Tue 17 Aug 2010
The difference could not be clearer between John McCain and US Senate candidate, JD Hayworth, on the issue of “birthright citizenship” and the intent of the 14th Amendment.
Behind the scenes, Somos Republicans is pressuring John McCain to stay committed to allowing birthright citizenship.
Tue 17 Aug 2010
A m e r i c a n P o s t – G a z e t t e
Distributed by C O M M O N S E N S E , in Arizona
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
“Elites and powerbrokers have fought me from the beginning as I tried to crack down on illegal immigration and implement innovative policies to keep criminals in jail longer. But Arizona law enforcement knows what it takes, and I am proud they are standing with me,” Thomas said.
During Thomas’ time in office, crime rates plummeted. The 19 percent drop is more than twice the national rate of decline, in despite of an 11 percent increase in the county’s population during that time. The illegal immigrant population has dropped by anywhere from 18 percent (Dept. of Homeland Security estimate) to 30 percent (Center for Immigration Studies estimate). Like the fall in crime rates, this dramatic decline in illegal immigration is far greater than the average in the rest of the nation.
Thomas has a track record of successfully defending illegal immigration crackdowns in our courts, including his successful efforts to prosecute illegal immigrants for conspiring to violate the state’s human-smuggling law and to defend Prop 200′s voter ID requirements and the employer-sanctions law, which he defended along with the Attorney General’s Office.
If elected Attorney General Thomas has pledged to expand that office’s prosecutions of illegal immigrants under the state’s human smuggling laws. The office is not currently pursuing such prosecutions.
Thomas is married with four children. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Prior to serving as Maricopa County Attorney, Thomas served as an assistant attorney general for Arizona, deputy counsel and criminal justice policy advisor to the Governor, special assistant to the Director of the Arizona Department of Corrections, and a deputy county attorney.
For more information about Andrew Thomas, please go to www.ThomasforArizona.com.
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Mon 16 Aug 2010
KFYI’s Mike Broomfield introduces Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce, author of Arizona SB 1070 at the United Border Coalition tea party rally at the Arizona/Mexico border on Sunday, August 15th.
Fri 13 Aug 2010
A m e r i c a n P o s t – G a z e t t e
Distributed by C O M M O N S E N S E , in Arizona
Friday, August 13, 2010
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Mon 9 Aug 2010
Phoenix, AZ (AUGUST 9) – Sen. John McCain tried to blackmail then-Congressman J.D. Hayworth in 2005 into supporting his illegal alien amnesty legislation, by threatening to raise unfounded allegations of a relationship between the Congressman and lobbyist Jack Abramoff, records show.
“FYI: We’ve been inundated with press requests to comment on your boss’s abrahamoff [sic], sky box, etc. situation. We’ve refused them. I think you should be prepared for that to change,” wrote McCain’s chief of staff and confidant Mark Salter to a Hayworth aide on May 12, 2005 at 6:19 p.m.
Salter’s threat included these words:
“As you can guess, much consternation here over your boss’s quick attack on a bill we’ve been working on for months, in the most arduous discussions, and, we think, managed to arrive at a very good product with a broad constituency behind it, not to mention three of your boss’ delegation members. Obviously the attack occurred before anyone has even seen the bill. At best, it was discourteous, and we took it quite personally.”
Following the threat, a committee chaired by McCain launched an investigation into Abramoff and his alleged connections to members of Congress. While McCain continues in the current campaign to try to tie Abramoff to Hayworth, there was no mention of Hayworth in the committee proceedings or the final report Chairman McCain issued on the matter.
“Now, in desperation, McCain is doing exactly what he said he would do – lie to try to win,” Hayworth said. “His latest ad is demonstrably false, but this is what we have come to expect from McCain. He plays mean, under handed political games of blackmail behind the scenes while he tries to convince the voters of America and Arizona he is ‘Mr.Clean.’”
Hayworth said he was reluctant to bring up this “ugly matter” during this campaign.
“But I have no choice,” he said. “At almost every campaign stop, during every interview and now in the latest lying television ads, Sen. McCain tries again and again to misrepresent the facts. While he attacks me for something he knows is false, he refuses to return the $1.1 million he took from a convicted felon who is serving a 50-year prison sentence for running a ponzi scheme.”
Hayworth has called for John McCain to return the “bundled” contributions collected by Scott Rothstein for McCain’s failed presidential campaign.
Salter’s original email is below.
From: Salter, Mark (McCain) [mailto:Mark_Salter@mccain.senate.gov]
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 6:19 PM
Subject:
As you can guess, much consternation here over your boss’s quick attack on a bill we’ve been working on for months, in the most arduous discussions, and, we think, managed to arrive at a very good product with a broad constituency behind it, not to mention three of your boss’ delegation members. Obviously the attack occurred before anyone has even seen the bill. At best, it was discourteous, and we took it quite personally.
FYI We’ve been inundated with press requests to comment on your boss’s abrahamoff, sky box, etc situation. We’ve refused them. I think you should be prepared for that to change.
Mon 9 Aug 2010
Should SB1070 Be Secondary to… SB1108?
Crime Control vs. The Bill of Rights
by Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce
The entire world, driven by news-media reports, has become fixated on the illegal-immigrant invasion Arizona has suffered under for years.
The invasion had previously been ignored, a news-media black hole from which little real information escaped.
The catalyst for the attention is my bill SB1070, which empowers our law enforcement agencies to deal with the invasion. We passed the bill because along with the feds the state and local governments are aiding and abetting the invaders, instead of stopping them and defending the nation against a flood of biblical proportions.
In its frenzy the media missed huge Bill of Rights restoration in Arizona. SB1070 is a criminal statute, enacted to treat symptoms of the very harmful crime of sneaking into a nation without permission, involved in serious criminal activity, billions in cost, jobs taken from Americans, and leaching off the nation’s success and abundance. I do not want to undermine the importance of SB1070 and the national debate way over due on this issue.
A different law, SB1108, for which I am as responsible as I am for SB1070, is a critical important act. SB1108 is no simple crime-control law. It repeals outrageous infringements to the Bill of Rights, reinstating wholesome fullness to the right to keep and bear arms.
The media however, driven by a nearly fanatical racist miasma, has blindly focused on the immigration-crime law, finding racism where none exists — at the expense of even seeing the strengthened Bill of Rights.
The media inaccurately conflated the racial (not racist) nature of our invasion, with the powers in the immigration bill, which are pure law enforcement. That’s because the invaders are overwhelmingly Hispanic — though the Border Patrol says 20% are OTMs — “Other Than Mexicans.”
Civil rights were reborn here on the same day the anti-invasion bill took effect, but the media ignored that. While they cried racism, “Constitutional Carry” restored fundamental civil rights to anyone on the planet who enters the state of Arizona legally. This bill extends rights to all people.
The God-given right to protect your family, your property and yourself from immediate physical harm has been accepted since the dawn of civilization. It was ensconced in the Constitution when the Founding Fathers put the Second Amendment in our Bill of Rights. There was little controversy over this well understood, deeply rooted basic human right until recently, when forces of darkness began attacking many of the truths we hold to be self evident.
Arizona now has the most robust protection for the right to keep arms, and the right to bear arms, anywhere on Earth. How could media pundits miss that?
Are they so blinded by imagined racism they find where there is none, that they can’t see what was put in front of them at a packed news conference the day before either law took effect?
In times just recently past, enactment of a law that frees every decent adult in the world to carry a gun with no prior permission would have led to a national uproar.
Could it be that a law crafted to prevent illegal activity is more important than the historic renewal of a cherished human right?
Maybe the media is just tired of crying wolf? They screamed about imminent blood-in-the-streets when Arizona’s gun-permit law passed in 1994, but nothing ever happened (and they never apologized).
They convulsed recently about anticipated wild-west mayhem when a 30-year-old ban on gun possession was repealed for National Parks, but nothing happened (and they showed no remorse for the fear mongering).
When Arizona’s restaurant gun ban was lifted a year-and-a-half ago, we heard insane screeching about impending homicidal frenzy from “shotguns in nightclubs,” but it turned out that breakfast at Denny’s or lunch at Applebee’s is really a mild-mannered affair. No correction has been issued or is expected.
So why should the media pay any attention to a law that merely restores the Second Amendment, not just for citizens but for any law-abiding adult who legally visits?
Who really cares that amassed infringements on 10% of the Bill of Rights have finally been overturned, without bloodshed?
Why even bother covering a law that one other state, Alaska, passed in 2003?
Does it really matter that states all over the union are now seeking Constitutional Carry for themselves?
Could people care less if a place like Arizona frees its women to put handguns in their handbags, go about their business, and return home without fear of arrest? How could feminists or NOW complain about that?
Would it bore people if you told them Sen. Pearce’s bill and its chief advocates, the Arizona Citizens Defense League (azcdl.org) worked for the past five years to make statute conform to the state’s Constitution?
No one wants to hear that all these crazies are carrying guns and no one is getting shot. How could that possibly be newsworthy?
And perhaps most of all, people don’t want to hear that government’s exit from the enforced-training game is a business-stimulus plan.
Private enterprise within the state has launched the TrainMeAZ.com campaign to promote a culture of marksmanship and gun safety to every person in the state. This is Arizona — learn to shoot straight. Marksmanship matters. Teach your children well. Why would the news media ever cover that, even if it is going up on billboards statewide?
The Constitutional Carry law and TrainMeAZ campaign have ignited a firestorm of entrepreneurism, and rekindled a burning desire to restore the nation of marksmen our Founder envisioned. An entire state trained to arms, what a concept.
I personally urge the nation to look at what we’ve done with Defensive Display, Castle Doctrine inside and outside the home, Burden of Proof, Specious Civil Suit immunity, Firearms Freedom Act, Preemption and more. Make your legislatures emulate the freedom of spirit that thrives in the Grand Canyon State. Come visit and feel what it’s like to be a free adult instead of a ward of the state. You may not want to leave. And if you do leave, you’ll take the spirit for freedom back home with you.
Russell Pearce is the Republican State Senator from Arizona legislative district 18 and author of the anti-illegal immigration bill SB1070, and the Constitutional Carry law for firearms, SB1108, neither of which are controversial in point of fact.
Sun 8 Aug 2010
A m e r i c a n P o s t – G a z e t t e
Distributed by C O M M O N S E N S E , in Arizona
Sunday, August 8, 2010
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Mon 2 Aug 2010
This is what we’re up against: Illegal Alien supporters bussed in from California. desecrate US and AZ flag in front of Arizona State Capitol during the singing of the National Anthem at a pro SB 1070 Rally. H/T to Right Wing House Wife
Sun 1 Aug 2010
The Rick Romley story is creepy enough for spiders, but in a lot of ways, it’s like the “spaghetti” tangle under your computer. All those wires, and you can hardly ever find which one is attached to what. Learning about Romley is like trying to follow those wires. The big question: who is this guy?
What we have found out so far is that there seem to be two Romleys – one is the debonair, suave, smiling politician who looks like a cardboard cutout from central casting – the quintessential champion of the people. Dudley Doright if you will. This Romley tells us he is a conservative running in the GOP primary to be the next Maricopa County Attorney. The other Romley is really something else, and he is not made of cardboard. He is made of something much more sinister.
This other Romley wants to be our County Attorney, but he opposes SB 1070and asked the governor to veto the bill. Gee, thanks Rick. If you think that’s something, wait till you see who his friends are. The infamous Maricopa County Board of Supervisors appointed him Acting County Attorney.
This is the very same bunch that is in charge of what is called the worst run county in the United States. Romley’s supervisor buddies are developing a Taj Mahal county courthouse and locked up all the records pertaining to it so we can’t see who got paid off. This is the Board of Supervisors with known criminal friends like who themselves have been under indictment. Mr. Stapley’s good friend Mr. Wolfswinkle was actually convicted of a felony and we won’t get into the rehashing of hair plugs and Hawaiian vacations Stapley took. If you want to know someone’s character, look at their friends. Romley wants to prosecute criminals, but look who he hangs with.
It gets more complicated. We all remember Charles Keating and his “love affair” with John McCain. The two were intertwined like Medusa’s hair, snakes and all. Well it was “Mr. cross-the-aisles, McAmnesty” himself, John McCain, who recruited Romley for his current gig. What does that tell you? Maybe Rick is running on the wrong ticket.
It could be. Romley used to openly work for Democrats. There was anti-SB1070, Terry Goddard, our beloved Attorney General. Terry is a Democrat. He worked for the Mr. Bean look-alike, Mayor Phil Gordon. Phil is a Democrat. Romley endorsed Dan Saban for Sheriff. Dan is a Democrat. Romley supported Chris Cummiskey for Secretary of State over our own Jan Brewer. Chris is a Democrat. We think Romley is too, don’t you?
No matter which wire we trace to Rick Romley, it leads to a dark place filled with creepy, crawlies. However, there is a bright side to all this. Come Election Day, we have a choice. Support a true man of honor. Support Bill Montgomery
Fri 30 Jul 2010
Perhaps to the bankers and global policy makers, the merging of the hemispheric economies is just another step forward in their grand design for a globally managed Uberstate. Who knows. My last posting provided some evidence that could be the case, after all, the FTAA and the Summit of the Americas do exist and have a well developed framework.
But is there another agenda at work here? Is something akin to the relationship between Israel and Palestine over territory evolving here? The tactics we’re seeing in Arizona now, bear an uncanny resemblance to scenes all too familiar from other regions of the globe in terms of tactics, rhetoric and reaction. No, there is no full scale violence [yet], but there is a hot cauldron at a rolling boil in the American Southwest. The elements look familiar.
To those of you who say, “… its a single issue … what about ___” I ask you to name one major facet of public policy in Arizona, or one major facet of the state’s budget that doesn’t in some way touch on the subject of the border or illegal immigration. Then, as I briefly wrote about in my last blog, there is the hemispheric aspect of a European Union model for the Americas. And tonight, there is the issue of a Hispanic Homeland – Aztlan.
These following quotes and links are from a widely read party organ of the Aztlan movement in Southern California. Spend some time on their site. You’ll feel the Marxism and anger, and the distortions of what you may think you know. You will look through the lens they see Borders and Immigration. Pay attention.
There was an outrage in Arizona at the death of rancher Rob Krentz. But look at the quote below, then open another tab via the following link. You decide.
[the ]“death near Douglas, Arizona of a rancher named Rob Krentz by an unknown assailant or assailants has been blown out of proportion…”
http://www.aztlan.net/arizona_racist_kills_latino_over_immigration_law.htm
Here is something that is part of the Raza curriculum [you maybe be paying for this in a Charter School near you]. Notice again the disturbingly familiar distortions of history that echo in other strife torn corners of the globe.
Today, no informed Mexican, on either side of the present border, recognizes the legitimacy of this “shotgun treaty” and considers the entire US Southwest (Aztlan) to be stolen land.
http://www.aztlan.net/mexican_american_war_has_not_ended.htm
The U.S. Department of Education funneled nearly $8 million in taxpayer grants to the group for a nationwide charter schools initiative.
Its called The National Council of The Race.
Do you have such a lobby? And don’t think for a minute that major politicians from both parties haven’t paid their respects to this group. Bush addressed them and Obama is courting them … and Juan McCain is fully on-board with their agenda for Amnesty. Don’t you doubt it for a minute.
My last posting provided the “International Perspective” on the Southwestern Border of the United States. This brief collage provides perhaps another agenda for La Reconquista de Aztlan. Watch the video and decide.
But you will ultimately have to decide to look at the evidence [and there's a mountain more], or simply say “… all they want is an opportunity” and vote with your eyes closed.
Fri 30 Jul 2010
We are excited to Announce:
United We Stand For Americans and The Patriot Caucus will be hosting our first Arizona Border Tea Party Rally as the “United Border Coalition“
The United Border Coalition Tea Party will be held on the AZ border on August 15th 2010 9:00 AM-12:00 PM. The rally location to be disclosed on UWSFA.org and The Patriot Caucus over the next few days.
This Tea Party Rally is to show support for Arizona, and it’s rights to enforce the Immigration Laws that the Federal Government won’t!
SB1070 is a common sense law passed by the Arizona legislature that enables the state to enforce federal law on illegal immigration
We are asking everyone to help advertise this AZ rally though email, Facebook, Twitter and other online social medias.
You can also help by donating $10.00 at United Border Coalition.com
Lets help Arizona win the fight to protect it’s borders and enforce it’s laws.
Thank you for your support in advance.
Follow the link below for more details.
http://unitedbordercoalition.com/
Please RSVP as Attending if you will watch the live broadcast on http://uwsfa.org/
Please send all inquiries to:
UBC@unitedwestandforamericans.org
Fri 30 Jul 2010
Here is J.D. Hayworth’s latest advertisement in his run for the U.S. Senate. The ad highlights the record of his opponent, John McCain, who has failed to secure the border and to add insult to injury, has voted to make taxpayers pay for benefits to illegal aliens.
Fri 30 Jul 2010
Arizona’s two Senators took the fight for our nation’s security and sovereignty to the floor of the Senate Thursday, and did it with true conservative values. While the House passed a very similar plan, it was paid for by $200 million in cuts and added further debt of over $500 million. Senators McCain & Kyl, however, have a plan that insures no new deficit funding by using remaining stimulus funds and an additional $100 million frozen by Sec. Janet “Big Sis” Napolitano. The McCain/Kyl plan is designed to provide increased funding to the tune of $701 million for manpower, technology, and other resources to the border.
The legislation we introduced today will provide additional resources to help gain control of our border, without impacting our nation’s deficit,” McCain and Kyl said in a joint statement Thursday. “It is our hope that Democratic majority will swiftly work with us to ensure passage of this bill.”
The Dems attempted to load up the Afghanistan War funding bill with border security funding, all tied to increasing the deficit, and leaving hundreds of millions of unencumbered stimulus dollars available. Republicans, led by McCain and Kyl, stripped that bill of the border funding and the McCain/Kyl bill was quickly introduced as the alternative.
Among the items funded will be:
Thu 29 Jul 2010
“The border remains a military zone. We remain a hunted people. Now you think you have a destiny to fulfill in the land that historically has been ours for forty thousand years. And we’re a new Mestizo nation. And they want us to discuss civil rights. Civil rights. What law made by white men to oppress all of us of color, female and male. This is our homeland. We cannot – we will not- and we must not be made illegal in our own homeland. We are not immigrants that came from another country to another country. We are migrants, free to travel the length and breadth of the Americas because we belong here. We are millions. We just have to survive. We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. It’s a matter of time. The explosion is in our population.“
Professor Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas at Arlington, founder of La Raza Unida Party; 1995
Here are a couple of little known quotes on immigration from another point of view.
“In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in the areas of what is called the New Agenda…we have to confront ….. what I dare to call the Anglo-Saxon prejudice against the establishment of supra-national organizations.” — Mexican President Vicente Fox Club XXI, Hotel Eurobuilding, Madrid, Spain 5/16/02
“I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important – a very important – part of this.” – Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, Chicago on July 23, 1997
“The effort to unite the economies of the Americas into a single free-trade area began at the Summit of the Americas which was held in December 1994 in Miami. The heads of state and government of the 34 democracies in the region agreed to construct the Free Trade Areas of the Americas (FTAA) in which barriers to trade and investment will be progressively eliminated. They agreed to complete negotiations towards this agreement by the year 2005 and to achieve substantial progress toward building the FTAA by 2000.” So begins the history of what President George W. Bush called “The Century of the Americas” (Summit of the Americas, 1994).
Lets now consider some of the following goals and objectives of the FTAA as taken from their website:
Share best practices and technologies with respect to increasing citizen participation in the electoral process, including voter education, the modernization and simplification of voter registration…” [remember motor-voter and the ubiquitous early vote by mail]
Support initiatives designed to strengthen linkages among migrant communities abroad and their places of origin and promote cooperative mechanisms that simplify and speed up the transfer of migrant remittances to their country of origin. [do you get the idea that because Mexico is bankrupt and ungovernable, remittances from the U.S. are about all that's keeping that country stable?]
Support programs of cooperation in immigration procedures for cross-border labor markets and the migration of workers, both in countries of origin and destination, as a means to enhance economic growth in full cognizance of the role that cooperation in education and training can play in mitigating any adverse consequences of the movement of human capital from smaller and less developed states into … [I think you get the idea where that one goes]
Strive to ensure that migrants have access to basic social services, consistent with each country’s internal legal framework… [now you know why AHCCCS is subsidized by the Federal government to some extent]
In Mexico’s official “National Plan of Development 2001-2006″ specific strategies for expanding the nation’s political reach far beyond the U.S. / Mexico border are outlined. Through out the lengthy document, globalization is frequently referenced, however again, the devil’s in the details. To achieve their national plan, the government of Mexico reliles on those of its peoples migrating into the United States who, in 2002 sent back to Mexico over $14 billion dollars of hard U.S. currency. These remittances as of 2006/07 were Mexico’s #1 source of foreign capital, replacing tourism and oil. This of course isn’t counting drug money pouring into that country.
In 2001 the Mexican National Congress established dual citizenship for all Mexican national living abroad, legal or otherwise. In the words of Mexican Congressman Manuel de la Cruz, an American citizen elected to the Mexican National Congress in 2002 and residing in California, “There are 23 million Mexicans in the U.S. that need a voice in Mexico.” (Washington Times, Ken Bensinger)
In a 2000 FoxNews interview, Mexican President Vicente Fox made Mexico’s intentions crystal clear:
“I’m talking about a community of North America, an integrated agreement of Canada, the United States, and Mexico in the long term, 20, 30, 40 years from now. And this means that some of the steps we can take are, for instance, to agree that in five years we will make this convergence on economic variables. That may mean in 10 years we can open up that border when we have reduced the gap in salaries and income.”
Now does it all make more sense? Now do you have an idea why the Obama Administration is suing the State of Arizona? Now do you know why our Southern Border is open and our Federal government has no intention of doing anything unless they achieve an Amnesty Program?
And why John McCain is needed back in the U.S. Senate? Is it beginning to make some sense? Its not about race and its not about human rights – its about globalism and the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
Wed 28 Jul 2010
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas On Today’s Illegal Immigration RulingPAID FOR BY THOMAS FOR AG
