upon law enforcement officers — and those of you in law enforcement know of whence I speak and write — to almost beg suspects NOT to talk to them.
The historic tri-pronged approach used to customarily apply in re Miranda admonishment:
1. Custodial
2. Interrogation
3. By a peace officer
Any one leg lacking does not require admonishment. . .
However, there have been so many exceptions and niche/boutique and abundantly convoluted and conflicting opinions issued following the original Miranda ruling, that departments became collectively gun-shy and applied Miranda in ridiculous ways — which resulted in clear and obvious suspects being released and, worse, not only treated with stellar deference (look at OJ Simpson: questioned for perhaps 2.35 seconds by fearful LAPD detectives!) but not even questioned at all!
This new SCOTUS ruling essentially says: Look, you DON’T have to tell people to shut up!
The very disappointing aspect of the decison: it was a 5 – 4 ruling.
Not shockingly, the newest justice, Mexican female Sonia Sotomayor — who has said “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life” — wrote, in dissent for the court’s Leftists, that the new ruling “turns Miranda upside down”:
Criminal suspects must now unambiguously invoke their right to remain silent — which counterintuitively, requires them to speak,” she said. “At the same time, suspects will be legally presumed to have waived their rights even if they have given no clear expression of their intent to do so. Those results, in my view, find no basis in Miranda or our subsequent cases and are inconsistent with the fair-trial principles on which those precedents are grounded.”
My gosh. I concur with her! If you wish to remain silent you should SAY SO. No response should logically = keep on questioning!
If you are that stupid, after all these years, then there should be consequences. If you are literally mentally defective, then that will out at arraignment. Capacity is another issue entirely.
Cops should not have to “tippy-toe” around common sense!
Today, oddly enough, logic ruled the day.
But wait! Won’t this also affect terrorists as well? Why yes, it will.
That is, of course, until Mr Obama can further stack SCOTUS. And stack he will.
BZ
A Flotilla Of Peace? Or A Flotilla Of Insurgency And Terrorists?
Israel is being excoriated for killing poor old people on a ship who only wanted to bring medical supplies and warm milk to Gaza for dying and emaciated Palestinian babies. Riots all around.
Again, if you want the truth on an issue, it is apparent you must peruse British media. From the UK Spectator:
And now we can see that the real purpose of this invasion — backed by the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), a radical Islamic organization outlawed by Israel in 2008 for allegedly serving as a major component in Hamas’s global fund-raising machine — was to incite a violent uprising in the Middle East and across the Islamic world. As I write, reports are coming in of Arab rioting in Jerusalem.
The notion – uncritically swallowed by the lazy, ignorant and bigoted BBC and other western media – that the flotilla organisers are ‘peace activists’ is simply ludicrous. This research by the Danish Institute for International Studies details the part played by the IHH in Islamist terror in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Chechnya. According to the French magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere testifying at the Seattle trial of would-be al Qaeda Millenium bomber Ahmed Ressamin, the IHH had played ‘[a]n important role’ in the al Qaeda Millenium bomb plot targeting Los Angeles airport. It was also involved in weapons trafficking, and played in addition a key role in galvanizing anti-Western sentiment among Turkish Muslims in the lead-up to the 2003 war in Iraq. ‘Peace activists’ these people most certainly are not.
And this flotilla was but the latest jihadi attack, deploying the Islamists’ signature strategy of violence and media manipulation. Here from MEMRI (via Just Journalism) is a clip showing the hysteria against Israel being whipped up on board before the ships set sail, with the chanting of intifada songs about ‘Khaybar’ – the iconic slaughter of Jews by Muslims in the 7th century which is used as a rallying cry to kill the Jews today — and threats of ‘martyrdom’. This was not merely a propaganda stunt, but a terrorist attack.
The Jerusalem Post reports here, and David Horowitz writes here. In this clip, “peaceful” people beat Israeli soldiers. Here, an Israeli soldier is being stabbed. This clip and this clip show violence against the IDF soldiers. Even Drudge reports the ship members were prepared and armed. Apparently the ship was comprised of the agile elderly.
Israel says: it waited too long to tell the real truth about the flotilla — and, that next time, more force will be used. I completely support that notion. Activists say: there will be a next time, very soon.
Ah yes, the Evil Israelis — who, by definition, must be evil because they want to keep their country safe and sovereign.
Ah yes, the hatred for Jews — aided and abetted by the media from most nations, including the US — goes on and on.
Allahu Akbar shout the American media! — parroting the takbir.
BZ