Pitzl’s baseless attempt to demean Rep. Stevens

His facts speak louder than her jargon

The newspaper is at it again.  How the leftists at the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) love to demean Republicans!  The more conservative their views, the more they can expect to feel the pain of a thousand cuts.

The most recent object of derision is state Rep. David Stevens.  Here in the “Political Insider,” Mary Jo Pitzl did her best to make the Sierra Vista Republican (Dist.25) sound like an escaped inmate from the State Hospital’s mental facility.

His “blunder?” According to Pitzl, Rep. Stevens became a “one world conspiracy theorist” when he dared mention the Amero. It’s the “stuff of urban legends,” she mocked in the column.  Ditto CANAMEX, the strategic mega Super Corridor intended to link the United States, Canada and Mexico as part of a plan to create a North American Union along the model of the European Union. It’s been in the works for years and explains the accompanying “comprehensive immigration reform” scheme to allow the vast majority of illegal aliens now in the U.S. to remain under a “guest worker” or “pathway to citizenship” provision. The underlying agenda is a creation of a NAFTA on steroids environment in which workers, trade and capital will be allowed to flow unimpeded within the trilateral North American community consisting of the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Presently, the United States has 84% of the series of highways completed, Mexico is 86% compliant. The Canadian portion was completed in 2007. Rail lines, pipelines and fiber optic telecommunications infrastructure are also part of the plan.

Last week in the Arizona House, responding to legislation to create toll roads connecting the three counties and enforce payment structures through Arizona, Rep. Stevens rose to object, saying, “You may have heard the term ‘Amero.’ I am a citizen of the United States of America. I don’t want to be a member the North American Union.”

That was enough to thrust Pitzl into hyperbole overdrive, dredging up her “one world conspiracy theorist” and “stuff of urban legends” rhetoric.

But on October 11, 2007, Seeing Red AZ wrote that Mexico’s former President Vicente Fox, verified the very same monetary scheme in an interview on CNN’s Larry King Live. Our post at the time was titled Mexico’s former President confirms plans for regional currency. Click on the link and read it. Unfortunately, the accompanying video is no longer active due to copyright issues, but the word-for-word text of the exchange remains for you to see.

For further verification, watch this:

Crazy is as crazy does, Ms. Napolitano

Homeland InSecurity Chieftain Janet Napolitano has authorized the denial of U.S. entry to Canadians with non-violent mental health histories who desire to travel south of the border for business or family trips.

It turns out that personal information entered into the Canadian police database is accessible by American authorities. As an example, a 65-year old Toronto resident who attempted suicide several years ago was stopped at customs after showing her passport and taken to a secondary screening. There, a Customs and Border Protection officer informed her that he had information that police had come to her home in 2006.

“Mental illness is actually under our law as a reason that you may not get admitted,” says Brad Benson of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “The issue is always going to be: could someone be a danger to someone [else]?”

 How odd that Janet Napolitano is less concerned about those coming illegally across our southern border, bringing previously eradicated, contagious diseases — in addition to drugs, weapons and criminality.  She become famous for her blasé retort when frustrated Arizonans pleaded for border action: “Show me a 50-foot fence, and I’ll show you a 51-foot ladder.”

In 2009, Napolitano inflamed American citizens with the release of a Department of Homeland Security report titled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” in which she warned of the possibility of violence by unnamed “right-wing extremists” concerned about  “illegal immigration, increasing federal power, restrictions on firearms, abortion and the loss of  U.S. sovereignty” — singling out returning war veterans as particular threats. Seeing Red AZ previously covered her irresponsible — some might say “lunatic” report.

Her not-quite-an-apology, nearly two weeks later, (“To the extent veterans read it as an accusation … an apology is owed.”) was greeted by the liberal taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio (NPR) questioning whether an apology was even necessary.

The fact that she was born in New York City is obviously a bonus for Napolitano.  If she was a Canadian citizen, using her own restrictions, Janet Napolitano might well be precluded entry into the USA.

Death rides: These buses continued to operate because…?

The company that owns a “tour” bus that rolled over on Interstate 10, killing six people, has a history of safety violations, no federal record of insurance and could not legally carry passengers in Arizona, according to a report in the daily.

Transportation-safety records and federal regulators confirm the only two buses owned by Tierra Santa Inc. of Van Nuys, Calif., were not licensed to carry passengers across state lines, although they continued to transport people from Mexico across the Southwest to California. They were stopped and cited three times last year by state and federal transportation inspectors in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

And these passengers were just “touring” vacationers?

Federal regulators were unable to say why the buses were allowed to continue operating.

“I cannot comment. It is an ongoing investigation,” said Duane DeBruyne, a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration spokesman, referring to a probe launched after the crash. “I can say (Tierra Santa) does not possess U.S. Department of Transportation operating authority.”

A Rasmussen Reports national poll conducted last August found that just 19% of Americans say the U.S. Congress should let commercial vehicles from Mexico cross the border and carry their loads on American highways. Sixty-six percent (66%) of U.S. adults oppose lifting the congressional ban on Mexican trucks operating in the United States.

And as far back as three years ago, Congressman Duncan Hunter, Sr. (R-CA) prophetically said, “There are considerable safety and security risks involved with providing Mexican truckers complete and unrestricted access to American roadways. It is important that these issues are thoroughly addressed before Mexican motor carriers are permitted to freely operate beyond established commercial zones along the Southern land border.”

Globalism on the march

After holding firm against the tide, Great Britain is now considering implementing the Euro.  And Denmark, another European Union nation which has steadfastly refused to accept the EU currency is now planning another referendum on the issue. The Danish voted against joining the union in 2000.

Breitbart has the article here.

In October 2007, Seeing Red AZ posted this “Larry King Live” interview of former Mexican President Vicente Fox, confirming plans for implementation of the Amero, a form of currency similar to the Euro, designed for use by the United States, Canada and Mexico.

We urge you to watch the brief but informative video at the conclusion of that post.

Addressing illegal immigration “top priority”

We are all “God’s children,” McCain tells La Raza

Addressing a crowd of 2,000 attending the La Raza (“The Race”) convention in San Diego, John McCain did what he does best before Hispanic groups: groveled. It does him little good, since the Latino vote is mostly with Obama, leaving a mere 27 percent of their likely voter scraps for McCain.

But hard facts don’t stop him. He promised the ethnocentric group that he will address the issue of illegal immigration in a “humane and compassionate fashion,” calling it his “top priority.”

During a time of war, with soaring gas and food prices and multitudes losing their homes to foreclosure, it seems there could be higher priorities for a presidential candidate.

He pledged that he remains “committed to fair, practical and comprehensive immigration reform,”

Remember the amnesty scheme by the same name that fell to defeat after American citizens unleashed their fury as never before? McCain intends to resurrect it. His new message is, “We will secure the border first.” First before what, Senator?

McCain has often addressed Hispanic immigration advocacy groups, including the League of United Latin American Citizens and the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, using more implied language rather than the candid vow to advance McCain-Kennedy he gave to La Raza.

He made a point of thanking La Raza’s former CEO Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton’s lead immigration adviser, for “the privilege of over twenty years of friendship and counsel he has so generously given me.” Add to the mix McCain’s own Hispanic Outreach director, Juan Hernandez who says we are not countries, merely regions, and you see where we are headed.

Responding to those who chided him for inaction regarding desert deaths of illegals entering the U.S. McCain decried the deaths as a “failure of the federal government to exercise its responsibilities.” The obvious answer would have been: To ensure their safety, Mexican citizens should stay home.

Meanwhile in an unprecedented drop to single digits, just 9% of voters gave the Democrat-controlled Congress good or excellent rating. This dismal ranking is a first in tracking history.

Yet McCain is keen to remind us of his cross-over alliances. Conservative Republicans would prefer he remember us.

Read the San Diego coverage of the La Raza convention here. The North County Times also provides this video where he receives rousing applause for telling the crowd he is from Arizona “where Spanish was spoken before English.”

Haven’t heard of CANAMEX? Clue: It’s not a can of chili

Educate yourself regarding this stealth governmental project

Investigative reporter Linda Bentley, writing for the Sonoran News, details disturbing events, moving furtively under the radar, in CANAMEX and Megapolitan Arizona’s Sun Corridor.

Gov. Janet Napolitano has left little doubt her push for statewide transportation, infrastructure and the CANAMEX Corridor defined by Congress in the 1995 National Highway Systems Designation Act as a High Priority Corridor in juxtaposition with NAFTA, is one of the “working groups” of President Bush’s Security and Prosperity Partnership formed in conjunction with the leaders of Mexico and Canada.

The entire article is available here. We urge you to read it.

Seeing Red AZ provided an overview of some of these issues in August 2007. The boldness of the scheme has amplified in the intervening period.

Amnesty and open borders? Exactly what we need

Twenty people have been killed in three days in the border town of Juarez, Mexico–directly across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. Associated Press reports the city is home to the violent and aggressive Juarez drug cartel

According to a recent report by CNN’s Lou Dobbs, at least 24 people were killed over one weekend last month, some brutally mutilated or decapitated. Nearly 4,200 people have been killed in the 18 months since the Mexican government declared war on the drug cartels. Of those, 450 were government officials, prosecutors and law enforcement officers.

Watch this video for a stunning report.

Sorry, this is not “just a region.” We are two sovereign nations, “my friend.”

New Cronkite Eight poll shows surprisingly slim home state lead in presidential race

Addressing the conservative base could shore up the narrow margin for John McCain among Arizonans as he enters the crucial waning days in the race for the White House.

The latest KAET Cronkite-Eight Poll provides these stunning figures:

McCain 38%

Obama 26%

Undecided 34%

The campaign is obviously aware of these lagging numbers, given the statement made earlier this month in which he referred to Arizona as a “swing state,” and adding Arizona to its list of 24 “battleground states.”

McCain had a 50-39 percent lead over Obama in a Phoenix-based Behavior Research Center poll released May 23, 2008.

As Arizona’s favorite son, McCain’s numbers should be escalating rather than plummeting. He could reach out to conservatives in his own party to ratchet them up.

Business as usual: Costly border Swiss Cheese

We give them money, the crime continues

U.S. border governors–except for Janet Napolitano, who shrewdly claims a scheduling conflict– are meeting with their counterparts from six Mexican states in Mexico City for discussions regarding combating crime and enhancing border security amid increasing drug cartel violence in Mexico.

Betch’a a wall isn’t on the agenda.

The governors of California, Texas and New Mexico plan to “offer support” to Mexican President Felipe Calderon for his crackdown against the drug trade according to an Associated Press report.

Of course, Calderon, who has termed America as “swaggering, macho, and anti-Mexican.” wants a constant flow of unconditional U.S. dollars, some of which states have diverted to fighting our own crime problems–much stemming from the relentless influx of illegals into our country from his.

Meanwhile, President Bush has urged Congress to approve the first $500 million installment of a proposed $1.4 BILLION law enforcement aid package known as the Merida Initiative to combat increasingly violent drug crime in Mexico. The United States is incomprehensively funding a wall for Mexico’s southern border with Central America while leaving America’s border looking like Swiss cheese.

What a deal for the taxpaying citizens!

Virtual fence is a virtual flop

Open borders advocate Bush has no commitment to enforcement

The virtual fence was to be a technological advancement that would provide an alternative to “divisive” walls and federal agents policing the Arizona-Mexico border.

Initially, we were told there were delays in getting the high-tech virtual border fence operational. Then there were additional postponements and a few rescheduling glitches, but not to worry, it would be completed and operational “soon.”

When “soon” arrived last December, we found the fence was flawed. So flawed, in fact, that the towers, computer software, radar, satellite links and cameras were malfunctioning and didn’t meet Boeing’s contract requirements for detecting border intrusions. Some of its $20 million dollar technology would have to be replaced by this summer.

Now the entire high dollar project is being scrapped due to the clumsy incompetence of the Bush administration’s Homeland Security Secretary, Michael Chertoff, the contractors and the failed system itself.

Meanwhile, the flood of illegal aliens, both Mexican and others, using that country as a launch pad to gain access to the U.S., continues the invasion unabated.

In a previous post, Seeing Red AZ posed the elephant-in-the-room question, asking who impoverished Mexicans will aid in invading our borders if the price is right? The United States remains vulnerable to the threat of international terrorist organizations with the ability to exploit the poverty, lawlessness, economic instability and governmental corruption south of our border.

As long ago as 2004, TIME magazine reported border agents have encountered not only a wide variety of invaders from Latin America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Brazil, Nicaragua and Venezuela) but also intruders from Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Russia, Korea, China as well as Egypt, Iran and Iraq

And while American citizens sit and wait for the next shoe to drop, we foot the bill for self-placating misadventures as George W. Bush makes concessions to forward his dream of a North American Union and a borderless continent.

Watch this CNN video with Lou Dobbs for an idea of what lies ahead.