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Virginia: more indictments against Somali pirates

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A couple of pirate cases being tried in Virginia (home port of the allegedly attacked ships) caught my attention when one of the groups of pirates claimed they were only ferrying refugees.

From the Virginian Pilot:

A federal grand jury issued new indictments this week against two sets of Somali nationals, adding more criminal charges bolstering the government’s piracy case against the 11 men.

[…..]

Those charged in the Ashland attack claim they were ferrying refugees from Somalia to Yemen when they became lost at sea. They fired at the ship, they say, out of a desperate attempt to get attention.

Do you know that if that last group (the supposed refugee-ferrying Somalis) get off they will likely be allowed to stay in the US.  We don’t deport Somalis back to Somalia.

Wanda Sykes!

This article also drew my attention because of the comment someone left that sent me looking for the source.  Sure enough, here it is!   BLACK comedian Wanda Sykes (friend of Obama) said the following in October 2009 about Somali pirates:

And, of all the bad luck, how did he (Obama) catch a term where he’d have to fight pirates? Pirates!

After trying to figure out how a bunch of bums in small boats manage to hijack giant oil tankers she asks, “Where the f- – – do pirates even come from?” And why don’t they look like pirates are supposed to look, “and not like car jackers?”

Her solution to the captured pirate they recently brought back for trial? “Chop his leg off, stick a broom handle up there, stick a hook on his arm, a patch on his eye, a parrot on his shoulder and kick his ass back to Somalia!”

Imagine for a moment that a prominent white comedian had said such a thing!  He or she would be out of work.

Fox News’ Murdoch joins big companies, rich mayors, to push for Amnesty

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I missed this story last week, but got it today thanks to Richard Falknor at Blue Ridge Forum who sent me this post at Debbie Schlussel from a few days ago.

Now why do you think billionaires and these multinational companies want amnesty for illegal aliens?  To be nice to the downtrodden of the world?  To add to our diversity because its good for us?  Or, because they want cheap labor flooding the job market?   You decide.

Here is the depressing story:

NEW YORK — Chief executives of several major corporations, including Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Disney and News Corp., are joining Mayor Michael Bloomberg to form a coalition advocating for immigration reform – including a path to legal status for all undocumented immigrants now in the United States.

The group includes several other big-city mayors and calls itself the Partnership for a New American Economy. It seeks to reframe immigration reform as the solution to repairing and stimulating the economy.

Bloomberg and Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp., appeared together Thursday on Fox News to discuss the effort.

“We’re just going to keep the pressure on the congressmen,” Murdoch said. “I think we can show to the public the benefits of having migrants and the jobs that go with them.”

Bloomberg added, “Somebody has to lead and explain to the country why this is in our interest.”

Whose interest Mayor?  The rich people?

If you are a Far Left Open Borders advocate, how do you sleep at night knowing that you are on the same side as the billionaires exploiting immigrant labor and hurting the average American worker?

I notice we have ImmigrationWorksUSA’s Tamar Jacoby weighing in favorably here as well.  We told you about them here when they were working with other so-called conservatives like Grover Norquist (Americans for Tax Reform) to craft a legislative strategy.

ImmigrationWorks USA, a national federation of businesses that support immigration, welcomed Bloomberg’s group to the effort. Tamar Jacoby, the organization’s president and CEO, said the coalition’s main contribution would likely be the extra attention and power it can bring to the debate.

“I don’t know that they’re going to be in the trenches everyday organizing grass roots, following the policy process,” Jacoby said. “It’s more a 30,000-foot approach – these big names adding their muscle to the push to get this on the table.”

Bloomberg spokesman Jason Post said no money has been spent on the effort yet, and he could not say whether the group will be a standard nonprofit, a political action committee or a group known as a 501(c)4 nonprofit, which can operate outside the more strict limits governing political action committees.

The business leaders in the coalition employ more than 650,000 people and make more than $220 billion in annual sales, combined.

I guess its going to be an uphill battle for Tea Party types and the average patriotic American worker.  We have to oppose Obama, Far Left Open Borders Advocates, Democrats who want more voters, Fox News, Billionaires, Multinational corporations, that’s all!

By the way, this is all just further proof of my theory that the Refugee Resettlement program is a bogus humanitarian effort—it’s just all about labor (cheap labor!).

Obama may push amnesty this year; holds (another) strategy session

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An already hot summer could get even hotter, if the Associated Press story from yesterday is correct.  If Obama wants to push Tea Partiers and others to the boiling point, this will do it.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is enlisting activists and labor leaders in a push for comprehensive immigration legislation that will showcase Republican opposition and include a speech by the president.

The strategy was discussed during a meeting Monday by a range of prominent labor leaders and activist groups. Participants said Obama reiterated his support for immigration legislation but noted the political realities that have stalled it in Congress.

Latino leaders say they will work in coming months to pressure Republicans to give way and support an immigration bill — and make opponents pay at the ballot box if they don’t.

“We’re going to make absolutely crystal clear who’s at fault here,” said Eliseo Medina, a leader of the Service Employees International Union.

Prospects for passage of comprehensive immigration legislation look bleak this election year, and even many Democrats are wary of wading into the hot-button issue. But Obama, who pledged as a candidate to make immigration reform a top priority during his first year in office, faces pressure from the Hispanic community to act — or at least to try.

Read it all.

Of course you gotta wonder how much of this is Obama pandering to his base and stringing them along until November. Remember its been almost a year since that August White House strategy session where Obama was stringing along a whole bunch of pro-OPEN BORDERS businesses, unions, churches, refugee contractors and so forth, here.

Al-Qaida to Obama: We plan to kill more Americans….

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…. and by the way, Obama, we don’t like you.  Drudge linked this AP story just this evening about American born Al-Qaida terrorist Adam Gadahn’s recent warning to America.

CAIRO – Al-Qaida’s U.S.-born spokesman warned President Barack Obama Sunday that the militant group may launch new attacks that would kill more Americans than previous ones.

In a taunting, 24 minute message that dwelled on Obama’s setbacks, including the loss of Massachusetts Senate seat to the Republicans, Adam Gadahn set out al-Qaida’s conditions for peace with the U.S., including cutting support for Israel and withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.

Obama the serpentine American President:

Gadahn’s statement was notable for its mocking tone, in which he described Obama as “a devious, evasive and serpentine American president with a Muslim name,” and seemed to delight in his setbacks.

“You’re no longer the popular man you once were, a year ago or so,” he crowed, ascribing his drop in popularity to the escalation of the U.S. wars abroad.

Gadahn must have missed Obama’s Cairo speech where he blew kisses to the Muslim world.  What!  He did hear it and the magical teleprompter didn’t win them over?

That reminds me, do you think the FBI has caught those 270 Somalis (Al-Shabaab/Al-Qaida) who have gotten into the US across our southern border.  Not a chance!

Follow-up and laugh!  The Three Terrors!

Hillary’s State Department: We want to see your papers!

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Update: This story is even funnier tonight as we learn from Hillary that Obama plans to sue the State of Arizona over their new law which asks that those stopped for a legal infraction produce their identification.  Yet only certain classes of people will be allowed to come near Hillary and the refugee luminaries tomorrow and they better damn well produce their papers—even a passport is required in some cases!

I thought this was very funny.  Hillary Clinton is having a press conference for World Refugee Day on Friday, June 18th, at the State Department.  But, rest assured no critics, bloggers or assorted other riff-raff will be admitted.  You must have your papers in order to be in the exalted presence of the refugee advocacy elite including Angelina Jolie.

The event is moderated by “60 Minutes.”  Remember the old days when ’60 Minutes’ was on the side of the people!

Secretary Clinton Delivers Remarks at Event Marking World Refugee Day on June 18
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
June 17, 2010

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will deliver remarks at a World Refugee Day event, co-hosted by the Department of State and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on Friday, June 18 at 10:00 a.m. in the Benjamin Franklin Room of the Department of State.

The program will also feature remarks by Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration Eric P. Schwartz, Representative Diane Watson, and President of the International Rescue Committee George Rupp*. The event will be moderated by Scott Pelley of CBS’ 60 Minutes and will feature live interactive video feeds with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres and an Iraqi refugee family in Syria; UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie; and a UNHCR official and a Congolese man displaced due to activities of the Lord’s Resistance Army in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The event will be open to credentialed members of the media.

Pre-set time for video cameras: 9:00 a.m. from 23rd Street Entrance.

Final access time for journalists and still photographers: 9:30 a.m. from 23rd Street Entrance.

[ HERE IS THE REALLY FUNNY PART, LOOK AT WHAT YOU NEED TO EVEN GET IN TO THE EVENT, AND YET THESE SAME PEOPLE WANT ILLEGAL ALIENS TO BE ABLE TO WALTZ RIGHT INTO ARIZONA AND NOT HAVE TO SHOW ANY PAPERS!]

Media representatives may attend this event upon presentation of one of the following: (1) A U.S. Government-issued identification card (Department of State, White House, Congress, Department of Defense or Foreign Press Center), (2) a media-issued photo identification card, or (3) a letter from their employer on letterhead verifying their employment as a journalist, accompanied by an official photo identification card (driver’s license, passport).

PRESS CONTACT:
Department of State
Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
Gina Wills
(202) 453-9371
Department of State
Office of Press Relations
(202) 647-2492

PRN: 2010/809

* Incidentally, George Rupp, former President of Columbia University (Obama’s and Cloward and Piven’s turf) makes a cool $400,000 plus salary a year as head of the International Rescue Committee  (IRC) while refugees in their care are jobless, on welfare, and frightened.