From her bright eyes and big smile to her sun-kissed, luscious locks, Kathryn Steinle was the consummate California girl. The 32-year-old was shot dead by a proxy of the American Immigration-Industrial-Complex.
ICE, the federal wing of The Complex, was quick to blame its local branch: the city of San Francisco. San Francisco is the sanctuary city that unleashed confessed killer Francisco Sanchez. As a matter of policy, sanctuary cities commit to protecting their illegal population as they would their endangered species.
Yes, San Francisco provided sanctuary not for Kathryn Steinle, but for the likes of Francisco Sanchez. Alas, this criminal alien had accessories to the crime. The murder of Ms. Steinle was a murder-by-proxy. For regularly unleashing predators on people they swore to protect, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement is just as culpable as the sanctuary cities. Last year, reports CNSNews, ICE alone loosed approximately 30,000 convicted criminal aliens, "including those convicted of sex crimes, homicide, drunk driving, kidnapping and robbery." Recidivism among them is proving rife.
Sanchez is the face of successive American administrations -- lawmakers and enforcers; city, state and federal -- who've refused to uphold negative rights; who've rejected a duty that falls perfectly within the purview of the "night-watchman state of classical-liberal theory." And well within the ambit of the U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 4:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Ms. Steinle joins a litany of lives lost. Criminal aliens commit crimes all the time. However, until the rise of The Donald and The Coulter duo, a few weeks back, those who determine the "conversation" du jour had been otherwise occupied in northern New York state. For three weeks, they followed a manhunt for local killers escaped.
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Sort of skipped over that institution when covering the 'mass immigration' of the post-civil war period in history class? Someone always looking to find/import/export cheap labor. Added and abetted by the usual pols.
ICE, the federal wing of The Complex, was quick to blame its local branch: the city of San Francisco. San Francisco is the sanctuary city that unleashed confessed killer Francisco Sanchez
Not to be confused with the Obama administration release of thousands of known criminal illegals. The WH has made it a sanctuary country. The kabuki theater of 'catch and release'.
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Is the Latino Lobby implying that had they not been murdered by imported criminals – Steinle, Bluhm, baby Smith, Krentz, Jamiel Shaw Jr. and Grant Ronnebeck would have, nevertheless, been killed by native criminals?
Ridiculous! I know not if this illogic – this inescapable deduction – is a case of a categorical confusion or a category mistake. All I know is that, logically, at least, propensities for crime are irrelevant in a discussion about the murder of Ms. Steinle and all other victims of criminals who should not be in the U.S.
[Daily Caller] The president of the Media Research Center, Brent Bozell, came out swinging Thursday in response to the revelations -- uncovered by the watchdog Judicial Watch -- that Lois Lerner, other officials from the IRS, the Department of Justice, and the FBI met in 2010 to discuss criminally prosecuting non-profit organizations targeted for illegal political activities. Does the smarmy, insufferable character picture here look like he's concerned about anything? The IRS is fully backstopped at top levels of the gov't.
Bozell was incensed that few media outlets bothered to cover the news. (RELATED: Emails: Obama Administration Discussed Prosecuting Nonprofit Orgs)
"The networks' refusal to cover these devastating revelations borders on being complicit in a cover-up of criminal misconduct by a tyrannical administration using Stalinist tactics against its political opponents," the conservative figure declared in a statement.
In Bozell's opinion, the meeting revealed "criminal coordination between the IRS, FBI and the Department of Justice in an effort to politically persecute innocent, law-abiding Americans and independent organizations."
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They have set the tone of the war. Let them reap what they have done. Do on to them what they have done to you cause they'll never change by you simply taking the 'moral high ground'. To them it's all about power and you being the fool.
[Breitbart] Speaking to a gathering of American tribal youth at the White House today, First Lady Michelle Obama praised their heritage, pointing out the cultural significance of Native Americans to the institutions of the United States.
"Long before the United States was even an idea, your ancestors were harvesting the crops that would feed the world for centuries to come," she said, pointing out their contributions to music, art, medicine, and even government.
"Today on issues like conservation and climate change we are finally beginning to embrace the wisdom of your ancestors," she said. "So make no mistake about it, your customs, your values, your discoveries, are at the heart of the American story."
The First Lady also highlighted the historical atrocities committed by the United States against Native Americans.
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Oh, about those Anasazi who overbuilt in the desert and had to abandon their villages and dwellings cause they consumed more resources than the environment would support? - see California. Wisdom would be about learning from the past. The record of the past that the socialists systemically seek to destroy.
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Thinking about this Comanche Dawg Soldier expedition Matt brought up. Might have some merit. Pretty sure my grandmother must have been Comanche part-wise from the switching sides I got, count me in on your war party.
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The Renaissance was well underway while the tribes of NA still hadn't figured out the wheel. They did discover peyote though, which may have been what FLOTUS was on when she babbled off this oratory gem.
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"bloviating her pro-Robert Mugabe, hate America, hate Euro-colonist theme" Pretty much what many modern pseudo-educated native Americans are parroting now.
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All culture's, like, equal, you know,
So Injuns need Marx and Rousseau!
They no needum wampum,
Just commies to swamp 'em
With Chomsky, Fanon, and Foucault.
[Dhaka Tribune] With the announcement that the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... is likely to be brought to trial for the fire-bombing deaths during the BNP anti-government campaigns in the first few months of this year, and with arrest warrants issued against 28 BNP leaders and activists in association with a bus burning on January 30, it is clear that the government is heading towards a final solution to the BNP problem.
The march towards a de facto one-party state thus seems close to unstoppable. By the time the next elections roll around in 2019, the BNP may well have ceased to exist as any kind of a political force capable of providing any kind of challenge to the AL.
The question then of whether the party will contest in the next national elections or under what dispensation such elections will be held becomes a moot point.
Come 2019, there is every chance that the BNP will no longer be with us, or at least not in any recognisable form or in the form of a viable opposition party that has a realistic chance of coming to power.
In short, it looks as though the AL will get its wish, which, if you have been following the public and private pronouncements of its leaders and fellow travelers for the past few years, has been made pretty clear.
The AL feels that having to alternate in office with the BNP throughout the 1990s and 2000s has kept them from being able to enact the policies this country needs and to see through their vision for developing Bangladesh into a middle-income country and beyond.
What Bangladesh needs, according to this school of thought, is steady, uninterrupted, and focused leadership for the next decade or so, with none of the distractions and inefficiencies that come with regular alternating of power, and the end result will be a thriving, prosperous, and developed nation.
The catch-phrase (which, interestingly enough, was precisely the same one used by the BNP, who had a remarkably similar vision, differing only in that they envisaged themselves at the epicentre of power) in vogue is the "Malaysia Model." Another one is "development before democracy."
Now, I very much doubt that the AL will abandon the party's commitment to formal democracy in the sense that regular elections will still be held. The only difference will be that without an opposition worth the name, the election results will be a foregone conclusion and elections will appear as little more than a small blip in the multi-year planning for Bangladesh's future.
Is this all bad? Proponents of the scheme and supporters of the government will point out that de facto one-party rule has worked very well for the countries in South-East Asia, and that it was the ability to stay in power for a long period of time to see through the vision of the ruling party that was instrumental in their development.
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...It appears that the world is having an outbreak of stupidity. In the imbecile olympics, America may well emerge best off by ironically being the least competent at being incompetent. For example it is distracted right now [5] by the problem of hauling down a 150 year old flag from a defeated government from several state capitols. Someone said on Twitter that when he boarded an airplane in Paris everyone was preoccupied with the Greek exit, but when he alighted in Atlanta everyone was talking about Donald Trump. This lack of focus may allow the others to pull ahead in the race to the bottom.
This happy state of affairs may not last long however.
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When the Feds or State audit our construction management files, we better have hard copies for them to touch and carress or there's hell to pay
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Another added benefit of paper records: when archives burn up, so go the records & suddenly, there are a lot of pensions & benefits the gov doesn't have to pay. Happened to a cousin of mine, Korea war vet.
[DAWN] PERHAPS one of the main reasons why militancy continues to thrive in Pakistain is that the government refuses to emerge from its state of denial where certain murderous Moslem outfits are concerned. The remarks made by Minister for States and Frontier Regions Abdul Qadir Baloch in the Senate on Tuesday are a reflection of this. Mr Baloch said that as there was no evidence to link Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... with Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... , it would not be possible to proscribe the former, which he termed a 'charity' outfit. The statement seems to echo the 'good holy warrior, bad holy warrior' line apparently pursued by Pakistain's security establishment. While the minister is yet to discover any solid evidence, and while JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed ...who would be wearing a canvas jacket with very long sleeves anyplace but Pakistain... may deny all links, the fact is that Jamaat-ud-Dawa and LeT enjoy a symbiotic relationship. After the latter was banned in 2002, it began operating under the JuD moniker -- itself a new take on Jamaat-ud-Dawa wal Irshad formed in the 1980s at the height of the Afghan jihad. Hafiz Muhammad Saeed was a key figure in LeT and it is no coincidence that both groups' infrastructure and memberships overlap. The minister's remarks in the Senate point to the persistent problem of holy warrior groups rebranding themselves after proscription and carrying on as usual.
This phenomenon is not limited to JuDeT. Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... , Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain ...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was banned in 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts... and Tehrik-e-Jafariya Pakistain -- all supposedly banned-- have renamed themselves after proscription. Only the names have changed; the leaderships, infrastructure and activities remain the same. The problem is that despite much outrage, especially after the APS Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. tragedy, we do not have a comprehensive counterterrorism plan to neutralise holy warrior actors. Confronting the forces of Evil on the battlefield is one option, but to crack down on groups active in the cities, the best course is to build cases against leaders and workers of holy warrior groups, freeze their funds and prevent them from carrying out propaganda activities, not merely 'ban' them. Unless the National Action Plan is recalibrated towards fully neutralising holy warrior groups our counterterrorism efforts will continue to deliver unsatisfactory results.
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[DAWN] THE renewal of the Sindh Rangers' mandate to stay in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... has rarely made the news. That wasn't surprising, considering that the paramilitary force -- whose mandate can be extended for a maximum of four months -- has been deployed in Karachi since 1989, in some capacity or the other, to assist the city police in maintaining law and order. But what was routine once is no longer so, since the Rangers -- who were given special powers of policing and arrest in late 2013 -- have turned their guns, so to speak, on individuals in the provincial government for their purported misdeeds. That would explain Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah's eleventh-hour recollection about constitutional requirements that needed to be met following the 18th Amendment, which incidentally was passed in April 2010, for extending the Rangers' law-enforcement mandate in Karachi. In any event, after some hemming and hawing, the extension has been granted, albeit for one month.
It was not an unexpected outcome, given the army's support for the Rangers-led operation in Karachi and, apparently, all that it entails. This was underscored by the corps commander Karachi's high-profile visit to the force's headquarters in the city and his appreciation of its actions just three days after a Rangers' contingent raided the Sindh Building Control Authority's offices. For a provincial dispensation that along with its erstwhile partner in government, the MQM, increasingly perceives the Rangers' actions as being carried out with overtly political, security establishment-approved objectives -- with some justification, we might add -- the SBCA raid was the last straw. It provoked the normally restrained Asif Ali Zardari to lash out against the military, and prompted the chief minister to accuse the Rangers of overstepping their mandate. Strictly speaking, Mr Shah is not far off the mark. Corruption of the kind that the paramilitary force has now turned its attention to falls more in the domain of white-collar crime, and while the latter may have an undesirable knock-on effect it cannot in itself be defined as terrorism. And it was to act against terrorism in Karachi that the Rangers' powers were enhanced.
That said, it does not mean that corruption in high places and abuse of power should not be investigated and prosecuted. The Sindh government -- even in a country where patronage-based politics is the norm -- is largely seen as the most brazenly self-serving and corrupt of the provincial dispensations. The corollary to this is a thoroughly politicised police force that has been fashioned to serve the rulers rather than the ruled. The question, therefore, is who is going to undertake the cleaning of the stables? There is good reason why the Sindh government's tribulations are being met by the public with either indifference or outright support for the Rangers' actions. It is thus that the politicians compromise themselves, and undermine democracy in the process.
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[DAWN] THE implosion of the Greek economy, the rise of Syriza and the implicit blaming of Greece's creditors for the country's woes present important lessons that should be drawn upon. The danger is that many people, including in Pakistain, are preparing to draw the wrong set of lessons.
Greece got itself into a mess by not taxing sufficiently its richest elites, and by overspending on a bloated, overpaid and underworked public sector. Poor choices by politicians for decades, fully supported by a complicit populace that was only too happy to condone the perpetual postponement of serious structural reform, have finally caught up. Despite the massive and heartrending current suffering of ordinary Greeks, the foregoing is the sorry story of the saga which is unfolding in southern Europe. (In the villains' roll call, one cannot not include the ever-willing 'banksters' who continued to bankroll Greece's free-spending. But Greece created the conditions for borrowing, not the other way around.)
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Notice the leftards always blame the victims, women, banks...etc...
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Eight levels of socialist control, oftentimes mistakenly attributed to the late Saul Alinksy:
1) Healthcare
Control healthcare and you control the people
2) Poverty
Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.
3) Debt
Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control
Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare
Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income)
6) Education
Take control of what people read and listen to � take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion
Remove the belief in the God from the Government and schools
8) Class Warfare
Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[DAWN] THE implosion of the Greek economy, the rise of Syriza and the implicit blaming of Greece's creditors for the country's woes present important lessons that should be drawn upon. The danger is that many people, including in Pakistain, are preparing to draw the wrong set of lessons.
