August 16, 2004
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Asa, Issa Love to Chew Baca
Homeland Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchison and Republican California Congressman from
Friday’s town hall meeting at
was packed with well over a thousand inside the auditorium and hundreds
listening to loudspeakers outside to at long last discuss the topic of
controlling illegal immigration and homeland security with high-ranking
officials. The press of course ignored the event altogether or quickly spun the crowd as “unruly”- as did AP writer Ben fox.
The meeting, which included government officials and local residents,
also drew fire from the Spaniard-ish press such as NBC-owned
Spanish-language Telemundo, blatantly calling the attendants “fanaticos”
as the television camera panned the audience. The meeting was also
attended by John and Ken of KFI AM’s John & Ken Show, who later
noted that there were very little local English-speaking press, despite
the thousands who turned out and overflowed the auditorium, spilling
out into the hallway and even outside the building, and the presence of
a Congressman and Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security. As John
noted, it was “not just a couple fanatic trailer-dwellers”. However he
found it odd that English-speaking local press have been more than
happy to send crews out to cover “10 illegal aliens protesting in a
city park”.Who Owns Asa Hutchison’s Interests
The
big question for many (Americans, that is) after and even before the
meeting was who’s blackmailing Asa Hutchison? Time after time, question
after question his manner is seen to be one of a man who is afraid,
who’s sold his soul to the devil, but not his tortured conscience. Asa
seems to be a troubled man, like one who has set his mind on doing
something he knows is morally repugnant and wrong and only wishes
his critics would be silenced. But what was the deal?One
suggestion is that in the age of skyrocketing oil prices, Hutchison and
Issa feel it’s better to sell our national soul to placate the Mexican
government, from whom we receive a higher percentage of oil than we do
from
from the Left that accuses the administration of being too cozy with
the Saudis for “big oil”? As Idaho Senator Larry Craig told Fox News
recently, a priority for us has been in “maintaining good relations
with countries from whom we’d like to buy their oil.” The same has been
argued for what many say is our appeasement stance with overtly
communist-friendly
and also has developed friendships with terrorist Islamic states. All
of this, supposedly, so we don’t offend the radical environmentalists
who have squatted the entire state of Alaska. Will the liberal
appeasement never end?Or
maybe it’s President Bush’s familial ties to Spanish-speaking
immigrants which bind the hands that feed them. This is possible, but
since those family members are originally from
and therefore a bit more to the political right, it is questionable.
Maybe it’s instead a sadly mis-calculated political trade-off of
grass-roots conservative Republican votes for potential Mexican
votes. But again, this seems a risky proposition, particularly in the
face of what is quickly becoming a visceral grass-roots movement among
citizens who cannot handle the influx and loss of their American
identity any longer. Perhaps this is the ill-begotten child of some
other motive, some other cause which compells Asa Hutchison, Darrell
Issa and their ilk.Frequently
during the town hall meeting Friday as well as other times on the
record, Hutchison claimed that he wished to support and defend the
Constitution of the
and Americans, yet would directly contradict himself and dismiss any
effort to carry out that defense because it would “uproot” criminals
from their homes and disrupt business. Well, which is it, the
Constitution and the rule of law or corruption and lawlessness? Either
Asa has a burr in his saddle…or in his pocket.Regardless
of the reason, it is clear we need to get rid of Hutchison. He refuses
to lead, he refuses to follow. He needs to get out of the way.In Friday’s town hall meeting in
taped by KFI radio, Asa proved both misleading and evasive. When asked
about lax policies on his constitutional obligation to guard our
borders, he cited a new rule providing for deporting illegal aliens, no longer recognizing any right to judicial review,
which he claimed would aid homeland security by expediting the process
and eliminating serious backlogs. But what he didn’t mention was that
the rule had several limitations which will most likely prevent it from
being a serious means to resolve either. Some of those limitations were
adeptly pointed out by citizens in attendance when they revealed the
law did not extend to:1. Illegals outside 100 miles of the border
2. Illegals in the
3. Illegals who were Canadian or Mexican (this just about rules out everybody else)
According to the Associated Press account,
“The focus of the country’s 11,000 Border Patrol agents,
“’We
have to rely on the good men and women of the Border Patrol to protect
our country, and the border is the most essential and important part of
that,’ he said, as he was drowned out by shouts and catcalls from
an audience of more than 800, many of whom came to the meeting in a
middle school auditorium at the urging of a local radio station.”Asa Is Slammed by that Border Patrol
But
in a damning rebuke one border patrol union leader by the name
of TJ Bonner, president of national border patrol council and a
border patrol agent for the past 26 years who was at the
meeting pointedly asked Asa and Issa, “why don’t you let us do our job”? The
crowd of thousands immediately erupted in wild cheers and applause,
clearly letting off the pinned up frustrations of years of apathy from
the federal government as their community standard of living has
dropped to third-world levels and taxes to “baby-sit” the uninvited
guests have sky-rocketed. Asa only managed to
cynically quip, “I think this ones gonna take a minute,” as the crowd
went on for quite some time in solidarity with the border
agent. The agent continued talking about the many restrictive policies
designed apparently to keep them from enforcing the border, “we
shouldn’t just sit (in place), but let our border patrol… set up
check points…”, at this point he was interrupted with the usual “we
all agree” statements that Hutchison and Issa like to use to get out of
tough encounters with the facts. The National Border Patrol Council has
over 10,000 members, and has been in existence for 80 years.Border
patrol was not the only group of government folks on hand to give Asa
and Issa a piece of their minds. Present also were mayors and other
local leaders and law enforcement.Contradictions Run Amuck
Well,
one might ask, if one agrees that something is a problem and that x, y
and z should be done to remedy it, but then refuses to do x, y or
z, wouldn’t that in the very least place him in a most
indefensibly and either insane or traitorous position?Asa
repeatedly asserted during the meeting that “my job is to enforce the
law”. He then agreed with those present that border enforcement and
inland enforcement needed to be done. But when asked when this was
going to happen, said of the criminal aliens: “they are in jeopardy of
having their lives uprooted by the (border patrol)”. Well, too bad, so
it would also seem the case with drug dealers and
prostitutes, yet I presume we still are willing to take that risk.Another
contradiction Hutchison and Issa made was their claim that they did not
need permission from Congress to deploy a stronger effort, but then
turned right around and said, “until congress acts upon that…uhm…”
seemingly displacing their previous statements of mere minutes ago.Asa
also argued that no further sweeps for illegals could be done since he
wouldn’t want to do anything illegal, defining the sweeps as
“unconstitutional”. His ex post facto definition apparently tags any
“sweep” as any action taken without probable cause- we hope. But that
was not anyone’s position when the sweeps had occurred in earnest
before. In fact, the sweeps were very highly successful, rounding up
over 400 illegal leeches and deporting them. But Asa, upon seeing its
success gave the order to stop all such sweeps. Proponents of those
sweeps say the word “sweep” means the same thing it does when doing
“crime sweeps” of any kind, where legal parameters to an aggressive
campaign of rounding up criminals are applied.Homeland Buffoonery
Another
argument made by the Secretary and Congressman duo when asked by yet
another citizen seemed incredibly full of holes. When asked why we
weren’t committing troops to the border (something which we have done
many times in the past and which House Speaker Dennis Hastert
recommends we do now), citing the dangers of the illegals in addition
to the known matter of al Qaeda troops also making the trek,
Asa said, “we have our hands full with Afghanistan and Iraq”. One
has to quickly wonder what then could be done to prevent
another 9/11-style attack and the illegals that committed the
assault that killed thousands. Clearly, this is a matter that needs to
be ripped from the hands of incompetents and political catamites like
Asa Hutchison and Darrell Issa and handed over to the Department of
Defense. We will then let them decide if we have enough troops and do
what is necessary to shore them up if not. Of course when asked about
placing the military on the border, Hutchison scoffed saying he
believed “the responsibility has historically been law enforcement…”
But again, Hutchison ignores the facts of US military history in the
region, plain to see by all who venture to observe.For instance:
In the 1840’s, the
In
1916, Congress passed the National Defense Act of 1916 and the US again
sent overwhelming troops both to and across the border under the
leadership of the famous General John J. Pershing and young troops the
likes of a famous World War II General named George S. Patton- who
gained fame as a young officer during an expedition deep into the heart
of Mexico as a result of the murderous cross-border raids by
Mexican bandits such as Pancho Villa on American farmers, ranchers and
townspeople.In 1919-1921 the
In 1929 when the lives of Americans living along the border were threatened, the
And in 1998 even the Clinton Administration sent over 10,000 peacetime troops
to advise border agents in slowing drug trafficking and border
incursions. (The Mexican border accounts for over 70% of
illegal drugs smuggled into this country).Asa Hutchison additionally admitted there were insufficient numbers of border patrol on the
but did not seem to indicate any real plan to change it. So in the
context of a question about al Qaeda’s ease of crossing the border, he
admits it is unaddressed, and seems to indicate it will continue to be
so under his watch. He almost seems to repeatedly say, “Yes, I know
it’s getting bad and we should be following the steps you’ve all
outlined, but in the words of Herman Melville’s ‘Bartleby the Scrivener,’ I prefer not to.”When asked about the plausibility of a security fence much like the highly successful one being built by
which has cut down terrorist attacks to almost the level of
non-existence, Asa retorted that he doesn’t think a fence will work-
his do-nothing answer to everything. I guess we’re pretty hopeless
then. Asa doesn’t seem to think anything will work. Maybe we should
just sign our articles of surrender now, shoot ourselves in the head
and get it all over with. Maybe the plight of illegals on a New
Mexico Indian reservation was heard at the DNC convention last month,
but some Republicans will hear nothing of it.In
short, Asa Hutchison and his compadres readily have shot everything
down with regard to ideas to proactively deal with the border crisis,
instead casting us off as human sacrifices to whatever his personal or
political agenda is. Recently the
But if they had listened to folks like Asa Hutchison, such a
potentially enormous safeguard for the lives of millions of American
civilians would never have been realized.Homeland
security? I guess we will instead focus on restricting the rights of
American citizens and have a police state so we don’t offend anyone
here illegally or attempting to get here illegally. After all, who
would want to offend some hard-working soul who wishes only to feed his
family by blowing up theSo let’s summarize. Asa doesn’t want to:
1. Effectively guard the border with personnel
2. Build a security fence
3. Investigate and arrest known illegal aliens
4. Investigate and prosecute companies which hire illegals (e.g. Home Depot)
5. Place sanctions on
until it stops encouraging the border crossing and until it works to
prevent known suspected terrorists form gaining Mexican identification
and punishes members of the Mexican army who cross the border and
attack6.
Stop prosecuting US ranch-owners who want only to defend their
farms and homes from dangerous illegal aliens and cross-border
raiders -and finally start prosecuting the real criminalsIn
short, Asa Hutchison and his friends seem to want to do everything
possible to work against the interests of America- and possibly for us
to throw up our hands and flee toProtecting Political Rapists
But
while Asa is too busy fretting about the feelings of criminals,
refusing to even round up known illegals after say, two weeks because
he doesn’t want to rip up illegals from their homes, it seems to most
reasonable people that the adage, “he who lives by the sword, dies by
the sword” would apply most correctly to those illegals. They were
perfectly willing to be ripped up by their own choice from their homes
of hundreds, if not thousands of years, to come north and invade the
sovereign United States. If Asa were being honest here, he would not
make such a stupid assertion- the illegals have NOT been here that
long- not nearly as long as the citizens who have to put up with them
and worse- a government seemingly on the take. Further, despite what
Asa might think or feel in his deepest ruminations, the rights of
citizens trump the wishes of non-citizens 100% of the time, especially
when those wishes do directly conflict with the rights and needs of the
citizens. What Mr. Hutchison will likely avoid publicly is the matter
of our homes being ripped up by littering, our being forced to speak a
foreign language in every public venue across the country, people
openly consuming alcohol with impunity in parking lots and on the
streets everywhere, setting off car alarms, loitering, etc plus all
manner of serious crime, creating a general public nuisance for which
millions if not billions of our tax dollars flow. This forces
Americans- Americans – to be ripped up from their homes and
flee far away from where they grew up in search of more sensible living
(but away from their roots) in the suburbs.Asa
and his friends say the illegals are good, god-fearing people, but they
always seem to forget the details. Yes indeed then, the devil is in the
details. And what about the good, God-fearing, hard-working and
law-abiding Americans whom they are displacing, and forcing from their
homes?Asa
seemed unaware or uninterested in the fact that we’ve absorbed 10% of
Mexico’s entire population already. John and Ken, using the allusion of
passengers fleeing a sinking ship, climbing aboard and threatening to
sink a nearby ship then ask, “if we all sink, what good does that do
anybody?” I also pose to Asa and Issa this
question. But then how does one go about inquiring of the motives of a
Benedict Arnold for his loyalty to the British?I Declare Myself Caesar!
The
citizens at the meeting were clearly frustrated by the loss of their
identity and the downward spiral of every service from healthcare to
education. If these are not the fermentings of a dissatisfied and
betrayed populace toward revolution, I don’t know what is.At
one point, Asa threatened to kick out anyone who continued to vocally
disagree with him, then telling anyone from outside Issa’s
“congressional district” that they were not welcomed at the meeting. –
apparently avoiding the truth this is a state-wide and national matter,
preferring instead to try to silence their opposition as any tyrants
would. Some attendants had traveled from as far as Arizona to
participate in the issue that hits them so close to home. Of course the
sweetest irony came as this event immediately followed Hutchison’s
comment that rounding up illegals would uproot them from their homes.
Seems Asa has no qualms uprooting the town- from the town-hall meeting to force his point…whichever rhetorical point of his you wish to take on a given day, that is.During
his thinly veiled threats to the impassioned gathering of Americans,
Asa told them it was his “microphone” and his “constitution” and seemed
uninterested in the fact that any money his office paid for use of that
microphone and the facility was availed by the good will of the very
taxpayers he was attempting to brow-beat during this meeting. Asa was
subsequently compared by John and Ken to a 3-year old who only wanted
his way, threatening to take his toys and go home frequently told the
citizens attending that this was, as Asa put it, his meeting
“and if anyone didn’t like that, they would be escorted out”. Thanks
for paying for my platform, now get out. Asa and Darrell also refused
to allow John and Ken to speak saying it was a town hall meeting.
Darrell literally ran away from John and when he finally gave him the
microphone, Asa ran off the stage to hide from the questions. Well,
John and Ken live there too. Just because Asa is afraid of being
exposed for the crook he is, it is no reason to silence the opposition
or run like a little girl when the opposition will not be silenced…Blind Eye Probably Their Cause
As
the meeting wound down, Asa and Darrell were asked what they thought of
the Mexican consulate’s issuance of matricula consular cards to
illegals while in this country, noting among other things the security
risk of terrorists and other criminals seeking a false identity picking
up such a card which is notoriously available to anyone and if not
readily available, enormously easy to counterfeit. Asa and Darrell’s
only response was nothing more than, “that is no indication of any
illegal status in this country,” apparently going out of their way to
coddle such criminals. Naturally Asa seems to forget that it is
probable cause- everyone is required by law to possess some form of
legal US ID (be that a valid visa, green card or whatnot) and even if
matricula cards were legal, since the overwhelming majority are used by
illegal aliens (nobody else but illegal aliens and other criminals have
need of them) then it would stand that such could help lead
investigators to the above outlaws.And so the meeting finally concluded- 20 minutes early- with an education for both Washingtonians about who really is
in charge. It was, in the most conservative estimation, a poignant,
passionate demonstration of the people petitioning their government for
the redress of greatly legitimate grievances against greatly egregious
policies, which must be resolved one way…or the other. There is simply
no other option- the good people of California (and the rest of the
southwest US) have to live their lives.Eventually,
I have no doubt the will of Americans will be done and I would imagine
the politicians who stood in the way for so long will face their
crucifixion- or will gladly proclaim that they were behind it all
along. What we can all do is let our representatives know (thrice
weekly is recommended) how grave we consider the matter and what
we expect of them right now. We also need to contact those who have
voiced support for what needs to be done, such as House Speaker Dennis
Hastert, Texas Congressman John Culberson (R) and others. Lastly,
Republicans need to make this issue larger than life at the convention.John
and Ken claim that Congressman Issa and Secretary Hutchison are “afraid
of Congressman Joe Baca,” a noted proponent of open borders. In this
day and age one can’t help but humorously speculate if Issa
and Hutchison in fact share a male foreign lover who also is
blackmailing them…or maybe the other party is more of the svelte, green and dollar-insignia-emblazoned variant.
Either way, both men are evidently unfit to hold
office -they have each gone back on what they were sworn-in to
uphold. We cannot tolerate this form of corruption and betrayal at the
height of America’s war for survival against foreign aggressors. If
people like Asa Hutchison and Darrell Issa choose to be an enemy of the
American people, it is their choice and our responsibility to get rid
of them.Clearly,
some of this is due to apathy, or the weak-kneed politician in the face
of well-organized interests. In view of this perhaps what is needed
today is a PAC for American citizens’ rights against the agendas of
illegal aliens, the foreign governments- and the local politicians- who
support them.I think maybe such a time has come.
Resources:
Vocal Crowd Presses for Renewed Sweeps
The John & Ken Show (Audio from the event is scheduled to be available this week)
Rewind: Illegal Aliens, Drug Traffickers Targeting U.S. Border Patrol
Rewind: Under Secretary Refuses to Comment on Border Security
The Department of Homeland Security can be contacted in the following manner:
Phone: 877 / 287.8667 –
e-mails sent via form here: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Asa Hutchison’s new private office number is: 202 / 282.8077
Here are a few of Asa’s direct underlings:
Brad Kidwell, Executive Assistant to Director of Operations, Border and Transportation Security Directorate, 202 / 282.8064Matt
MacKoviac, Assistant to the Secretary for Policy and Planning, Border
and Transportation Security Directorate, 571 / 227.3963, or cell phone
202 / 841.9154
But don’t forget to contact your Congressman and your Senator! And call them often.
And we can’t leave these folks out:
BUSH-CHENEY ’04, Inc.
P.O.Phone: 703 / 647.2700
Fax: 703 / 647.2993
call the campaign? We really need to hit these
officials where they can feel it. There is really no better
opportunity to let them connect the electoral dots.More information (with entertainment value) can be found at this link
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Comments (1)
what about the folks who want the illegals to have the right to vote?!
surrrrrrrrreeee! break into my house and let me ask you what color we should paint the walls!