Crime Against What? July 16, 2008
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CNS:
Human Trafficking is Burgeoning Business, Government Says
Physical violence, financial dependence and isolated living quarters are some of the means human traffickers use to keep their victims under “lock and key” in what the U.S. government says is one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises in the world today.
Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery, Vanessa Garza, associate director for the office of refugee resettlement at the Department of Health and Human Services, told Cybercast News Service in an interview.
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“Smuggling is a crime against a country’s borders,” she said.
You mean someone in our Yankee Government acknowledges that we have borders? You couldn’t tell that to a lot of people high up in our Yankee Government.
Absurdistan’s Strength July 16, 2008
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He spread HIV to three Winnipeg girls and women, one of whom was 12 years old. One might compare him to East St. Louis’s late Darnell “Boss Man” McGee, and even though Mr. Clato wasn’t as “prolific,” don’t forget that infecting three in Winnipeg is probably on par statistically speaking with infecting 100 in St. Louis.
Signature July 16, 2008
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Barletta Issues Challenge to Business Owners on Illegal Hiring
“Mayor Lou Barletta, whose bid to unseat a 12-term congressman is based largely on his reputation as an anti-illegal immigration crusader, is trying to keep his signature issue alive even as voters turn their attention to the troubled economy and sky-high gas prices.
As if they’re not related?
Federal Judiciary to Condemned Murderers: Quit Wasting Our Time July 16, 2008
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch :
Federal judge’s ruling opens door to executions
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge in Missouri has ruled that the state’s method of executing condemned prisoners by injection is constitutional.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge [*****] in Kansas City late Tuesday presumably opens the door for executions to resume after nearly three years.
Last July, a group of Missouri’s condemned prisoners filed suit in federal court, claiming the state’s history of using unfit and untrained personnel as executioners could expose them to unconstitutional pain.
There are protocols of formality, but I would not have blamed this judge if he would have ripped up the legal papers and told the plaintiffs’ lawyers to quit wasting his time.
Illinois Can Pass All the Laws It Wants July 16, 2008
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Blagojevich signs new gun law
CHICAGO — Governor Rod Blagojevich has signed a bill that puts the adult who provides a gun to a minor in the same legal hot water as the minor who uses it to commit a crime.
The bill signed Wednesday means that adults who sell or give guns to minors are eligible for the same sentence as minors convicted of violent crimes — including murder — in which they used the weapon.
Good luck proving it. Provided that it passes constitutional muster. After all, it appears that Illinois wants to make this what the law calls an inchoate offense, as in conspiracy or attempted. I don’t know of any state where inchoate offenses are punished on the same level as the offense itself. In Missouri, an inchoate of a certain crime is one class step down from the original offense. For instance, murder is a Class A (most serious level) Felony, so attempted/conspiracy murder is a Class B Felony. The inchoate of the least serious (Class D) Felony would be the most serious level (Class A) Misdemeanor. IIRC, inchoate of the least serious (Class E?) Misdemeanor is an infraction, though I doubt that these sorts of things are ever processed in the judicial system.
The other big flaw is that, in the places where this law would do the most good, law enforcement is effectively non-existent. Paul Huebl had a story today showing that the Chicago Police Department has been pretty much neutered.
I Had to Kill a Man Because the State Hasn’t Enacted “Comprehensive Homicide Reform” July 16, 2008
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McDonald’s franchisee pleads guilty to illegal labor
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A McDonald’s Corp. franchisee pleaded guilty on Wednesday to furnishing illegal immigrants with false identities and will pay $1 million in fines in one of the federal government’s first major crackdowns on illegal labor in the fast-food industry.
As efforts to overhaul U.S. immigration law have stalled in Congress, the federal government has stepped up workplace enforcement and has carried out the biggest raids on meat and poultry processing plants in the Midwest.
So, in other words, the Federal government has to enforce immigration law, and a burger slinger had to subborn illegal immigration, because they haven’t made all the illegal aliens legal. So it’s not his fault, it’s our fault.
No Surprise: A Bad Bill Has a Bad Amendment July 16, 2008
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AP:
US ban on visitors with HIV could end soon
WASHINGTON - A two-decade ban on people with HIV visiting or immigrating to the United States may end soon through a Senate bill aimed at fighting AIDS and other diseases in Africa and other poor areas of the world.
Because our biggest problem is that we don’t have enough people with AIDS here. And what RINO is behind this?
Kerry and Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., are trying to repeal the ban, first implemented in 1987 and confirmed by Congress in 1993.
And is there a spine left in the 100 Club? As it turns out:
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., may offer an amendment to eliminate the Kerry-Smith provision from the Senate bill. Sessions cited Congressional Budget Office estimates that the new immigrants coming in under the relaxed policy could cost the government more than $80 million over a 10-year period. “Most people just don’t want to talk about that.”
He could do us one better and elminiate the whole bag of marbles. What the bill and amendment would mean, if passed, would mean that we would spend billions more on AIDS, allowing Africans with AIDS to live even longer, and at the same time we would have to let them move here. And you’re the world’s biggest problem if you express any consternation. I’m guessing this bill strengthens “hate crime” riders to protect AIDS-infected Africans.
