Arizona rancher fails 3-S principle

One of the hallmarks of American liberty is private property rights, or so it used to be. For as long as there has been a United States people have sought to have their own piece of property to call home.

American law recognizes private property rights and generally protects the property owner from intrusion by uninvited guests. That is apparently, unless you happen to own property along our sovereign border with Mexico and the intruders are Mexican nationals illegally crossing into the United States.

In Arizona a rancher is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who illegally crossed into the United States and trespassed on his property in 2004. The Mexican nationals charged the rancher with violating their civil rights.

This case should never have been given standing in US courts!

How is it that an American citizen, protecting his own property from theft and his family from death or other physical harm, is in violation of any law? If anything he showed incredible restraint by not killing the trespassers (something the Obama Regime should give him a military award for) and leaving their bodies in the desert to rot and become coyote bait!

America has a national security crisis and it’s walking across our southern border every day. When is Congress going to assume its constitutional duty and defend our borders from the criminals and terrorists who are daily infiltrating our nation?

While the rancher should be lauded for turning over approximately 12,000 illegal aliens to US Border Patrol since 1998, his epic failure remains that he violated the 3-S principle: shoot, shovel and shut up.

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Congress has duty to declare war on Mexico

Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution gives Congress the authority to declare war. This is certainly in keeping with the preamble, which declares that government was established to provide for the common defense of the United States. This is important to note because Fox News in Phoenix is reporting that Mexico’s ruling authority (a drug cartel) has called for the assassination of one of our elected political leaders, and has gone so far as to offer a reward for this killing.

If this threat were only against the current President of the United States or one of the regime’s minions then something might be done about it, but because it’s merely the duly elected sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, Washington is egregiously unconcerned that America is under armed attack by foreign forces that have already killed American citizens.

This is an utter outrage! When our military was attacked while docked in the port of a territory that wasn’t even an official state of the United States at the time our President at the time wasted no time calling on Congress for a declaration of war against the nation that attacked us. At that point we utilized every tool in our military arsenal to defeat this foreign force, which several years later culminated in the annihilation of two major Japanese cities and the unconditional surrender of their military to ours.

Today, however, we have armed foreign forces regularly crossing our southern border for the express purpose to kill residents of this country, and all Congress can do is argue (I won’t stoop to calling it debate because that would insinuate that they’re actually engaged in coherent discussions with the common goal of America’s common good) about whether to allow more Mexican foreign nationals in to pick fruits and vegetables and perform other jobs in America while nearly one sixth of American citizens are out of work, or whether to grant illegal aliens voting rights commensurate with the rights of American citizens by applying blanket amnesty to those who are already here illegally.

If Congress won’t do its duty then We the People have the duty and the right to remove them (read the Declaration of Independence) and institute a government that will live up to the duty and authority already granted under the Constitution.

Obama’s racial double-standard

Where’s the national outrage against the Black Panther Party’s racist tomes and its call to kill white people? Where’s the national leadership from our President, who’s very ascendency to the nation’s top office was supposed to forever close the racial divide in America? Why aren’t more people outraged at this kind of incitement of violence and call for civil war? And what about the action of the federal Department of Justice to drop charges against the Black Panthers for voter intimidation during the election that seated Obama to the White House? That case was apparently open-and-shut until Attorney General Eric Holder apparently ordered his deputies to drop all charges.

Ironic isn’t it… Obama living in a house named for a skin color that the Black Panthers want to obliterate from our streets. But I digress.

Meanwhile, if you listen closely to the Obama Administration you’d think that white folks in Arizona are standing on the street corners of Phoenix and elsewhere in Arizona, dressed in white sheets and burning crosses while calling for the death of all Mexicans. How else can you explain Obama’s lawsuit against the State of Arizona and the idiotic calls by some states and local jurisdictions to boycott Arizona over its passage of a law that merely mirrors federal law? Why are the media playing this up as racist, yet they ignore King Samir Shabazz, the Philadephia Black Panther leader, as he openly calls for the assassination of people simply because of their skin color. Wasn’t the election of Obama supposed to eliminate the racial divide in America? Seems to me that it’s done nothing but create an ever larger chasm with those who share his skin color and political views spurring all of this division. I’d like to hear from the nation’s two biggest race pimps — the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton — on this one.

Why is it racist for law enforcement officers in Arizona to ask people caught in the commission of another crime for proof of their immigration status, but it’s not racist for a black man to yell racial epithets and call for the murder of all white people?

Is this the civil war that Barack Hussein Obama has been planning? Is this the division he seeks while hiding behind a cloak of secret service protection?

Why aren’t the Black Panthers angry at Obama? After all, he picked a “cracker” as his vice president and just nominated another “cracker” to serve on the Supreme Court. If Obama was being true to the “home boys” who helped cinch his election he would not have named a “cracker” to be his chief of staff, or a white woman (gasp!) to be Secretary of State. After all, naming a woman to any position of authority ought to fly against the Muslim traditions that he bows to.

US cedes border region, land to Mexico

This has gone beyond ridiculous and is now firmly ensconced in embarrassing!

The federal government — you know, those folks who are more concerned with the civil rights of terrorists than the Constitution they swore to uphold — has formally ceded our sovereignty over 80 miles of the international border between the United States and Mexico. This stretch of land in Arizona includes a US National Wildlife refuge and is, according to published reports, a corridor for human trafficking and drug smuggling. It’s apparently so bad that US officials are warning Americans not to go there.

Not to go there? This is OUR soil! In fact, much of this land is public land, which means that we the people are directly paying for this land! Part of it is a national wildlife refuge where, I’m pretty sure, there might even be some endangered species living. For the federal government to tell Americans not to go there because foreign nationals with guns might be there is tantamount to ceding our sovereignty to Mexico.

Rather than wringing our hands and wondering what to do, the solution is simple — and constitutional.

Let’s consider the facts for a moment: armed forces from a foreign nation are occupying land within our sovereign boundaries. Americans are being killed by these foreign nationals. Our government has admitted as much. So why are we even discussing this politically?

This is no longer a matter of politics but a military matter. Congress has the authority and the obligation to immediately declare war on Mexico and allow the US military to secure our southern border as they have been trained. As in war, the purpose of our military being stationed on our border is not to make friends with the enemy combatants and others attempting to infiltrate our country, the purpose is to destroy them on contact.

I’m sure that once the invading force discovers that we mean business and their body count begins to rise, they’ll be forced to retreat from their attack on our sovereign border.

McCain protests like a Liberal

Sen. John McCain does himself a great disservice when he protests accusations that he’s more of a Liberal than a Conservative. While his party affiliation says he’s a Republican it’s no secret that there’s a large chasm between his core beliefs and that of a true Conservative.

It’s offensive when politicians try to convince us of something that they’re not. I once had this experience with a Republican state senator in California when, as a newspaper reporter, I pinned him down on his votes to raise taxes via something called the Vehicle License Fee. His answers to my questions sounded an awful lot like Sen. McCain’s protests covered by the Yuma Sun, or Nancy Pelosi’s “We have to pass the (health care) bill so you can see what’s in it.”

Hey Senator: we’re not as stupid as you think we are. In fact, we’re a lot smarter than you because we haven’t had our minds reprogrammed by the Washington establishment after decades of insulating ourselves from the people you claim to serve.

California’s golden luster tarnished by business exodus

Vacancy rates in many California cities continue to climb as businesses fold and the industry that once supported the service-based economy of most cities leaves for more hospitable business climates.

It’s no secret: California is not business friendly. The state that was once the 5th largest economy in the world and had more revenue coming in than even the most artful Liberal could spend, squander or steal is virtually bankrupt.

Taxes here in the “Tarnished State” (no longer can we rightfully call California “The Golden State”) are higher than most other states, regulations are onerous and the permitting process necessary to build a business here — well, let’s just say that the best laid marketing efforts of states like Nevada and Arizona couldn’t do better to coax California businesses away.

This didn’t just start yesterday. A 1993 article in Nation’s Business reports of a Southern California business that took its 68 employees and $15 million in annual sales to the neighboring Silver State and set up shop in Carson City.

The Orange County Register earlier this year highlighted a host of businesses, many with original ties to Orange County, that have permanently vacated California for a more business friendly climate. Even Apple Computer, an icon of California’s Silicon Valley, has opted to make a $1 billion expansion elsewhere.

I’ve personally spoken to business owners here in California who have partially or fully vacated California. A cheese manufacturer looking to expand to where the milk is once considered Tulare County because of the bountiful milk supply in this region of Central California. After discovering Tulare County’s double-digit energy costs — the tiered per-kilowatt hour (kWH) price of electricity at the time started at 12 cents and ran as high as 22 cents per kWH — the chairman of the board told me that the company was taking its plans and its money to the Texas panhandle, where residential electric rates were reportedly around 4 cents per kWH and commercial rates even lower.

For a more expansive posting of businesses leaving California, check out Joseph Vranich’s The Business Relocation Coach blog. It reads like a Forbes list and ought to serve as a criminal indictment of California’s inept Legislature.

A story in the Bakersfield Californian recently illustrated the greed of the politically-connected in the “Tarnished State.” The newspaper reported that one of the main utility providers here, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, or PG&E, wants to escalate its tiered system to where the highest tier users pay 40 cents per kWH. These rates must be approved by a state commission (political appointees).

Currently PG&E is the sole funding mechanism for a state ballot initiative, Proposition 16, which the energy giant claims is a pro-consumer type of initiative. It’s really nothing more than a power-grab by the public utility as it seeks to shut out municipal energy companies, which provide electricity to their customers at much reduced rates when compared to PG&E.

Meanwhile, California’s largest city — Los Angeles — is out of money, the state itself is $20 billion in the red and the state unemployment level is running well ahead of the national average. In some counties in California, the percentage of unemployed residents exceeds 40%. Some of this has to do with California’s convoluted and ridiculous environmental regulations that favor critters and non-edible plants over the food grown here. Last summer, for instance, roughly 65,000 acres of prime agricultural land was taken out of production because water that once irrigated a vast section of California’s Central Valley was confiscated by an act of Congress in order to protect a species of fish that is nothing more than bait for larger predatory fish.

To cap this tale of a broken state, in 2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected in a special election after voters here fired Governor Gray Davis in a recall election. At that time voters were angry at the severe run-up of electricity rates and the common rolling brown-outs that were plaguing much of California. At the time Schwarzenegger, a Republican, said business as usual was going to change in California. Little did we realize that two terms later we were better off before we fired a governor than we are now with Conan the Incompetent.

An act of war or simply a news story?

A sheriff’s deputy from Pinal County Arizona was shot by drug smugglers on Friday in an act that ought to be considered a declaration of war by Mexico. The incident happened along I-8, west of Casa Grande, Arizona after the deputy reportedly discovered bales of marijuana. The smugglers opened fire with rifles, wounding the deputy.

When forces from one country start shooting at uniformed forces from another country is that simply a crime or an act of war? Certainly a uniformed deputy sheriff, operating under the color and authority of the laws affecting his jurisdiction, is an agent of the United States, if not the state in which he is employed, and as such those foreign forces firing upon him, whether wearing a uniform or not, should be considered as as act of war against the United States and treated as such.

Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution gives Congress the authority to declare war against nations. Regardless of whether those who shot the sheriff’s deputy are uniformed or not, the United States is under attack by foreign forces of Mexico. These criminals may not be directly employed by the armed forces of Mexico, but it can be argued that the government of Mexico is complicit in these attacks merely by refusing to do everything in its power to stop them. Here in the United States if someone is caught with stolen property or with someone in the commission of a crime, they can be charged as accomplices to that crime. There are parallels here that cannot be ignored.

Is there little doubt as to why the State of Arizona recently enacted a state law giving law enforcement the authority to check the immigration status of individuals stopped for other law enforcement actions? Or is there any doubt that the citizens of Arizona, now allowed to carry concealed weapons without having to apply for a permit, were given that authority by the State of Arizona because of a very real threat against its citizens?

While it’s doubtful that Congress will declare war against Mexico, it’s self-evident that America is under armed attack by foreign forces from Mexico, and that American citizens are in danger as a result of this attack.

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