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Should The U.N. Dictate Our State Laws?

Posted by concernedcitizenswatch on Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:17:04 AM
S.B. 1070 - The controversial immigration bill signed into law by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has been stirring up more trouble...

Now, the federal government has stepped into the fray.  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is threatening to file a lawsuit against Arizona for enforcing their own immigration policy!  This policy is an attempt to defend their state borders (and our country's borders!) from the drug wars taking place, among other things. Quite amazing that Governor Brewer is finally hearing from the federal government, even though her requests for the assistance of the National Guard, apparently fell on deaf ears.  But wait -- There's more!!

The United Nations has also stepped in - saying Arizona's new immigration policy is violating international law.  It creeps me out that the U.N. can even have a voice to weigh in on this!!  According the ACLJ1, absolutely NO provision of the Constitution is being violated by Arizona's immigration policy.
From the UN website: “A disturbing pattern of legislative activity hostile to ethnic minorities and immigrants has been established with the adoption of an immigration law that may allow for police action targeting individuals on the basis of their perceived ethnic origin,” independent U. N. experts warned. 
Their propensity to interject their two cents into a State Law comes from an international human rights treaty the United States has signed.
“The law may lead to detaining and subjecting to interrogation persons primarily on the basis of their perceived ethnic characteristics,” the UN experts stressed.2
Regardless of 'perceived' ideologies of the government or UN, the Arizona Immigration Bill seeks to establish that the Law is the Law and it needs to be enforced. Simple as that!  If you are here legally, not a problem. You are living and working within a system that can benefit immigrant individuals and families as it did for many of our own ancestors who immigrated here from far off countries or by passing through Ellis Island. It was done legally.

According to the goals outlined by the Department of Homeland Security,  Border Patrol, including the Southwest Secure Border Fence is to:

Deter and prevent illegal entry on our Southwest Border, including pedestrian and vehicle fencing, roads, and technology.

  • Gain effective control of our nation’s borders as a critical element of national security. 
  • Establish a substantial probability of apprehending  terrorists seeking entry into the United States
  • Disrupting and restricting the smuggling of narcotics and humans
  • Preventing violence against border residents and illegal immigrants
  • Promoting better environmental health along the Southwest Border
  • Restricting potentially harmful diseases (both human and agricultural) from crossing the border.3
Why wouldn't our country want to protect its borders and people more? Is it because they perceive it's not politically correct to question someone who might possibly be illegal or even a terrorist?

The new Bill, S.B.1070 is designed to protect American citizens and be an extension of our own Federal laws! Arizona has had it. I wouldn't be surprised if Texas also enacts a similar bill for their State. The ruthless violent outbreak in Ciudad Juarez, located just south of El Paso, Texas has escalated to unprecedented proportions, including the killing of 13 high school and college students in January. More than 900 people have been killed in Juarez this year in drug-related violence, and more than 5,000 have died there since the cartels and the Mexican army began fighting in 2008.

A haunting example, from a recent Washington Post article dated May 13.
"Rafael Morales had been married about five minutes when, in the middle of his wedding, gunmen stormed into the Lord of Mercy Catholic Church in Ciudad Juarez on Friday and kidnapped him, his brother and uncle. They shot another man outside.

As the bride and guests were ordered to the floor, weeping in terror, the others were whisked away.

On Monday, the bodies of the 29-year-old groom, his brother and uncle were found in Juarez alongside that of an unidentified fourth man in the bed of a stolen Toyota pickup truck with Texas plates. The corpses revealed signs of torture.

On Wednesday, Mexican state police identified the three dead as U.S. citizens from La Mesa, N.M., just 20 minutes north of El Paso by the interstate."4

And its moving closer to home, like the story of the slaying of Robert Krentz, 58, a prominent cattleman who was gunned down the morning of March 27 on his ranch northeast of Douglas, Arizona. Sheriff's officials said Krentz was shot while sitting in his all-terrain vehicle shortly after he contacted his brother by radio about discovering suspected illegal immigrants on rangeland alongside the Chiricahua Mountains.

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard said, "I hope this is a wake-up call to people in the United States that there are very sophisticated cartel operations going on in both this country and in Mexico.".5

On April 10, 2010, Attorney General Goddard wrote a compelling letter to President Obama. Click HERE  to read it. He urges:
In the last three years alone there have been over 18,000 murders in Mexico by the cartel. He states, "Because cartel violence knows no boundaries, without a comprehensive plan to shut them down, Arizonians and other Americans on the border (including Arizona, Texas, New Mexico) will never experience the border security we deserve."6
So Arizona came up with a compehensive plan. We recognize that although Border Patrol and the fine men and women in law enforcement have been working tirelessly to protect its borders and citizens we are quickly spiraling into a vortex of unprecedented dangers. Its' at our doorsteps and enacting the new bill may be only way to ensure our safety. Even if it makes a few people uncomfortable because they are asked to show their ID. There's too much at stake here.

I can't help but wonder if the naysayers, and hollywood soapboxers would feel the same way about the immigration bill if one of their loved ones fell prey to the senseless cartel violence...

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Source:
1 ACLJ.org
2 United Nations website.
3 Dept. of Homeland Security website
4 Ciudad Juarez Violence
5 AZCentral Article
6 Letter to President Obama on Border Security


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You Know Things Have Gone Askew in this Country When...

Posted by concernedcitizenswatch on Thursday, May 13, 2010 11:00:00 AM
Thursday, May 13, 2010

THE FOLLOWING HAPPENS IN ONE WEEKS' TIME:

  • That students wearing American flag t-shirts are expelled from school.

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  • The long-honored tradition of the "National Day of Prayer" dating back to 1952 is shot down as unconstitutional, and the Army buckles under the pressures of pseudo-patriots 'protecting the Constitution' and disinvite Franklin Graham, a man of God and the son of Billy Graham, who served as Chaplain and spiritual adviser to 12 U.S. Presidents, dating back to Harry S. Truman. (But not the current president)*...

  • An organization declares that our national 'religion' is patriotism. See for Yourself

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  • According to the same organization, we are also considered "the enemy they're rightfully fighting." This quote comes from a video news program about Fort Carson, an Army hospital that has a cross in its logo. Listen/Watch here

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  • That this same organization is being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize...

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  • That less than two weeks after the Supreme court saved it, a Cross, a 75 year old War monument, was vandalized and the cross literally cut down. Read the article here


    • Where/when will all of this stop??  I say in November....

    I am proud to be an American.
    I am proud to know and understand where our Founding Fathers put their trust.
    I am proud to say that I personally trust God, because He has truly blessed this nation, from its inception.

    I will NOT go quietly into the night.. I have a right as a US Citizen to speak my mind and address my opinion. Who's with me!?

    Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. The people He has chosen as His inheritance... Psalm 33:12


    *(Endnote: Obama DID appeal the court ruling by Wisconsin U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb and signed the proclamation to continue NDOP).

    Keep an eye out for the next installment on the issues that affect us Americans...

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You Know The Country is Askew... Part Two

Posted by concernedcitizenswatch on Thursday, May 13, 2010 12:00:00 AM
by Rhonda McGuire

I realize that I've been 'politically-ranting' a little bit this week, but there is so much going on outside the walls of our homes, outside the walls of our places of business, outside the walls of our churches...

Yet, lurking behind closed doors and through many a corridor in our government are those that are knowingly, or unknowingly are denigrating this country and its countrymen by manipulating the system...

Take our Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. She has decided to instruct cardinals and archbishops on just what to say from the pulpit on the topic of immigration Yes...you read that right...

On May 6th, before a Catholic forum, co-sponsored by Trinity Washington University and the National Catholic Reporter, Pelosi manages to further blur the line between the forever hailed and faulty premise of "Separation of Church and State."

With all due respect Mrs Speaker, video clips like these definitely prove that you are a loose cannon that does not have the peoples' interest at heart. Move over, because things are about to change come November... Because believe it or not Speaker Pelosi - this American has a voice, and so do her friends.

I particularly enjoyed it (laughed out loud) when she said, "This is the manifestation of our living the Gospels."



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"We Will Not Go Quietly Into The Night!"

Posted by concernedcitizenswatch on Thursday, September 24, 2009 8:37:09 PM

“We will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight!”

Way to Go Illinois!

On the heels of the big ACORN controversy, and the trickle-down affect of its corruption, Illinoisans should be proud to know that once again our State Senators have come through for us… They voted to keep money funneling into this corrupt organization.

I’m so, so proud. How about you?Out of a Senate Vote of 85 to 11, our two Senators, Democratic House Majority, and Illinois Senator Richard Durbin, along with seated Senator Roland Burris said “NAY – NO – we don’t want to cut off funding to ACORN…!

Millions of taxpayer dollars have been given to ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) over the years. Acorn, an organization that our president was an attorney for, for over ten years.

We should write to the co-sponsors of this Bill and thank them for standing up for what’s right.

You can click the links below to see who voted, and how they voted.

Here’s the text that I’ve sent to each of the senators. Won’t you join me in telling them they did a good job!? They need our prayers and encouragement. They shouldn’t fear repercussions when they have the backing of the Citizens of this country..

Letter to Senators: (To those who voted to stop funding ACORN & investigate)

Dear Honorable Senator:

Thank you for standing up against corruption and co-sponsoring the Bill that will no longer allow funds to be filtered to ACORN. Although we are not constituents of your state, we will stand shoulder to shoulder in principle and prayer with any elected official who will take a stand for what is right for this country and its’ people.

Letters to Senator Durbin & Roland Burris: (OUR senators who voted to keep funding ACORN)

Dear Senators:

With all due respect, we find it irreprehensible that you have chosen to remain in favor ot funding ACORN, when clear evidence indicates that they are involved in, among other things, voter fraud and financial corruption.

It appears that in your position you have not only forgotten, but failed your constituents in the State of Illinois once again.


Concerned citizens are no longer remaining silent, and indeed repercussions will trickle down once the re-election rolls around.


Seeing that you were clearly outnumbered by members of Congress on this vote it has helped to make your actions stand out for all the wrong reasons, not only by the citizens of Illinois, but the citizens of this nation.


It is our hope that you will examine your heart and motives and get back to serving the people, and not special interest.


Sincerely,


Co-sponsors of the bill to STOP funding to ACORN

Senator Name/State

Call to thank them!

Email/Contact Form

Sen Isakson, Johnny [GA]

(202) 224-3643

Click here

Inhofe, James M. - (R - OK)

(202) 224-4721

Click here

Brownback, Sam - (R - KS)

(202) 224-6521

Click here

Burr, Richard - (R - NC)

(202) 224-3154

Click here

Sen Bennett, Robert F. [UT]

(202) 224-5444

Click here

Sen Roberts, Pat [KS]

(202) 224-4774

Click here

Sen Barrasso, John [R-WY]

(202) 224-6441

Click here

Sen Bunning, Jim [R-KY]

(202) 224-4343

Click here

Sen Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]

(202) 224-3424

Click here

Sen DeMint, Jim [SC]

(202) 224-6121

Click here

Sen Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]

(202) 224-5922

Click here

Sen Thune, John [R-SD]

(202) 224-2321

Click here


Voted to CONTINUE FUNDING ACORN

Senator Name/State

Call to thank them!

Email/Contact Form

Burris, Roland W. - (D - IL)

(202) 224-2854

Click here

Durbin, Richard J. - (D - IL)

(202) 224-2152

Click here

SOURCE:

www.thomas.gov, 9/18/2009

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 111th Congress - 1st Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary

Question: On the Amendment (Johanns Amdt. No. 2394 )

Vote Number:

289

Vote Date:

September 17, 2009, 04:39 PM

Required For Majority:

1/2

Vote Result:

Amendment Agreed to

Amendment Number:

S.Amdt. 2394 to H.R. 2996 (Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010)

Statement of Purpose:

Prohibiting use of funds to fund the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

Vote Counts:

YEAs

85

NAYs

11

Not Voting

3
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