U.S. Citizens Wrongly Held/Deported by ICE Sue, Whatever Happened to Personal Responsibilities’?

U.S. Citizens Wrongly Held/Deported by ICE Sue, Whatever Happened to Personal Responsibilities’?
By Marc Chamot

Okay folks, there’s something that has been bugging me lately. The San Francisco Chronicle has been running anti-ICE articles lately. They have been pretty critical about some naturalized and American citizens who have been deported by mistake lately, and especially those who can’t provide real proof of U.S. citizenship.

They have also exposed some successful lawsuits that were won against the U.S. government over these mistakes.

Okay, here I go again with my “Tough Love” posting.

What ever happened to the responsibility of naturalized and Americans citizens to keep proper documentations available?

Many instances detailed in the articles were Americans who have lived in this country for years, mainly of Mexican origins, those who have never in all of their years living here, EVEN bothered to document their legal statuses for being here in the first place. This is absolutely absurd.

How can a medium go out and defend irresponsible individuals, those who never even bothered or cared enough to get a passport, validate their statuses, and having other confirming identifications that prove that they are U.S. citizens.

The Chronicle comes out with the excuse that these people didn’t have the time, money, or opportunity to do so.

Most who were written about, those who got caught between the crosshairs of ICE, were accused criminals, most had accents, and they, and their parents/families never bothered to establish their offspring’s citizenships of this country.

To me, this is sheer ignorance. There is no excuse for this kind of ignorance, but of course, some people might be accidently deported for whatever reason. It is not the job of our government, and ICE to prove that someone is American; it is the individual’s responsibility to do so.

My father and I we were both immigrants, one times another. We waited in line to get here, we weren’t BORDER jumpers, and we NEVER demanded this government to GIVE us things. I became a naturalized American myself, I served my time in the United States Navy, I got naturalized and I carry an American passport.

This is just another deplorable example of the ignorance, in the types of immigrants who flock into this country, the uneducated, those who don’t know things, or even want to bother to learn about our immigration laws. It’s the new breeds of the “GIVE ME” immigrants that we’re now seeing in this country. This is also the fallout for having a nation that doesn’t require immigrants to learn English.

So they want to sue us, the taxpayers, “US” for their errors.

Then we’ve got American mediums, like the Hearst owned San Francisco Chronicle, defending these people’s sheer stupidities.

This asinine mentality goes even further for Americans. The reasons why some states disallow voter ID laws, they are because of these poor American folks, people who frikin can’t afford $15.00 state ID cards! But most these people can sure afford their cars, Cable TV’S, drugs, and liquor, cell phones, and all other kind of amenities’ in life.

My question is to these poor Americans, those who cannot afford ID cards, how in the heck did you open up a bank account? And how do you go around cashing checks at the grocery stores, or even those government welfare checks, uh?

So to these fellow Americans foreign and domestic, those who like to waltz around without ID cards, and complain about it, naturally you’re going to fall between the cracks of justice. And government shouldn’t be to blame, for YOUR OWN stupidity and laziness.

Read the Absurdity in the San Francisco Chronicle:

Suits for wrongful deportation by ICE rise
Tyche Hendricks, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

(07-27) 20:18 PDT -- Citizens who have been wrongfully locked up in immigration jails can't reclaim the months or years they spent behind bars, but some of them are seeking restitution and suing the U.S. government.

Hundreds of U.S. citizens have been detained and, in some cases, deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, The Chronicle revealed in a special report Monday. Legal experts say the numbers have grown as immigration detention has tripled over the past dozen years to 33,000 inmates at a time.

Cesar Ramirez Lopez, a San Pablo truck driver, won a $10,000 settlement in 2007 after he was held for four days by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents even after his lawyer convinced ICE investigators that he was a citizen.

"When ICE came and detained me, I told the officer I was a citizen," said Ramirez Lopez, 25. "They told me they didn't want to hear it, that I was going to get deported."
Others - detained for months or years and in some cases even deported - are suing for much more.

Among them are:
Pedro Guzman, a mentally disabled man born and raised in Southern California, who was deported in 2007 to Mexico, where he survived by eating out of garbage cans for three months while his frantic mother searched for him.

"The immigration service has no jurisdiction over U.S. citizens," said San Francisco attorney James Brosnahan, a member of Guzman's legal team.

Rennison Castillo, a Washington state man who was born in Belize but took his oath of citizenship while serving in the U.S. Army in 1998, who spent seven months in an ICE prison in 2006. He is suing the government with the help of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle.

"Part of the problem goes back to a system that locks people up when they're placed in deportation proceedings and then doesn't provide them with legal representation," said Matt Adams, the legal director at the project.

ICE spokeswoman Cori Bassett said the agency did not track such lawsuits and she could not comment on them. She added that ICE is careful to look at all available evidence of a person's immigration or citizenship status before detaining or removing someone. "There is no national database (of citizens)," she said. "So we're reliant on the person to provide clear and convincing evidence that they are a citizen."

Lack of due process
Some longtime observers of the immigration agency say that, while citizens make up a tiny fraction of the roughly 400,000 people who pass through ICE custody each year, such cases occur with some regularity. The problem is exacerbated, they say, by the fact that immigration detainees, unlike those in the criminal justice system, lack the right to legal counsel and other due process protections.

"This is a real problem. You can't deport citizens, and yet it's clear that they have been deported," said Donald Kerwin, vice president for programs at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.

Some analysts say that the growing practice of detaining people who are in deportation proceedings, whether they are immigrants who committed crimes or those who entered the country without authorization, is an important step toward putting teeth in the country's immigration system.

The deportation process includes ample opportunity for people who may be wrongly detained to make the case that they don't belong in custody, according to Jena McNeill, a homeland security policy analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation.
"We have to balance the due process rights that should be given to them ... but we also have to look at what's best for the American people: tackling the illegal immigration problem," she said.

But civil rights advocates say immigration agents need to take greater care to investigate detainees' claims of citizenship.

"In my experience, ICE or the Department of Homeland Security doesn't really take these issues as seriously until lawsuits are filed and they are hit in the pocketbook," said Philip Hwang, a staff attorney at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco. "It's an important way to make sure immigration agents are doing things by the book."

Hwang won $700,000 for a dozen clients who sued the immigration agency, including a U.S.-born woman who received a settlement of $50,000 after agents at San Francisco International Airport, who didn't believe her passport and birth certificate were legitimate, shackled her to a chair and held her for hours.

Making a claim
Lawsuits for wrongful detention or deportation are usually brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, or via a so-called Bivens Claim, which names not just the U.S. government but individual government employees. But there are plenty of obstacles - among them: the fact that immigration agents may be sued for wrongdoing but ICE prosecutors have legal immunity.

In addition, lawsuits are expensive and many potential plaintiffs have difficulty finding pro bono legal help, said Judy Rabinovitz, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project.

"Even if you can win damages, it doesn't make up for three months or three years in detention, or being deported and spending three months on the streets," she said.
E-mail Tyche Hendricks at thendricks@sfchronicle.com.

Barack Obama Must Give Blacks/Whites a Fair Shake on Race Relations & 2009 Hate Crime Bill is NOT Equal Opportunities For All:

Barack Obama Must Give Blacks/Whites a Fair Shake on Race Relations & 2009 Hate Crime Bill is NOT Equal Opportunities For All:
By Marc Chamot

U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder: “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. Though race related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race.”

It’s been a very bad week in polling for President Barack Obama, and with the weekend coming up, it looks like he should have some time to reflect on himself, about what he says and does.

While reflecting on himself this weekend, he should also try to look for his inner “white” missing self, the one he conveniently used during his presidential campaign, which has been none existent since making it into the White House.

President Obama’s got another problem; he’s got a foot in the mouth disease, especially a racially charged one. It seems like his inner “white self” cannot come out into the open for people to see.

Obama said Wednesday that Cambridge police officers "acted stupidly" and Massachusetts governor Patrick said the arrest was "every black man's nightmare." They both said this before the real facts of the matter were at hand.

This incident began when a well known and belligerent Harvard university professor, Henry Louis Gates Jr., was arrested while trying to reenter his home without his keys, he was locked out of, while cursing and throwing insults at the cops who thought he was breaking into a home.

“The Cambridge police maintain that arresting officer Sgt. James Crowley did what he had to do. Gates was arrested after he tried to budge open the front door of his Cambridge home. A passerby saw the Harvard scholar trying to gain access to the home and called police, thinking a burglary was in process.”

But this is not the only problem for Barack Obama, he obviously wants to get involved with racial issues, and there are those that are missing from his links. When it’s a white on black thing, Obama crawls out of his hole from the White House, then dives into a microphone and cameras, and criticizes local happenings, especially racial ones which he doesn’t like.

First of all, President Obama is a president of a nation, and he shouldn’t be involved in local, and communities’ issues and their problems. He’s got plenty on his plate now, a disastrous economy, a rising deficit, a failed $800 billion stimulus package and over 15 million out of work Americans. This is absolutely inexcusable for this president to get this involved, with American community affairs, when we have serious economical disasters on our hands.

But then again, if he wishes to get involved with race, I will not only suggest to him, I will oblige to Obama, and AG Eric Holder that the crime bill should be equal opportunities for all races.

But let me ask them, where were they, when 50 black thugs, attacked an innocent white family Barbequing around their back yard, in Akron Ohio this past 4th of July?

“It’s A Black World!”: Blacks Beat White American Family To Celebrate Fourth Of July:

"But to Marty Marshall, his wife and two kids, it seems pretty clear.It came after a family night of celebrating America and freedom with a fireworks show at Firestone Stadium. Marshall, his family and two friends were gathered outside a friend’s home in South Akron.

Out of nowhere, the six were attacked by dozens of teenage boys, who shouted” This is our world” and” This is a black world” as they confronted Marshall and his family.

The Marshalls, who are white, say the crowd of teens who attacked them and two friends June 27 on Girard Street numbered close to 50. The teens were all black.
This was almost like being a terrorist act,” Marshall said. ”And we allow this to go on in our neighborhoods?”

They said it started when one teen, without any words or warning, blindsided and assaulted Marshall’s friend as he stood outside with the others.

When Marshall, 39, jumped in, he found himself being attacked by the growing group of teens.

His daughter, Rachel, 15, who weighs about 90 pounds, tried to come to his rescue. The teens pushed her to the ground.

His wife, Yvonne, pushed their son, Donald, 14, into bushes to keep him protected.
”My thing is,” Marshall said,”I didn’t want this, but I was in fear for my wife, my kids and my friends. I felt I had to stay out there to protect them, because those guys were just jumping, swinging fists and everything.

”I’m lucky. They didn’t break my ribs or bruise my ribs. I thank God, they concentrated on my thick head because I do have one. They were trying to take my head off my spine, basically.”

After several minutes of punches and kicks, the attack ended and the group ran off. The Marshalls’ two adult male friends were not seriously hurt.

”I don’t think I thought at that moment when I tried to jump in,” Rachel Marshall said. ”But when I was lying on the ground, I was just scared.”

Marshall was the most seriously injured. He suffered a concussion and multiple bruises to his head and eye. He said he spent five nights in the critical care unit at Akron General Medical Center.

The construction worker said he now fears for his family’s safety, and the thousands of dollars in medical bills he faces without insurance.

”I knew I was going to get beat, but not as bad as I did,” Marshall said. ”But I did it to protect my family. I didn’t have a choice. There was no need for this. We should be all getting along. But to me, it seems to be racist.”

Akron police are investigating. Right now, the case is not being classified as a racial hate crime. There were no other reports of victims assaulted by the group that night.

The department’s gang unit is involved in the investigation, police said.
”We don’t know if it’s a known gang, or just a group of kids,” police Lt. Rick Edwards said.

The Marshalls say they fear retaliation at home or when they go outside. They are considering arming themselves, but they’re concerned about the possible problems that come with guns.

For now, they are hoping police can bring those suspects. They believe they can identify several of the attackers.

”This makes you think about your freedom,” Marshall said. ”In all reality, where is your freedom when you have this going on?”

But these problems don’t end there for President Barack Obama. There were three white notorious celebrities who passed away, around the time before and after Michael Jackson died.

President Obama conveniently reached out to the Jackson family with his condolences, but never once reached out to the families of Farah Fawcett, David Carradine, and Ed McMahon.

The only other family, other than Jackson’s, who President Obama reached out for, was Walter Cronkite’s, and that was of course, because Walter Cronkite was a journalism legend and Barack’s got to keep his journalists friends in the media happy for his future presidential misadventures.
So in closing, if President Barack Obama wants to talk about race, he should be on equal levels with all races, not just one sided.

Secondly, that 2009 hate crime bill is a total farce, because these white folks, those who were attacked by these 50 black thugs, aren’t protected by this new crime bill. Had it been the other way around, Obama, Eric Holder and their bands of enforcers would have been all over these white folks, like “White on Rice,” shall we say?

More Doom for Newspapers; New Advertising Trends; Internet Bloggers and Networking Specialists:

More Doom for Newspapers; New Advertising Trends; Internet Bloggers and Networking Specialists:
By Marc Chamot

There’s a new Internet advertising and marketing trend that could spell more doom for the future of the newspaper industries.

A new trend for Internet advertising has just happened at “Goode’s Job,” where a national brand advertising agency and its advertiser were looking into bloggers, those who can write well, and are knowledgeable about their products, video, and have complete Internet networking skills.

People with blogging, writing, and networking skills, those who can sit around for hours in front of a computer, and just market products on the Net, can realize incomes of $100,000 plus a year.

The Jackson Family Winery in California began its contest for the best networker and Internet video specialists, months ago, and Hardy Wallace won out over 2,000 finalists for the $10,000 a month job. Other candidates were also offered Internet marketing jobs.

The Murphy-Goode Advertising Agency campaign was based on an Australian Internet effort that paid its winner, 150,000 Ausie dollars to live on the Great Barrier Reef Island for six months, which drew lots of media attention.

This is the way of the future for American manufacturers, mainly food and drink producers, like Nabisco and Procter & Gamble. They will want someone directing folks into their websites, for people to get their coupons and special offers right off their printers, instead of spending millions, upon millions of dollars to target different regions of the country through costly newspaper ads.

This is why I recommend to my fellow bloggers, don’t give up blogging, stick with it, and someday you might just get discovered and reaps its rewards.

I had written articles in the past that this was the way advertising trends were heading on the Net.

It’s far cheaper and more economical for a company to pay a networker, and blogger $100,000 plus a year, to target their immediate areas or desirable markets, through networking, blogs, video, message boards and discussion boards than buying local ads through newspapers, which can cost millions of dollars a year.

Here is the story:

Atlanta blogger wins Murphy-Goode's 'dream job'

Support taxpayerrevolution.org; Californians are one step closer to ending the “Anchor Baby” births by illegals throughout the state:

Support taxpayerrevolution.org; Californians are one step closer to ending the “Anchor Baby” births by illegals throughout the state:

By Marc Chamot Source: Examiner.com

"Maybe before they sink da ship, eh?"

Please support http://taxpayerrevolution.org/ they are now pushing for a new ballot initiative, towards stopping “anchor babies’ born in California. I ask for my fellow bloggers to actively support their noble cause and push for similar issues in your own state.

CALIFORNIA TAXPAYER PROTECTION ACTSponsored by Taxpayer Revolution
PLEASE MAIL PETITIONS TO: POB 9985 SAN DIEGO, CA 92169

Petitions from Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties can be mailed to: Taxpayer Revolution, 6 Gumwood, Irvine, CA 92612

RULES AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR SIGNING PETITIONS:
Only a registered voter can sign as registered with their street address, NO POB. Zip codes must be used. All voters on one petition must be from the same county. Signatures can be gathered at home improvement, grocery or other stores. Gun shows will be publicized later. You can request petitions to be mailed by emailing from "contact us" on the main menu.

The Initiative’s Laws Will:
STOP 18 years of WELFARE payments to illegal aliens with U.S. born children.
REQUIRE all those who are not citizens or permanent legal residents to submit ID documents, provided to Homeland Security, before receiving a birth certificate.

ALLOW only CITIZENS AND PERMANENT LEGAL RESIDENTS eligibility for all public benefits including non-emergency and pre-natal care.

ALLOWS Homeland Security to review approved applications for federal, state or local benefits that illegal aliens are permitted to receive due to a U.S. born child. (Please see the initiative summary.)

An article in the Sacramento Bee on September 10, 2007 by Washington correspondent David Whitney summed up automatic citizenship: "Although Congress has never passed a law saying so, no president has ever ordered it, and no court has ever ruled on the issue, each of these babies automatically becomes a U.S. citizen when it takes its first breath." This is a taxpayer injustice.

Our citizen’s movement will launch the national debate we need to bring an END to "birth tourism" and AUTOMATIC CITIZENSHIP in the United States of America. The movement will uphold the recorded words and real intent of the authors of our Constitution. To the authors and the states which passed the 14th Amendment "subject to the jurisdiction" is to mean that citizens are born to parents who are "NOT subjects of a foreign power." The 14th Amendment is meant to confer citizenship on children whose parents are under the exclusive power, protection and obedience of the United States.

The goal to stop automatic citizenship is critical toward reducing the crime problem. A major reason deported criminal illegal aliens return immediately to the United States after deportation is because they have left behind children born here. Former Homeland Security Director, Michael Chertoff, reported there are two million criminal illegal aliens.

There will never be "BORDER SECURITY" without ending automatic citizenship. Birth tourism is stealing billions from the United States taxpayers.

Please DONATE by credit card on-line now at "Contribute" or "Donate" to help make this critically important political movement a success.
The initiative petitions will be circulating in 2009 to qualify for the JUNE 2010 ballot and can be downloaded at this site. Please volunteer to obtain signatures.

PLEASE DONATE NOW AND MAIL YOUR CHECK TO:
TAXPAYER REVOLUTION c/o TreasurerP.O. BOX 9985SAN DIEGO, CA 92169State Committee ID no. 1297837

California voters: Please send a self-addressed stamped envelope and petitions can be mailed to you. Please inform us by email if you can volunteer to obtain signatures to help qualify this crucial initiative.

WE CAN MAKE HISTORY TOGETHER.

California is closer to ending illegal births by Mexicans:
In an effort to close ever-expanding social service programs the California Taxpayer Protection Act of 2010, Initiative 09-0010 has begun the signature process.

The Attorney General of California released the last bit of paperwork required to get the “birth tourism” legislation moving forward. Petitioners must now collect approximately 450,000 California registered voter signatures.

At a press conference in front of the County Administration building, Ted Hilton- author of the bill, Bill Morrow-retired California State Senator, Peter Nunez-former United States Attorney and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement joined together to inform the residents of California to take the immigration issue into their own hands.

This bill is for “real world citizens,” Morrow said. “The people of California have an opportunity to curb the illegal immigration. Many in California may not have seen the grass lately, but we’ve been seeding our roots.”

According to the Attorney General for the state of California, who prepares the title and summary, the state would deny birth certificates to children born to undocumented parents unless the mother provides a fingerprint and other information to be given to the federal authorities.

Finally, the initiative eliminates benefits for children in child-only CalWORKS cases which are not mandated by federal law.

For those who want reassurance, the public benefit restrictions in this initiative have already passed and are on the books in five states, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Oklahoma and Arizona.

The California ballot initiative is closely worded to the law on the books in Oklahoma, says Hilton.

Many in California believe the federal government has dropped the immigration ball over the last 40 years. “In Washington D.C. they have a few nicknames; reform is code word for amnesty,” Nunez explained.

He goes on to say that if Americans allow another amnesty wave to come ashore a new wave of immigrants will head to America – this time the number could be 40 million.
Again Nunez says, “It’s time for the states residents to take care of the illegal immigration problem, the federal, state and local governments have failed.”

As far as immigration containment issues there are three areas that need to be addressed; Border security, workforce enforcement and doling out of public benefits. This ballot initiative addresses the latter, benefits.

The crux of this issue is the “birth tourism.” The state currently pays $400 million per year in ‘normal childbirth,’ according to the state of California Department Health’s latest records. “This doesn’t include the cost of premature births which the Center for Disease Control estimates as 12 percent of all births. The costs to taxpayers for these births and those born with disabilities are over $1 billion more annually,” Hilton said.

According to California State Attorney General office, the initiative would save the taxpayers around $1 billion annually from eliminating the child-only CalWORKS program. Morrow believes the number is much higher. “If you add the costs for ending public benefits, the state will save much more than $1 billion per year.”

Another concerned group that has come out and supports the 2010 ballot initiative are African-Americans.

Ted Hayes who recently ran for congress against Maxine Waters in Los Angeles said, “American black men will stop the birth tourism problem connected to the 14th Amendment.”

“That law was meant for West African slaves, not Latinos crossing the border illegally,” Hayes firmly stated. “The Latinos are taking money from the sweat from our backs; we intend to take it back.”

Nunez concurs, “The 14th Amendment was a way for this country to overcome slavery. Our current national policy doesn’t even allow diplomats in this country to gain citizenship through birth.”

Hayes admits it’s time African-Americans to start fighting for their state and country. “The Latinos want to make this about race. I’ll make this about race. The sponsors of this bill are not racists, they’re Americans and we stand with them.”

Backed up by fact, Hilton notes in 1987 California’s teenage birth rate was below the national average. One short year later, pre-natal care commenced for illegal aliens. “Four years later that caused the state’s teenage birth rate to grow to twice the national average and the highest of any state,” says Hilton.

According to the State of California, Department of Public Health’s latest birth records show there were 562,157 live births. A staggering 293,276 were born to a mother of Hispanic background.

“The state estimates between 20-25 percent of all births each year are to those here illegally. It is becoming very evident that the parents lack of ability to pay for these births and immediately require public services to care for these children,” Hilton said.

“Our citizen movement will launch a state and national debate to bring an end to “birth tourism” and automatic citizenship in the United States,” Hilton continues.

“The goal to stop automatic citizenship is critical toward reducing crime. A major reason deported criminal illegal aliens return immediately to the country after deportation is because they have left behind children who were born in the U.S.”

Before leaving office former Homeland Security Director, Michael Chertoff reported there were more than two million criminal illegal aliens in the United States.

Other items included in the initiative:
*Requires illegal mother to provide identification with a photograph, fingerprints and fees in person*Ends all illegal public funded benefits*Ends prenatal care for illegal aliens*Terminates all child welfare checks to illegal aliens (some of which are sent out of the country)

For more information on this initiative and other California reform groups see the links located on the side of this story. For further information regarding the California Taxpayer Protection Act and the actual ballot initiative visit taxpayerrevolution.org.

President Obama’s on the Hot Seat over Massive Job Losses & State of Economy; 18% American Children Living in Poverty & Going Hungry:

President Obama’s on the Hot Seat over Massive Job Losses & State of Economy; 18% American Children Living in Poverty & Going Hungry:
By Marc Chamot

President Obama is now in the hot seat, his polls are dropping like dead flies, and he’s under heavy guns about the state of our economy and jobs losses.

He’s now under extreme pressure from both, conservatives and liberals to do something about declining jobs, the economic meltdowns and growing deficits.

Either this President is naive, well misinformed, or just plain inexperienced. Just why is he jumping from one issue to the next, without making sure that the critical issue, like the state of the economy and job losses have been taken care of first, before jumping into other outrageous/silly ideas, issues like energy, global warming, legalizing illegal aliens and healthcare?

Since last year, I have continually written on my blogs that a stimulus alone will not, and will never be the ONLY solution in solving our economical and jobs ills.

The Democrats and he are totally ignoring economics 101; the real formula goes well beyond just a stimulus. Pumping money into the problem is like giving pain killers to someone who has cancer; it doesn’t solve what ails them, until you cut that CANCER OUT, by getting that surgery done.

There are numerous aspects beyond a stimulus that are totally being ignored by this administration, Democrats and Republicans alike. For example, some of the real solutions to our social ills, are specifically spelled out for congress in the 1997 Congressional Jordan Commission; 1997 Jordan Commission Report on Immigration Predicted Mass Importations of Low Waged & Low Skilled Foreign Workers Would Decimate Jobs & Wages:

The bipartisan Jordan Commission Report specifically stated that the United States MUST curve immigration. It specifically said that it must secure the border with Mexico and cut back on visas, and visa overstays, and these H1B, H2B work visas. It also stated that the massive influxes of low skilled immigrants would eventually destroy jobs and lower incomes for most Americans. Whether you believe it or not, that’s where we’re at now.

This is the BIG problem with Barack Obama and these Democrats; they are NOT LISTENING to U.S., they keep ignoring the root causes of these problems, and its viable solution which can be done to help struggling Americans.

Another big problem for President Obama, is he once again totally ignoring the declining manufacturing jobs, he still hasn’t put a plug on the exit doors for these manufacturers that keep going abroad for their cheaper labor.

It’s about frikin’ time that the national press begins to put public pressure on Barack Obama and on these hapless Democrats, to have them begin acting on jobs and on the sad state of our economy.

That same old rhetoric that we’re used to hearing from these people won’t work anymore, and it is getting very old and tiresome to hear it. We Americans aren’t as stupid as what some of these politicos think; there will be no more EXCUSES.

We don’t have a year or two to wait around like President Obama tells us to do. The economic reality is this folks; latest reports show that 18 percent of our children are now living in poverty with the threat of hunger every day.

Source Examiner.com; a recent federal report showed that 18% of the 74 million American children aged 17 and under, were living in poverty in 2007, up from 17 percent in 2006. Those who went without eating, gone without food in some days, increased from 0.6 percent in 2006 to 0.9 percent in 2007.

Why it’s very urgent for our government to act immediately, instead of taking that infamous debonair attitude that these politicians are known for.

With the way the economy and jobs are now, those figures for 2008 and 2009 are going to be horrendous for our future children!

Obama changes tune to accommodate bad economic news
President Obama appears to be changing the rhetoric from that of early June when he said that he was not satisfied with the pace of the stimulus package that the Democrats pushed through Congress without reading and which was signed by him three days later.

Now Obama says that he always assumed the Recovery Act would take time and that this summer and fall were the key times. He is no longer mentioning his previous goal to "save or create" 3.6 million jobs and or the 8% unemployment figure as economists now predict that figure, already 9.5%, could go as high as 10% to 11%.

Meanwhile, the Washington Times reported how inefficient the Recovery Act is with some states that have low unemployment rates receiving more money per capita than states with poor jobs markets. It also reported that Obama has had to cancel some projects after some of them were almost ridiculous, nothing more than earmarks for some politician to bring home to his district. (Pelosi's mouse, for example?)

Meanwhile, Republicans are reminding the public about the promises that Obama made, including that jobs would be created immediately instead of the newest Obama predictions that a recovery would start taking place in the second half of the year.

It appears that the Obama mantra of "hope" is beginning to look more like "helpless" as he tries to change the rhetoric of just a month ago. Meanwhile, no matter how the pro-Obama media tries to cover it up, the American public's disillusionment with Obama and the stimulus show a decline not only in the program but with the man himself.

So now in the second week of July, 2009, Obama is saying that the stimulus is working as intended. What a difference a month makes when reality begins to clash with the previous promises coming out of the White House.

A great opinion piece by Obamas' own big supporter, Cynthia Tucker.

Obama’s next stop: Main St.
For the first time, President Obama’s overseas travel, with his photogenic family in tow, seemed jarring and discordant — out of touch with the everyday woes of constituents back home. As photographers flashed pictures of the first family abroad, analysts were poring over the depressing economic news of continuing job losses. Somehow, photos of the Obamas in resplendent, gold-bedecked palaces smacked of Marie Antoinette.

It’s not the president’s fault that the gathering of the G-8, the world’s biggest economies, was held overseas just as second-quarter economic reports revealed that unemployment in the U.S. had jumped to 9.5 percent. But, now that’s he’s back, it will be Obama’s failure if he doesn’t grab the microphone immediately to remind the nation that he has a plan to revive the economy and produce jobs.

As Republicans complain that the stimulus was never a good idea and nervous Democrats scramble for a response, it will take Obama’s soothing rhetoric to shore up jittery markets and head off a drastic drop in consumer confidence. If there is a silver lining in the recent unemployment reports, it’s this: The news has forced the economy back to the top of the agenda.
When Ben Bernanke told CBS in March that he had detected the “green shoots” of economic revival, many politicians and business leaders heard his remarks as “mission accomplished.” Congress and the president moved along to tackle health care and climate change, while Wall Street reveled in an imminent recovery.

But back on Main Street, average Americans were still losing their jobs. Those who managed to avoid layoffs were taking unpaid furloughs as employers cut back work hours and wages. And those lucky enough to hold on to full-time pay were socking it away in savings, reluctant to spend beyond the basics. That response, while understandable in uncertain times, contributed to a plunging business cycle, with businesses that sold less forced to lay off more workers.

Though liberal economists are talking about a second stimulus, the politics are unlikely to yield one. No Republicans will vote for it, and Democrats are already nervous about the deficit. Besides, Obama is probably right to remind Americans that stimulus money is just beginning to make its way into the economy; it’s not going to yield much in the way of jobs growth before late this year.

(Congress also needs a reminder that the stimulus would have been more potent if some of its members, insisting on a narrow-minded fiscal rectitude, hadn’t stripped out most of the financial aid to states and cities. State are now having to lay off employees and cut back services, prolonging the recession.)

If Bernanke’s “green shoots” won’t yield a bountiful harvest of jobs until next year, there is more the president and his economic team can do right now to stem the steady tide of foreclosures. Banks are not cooperating with the administration’s plan to help as many as 4 million struggling homeowners.

During the boom years, bankers were able to quickly upend their traditional way of doing business to peddle sub-prime loans and other exotic instruments; but they’ve been slow to adjust their mechanisms to negotiate with homeowners having a hard time paying their mortgages — even though they will be paid to do so from a taxpayer-financed pool of funds. Obama needs to let banks know he expects their full cooperation.

Most Americans know that it will take a while for the economy to recover, but they expect Obama to make economic revival his number one task. Those photo ops in glittering palaces were a bit off-message.

I’m just getting sick and tired; of the Michael Jackson, Sarah Palin’s Media/Public Obsessions & Perversions:

I’m just getting sick and tired; of the Michael Jackson, Sarah Palin’s Media/Public Obsessions & Perversions:
By Marc Chamot

Okay folks, I’m going to let it RIP and here it comes. I’m getting sick and tired, no, it’s not my health, it’s about the dramas, these obsessions, and perversions going on.

I’ve had enough of the non-stop Michael Jackson’s death coverage’s and I’ve had enough of the Sarah Palin bashings.

Let poor Michael Jackson die in peace and with some dignity. These obsessions, perversions and sicknesses among the media, and the people who are thriving behind the death of a mere mortal, celebrities like Michael Jackson, is becoming just too morbid, screwy and pretty scary.

Not only conservative radio has had enough of the Michael Jackson coverage, so has liberal radio like Randi Rhodes. Yesterday as I was tuning my radio to find some talk shows, stations after stations all were on that Jackson thing.

We’ve got a pretty nutty society, when mere mortal’s lives evolve around a musician, a celebrity, especially at the time when this country is heading to hell in a hand basket.

With the state of our economy, massive job losses, skyrocketing deficits, and foreign affairs in turmoil, it’s been all Michael Jackson and Sarah Palin obsessions and perversions.

If I dissed some Jackson fans here, sorry, but that’s the way she rolls, and just get over it.

And another thing, I now know when this country needs to get back on a cardiopulmonary resuscitation machine, when more people vote on the American Idol than do for our own presidency.

And then what’s that liberal’s fascination and love affairs with Sarah Palin? Why won’t it stop? Some of you my good friends, my American friends with the media and with the general public, you’re all just plain loony as they come.

If I dissed some liberals here on Palin, there’s really no sorry for you and just get over it!

I think most people have gotten their prerogatives on issues totally mixed up, and pretty much out of whack. Totally Nuts!

Dumb Americans; are we really that Stupid? This is a Byproduct of a Failed Educational System:

Dumb Americans; are we really that Stupid? This is a Byproduct of a Failed Educational System:
By Marc Chamot

I came across this video above on YouTube by chance. I was researching on another topic and came across this video. It seems that some of our Latin American friends are having a field day with it. They are calling it "our American culture."

It’s pretty damn embarrassing if I might say. It must say a whole lot about what we do, and think as Americans, and the rest of the world as a whole. It basically tells us a lot on how we VOTE.

Hey guys and gals, and my fellow intelligent bloggers out there, who read my blogs? That explains as to why (you and I,) we all get the brainy guys and gals reading our stuff on the Net, while the morons are left behind to vote for idiots into office.

It just pains me to be among the smartest along with you guys, in a country laden with total ignoramuses and jackasses!

Modoc County CA; Your Hypocrisy is Unbecoming of a True Conservative & the Truths about California’s Budget Woes Revealed:

Modoc County CA; Your Hypocrisy is Unbecoming of a True Conservative & the Truths about California’s Budget Woes Revealed:
By Marc Chamot

Is it all hypocrisy or just plain stupidity?

Modoc County California is a prime example on how to be a hypocritical conservative. And the real truths about California’s budget woes revealed!

First, a great article came out in the San Francisco Chronicle a few days ago. It tells about California’s most conservative, and the highest registered Republican county in the state, who don’t believe in paying higher taxes, and in the financing of welfare programs except their OWN. They are getting one of the largest taxpayer financed bailouts in the state. Wow!

State's most conservative county uses much cash

“Modoc has the highest Republican registration of any county in California, it unfailingly elects anti-tax Republicans to office, and the vote here against last month's ballot measure that would have raised a variety of taxes was one of the most lopsided in the state. And yet, per capita, Modoc County gets more state taxpayer dollars than all but one of California's 58 counties.

The prevailing attitude among the right-wing ranchers and modern hippies who define Modoc County is of fierce self-reliance - but more people here than just about anywhere else depend on welfare checks of some kind to get by.
So with state Republicans blocking new taxes and insisting on deep cuts in taxpayer-funded services, does that make this most solid of GOP bases politically conflicted, or worse, just plain ignorant?

"I don't think voters in the conservative counties understand the connection between the service they are receiving and the votes their representatives are making," Evans said. "Maybe the layers of government are so convoluted that many people don't realize how it works."

Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, R-Gerber (Tehama County), vice chairman of the Assembly budget committee, represents Modoc County. He said cutting social services is not what he has in mind when he talks about deficit reduction - it's chopping other things, such as regulatory oversight committees and government employees.”

And then we’ve got Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who finally came out with the "truths" for once.

And state workers don't like this one bit!

The real reason that California cannot get their budget settled, and retire their $26.3 billion dollars deficits, it’s because of California Democrats, and their love affairs with their state employees and their unions.

It’s absolutely true folks! California employees and their unions are tied in so deep with their Democrat politicians, it would be suicide for any Democrat to go against their powerfully connected and well financed base.

Democrats have resisted every effort to cut and trim state employees’ hefty salaries, their costly medical costs and retirement benefits. But they are after everyone else's moneys, including raising taxes.

Schwarzenegger: “protecting the special interests who benefit from our dysfunctional system was more important to them than solving our deficit, it steps on the TURF of the people they want to protect.” i.e. money and votes?

With the state being plagued by dwindling real estate values, large business closures, faced with 34% drop in personal tax revenues, and laced with higher unemployment, it’s just asinine to be keeping these high paid state employees, and with their beyond to affordable benefits for any much longer.

Even though Arnold Schwarzenegger is absolutely correct on Democrats, he also needs to be put to shame; he absolutely, and unequivocally supports $5 billion dollars yearly in taxpayer financed support for ALL California’s illegal aliens, just as these Democrats do.

Some screwed up people in a screwed up state, isn’t California just swelling? Wow!

No Justice for Megan Meier’s Suicide in MySpace Hoax Case, Dismissed by Judge! Just another Miscarriage of Justice for a Little Girl’s Death:

No Justice for Megan Meier’s Suicide in MySpace Hoax Case, Dismissed by Judge! Just another Miscarriage of Justice for a Little Girl’s Death:
By Marc Chamot

This is absolutely unbelievable folks! Justice is truly failing in America, and here is another prime example as to why.

Federal judge George H. Wu just dismissed the case of this wonderful and naïve teen Missouri girl, who was purposely tormented and harassed into committing suicide by a deranged monster of a neighbor.

It means that Lori Drew’s conviction won’t stand and she’s not responsible for little Megan Meier’s death.

It wasn’t all just about lying on My Space applications, there’s no doubt that Lori Drew committed Internet terrorism towards this girl, and she needed to be punished for her crime. But no, says this imbecile of a judge.

“Krause argued that Drew's acts were criminal because she signed up for the fake account with the intention of harming Megan by humiliating her. Drew knew her acts were illegal and deleted the account shortly after Megan's death to cover up her crime, he contended.

Prosecutors had asked Wu to impose a sentence of three years. Defense attorneys argued for probation and vehemently criticized the prosecution in court filings, calling its argument "utterly absurd."

This is the problem with most American judges like this moron these days; we the people have no way of removing these "screwballs" from the bench, and especially when they are purely incompetent.

I have no doubt that Lori Drew exhibited Internet terrorism and harassments on that poor 13 year old girl, and she was accessory to the fact that caused her death, and that is extremely ILLEGAL, in the America I come from.

Brief Information about this idiotic Federal Judge: Superior Court Judge George H. Wu Confirmed as Federal Judge in Los Angeles 2007:

The United States Senate today confirmed President Bush’s nomination of Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge George H. Wu to serve as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

The Senate vote to confirm Judge Wu was 95-0 with five senators absent. He is expected to receive his commission shortly and will fill the vacancy created when Judge Ronald S.W. Lew took senior status on Sept. 19, 2006.

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Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Case dismissed against woman in MySpace hoax that led to teen's suicide
A federal judge tentatively decided today to dismiss the case against a Missouri woman who had been convicted of computer fraud stemming from an Internet hoax that prompted a teenage girl to commit suicide.

Lori Drew of Darden Prairie, Mo. was convicted in November of three misdemeanor counts of illegally accessing a protected computer.

The decision by U.S. District Judge George H. Wu will not become final until his written ruling is filed, probably next week. Wu said he was concerned that if Drew was found guilty of violating the terms of service in using MySpace, anyone who violated the terms could be convicted of a crime.

Drew 50 was to be sentenced in May, but Wu had delayed the sentencing until today, saying he wanted to consider the defense motion to dismiss the entire case.

A federal jury convicted Drew in November of the three misdemeanor charges but deadlocked on a felony conspiracy charge that would have carried a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.

The verdict was a blow to prosecutors who indicted Drew on what some called tenuous legal grounds after authorities in Missouri declined to file criminal charges. Drew was widely criticized after the 2006 death of eighth-grader Megan Meier, an acquaintance of Drew's daughter.

Prosecutors said Drew, her daughter and her 18-year-old employee used a fake profile of a teenage boy to flirt with Megan online via Beverly Hills-based MySpace. Megan hanged herself with a belt after getting a message, purportedly from the boy, telling her that "the world would be a better place without you."

At the May hearing, Wu grilled Assistant U.S. Atty. Mark Krause at length about whether the government had prosecuted Drew under the appropriate laws when they asserted that violating MySpace's terms of service amounted to a crime.

"Is a misdemeanor committed by the conduct which is done every single day by millions and millions of people?" Wu asked. "If these people do read [the terms of service] and still say they're 40 when they are 45, is that a misdemeanor?"

Krause argued that Drew's acts were criminal because she signed up for the fake account with the intention of harming Megan by humiliating her. Drew knew her acts were illegal and deleted the account shortly after Megan's death to cover up her crime, he contended.
Prosecutors had asked Wu to impose a sentence of three years. Defense attorneys argued for probation and vehemently criticized the prosecution in court filings, calling its argument "utterly absurd."

Megan's parents, Ron and Tina Meier, made statements in court in May describing their daughter as a loving but vulnerable girl who went fishing with her father and cared deeply for her friends. They asked Wu to impose the maximum prison sentence.

"It just sickens me that it was an adult playing with the mind of a 13-year-old child," Ron Meier said in May.