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Liberal Media Once Again Sides With Lawbreakers
Posted On 08/17/2008 11:36:38 by Sam_Pierce
In a time when the liberal media should be rejoicing in their impending presidential victory (regardless of which sub-par candidate wins) or focusing on their primary task of campaigning for "Big Brother" Barry Obama, they still get distracted by the perceived unjust treatment of lawbreakers. Both presidential candidates are open-borders, no sovereignty type guys, but apparently the lib media doesn't think that is good enough. You see, illegal aliens are being caught currently and their sad tales must be told. Imagine the horror that the most recently detained illegals faced, they could not attend the wedding reception for Ellen and "Ally McBeal's" Nell (the other newsworthy garbage in The San Francisco Chronicle.) Actually, most of the illegals in Iowa probably wouldn't have made the trip out of "the shadows" to attend the gay (that means happy, right?) couple's nuptials.

The AP article in the San Francisco Chronicle is heart-wrenchingly headlined, "Small town Iowa struggles after immigration raid." A gut response might be, "so what?" There is no valid reason for a town to struggle because of an immigration raid. Those that claim otherwise conveniently ignore the most basic fact, illegal is illegal. If there are jobs to be done, they can be done by people that are here "legally", which means those without the "il" as a prefix to their status. Perhaps the business owners should pay higher wages and subsequently charge more, or perform the tasks themselves... oh shoot, I used common sense there. Forgive me, it is a bad habit of mine.

There is no such thing as a "job (that must be done) that Americans won't do," but that doesn't matter to the liberal AP writer. Here is an excerpt from the tear-jerking assault on enforcement of the law:


For years, even decades, these Mexican and Guatemalan families had called Postville home. Here, in a place first settled by German and Norwegian Lutherans and Irish Catholics more than 150 years ago, Hispanic immigrants were raising children, buying houses, building businesses.

Like the Hasidic Jews who came to the town in 1987 to open the meatpacking plant, and the Eastern Europeans who made up the first band of workers there, the influx of Guatemalans and Mexicans had both buffeted and bolstered this quiet community — until it reached a new cultural equilibrium.

In time, the newcomers became part of the fabric of Postville, which proudly bills itself as Hometown to the World. Now, they were clustered in hiding or being herded away in handcuffs by immigration agents. wrote:

How do you say "illegal" in Spanish? Apparently the liberals in the media (and the liberal presidential nominees of both major parties) don't understand the meaning of the English word. Of course, sob stories like this shy away from using the word "illegal" in order to avoid risking reality intruding upon their tales.

What does it say about the liberal media that they wage such a war on behalf of illegal and immoral activities? One thing it says is that Barack Obama is the perfect recipient of their support and free campaign advertising (they call them articles and columns.) I can't imagine the umbrage these "news" outlets would display if it was discovered that some illegal alien was denied taxpayer funded transportation to an abortion mill (they call them health care facilities) for a taxpayer funded abortion. We would surely and ironically be decried as a racist society for not advancing Margaret Sanger's goal of eugenics.

I hope the citizens of this great nation that expect our sovereignty to be respected are paying attention. The next president's term will be difficult for those of us in this category. Both candidates are opposed to the right side of the ilegal immigration and sovereignty issue, so we will have to be vigilant and vocal. We must not allow the open border chief executive and his accomplices in the media to further facilitate the invasion!

**This was a production of The Coalition Against Illegal Immigration (CAII). If you would like to participate, please go to the above link to learn more. Afterwards, email brianbonner90- at-gmail- dot-com and let us know at what level you would like to participate.

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08/20/2008 17:52:22
On a different note, I thought you might like to know that Estrella came home last night. She's FINALLY home with her family. She's only been waiting on the paperwork for over a year.


08/20/2008 01:19:05
“I would LIKE to see abortion ended, but because no one no longer wants or medically needs one anymore” wrote:


Again, is anything allowable in your Utopia, as long as someone wants it? Do you know of a medical condition a mother could have that requires killing her child? This does not include inducing labor or delivering the child via c-section and giving him or her the chance to live.

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Let me answer your last question first (and I had an induction--it's a smaller pill than one would assume--and, believe me, wanted a C-section near the end, so I never would include those as "abortion). I have a family member who have had to have the pregnancy terminated (I use the term "termination" because it was not necessarily a voluntary decision) because it was literally either he or the baby (some strange medical complication I don't think they ever figured out).

There are also health issues that may not have anything to do with the pregnancy that would necessitate termination. My cousin-in-law was told that because of metastasized skin cancer, she would have about 4-6 months to live without radical surgery and aggressive chemo. The problem was she was two months pregnant. She desperately wanted the baby, but she and my cousin had to make the decision to terminate so they could have another chance after chemo was over.

But onto your first point, I think I have answered this in pretty much every other way possible, so here it is again. Hopefully, you'll listen this time: MORALLY, no not everything is allowable. LEGALLY: Whatever THE PEOPLE decide should go, not what nine guys in dresses decide, not what an agenda-filled legislation decides (for big things like abortion, the border walls, the war, etc. I'll let them handle the "little" stuff.). What the majority says should go.

I think that, if left up to a majority-rules vote, most scared teenage girls will be going up to Canada or down to Mexico for their abortions, and that would be perfectly okay with me. (I think the passport application process would take too much time and it would be too late to terminate after that, anyway. "Estrella's" been waiting over a year for her visa.) The wall would have been finished months ago if it was put to a vote of the people. There would be plenty of funding, and support, for the war if it was left up to the people (don't EVER believe opinion polls--I know how they are written).

But until that happens or until people get up off their butts and try to do something to add these issues onto the ballot, we're stuck with the laws of the land.

So what's stopping YOU from starting a petition to get abortion on the ballot?

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“as a die-hard R” wrote:

This is not the case as I have not renewed my membership in either the state or national party due to the party’s overall lack of respect for our sovereignty, spending like liberals, and desire to maintain the monstrous government we currently have. I was just about to join The Constitution Party when it became clear that The Republican nominee was going to be John McCain, but then I heard Chuck Baldwin’s stance on Iraq, specifically his unwillingness to complete the job there.

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Please accept my apologies.

I also do not technically agree with Barr on his stance on the war... but he has said he will leave when the Iraqis tell us to... that's okay (not necessarily perfect, but okay) with me.

And, technically, I guess I'm not a Libertarian... I never filled out any bubble when registering to vote in Idaho. I am COMPLETELY independent.

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As for more laws, if you are talking about immigration, I think enforcing the existing laws STRICTLY would be sufficient. Of course it would be nice to have a border wall (southern border first.) If you are referring to laws against abortion, I see them as a no-brainer which goes along with your next statement:


“I have said it many times, and will probably say it many more times: YOU CANNOT LEGISLATE MORALITY!!!!” wrote:

Does this mean that you don’t view rape and murder as immoral activities or that they should not be legislated against since they are immoral activities?

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First, I would like a fence. I would like order on the border. I would like people to not be kidnapped and killed. But I would also like everyone to realize that every single family on this continent was an immigrant family at some point. We can't shut off the country to everyone who would like to come in. There are no native peoples in North and South America, there are just people who got here before the Europeans (but that's a lot longer and harder to say than "native"). I would simply like to make it easier and more profitable to come over legally than illegally.

On this issue, I think the worst thing the government has ever done is take away the Ellis Island-type immigration format. Have one central place where people go and we can sort them out and get them paperwork and swear them in and whatever else they did back then.

I'm sorry I didn't include rape and murder in my list of morally-wrong things I had hoped that those types of actions that were already illegal (I almost added stealing to the list) were no-brainers and I didn't have to mention them. :( Rape, murder, child abuse, etc. are wrong because not only are they immoral, but the consensus of the population (even those with no morals) says they are wrong. People have said that these things are wrong ever since the first brothers got into that fight that ended badly.

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“As far as farming goes, YOU try harvesting 1200 acres full of onions, wheat, corn, potatoes and sugar beets in the course of a month before it goes bad, battling the weather and praying for NO rain all the way. On top of that, let's throw in taking care of 250 head of cattle and some chickens and sheep by yourself, or just you and your wife. I bet you'd be pulling up outside of Home Depot for some help after the first week.” wrote:

You don’t believe they chose to be farmers? Were they forced to do this? I am confused here. Are you saying that these people can’t find help that is in this country legally? Are you saying that they will die if they don’t get all their crops harvested? I can’t comprehend the situation in which ILLEGAL ALIEN labor is required.

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You honest and truly don't know how much of the food on your dinner table is touched by "unclean" hands, do you? Unless you and your family live on a couple of acres and grow all your own food, it's upwards of 75%, probably much higher. So in your perfect immigrant-free world, we would be getting not only our oil from foreign dictators, but our food as well, huh?

In Eastern Oregon, the state is now fining farmers $10,000 for EACH person they hire that has brown skin (another example of the inherent governmental racism in the immigration policy--and you thought I was making it all up) and cannot show proper documentation. Yeah, I'm sure you're packing your bags right now for Oregon, huh? Well, what's happening now is that the farmers are scared $^%*^-less to hire anyone to bring in the crops because the only people who want to help don't have documentation (the people with documentation are able to get "better" jobs, so they do). Only 1/3 to 1/2 of the crops are getting pulled in before spoiling out in the field--and that is with weather cooperation. The farmers (the backbones of these counties' economies) are losing money, which means they can't pay their property taxes, and the counties are going bankrupt, and, in turn, the state is going bankrupt just because they want to do "the right thing".

And yes, farmers CAN die if their crops don't come in. They won't have money for food--you can't live all winter on old stale crops, and you can't eat the cows because who will have the baby cows in the spring that you sell at the late-summer Fair? Without this help, farmers can, will, and do starve or go out on the government dole, but I'm sure you have things to say about that, too. They can lose their houses, their lands, their livelihood.

And it's that same attitude of entitlement you are exuding that is the reason none of the US farmers can afford to hire more than just one or two US farm hands. Do you honestly think that any insurance agent worth his or her salt would insure a farmer for anything other than maybe a car and homeowners? Small farmers can't offer their employees (or themselves, for that matter) 401Ks. They don't have AD&D insurance (and accidental death and/or dismemberment is still QUITE possible on a farm). They can't even get health insurance. (One farming couple I know personally had to become volunteer fire fighters to get any semblance of a medical plan, and even that wasn't much.)

What entitled American is going to willingly work on a job where: 1) there is a pretty good chance of getting hurt on a regular basis, 2) there's no health insurance, 3) it's temporary work at best, 4) no job security, 5) the pay sucks (you'd be getting minimum wage at best) and 6) it's dirty, sweaty, stinky, hard work. I can see going to work in a field that has one or two, but not all six.

You should be thanking God every night that there are people INSANE enough to be farmers! (Their words.)

I'm not saying I agree with it, in fact, quite the opposite. But I like to live in what is called the "Real World". Unfortunately, here in the Real World, there are necessary evils we have to live with--illegal immigrants doing the work that Americans don't want to do (notice I didn't say "can't") is one of them.

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I realize that we live in a republic, but don’t believe that our elected representatives should infringe upon our liberty by actions or inactions that redistribute wealth (property) or impose responsibilities on some to benefit others.

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I don't either, and if you thought that I did, you're not reading right. But isn't it great that every 2 (House), 4 (House and President), and 6 (House and Senate) years, we have an opportunity to attempt to make things better?


08/19/2008 13:47:27

“I would LIKE to see abortion ended, but because no one no longer wants or medically needs one anymore” wrote:


Again, is anything allowable in your Utopia, as long as someone wants it? Do you know of a medical condition a mother could have that requires killing her child? This does not include inducing labor or delivering the child via c-section and giving him or her the chance to live.


“as a die-hard R” wrote:


This is not the case as I have not renewed my membership in either the state or national party due to the party’s overall lack of respect for our sovereignty, spending like liberals, and desire to maintain the monstrous government we currently have. I was just about to join The Constitution Party when it became clear that The Republican nominee was going to be John McCain, but then I heard Chuck Baldwin’s stance on Iraq, specifically his unwillingness to complete the job there.

As for more laws, if you are talking about immigration, I think enforcing the existing laws STRICTLY would be sufficient. Of course it would be nice to have a border wall (southern border first.) If you are referring to laws against abortion, I see them as a no-brainer which goes along with your next statement:


“I have said it many times, and will probably say it many more times: YOU CANNOT LEGISLATE MORALITY!!!!” wrote:


Does this mean that you don’t view rape and murder as immoral activities or that they should not be legislated against since they are immoral activities?


“As far as farming goes, YOU try harvesting 1200 acres full of onions, wheat, corn, potatoes and sugar beets in the course of a month before it goes bad, battling the weather and praying for NO rain all the way. On top of that, let's throw in taking care of 250 head of cattle and some chickens and sheep by yourself, or just you and your wife. I bet you'd be pulling up outside of Home Depot for some help after the first week.” wrote:


You don’t believe they chose to be farmers? Were they forced to do this? I am confused here. Are you saying that these people can’t find help that is in this country legally? Are you saying that they will die if they don’t get all their crops harvested? I can’t comprehend the situation in which ILLEGAL ALIEN labor is required.

I realize that we live in a republic, but don’t believe that our elected representatives should infringe upon our liberty by actions or inactions that redistribute wealth (property) or impose responsibilities on some to benefit others.


08/19/2008 01:22:56
Oh, there are plenty of things I would LIKE to see stopped.

I would LIKE to see abortion ended, but because no one no longer wants or medically needs one anymore and because all children are born into loving two-parent households, not because there is a law banning it, for the reasons I mentioned in another blog.

There are plenty of laws I would LIKE to see respected, like immigration, (but done in a considerate manner--for example: I don't want to send someone back who will just be killed by their government immediately after walking off the plane) or property rights (I don't want my house torn down to put up a city park or school).

And there are plenty of things that are not necessarily illegal but still wrong that I would LIKE to see stopped: adultery, divorce, lying, selfishness, having children out of wedlock, the list is practically endless.

But we can't always get what we LIKE.

The last thing we need is more laws (as a die-hard R, I thought you would agree with that). What has to happen is more radical than laws. People of faith in this country HAVE to stand up and help the others understand that these things are, ultimately, a HEART issue! There has to be a change in the hearts of men and women or all the legislation in the world will not stop what we would LIKE to see stopped.

I have said it many times, and will probably say it many more times: YOU CANNOT LEGISLATE MORALITY!!!!

As far as farming goes, YOU try harvesting 1200 acres full of onions, wheat, corn, potatoes and sugar beets in the course of a month before it goes bad, battling the weather and praying for NO rain all the way. On top of that, let's throw in taking care of 250 head of cattle and some chickens and sheep by yourself, or just you and your wife. I bet you'd be pulling up outside of Home Depot for some help after the first week.

I'm just here to open peoples' eyes--life, unfortunately, isn't all about black and white (I truly wish it was and I am truly looking forward to when it will be just white without even the slightest hint of gray, aren't you?).

I have friends and family from across the political spectrum--which helps give me my "unique" perspective. I have learned (because I took the time to be their friend--we had lunch and I and shared my Jello ) that just because there's a D after their name on a ballot or they have a Kerry '04 bumper sticker (or, in my circles, send around the "I hate Bush, Bush is Evil, etc. MySpace bulletins--I have a lot of friends in high school), doesn't automatically make them evil...they just think different things are important. It's also my job to inform "my" school kids why we are not in a war for oil and why the Earth will not explode into a molten pile of goo next Thursday if we don't stop using plastic grocery bags.

And, for your edification Libertarians like rules, we like order, but we like the RIGHT people (US citizens, not legislators) making the rules. If I can get the government out of my bedroom (and our son's bedroom), out of my furnace room and fuse box (yeah, I still have a fuse box), out of my light bulb cabinet, out of my living room, out of my garage, and off my property; that's as far as they need to go. We're perfectly happy to let the government do exactly what the Constitution says it can: keep us safe from enemies both foreign and domestic.

I guess you can say that we Libertarians are the ultimate Democrats (and I do hope you read on before you start calling for my ousting)!

A little history/etymology lesson: In a solely democratic society, the people vote on every issue, every single one, majority rules and that is that. In the US, we do have not a democracy but a republic--we elect people that we hope will take our concerns and our voice and our values to Washington and allow them to make the rules for us.

Oh, and call me Rachel.


08/17/2008 13:59:32
Better yet RM, lets just give in to all illegal activities and accept them as "just the way it is" or chalk it up to expressions of free will. People may not want to pay $1.50 for a head of lettuce, but if that were the price they would always have the option to not purchase the lettuce! If your local farmers can't afford to hire people here legally, they shouldn't hire people.

I think its odd that you quote Veggie Tales (We have most of the tapes and DVDs) to me to take issue with my name calling of evil people (if not evil, then woefully ignorant) yet you choose to disparage most of your fellow citizens. To top it off your suggestions would only serve to further exacerbate the situation.

Is there anything you would like to see stopped? Is there any law that you would like to see respected? I am beginning to understand why some refer to Libertarians as anarchists.


08/17/2008 13:32:34
Sam, I respectfully disagree: there are plenty of jobs Americans "just won't do." (I think the term you were looking for is that there are no jobs Americans "can't" do.) As a whole (and there are exceptions, of course), we are a haughty, conceited, full-of-our-own-inflated-self-worth bunch of SOBs who absolutely refuse to work in any field that is "below us", especially in dirty or hard work--such as harvesting crops.

In Idaho (which, even in the "big" city, is still EXTREMELY agricultural), most farmers (and I personally know many in my church) cannot afford to hire a lot of US workers and still make their harvest profitable. The cost of the crop is not determined by the farmers but by the market and the buyers, and if they pay even minimum wage to ten or twenty temporary harvesters, they can't make ends meet because the BUYERS are not going to pay $1.50 a head for lettuce, let alone the consumers in the grocery store.

What we really should do is create a chain of grocery stores that are similar to the Fair Trade / Organic markets. Have the buyers for these stores certify that the farmers are only using US Citizens / properly documented temporary workers on work visas (that are being paid fair wages... $50 a day for harvesting is NOT fair), and we'll see what the nation REALLY wants. It's easy to give lip service, but when faced with a 100%+ jump in food prices, we'll see if people really want to put their money where their mouths are.

By the way, the farmers I know and have a relationship with all do most of the work themselves--it's been hard now that all their families' children are away in college during the harvest--and all hire only two or three full-time farm hands and some part-time workers for the harvests. But during harvest time, I see 20 - 50 immigrant workers (I do not know their status so I legally cannot say they are "illegal") in every field helping bring in onions, corn, sugar beets, potatoes, and other crops.

Illegal is a cognate in English and Spanish. It's pronounced and spelled basically the same.


I believe workers should keep their whole paychecks, don't you? www.FairTax.org


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