Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is demanding that a reference to Arizona’s SB 1070, the law making it a crime to be in the state illegally, be removed from an Obama administration report to the United Nations human rights commissioner.
The U. S. State Department lists its legal challenge to Arizona’s immigration enforcement measure on a list of ways the government is protecting human rights in a report to the United Nations.
In her letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Gov. Brewer wrote: “Simply put, it is downright offensive that the State Department included the State of Arizona and SB 1070 in a report to the United Nations Council on Human Rights, whose members include such renowned human rights ‘champions’ as Cuba and Libya.
The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a State of the United States to ‘review’ by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and unconstitutional. Human rights as guaranteed by the United States and Arizona Constitutions are expressly protected in SB 1070 and defended vigorously by my Administration.”
Score one for Brewer here.
Where are Kyl, McCain, Franks, Shadegg, Flake, Mitchell, Giffords, Kirkpatrick, etc – our elected officials??? Silent as always.
Kathy:
Where do you imagine they would be? From their first day in the hallowed halls of congress, their sole commitment is geared to getting reelected. We might not like it, but that is a harsh reality. Even Shadegg who is not returning still sends out boastful email blasts telling us what a swell guy he’s been, regardless of what our lying eyes and ears tell us.
I used to get my back up when I heard what I then thought were malcontents, calling for term limits (which I still don’t like) and clamoring to “throw the bums out!” I never thought I’d agree with that concept, but it has grown on me. Seniority be damned. No one else would have it either. Six year senate terms are too damn long!
I want to be REPRESENTED, not used.
BTW: I agree wholeheartedly with Brewer’s opinion on Obama bowing and scraping (again) to the UN while throwing Arizona under the bus for enforcing our laws.
I don’t imagine anymore – we all know where they are in their ivory towers adoring themselves, all the while ruining this Country. Agree with your post!
Excellent point the governor made about the members of the United Nations Council on Human Rights.
Cuba and Libya are both members and have no concept of human rights. Neither does any Muslim country or even India and Pakistan which all turn a blind eye to Honor killings of already subjugated women.
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In this, the bo regime is suborning the constitutional sovereignty of az and subjecting her to world “ridicule” (quotes because that may be a badge of honor, even if it doesn’t feel like it)
You can give the utopian leftists no quarter because they are a “winner takes all” theocracy that shows no mercy(like koran-literal (aka “extreme”) islam) – the ideology has no place for deviation from the true path. Note the Lord Christ is the Way, but leaves the choice to you.
“when you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas” (metaphor for suffering ancillary painful conditions, not calling utopian leftists “dogs” in the pejorative, but if they want to make that connection…) az, please don’t scratch the itch, hold the “conservative” jm to his “born-again conservative”, unmavericky persona
Brewer is a mixed bag. A social conservative who supports raising taxes is the opposite of what we usually encounter, with those who stress their fiscal bonafides but have no problem with taking innocent life for the sake of convenience.
In this case with the feds and their absurd claims of human rights violations associated with SB1070 and send to the UN, (of all places!) Brewer is absolutely correct.
She will win this November by a HUGE margin, so none of this reaches the relevancy level. Terry Goddard should throw in the towel now like Republicans Dean Martin, Buz Mills and John Munger. They all realized the futility of this race and saved themselves and their supporters the considerable trouble.
Brewer is the best thing that has happened to Arizona in a very long time. The problem is when dealing with people like clinton, Obama, and the vast majority of Washington she is dealing with Idiots.
We the people of the United States of America need to
proclaim our freedom, our government is not our country, the people are, the government has swollen to out of control especially Obama where are all the
people who are against his reckless, stupidity, he needs to be impeached he is a disgrace to what our Country stands for, I’m for the Tea Party, real people who care about our Country I say Out with Obama and everyone who is cow towing to him, STAND UP
America before it’s too late