Category Archives: IMMIGRATION

UPDATED: Wilders Wins Big

Democracy, Elections, EU, Glenn Beck, IMMIGRATION, Islam

The malfunctioning media is compounding its always objective reporting with breathless adjectives—“huge,” “stunning,” “shocking” and “peroxide-haired politician”—all to express “subtle” dismay at the election victory of Dutch populist Geert Wilders. My mother, a loyal Wilders supporter, alerted me to this “huge” good-news story:

Wilders yesterday stunned the Netherlands by coming third in general elections – a historic vote that could see him enter a coalition government.

Best known for his strident attacks on Islam, Mr Wilders’ electoral triumph sent shock waves through the country’s large immigrant communities and sounded the death knell for the image of the Netherlands as a bastion of tolerance.

The shock-factor was all the greater as the peroxide-haired politician had appeared sidelined during the election campaign, as the mainstream parties focused on how to deal with the nation’s economic woes and immigration slipped down the political agenda.

Yet Mr Wilders made the strongest gains in Wednesday’s election, doubling the number of seats for his Freedom Party to 24. The pro-business VDD party – which Mr Wilders left to set up on his own – won 31 of the 150 seats up for grabs, pipping the Labour Party of former Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen by a single seat in the narrowest ever electoral victory.

Cohen’s platform, I believe, is in the tradition of the Judenräte.

Let’s hope Glenn Beck doesn’t repeat his affront to this Dutch patriot.

UPDATE: “How can the pitchfork folks who elected this man be so stupid as to imagine Islam poses any threat to the tolerant Dutch way of life?” Preposterous. That’s me paraphrasing the PBS’s apoplectic correspondent in the Netherlands.

The far-right Freedom Party, led by Geert Wilders, grew from nine to 24 seats in the 150-seat parliament following Wednesday’s vote. Wilders wants to ban Muslim face veils and the building of new mosques in the country of 16.6 million with a Muslim population of 1 million.

Paul Ames, GlobalPost’s Belgium-based regional correspondent, said Wilders built on people’s fears about the influence of Islam on the Netherlands.

Is It ‘Moran’ Or ‘Moron’? (& More Of The Latter)

Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats, IMMIGRATION, Justice, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Liberty, Morality

The following is from my new, WND column: “Is It ‘Moran’ Or ‘Moron’?”

“Nothing is going to happen to me, man.”

“Those were immortal words of an inebriated illegal alien who rear ended an ass—Democratic State Rep. Michael Moran of Brighton, Massachusetts—in what was described in the press as a ‘serious car crash.’

Welcome to our world, Mr. Moran.

The suspect was as spirited as he was high. The soused 27-year-old Isaias Naranjo was decked up in a Mexican costume. And, as the local Fox 25 channel reported, Naranjo laughed when he was ‘told of the serious charges he would be facing’ (lies). ‘Nothing is going to happen to me, man,’ he taunted the cops (true). I’m ‘going back to my home country, Mexico.’

He might have been drunk and deadly, but Naranjo was dead-on about the joke of a ‘system’ he would be facing. …

Moreover, the merriment of the miscreant Naranjo is perfectly justified—and logical.”…

The complete column is “Is It ‘Moran’ Or ‘Moron’?”, now on WND.COM.

Read my libertarian manifesto, Broad Sides: One Woman’s Clash With A Corrupt Society.

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UPDATE (May 29): MORE MORON MATERIAL. The imperious president has refused to grant Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer an audience. Fox reports:

Brewer will be in Washington to meet with other governors. She said Friday that she had asked to meet with Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to discuss border security and immigration

The pioneering Gov. Brewer ought to have sold Obama on a visit by saying she only wished to kiss the president’s papal ring.

Is It 'Moran' Or 'Moron'? (& More Of The Latter)

Barack Obama, Crime, Democrats, IMMIGRATION, Justice, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Liberty, Morality

The following is from my new, WND column: “Is It ‘Moran’ Or ‘Moron’?”

“Nothing is going to happen to me, man.”

Welcome to our world, Mr. Moran.

He might have been drunk and deadly, but Naranjo was dead-on about the joke of a ‘system’ he would be facing. …

Moreover, the merriment of the miscreant Naranjo is perfectly justified—and logical.”…

The complete column is “Is It ‘Moran’ Or ‘Moron’?”, now on WND.COM.

Read my libertarian manifesto, Broad Sides: One Woman’s Clash With A Corrupt Society.

The Second Edition features bonus material and reviews. Get your copy (or copies) now!

UPDATE (May 29): MORE MORON MATERIAL. The imperious president has refused to grant Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer an audience. Fox reports:

Brewer will be in Washington to meet with other governors. She said Friday that she had asked to meet with Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to discuss border security and immigration

The pioneering Gov. Brewer ought to have sold Obama on a visit by saying she only wished to kiss the president’s papal ring.

Update II: Barack To The Border

Barack Obama, Homeland Security, IMMIGRATION

WSJ: “President Barack Obama will send 1,200 National Guard troops to the Mexican border, an administration official said Tuesday, following calls from politicians in both parties to step up the fight against illegal immigration and border violence.”

Here’s the rub: “The troops would not act in a law-enforcement capacity, but would provide intelligence, surveillance and training.”

All code for making sure a couple of Ramoses and Compeans don’t shoot an invader in the bottom. What will ensue will be the prosecution of the Joe Arpaios of the south-west.

These guards will be instructed to act as glorified traffic cops—properly directing the flood of people into the US—who’re on the border so that Barack (didn’t Bush pull a similar stunt?) can say, “Under my administration, enforcement on the Mexican border peeked.”

The presence of a National Guard crippled by protocol and PC laws designed to protect trespassers—this is nothing more than a political ploy.

What of ‘Posse Comitatus‘? I’m not sure.

Update I (May 26): I wish readers (okay, Huggs) would fight the blind spot they have about Bush, who would wrestle a crocodile for an illegal alien, provided the latter was of low character and criminally inclined, of course.

See the three amigos in “A Vacation From Reality.” While in reading mode, I recommend “José Medellín’s Dead; Cue The Mariachi Band.”

Update II: The Bush record is similar, so you know that sending the Guards to pose on the border and dreaming up a “comprehensive approach to illegal immigration” are quite compatible.

The NYT: From 2006 to 2008, President George W. Bush made a larger deployment of Guard troops under a program called Operation Jump Start. At its peak, 6,000 Guard troops at the border helped build roads and fences in addition to backing up law enforcement officers.
Those Guard troops contributed to the arrest of more than 162,000 illegal immigrants, the rescue of 100 people stranded in the desert and the seizure of $69,000 in cash and 305,000 pounds of illicit drugs.
The soldiers will not directly make arrests of border crossers and smugglers, something they are not trained to do.

The Washington Times seconds the case made on this blog:

The decision puts Mr. Obama squarely in the footsteps of his predecessor, President George W. Bush, who in 2006, just as the Senate was beginning an immigration overhaul debate, announced his own deployment of National Guard forces to the border.
Mr. Bush sent National Guard troops to build fencing and other infrastructure and help the U.S. Border Patrol with surveillance and support tasks, though they were not allowed to enforce immigration laws. Mr. Bush called the troops a temporary measure to fill a gap while he boosted the number of Border Patrol agents.
But the troops faced so many restrictions on their activities, including carrying weapons, that some Border Patrol agents said they found themselves assigned to what they called “nanny patrol,” which amounted to protecting the National Guard troops.