THE GREAT AMERICAN ASYLUM SCAM

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.  Emma Lazarus, "Colossus" (1883)

Professor Peter Kwong of Hunter College recently noted that the great majority of Chinese asylum cases in New York City are fraudulent.  And the New York Times has run stories during the last year of ongoing arrests in Flushing, Queens, which have seen up to 10 law firms involved with more than 1900 Chinese asylum-seekers in elaborate schemes to defraud the U.S. asylum process.

MAMA TSARNAEV LAMENTS
FATE OF BOMBING BROTHERS

                 

If the Tsarnaev family bombers did not serve as a wake-up call about the slipshod procedures involved in applying for asylum in the U.S., then our elected representatives in Congress and those bureaucrats charged with administering asylum law are deserving of a very strong shake-up.  Please recall that the family Tsarnaev had claimed persecution in their native Chechnya; but, very strangely since they were supposedly victims in Chechnya, regularly made pilgrimages back to their country of origin.  In addition, they managed to defray expenses in Massachusetts with extremely generous public benefits.  In return, through their radicalized version of Islam, they spewed forth hate for the country that sheltered them, and the brothers Tsanaev will forever live in infamy for the 21st century's version of the Boston Massacre.

Since 1980, more than 2 million individuals have successfully sought asylum in the U.S.  Those applying must supposedly substantiate persecution on the the basis of race, religion, nationality, political point of view or social groupings.

25 years ago, most asylum-seekers were from Europe.  However, since that time and based on presidential recommendations to Congress concerning  world regional ceilings numbers for seekers, Middle Easterners, Asians and Africans are now more numerous.  During 2010, of those successfully applying for asylum, 24.6% were from Iraq, while 22.8% hailed from Burma.

The Supreme Court has ruled that asylees fleeing persecution must be pursuing asylum on the basis of  "...a well founded fear."  Such ethereal language tends to lead to indistinct legal procedures, opening a Pandora's box of extralegal means of taking advantage of the system.

Those who wish to apply for asylum - including even those who have entered the U.S. illegally - must present their case to an asylum officer, who more often than not sends the application further into the bureaucracy to an immigration judge.  Applicants who have been in the country for 150 days are eligible for work permits, and those who have been in the system for a year are immediately eligible for an immigration visa and a green card.

KUSHEN AKHMEDOV

DECEASED MOM WITH 2 CHILD
VICTIMS OF AKHMEDOV

Although the sensationalism of the Tsarnaev abomination captured national attention, many violations by asylees essentially go unnoticed.  For example, a Meskhatian Turk from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia who had gained asylum on the basis of religious grounds, had a penchant for speed, which ultimately led to his crashing into a young mother and her 4 children in Philadelphia while drag-racing.  Only 1 child survived. The Turk, Kushen Akhmedov, had several reckless driving convictions prior to the fatal crash.

Now, on our southern border, the magic words of  "...well-founded fear" have been discovered by enterprising Mexicans hoping for a pass into the land of milk and honey.  Hundreds of Mexican citizens who might have once tried for surreptitious crossings into the U.S., have now simply presented themselves to ICE and Border Patrol personnel, claiming fear of persecution from Mexican drug cartels.  Once uttered, the magic words result in the speakers being escorted to hotels - all at taxpayer expense - and an eventual court date before an asylum judge.  Pending the court date, the "persecuted" Mexicans are relocated - once again at taxpayer expense - to various locales throughout the country.  If past experience may serve as an indicator, these Mexican asylum-seekers will not keep their court dates and will, instead, melt into the general population, joining the millions of illegal aliens already on American soil.

And, finally, here is a bit of weird mental gymnastics in justification of even more asylum-seekers taking refuge on these golden shores.   Professor Fabian Shupert, of Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has opined that, since America is the greatest villain in the warming of the globe, we will of necessity have to shoulder the burden of relocating millions of asylum-seekers fleeing the deleterious effects of climate change.  These "climate refugees," largely from the Third World, will require ample resources of land and water, which will necessitate a rethinking of our concept of private property!  Will the asylum scam never end?

RAMIREZ, IN THE WEEKLY STANDARD

AMERICA'S FIRST MUSLIM CONGRESSMAN: ISLAMIIST WOLF IN AMERICAN SHEEP'S CLOTHING?

CONGRESSMAN ELLISON SWORN IN BY SPEAKER PELOSI
ON 2-VOLUME KORAN ONCE OWNED BY THOMAS JEFFERSON

The bottom line is we are not broke; there's plenty of money, it's just the government doesn't have it.  Congressman Keith Ellison

Thus, America's first Muslim congressman spoke out recently on the nation's economy.  Congressman Keith Ellison went on to say, "The government has a right, the government and the people of the United States have a right to run the programs of the United States.  Health, welfare, housing - all these things."

With U.S. debt hitting 17 trillion and an American economy still showing itself extremely anemic, such a statement simply boggles the mind.  One also wonders about the judgement of the voters of the 5th Congressional district of Minnesota. Could it be that these good people truly believe in a confiscatory role for our government?  Or, is Congressman Ellison simply mouthing the prevailing political philosophy of the statist-oriented Democrats who have captured the heart and soul of their party?

As a young law student at the University of Minnesota, Congressman Ellison, was an apologist for Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, minimizing the many anti-semitic statements made by Farrakhan.  Furthermore, he spared few words as a spokesman in calling for reparations from white Americans to black Americans. Despite his campaign pronouncements, however, several key leaders of the Minnesota Jewish community openly and strongly supported Ellison's campaigns for public office.

Totally ignoring the Council on American Islamic Relations' (CAIR) connections to terrorist organizations such as Hamas and its status as an unindicted co-conspirator in the infamous Holy Land Foundation trial in 2008, Ellison eagerly accepted campaign contributions from that group.  Hiding behind vebiage in which it calls itself a "civil rights" organization, CAIR's past financial gifts to Hamas conclusively show its dalliance with terrorism and terrorist organizations.

From all indications, accounting was not the strong suit for Ellison, as witness multiple violations of the campaign expenditures code.  In fact, the congressman has been sued two times for such violations by the Minnesota attorney general's office, and there have been several instances of unreported contributions and failure to fully and truly reveal sources of funds.  Could it be that the sloppy accounting could be related to Congressman Ellison's incoherent view of the role of out-of-control government spending in the U.S. economy?

Ellison is also known for involving himself in the celebrated "six imams controversy," involving six imams on a United flight to Phoenix.  The imams separated on board and refused to sit in their assigned seats. Consequently, alarmed Arabic-speaking passengers who heard them praising Osama bin-Laden and making extremely inflammatory remarks about the U.S. and its foreign policy, expressed their fear to the crew .  The imams, who were eventually forcibly removed from the flight after an unscheduled landing, quite predictably sued United Airlines.

In unsuccessful runs for the Minnesota legislature early in his political career, Ellison ran as "Keith Ellison-Muhammad."  However, probably out of political expediency, Ellison dropped "Muhammad" and experienced successful outcomes in later campaigns.

Other Ellison dubious connections are with the Muslim American Society (MAS)  and the Islamic Society of North America (INSA), which have both revealed themselves to be closely aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood.  These groups of outstanding Muslim-Americans have branded Jews as sub-human degenerates and have  called for their destruction.  Christians have also frequently been the targets of their super-charged rhetoric.  In booths at Muslim gatherings sponsored by the ISNA, vendors have hawked tee-shirts which proclaimed anti-American, anti-Israeli sentiments and pro-Hamas slogans.  Both of the organizations have been criticized frequently by members of Congress not of Congressman Ellison's persuasion.

On several occasions, Congressman Ellison has proclaimed himself to be a "patriotic American."  However, if we judge individuals by the company they keep, these claims are open to question. The Koran sanctions taqiyyah, or lying in the defense of Islam, which is viewed by some as basic strategy in "stealth jihad."  It is no secret that Muslim extremists look to the day when the "Great Satan" may be brought to its knees.  What better way to accomplish this goal than to ally with the misguided socialists and malcontents in the Democratic Party who have caused such social disruption in the U.S.  If Congressman Ellison's lame philosophy of not being broke because the government just hasn't gotten around to grabbing the money yet gains traction, then we are further down the road to rack and ruin than we previously realized.

WHAT SORT OF MENTALLY-CHALLENGED PERSON WOULD WANT TO WEAR A CHE GUEVARA TEE-SHIRT?

Che Guevara (1928 - 1967), the Argentinian medical student cum Latin American revolutionary, is one of the banal, tired icons of the mindless left.  How many times I have seen his likeness on tee- shirts I would hate to guess.  Over the years, I have often wondered if those sporting the tee shirts have any idea about the man, or are they simply manifesting what they have been taught to believe by leftist propagandists?

Born into a middle class home with intellectual pretensions, Che entered medical school in Buenos Aires, but his affinity for leftist causes and his sympathy for the poor and downtrodden soon overtook his zeal for medicine.  After various treks throughout Central America and South America, Che determined that his destiny would be that of opposition to capitalism and, in particular, to American-style capitalism, which he saw as having free rein in establishing oppressive regimes in the Southern Hemisphere.

Che's role in joining the Cuban Revolution is well known; and, from that experience he emerged as an authority on guerrilla warfare.  With the successful outcome of the revolutionary campaigns in Cuba, Che for a time was the administrator of la Cabana Fortress prison, where he became an extremely hardened man, personally taking part in the many executions of Batista loyalists.

CHE AS EXECUTIONER

Later serving in Cuba as finance minister, head of the Cuban national bank and minister of industry, Guevara climbed quickly to the highest echelons of the Cuban communist government.  In addition, it was Guevara who played the leading role in bringing to Cuba the nuclear missiles from Russia which nearly propelled the world into nuclear war during the fall of 1962. Eventually, he would be recognized as second- in-command to Fidel Castro himself.  However, in a split with Castro over Russian communism versus Chinese communism, Guevara resigned his elevated positions and even his Cuban citizenship, preferring to become an itinerant revolutionary in Africa and, finally, in Bolivia, where he was captured and killed in October of 1967.

CHE "IN EXTREMIS"

Despite his vaunted status in the hagiography of leftist sainthood, there is a side of the man which seems to have eluded all those who model the Che tee shirts. Many who survived the depredations of the Cuban revolution speak of Che in terms of his hatred, extreme cruelty and Robespierre-style determination to uproot and destroy all who were in opposition to the Cuban revolution.  As such, he seems totally enamored of violence for its own sake. In essence, he was a fanatic whose penchant for bloodshed overpowered reason.  In effect, it was his dogmatism that condemned him to the same fate that he had visited upon others, a nasty little execution in the dirty little village of Higuera in Bolivia.

If today you seek Che Guevara - for what ever reason, I might only guess - you may find his remains resting in a mausoleum in Santa Clara, Cuba.

Like so much of the rubbish of the left, the Che Guevara tee-shirts are merely faddish relics of a failed socialism.  In many ways, I suppose, we are fortunate to have only the tee shirts in our midst and not Che himself.  As for the "dudes" who sport the tees, I can almost guarantee that if you should ask one of those fellows about the historical chronology and legacy of Che Guevara, you would be met with a rather blank stare.

THE FOLLY OF ONE-PARTY POLITICS

A WELL KNOWN PRACTITIONER
OF ONE-PARTY POLITICS

Last fall on election night, I drove to the Cameron County Court House to catch the latest election returns. Regrettably, when fellow onlookers perceived my political orientation they became downright hostile. Consequently, it dawned on me that the better part of valor would be to make a strategic retreat.

Coming from a background of appreciation and toleration of other points of view,  treating political and ideological opponents as the "enemy" has always struck me as immature and ill-considered. Nevertheless, by today's standards of "take-no-prisoners politics" the age of civil discourse has long ceased to exist.

An older relative, who by himself built the Republican Party in his town and served as a county judge, once told me that he could not have accomplished his goals without the support and cooperation of his Democratic friends.  Unfortunately, that attitude is rarely encountered anymore.

For those who would wish to have a ring-side seat to observe the results of one-party politics, there is no better locale than Cameron County, Texas, which now has only two office holders not of the Democratic persuasion. One-party rule in Cameron County has produced a deep, dark hole of corruption, making the county the laughing stock of Texas.  Throughout the state, Cameron County Democrats are often referred to as the northern version of the Partido Revolutionario Institucional, or the PRI, the political party which ruled without challenge for some 70 years in Mexico.

Avoiding the cesspool of corruption is difficult in Cameron County, as it includes a goodly number of "public servants," attorneys and members of the judiciary.  The list of attorneys indicted by the federal district court for racketeering seems to grow longer by the week, and already one state district judge has been convicted for malfeasance and has turned state's witness.  Even Cameron County's district attorney has been convicted, but his newly-elected replacement is in the process of having his reputation besmirched in judicial proceedings taking place in Corpus Christi.  Also, the name of Conrado Cantu, a former sheriff convicted for facilitating the passage of illegal drugs through the county, still resonates strongly, although Cantu presently resides in the federal prison system.  Incredibly, Cameron County voters, year after year, continue to line up to pull the "palanca" (lever) for the Democratic pols.  Invariably, ignorance leads to one-party rule, crooked politicians and plenty of corruption.

On the national scene, one has to question various groups wanting to put all of their political eggs in one basket. When there is almost total unanimity of opinion politically, it is apparent that members of such groups are not very well disposed to do their homework.  A case in point is black Americans, who regularly expend well over 90% of their political power in the Democratic column. Clearly, someone other than themselves is doing their thinking for them.  With such rigidity, cerebral "rigor-mortis" and close-mindedness, it is difficult to imagine how the larger community of black Americans will ever be able to embrace new ideas, much less new leadership.  In the meantime,  they continue their mindless march to the drumbeat of the NAACP and other organizations wishing to perpetuate dependency and to promote the societal death knell of socialism.

In 1796, George Washington warned of the factionalism of political parties that could adversely affect the new Republic  However, that was then, and this is now, and the fact of the matter is that the two-party system has become traditional in America.  But for one to wish for the decease of one party in favor of another is to wish for the demise of the Republic. Historically, the two parties have had more in common than they have had in opposition.  But, now with the realignment that is apparently taking place in society, the normal pattern of politics has been disrupted.  In large part, the disruption is the result of participatory politics being taken to an extreme, with more and more unsophisticated, ill-informed voters taking part in the electoral process.  Easily swayed by promises of governmental beneficence bestowing untold benefits, such voters are prone to follow the lead of charismatic individuals who place politics over country, which is surely a template for a Third World-style dictatorship.

With one of our parties now rushing headlong with all guns blazing to destroy the competing party, extreme vigilance is now called for.  Sadly, this challenge must now be met with with the same intransigence and inflexibility that is arrayed by the forces that would foist upon us one-party rule.  The survival of the Republic could well depend on it.

THE DOUBLE STANDARD OF RACE IN AMERICA

In the wake of the acquittal of George Zimmerman and the resulting cries from the African-American community of prejudice and discrimination, little notice has been given to the continuing story of black on white violence, which is simply seen as a normal occurrence unworthy of national attention

From Gulfport, Florida, comes news of three teenage black students beating a thirteen-year-old white boy to within an inch of his life on a school bus, ostensibly because the white student reported to school administrators that the blacks had tried to sell him drugs.  And, from Baltimore at the end of July, a black mob, attacking in mass, severely injured a white waiter. How strange it is that the race-baiters, posing as apostles of peace, have not raised their godly, righteous voices in condemnation of these acts!

Despite these and many, many more like incidents, the myth spread by the race-baiters that white on black violence in the U.S. is a massive problem simply does not bear up under close examination.  The vast majority of the white population is too consumed with dealing with everyday challenges of making a go of things in a weak economy to concern themselves with plots and plans having to do with victimizing blacks.

From the FBI's National Crime Victimization Survey and the DOJ's Uniform Crime Reports, statistics show most clearly that white citizens are far more likely to be the victims of black violence than vice versa. Compared to whites, blacks are 7 times more likely to commit murder, 8 times more likely to engage in burglary and 3 times more likely to utilize a handgun in the commission of a crime.  Furthermore, all things considered, blacks are 39 times more likely to commit crimes against whites.  In fact, 45% of black crime is carried out against whites.  As a result, blacks are 7 times more likely than whites to be sentenced to prison terms.

The death of Trayvon Martin was an isolated incident, which was given a national spin owing to the tendency of the national media to sensationally play on the reverse racism of such racial entrepreneurs as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.  And, as to profiling, what does one expect when so many, many black youngsters are obsessed with a "thug culture," which carries with it connotations of violence, drugs and cultural degradation?  Encountering loud, boisterous black youngsters with pants hanging below their derrieres in public settings, it is little wonder that individuals seeking to avoid turmoil resort to profiling.  Indeed, it goes without saying that there is a race problem in America, but it is a problem that must honestly be faced by American blacks.  Obviously, the Jacksons and Sharptons don't have the answers.  If the black community is to be saved, it must accomplish that deed by itself.  Since the Great Society of Lyndon Johnson and the billions of dollars in benefits that accompanied it, conditions in the black community have only gotten worse.  The fragmentation of the black family continues unabated, illegitimacy has risen to alarming levels and, for too many blacks, crime has simply become a career option.  The time for the black double standard has long been inappropriate, and the time for accountability is nigh.

SNOOP DOGGY DOG AND JAMES MADISON: AN EQUALITY OF SUPREME IGNORANCE VERSUS CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY

RAPPER SNOOP DOGGY DOG

After a long road trip, I recently took our Dodge Dakota to a local car wash for a good cleaning.  Unfortunately, in an adjoining bay, the savage, pulsating rhythms from a mobile sound amplification  system were blaring forth at a high rate of decibels.  Fortunately, though, I had a set of firing-range ear-muffs in the truck, which I immediately donned in an effort to blunt the noise.  Seeing me all muffed out, the young owner of the sound system sent an extremely dirty look my way.

The experience reminded me that I had come across a poll of recent college graduates that indicated that 96% of those finishing higher education in the U.S. could readily identify the rapper Snoop Doggy Dog, but only 48% could successfully place James Madison as "Father of the Constitution."  It would seem, then, that a comparison of these two personages who loom so large in the American cultural experience would be in order.

Born in 1971, Snoopy Doggy Dog grew up in the Los Angeles area.  From an early age, he had run-ins with law enforcement and was at one time affiliated with the gang known as the "Crips" (not to be confused, of course, with the "Bloods").  In 1993, after being indicted on a charge of murder, he was acquitted by a jury of his peers.  During his adult years, Snoop has continued to have problems with the law, most notably problems having to do with firearms violations.  He has openly claimed that he is the reincarnation of Bob Marley, and has expressed his admiration for Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.  As an aside, Snoop's favorite hobby seems to be the raising of pit-bulls.

From "Doggy Dog World," Snoop Doggy Dog has regaled his audience with these sensitive, soul-searching lyrics:

Well, if you give me ten bitches, then I'll fuck all ten

See my homey Snoop Doggy sippin juice and gin

Don't slip, I'm fo' to set trip, to get papers

Styles vary, packin flavor like Life Savors

Ain't that somethin, talk shit and I'm dumpin

I had your whole fuckin block bumpin

Don't sweat, but check the tecnique , I'm unique like China

Ya never find the bomb-a-rama then this Nigga behind ya,

So, peek-a-boo, I'm comin through

Indeed, there is much more; but, no doubt, you will get the major thrust of the "artistry" that has sent Snoop to the top of the charts and has accounted for CD sales that have exceeded 30 million.

PRESIDENT JAMES MADISON

For recent grads who might have dozed off during American History 101, James Madison served the Republic as president from 1809 - 1817.  Of, course, bearing the moniker of "Father of the Constitution," Madison was a prime force in the drafting of the Constitution. In deliberations preceding the final drafting of the document, Madison addressed the constitutional assemblage more than 200 times.  Collaborating with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, Madison presented cogent arguments in the Federalist Papers for the Constitution as being a solid basis for limited government and the preservation of states' rights.

Fearing that the newly ratified Constitution did not adequately protect both the rights of the central government and those of the states, Madison favored a series of amendments that would enable both constituencies to amiably coexist.  From an ample slate of proposed amendments that was originally considered by the Senate, a paring down eventually resulted by 1791 in the 10 amendments that make up this Republic's Bill of Rights. Thus, these amendments became the statement that anchored the American Constitution in such a way as to enable it to become the longest-lived written constitution in the history of the world.

Madison's political philosophy was originally closely aligned with that of Thomas Jefferson, who had early on favored a limited central government.  However, Madison, from experience gained as president during the War of 1812, eventually saw that there were exigencies that would call for more federal authority.

In No. 51 of The Federalist Papers, Madison, perhaps anticipating the dangers of an all-powerful and ill-tutored majority such as we see in 2013, wrote:

"It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society from the injustice of the other part....In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger."

It is without exaggeration that one can say that it is the Constitution which has sustained this Republic and its citizens.  Truly, the Constitution has weathered many storms, but now it is under assault from the highest echelons, in a massive effort to curtail individual liberty in favor of  a dumbed-down equality that would turn an exceptional nation into a drab caricature of its former self.  But, is this surprising in a country that is now led by a chief executive who believes Charleston, South Carolina, is located on the Gulf of Mexico, that there is an Austrian language and that he has visited 57 states of the Union?

Yes, dear readers, we are indeed at a crossroads.  Will the Snoop Doggy Dogs of this world continue to lower standards and expectations, or will Americans stand for the liberty and freedom that make up their heritage?  Shall we surrender our God-given rights based on natural law to the socialist world view of an equality of poverty?  Thus, I issue to you a clarion call to man the barricades of liberty and to summon forth all of your determination to reverse the present tide of cultural abasement that currently afflicts our land!