Category: Asylum seekers

Latest on Lionheart

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If you have been following the case of the British blogger, Lionheart, who got in trouble for posting information on his blog about drug dealing immigrants in his home town of Luton, UK, you can get the latest update on his request for asylum in the US at Us or Them blog here.  Listen in on the phone conversation between Lionheart and the police.

We think this is a critical free speech case that should be followed closely by all who value the most important pillar of western society.   Creeping Sharia law in the UK promoted by the large Muslim immigrant population and what appears a wholesale cave-in by the native Britons is forcing people like Lionheart to seek refuge in America.

See our earlier posts on this issue here.

British Blogger Lionheart seeks asylum in the US

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Last month we told you about Lionheart, the blogger from the UK, who was in the United States and feared returning to his homeland because the authorities there threatened to arrest him over words he used on his blog.  See our earlier post here in which we made the important point that we all must stick together if we are to preserve perhaps the strongest pillar of western society—free speech.

We learned from the Center for Vigilant Freedom that Lionheart has decided to seek asylum in the United States.  Imagine that, an Englishman seeking political asylum in America!  What is the world coming to!

“I am applying for political asylum on the grounds of political persecution and human rights issues.

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“All I’ve done is written words on a blog. That doesn’t befit a prison sentence.”

As Lionheart goes, so go we

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Update 1/30/08:   Gates of Vienna blog has up-to-date news on Lionheart, calls him ‘canary in the coal mine for western free speech’ here.   Don’t miss audio of Lionheart on a US radio station.

I’ve written lately about the importance of keeping our free speech and that proliferating blogs is the way for just regular people to defend and keep that important freedom.   As I said, it’s like the gun issue, if we all have one it will be harder for them to strip our rights.

I don’t have time to do the post justice this morning, but please read Us or Them blog here on the case of British blogger Lionheart who is on the run from British police for speaking his mind on his blog.   He said similar things to what I posted the other day about the Nadia Convenience store raid in our county, and has thus broken the law in his native England. 

Africans want ‘out of Africa’ in a big way

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Africans are piling up like migrating birds along the north African coast waiting for the weather to improve to flock across the Mediterranean Sea to breeding grounds in Europe and especially Great Britain.  (Oh boy, I can just hear the hissing!)     Seriously,  Dymphna over at Gates of Vienna sent us this post yesterday about an article from The Guardian saying just that (without the migrating bird analogy).    It seems that Africans from many nations are gathering in Libya ready to make a big push to enter Europe illegally in the spring.  

Her post reminded me of a couple of posts I did back in RRW’s first month about African illegal immigrants arriving on the Mediterranean island of Malta because their little boats couldn’t get them to Europe.  On Malta they sought “refugee” status from the United Nations and applied to come to the US.    And, when I wrote those posts back in July we were planning to take 200 so-called refugees every year to relieve Malta’s illegal immigration burden.  See those posts here and here.

Remember as “refugees” fleeing persecution they get airfare to America, a US State Dept. subsidized apartment, food stamps, medical care (treatment for TB and HIV),  schools for their children, English lessons and a caseworker to find them a job— all supplied by YOU!

Immigrants and Food Stamp fraud

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After we had a recent federal raid on a convenience store in Hagerstown, MD where the owner, Mohammed Tariq Khan, allegedly purchased food stamps  for 50 cents on the dollar,  I’ve occasionally noticed articles about this illegal practice.  Here is an old one published at Free Republic entitled “New Immigrants Masters of Food Stamp Fraud.”

More recently, food stamp fraud has been refined by “asylees” — asylum seekers — fleeing Somalia, where rampant starvation serves as the basis of those asylum claims. Asylees are one of a very small number of immigrant groups who are normally eligible for food stamps. Last year, according to documents filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office with the District Court in Seattle, Wash., a ring of Somali couples based in Washington leveraged their skills into a multi-layered public assistance fraud that even involved cash payments from the government.

It’s going on a month now and there has been no further word about our local raid or whether anyone has been charged with a crime.   At the time the Herald Mail (our local paper) only briefly mentioned it in a police log and when I called the local AP reporter to see if they were writing on it he said that although he had received the police report,  “he hadn’t thought about writing on it.”    Is it any wonder then why the general public has no clue this stuff is going on!