Feds sue Arizona sheriff in civil rights probe

Citing Sheriff Joe Arpaio's "unprecedented" defiance to their commands, the Feds seek to intimidate a law enforcement officer who enforces laws they don't like.

The Obama regime has hammered the people of Arizona with three lawsuits and an indictment in a report to the United Nations to punish them for resisting Latinization.

Let's hope the people of Arizona stand behind the sheriff who stood up for them.

Gov. candidates in 20 states endorse anti-immigration laws

It’s not just Arizona:

In states far from the Mexico border — from liberal Massachusetts to moderate Iowa — Democrats and Republicans in gubernatorial races are running on strict anti-illegal-immigration platforms, pledging to sign an array of tough enforcement measures into law come January.

Looks like DC has a little rebellion on its hands ....

Washington, We Have a Problem

Yes, we do -- and Washington IS the problem. Even Vanity Fair sees things are falling apart in the Empire's seat of power:

How broken is Washington? Beyond repair? A day in the life of the president reveals that Barack Obama’s job would be almost unrecognizable to most of his predecessors—thanks to the enormous bureaucracy, congressional paralysis, systemic corruption (with lobbyists spending $3.5 billion last year), and disintegrating media....

But the modern presidency—Barack Obama’s presidency—has become a job of such gargantuan size, speed, and complexity as to be all but unrecognizable to most of the previous chief executives. The sheer growth of the federal government, the paralysis of Congress, the systemic corruption brought on by lobbying, the trivialization of the “news” by the media, the willful disregard for facts and truth—these forces have made today’s Washington a depressing and dysfunctional place. They have shaped and at times hobbled the presidency itself.

The gargantuan, centralized, corrupt mess in DC is exactly the opposite of what the Founders established. Consider James Madison's view of where most of the work of governing and administration naturally belongs (from Federalist #46):

Many considerations, besides those suggested on a former occasion, seem to place it beyond doubt that the first and most natural attachment of the people will be to the governments of their respective States. Into the administration of these a greater number of individuals will expect to rise. From the gift of these a greater number of offices and emoluments will flow. By the superintending care of these, all the more domestic and personal interests of the people will be regulated and provided for. With the affairs of these, the people will be more familiarly and minutely conversant. And with the members of these, will a greater proportion of the people have the ties of personal acquaintance and friendship, and of family and party attachments; on the side of these, therefore, the popular bias may well be expected most strongly to incline.

DC is awash in money, power, and too much ambition. The result is either gridlock, when we're lucky, and when we're not, we get disasters like Obama's stimulus package.

Had enough?

Karzai's brother calls for U.S. to shore up Kabul Bank as withdrawals accelerate

Is this a joke?

As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank, Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a major shareholder in beleaguered Kabul Bank called on Thursday for intervention by the United States to head off a financial meltdown....

Action by the United States, said Mahmoud Karzai, would prevent a run on Kabul Bank and protect other banks, too. He said Kabul Bank is "stable and has money" but cannot withstand a stampede by panicked depositors.

"If the Treasury Department will guarantee that everyone will get their money, maybe that will work," said Karzai, who holds 7 percent of the bank's shares, making him the third-biggest shareholder. Karzai, who spends most of his time in Dubai - where he lives in a waterfront villa paid for by Kabul Bank - rushed to Kabul on Wednesday to join efforts to salvage the bank.

Our own banks are teetering on the precipice, and we're supposed to bail out this den of thieves?

This is what our troops bled and died for, and we taxpayers have paid for. Unbelievable.

Online activism

Want to do something about the illegal alien invasion? Go to NCFIRE.info and find letters that can be copied and sent to ALL suspected companies that hire illegals and let NCFIRE know!

This day in history

In 1945, Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam an independent republic.

California students get tracking devices

So we have a Federal grant to acclimate pre-schoolers to the idea the government should track their every move.

Yeah, this is harmless. Only racist extremist haters could fail to see the value of it. After all, don't you trust your government?

U.S. Government Prepares for 'Crisis'

The economy is worse than ever. The "stimulus" packages not only propped up failing industries, but have further indebted already overburdened taxpayers. So when does the other shoe drop? As Jeff Nielson observes:

Most market reporters, commentators and politicians continue to rely upon nothing but the same short-term "snapshots" which have caused them to be "surprised" by everything. However, it is a safe conclusion that even such rampant incompetence (combined with a strong "herd mentality"), could not and does not mean that the entire U.S. government remains in an oblivious state of ignorance regarding this re-acceleration of the collapse of the U.S. economy.

He's yours! No, he's yours!

The mainstream, interventionist left and the mainstream, interventionist right continue to argue which side the Discovery Channel terrorist was on.

C'mon. Both sides should agree that individuals who want to commit mass murder are insane.

After all, both sides already agree that mass murder committed by DC's forces of liberation is okay.

Signs in Arizona warn of areas controlled by Mexican drug lords

Reconquista continues to advance. From the Washington Times:

The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state....

"Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona," he said. "They literally have scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and they literally control movement. They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has.

"This is going on here in Arizona," he said. "This is 70 to 80 miles from the border - 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States."

He said he asked the Obama administration for 3,000 National Guard soldiers to patrol the border, but what he got were 15 signs.

Now we know what the Mexica Movement means when it says:

We say, "This is still our continent!"
We say, "Europeans are the illegals---since 1492!"

Looks like they're serious about this. When will we get serious about it?

Summons of the day

Loyal reader Earl sends this:

Hurricane named after me! And as such, I hereby command it to spare y’all, drown DC then blow it away, and spend itself out on the center of the GD Yankee homeland!

We Need A Revolution, Not A Movement

Chuck Baldwin's latest is a must-read! He not only confirms what I wrote earlier about faux conservatives Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, but goes on to gig a couple of Neocon toads:

Palin and Beck may see themselves as part of a conservative “movement,” but they want nothing to do with an old-fashioned, honest-to-God, Patrick Henry-style revolution. In fact, they are doing everything in their power to keep such a revolution from taking place.

This does not mean that Palin and Beck do not contribute some good things to freedom’s fight. They do. The problem is, for every good thing they contribute they counterbalance it by supporting establishment principals, such as John McCain and Newt Gingrich, and attacking non-establishment players and ideas, which serves only to keep the Big-Government power structure firmly ensconced in Washington, D.C.

Thanks to loyal reader Dutchy for the heads up!

Arizona vs. the U.N. human rights police

Michelle Malkin blasts Obama for his continuing war against America:

Last week, Obama’s State Department handed in America’s first-ever report to the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights in conjunction with something called the “Universal Periodic Review.” In short, the 29-page document (pdf) is a self-aggrandizing report card touting the administration’s far-left domestic and foreign policy initiatives for the world’s approval. ...

The report also includes a section on “values and immigration,” which essentially singles out Arizona’s immigration enforcement law as a human rights deficiency “that is being addressed in a court action.”

In response, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer rightly blasted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration for succumbing to “internationalism run amok.”

Yay, Jan Brewer! Now there's a governor willing to fight for the people of her State.

Wouldn't she make a great president? (Of the Republic of Arizona, that is!)

Secession: A Fundamental Principle of Liberty

Thanks to Lincoln, secession has a bad name in American politics. We're not supposed to remember that the Founders were themselves secessionists. More important, the whole point of the Declaration of Independence is that government by consent is meaningless without the right of secession. Or to put it another way:

Can one imagine the public outcry if corporations successfully lobbied for bills making it illegal for employees to terminate their employment? Can one imagine the public outcry if landlords successfully lobbied for bills making it illegal for rent paying tenants to terminate their lease agreements? Can one imagine the public outcry if automobile manufacturers successfully lobbied for bills making it illegal to terminate ownership and use of their particular brand of automobile? Can one imagine the public outcry if cities, municipalities, or states forbade residents to leave their territorial boundaries?

The early American colonists came together in a voluntary union and made a decision to secede from British rule. Voluntary union and secession was the basis upon which this nation was founded. If voluntary union and secession was the basis upon which this nation was founded, why wouldn’t it also be the basis of its continuance?

Yet, too many believe the government is justified in hunting down and killing those who choose to exercise their fundamental right of self-determination.

Of course, there's renewed hope these days, as more people within the dying Empire re-discover that most basic of rights -- not out of nostalgia or ill-will, but out of necessity. Interesting times are upon us!

Comment of the day -- no, year!

In response to my snarky post about Iraqis building a ‘George W. Bush Square’ in Baghdad, comes this from "rex osborne":

Not likely. On the other hand, if Baghdad ever gets their sewage system up and working again, they might want to name one of their holding ponds "The Neo-Con Think Tank."

Quote of the day

"They feel morally self-righteous, and really, they don't like Americans much." Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, on the Obama administration

Lawsuit Challenges Govt’s Right to Assassinate US Citizens

Bad idea. If the Feds can't snuff anyone, anywhere, anytime, for whatever reason, then the terrorists have already won.

Vermont Revolutionaries and the Rise of a Green Tea Party

Why is Dennis Steele running for governor of Vermont on a secessionist platform? This incident might shed a little light:

Last April, organizers for the Democratic Party in Barre, gathered in that town's Old Labor Hall, called the state police after Steele repeatedly shouted out from the crowd to his fellow candidates on the rostrum: "$1.5 billion dollars -- our pro-rata share of a failed foreign policy -- the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- what could be done with all that money right here in Vermont?" The cops grabbed him by the arms and hauled him away, amid fearful yells from the crowd that he might be tasered. He wasn't, but instead was booked on disorderly conduct -- for saying something no one among the Democrats wanted to hear.

In other words, DC is so corrupt, so completely complicit in the business of war, that reform is impossible. The Empire -- and it is an empire, with an obscene military budget supporting 700 bases in more than 120 foreign countries -- is rapidly self-immolating in imperial overstretch. It is too big to stop it from collapsing on itself. The sooner we dismantle the monster, the less human suffering in the long run.

GOP Takes Unprecedented 10-Point Lead on Generic Ballot

Oh, brother. General voter disgust with W and his lunatic Neocons gave us Obama, who ran on the platform, "I'm not George W. Bush!"

Now Obama's brainless Keynesianism is bankrupting us.

So now We, the Powerless, are yearning for the return of the "good old days" when Republicans roamed the Earth?

Somehow, we have to escape from the political see-saw that teeters and totters from one set of faraway, clueless busy-bodies to the other. There must be a better way. What could it be? What could it be?

More at memeorandum.

This day in history

On this date in 1962, Trinidad and Tobago gained independence from Great Britain.

Iraq is a bargain!

The pro-war, any-war crowd is glomming onto a Congressional Budget Office report that shows Obama's ill-fated stimulus has cost more than current appropriations on the ill-fated Iraq War.

Now that's a devastating argument: "Our boondoggle cost less than your boondoggle!"

Americaneocon gloats:

"And how's that "stimulus" working out? Well, the worst is yet to come."

Of course, the same is true of the Iraqi War. von Rumsfeld said it would cost $50 billion, but projected costs, including caring for the horribly wounded, will be closer to $3 trillion.

And that's not even counting the cost of future reprisals in revenge for what US forces have done to Iraq.

So when do the Iraqis begin construction of George W. Bush Square? They must be mighty grateful to their liberator, who has wrecked the Iraqi nation, including its economy. That project could provide work for Iraq's 5 million orphans.

Sebelius: Time for 'Reeducation' on Obama Health Care Law

What an interesting choice of words Madam Secretary used. But she's right -- sometimes the government has to knock a little sense into the skulls of its peasants.

To tackle domestic terrorism, end foreign wars

Wait a minute -- is this man saying if we quit poking the nest, the hornets will stop stinging us?

He obviously hates America!

SC seeks money to mark Civil War anniversary

Good. Maybe this time they'll get it right.

Another arrest for video recording, this time in NC

This is the inevitable result of the militarization of law enforcement:

“The resisting-arrest conviction last week of Felicia Gibson has left a lot of people wondering. Can a person be charged with resisting arrest while observing a traffic stop from his or her own front porch?

Salisbury Police Officer Mark Hunter thought so, and last week District Court Judge Beth Dixon agreed. Because Gibson did not at first comply when the officer told her and others to go inside, the judge found Gibson guilty of resisting, delaying or obstructing an officer.

Gibson was not the only bystander watching the action on the street. She was the only one holding up a cell-phone video camera. But court testimony never indicated that Hunter told her to stop the camera; he just told her to go inside.”

This day in history

- In 1862, the Second Battle of Manassas took place during the War for Southern Independence. (Southern victory!)

- In 1999, East Timor residents voted to secede from Indonesia.

Sarah Palin at Beck's "Love Leviathan" rally

Yesterday, I wrote that Beck's rally at the Lincoln shrine was a snare and delusion; instead of a call to restore liberty by downsizing the central government, it cheered on the aggressive, unrestrained use of force at home and abroad under the fig leaf of promoting civil rights.

Sarah Palin's speech at that rally confirms my view. Here's a partial transcript:

There in the distance stands the monument to the Father of Our Country. And behind me, the towering presence of the Great Emancipator -- he secured our union at the moment of its most perilous time and freed those whose captivity was our greatest shame.

And over these grounds where we are so honored to stand today, we feel the spirit of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He, who on this very day two score and seven years ago, gave voice to a dream that would challenge us to honor the sacred charters of our liberty that all men are created equal.

Now in honoring these giants, these giants who are linked by a solid rock foundation of faith in the one true God of justice - in honoring them, we must not forget the ordinary men and women on whose shoulders they stood. The ordinary called for extraordinary bravery. I'm speaking, of course, of America's finest, our men and women in uniform, a force for good in this country and that is nothing to apologize for.

Abraham Lincoln once spoke of the mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land. And for over two hundred years, those mystic chords have bound us in gratitude to those who are willing to sacrifice, to restrain evil, to protect God-given liberty, to sacrifice all in defense of our country.

They fought for its freedom at Bunker Hill, they fought for its survival at Gettysburg and for the ideals on which it stands - liberty and justice for all - on a thousand battlefields far from home.

"Fought for its survival at Gettysburg"? H. L. Mencken debunked that lie decades ago.

In other words, if we are to believe the Beck-Palin view of history, Leviathan is the source of all good, and those who oppose it deserve to be crushed. If you're a patriotic American in the Beck-Palin mold, you understand that citizen surveillance, reconstruction at home, and militarism abroad are noble endeavors we must support with our blood and treasure.

I'm calling game, set, and match.

Quod erat demonstrandum.

Policy options dwindle as economic fears grow

Only the New York Times could print something like this as if it were serious analysis:

THE American economy is once again tilting toward danger. Despite an aggressive regimen of treatments from the conventional to the exotic — more than $800 billion in federal spending, and trillions of dollars worth of credit from the Federal Reserve — fears of a second recession are growing, along with worries that the country may face several more years of lean prospects.

Despite Federal spending? We're in trouble because of Federal spending!

Instead of letting unprofitable businesses fail, DC borrowed hundreds of billions, accomplishing nothing except propping up politically connected big business, and saddling taxpayers with even more debt.

C'mon, folks! We're not getting anywhere until we realize that DC is a millstone around our necks.

Quote of the day

"They may have the platform, but we have the dream. The dream was not states' rights." Rev. Al Sharpton, on Glenn Beck's 'Restoring Honor' rally.

Glenn Beck is unclear on the concept

87,000 showed up at the Lincoln Memorial for Beck's rally:

Forty-seven years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream Speech,” Fox News host Glenn Beck stood Saturday close to the spot at the Lincoln Memorial where the civil rights leader called for racial equality, urging the nation to return to "faith, hope and charity."

Now let me get this straight -- Beck stands at a monument that deifies the man who transformed the voluntary union of States into a centralized behemoth, and invokes the legacy of a man tied closely to communists -- for the purpose of restoring liberty and small government?

One of us is realllllly missing something.