Archive for July, 2010
URGENT: Will You Stand With Arizona on July 29?
On Monday night’s webinar the National Leadership Council of Tea Party Patriots voted overwhelmingly, to ask affiliated members of Tea Party Patriots to hold sign waving events for 1 hour on Thursday, July 29 to show our support of the people and State of Arizona on the day SB1070 goes into effect. If you cannot hold an event we ask that you put a sign in your car, truck, lawn, windows, or wherever you can to show your support for this law.
If you plan to stand at an intersection waving signs, please be sure to list it on TeaPartyPatriots.org so that other people near you can use the search zip by code feature to meet up with you. After logging to the site, from the homepage, click Submit an Event (in the right hand upper corner), fill out the form and click Submit Event. We will have people approving events quickly throughout the day.
Other Places Already Have New Arizona Law
By Dr. Harold Pease
If anyone wonders how the new Arizona illegal immigration law, coming on board July 29, will affect Arizona, they need only to look at Prince William County, Virginia. They have had virtually the same law in effect for three years. Commissioner Cory Stewart who spearheaded that law said, “We had some of the same problems Arizona did. We had so many illegal immigrants coming into the county causing trouble, causing crime, and exploding the number of English as a Second Language students in our school system. We passed a pretty strict measure in 2007 and it has had great results.”
Under their law, Stewart said police must check the immigration status of persons “for a small crime, shoplifting, DUI, being drunk in public-any of those crimes.” They are then taken to a magistrate who normally “holds them in jail pending trial, because they are illegal immigrants and obviously there is a high risk of flight. They serve their sentences and we hand them over to federal authorities for deportation.”
Terrorist Nations Still Cross Our Border
By Dr. Harold Pease
Customs and Border Protection arrested about 52,000 illegal immigrants from countries other than Mexico in 2009. This number included countries known to export terrorism and the numbers from each actually caught, such as Afghanistan 4, Egypt 14, Iran 15, Iraq 16, Nigeria 29, Pakistan 41, Saudi Arabia 1, Somalia 19, Yemen 13, and North Korea 10. So much for national security. These numbers reflect only those caught, and who knows how many succeeded undetected. Border security is national security. If Mexicans can get in illegally, so can everyone else.
This is nothing new to the government. Their own 2005 study A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border, admitted that “aliens were smuggled from the Middle East to staging areas in Central and South America, before being smuggled illegally into the United States” and that “members of Hezbollah have already entered the United States across the Southwest border.” In light of the need for greater border security exhibited by our failure to stop the September 11 attacks, it is difficult to believe that the Federal Government really cares.
Government is Like Fire
By Dr. Harold Pease
George Washington said, “Government is like fire, a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” The Founders understood that the biggest obstacle to freedom was the tendency of all governments to grow, absorbing power unto themselves. He also observed the natural inclination of the people to shove decision making power upward to the seat of government as they became more apathetic and indifferent. One force pulls and the other pushes, but in time they accomplish the same thing: eventually all significant power resides in Washington D. C. thousands of miles away, just as it was in Parliament in Colonial times, and the people are not free. The Founders planned to stop both forces by authorizing only a legislative branch to make rules. This legislative branch was limited to only specific grants of power, listed in Article I, Section 8.
Nothing better represents the tendency of government to grow like fire more than the following fictitious, but all too real, account written by an unknown author: