The Preferences Are Coming – Twelve Million of Them 
By Lloyd Billingsley
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 21, 2007

 

The 12 million or more who entered the United States illegally, and would gain United States citizenship under the current immigration proposal, Senate Bill 1348, will qualify for race preferences and privileges for which the majority of Americans are not eligible. This is not fair.

 

That is the view of Ward Connerly of the Sacramento-based American Civil Rights Institute, a veteran of battles against racial preferences in California, Washington and Michigan, and who believes that "race and ethnic preferences ought to be wrong under any circumstances." The current immigration measure, Connerly believes, would constitute a massive endowment of such preferences.

 

"This is huge," Connerly told Frontpage. "All this talk of going to the back of the line is B.S.. They would go to the front of the line. The minute they are Americans, they move in front of  white males and in some cases white women." Legalized Hispanic immigrants, Connerly says, would also gain privileges over immigrants from nations such as Russia because they would be part of an officially sanctioned “underrepresented minority.”

 

"We have to somehow make the American public aware of this. We are, right now, the Paul Revere on this. There is a problem here."

 

The problem, according to Connerly, lies in "the nexus between illegal immigration and preferences." That issue had not been part of the immigration debate until last Friday, when Connerly published an open letter in the Washington Times, signed by various individuals, some of whom disagree with him on immigration policy per se. Signatories include Grover Norquist, Linda Chavez, and civil-rights advocate Joe Hicks.

 

"This is one of those things that people have not thought through." Connerly said. "A group that has never had the historic discrimination of blacks would be given the status of an underrepresented minority in this country."

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June 19, 2007 | By Nathaniel Ward | Read online

Liberals plan to cut missile defense

Liberals in Congress are proposing a defense bill that would undermine efforts to expand America’s missile defense capability, leaving America’s citizens and armed forces exposed.

Heritage defense expert Baker Spring explains that two provisions in the bill would put a damper on missile defense development. “The first eliminates funding for a test bed for missile defense systems in space, and the second establishes operational testing requirements in order to continue development of the missile defense system.”

Take our poll: Is it in America’s interests to fully develop a ballistic missile shield?

Read Spring’s debunking of liberal distortions about missile defense.

Go to www.Heritage.org  for additional information

THREE CHEERS FOR OKLAHOMA
The remaining states should follow their lead!
 

    Oklahoma's Governor Brad Henry has signed a sweeping immigration reform bill, House Bill 1804, that its sponsor believes will go a long way in dealing with the illegal alien problem in the state.

 

    House Bill 1804 was passed by overwhelming majorities in both the House and Senate of the Oklahoma Legislature. The measure's sponsor, State Representative Randy Terrill, says the bill has four main topical areas: it deals with identity theft; it terminates public assistance benefits to illegals; it empowers state and local police to enforce federal immigration laws; and it punishes employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens.

 

    Oklahoma is no longer "O.K." for illegal aliens, Terrill observes. "When you put everything together in context," he contends, "the bottom line is illegal aliens will not come here if there are no jobs waiting for them, they will not stay here if there is no government subsidy, and they certainly won't stay here if they know that if they ever encounter our state and local law enforcement officers, they will be physically detained until they're deported. And that's exactly what House Bill 1804 does."

 

The Oklahoma legislator is pleased the bill he sponsored into law was signed by Governor Henry and believes it will go a long way to curb the illegal immigration problem in the state.

 

"I would remind people that states are separate sovereigns in our federal system," Terrill points out. "Anyone who doesn't understand that needs to go back and take an American federal government class in college," he says.

 

As a result of that sovereignty, the Oklahoma lawmaker insists, "we have as much right - in fact, I would argue, a responsibility - to protect our taxpayers against that sort of egregious waste, fraud and abuse as the federal government should have a responsibility to protect that international border, but doesn't do it."

 

Terrill says as long as the federal government refuses to do its job of protecting the international borders of the United States, states like Oklahoma must take action to deal with the problem that is costing taxpayers in the state $200 million a year in public benefits, law enforcement costs, and other resources.

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Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Terrorists Use Mexico to Enter U.S.
Jim Meyers
Tuesday, June 5, 2007

 

Counterterrorism authorities have come to fear that the porous U.S.-Mexico border provides entry into the United States, not only for illegal aliens, but for Islamic terrorists as well.

And these same Islamic terrorists may also be using Mexico as the conduit to bring nuclear devices into the U.S. for a WMD attack.

 

These are among the chilling disclosure from Paul L. Williams, author of the just-released book "The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World."

 

According to Williams, al-Qaida has already hatched plans to smuggle nuclear materials across the Mexican border and use them for a mammoth simultaneous attack on several large U.S. cities.

 

Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups began infiltrating Mexico in the days after 9/11. By 2003, Canadian intelligence officials and Interpol told Mexican President Vincente Fox that al-Qaida had established several cells in Mexico to prepare for the next terrorist attacks,

Williams tells readers.

 

Meanwhile hundreds of Tzozil Indians in southern Mexico converted to Islam and reportedly became involved in subversive activities. By 2004, al-Qaida cells were in place in northern Mexico and a large cell of Hezbollah was in Tijuana, on the U.S. border of California.

 

The Muslim radicals enlisted the aid of Latino gangs, including Mara Salvatrucha, to help them slip across the border.  According to Williams, the going rate for such service was from $30,000 to $50,000, but it included a bogus matricular consular, an official ID card issued by the Mexican government that enables Mexican nationals in the U.S. to obtain drivers licenses and open bank accounts.

 

Steve McCraw, assistant director of the FBI's Office of Intelligence, told the House Judiciary

Committee in June 2003: "The ability of foreign nationals to use the matricular consular provides an opportunity for terrorists to move freely within the United States without triggering name-based watch lists that are disseminated to local police officials."

 

Mexico has also become a conduit for aliens from terror-sponsoring states, known as

"special-interest aliens," or SIAs. By 2006, a popular entry route from Mexico into Arizona was littered with "discarded Muslim prayer rugs, pages from the Quran, instructions in Arabic on how to cross the Rio Grande, and beverage boxes with Farsi and Arabic letters," writes Williams, a seasoned investigative reporter and former FBI consultant.

 

Due to a lack of detention facilities, those SIAs that are apprehended — who have numbered in the thousands in recent years — are released from custody after receiving hearing dates from immigration judges. Fewer than 5 percent actually show up for their hearing. The rest simply vanish.

 

Texas Rep. Solomon Ortiz, a Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Readiness, said the release of Middle Easterners with possible links to al-Qaida is "very, very scary and members of Congress know about this."

 

In April 2004, the FBI arrested al-Qaida operative Mohammed Junaid Babar, after he returned to New York City from a terrorist summit meeting in Pakistan. He told interrogators that al-Qaida was preparing a nuclear attack on American cities. He also said the terrorists were relying on Latino gangs, most notably Mara Salvatrucha, to transport the operatives, along with nuclear supplies, across the U.S.-Mexican border.

 

Another captured terrorist later confirmed Babar's account. And both men said the plot was being directed by Adnan el-Shukrijumah, the man profiled in a NewsMax story last week — whom Williams calls "the most dangerous person in the Western world."

 

Get Paul Williams' explosive "The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World" FREE at:

 

            

            WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) released a list of 20 loopholes in the

comprehensive immigration bill today which reveals that the bill is fatally flawed and will not establish a functioning immigration system in the future.

            The list of loopholes includes flaws effecting border security, chain-migration and

assimilation policies.  The list exposes the lack of serious attention given to ensuring that the legislation fixes America’s failed immigration system.

            “I am deeply concerned about the numerous loopholes we have found in this legislation.  They are more than technical errors, but rather symptoms of a fundamentally flawed piece of legislation that stands no chance of actually fixing our broken immigration system,” Sessions said.

            “Many of the loopholes are indicative of a desire not to have the system work.”      
            Is anyone surprised at this? This is more evidence that the folks in Washington on both sides of the aisle are willing to sacrifice this country to increase their political power.  Also please note:  President Bush favors this bill!!

 

 http://sessions.senate.gov/pressapp/record.cfm?id=275456.

The Stars That Truly Shine
by Ben Stein
Tampa Tribune, Jun 3, 2007

 

[Note:  For many years Ben Stein wrote a biweekly column called "Monday Night At Morton's." (Morton's is a famous chain of

steakhouses known to be frequented by movie stars and famous people from around the globe.) Now, Ben is terminating the

column to move on to other things in his life. This is his final column for the enterprise.]

 

I have been doing this column for so long that I cannot even recall when I started. I loved writing this column so much

for so long I came to believe it would never end.

 

It worked well for a long time, but gradually, my changing as a person and the world's change have overtaken it. On a

small scale, Morton's, while better than ever, no longer attracts as many stars as it used to. It still brings in the rich

people in droves and definitely some stars.

 

I saw Samuel L. Jackson there a few days ago, and we had a nice visit, and right before that, I saw and had a splendid talk with Warren Beatty in an elevator, in which we agreed that "Splendor in the Grass" was a super movie. But Morton's is not the star galaxy it once was, though it probably will be again.

 

Beyond that, a bigger change has happened. I no longer think Hollywood stars are terribly important. They are uniformly

pleasant, friendly people, and they treat me better than I deserve to be treated. But a man or woman who makes a huge wage

for memorizing lines and reciting them in front of a camera is no longer my idea of a shining star we should all look up

to.

 

How can a man or woman who makes an eight-figure wage and lives in insane luxury really be a star in today's world, if by

a "star" we mean someone bright and powerful and attractive as a role model? Real stars are not riding around in the backs

of limousines or in Porsches or getting trained in yoga or Pilates and eating only raw fruit while they have Vietnamese

girls do their nails.

 

They can be interesting, nice people, but they are not heroes to me any longer.

 

A real star is the soldier of the 4th Infantry Division who poked his head into a hole on a farm near Tikrit, Iraq.

He could have been met by a bomb or a hail of AK-47 bullets. Instead, he faced an abject Saddam Hussein and

the gratitude of all of the decent people of the world.

 

A real star is the U.S. soldier who was sent to disarm a bomb next to a road north of Baghdad. He approached it, and the

bomb went off and killed him.

 

A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing

with a piece of unexploded ordnance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw

himself on it just as it exploded. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad.

 

The stars who deserve media attention are not the ones who have lavish weddings on TV but the ones who patrol the streets

of Mosul even after two of their buddies were murdered and their bodies battered and stripped for the sin of trying to

protect Iraqis from terrorists.

 

We put couples with incomes of $100 million a year on the covers of our magazines. The noncoms and officers who barely

scrape by on military pay but stand on guard in Afghanistan and Iraq and on ships and in submarines and near the Arctic

Circle are anonymous as they live and die.

 

I am no longer comfortable being a part of the system that has such poor values, and I do not want to perpetuate those

values by pretending that who is eating at Morton's is a big subject.

 

There are plenty of other stars in the American firmament ... the policemen and women who go off on patrol in South

Central and have no idea if they will return alive; the orderlies and paramedics who bring in people who have been in

terrible accidents and prepare them for surgery; the teachers and nurses who throw their whole spirits into caring for

autistic children; the kind men and women who work in hospices and in cancer wards.

 

Think of each and every fireman who was running up the stairs at the World Trade Center as the towers began to collapse.

Now you have my idea of a real hero. I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters.

This is my highest and best use as a human.

 

I can put it another way. Years ago, I realized I could never be as great an actor as Olivier or as good a comic as Steve

Martin ... or Martin Mull or Fred Willard - or as good an economist as Samuelson or Friedman or as good a writer as

Fitzgerald. Or even remotely close to any of them.

 

But I could be a devoted father to my son, husband to my wife and, above all, a good son to the parents who had done so

much for me. This came to be my main task in life.

 

I did it moderately well with my son, pretty well with my wife and well indeed with my parents (with my sister's help).

I cared for and paid attention to them in their declining years. I stayed with my father as he got sick, went into

extremis and then into a coma and then entered immortality with my sister and me reading him the Psalms.

 

This was the only point at which my life touched the lives of the soldiers in Iraq or the firefighters in New York.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty, in return for the

lavish life God has devolved upon me, to help others He has placed in my path. This is my highest and best use as a human.

 

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

 

"Go back to Boston !  Go back to Plymouth Rock,  Pilgrims!  Get out!  We are the future.  You are old and tired.  Go on.

We have beaten you.  Leave like beaten rats.  You old white people.  It is your  duty to die . . Through love of having

children, we are going to take over. Augustin Cebada, Brown Berets:

 

"They're afraid we're going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions.  They're right.   We will

take them over . . . We are here to stay." Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council.

"The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot."

Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico :

 

"We have an aging white America .  They are not making babies. They are dying.  The explosion is in our population . .. I

love it.  They are shitting in their pants with fear.  I love it." Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas

 

"Remember 187--proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens--was the last gasp  of white America in

California ." Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party,

 

"We are politicizing every single one of these new citizens that are becoming citizens of this country . . .  I gotta tell

you that a lot of people are saying, "I'm going to go out there and vote because I want to pay them back." Gloria Molina,

Los Angeles County Supervisor,

 

" California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave." Mario Obledo, California Coalition

of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Governor Jerry  Brown,

also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton

 

"We are practicing 'La  Reconquista' in California ." Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General ,

 

"We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos . . . " Professor Fernando Guerra, Loyola

Marymount University

 

Are these just the words of a few extremists?  Consider that we could fill up many pages with such quotes.  Also, consider

that these are mainstream Mexican leaders.

 

THE U.S. VS MEXICO : On February 15, 1998, the U.S. and Mexican soccer teams met at the Los Angeles Coliseum.  The crowd

was overwhelmingly pro-Mexican even though most lived in this country. They booed during the National Anthem and U.S.

flags were held upside down.  As the match progressed, supporters of the U.S. team were insulted, pelted with projectiles,

punched and spat upon. Beer and trash  were thrown at the U.S. pl ayers before and after the match. The coach of the  U.S.

team, Steve Sampson said, "This was the most painful experience I have  ever had in this profession."

 

Did you know that immigrants from Mexico and other non-European countries can come to this country and get preferences in

jobs, education, and  government contracts?

 

Corporate America has signed on to the idea that minorities and third world immigrants should get special, privileged

status.  Some examples are  Exxon,Texaco, Merrill Lynch, Boeing, Paine Weber, Starbucks and many more.

 

DID YOU KNOW?: Mexico regularly intercedes on the side of the defense in criminal cases involving Mexican nationals?  Mexico has NEVER extradited a Mexican national accused of murder in the U.S. in spite of agreements to do so?  According to

the L.A. Times, Orange County , California is home to 275 gangs with 17,000 members; 98% of which are Mexican and Asian.

How's your county doing?

 

Is education important to you? Here are the words of a teacher who spent over 20 years in the Los Angeles School system. 

"Imagine teachers in classes containing 30-40 students of widely varying attention spans and motivation, many of whom

aren't fluent in English.   Educators seek learning materials likely to reach the majority of students  and that means

fewer words and math problems and more pictures and multicultural references."

 

Do you recall hearing about the immigrants that came through Ellis Island .  They wanted to learn English. 

They wanted to breath free. They wanted to become Americans.  Now too many immigrants come here with demands.  They demand

to be taught in their own language.  They demand special privileges--affirmative action.  They demand ethnic studies that

glorify  their culture.

 

HOW CAN YOU HELP?: Send copies of this to at least two other people, 100 would be even better. Get the word out.

ISLAMOFASCISM (BEWARE!)

Before you accept the notion of "moderate islamists", here are several URLs you should visit:

http://www.melaniephillips.com/

http://americancongressfortruth.com/  

http://www.aifdemocracy.org/  

http://ayaanhirsiali.web-log.nl/  

http://www.globalincidentmap.com/home.php

http://www.investigativeproject.org/

http://www.raykania.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/19-Sudden-Jihad-Syndrome-and-The-Enemy-Within.html

http://www.muslim-refusenik.com/

http://www.shoebat.com/