Zodiac Killer Found? Infamous San Francisco Zodiac Killer to be Revealed Today in San Francisco:

Zodiac Killer Found? Infamous San Francisco Zodiac Killer to be Revealed Today in San Francisco:
By Marc Chamot & Source: San Francisco Examiner

A killer who once where numerous Hollywood movies were made about may be coming to a final climax today at noon.

An investigative group among San Francisco attorneys can prove the identity of the most infamous San Francisco villain today.

A killer who terrorized this nation with the senseless murders of mainly young couples, like lovers in lover’s lane, while in their automobiles, is now going to be reveled.

"Humm, Me thinks we're being conned here!"

UPDATE; From sfist.com
Zodiac Killer: Guy Ward Hendrickson (Allegedly)

"According to today's press conference, the Zodiac Killer was some guy named Guy Ward Hendrickson. Whatever. But here's where it gets good: Hendrickson allegedly took his daughter, Deborah Perez, along with him for the murders.
Perez spoke at today's press conference.

Here are just a few of her wild claims:
During the shooting deaths, he told her the gun shots were firecrackers.
She stamped the envelopes containing the cryptic letters sent out to local media.
She embroidered the mask he wore while committing his notorious acts.
During a routine police stop, he stuck his gun in the back of her pants. This happened just after the 4th of July killings.

She also said he killed between 30 and 40 people.

He lived in Orange County. Of course. He apologized on his deathbed.
The murders seemed to be a "special activity" between her and her dad.
Allegedly.

But here's the rub, Perez says she wrote some of the letters herself and that she saw a composite on America's Most Wanted in 2007 of her father as the Zodiac Killer, and began to remember it all.

So, you know, she may be delusional in addition to being sanity-estranged. (However, according to attorney Kevin McLean, the man who lead this most recent investigation, "Everyone is going to say she is crazy, but we had psychologists examine Ms. Perez." Word is, though, that McLean isn't a beacon of mental clarity himself.)

For many years, people fingered Arthur Leigh Allen, a child molester from Vallejo who died in 1992, as the Zodiac Killer."

The Zodiac killer who taunted the bay area around the late sixties, with a spree of murders that went unsolved for many years, is about to get reawakened.

Through new innovative criminal technology, forensics, DNA, cryptology and handwriting analysis. Along with new information from law enforcement investigations and armed with murder accomplice evidence, including with the FBI’s help, they have finally come down with their prime suspect and are scheduling a news conference in San Francisco later today.

They also say that this killer didn’t act alone and may have had an accomplice.

It may be a surprise to most, because the suspect of these crimes is none of the previously suspected murderers of the past.

They say that these murders were not random as first thought; they were more like targeted murders. The whole Zodiac thing and his cryptic writings may have been to show the police that the killings were random; it was only a masquerade to hide his real identity and to cover up his real tracks.

The killer had killed five people in total and apparently stopped, and he was never heard of again. His last murder was San Francisco Yellow Cab driver Paul Lee Stine, and prior to that there were others in Vallejo, Lake Beryessa and Benicia from 1968 to 1969.

In his letters while taunting the police and the media, he begged for help and claimed that he could not control his killing urges. But that kind of seemed odd for a serial killer, just stopping after five killings.

Some of the victims of this lunatic were, David Farraday 17, Betty Lou Jensen 16, Darlene Ferrin 22, Mike Mageu, 19, and Cecilia Shephard 22, and Bryan Hartnell 20.

Those that were often mentioned as the potential Zodiac killer, one was Arthur Lee Allen who died in 1992 was the potential suspect most widely mentioned in the case. Other names that have surfaced over the years include Jack Tarrance, Larry Kane, and former Manson family member Bruce Davis.

Fallout from Uncontrolled Illegal Immigration, Southern Poverty Law Center says; the South is Racist towards Poor Latinos:

Fallout from Uncontrolled Illegal Immigration, Southern Poverty Law Center says; the South is Racist towards Poor Latinos:
By Marc Chamot & Source

“According to a study released this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center, low-income Latinos in the American South are living in what one participant described as a "war zone."

What’s shocking about it?

Gee, I wonder why? Is it because we’re just getting sick and tired of seeing our wages go down, and our jobs that keep being stolen away for cheaper labor?

I am from the south and Midwest, when you see people cashing in on jobs that were once yours, it makes it real hard to swallow, and especially when those jobs were once YOURS and you’re now UNEMPLOYED.

It used to be for migrant farm help, which has now expanded into our sector of work, construction, deliveries, roofing, hotel and restaurant work, landscaping work, meat packing and factory work and so forth. With the way the economy is, and millions of Americans out of work, it’s definitely going to get worse instead of better.

That border should have been sealed years ago.

"Actually Joshua Holland and the Southern Poverty Law Center is a bunch of manures, I’m sure that they know the facts about poor Latinos. They are poor because of their OWN doing, not ours.

The real facts are these; FIRST of all, they are poor because they are willing to work for cheap. They keep regular American working folks from having better wages, and secondly, they send all of their money abroad. They don't spend within their own communities, they don't pay medical bills.

They only keep enough for bare essentials to live on. I know this; I know of many illegal aliens around here that are doing just that and they don't like it at all, they want MORE. And now they want us to make them legal, NO WAY JOSE!"

European countries, mainly Spain, and Japan have now been deporting both illegal and LEGAL foreign workers with visas just because of this problem. If they think that they are going to legalize 20 million illegal aliens, while over 9 million of Americans are out of work, they'll have a revolution in their hands, that's for sure.

If President Barack Obama and the Democraps don’t understand that, I don’t know what else they don’t understand in those empty skulls of theirs?

As always, just my same old anti-illegal alien opinion folks.

Shocking: Today, Life in the South for Poor Latinos Is Pure Hell!
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted April 23, 2009.

Shocking: Today, Life in the South for Poor Latinos Is Pure Hell!
By Joshua Holland, AlterNetPosted on April 23, 2009

The report was based on interviews with hundreds of poor Latinos -- U.S. citizens and legal and illegal immigrants alike. It paints a bleak picture of the routine abuses faced by those among a marginalized underclass. According to the authors, poor Latinos in the South "are routinely cheated out of their earnings and denied basic health and safety protections. They are regularly subjected to racial profiling and harassment by law enforcement. They are victimized by criminals who know they are reluctant to report attacks."

Eliseo Medina, Executive Vice President of SEIU, a union that organizes service workers with some of the least political clout in the American workforce, called the results of the study, "a remarkable indictment of the prejudice, racial profiling and outright abuse faced by hardworking Hispanics, some of our country’s most vulnerable workers."

According to the report:
This treatment — which many Latinos liken to the oppressive climate of racial subordination that blacks endured during the Jim Crow era — is encouraged by politicians and media figures who scapegoat immigrants and spread false propaganda. And as a result of relentless vilification in the media, Latinos are targeted for harassment by racist extremist groups, some of which are directly descended from the old guardians of white supremacy.

The authors add, "instead of acting to prohibit and eliminate systematic exploitation and discrimination against Latinos, state and local governments in much of the South have exacerbated the situation" through harsh local policies and over-the-top rhetoric about illegal immigration.

The interviews were conducted in Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama -- all states that have seen a marked increase in new immigrants since the 1990s. And the results are eye-opening. In New Orleans, 4 out of 5 low-income Latinos said they’d been ripped off by employers who hadn’t paid them for work they’d done; 40 percent of Georgia respondents reported being mistreated by police; over half of those interviewed in Alabama reported road blocks or routine traffic stops near their homes that "target Latinos and do not affect people of other ethnicities equally," and in Nashville, 6 in 10 reported housing discrimination and 7 in 10 said that workplace sexual harassment was a "serious problem."

Although this trend is inextricably linked to the immigration debate in this country, it is not about "illegal immigration" -- it’s about ethnicity and class. Latino doesn’t equal "immigrant," and it certainly doesn’t mean "illegal immigrant."

While a majority of new immigrants -- and around three in four illegal immigrants -- come from Latin America and the Caribbean, 60 percent of Latinos are U.S. citizens born in this country, and half of the remainder are migrants who have all their papers in order and every legal right to live and work here.

So while racial profiling is justified in the name of "upholding our laws," unauthorized immigrants make up less than 20 percent of the rapidly growing "Hispanic" population in the U.S. Moreover, while Mexico sends more immigrants to the U.S. than any other country, numbers 2-4 on the list are China, the Philippines and India. Immigrants -- legal and otherwise -- come from all over the globe.

Polls show that a majority of Americans are concerned about illegal immigration, and blanket accusations of racism and xenophobia are hurled around by many immigrant rights activists far too freely. But the kind of offenses detailed in the SPLC study shows that ethnicity plays a huge role in the lives of both Latino immigrants and low-income American workers of Hispanic descent.

In terms of discrimination on the job, that connection is backed by hard data. While anti-immigrant hard-liners go to great pains to portray the issue as a matter of "law and order," a study of legal immigrants conducted by Vanderbilt University economist Joni Hersch found that, among the foreign-born, the level of workplace discrimination increases the further a worker’s physical appearance is from the dominant white Anglo-Saxon ideal.

As Washington Post columnist Richard Morin wrote of the study, "legal immigrants to the United States who had darker complexions or were shorter earned less money than their fair-skinned or taller counterparts with similar jobs, training and backgrounds. Even swarthy whites from abroad earned less than those with lighter skin." In fact, "Hersch estimated that the negative impact of skin tone on earnings was equal to the benefit of education, with a particularly dark complexion virtually wiping out the advantage of education on earnings… Taller immigrants also earned more, she found, with every extra inch worth about 1 percent in earnings."

In other words, that hip, sexy British bartender with the blond hair and blue eyes may be welcomed in American society with open arms, but the little brown guy cleaning the beer taps after closing time gets the shaft, even if he's gone through the exact same legal channels to get here.

Hersch told Morin that she had controlled for "everything that could possibly matter." But there it was: skin-tone and height -- the more different from "us" -- from our ideal phenotype -- legal immigrants are, the less they earn. "I don't think that any explanation other than discrimination is possible," she concluded, "and I am not one to draw such inferences lightly."

An important take-away from the SPLC study is how easily that kind of discrimination spills over from illegal immigrants to a whole community. The foreign-born make up about 10 percent of the population, and unauthorized foreign workers about 5 percent of the labor force. The harsh crack-downs favored by the Bush administration after efforts to reform the system died in the Senate have not only been ripe for horrific abuses, they’ve also failed miserably.

The only way to assure that the issue of illegal immigration doesn’t remain a justification for the kind of routine abuses detailed by the Southern Poverty Law Center is to reform the system, bring the unauthorized out of the shadows and eliminate the unregulated shadow economy in which they -- and millions of others -- live and work.

Liberal San Francisco Politicians Repent over Street Sweeping Reductions & DA Kamala Harris Wants to be State Attorney General but:

Liberal San Francisco Politicians Repent over Street Sweeping Reductions & DA Kamala Harris Wants to be State Attorney General, but shields Murderers from Death Penalties & Criminal Illegal Aliens from ICE:
By Marc Chamot

What happens when one lives in a crappy liberal city like San Francisco? It’s the usual nonsense of progressive liberals running a city into the ground in a financial abyss.

So now, after cutting back street cleaning services across San Francisco’s 20 neighborhoods to save 1 million dollars, so now the city realizes that instead of saving money, they have cut back in large ticket citations revenues that’s been gouging into their citizens pockets for years.

This city realized that instead of giving the city’s citizenry a break from their ever relentless ticket citations, now they are really unhappy about it, because they are losing $3.8 million dollars a year in street cleaning citations.

It’s got some of these city politician-baboons like city supervisors David Campos and Michela Alioto-Pier wondering if cutting back street cleaning makes any sense.

Why sure it doesn’t! As the cities’ economic situation is in shambles, people are losing their jobs, their homes, so why NOT fine the hell out of the population for your revenues you blood sucking leeches, you freakin’ jerks! And even some citizens are complaining about their dirty streets because of it, can’ you and your moronic neighbors keep your own streets clean?

Of course not! San Francisco is the Mecca of third world immigrants, between the new Asians and the Latinos community they make-up about 60% of San Francisco’s population now, and they’ve brought their third world mannerism into this once fine city.

Dirty household garbage on the streets, abandoned household furniture’s, old stereos, TV’s and every thing you can think of is being thrown into the streets.

Anyone who comes into San Francisco and takes a drive, when you get acquainted with the predominant San Francisco immigrant neighborhoods, the Mission, the Excelsior, Chinatown, the Richmond district and the Sunset district you see all of the trash, garbage and litter strewn all around.

But how funny though, when one does go into the other people’s neighborhoods it’s all cleaner and they have the same street cleaning weekly schedules.

In my opinion folks, here is another example of third world mentality at work in one of our cities and that’s costing its citizens a whole lot of unnecessary financial grief. No body wants to teach and talk to any of these people, about being respectful neighbors, and etiquettes in mannerism, on how to be a good neighbor. It’s all just pay-pay-pay for their bad habits.

Oh yeah Marc Chamot, you’re being anti-immigrant again.

But then again, we’ve got this other imbecile DA in Kamala Harris, the first African American DA in San Francisco’s history. She wants to be state Attorney General, and she thinks that President Barack Obama can help her. She was his committee chairperson for San Francisco, and she feels that she deserves a pay-back like favor.

But we’ve got a big problem with Kamala Harris, back a few years ago we had a San Francisco police officer that got murdered by a gangbanger, who was in lay-in-wait mode to do it. Then this IDIOTIC DA refused to give the death penalty to the scummy assassin of a popular San Francisco police officer Isaac Espinoza murdered by scum of the earth 21 year-old David Hill.

Soft on crime Kamala Harris is a potential nightmare for Californians if she becomes State Attorney General. Shall we say the San Francisco-zation of California? What a real nightmare folks.

“Harris's background forms the perfect resume; for a public defender or perhaps an ACLU attorney, but the new DA was barely installed in office when she stumbled, badly. On the night before Easter in 2004, a young undercover officer was shot to death in one of the roughest city neighborhoods. Isaac Espinoza, 29, was a much-loved figure in the police department. But within days, and without consulting either the police chief or the slain officer's family, Harris decided -- and announced -- that she wouldn't seek the death penalty against his accused killer.

True, she had opposed capital punishment in her campaign. And the 21-year-old defendant had no prior adult convictions, making him an unlikely candidate for execution, especially with a San Francisco jury. But police officers were outraged. Even some of Harris's allies took aim.

Delivering a eulogy at Espinoza's funeral, Senator Dianne Feinstein, who had supported Harris during her run, criticized her refusal to seek the death penalty. Hundreds of police in dress uniforms rose in the pews to applaud Feinstein, while Harris sat in their midst, staring furiously at the senator. Gary Delagnes, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, says,

"The rank and file will never, ever forgive her for how she dug in on her philosophy about the death penalty before the officer was even buried. They thought, could you put this kid in the ground first?" The uproar continued for months, while the state attorney general investigated and found that Harris had acted quickly but within her authority. She eventually sought -- and won -- a life sentence without parole for the murderer.”

FATAL ENCOUNTER
Officer Isaac Espinoza and resident David Hill had chances to leave the Bayview, but the neighborhood had a pull on them. Now Espinoza is dead, and Hill is accused of his slaying.
“Officer Isaac Espinoza was ready to end an unusually quiet shift about 9 p.m. in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, looking forward to celebrating Easter the next morning with his family.

The 29-year-old decorated officer loved working undercover on the tough streets. Nothing could keep him from his mission. Not the risks of a gang war. Not a potentially career-ending injury. Not urgent pleas from his family to find a safer assignment.

Meanwhile, David Hill headed out into the same neighborhood after playing video games at a friend's house.

Nothing could keep the 21-year-old off the streets. Not his numerous brushes with the law, which began at age 10. Not his mother's decision to leave the city or her efforts to help him find work out of state. Not the slayings of his closest friends from the West Point projects, where he grew up.

An hour later, Espinoza would be dead, the first San Francisco officer slain on duty in a decade. Soon afterward, Hill would be accused of killing him.

One year ago today, the tragedy became one of San Francisco's most emotionally charged homicide cases. District Attorney Kamala Harris' decision not to seek the death penalty developed into a national controversy over capital punishment, the proliferation of assault weapons and gang crime. The case is expected to draw more attention when Hill has his preliminary hearing, scheduled to begin May 31.”

And now this woman has a history of refusing to work with ICE over these habitual criminal illegal aliens that are plaguing the city with crime and killings. A habitual gangbanger criminal illegal alien kills three innocent family members, And the DA, not only had protected him from deportation in the past, she refuses to go for the death penalty over those heinous murders.

Indeed, the victims' family learned that Ramos had been arrested at least three times before the shooting and evaded deportation, largely because of San Francisco's “sanctuary policy.”This misguided, but all too San Fran sicko policy, adopted in 1989 by the city's elected Board of Supervisors, bars local officials from cooperating with federal authorities in their efforts to deport illegal immigrants.That many of San Francisco’s elected officials and a large percentage of the town hate America and hate the Federal Government is a well known fact. Now, however, they may finally get what has been due them for a long time: recognition that their own peculiar brand of political correctness is anything but.

Calls for the death penalty
But authorities say that was enough to cause Edwin Ramos to unload an AK-47 assault weapon on a man and his two sons, killing them.The deaths immediately drew public outrage, which intensified when authorities revealed that Ramos, 21, is an illegal immigrant who managed to avoid deportation despite previous brushes with the law.

The case has put San Francisco's liberal politics to the test, setting off a debate over its sanctuary law that shields undocumented immigrants from deportation.On Wednesday, Ramos pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder in the deaths of Anthony Bologna, 49, and his sons, Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16. Bologna and his older son died in the intersection on June 22. His younger son succumbed to his injuries days later.

The heinousness of the deaths has put pressure on San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris to seek the death penalty against Ramos. Harris, who campaigned on an anti-death penalty platform and has never pursued capital punishment during her more than four years in office, has declined to say exactly how she intends to proceed."This case has been charged as a special circumstance case," making it eligible for the death penalty, spokeswoman Erica Derryck said. "No additional announcement has been made about this aspect of the charging."

Law used to shield underage felons the victims' family learned that Ramos had been arrested at least three times before the shooting and evaded deportation, largely because of San Francisco's sanctuary status.The policy, adopted in 1989 by the cities elected Board of Supervisors, bars local officials from cooperating with federal authorities in their efforts to deport illegal immigrants.

Vindictive Homo Judge Perez Hilton Rips Carrie Prejean for Wrong Answer During Miss USA Crown Event:

Vindictive Homo Judge Perez Hilton Rips Carrie Prejean for Wrong Answer During Miss USA Crown Event:
By Marc Chamot

“Blogger Perez Hilton was also enraged, calling Prejean a "stuipd b***h" in a video tirade he aired on his blog.”

Since when do politically charged question like “Gay Marriage” should be asked about female contestants’ on national family TV for qualifications to become Miss USA? This is totally screwed!

It was done by none other than this dirt-bag, vindictive Hollywood homo and Blogger Perez Hilton, who happened to be a judge for the event, and did ask those idiotic questions and apparently did not like one of the answers from one of his contestants.

This spiteful piece of crap, and a fag ripped her apart on his blog.

That is exactly what I mean folks, when these Homos don’t get their way, they are just plain nasty as eating vomit, like puke sick vomit.

It has got to be an outrage folks! This should stir up a whole lot more of resentments towards gay marriage and for people to want to watch and keep supporting these Miss hapless USA pageants.

I for one, I am very proud of that bright girl that spoke her mind, I am absolutely proud of Carrie Prejean, you got my support to the fullest. She was brought up well mom and dad!

And for that imbecile, here is his email address Perez@PerezHilton.com give it to him real hard folks...I hear that's how he like it…

Carrie Prejean Says Answer to Gay Marriage Question Cost Her Miss USA Crown:

Miss California is not backing down from the answer regarding gay marriage she gave on Sunday night's Miss USA telecast.

Carrie Prejean told FOXNews.com that she had "no regrets" and was happy with the answer she gave when a Miss USA judge, the gossip blogger Perez Hilton, asked about her stance on same-sex marriage.

"I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman," she said on the live broadcast. "No offense to anybody out there, but that's how I was raised."

YOU DECIDE: Did Miss California's answer cost her the crown?
One person who was offended was Keith Lewis, co-director the Miss California competition, which Prejean won to make it into the Miss USA pageant. Lewis told FOXNews.com that he was "saddened" by Prejean's statement.

"I am personally ... hurt that Miss California believes marriage rights belong only to a man and a woman," said Lewis in a statement.

Co-director Shanna Moakler, best know as Travis Barker's wife in the MTV reality show "Meet the Barkers," said that she fully supported Lewis' condemnation of Prejean's views.
Blogger Perez Hilton was also enraged, calling Prejean a "stuipd b***h" in a video tirade he aired on his blog.

But the backlash is having little affect on Prejean, 21, she says.

"I wouldn't have had it any other way. I stated an opinion that was true to myself, and that's all I can do," she told Billy Bush, who hosted Miss USA, on his radio talk show on Monday.

Shocking Report Says; Drug Cartels Using NAFTA Trade Deal & Mexican Trucks to Bring in Illicit Drugs Into the U.S.

Shocking Report Says; Drug Cartels Using NAFTA Trade Deal & Mexican Trucks to Bring in Illicit Drugs Into the U.S. & Possibly these same Truckers are Taking Weapons Back into Mexico:
By Marc Chamot

“The truths shall set you free.” "Another reason to abolish Mexican trucks from coming into the United States. New ABC News reports that Mexican truckers are being used to bring in illicit drugs into America."

What’s the NAFTA-Mexican truckers’ hoopla all about? The ability for Mexican trucks to be coming into America that’s what, it now looks like something pretty fishy is going on with these drivers.

It seems like Mexican truckers are using their trucks to smuggle drugs into the United States. The NAFTA U.S.-Mexico truck deals run amuck, rings a bell?

The problem is bigger than what it was first believed. It’s a huge revelation.

It’s no wonder that since Mexican truckers have been coming to the United States since September 2007, there have been unprecedented drugs coming in and killings in Mexico.

If drugs are being brought in, are these same Mexican truckers taking guns back into Mexico, may I ask?

It’s kind of ironic that the gun-power, mass killings, and incomes of drug cartels have quadrupled since Mexican truckers began coming to America since September 2007.

Then why is Mexico so bent in wanting to have their truckers come here?

Cocaine Highways: Post-NAFTA, Most Drugs Cross U.S. Borders in Trucks

Mexican Cartels Using Huge Fleet of 18-Wheelers, Only 5% Inspected at Border Crossing

Most of the drug shipments smuggled into the United States by the Mexican cartels are hidden in trucks that drive across U.S. border checkpoints in plain sight, with little fear of inspection, U.S. law enforcement officials tell ABC News.

Only about 5 percent of trucks coming into the country from Mexico are inspected, according to U.S. officials.

Watch "World News with Charles Gibson" tonight at 6:30pm ET and "Nightline" at 11:30pm ET for Brian Ross' full report.

"It is just too costly and too slow given the volume of trucks to actually try to stop and inspect each and every truck," said Juan Zarate who dealt with the issue in the Geroge W. Bush White House as Deputy National Security Director.


Drug smugglers becoming more creative, U.S. agents say

SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- Drug traffickers are throwing everything they've got at getting drugs into the United States any way they can.

At the San Ysidro crossing near the Mexican border, officials have found drugs smuggled in things such as tables, toys, furniture, holiday candles, even tennis shoes.

"Their bottom line is to make money, and they are going to do whatever they can to ensure that that happens," said Mike Unzueta, the special agent in charge for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego. "They've become very, very creative."

Drugs also are brought in underground through tunnels; some 100 have been discovered since 1990 along the 1,950-mile U.S.-Mexico border. The most sophisticated tunnels have lights, air systems and hydraulics. While drugs flow north into the United States, weapons and cash flow south into Mexico.

The smuggling organizations are well-established and sophisticated. They have a recognized hierarchy and employ the latest technology, said Rafael Reyes, chief of global enforcement operations for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

The Sad Consequences of Not Knowing English; Immigrants are Still Coming & Want to be U.S. Citizens, but they Still Refuse to Learn English:

The Sad Consequences of Not Knowing English; Immigrants are Still Coming & Want to be U.S. Citizens, but they Still Refuse to Learn English:
By Marc Chamot

It’s quite sad, but not surprising. It’s usually left to their off springs that are born here to learn the English language. It’s like that Vietnamese New York shooter, Jiverly Voong, who had been in the states for decades, who complained about his lack in English skills, to his reasoning in shooting down thirteen people to death.

However, it’s pretty sad, especially under the circumstances. I read the comments section of this article, and there were few supportive voices behind this news story. This is just another example of our dysfunctional government at work and English should be mandatory for U.S. citizenship.

AP IMPACT: Citizens Held as Illegal Immigrants
AP IMPACT: In crackdown on illegal immigrants, American citizens get caught in dragnet
By SUZANNE GAMBOA Associated Press WriterApril 12, 2009 (AP)

"Pedro Guzman has been an American citizen all his life. Yet in 2007, the 31-year-old Los Angeles native — in jail for a misdemeanor, mentally ill and never able to read or write — signed a waiver agreeing to leave the country without a hearing and was deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant.

For almost three months, Guzman slept in the streets, bathed in filthy rivers and ate out of trash cans while his mother scoured the city of Tijuana, its hospitals and morgues, clutching his photo in her hand. He was finally found trying to cross the border at Calexico, 100 miles away.

These days, back home in California, "He just changes from one second to another. His brain jumps back to when he was missing," said his brother, Michael Guzman. "We just talk to him and reassure him that everything is fine and nobody is going to hurt him."
In a drive to crack down on illegal immigrants, the United States has locked up or thrown out dozens, probably many more, of its own citizens over the past eight years. A months long AP investigation has documented 55 such cases, on the basis of interviews, lawsuits and documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. These citizens are detained for anything from a day to five years. Immigration lawyers say there are actually hundreds of such cases.

It is illegal to deport U.S. citizens or detain them for immigration violations. Yet citizens still end up in detention because the system is overwhelmed, acknowledged Victor Cerda, who left Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2005 after overseeing the system. The number of detentions overall is expected to rise by about 17 percent this year to more than 400,000, putting a severe strain on the enforcement network and legal system.

It is illegal to deport U.S. citizens or detain them for immigration violations. Yet citizens still end up in detention because the system is overwhelmed, acknowledged Victor Cerda, who left Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2005 after overseeing the system. The number of detentions overall is expected to rise by about 17 percent this year to more than 400,000, putting a severe strain on the enforcement network and legal system.

The result is the detention of citizens with the fewest resources: the mentally ill, minorities, the poor, children and those with outstanding criminal warrants, ranging from unpaid traffic tickets to failure to show up for probation hearings. Most at risk are Hispanics, who made up the majority of the cases the AP found.

"The more the system becomes confused, the more U.S. citizens will be wrongfully detained and wrongfully removed," said Bruce Einhorn, a retired immigration judge who now teaches at Pepperdine Law School. "They are the symptom of a larger problem in the detention system. ... Nothing could be more regrettable than the removal of our fellow citizens."

Posted Comments:

To show or prove you are an American citizen you have to have a Birth Certificate (very important paper to have and know where it is...important to keep it in a safe place) and or Citizenship Papers (also important to keep in a safe place). EVERY CITIZEN needs to have these vital records available to them or know how to get them. If this man is not able to comprehend basic questions about his citizenship, place of birht etc..then whjy was he "on his own?" He should of been "taken care of" and his family should of known where he was at all times. These are troubling times and we all should be able to show proof of which country we are a citizen of!

Posted by:Crockett TX 7:45 PM

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Send them all back to mexico if hey cannot speak read and write englishI am sick and tired of calling companys and a computerized voice ask English or Spanishthat Makes me HATE MEXICANS and the liberals ruining this once great nation....
Posted by:cwadsgo 7:45 PM

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Super Guy - what US state requires "papers?" I'd like to look up the statute.
Posted by:Hominatrix 7:31 PM

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I just watching tv alone can help with that I what is sesame street , . Rodgers neighbor hood and the Mpt channel for , so the whole I have been living in the usa for years but I don't speak or understand english is full of holes. Get Real ....................................what country are you from? You obviously can't speak English.
Posted by:Hominatrix 7:30 PM

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I never understood anyone from a foreign land who has lived in this country for countless year but still claim that they can not speak or understand english , ( So in Rome, do as the Romans) I just watching tv alone can help with that I what is sesame street , . Rodgers neighbor hood and the Mpt channel for , so the whole I have been living in the usa for years but I don't speak or understand english is full of holes. Get Real .
Posted by:No faith In Religion 443 5:51 PM

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Police arrest innocent citizens too. What is the big deal? In my state, it is illegal to be in public without identification.
Posted by:Super_Nice_Guy 5:36 PM

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What ABC, did he not even speak English?
Posted by:SayItTrue 5:23 PM

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You would have to be around Illegals to recognize them and you can they stick out in the crowd and seem to be always nervous and they are not use to an multi-racial community either , It is an everyday thing for most american to see and interact with different races but they seem out of place and can't fit in.
Posted by:No faith In Religion 443 5:16 PM

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it's like a sacrifice for the greater good.
Posted by:bigalhall 4:43 PM

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Well this is not saying the average joe american , it's saying that foreign immgrants are being deported most happen to be Latiano and Mexican go figure. last year alone Mexicans can across the border one million alone so I don't that no one is being single out , They are just going the ones who stand out in a crowd.
Posted by:No faith In Religion 443 4:41 PM

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The article is about AMERICAN CITIZENS BEING DEPORTED ILLEGALLY. What does this have to do with illegal immigrants? You're connecting them why?????
Posted by:Hominatrix 4:22 PM

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too bad, you have one excuse after another why we should put up with illegals.
Posted by:bigalhall 4:06 PM

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Oh you are so right citizenjim : they will take just about any job that is open , Now weather this a good thing or not I don't know , Employers can cut pay rates and pay them less to nothing and they are happy with it , considering the fact that they live jamed in a house with multiple people living there also , having a low paying job works out very well for them , most are illegal and they think that you don't notice but you do , I live on the east coast as far east as you can get next stop the atlantic ocean and they are moving here in large numbers , and start working under the table until they can get an social security card and state Id and they only move in numbers with one only being to speak english so they stick out so I can see how this could happen to one or more of them if they are alone.
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This article is about American citizens being arrested because of their physical appearance.
Posted by:Hominatrix 1:24 PM

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Decent Blue Collar Jobs once held by Americans, such as truck drivers, warehouse men, moving-men, folk-lift operators, etc, are now held by illegal immigrants! Simply because they work for next to nothing! That's the facts the rich who use this cheap labor and control the media don't want you to know. But visit the places where Americans you know used to work, and you'll see it for yourself.
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Pirates Have World Navies Running Fits; a Sad Day When World Navies Can’t Stop these Lowly Little Pirates on Small Boats:

Pirates Have World Navies Running Fits; a Sad Day When World Navies Can’t Stop these Lowly Little Pirates on Small Boats:
By Marc Chamot

It must be fun to be a Somali Pirate these days, especially when you got the whole world navies running in circles around their eyes.

This is a prime example of dummy world governments run wacky:

"They can't seem to fix the global economic mess, and most certainly they can't even fix the lowly Somali pirates afflicting merchant ships off the Somali waters."

Folks! How ridiculous can it be? With all of the world’s navies, including our own for our disposal to eliminate this menace, we can’t even handle or control these lowly pirates? I don’t know whether it is an embarrassment of a human kind of some sorts, but these lowly pirates are surely playing around at our world nation’s expense.

Whether this is the most ridiculous or the most funny thing ever heard of, it’s just impossible to fathom how idiotic and how uncoordinated have these international policing of the seas have become.

Romanticizing piracy once again, is that what our foreign policy has become? These world politicians ought to be a shame of them selves.

From the British Navy, Iranian Navy, to the U.S. Navy, these imbeciles doesn’t even have a clue in how to stop these high seas robbers on their little boats.

“President Barack Obama, who is getting regular updates on the standoff, declined to answer questions about it Friday for a second straight day.”

Can I think of the Three Stooges meeting McHale’s Navy, to take on some lowly pirates off the coast of Somalia?

Pirates recapture US hostage after escape attempt
By KATHARINE HOURELD and MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED, Associated Press Writers Katharine Houreld And Malkhadir M. Muhumed, Associated Press Writers

NAIROBI, Kenya – An American captain held hostage by four Somali pirates tried to swim for his freedom but was recaptured Friday, and officials said the high seas hostage drama escalated as both pirate ships and U.S. war craft sailed to the scene.

In a separate incident off the Somali coast, one hostage and two pirates were killed Friday when French naval forces stormed a sailboat and freed four other hostages, including a child. Three pirates were taken into custody.

Pirates threatened to kill their American hostage, Capt. Richard Phillips, if the U.S. attacked them, according to a Somali who has been in contact with the pirates who are in a lifeboat within sight of a U.S. warship about 200 miles off the coast of Somalia.

The U.S. was bolstering its force by dispatching other warships to the site off the Horn of Africa, where a U.S. destroyer shadowed the lifeboat carrying Phillips. He was taken hostage in the pirates' failed effort to hijack the cargo ship Maersk Alabama on Wednesday.

Defense officials say the USS Boxer, flag ship for a multination anti-piracy task force, will be nearby soon. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss sensitive ship movements.

The Boxer resembles a small aircraft carrier. It has a crew of more than 1,000, a mobile hospital, missile launchers and about two dozen helicopters and attack planes.


The pirates' strategy is to link up with their colleagues, who are holding Russian, German, Filipino and other hostages, and get Phillips to lawless Somalia, where they could hide the hostage and make it difficult to stage a rescue, the Somali said. That would give the pirates more leverage and a stronger negotiating position to discuss a ransom. Anchoring near shore also means they could get to land quickly if attacked.

The Somali, who helped negotiate a ransom last year to pirates after they seized a Ukrainian ship carrying tanks, spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. He said he has talked with a pirate leader in Somalia who helped coordinate the failed effort to seize the Alabama.

He said the pirate leader had been in direct contact with the lifeboat via a satellite phone but lost contact after Phillips' captors threw the phone — and a two-way radio dropped to them by the U.S. Navy — into the ocean, fearing the Americans were somehow using the equipment to give instructions to the captain. They acted after Phillips' failed effort to escape.

President Barack Obama, who is getting regular updates on the standoff, declined to answer questions about it Friday for a second straight day.

Mohamed Samaw, a resident of the pirate stronghold in Eyl, Somalia, who claims to have a "share" in a British-owned ship hijacked Monday, said four foreign vessels held by pirates are heading toward the lifeboat. A total of 54 hostages are on two of the ships — citizens of China, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, the Philippines, Tuvalu, Indonesia and Taiwan.

"The pirates have summoned assistance — skiffs and mother ships are heading towards the area from the coast," said a Nairobi-based diplomat, who spoke on condition on anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to the media.

Samaw said two ships left Eyl on Wednesday. A third sailed from Haradhere, another pirate base in Somalia, and the fourth was a Taiwanese fishing vessel seized Monday that was already only 30 miles from the lifeboat.

He said the ships include the German cargo ship Hansa Stavanger, seized earlier this month. The ship's crew of 24 is made up of five Germans, three Russians, two Ukrainians, two Filipinos and 12 from Tuvalu.

Another man identified as a pirate by three different residents of Haradhere also said the captured German ship had been sent.

and Murphy, who was brief by the shipping company, said he suspects the pirates have closed the ports to avoid sniper fire.

Petraeus said the other warships would arrive shortly. U.S. officials said the guided-missile frigate USS Halyburton was among them.

The show of force follows an increase in the number of attacks and the first on a U.S.-flagged ship. The vessels strengthen surveillance of the area and may dissuade pirates from seizing another ship, but there are not enough for a blockade in the danger zone that sprawls across 1.1 million square miles, said a senior U.S. defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss operational matters.



The Alabama was the sixth vessel in a week to be hit by pirates who have extorted tens of millions of dollars in ransoms.

3 Cops Killed in Pittsburgh; Loss of Jobs and Mass Hysterias on Barack Obama’s Possible Gun Bans, May Not a Very Good Mix for a Sick Country:

3 Cops Killed in Pittsburgh; Loss of Jobs and Mass Hysterias on Barack Obama’s Possible Gun Bans, May Not a Very Good Mix for a Sick Country:
By Marc Chamot

Two days in a row folks, back to back gun killings over job loses people!

"What a hell of a way to start a new administration Mr. Obama? On the job for a little over two-months! I cannot think of any other presidential administartions where we've had this many gun killings when an American president JUST took office."

More gun killings folks, another senseless killing of three Pittsburgh cops. What’s sad is that these cops and police officers in general have nothing to do with the IDIOCIES in the way President Barack Obama is handling this country’s economical and gun situation.

Grant it; while some conservative mediums and Internet people like me are out to FUEL the mass hysterias going on with President Barack Obama, this president should take immediate action in reassuring this NERVOUS country about GUNS and JOBS and what he plans to do about it.

He needs to get the American job situation back on track faster than what he's doing. I have said this repeatedly folks on my blogs, that Barack Obama, this president, is WAY more concerned about Wall Street than Main Street. And from what I am seeing is a systematic destruction of our American society as we know it today.

It’s up to Barack Obama to do something and soon.

Gunman 'lying in wait' kills 3 Pittsburgh officers
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and "lying in wait" opened fire on officers responding to a domestic disturbance call Saturday, killing three of them and turning a quiet Pittsburgh street into a battlefield, police said.

Police Chief Nate Harper said the motive for the shooting isn't clear, but friends said the gunman recently had been upset about losing his job and feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns.

Richard Poplawski, 23, met officers at the doorway and shot two of them in the head immediately, Harper said. An officer who tried to help the two also was killed.

Poplawski, armed with an assault rifle and two other guns, then held police at bay for four hours as the fallen officers were left bleeding nearby, their colleagues unable to reach them, according to police and witnesses. More than 100 rounds were fired by the SWAT teams and Poplawski, Harper said.

The three slain officers were Eric Kelly, 41, Stephen Mayhle, 29, and Paul Sciullo III, 37. Kelly had been on the force for 14 years, Mayhle and Sciullo for two years each. Another officer, Timothy McManaway, was shot in the hand and a fifth broke his leg on a fence.

Was N.Y. Killings Anti-Immigrant Motivated? Center for Immigrants was Definitely Targeted & Revising Green Card Holders Rights to Own Firearms:

Was the Binghamton N.Y. Killings Anti-Immigrant Motivated? Center for Immigrants was Definitely Targeted for a Kill & Revising Green Card Holders Rights to Own a Firearms:
By Marc Chamot

UPDATE: Well what do you know? Apparently the killer was an immigrant: "The killer — believed to be a Vietnamese immigrant himself — then entered a room just off the reception area and fired on a citizenship class.

"The people were trying to better themselves, trying to become citizens," the police chief said.

One receptionist was killed, while the other, who was shot in the abdomen, pretended to be dead, then crawled under a desk and called 911, he said. Police said they arrived within two minutes. The rest of those killed were shot in the classroom. Four people were critically wounded."

"Now, the issue should be about why are resident aliens, with permanent green card allowed to own guns?"

Man gets fired, then goes out and targets immigrants, umm…? I wonder why? With massive job loses and influx of immigrants who are taking some of these valuable jobs, not a real good mix.

I don't condone these types of aggressions, they are cowardly and senseless. But, what can one do when things in some people's lives are stacked up against them and government totally ignores their pleas.

Obviously folks, the pro-illegal aliens and pro-immigrant groups are going to have a field day, they will use this shooting as their rally-cry for more pro-immigrant reforms.

Congress and this president are totally failing US, in addressing our working woes, just out today another Jobless Rate Jumps to 8.5 Percent, 663K Jobs Lost since the recession began in December 2007, the economy has lost a net total of 5.1 million jobs, with almost two-thirds of the losses occurring in the last five months.

“The nation's unemployment rate jumped to 8.5 percent in March, the highest since late 1983, as a wide swath of employers eliminated 663,000 jobs. It's fresh evidence of the toll the recession has inflicted on America's workers, and economists say there's no relief in sight.”

I certainly hope that isn’t the case, but if it is, is it something that we’re going to see more of in the near future?

Until our U.S. congress and this president fixes our broken immigration system and while more Americans are being put out of work the volatile anti-immigrant sentiments will be felt all over.

But like I said, it’s still too early to tell, but it looks like this may have been an immigrant on an immigrant attack.

While I'm at it, and my question is? After the Santa Clara, California immigrant Hindu-Indian killings of 6 family members two days ago, and maybe this one too, how and WHY are these people allowed to buy these guns legally?

According to American law, legalized immigrants with permanent residency are allowed to purchase guns just like regular citizens do. This is an aspect of the law that needs looking into folks.

There will definitely be more on these subjects later from this blogger:

Gunman kills 13 at NY state immigration center BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – “A gunman opened fire on a center where immigrants were taking a citizenship exam Friday in downtown Binghamton, killing 13 people before apparently committing suicide.


The suspected gunman carried identification with the name of 42-year-old Jiverly Voong of nearby Johnson City, N.Y., a law enforcement official said.

But the name is an alias that the man has used in the past, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly and was talking on condition of anonymity.

"It obviously was premeditated," said Binghamton Police Chief Joseph Zikuski, noting the gunman blocked the rear exit with his car. "He made sure nobody could escape."
Police did not mention a motive. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, whose district includes Binghamton, said the gunman had recently been let go from IBM in nearby Johnson City.

I Smell a Rat; Feds Toss out the Ted Stevens Conviction, but Indict Rod Blagojevich on federal corruption charges:

I Smell a Rat; Feds Toss out the Ted Stevens Conviction, but Indict Rod Blagojevich on federal corruption charges:
By Marc Chamot

"And the stench is so BAD, it's fouling up my air I breathe."

"How are we going to clean-up government when government can’t even clean up its own act?"

If the former Alaska senator Ted Stevens’ fiasco is a real indication on how messed up our justice system is? We’re in serious trouble folks; U.S. attorney general ends Steven’s prosecution Holder says prosecutors failed to share key evidence.

“The Justice Department moved to dismiss former Sen. Ted Stevens' indictment on Wednesday, effectively voiding his Oct. 27 conviction on seven counts of filing false statements on his Senate financial disclosure forms.”

After the Feds move to toss out the Ted Steven’s conviction they’ve won, because of prosecutorial misbehaving and perjury, now they are nailing another corruptive government element, in former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.

It should be a matter of great concern for all Americans, if our own government from the justice department and our elected officials can’t keep themselves clean, what’s the future for this country?

Let’s hope that this prosecution on Blagojevich really sticks this time: But, I have my doubts.

"I am really getting very suspicious about it folks, was that Stevens deal with Republicans to let Blagojevich loose at a later date? Are Democrats working out a deal?"

We’ll just see about that.

Blagojevich indicted on federal corruption charges
CHICAGO – Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and five others were indicted Thursday on charges of scheming to auction off President Barack Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat, pressuring a congressman for campaign money and lying to FBI agents. The 19-count indictment alleges Blagojevich and his aides discussed the possibility he could get a Cabinet post in the new president's administration, substantial fundraising assistance or a high-paying job in exchange for the Senate seat.

Obama's Deputy Press Secretary, Josh Earnest, said the White House would not comment.

The indictment also charged that Blagojevich was involved in a corrupt scheme to get a massive kickback in exchange for the refinancing of billions of dollars in state pension funds. It said he took part in a plan with convicted political fixer Antoin "Tony" Rezko and two others to make money while Blagojevich was governor, then split the profits after he left the office.

Blagojevich, 52, and others are accused of illegally pressuring an Illinois congressman for help in raising funds and lying when FBI agents came to question him.
Blagojevich said he's saddened and hurt, but not surprised, by a federal corruption indictment.

Blagojevich was arrested Dec. 9 on a criminal complaint, and U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald had faced a Tuesday deadline to supplant it with an indictment from a federal grand jury.

The Democrat's arrest meant curtains for his political career: The Illinois House impeached him Jan. 9, and the Senate convicted him and removed him from office Jan. 29.

Others charged in the indictment include the former governor's brother, Robert Blagojevich, one-time chief fundraiser Christopher G. Kelly, former aide Lon Monk, Springfield lobbyist-millionaire William F. Cellini and former chief of staff John Harris.
Prosecutors said Harris has agreed to cooperate in the case.

Blagojevich's administration has been under federal investigation for years. Kelly and Rezko already have been convicted of federal crimes and are facing prison.
The former governor's wife, Patti, had been mentioned prominently in the complaint and was the focus of considerable speculation, but she was not charged in the indictment.