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MS-13 Smuggles Muslim Terrorists into U.S.
MS-13 member with Arabic tattoos
Al Qaeda and the Latino Gang-Bangers
The situation at the border now poses a grave threat to national
security.
Agent Mike Scioli of the U.S. Border Patrol confirms that the Tucson
sector of the Border Patrol is facing a worsening problem with Mara
Salvatrucha, a Salvadoran street gang that now controls the flow of
arms, drugs, and illegal aliens into the U.S.
Two members of the violent gang were collared last week in Tucson and
Nogales.
Twenty have been brought into custody since President Barack Obama
assumed the oath of office on January 20, 2009.
But the Salvadoran gang is bringing more than guns, dope, and Mexican
peasant workers over the border.
In the wake of 9/11, Mara Salvatrucha attracted the attention of top al
Qaeda officials, who realized that the gang could be used to smuggle
operatives and weapons into the United States.[1] An agreement was
forged between the terrorists and the gang-bangers. In exchange for safe
passage across the border, al Qaeda - through its cells in South America
- agreed to pay the Maras from $30,000 to $50,000 for each sleeper agent
they managed to smuggle into the country with bogus matricula
consulars.[2]
Matricula consulars are official identification cards that are issued by
the Mexican government through its consular offices. The cards verify
that the bearers are Mexican citizens who are living outside of Mexico
with the government's permission.
According to U.S. officials, these cards pose a grave threat to
national security. Steven McCraw, assistant director of the FBI's Office
of Intelligence, told a House Judiciary Subcommittee: "The ability of
foreign nationals to use the matricula 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
officers."
Counterfeit matricula consulars are easy to obtain. In Los Angeles, the
going rate is $90; in New York City, $150.
News of the alliance between al Qaeda and Mara Salvatrucha prompted
Honduran officials, including Security Minister Oscar Alvarez, to adopt
a zero-tolerance law that makes membership in the street gang punishable
by 12 years in prison. Mara members responded to this legislation by
beheading scores of victims and leaving notes on the bodies for the
Honduran government. One note read: "Idiots, the end of the world is
approaching."[3]
According to border patrol officials, including Sheriff D'Wayne Jenigan
of Del Rio, Texas, thousands of Special Interest Aliens (SIAs), with the
help of Mara Salvatrucha "coyotes," have made their way across the
Mexican border and into the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Such SIAs come from countries that pose national security concerns:
Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Somalia, Yemen,
Jordan, Lebanon, and even Iraq.
The routes used by illegal aliens to enter the U.S. have become littered
with discarded Muslim prayer blankets, pages from Islamic texts, and
Arabic newspapers. Law enforcement officials have named such passageways
"terrorists' alleys" and a street leading north from the city of
Douglas, Arizona, as "Arab Road."
Stay Safe
While this tale is fictional, it has some strong parallels to modern-day America. And despite the fact that Ayn Rand was an atheist and favored legalized abortion, she was a good judge of both character and the inevitable tendencies of elected governments. When I consider the regulatory and tax burdens that have been implemented in my lifetime--I was born in 1960--I believe that Rand had amazing prescience. Let's face it: We no longer live in a free market capitalist nation. At best, it could called a "mixed" economy with statist tendencies, and verging on socialism.
Reading the news headlines in recent months has led me to believe that the Galt's Gulch concept has a lot of merit. If The Powers That Be wanted to encourage the Atlases of the world to shrug, they couldn't have done a better job. What is the best way to get the most productive Citizens of our nation to go on strike, and retreat to "gulches"? Consider the following "to do" list for those whom Ayn Rand called "The Destroyers":
1.Remove the homeowner's mortgage interest tax deduction. Yes, they're pushing for it.
2.Reinstate the Federal estate tax and pre-Bush Administration income tax levels. They want to impose the old tax rates on anyone with an income of $250,000. Oh, and the CBO's budget predictions are all using the assumption that the 2001 tax cuts are reverted. Is this wishful thinking (to make the increases in the Federal debt not look quite so bad), or a fait accompli?
3.Nationalize IRAs and 401(k)s. Yes, its under discussion.
4.Increase taxes for unemployment-insurance funds. This is already in progress.
5.Drag out approval of new mining operations with endless Environmental Impact studies. They're already doing it.
6.Inflate the currency to rob those who save money--a hidden form of taxation. Standard practice for 40 years.
7.Drag out approval of newly-developed medicines. Now the status quo.
8.Push up the rates for "sin" taxes on tobacco, alcohol, and other items. Already implemented in 2010.
9.Increase the Minimum Wage. Several states have done so, but even worse yet, some unions are pushing for more socialist "Living Wage" laws
10.Raise import tariffs. Each new tariff causes problems. Didn't they ever hear Ben Stein's high school Economics lecture on the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? (OBTW, Ben Stein is now warning about an economic collapse.)
11.Increase the tax paperwork burden by requiring "1099-MISC" reporting of all cash transactions over $600. (Attempted, but thankfully set aside for the time being.)
12.Increase the cost of doing business through mandatory insurance. (The "labor burden" for an employee with a nominal salary of $17 per hour ($35,360 gross, annually) is an additional $20,029 per year.) Workman's compensation, in particular, is getting painfully expensive.
13.Increase sales taxes. Several states have increased sales taxes, since 2009.
14.Increase property taxes, as home values decline. Many counties have hiked their tax rates.
15.Continue to increase the size of the government (and its debts). The Federal debt increases are looking inexorable.
16.Push for increased mandatory employer-paid benefits for company employees like mandatory health insurance for part-time employees and European-style long term parental leave. Also, push toward excluding companies from government contracts unless they have expanded health care coverage.
17.Mandate payment of state sales taxes on out-of-state purchases for Internet and mail orders. Yes, they're still pushing for these taxes, and for regulation of the entire Internet.
18.Create a pervasive Nanny State mentality. For example: penalize companies and consumers for high trans-fat foods, and alcoholic beverages that taste too good.
19.Sue the makers of guns that actually work just as they were designed. (At least a partial law shield law was enacted, in 2005.)
20.Use taxpayer funds to destroy classic cars that are in running condition, while subsidizing hybrid cars that use batteries that will pollute landfills for centuries.
21.Over-regulate small firms out of business. Dry cleaners are a prime example.
22.Fine farmers and ranchers for using traditional practices.
23.Create a European-style Value Added Tax (VAT). Yes, they're still pushing for it.
24.Legislate expansion of company-paid health insurance to cover everything from same sex "domestic partners" and autism to sex change operations.
25.Lobby for mandating that companies pay for three weeks of paid vacation per year for all employees.
26.Institute dozens of unfunded mandates from the Federal level, that must be compensated for with higher state, county, and local taxes.
27.Increase license, permit, and vehicle registration fees. In progress. Meanwhile, institute "temporary" tax increases. These surtaxes on income, sales, or real property are described as "temporary." (But don't be surprised if they are not repealed.)
28.Providing free education to illegal immigrants while levying taxes on home schooling families for services that they don't use.
29.Make it illegal for owners to protect their livestock from predators.
30.Remove the salary cap on Social Security tax "contributions". The liberal think tanks are pushing for it.
31.Encourage a litigious society where huge lawsuits are filed over trifles, and where the makers of products can be sued even if product buyers intentionally misuse products.
32.Implement carbon taxes and credits. Still in early stages of implementation.
33.And lastly, the big one: Implement socialized medicine. Despite a strong public outcry, it is now Federal law. But thankfully there is a push to rescind part or all of it.
There will be blood
A thoughtfully written piece in one of the most left wing newspapers in
the UK. Just a word of background for those of you who aren't familiar
with the UK's Daily Mirror. This is one of the most notorious Left wing,
anti-American dailies in the UK. Hard to believe that the Daily Mirror
actually published it, but it did.
Begin article:
ONE year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of broadcasting - the
mass murder of thousands, live on television.
As a lesson in the pitiless cruelty of the human race, September 11 was
up there with Pol Pot's mountain of skulls in Cambodia, or the skeletal
bodies stacked like garbage in the Nazi concentration camps.
An unspeakable act so cruel, so calculated and so utterly merciless that
surely the world could agree on one thing - nobody deserves this fate.
Surely there could be consensus: the victims were truly innocent, the
perpetrators truly evil. But to the world's eternal shame, 9/11 is
increasingly seen as America's comeuppance. Incredibly, anti-Americanism
has increased over the last year.
There has always been a simmering resentment to the USA in this
country-too loud, too rich, too full of themselves and so much happier
than Europeans - but it has become an epidemic. And it seems incredible
to me. More than that, it turns my stomach.
America is this country's greatest friend and our staunchest ally. We are
bonded to the US by culture, language and blood. A little over half a
century ago, around half a million Americans died for our freedoms, as
well as their own. Have we forgotten so soon?
And exactly a year ago, thousands of ordinary men, women and children -
not just Americans, but from dozens of countries - were butchered by a
small group of religious fanatics. Are we so quick to betray them?
What touched the heart about those who died in the twin towers and on the
planes was that we recognized them. Young fathers and mothers, somebody's
son and somebody's daughter, husbands and wives. And children. Some
unborn. And these people brought it on themselves? And their nation is
to blame for their meticulously planned slaughter?
These days you don't have to be some dust-encrusted nut job in Kabul or
Karachi or Finsbury Park to see America as the Great Satan. The
anti-American alliance is made up of self-loathing liberals who blame the
Americans for every ill in the Third World, and conservatives suffering
from power-envy, bitter that the world's only superpower can do what it
likes without having to ask permission.
The truth is that America has behaved with enormous restraint since
September 11. Remember, remember.
Remember the gut-wrenching tapes of weeping men phoning their wives to
say, "I love you," before they were burned alive. Remember those people
leaping to their deaths from the top of burning skyscrapers. Remember the
hundreds of firemen buried alive. Remember the smiling face of that
beautiful little girl who was on one of the planes with her mum.
Remember, remember - and realize that America has never retaliated for
9/11 in anything like the way it could have.
So a few al-Qaeda terrorist got locked up without a trial in Camp X-ray?
Pass the Kleenex.
So some Afghan wedding receptions were shot up after they merrily fired
their semi-automatics in a sky full of American planes? A shame, but
maybe next time they should stick to confetti.
AMERICA could have turned a large chunk of the world into a parking lot.
That it didn't is a sign of strength.
American voices are already being raised against attacking Iraq - that's
what a democracy is for. How many in the Islamic world will have a
minute's silence for the slaughtered innocents of 9/11? How many Islamic
leaders will have the guts to say that the mass murder of 9/11 was an
abomination?
When the news of 9/11 broke on the West Bank, those freedom-loving
Palestinians were dancing in the street. America watched all of that -
and didn't push the button. We should thank the stars that America is
the most powerful nation in the world. I still find it incredible that
9/11 did not provoke all-out war. Not a "war on terrorism". A real war.
The fundamentalist dudes are talking about "opening the gates of hell",
if America attacks Iraq. Well, America could have opened the gates of
hell like you wouldn't believe. The US is the most militarily powerful
nation that ever strode the face of the earth. The campaign in
Afghanistan may have been less than perfect and the planned war on Iraq
may be misconceived.
But don't blame America for not bringing peace and light to these
wretched countries. How many democracies are there in the Middle East,
or in the Muslim world? You can count them on the fingers of one hand
-assuming you haven't had any chopped off for minor shoplifting.
I love America, yet America is hated. I guess that makes me Bush's
poodle. But I would rather be a dog in New York City than a Prince in
Riyadh.
Above all, America is hated because it is what every country wants to be
- rich, free, strong, open, optimistic. Not ground down by the past, or
religion, or some caste system. America is the best friend this country
ever had and we should start remembering that. Or do you really think the
USA is the root of all evil?
Tell it to the loved ones of the men and women who leaped to their death
from the burning towers.
Tell it to the nursing mothers whose husbands died on one of the hijacked
planes, or were ripped apart in a collapsing skyscraper.
And tell it to the hundreds of young widows whose husbands worked for the
New York Fire Department. To our shame, George Bush gets a worse press
than Saddam Hussein.
Once we were told that Saddam gassed the Kurds, tortured his own people
and set up rape-camps in Kuwait. Now we are told he likes Quality
Street. Save me the orange centre, oh mighty one!
Remember, remember,
September 11. One of the greatest atrocities in human history was
committed against America.
No, do more than remember. Never forget.
Clint Van Zandt
Rugster
I ask that whenever any of us see veterans or those currently serving that we take the time to thank them for their sacrifices.
I don't want this thread to become a debate on war and whether or not this country should have been in wars or not. That doesn't matter 15, 30 or 100 years later. The fact is that those have served and they deserve, at the very least, our respect.
Anyone that would like to share stories or anything from their time in the service, I'd love to read it. I want to learn as much as I can about our country's past and there's not much better sources than those who had the most important roles.
Thank you again.
but a good personality catches the heart;
you are blessed with both."
Don't be flattered,
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I just wanted you to read it...
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Thanks for taking the time[:)]
the thing that scares me is that we could be living in someone else's own reality
I received this from some local intel, just wanted to pass on to you all so you can be more aware and safe.
The routes used by illegal aliens to enter the U.S. have become littered with discarded Muslim prayer blankets, pages from Islamic texts, and Arabic newspapers. Law enforcement officials have named such passageways "terrorists' alleys" and a street leading north from the city of Douglas, Arizona, as "Arab Road."
Red Herring. Obvious attempt to misdirect. I suspect CIA, TSA or Homeland Security. Maybe the Mob.
Love the use of the word "intel", though.
Gives it the ring of authenticity.
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