“Secure Communities and getting Assistance”

Top Pakistani government officials on Friday said the 33-year prison sentence for the doctor who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden is payback for how the U.S. went about getting the Al Qaeda leader, and they shrugged off criticism of the verdict by telling America to stop “over-reacting” and “take a deep breath.”

“You got Osama bin Laden. We’re happy he got killed. But the way it was done we’re not happy with. We didn’t like that,” a Pakistani official told Fox News. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to what he described as the fragile state of U.S.-Pakistani relations.

We’re wondering how these actions fit with those who are supposed to be living in secure communities with the assistance of local Imam’s, Hispanics and other minorities aiding the Justice Department or at the very least, local law enforcement.

The latest comments did not sit well with lawmakers who have been speaking out for Dr. Shakil Afridi, questioning why the Obama administration did not do more to protect the doctor and his family before he was arrested last year.

It sure seems to us that any country that proclaims happiness over “We’re happy he got killed…” would be as celebratory as the USA was rather than to take out their frustrations out on the one man who really assisted in the identification of bin Laden.

“The reaction indicates how out of touch the leaders of that country are with reality,” California GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, said Friday. “They are so blinded by their radical Islamic ideology that they cannot see our outrage is justified.”

In a strong bipartisan display of congressional anger in response to Afridi’s jail term, senators on Thursday voted 30-0 in committee to cut $33 million in aid to Pakistan – one million for every year of his sentence. That move came a day after a tribal court in Pakistan – where the doctor was not allowed to be represented by a lawyer – passed its sentence. The diplomatic friction has also complicated negotiations between the countries about Pakistan re-opening overland supply routes to Afghanistan.

Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA to collect DNA and verify bin Laden’s presence at the compound in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad where U.S. commandos found and killed bin Laden in a stealthy raid in May 2011. Viewed as a hero in the U.S. for helping nab the terrorist mastermind behind 9/11, Afridi was treated like a criminal in Pakistan, a Muslim nation whose alliance with the U.S. has been uneasy.
One of the founders of Pakistan’s constitution and a top Supreme Court lawyer in that country told Fox News that Afridi should not have been tried by a tribal court and would not have been convicted if he had faced a federal court.

“The Jirga didn’t have the jurisdiction and they exercised power without jurisdiction,” said Ahmed Kasuri, senior attorney in the Supreme Court of Pakistan. “And if some court were to apply power without jurisdiction, it’s a nullity in the eyes of the law. It’s got no significance. The appellate authority can forthright set aside that decision.”

Yes that is a good assessment of Pakistani law – but for whom and for what? It is precisely the same in this country in lieu of the Obama Administration having total reckless disregard for America’s Constitution.

Pakistani officials continued to insist the U.S. should not let the case dictate broader policy. Supply lines were closed after a U.S. attack on the Pakistani side of the border killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November, and reopening them is a key priority for the U.S.

“The U.S. is allowing one issue to become so bloated, at a difficult time,” according to one official. Those concerns don’t seem to be shared by U.S. lawmakers, who continue to call for Afridi’s release.
“All of us are outraged at the imprisonment and sentence of some 33 years, virtually a death sentence to the doctor,” Arizona Sen. John McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Thursday. “It frankly outraged all of us.”

GOP lawmakers also have raised questions about how Pakistan learned of Afridi’s involvement in the operation that led to bin Laden’s death. Officials in the Obama administration insist that it did not reveal it, telling Fox News the Pakistanis found Afridi “on their own.”

But Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., has charged the administration officials talked about the doctor and his DNA sampling in describing the raid and implied that the loose talk led to Afridi’s capture.
“This has been handled very poorly right from the time of the raid,” said King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. “They put him out there.”

Afridi’s lawyer, Samiullah Afridi, told AFP he plans to appeal the sentence.
“We have requested the Khyber administration to provide us with the documents related to the trial and conviction, and once we get them, we will file an appeal in the office of the commissioner of the Frontier Crimes Regulation,” he said.

The lawyer, general secretary of the Peace Movement, a civil society group against militancy, said the doctor did not commit any crime, but had instead worked “to help eliminate terrorism.”
As for us…$33 million is a drop in the bucket when compared to the billions being sent in relief to Pakistan; however, we are reasonably certain that the Obama administration will not offer anything else.

OBAMA: SLAUGHTER OF CHRISTIANS A MISUNDERSTANDING

The violence in northern Nigeria is mistakenly viewed as a religious conflict rather than simply a tribal dispute over land, according to the Obama administration.

Despite the ongoing Muslim destruction of churches and the slaughter of Christians – including many murdered during worship services – the U.S. Agency for International Development claims that the misunderstandings make it difficult to administer aid programs.

USAID, therefore, has launched a program titled Project PEACE – an acronym for Programming Effectively Against Conflict and Extremism.

PEACE says it will hire contractors to help the agency analyze the “true” causes of conflict and consequently provide more effective humanitarian and conflict-resolution assistance, according to planning documents that WND located via database research.

The cost of Obama’s new “knowledge generation, dissemination and management” initiative is $600 million.

The unveiling of PEACE comes as the slaughter of Nigerian Christians is on the rise. (For further reading please click here.)

CHRISTIANS IN EGYPT WORRY ABOUT ELECTION

Fearing the imposition of Islamic law if the Muslim Brotherhood wins, many Coptic Christians in Egypt are voting in today’s presidential election as a bloc for two candidates who held senior positions in the deposed regime of Hosni Mubarak.

Coptic Christian leaders in Egypt, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Coptic church leaders have been organizing the voting bloc, fearful for the future of the country’s already persecuted Christian minority.

President Obama and the international community supported Mubarak’s ouster. Since then, Coptic Christians have come under increased attack, facing murder, church burnings and property confiscation.

The two candidates being quietly supported by Coptic Christians are Amr Moussa, the former secretary general of the Arab League who previously served Mubarak’s foreign minister, and Ahmed Shafiq, who served as prime minister under Mubarak’s regime and was also a minister of civil aviation.

Coptic Christians most fear the election of Mohamed Mursi, the candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood. Other Islamist candidates include Abd al-Mun’im Abu al-Futuh and Muhammad al-Salim al-Awwa.

Although there have been no reliable recent opinion polls, the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies already secured the biggest bloc in the Egyptian parliament during the previous voting.

One of the most important Muslim Brotherhood clerics, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, declared in his sermon Friday that the presidential election should be used to usher in Islamic law, or Shariah.

Qaradawi stated it was the duty of Muslims to vote for one of three Islamic candidates, describing them as the “best for Egypt” because they will “apply the Islamic Shariah and achieve justice.”

While Copts were targeted by Islamists during Mubarak’s regime, such persecution has increased exponentially after Mubarak’s ouster.

Just weeks after Mubarak was booted, Muslim villagers in March 2011 reportedly set fire to a Coptic church while attacking Christians on the street.

Since last year, two other churches were set on fire in the Imbaba neighborhood of Cairo and in Edfu in the south of the country. Coptic Christian families were also reportedly evicted from their homes in Alexandria.

Some reports say more than 200,000 Copts already have fled their homes.

When Copts attempted to protest last October, security forces reportedly fired at the protesters, killing 24 and wounding more than 300 people.

The Coptic Church, a major Christian community in Egypt, is said to date back to the origins of Christianity. Christians were the majority in Egypt until several centuries after the Arab conquest of the seventh century. They now make up between 5 and 10 percent of the population. (For further reading please see here.)

The Evils of being P.C.

Following up today where we left off yesterday regarding political correctness and its ostensible attack on American traditions, ways of life, and against the roots of the very society through the manipulation of its language. Please remember our thesis: Most civilizations prior to total collapse have endeavored to manipulate its language. In our earlier writings (please see our page at top or select, “politically correct” in the archives) we’ve outlined this phenomenon as well as the Socialist and the Communist movements with their attacks on government as well as all of the people included. Again we have drawn upon David Kupelian’s voluminous work and detailed study.

All of this is not, however, just a matter of annoyingly manipulative “word games.” Our civilization is literally being turned upside-down through the strategic redefinition (and therefore transformation) of our society’s operating principles.

Today’s most obvious case in point: Barack Obama, a far-left radical manifestly hostile toward free-market capitalism and American exceptionalism – in fact, to just about everything American – but who campaigned using powerfully evocative words of national restoration and reconciliation. “Hope,” “change,” “fairness,” “justice,” “reform” and “transparency” would usher in a bright new era of “healing” and “unifying” America and the world through this charismatic young leader’s “post-racial,” “post-partisan” presidency. What we got instead was a jarringly narcissistic, supremely demagogic and corrupt Chicago politician, lacking both in experience and wisdom, and displaying breathtaking contempt for America’s Constitution and its best-in-the-world system of government.

If the ongoing language war consisted solely of one man’s use of emotionally compelling catch-phrases – like Obama’s current re-election favorites (“Everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules”) and his ceaseless appeals to raw envy (attacks on “millionaires and billionaires,” “hedge-fund managers” and “oil-company executives”) – it wouldn’t be difficult for truth to prevail.

But the political and cultural left has hijacked virtually our entire language in the last couple of generations. It has redefined many key words, phrases and concepts, changing not only the words we use, but the way we think. Consider:

“Equality” has been utterly redefined. To previous generations, equality – as in Jefferson’s phrase in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights” – referred to our being equal in our God-given rights before the law. Today’s idea of equality, however, is based on the virtual repudiation of meaning and morality and God Himself. Good and evil are basically “equal.” As I write in “The Marketing of Evil”:

Today, in the rarified but toxic air of multiculturalism and political correctness, all cultures and all values are of equal value. The most ignorant, oppressive, suffocating, women-hating kind of culture – where people’s hands and feet are amputated as punishment for petty offenses – is now worthy of equal respect to Western culture, which has provided most of the world’s knowledge, progress, food, medicine, technology, quality of life, representative government, and liberty. This moral inversion, which proclaims that all cultures are equal, has extended to virtually every area of society.

“Love” too has been redefined. At its finest, love is a spiritual quality of selfless, sacrificial caring about others, epitomized by Jesus when He said on the cross, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” The soldier who falls on an enemy grenade to save the lives of his fellow warriors acts out of love. But today, “love” has reached a low point – the word is used to sanctify same-sex marriage and celebrate what once were called “vile affections.” Even pedophiles creepily talk about “men and the boys they love” to justify their crimes. After all, how can love be vile? For many, our idea of “love” – basically, our feelings of attraction toward anything to which we are addicted – is now firmly in the gutter, like “equality.

Again and make no mistake about this whatsoever; reprehensible, immoral, and shameful changing the meaning of words by manipulation has dishonorable intentions. Please at all costs let’s not be fooled by these actions over and over again. We need to stop this ridiculous notion of polite political correctness.

“Justice,” likewise, has been redefined. Phrases such as “social justice” and “economic justice” are euphemisms for confiscating, by threat and raw force, what belongs justly to others – in other words, injustice. Likewise, “affirmative action” is imposed and defended in the name of justice, but is inherently unjust: The most qualified applicant for a job is turned down in favor of another, because that other person has the right skin color. That used to be called racial discrimination (a great injustice), but now the same act is rationalized as “social justice.”

Let’s just look and be acquainted…NOW…before its too late!

We’re sure those that having a read at our site has certainly noticed our individual page marker on the menu up-top under the heading of “Political Correctness.” And hopefully you are aware that several of us here have studied language – some different dialects while others have studied linguistics – or where words come from and how societies throughout history have gone extinct or otherwise in lieu of language manipulation and change.

The following article’s key points are from David Kupelian, who is an award-winning journalist, who has earned our respect. Furthermore, if anyone were to spend time looking at our political correctness page or search the archives for other articles that have been written that espouse the same issues and key points.

A major engine for the left’s insatiable quest for power goes under the strange name of “political correctness” – an insidious frontal attack on common sense and conscience through language manipulation.

Many people mistakenly regard political correctness as just a nutty liberal fetish for not hurting people’s feelings. Words and phrases are continually decreed to be “insensitive” to various “minorities” and therefore replaced with euphemisms so as to avoid real or perceived offense.

People who are mentally retarded used to be called “idiots,” “imbeciles” and “morons” – psychological terms that correspond to different IQ ranges (0-25 for idiots, 26-50 for imbeciles, 51-70 for morons). But as those words gradually came to be considered offensive, the euphemism “retarded” came into vogue. When “retarded” came to be regarded as insensitive, new-and-nicer euphemisms like “intellectual disability” and being “intellectually challenged” emerged, culminating with “special.” It’s hard to be offended over being “special.”

In like manner, the deaf became “hearing impaired,” the blind “vision impaired” and the crippled “mobility impaired,” inspiring a new breed of cocktail-party jokes wherein the bald are “folically challenged” and so on.

More subversively, however, people’s ignoble or criminal qualities became disguised and excused with euphemisms: “Illegal aliens” became “illegal immigrants” and then “undocumented immigrants” and presto-chango, something bad was magically transformed into something good.

Homosexuals became “gay,” abortion advocates became “pro-choice” and atheists became “brights,” each euphemism converting a negative association into a positive one. Today, increasing numbers of people refer to pedophilia as “intergenerational sex” and child molesters as “minor-attracted persons” or MAPs. (In Islam, the popular euphemism for pedophilia is “child marriage,” just as adultery is called “temporary marriage.” Really, now.)

Of course, Islam has become a major beneficiary of political correctness, reminiscent of what George Orwell called “Newspeak” in his novel “1984.” After 19 Muslim terrorists, acting in the name of Islam, murdered almost 3,000 Americans in a wanton act of war on Sept. 11, 2001, the government and media, to avoid offending Muslims, declared Islam to be a “religion of peace.”

The Islamic jihad declared on America was mysteriously referred to by our leaders as a “war on terror” involving some unnamed enemy. But even that awkward and evasive expression was deemed too insensitive toward Islam, so under Obama the euphemizing turned surreal when “war on terror” morphed into “overseas contingency operations.” Likewise, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano came up with a friendly new phrase for mass-murder terror attacks. Announcing that she was deliberately avoiding the term “terrorism” in speeches because “we want to move away from the politics of fear,” she adopted the term “man-caused disasters.” We will continue with this article tomorrow, thank you.

Time to End the Child Tax Care loophole

Last week, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) delivered a speech on the Senate floor calling for an end to the Child Tax Care loophole that allows illegal aliens to receive thousands of dollars in tax refunds by filing with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number. Sen. Sessions also criticized the administration’s refusal to include mandatory E-Verify provisions in any of its jobs bills.

Sen. Sessions mentioned a news report from an Indianapolis news station that highlighted the Child Tax Credit loophole:

The Treasury Department’s own inspector general for Tax Administration, who analyzes problems within the agency and issues reports, reported that in 2010 the Internal Revenue Service paid illegal aliens a staggering $4.2 billion in child tax credits for dependents, a great deal of whom don’t even live in the country. This has been going on for years. This cannot continue. It must be stopped, and fixing it can’t be delayed.

The Treasury IG report states:

Although the law prohibits aliens residing without authorization in the United States from receiving most Federal public benefits, an increasing number of these individuals are filing tax returns claiming the Additional Child Tax Credit, a refundable tax credit intended for working families. The payment of Federal funds through this tax benefit appears to provide an additional incentive for aliens to enter, reside, and work in the United States without authorization, which directly contradicts Federal law and policy to remove such incentives.

That is from the inspector general for Tax Administration at the U.S. Treasury Department, not our language. Of course, that is exactly correct. That is exactly correct. How could it be otherwise?

In a press report from Indiana, one of the illegal aliens admitted his address was used to file tax returns by four other undocumented workers who don’t even live there. Those four workers claimed 20 children live inside that one residence, and as a result the Internal Revenue Service sent the illegal immigrants tax refunds totaling $29,608. A tax credit is not a tax deduction; it is a direct payment, a direct transfer of wealth through the tax system to an individual–$29,608.

The Treasury inspector general’s report further stated:

Millions of people are seeking this tax credit who, we believe, are not entitled to it. We have made recommendations to the IRS as to how they could address this issue, and they have not taken sufficient action, in our view, to solve the problem.

Well, that is not acceptable. Now, $4 billion is a great deal of money. Four billion dollars a year is about $10 million a day. They found that $4 billion was doled out to people who received this one benefit illegally. No wonder we have people taking vacations to Las Vegas on the government’s dime. No wonder we are giving $ 1/2 billion loans to failed companies like Solyndra. What are we doing here in Washington?

So I say it is time to end this. I would note that the House of Representatives has voted to end this, and so it is now time to see what this Senate will do. We need to act to end it also.

 

 

We need to ask ourselves, “Is this fair…or not?”

It appears to us that the most controversial intended legislation is being written up by those who share the ethnic and/or racial background of those who are trying with everything known to humankind to advance their status here while being illegally in the United States.

Please don’t misunderstand our thesis; we are merely stating that reform is the process of negotiation and compromising to each party concerned in the reform. In this particular matter of the DREAM Act or more pithy, the Studying Towards Adjusted Residency Status or STARS Act, aims to give those illegal immigrants who came to this nation before they were 16 years of age a means of earning – again at whose expense – a four year college degree and residency status.

Sisters Daniela and Dayana Pelaez joined Congressman David Rivera (same person who faced indictment) at North Miami Senior High School Saturday morning to announce that the Studying Towards Adjusted Residency Status (STARS) Act will be filed in a few weeks.

“Daniela will be there with me, in Washington, in the House of Representatives with me to submit what I’m calling the Daniela Pelaez STARS Act,” Rivera said.

The bill will allow undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States before the age of 16 the opportunity to adjust their residency status if they earn a degree from an accredited four-year institution of higher education and meet certain criteria.

Rivera said he was inspired by Daniela to draft the bill and has spent the last two months finalizing the language of the STARS Act. In less than two weeks, valedictorian Pelaez will be lobbying for a bill she helped write.

“We’ve been here for a long time, we were raised here, and we deserve to stay here,” Pelaez said as her classmates stood behind her in support.

The Colombian sisters were granted a two-year reprieve in March and since then Palaez has inspired and pushed for the STARS Act.

“I’m very proud and honored that my path has started something and I’m actually making a difference and my community, my classmates who started it all, this is the fruit of our labor,” Palaez said.

The STARS Act will allow youth that attend a four-year university to apply for a five-year extension and eventually earn legal status.

Many advocates say the bill is a different and more tailored version of the controversial DREAM Act, short for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minor Act.

Under the DREAM Act, undocumented immigrants that arrived in the U.S. before they were 15 years old must complete two years of high education or two years of military service. It is not required that they graduate.

Palaez is going to Washington D.C. with her sister and lawyer on May 30 to support Congressman Rivera and garner support for the STARS Act.

She will attend Dartmouth College this fall and plans to study medicine.

The following is a comment left at MSMBC News- Florida – with concerns of this ridiculous STAR program.

“Too damn bad! We’ll blow him, all his “stars” and his illegal’s outta here! We’ve supported these invaders while they got educated, fed and housed on OUR dimes…and PLENTY of ‘em! Most of them go onto college, also at OUR expense and major in law or political science. They fully intend to change our laws to suit them and we WILL NOT HAVE IT! Got it?”

Yes ma’am! Your point is well-stated and in this case well-received. Why do you suppose that today’s illegal immigrants feel no sense of remorse or culpability for their actions which I might add you espoused rather succinctly in your comment? What I make reference to is that I have yet to meet one illegal immigrant of the age demographic as these who are demanding yet another entitlement, without even acknowledging what they’ve already received? You are absolutely correct in your accusation that these individuals have been supported while the received free education; most illegal’s are on some type of food benefit program not to mention that it was mostly them who have gone underwater regarding their not so qualified homes now in foreclosure.

Other Matters of Interest:

Illegal Alien Employed at New Jersey Airport for 20 Years

Newark airport security supervisor, Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole, a Nigerian national used the name of a murder victim to hide his illegal alien status for twenty years.

His arrest came on the day a federal report found the Transportation Security Administration‘s handling of security breaches at Newark Liberty International deficient. Had the Legal Workforce Act, H.R. 2885, been enacted, the no-match provisions would have detected Oyewole.

We have been complaining for years (search archives) about the nonsensical Visa Lottery that literally gives whoever for whatever a reason to move to the U.S.A. The Visa Lottery Program is managed by the Department of State, which awards up to 55,000 permanent resident visas a year to applicants from countries with relatively low rates of immigration to the United States compared to other countries, based on data from the previous five years. The visa lottery grants visas based on pure luck to people regardless of family ties, skills, education or to the United States, exposing this country to national security threats such as espionage, terrorism, and criminal refuge. The bipartisan Barbara Jordan Commission in 1995 recommended the elimination of the lottery, since it serves no national interest.

A study by Rutgers University released in October 2009 found that while the U.S. is still producing enough skilled graduates in core STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) disciplines to fill industry needs, many highly qualified U.S. students in STEM fields leave the “pipeline” from STEM college major to STEM career possibly based on perceptions that STEM careers are highly susceptible to off shoring. In other words why hire someone directly out of college when the government can use the Visa Lottery or category H-1 visas to get the workers they need?

What is your answer to Greta van Susteran’s question on her show, On the Record; has the U.S. government gone wild? 

 

 

Voting…America’s last privilege losing its integrity..?

It wasn’t too long ago that America was suffering from voter-itis or even voter-phobia. During the General Elections where the Office of the President was being determined, voter turnout had dipped so low that many believe that there were alternative reasons for why the voting age was lowered from 21 years of age to 18 years of age regardless of military service or the ability for soldiers to drink on base.

Quite openly perhaps with the addition of Rock the Vote targeting younger individuals; moreover, it is the organizations that RTV has aligned themselves with such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Instagram, to name just a few, Rock the Vote boasts of registering well over 5 million voters just for the 2008 General Election. This is a great opportunity for younger folks to at least put some of their civics lessons to work.

Yet for every one step forward it seems as though our country takes a minimum of three steps backward. The disgusting behavior of the New Black Panther Party was one, the undeniable voter fraud activities taken in by ACORN, and now in New Mexico, Indiana, Missouri, and Florida have filed multiple complaints of voter registration fraud.

We are of the opinion that voting in the U.S. has totally lost its integrity. The simple act of voting that has been made easier for various groups in our nation, is a task made so easy and that, my friends is on purpose!

We are fastly entering a phase of suffrage in our nation when we have special interest groups arguing over photo voter identification cards, or thumbprints, or even retinal scanning. Why? Perhaps they won’t be able to rig such elections as easily as they have been in recent years.

Illegal immigrants have been gripping about the inability to get identification with their photographs on them, except for maybe the Matricula Card issued to them by the governments they came from. We just can’t understand why the complaining insofar as the Department of Motor Vehicles could openly be seen as the next step.

The state of Texas is a classic example. Hearing the cries from the disenfranchised people about the costs, polling place, transportation to and from their ballot box, and on and on – that the state of Texas put out mandates that completely eliminated every complaint that anyone had to offer – the state allowed for accommodations in costs – the state would pay any fees associated with voting; furthermore, on the transportation issue the state is prepared to put local voting apparatus in areas where those who can’t get in to vote could be shuttled to their local precinct and after voting given the same shuttle service back to their homes. Moreover, the state issued a voter reimbursement program whereby they would mail the person all of the voting particulars and ask for collection about 30 days after the election!

We can assure you that many states have gone still further than Texas; but what did Texas receive for this open display of social welfare? They got sued by the United States through the Justice Department. Other than ferrying guns and other weapons in Fast & Furious doesn’t DOJ have some better more constructive things to do?