August 06, 2006
A suicide bomber was killed early Sunday in southwestern Pakistan when the explosives belt he was wearing exploded prematurely, police said.No one else was injured in the blast in Hub, an industrial town in Baluchistan province, local police official Munir Hussain said.
"This man was riding a cycle. He had strapped explosives to his body for a suicide attack and they exploded," Hussain said of the blast in Hub's Zehri Street neighborhood.
The man's intended target was not immediately known, and police were investigating, Hussain said.
That's one more dead terrorist in Hell with Allah.
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August 05, 2006
Interestingly, nearly four decades later, the words still ring true and can be applied to the current situation in the Middle East.
ISRAEL'S PECULIAR POSITIONThe Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.
Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it, Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchman. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese -- and no one says a word about refugees.
But in the case of Israel the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis.
Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. Other nations when they are defeated survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed.
Had Nasser triumphed last June he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews.
No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on. There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Negroes are executed in Rhodesia. But when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one remonstrated with him. The Swedes, who are ready to break of diplomatic relations with America because of what we do in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent Hitler choice iron ore and ball bearings, and serviced his troop trains to Norway.
The Jews are alone in the world. If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. And Jewish resources. Yet at this moment Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us. And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general.
I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the next Holocaust will be upon us.
UPDATE: This analysis by a Clinton Administration official shows how true these words are today.
The track record of many of Israel's most powerful accusers--including China, Russia and the European Union--is not nearly as good at balancing civilian risk against military goals.China killed hundreds of peaceful Tiananmen Square protestors in 1989. It has for five decades occupied Tibet, slaughtering tens of thousands; and it vows to invade Taiwan if it declares independence. Neither the Tiananmen protesters nor Tibet nor Taiwan has ever threatened to "wipe China off the map."
Russia has fought since 1994 to suppress Chechnya's independence movement. Out of a Chechen population of one million, as many as 200,000 have been killed as Russia has leveled the capital city of Grozny. Chechen rebels pose no threat to "wipe Russia off the map." All of the leading EU countries actively participated in NATO's 78-day bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999. The military goal was to stop Yugoslavia from oppressing its Kosovar minority. NATO bombs and missiles hit Yugoslav bridges, power plants and a television station, killing hundreds of civilians. Yugoslavia posed no threat to the existence of any of the EU countries that bombed it.
Compared with how China, Russia, and the EU have dealt with non-existential threats--and despite the law-flouting behavior of Hezbollah, Iran and Syria--Israel's responses to the threats to its existence have been remarkably restrained rather than disproportionately violent.
Indeed, the response has been restrained -- but Israel is not allowed to defend itself at all. In the eyes of much of the international community, the only appropriate response of a Jew under attack is to cooperate by dying quickly and without a struggle.
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August 03, 2006
When every last jihadi in Lebanon is dead, Israel will cease firing.
And the nice thing about my proposal is that there is no ambiguity or opportunity for Hezbollah to rearm again.
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And herein lies a great secret of why we fight, why we have gone to war after the kidnappings of Gilad Shalit in Gaza , and Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev on the Lebanese border. Why the Israeli public completely backs this war with approval ratings of over 90%. Because our army is our kids, and Jewish kids will not be kidnapped and slaughtered ever again without having hell to pay. Because we will not sit idly by while our enemies openly call for our destruction and amass the means to carry out their threats.Everyday’s paper brings new pictures of fallen soldiers—their smiles, their backgrounds, their unbelievable stories. Major Benji Hillman, 27, an English immigrant, who died leading his troops into Ras A Maroun, only three weeks after his wedding. Major Roi Klein, 31, died by jumping on a hand grenade, thereby shielding his soldiers from certain death—he leaves a wife and two young sons. Seargeant Michael Levine, 22, a new immigrant from Pennsylvania, rushed back to his unit after visiting his family in the states, to find death fighting Hizbollah in Ayta A-Shab. These heroes will not be forgotten nor will their deaths be turned into mere casualty statistics of a war viewed by cynics as “disproportionate”.
Tonight, starts the fast of the 9th of Av, when we read the book of Lamentations as we mourn the destruction of our Temples and other calamities that have befallen the Jewish people on this day. Sitting in the moonlight on a hill across from the Temple Mount, hundreds of our neighbors and friends read together the scary verses about the tragedy that has followed our people for generations. Yet there is a quiet determination which is palpable among the mourners---a feeling that this war, our war, will ultimately be won, that redemption is finally on the way, and that our families will prevail.
May God continue to bless the Children of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob as they defend themselves against those who would kill them for believing in and living out the promises God made to their forefathers.
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An umbrella organization of North American Jewish charities said yesterday that it will seek to raise a minimum of $300 million in emergency humanitarian funds for Israel this year, one of the largest short-term goals in its history.The fund drive drew immediate criticism from at least one prominent rabbi who called on American Jews to raise money for the reconstruction of Lebanon, not just Israel. But experts on Jewish philanthropy predicted that the campaign would receive broad support, following a well-established pattern of giving by U.S. Jews in times of crisis for the Jewish state.
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[Howard Rieger, president and chief executive of United Jewish Communities,] said that since Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid, triggering three weeks of fighting between Israel and Lebanese militants, UJC has spent $12.5 million a week to evacuate children and elderly residents of northern Israel beyond the range of Hezbollah rockets.
He said the additional funds would be used to set up summer camps for up to 15,000 displaced children in southern Israel, provide trauma counseling, create a $20 million fund for victims of the rocket attacks and their families, rebuild social services and refurbish bomb shelters that lack air conditioning and are in disrepair.
Doron Krakow, senior vice president of the UJC's Israel division, said the campaign is "fundamentally committed to helping Israeli communities under siege, and that means helping Israeli Arabs and Druze, as well as Jews."
There are, of course, some Jews opposing aid for israel and instead looking for support for the jihadis and their lebanese allies. I guess that is just proof positive that today, six decades after the Holocause, there still are would-be Kapos and judische Polizei in 2006, ready to cooperate with the enemies of the Jewish people rather than aid their brothers and sisters.
To learn more about the campaign, click here.
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A federal appeals court panel on Thursday refused to let Texas Republicans replace Tom DeLay's name on the November congressional ballot.The finding upheld a July ruling by a federal judge that the ballot must list DeLay, who won a March primary before resigning from Congress on June 9. He now lives in Virginia but is awaiting trial in Texas state court on money laundering and conspiracy charges alleging that illegal corporate cash helped pay for legislative campaigns in 2002.
"This was a victory for fair and ethical elections protecting the integrity of the democratic process. Both parties have nominees for the general election and it's time to move forward," said Cris Feldman, a lawyer for the Texas Democratic Party.
The problem, of course, is that Texas law requires that a candidate be ineligible to be replaced -- and the Constitution only requires eligibility on the day of election. Frankly, I don't thingk the GOP lawyers handled this case well at all. And the real culprit in all f this is DeLay himself, who decided to bail out at the first sign of trouble.
Frankly, I don't see a ruling by the Supreme Court happening in a sufficiently timely fashion as to make a difference, so I hope the party just drops that Hail Mary tactic.
Where does that leave us as a party?
1) DeLay can become an active candidate again. To be honest, I think this district is Republican enough that he could win. But I only want to see that happen if he is serious about serving out the entire term. A post election refusal to serve will simply piss-off too many people to guarantee that the seat will stay out of Democrat hands.
2) DeLay could withdraw from the race, leaving the GOP without a candidate. Local conservative forces could unite behind one write-in candidate. Unfortunately, the method for doing write-in votes on teh eSlate machines is cumbersome and would discorage many voters from doing so. I therefore find this an unsatisfactory option.
3) DeLay could withdraw and the GOP could throw its support to Bob Smither, the Libertarian in the race. While certainly not a Republican, he is preferrable to Nick Lampson.
4) DeLay could withdraw and the GOP could concede the race. This would have teh effect of putting Lampson in office for the foreseeable future, given the difficulty of defeating an incumbent.
I Tom Delay stays in the race, I will back him -- not with enthusiasm, but I will back him. After all, I didn't vote for him in the 2002 or 2004 primary, and voted Libertarian for Congress in both of those elections. Those votes were protests against a Congressman that I had (and have) some serious questions about. But the reality is that I believe that holding this seat for the GOP is of vital importance for the United States. I can sum up the reason for this in two words -- Speaker Pelosi. It is why I endorsed Tom DeLay for renomination this past spring, and why I had done so for the general election. Democrat control of either house of Congress would not be good for America.
The party needs to quickly figure out what is going on, and then act accordingly. The leadership has already f*cked this one up enough, and we need every moment we can get to make sure that we hold this seat in trust for future generations of Americans -- even if that means that Delay's butt sits in it for one more term.
But make no mistake. There will be serious primary challenges if he tries to run in 2008, and he will not be the nominee of the GOP in 2008.
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An Iraq war veteran who lost an arm and leg in a roadside bombing was mugged during a night out from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, according to an Associated Press report.Lance Cpl. Mark Beyers, 27, and his wife were attacked and robbed as they left a restaurant in Bethesda, Md. on July 22.
The Marine from western New York was dining out while finishing up rehabilitation at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
As they left the restaurant, five men approached them and asked for a cigarette.
Denise Beyers told The Buffalo News they gave the men a cigarette -- but then the men grabbed her purse, kicked her and knocked the couple to the ground.
The thieves made off with $500 just wired to them by a relative.
Mark Beyers expects to be back home in the Buffalo area this weekend.
His family is planning a fundraiser for him on Aug. 12.
If someone will help me track down an address on where to help Lance Cpl. Bryers and his wife, I will be pleased to post it here.
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August 02, 2006
Do I have to go back to school, Mommy?
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Hezbollah rockets struck Israel in record numbers and deeper than ever Wednesday, pushing the three-week total over the 2,000 mark and killing a Boston-born man fleeing on his bicycle toward shelter.The barrage, which followed a two-day lull, came despite the Israeli army chief's claim that the offensive in south Lebanon had eroded Hezbollah's firepower. Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz also threatened to resume air raids against the Lebanese capital.
One missile fell near the Palestinian town of Jenin, leaving a 6-foot crater in a rural area of the West Bank. It caused no casualties, and Palestinians said the mistake would not change their support for Hezbollah.
Rockets also landed near the town of Beit Shean, 45 miles from the border — the deepest penetration so far. Hezbollah's satellite TV network, Al-Manar, reported the guerrilla group used its longer-range Khaibar-1 missiles, which Israel says were supplied by Iran. The Khaibar rocket debuted last week when the town of Afula was targeted.
The army said more than 230 rockets had hit Israel by Wednesday night. The highest previous daily total was 157 on Sunday.
Fortunately, Hezbollah's attacks caused only a single civilian fatality, though there were over thirty civilians wounded in the attack -- the hand of God is protecting his people Israel.
But unfortunately, this still leads some to argue that Israel should not be making such a serious attempt to root out Hezbollah. One person told me yesterday that Israel's actions in Lebanon were unwarranted since Hezbollah couldn't hit the broad side of a barn and was doing so little damage.
I urge my Israeli readers to share tehir experiences in the comment section for the benefit of my readers from the rest of the world. After al, the press won't tell us about the impact of these attacks on Israel.
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[U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark] Malloch Brown was quoted in a British newspaper Wednesday suggesting that he does not think that Hezbollah, the Syrian- and Iranian-backed group currently fighting Israeli Defense Forces, is a terrorist organization."It's not helpful to couch this war in the language of international terrorism. Hezbollah employs terrorist tactics; it is an organization, however, whose roots historically are completely separate and different from Al Qaeda," he said, according to a transcript of an interview.
So Hezbollah may look like terrorists and act like terrorists, but they are not terrorists because they are not al-Qaeda. This ignores the minor detail that one can be a terrorist without being a part of al-Qaeda, just as one could be a pirate without being Blackbeard.
Can't we just admit that the UN is a failed experiment in utopian diplomacy and dismiss the organization from both our budget and our shores?
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Even though Elena smelled of alcohol when she was pulled over after cops spotted her weaving in and out of traffic with no headlights at around 11:00 PM (which I must note is after the curfew that her father and the City Council want to impose on every teen in the city).
Even though she failed the field sobriety test.
Even though she refused the Breathalyzer test.
Even though daddy has now hired high-power defense attorney Rusty Hardin to handle her case.
But I will note that Elena is 17.
And I will note that Mayor White, whose office initially issued a very responsible statement on the situation, has shifted direction and adopted a position that I can only call irresponsible.
"My daughter believes that she was not intoxicated and was not dangerous and wouldn't be impaired in her condition to drive," White said, calling her a "good kid" who has "always shot straight with me."He added, "I personally, based on what I've heard today, think that it (the arrest) may have been a mistake."
Excuse me, Mr. Mayor.
I believe the legal drinking age here in Texas is 21. That makes it pretty clear that your daughter broke the law and deserved to be cited.
Your daughter couldn't walk a straight line or track objects with her eyes during the field sobriety test -- would you accept the assurances of any other drunk that they weren't impaired and could safely drive in that situation? Would you consider their arrest "a mistake"? Would you ever consider issing an order that the police release any driver who, having failed those tests, assured them that they weren't impaired and could make it home safely? I think we all know the answers to those questions.
It is clear you love your daughter, sir. And it is clear that she made a stupid mistake of the sort that many kids make in high school and on into college. As you point out, it doesn't make her a wild child or of bad seed, or proof of your moral failings as a parent, politician, or human being.
But might I urge you to reconsider that quote I cited above. It sends the wrong signal -- to her, and to young people all over this area. While it may be the first impulse of a loving parent, it is wrong for you to try to help her avoid the consequences for something she clearly did.
The best thing you can do for your daughter is to get her to 'fess up to what she did, accept her punishment, and learn from the mistake. And might I suggest that you teach her by example, by issuing a statement and conceding that your comments above, while made out of the purest love of a parent for his child, were wrong.
Because while I disagree with you on many things political, I know beyond all doubt that you are a good man. Prove me right.
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Charging Fidel Castro with the deaths of his relatives, Cuban-American Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell declared last night: “I hope he does die.”“Castro killed members of my family,” Lowell told the Herald before last night’s game against the Cleveland Indians at Fenway.
Some news reports have suggested the Cuban dictator, nearly 80, is gravely ill after undergoing surgery for intestinal bleeding, even as Cuban news media say he is recovering. He has handed power to his brother, Raul Castro.
Lowell, 32, recounted the trauma the Castro regime has caused his family.
“My dad had to pack up his suitcase at 10 years old with his three brothers, who had nothing. And my mother was 11 years old and my grandfather, who’d been a dentist for 15 or 20 years, had to go back to school to be (politically) re-educated,” Lowell said.
“My cousins were political prisoners. My father-in-law was a political prisoner for 15 years because, at 19, they asked him if he agreed with communism and he said, ‘No,’ so they sentenced him to death. That’s not the way to live. I know it’s terrible to say, but I think of all of that and I hope he (Castro) passes away.
“I don’t care if he dies,” Lowell said. “There are so many people who have died because of him and there’s been so much wrongdoing and so many human rights violations that I hope he does die. That sounds bad, but it’s the truth.”
It's time for more Cuban-American celebrities to speak out and slap down the Leftist propaganda that paint's Castro as a good guy.
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August 01, 2006
DINGELL: First of all, our problem is that we must be a fair and honest broker and a friend to all parties. The resolution didn’t make us that. We have to have the trust of both of the people of Israel and the people of the Arab countries around it, in order to help resolve the problem. If we don’t, the possibilities of regional war, calamitous situation with regard to Israel which has 5 million people amidst a billion and a half Arabs are a real potential for calamity. Having said at that, what we have to do is to see to it that finally we begin to address the problems that exist to abate the difficulties that are preventing a–a honest solution to the problem and a negotiated end. It takes–it takes a lot of work to get the trust that it takes to do this. The resolution did not instill that kind of trust and the end result would be quite frankly, the real solution to the problems that exist in the middle east would probably have been and probably will be put off.ANCHOR: Overall majority of your colleagues didn’t see it that way and some would suggest that if–even though there are obviously a lot of issues with Lebanon and with Palestinian cause wrapped up in this, that this largely boils down to Israel against Hezbollah and Hezbollah is a group that the United States has deemed a terrorist organization, that there’s only one side for the Americans to come down on in this fight.
DINGELL: Well, we donÂ’t, first of all, I donÂ’t take sides for or against Hezbollah or for or against Israel.
ANCHOR: YouÂ’re not against Hezbollah?
DINGELL: No, I happen to be—I happen to be against violence, I think the United States has to bring resolution to this matter. Now, I condemn Hezbollah as does everybody else, for the violence, but I think if we’ve got to talk to them and if we don’t — if we don’t get ourselves in a position where we can talk to both sides and bring both sides together, the killing and the blood let is going to continue.
Now let's look at those highlighted sections. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. That is utterly beyond dispute. Their main stock-in-trade is violence. Yet despite is claim of opposition to the violence -- which has included the cold-blooded murder of American military personnel -- Dingell wants to treat Israel and Hezbollah as equals and find some middle ground. ABSURD!
And when asked if he is against Hezbollah -- a client of Syria and Iran which uses the intentional targetting of innocent civilians as a standard tactic -- Dingell clearly says that he is not. Oh, yeah, he says he opposes the violence, but he is apparently not opposed to the platform, which is the destruction of Israel.
PowerLine nails it.
If I have this right, Dingell's "actual view" is that the United States should be a friend of Hezbollah, though he condemns the organization for its "violence" even if he does not quite deem it a terrorist group. In other words, according to Rep. Dingell, the United States should serve as an "honest broker" between a murderer and the murderer's intended victim. Thanks to ThinkProgress for introducing the nuance necessary to appreciate Rep. Dingell's true view fully.
I guess I have a vision of Dingell and the ThinkProgress crowd coming upon a woman using a can of mace to defend herself from a would-be rapist and demanding that the woman drop the canister so two sit down and achieve a mutual understanding where they can both achieve their goals. The problem is that doing so in such a situation -- and in the case of Israel and Hezbollah -- means suspending all sense of justice and morality in order to materially cooperate with evil.
I repeat my earlier position on the issue -- one I feel is fully supported by the much longer transcript.
Utterly obscene!And remember -- your vote for a Democrat Congressional candidate is a vote to make John Dingell Chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee -- which has a lot to do with setting our policies vis-a-vis the Middle East.
Assigning moral equivalency to the two sides in this conflict is unacceptable. Demanding that we be an "honest broker" with terrorist groups is a position which is beyond reprehensible -- but apparently acceptable in the Democrat Party and on the Left in general.
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The Jordan-based Arab Bank yesterday asked a federal judge in Brooklyn to dismiss a lawsuit brought by thousands of Israelis who claim the bank fueled terrorism by providing payments to the relatives of suicide bombers.Lawyers for the bank said that the 4,000 foreign citizens who are plaintiffs should not be allowed to have their case heard in the American court system. They argued that terrorism against Israel does not violate any "international norm." Lawyers for the bank said that some 80 countries, most Islamic or African, do not consider Palestinian Arab suicide bombers to be terrorists.
"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter — that holding is binding on this court," said an attorney for the bank, Kevin Walsh of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene and MacRae.
The plaintiffs who are suing Arab Bank in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn are the victims of terrorist attacks during the second intifada and the relatives of victims. While the overwhelming majority are citizens of Israel, some plaintiffs are from Afghanistan, Moldova, and several other countries.
They claim that Arab Bank — which has an office in New York — used offices in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to distribute payments to people who could prove they were relatives of recent suicide bombers.
The plaintiffs are suing under a 217 year-old-law, the Alien Tort Statute, which has been used by foreign citizens to bring lawsuits in America's federal courts stemming from human rights violations that occurred anywhere in the world.
Got that, folks -- international law supports Jew-killing! Terrorism directed at destroying Israel is not terrorism -- it is freedom-fighting.
Time for the State Department to place this bank on the list of prohibitted terrorist organizations.
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Ald. Todd Stroger, the Democratic nominee for Cook County Board president, and the 8th Ward organization he represents have given almost $8,000 to a group that believes blacks should not be taxed and should not be involved in interracial relationships, and which supports the creation of a separate state for blacks.Records show that since 2000, the Coalition for the Remembrance of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad (C.R.O.E.) has received $2,000 more from the campaign committee for Ald. Stroger's father, longtime county Board President John Stroger.
The Nation of Islam splinter group calls for "former slave masters" to provide the land for a black state and 20 to 25 years of supplies for those living there, along with free schooling for black students, who should be taught only by other blacks, its Web site says.
Other local politicians who have given financial support to the group include Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, state Senate President Emil Jones, Cook County Assessor James Houlihan, Cook County State's Attorney Richard Devine, interim Cook County Board President Bobbie Steele and Chicago Ald. William Beavers. I won't supply the party label for any of these folks -- but will remind you that this is Chicago.
Now could you imagine the outrage if there were politicians giving money to a white group that supported such white separtist principles? How long would it take for such indivivuals to be driven out of office? Want to be that doesn't happen here, even though the views are just as repugnant?
Oh, and by the way -- Munir Muhammad, the groups's leader, is a member of the Illinois Human Rights Commission.
Disgusting.
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The Lebanese Web site Libanoscopie reports that the massacre in Qana was set up by Hezbollah, in order to defeat the seven point plan of the Lebanese government, which would have disarmed the militia:
Knowing full well that Israel will not hesitate to bombard civilian targets, Hizbullah militants placed a rocket launcher on the roof of a building in Qana and brought disabled children inside, in a bid to provoke a response by the Israeli Air Force, to create a new situation, using the massacre of innocents to regain the initiative in the negotiations."The report is believable because the place, Qana, where there had been an Israeli "massacre" in 1996, and also the timing were very very convenient for Hezbollah.
Both the original French text and an English translation are available at ZioNation.
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And also so that the deportation order will be mooted if Congress passes amnesty.
Eleven illegal immigrants from the Chicago area, arrested in a high-profile nationwide sweep, received an unexpected reprieve Monday after elected officials and the public weighed in on their behalf.An immigration judge in Chicago granted the former employees of IFCO Systems a one-year stay of deportation. In return, the immigrants pledged not to appeal the deportation orders.
The delay gives the immigrants a chance to stay in the country if Congress approves a bill granting legal status to many of the nation's 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants. That measure has stalled, for now, but many analysts think the prospects will improve after the November elections.
DHS officials are weighing the option of appealing this decision.
Marc Raimondi, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman, said the department was still evaluating the judge's decision but would likely appeal a one-year extension."In order for the immigration system to have any integrity, the laws have to be enforceable," Raimondi said. "We aren't going to be influenced by public sentiment. We are going to be influenced by enforcing the immigration laws."
That doesn't sit well with one politician.
[Congressman Luis] Gutierrez will ask the Department of Homeland Security to suspend all deportations to give Congress time to pass a legalization bill, the congressman's spokesman Scott Frotman said. Frotman said it does not make sense to deport illegal immigrants "because these are people who would ultimately be affected by the law."
And I'm asking DHS to expedite every single deportation case -- and I'm asking the people of Gutierrez's district to vote him out and replace him with a congressman who believes in enforcing American law.
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"I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah; I don't take sides for or against Israel." Asked, "You're not against Hezbollah?" Dingell answers, "No..."
Utterly obscene!
And remember -- your vote for a Democrat Congressional candidate is a vote to make John Dingell Chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee -- which has a lot to do with setting our policies vis-a-vis the Middle East.
H/T PowerLine, Right Wing News, Expose the Left
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