“Earrings on a Pig” October 1, 2007
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Federal officials, bowing to safety concerns over Mexican trucks on U.S. highways, announced last week trucks participating in the ongoing cross-border demonstration project will be required to submit to monitoring by a satellite-based vehicle tracking system – a move one critic dismissed as an “ornament” that “fails to address the real issues of driver safety.”
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a statement Thursday saying the tracking plan jointly developed by FMCSA and Mexico’s Secretaria de Communicaciones y Transportes applies to both U.S. and Mexican trucks in the program.
“This will give us the ability to monitor every vehicle from Mexico and ensure all companies are following our strict safety requirements, including those governing hours of service and sabotage,” said John Hill, FMCSA administrator.
Todd Spencer, executive vice president of the Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association, isn’t buying FMCSA’s claims of enhanced safety.
“This really accomplishes nothing. It’s like putting earrings on a pig,” he told WND.
“The FMCSA just proceeds with the program, placing more and more ornaments on it, but fails to address the real issues of driver safety.”
The reason I think Mr. Spencer is correct is the weasely language that Mr. Hill used, saying that the vehicle tracking system will ensure “our strict safety requirements, including those governing hours of service and sabotage.” The reason why the phrase “our strict safety requirements” is suspect is that, because of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the very reason why Mexican trucks can roam free in the USA and Canada to begin with, “our” safety rules don’t apply to transnational commerce among and between NAFTA signatory countries — Mexican trucks, even ones in the USA and Canada, need only meet Mexico’s “standards.” Therefore, “our” safety rules, in the context of the trucks that will be so “tracked” and “monitored” (if they really will be), are Mexico’s safety rules.
Fine As Far As It Goes October 1, 2007
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AP:
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Monday defended the construction of a fence along the southwest border, saying it’s actually better for the environment than what happens when people illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico line.
“Illegal migrants really degrade the environment. I’ve seen pictures of human waste, garbage, discarded bottles and other human artifact in pristine areas,” Chertoff said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “And believe me, that is the worst thing you can do to the environment.”
This is actually a good argument, as Minuteman Civil Defense Corps volunteers have several times in the past year spent the entirety of a Saturday cleaning up illegal alien trash in parts of the desert that are popular for illegal alien migration.
But this begs the more obvious question: Which fence is he talking about? The one that’s only 2% complete as of August, and will stay 2% complete for the foreseeable future, because neither the current open-borders President nor his open-borders nurse ratchet successor have any desire to finish it?
The Zimbabwe Dollar Today October 1, 2007
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Today: 30,630.0
Sept. 28: 30,705.7
The Wichita Gangmen Are Strung Up On The Line October 1, 2007
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A sweeping, secretive investigation has led to indictments accusing 28 people of operating the Crips gang as a “racketeering enterprise” that murdered, robbed and intimidated Wichita residents for years.
The federal grand jury indictments identify people who prosecutors say are responsible for four unresolved Wichita homicides from 1998 to 2006. One defendant could face a death-penalty prosecution, documents filed by his defense attorney say. The documents were posted on a federal court Web site.
The indictments, filed in Wichita, describe a criminal organization that furthered itself with an array of crimes dating back 17 years and including arson, use of drug houses, home loan fraud and interstate prostitution of minors.
The documents accuse Crips members or associates of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known as RICO, used to prosecute the Mafia and other organized-crime groups. The law has been wielded against gangs around the nation, most recently in Oklahoma.
The indictments also accuse some defendants of violent crimes aiding racketeering.
For Wichita, the concerted federal prosecution represents a historic step in efforts to fight gangs, and it shows that gangs have reached a level of organization that most people don’t realize, said Brian Withrow, associate professor of criminal justice at Wichita State University.
It means gangs aren’t only loosely connected street thugs — that “they are in fact an enterprise that produces income,” Withrow said.
Well, duh.
All that is necessary for a RICO prosecution is for a demonstrable group of people to commit three crimes or more with organizational imprimatur within a ten-year period. This blogmeister has wondered ever since his first Business Law course where this action was against black gangs. Video clips from local Wichita TV stations report that this is the first-ever use of Federal RICO statutes against a black street gang, and the first RICO prosecution against any corrupt organization in the state of Kansas.
One Stripe Removed October 1, 2007
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Sherman George demoted to Deputy Chief — In all likelihood, one of the other Deputy Chiefs will become the new chief. I’m betting that a black D/C will be promoted, in exchange for a promise that he will make the promotions that former Chief George wouldn’t.
What surprises me is that any action was taken against Chief George at all.
UPDATE 3:40 PM: Arch City Chronicle reports that FIRE’s press release denouncing the demotion was authored by none other than Lizz Brown. It looks like morning revolutionary has landed on her feet, post-WGNU.
Today’s Immigration Stack of Stuff October 1, 2007
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(1) In response to an invader rally in Irving, Texas yesterday, where the “si se puede” crowd opposed the city’s program to notify ICE of illegal aliens that the city’s police officers has apprehended (where common sense would dictate that not doing so would mean that the city is guilty of obstruction of justice, and even as ICE itself really isn’t interested, thank you Julie Myers), the (real) citizens of Irving voiced their support to City Hall via phone calls and e-mails. You made a difference, again.
(2) RINO Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher, who is little more than a month away from getting laid off, is trying to weasel his way into an anti-invader position. WBKO-ABC-13 Bowling Green (Ky.) reports that:
Governor Ernie Fletcher says Kentucky will not be a safe haven for illegal immigrants who commit felonies.
The governor wants Kentucky to take part in the federal government’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants convicted of crimes.
Fletcher has asked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to allow Kentucky to be a partner in the effort.
Before you Kentuckians get up and dance upon the news that Gov. Fletcher has changed his mind, note the weasely phrase here “illegal immigrants who commit felonies.” This means that he only cares about deporting illegal aliens that commit other felony crimes. This is perfectly consistent with his pro-invader position, that illegal aliens should be allowed to stay as long as “they are paying their taxes and not bothering anybody.”
So, reducing the wage/salary equilibrium is fine and dandy, but pulling a felony is where Mr. Fletcher supposedly draws the line, though the fact that he didn’t draw this line until a month before electon day is telling. Should Mexicans become a big enough majority in Kentucky to wield the majority influence in state politics, the “concern” about felonious illegal aliens will stop.
You’re Not Evil Anymore, Mr. Griffin. And You Won’t Be Evil Again Until After the Elections. October 1, 2007
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Anything you can do I can do better
The British National Party, even though we’re supposed to think that it’s a fringe party, and its members might as well be in the untouchable caste, seems to be wielding a very big stick in what will very likely be parliamentary elections in the UK within the next six months. Two articles today from the British press, one from the Telegraph, and one from the Independent, suggest that both “mainstream” parties think they need to appeal to BNP voters.
First, from the former, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), a left-wing think tank with “close links to [the] Labour [Party],” has released a study which states that immigration is an overall drain on the British economy, but:
Migrants from many developing nations fail to pay their way, while those from wealthy countries, such as the United States and Australia, provide a boost for the economy.
Translated into English, this means that white immigrants are good, while non-white ones aren’t. This report is a thinly-veiled attempt to make the Labour Party look tough on immigration and race.
The latter source states that David Cameron, the leader of the Tories in Parliament, and the man who would be Prime Minister should his party win a majority of seats in the upcoming elections:
One of David Cameron’s most trusted and senior political allies has plunged the party into a race row by claiming that people who vote for the far-right British National Party (BNP) have “some very legitimate views” on immigration and crime.
In an interview with The Independent on Sunday, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the shadow Minister for Community Cohesion, fuelled the already highly charged debate about immigration by arguing that it has been “out of control”.
Lady Warsi, given a peerage by Mr Cameron so that she could join the Tory front bench, said that the “lack of control” over immigration was making people feel “uneasy”. She added that the “face” of some communities was changing overnight because of the sudden influx of people from abroad, adding that “the pace of change unsettles communities”.
“Face of some communities changing overnight.” Translated into English, that means white racial dispossession.
Even though the actual number of votes for BNP candidates has been disappointingly low, political professionals in the UK, like here, are privy to polling data that the rest of us aren’t, and the fact that both Labour and Tories are trying to outdo each other to appeal to voters of a “fringe” party tells you that it’s not so fringe after all, (the fact that the BNP’s website is the #1 political website in the UK is a clue), that they know that, all other things being equal, and without any efforts to co-opt the BNP, that BNP support at the ballot box could soon skyrocket, and that the Ls and the Ts want a piece of that action.
True To Its Principles October 1, 2007
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Why wouldn’t Habitat for Humanity build a house for this East Texas ex-con, who has been involved in a dozen bank robberies? And why is the oh-so-progressive mainstream media worried about it all of a sudden?
Judging from the ex-President that has attached his name and post-White House legacy to the organization, HfH does (and should have) no problem here. After all, what Mr. Hodges did was the fault of evil white society, so these good white progressives are merely cleaning up their race’s own mess.
