A friend serving in Iraq wrote Rush Limbaugh and copied me.  This is the soldier’s message followed by my reply:

Dear Rush, some thoughts for you…

As an American soldier currently serving in Iraq, I feel compelled to write to express my deepest disappointment with the current state of affairs in America, particularly with the fact that I now face being categorically branded a potential terrorist according to the Dept. of Homeland Security.

Yes, I will admit, I have long had right-wing, conservative political leanings, I am against illegal immigration since it is illegal, I strongly support the right to bear arms, and am an advocate for states’ rights.  In fact, I am greatly alarmed at how the federal government is currently over-stepping its bounds and is dangerously extending its scope and power into realms where it has no Constitutional authority.  Frankly, I’m pretty pissed off at how criminally irresponsible our so-called elected representatives in Washington have been giving our hard-earned tax dollars away without our approval.  And yes, I have been known to place bumper stickers of various 3rd party candidates and other political slogans on the bumper of my pickup truck.

So, I ask, does all of the above make me a potential terrorist?  Am I to be lumped in with the same groups as the Ku Klux Klan and Al Qaeda?  Or, because I’m really sick and tired of the hypocrisy of overpaid and corrupt government officials could I be considered a dangerous Lone Wolf?

Well, Sec. Napolitano and President Obama and company, have you considered the fact that I might just be an American citizen with the legal and God-given right to embrace all of the above in the Land of the Free?  Isn’t that why I’m over here, taking precious time away from my family and business to defend those rights inherited by our Founding Fathers, who were they alive today, might very well be on your list as well?

I would hate to think that the very actions of representatives of the federal government, such as this report by the DHS, might contribute to further alienation of the American public towards said government, resulting in a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.  After all, the Founding Fathers did charge us with safeguarding our freedoms from an overbearing government seeking to infringe upon our individual rights.

My reply:

Jon, God bless you and I hope he reads it.  I certainly will. 

A former preacher and now politician who does an hour with me on Mondays brought me the Napolitano report.  My Lord, I’m an American and not the enemy.

Last week there was a meeting here at the Legion hall.  It’s the group modeled on The Patriot League but with no plans to make the same mistakes.  We’re, as I said earlier, growing vegetables and canning, and there are plans to use the organization as a political action committee. 

There was a government agent taking down license plates in the parking lot.  Two miles away there are hundreds of illegal aliens working at a chicken plant. 

How many Legionnaires in the next room having a beer had their plate numbers taken?  Men who bled on battlefields for their country now collateral damage for the latest government purge. 

The Obamites may well be creating the situation they claim to fear. 

I took some time to enjoy the wonderful sunshine and take a lunchtime walk around Milford Delaware.  With my trusty camera in hand I snapped these photo gems:

 This is the back of a local doctors office.  It started first as “SSV”  (South Side Vatos), then the other groups sought to mark the territory with the “18″ and the “crown” plus all the other garbage on top.

ESA appears around town usually near or over top of SSV.  Here is a blurb from Yahoo Answers:

When a gang member calls another gang member an “Esa” or “SA” What does it mean?
Best Answer - Chosen by Voters
It is written ESE because it is the sound of the letter S in Spanish. S for sureano meaning southerner! It is often used by gang members(Mexican American/Chicanos) mostly in California to refer to their fellow members or friends. It is not, however, used by Mexicans in Mexico nor is it typically used by Mexicans that move to the US. They will be very offended by the term! The word can also be offensive if you are not Hispanic. (It is like using the N word for a friend and you are not black!) Do not assume all Hispanics are Mexican or that all Mexican use this word so my advice is not to use it!

My husband and both brother in laws HATE this word and they are from Mexico!

Can you translate any of this?

No it’s not the movie from the 80’s called “Goonies”.  More gang stuff.  Not sure if it’s a Crip subset or a Blood subset.  I find different meanings on the net. 

“F Crips” “Goonies” “Blood For Life”  So, maybe these are Bloods, saying “F” the Crips?

This is a large sized spray paint area, maybe 15′ X 20′.  Near the library and behind an arcade.

Large on side of a house.  South Side Vatos

It’s nice to see the city with so much “art on display”. 

Good ol’ East Coast Mafia

I have more…but you get the picture.  I hope Milford gets the picture too, and starts a clean up campaign. 

 

 

 

I thought racist stereotypes in advertising art went out with Jim Crow.  I bought this soda yesterday in Milford, Delaware at a Spanish/Caribbean market that caters to the local Hispanic population.  This is 2007 right?

 

So a man decides his wedding and honeymoon are more important than anyone’s health…never mind his own…sprints through several countries to Greece and back, sneaks in via Canada when the CDC tell him he is NOT to fly aboard commercial airlines, drives from Montral to the US and, courtesy of the CDC is taken to Atlanta to be hospitalized. Now airlines, several countries, an hotel and who knows how many others are on a search for those who had close contact with this…pompous jerk. He calls himself a “successful, intelligent man” yet freely admits that when told he had to turn himself into Italian health authorities…”…you’re nuts! I wasn’t going to do that!”

Okay, so “they” say he isn’t a threat despite the fact that it was already termed a “fatal form of the disease” as well as “rare” and drug resistant. Oh…that’s reassuring…and NOT the point. Currently under armed guard quarantine in Atlanta, he’s got the nerve to be choked that he’s being guarded. Why? And why is he not being prosecuted? Anyone else who threatened GBH would be…and rightly so. This man…not only is he as bad, he’s worse. And certainly not what I would call intelligent.

Me, I’d do the same with him as has been done with other, most of them only so-called Domestic Terrorists…lock him up, let him sit and wait a trial that could take a few years and let’s see how “intelligent” he thinks he is, then. 

Given the news today I have to wonder if anyone checked into the possibility that those who tested positive on the PPD’s had ever had the BCG vaccination? Many countries take this preventative step, including some, if not all, of the Latin American countries, Sweden, several Eastern European countries and, if not now at one time, the UK. Were I to be tested tomorrow I’d show positive because, at thirteen years of age British schoolchildren were, with parental consent, vaccinated for such. In more recent years, many children were vaccinated against TB in infancy.

I could see where the problem might arise. Not long after I arrived in this country a family member was exposed to someone found to have TB. PPD was carried out, tested positive and made to daily medication for one full year even though he did not have active TB. Then again, as a toddler, his mother had had it, he probably contracted it then which served only to scar his lungs. Since he had a family, we had to then also be tested at the time he was ordered to take the medication. I went for the skin test, told the nurse I would likely test positive, she asked why and ridiculed me for my response. A nurse…and she was not aware that there was such a thing as a BCG vaccination nor the positive Tyne or Heaf tests following. I did have to have the second PPD which, of course, showed positive. On my return for the reading she was insistent upon me taking the same medication for a year until I insisted on discussing this with someone perhaps more qualified. I finally succeeded and the corpsman concurred with me, suggesting the nurse do a little more research. This wasn’t a small medical practice…this was at a military dispensary with a civilian, registered nurse. Thank heavens for a navy corpsman. At the same time, shot records had to be red-flagged so that further PPD’s not be given. What I didn’t know at that time was if one has had a Tyne/Heaf test, vaccination and then the subsequent Tyne/Heaf test for results, no other skin tests should be given.

Today, the thirty-three ’suspects’ were cleared. Did somebody panic, others jump to conclusion and I can’t help but wonder…did anyone know enough to ask if those people had ever been vaccinated in the past? Let’s hope the news today calms others amongst us, down.

Elsmere Councilman John Jaremchuk (who ran unsucessfully in the 13th representive district in 2006) has formed a new state-wide organization called “Delaware Citiznes for Imigration Control” to deal with the problems caused by illiegal immiagrants in the first state.

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Jaremchuk says meetings will most likely be held in Kent County. Delaware Citizens for Immigration Control are currently seeking like-minded Delawarians as new members state-wide.

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Jaremchuk championed the cause against illegal immigration in a 2005 proposed Elsmere town ordinance which would fine landlords and employers for knowingly employing or housing illegal immigrants.

Jaremchuk says that the problems facing Delaware in the illegal immigration struggle effect us all.

“These problems run the gamit from anything from code violations; being too many people living in a residential unit, to parking on grass, all the way up to gang problems and murder resulting from gang problems,” Jaremchuk tells WGMD. “In addition to that you’ve got the economic problems caused by it, which is depressing the wages of indiduals who are US citizens. Also, the cost of healthcare, which effects all of us. Also, the cost of education.”

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Jaremchuk says that illegal immigration has fostered the growth of gangs up-state Delaware. He says the recent controversy regarding gangs on Delmarva is a moot discussion. Speaking from his upstate experience, he says it’s simply a matter of time before a gang presence is felt in Sussex County.

“They want to bury their heads in the sand and say we don’t want to see a problem, therefore we don’t see a problem,” he says. “As far as MS-13 is concerned, to say they won’t be in our area or not in our area right now, I think is playing the ostrich roll.”

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For more information, you can visit the Delaware Citizens for Immigration Control website (currently under construction) at www.delcic.org or call 302-994-3455

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Two guys who were instrumental in helping bring down Communism during the Cold War are now organizing to fight radical Islam, as World Net Daily reports:

Wheeler and Baldwin say anti-communism was “the defining issue that brought hundreds of thousands of people into the conservative movement in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. There was a sense that this movement had to be successful if not only America but Western Civilization itself were to survive.” They say the current war of global conquest being waged by Islamofascists will be an even tougher fight than the battle that focused on the Soviet Union. “But we don’t seem to be prepared for this war,” they write. “Unlike the movement created during the Cold War, there doesn’t seem to be much of an infrastructure to combat Islamofascism.” The agenda for such a movement should include the following activities and efforts, they say:

• investigate radical mosques
• support anti-Islamofascist freedom fighters
• thwart attempts to impose Sharia law
• form an anti-Islamofascist publishing network
• create an anti-Islamofascist portal on the Internet
• establish an anti-Islamofascist speakers bureau
• wage an ideological assault on Islamofascism
• support efforts to evangelize Muslims in Europe and the Middle East
• create a global anti-Islamofascist coalition
• reframe the illegal immigration issue as one of national security
• end dependence on foreign oil that’s funding the Islamofascists.

The 910 group website tells all. They have a blog and a forum on the topic.

Just a few thoughts to get used to posting on this blog:

This could be a daily topic on the radio show, the interest is huge.  Georgetown police Chief Topping mentioned his forces spend about 70% of the department resources for what amounts to just over 30% of the Georgetown population.  The medical community and the local schools are having a tough time handling the immigration influx for sure, but the most difficult stories to hear are from the everyday Sussex Countians who deal with the crimes associated with the “undocumented” residents.  The drunk driving, driving without insurance, and the accidents with unlicensed drivers stories hurt the pocketbook of the legal resident here.  The costs associated with special Spanish language court nights are also very real.  And do the pictures taken in Georgtown by Sheriff Reed really say “MS-13”?  Yes they do.  Georgetown seems to be turning a blind eye to illegal behavior, just for the sake of keeping the peace with our new Latino neighbors.  I hear stories of code enforcement officers turning a blind eye to housing violations by Hispanics. The police chief admits to letting immigrants get away with using aliases and carrying fake documents evident by this blurb from the State News:

Georgetown Police Chief William Topping said his officers are trained to ask immigrants in traffic stops or other encounters for their “real name” and their “work name.”“We tell them, ‘We don’t care what you tell Perdue, but you need to tell us your real name,’” Chief Topping said. His force of 18 officers now includes two Spanish speakers, and two years ago the local court instituted a Spanish arraignment night each Tuesday.
Chief Topping said local police don’t try to determine a person’s immigration status. They don’t accompany federal immigration agents on raids. Chief Topping said the goal is to win the trust of the Hispanic community so crime victims are willing to work with police, without fear of being deported. “My take is that they’re not leaving. My best bet is to make them educated about the criminal justice system here, and I definitely feel like we’re making headway,” Chief Topping said.What would happen if you were using a  fake name around town?  Perdue seems to know that fake names are being used by employees, (you’d have to be brain dead to not see this in Georgetown)  but take a relaxed attitude, according to this from the News Journal:What would happen if you were using a  fake name around town?  Perdue seems to know that fake names are being used by employees, (you’d have to be brain dead to not see this in Georgetown)  but take a relaxed attitude, according to this from the News Journal:About 75 percent of the 1,700 employees at Perdue’s Georgetown plant are Guatemalan. Spokeswoman Julie DeYoung said employees must present proper documentation to be hired. However, the company is not in a position to say whether the documents are valid, she said.
What would happen if you were using a  fake name around town?  Perdue seems to know that fake names are being used by employees, (you’d have to be brain dead to not see this in Georgetown)  but take a relaxed attitude, according to this from the News Journal:Hey Perdue, call an auditor and check out the validity of your I-9 forms if you want to be a good neighbor. What would happen if you were using a  fake name around town?  Perdue seems to know that fake names are being used by employees, (you’d have to be brain dead to not see this in Georgetown)  but take a relaxed attitude, according to this from the News Journal:What would happen if you were using a  fake name around town?  Perdue seems to know that fake names are being used by employees, (you’d have to be brain dead to not see this in Georgetown)  but take a relaxed attitude, according to this from the News Journal:

What would happen if you were using a  fake name around town?  Perdue seems to know that fake names are being used by employees, (you’d have to be brain dead to not see this in Georgetown)  but take a relaxed attitude, according to this from the News Journal: 

About 75 percent of the 1,700 employees at Perdue’s Georgetown plant are Guatemalan. Spokeswoman Julie DeYoung said employees must present proper documentation to be hired. However, the company is not in a position to say whether the documents are valid, she said.

 

Hey Perdue, call an auditor and check out the validity of your I-9 forms if you want to be a good neighbor. The town of Georgetown simply has no leadership.  Even Mayor Wyatt in the latest issue of El Tiempo Hispano talks about  riding with the police and letting intoxicated Hispanics, drinking publicly in the streets, walk away after being caught red handed by police.

The problems associated with illegal residents will only get worse unless Georgetown starts acting a little like Hazelton PA.