Weekend reading and viewing to make you smarter

Charles Krauthammer’s column, Travesty in New York, reveals the security nightmare, forum for terror threats, and the setting of the stage to proclaim the glory of jihad.

Here is Krauthammer on FOX News discussing the unconscionable travesty of holding the trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed in civilian court, and giving him rights of an American citizen.

We urge you to read Dr. Krauthammer’s cogent insights and watch the video.

Employer sanctions law at work

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has announced that his office has filed the state’s first employer sanctions case, a civil complaint against an employer accused of violating the Legal Arizona Worker’s Act.  The action alleges Michelle Hardas, the manager of Scottsdale Art Factory,  allegedly hired illegal labor  — by deliberately using a “subcontractor” who was actually an employee  not authorized to work in the United States.

Read the text of what Hardas told an investigator on an undercover video here.

In making the announcement Thomas stated, “This first employer-sanctions case is the capstone on our office’s efforts to stop illegal immigration. The idea that state and local law enforcement can successfully and legally combat illegal immigration has moved from a provocative theory a few years ago to reality today.”

Thomas thanked Sen. Russell Pearce for drafting the employer-sanctions legislation and Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio for continuing with employer raids despite protests.

Seeing Red AZ covered the initial arrests last January.

He said, he said: Shadegg vs. Bloomberg

Arizona U.S. Rep. John Shadegg (CD-3) has apologized to New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg for this.

“I apologize for the insensitivity of my remarks with respect to the mayor or his family, however I think it is important to note that this decision involves potential risk to innocent people,” Shadegg said in a statement.

Politico’s full  report can be read here.

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office conducts 13th crime suppression operation

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has undertaken his 13th crime suppression/illegal immigration operation.

The two-day long, county-wide presence of two hundred volunteer posse, reserve, deputy and helicopter air support units on the streets, highways and in the air throughout Maricopa County assures future safety in the area for the citizen residents.

The focus of the operation is on finding and apprehending smugglers and their co-conspirators who travel through Maricopa County to reach destinations as far away as New York, Florida and New Jersey. To date, the Sheriff’s Office has arrested and booked over 1,700 smugglers and co-conspirators on felony human smuggling charges.

Read more here. Get the straight scoop — without the daily’s agenized filter — on the new methods the illegals and their transporting coyotes use to escape detection.

Linda plays an ever goofier one-note tune: Open borders provide ocean ports

In today’s daily, Linda Valdez tells readers: We must recognize border benefits as well as problems. Her piece begins by taking on Sen. Russell Pearce, whom she refers to as “one of Arizona’s biggest border critics” when he says, “The greatest threat to our citizens is the failure to enforce our immigration laws.”

Linda says he’s so wrong, that “it’s time for a reality check.”

In Linda’s simplistic view, the budget deficit outweighs illegal immigration — failing to acknowledge the symbiotic relationship. She ignores the impact the wage-undercutting illegal work force has on unemployed American citizens, exacerbated by the massively struggling economy. She glosses over benefits such as medical care and public education illegals receive, and the impact of their criminal activity, both to Americans who are victims and the overburdened criminal justice system, all arenas reeling under the costly stress. Instead of mentioning the myriad problematic burdens tied to the gift of instant citizenship conferred on newborns born to illegals, her article depicts a few prosperous Mexican visitors shopping at the toney Biltmore Fashion Park.

Linda, you see, thinks there is more to the Mexico problem “than illegal immigration and drug trafficking.” She says there are “huge potential benefits to sharing a border with a nation that has a young labor force, an emerging middle class and a taste for American products — not to mention ocean access that could make Arizona a shipping alternative to Long Beach, California. Mexico, she says, could bring two ocean ports to this landlocked state.

After the economy began its free fall, and the argument that there are jobs American’s refuse to do no longer held water, Linda presented us with the sad tale of “broken families” when illegals returned home. That didn’t sell.  Now she enthuses that we will have access to a ocean port.

Give her a point for inventiveness and a goose egg for veracity.

Could there be a correlation?

The daily’s headline blasts the good news: Fewer murders expected in Phoenix.

Readers had to muddle through to paragraph five before getting a clue about the reason for the substantive drop in homicide cases in the Valley. Tucked in among the lengthy article were these telling words::

Since 2000, on average, detectives solved about 46 percent of annual cases in years where the total number of victims spiked from increased gang violence, drug smuggling and human trafficking.

These are crimes that originate with, and gain their foothold in, illegal alien populations, who originally violated our laws entering the USA . Once here, many continue in nefarious dealings, often with tragic results.

Back in July, the Republic ran this AP report: Influx of Mexican migrants falls 60% in 1 year.

The link, by the Republic’s own admission, is undeniable.

PC denial of the obvious is at our own peril

 The daily has taken political correctness beyond reasonable limits with the editorial titled: Our enemies don’t belong in our Army. At first blush it appeared to be a rational assessment of the criminal mind of the mass-murderer Islamfascist Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who massacred 14 military and civilian personnel, including a pregnant woman and her unborn baby, and injured 30 others at the Fort Hood military base during his deadly rampage.

Making the case that Dr, Hasan was an anomaly is absurd. While no one believes every American Muslim is a potential murderer or enemy of this country, it is folly to deny that America-hatred is brewing in far too many mosques. Therein lies the difference.

To reject the multiple FBI raids that flushed out terror cells, the Islamic schools teaching jihad to youngsters in American cities, the connection between Islamic terror groups and Council on American-Islamic Relations, (CAIR) — a group now denounced by the FBI, is to ignore reality. The deafening silence from the American Muslim community after the heinous September 11, 2001 attacks — perpetrated by Muslims – that incinerated 3,000 Americans and others did little to endear that group to Americans.  The images of candy being given to young children as the hijacked commercial jetliners tore into the twin towers of the World Trade Center, is etched in far too many minds to be obliterated by the shallow and foolish words of the Republic’s editorial writer.

Would that it were not so.

Religion of Peace update: Feds seize mosques, skyscraper

Federal prosecutors have taken steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.

In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed a civil complaint in federal court seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets of the Alavi Foundation and an alleged front company.

The assets include Islamic centers in New York City, Maryland, California and Houston,  more than 100 acres in Virginia, and a 36-story office tower in New York.

USAToday has a complete report here.

1,000 plus stolen bags later, Sky Harbor reinstates bag check

 Many of us are reassured to read that Phoenix is right on top of the airport’s stolen baggage problem, reinstating random luggage checks.

It’s obvious Travelin’ Man  Mayor Philly Gordon hasn’t had his bags missing or this might have been handled sooner.

As Phoenix Sky Harbor spokeswoman Deborah Ostreicher so artfully put it, ”It is 1,000 bags, and we’re very concerned about it, but it’s a rare occurrence.”

Criminals “wearing crosses” haven’t committed many mass murders lately

The Fort Myers Florida News Press runs an article describing a local Islamic Center’s request for additional police patrols, although there have been no threats against the center. This action follows the carnage at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas perpetrated by a Muslim extremist — in which 13 military personnel were murdered and 30 wounded.

Alibaba Lumumba, president of the center, said anytime there is a crime committed by a Muslim, the whole Muslim community suffers.

“But when there is a Christian who commits a crime, we don’t get into his religion or whether he wears a cross or not,” Lumumba said. “It’s a lack of knowledge about what Islam is and what it is not. Such acts of violence, especially if there were women, children or elderly who were hurt, are not condoned by Islam.”

No word from Lumumba condemning the jihad attack.

Also, note that the Islamic Center for Peace’s website disparages respected Phoenix physician and devout Muslim Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser saying he uses “half truths and twisted semantics” in discussing Islam. “We will critically analyze his opinions, arguments and discuss his use of intellectual aggression and fear to promote hatred towards everyone who opposes his views.”