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Jorge's Earmark - The Merida Initiative - 1.4 BILLION for Mexico

cross posted to "No Amnesty - GOT IT?"

El Presidente Bush will not secure our border but wants to quietly slip over a billion dollars to Mexico.

The article was excerpted below. Please follow the linik for the full text. Italics are my comments.

link: http://extra.examiner.com/ linker/?url=http%3A%2F%2F interestalert%2Ecom%2F story%2F02120000aaa0476 c%2Enb%2Fsiteia%2F REPUBLIC%2F republicans%2E html - (cache) as the page appeared on 02-15-2008

The Merida Initiative - a $1.4 Billion Dollar Border Security Package for Mexico

by John Wallace

President Bush is pushing for a massive $1.4 billion, multi-year foreign-aid package for Mexico that is designed to help that country secure their southern border...

Yes, Bush has done everything in his power to leave our borders unprotected but wants to send $1.4 billion (1400 stacks of a million dollars) to Mexico!

Congress recently reduced funding for our own border security efforts, particularly for the border fence, giving money to a foreign country to secure their border would seem almost too unbelievable to be true.

Bush will spend this for Mexico but not for the USA.

Unfortunately, it is true and the plan is called "The Merida Initiative." The funding for this initiative is tucked into the 2008 supplemental budget...

We could expect no less from the corrupt politicians in our government.

Many of the meetings to create "The Merida Initiative" were held in secret by government representatives of both Mexico and the USA, without congressional input.

The proposed Merida Initiative is set to go before congress soon for approval. The entire funding package should be rejected outright and the $1.4 Billion should be immediately re-allocated and put to better use in securing our own border by hiring more Border Patrol agents, completing the border fence, speeding up the deportation of illegal aliens and upgrading the training and firepower of state and local law enforcement agencies in border states and ports of entry.

Let's secure America's border first, before we try to secure another country's border.

For additional information, contact:
John Wallace
Candidate for Congress
New York's 20th Congressional District
www.johnwallaceforcongress.com

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Keep The Faith—McCain (and Amnesty) Will Fail

Cross posted from Vdare.com - cross posted to "No Amnesty - GOT IT?"

http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/080206_amnesty.htm

 

Keep The Faith—McCain (and Amnesty) Will Fail

By Joe Guzzardi

Let’s start with the good news. John McCain, the likely (but not absolutely certain) Republican nominee, will never be president.

(What are my credentials for such a bold statement? Wait until the last paragraph of this article!)

Coming after eight years of the disastrous George W. Bush administration and its legacy of war, lunatic immigration enthusiasm, indifference to the middle class and the crushing mortgage crisis, McCain would have a tough climb even if he were the ideal GOP candidate.

But in most ways, McCain is the worst possible candidate. He’s Bush all over again—maybe worse. Open those borders! Let’s stay a hundred more years in Iraq! (See McCain’s speech on YouTube here).

Good luck to McCain campaigning on a platform that echoes Bush and his 30 percent favorable poll rating.

Now for the bad news. If McCain doesn’t become president, then a Democrat will—most likely Hillary Clinton but there’s still plenty of time for Barack Obama to maneuver his way to the nomination.

Both are proud of their amnesty stances. And each insists, wrongly and hurtfully, that more non-immigrant worker visas are essential for the American economy to thrive.

To be sure, it’s a bummer that Republicans don’t have a solid patriotic immigration reform candidate that we can count on at the forefront of the race.

But have faith! Don’t panic! Amnesty will not come automatically regardless of who is elected. History and momentum are on our side.

Have readers totally forgotten how far we’ve come and the magnitude of our 2007 victories?

Here’s an example of what I mean.

Throughout Clinton and Obama’s campaigning and especially since McCain’s resurgence, my in-box has filled up with the direst messages—“ It’s all over now,” “This is the end!” and “Amnesty is inevitable!”

Rightly outraged correspondents are aghast that Obama endorses driver’s licenses for illegal aliens. To them, it is beyond the pale.

And I agree that, after watching N.Y. governor Eliot Spitzer get put through the sausage grinder on alien licensing, it is astonishing that any candidate would touch the subject, especially when it is so easily dodged by merely saying that states—not the federal government—regulate driving.

But that’s my point: who really cares what Obama thinks about licenses? He has no control over it. Any at his own risk.

And the same can be said about presidential opinions on amnesty: that issue is determined in Congress, not the White House.

To better understand the strength of our position, let’s review what’s happened in the amnesty wars since Bush took office.

Bush, at the outset, blindsided many (not all) of us. We didn’t foresee his fanatical devotion to open borders.

As hard as this still may be for some Republicans to swallow, it is impossible—as a practical matter—to be a bigger open borders advocate than Bush.

Remember that Bush’s first out-of-the country trip was to Mexico and the first foreign leader he invited to the White House was Vicente Fox. And Bush had barely survived the dangling chad vote count before he floated an amnesty trial balloon in the spring of 2001.

Then, after his 2004 re-election, Bush vowed to use what he perceived as his accumulated “political capital” to push for amnesty. Result: nothing!

And yet again after the 2006 mid-term election and as Bush worked non-stop with the pro-open border Democrats who controlled Congress, he still couldn’t push through an amnesty despite a series of passionate pleas he made in Arizona and during a rare (for a president) personal visit to Capitol Hill.

In short, for eight years Bush was repeatedly embarrassed on the immigration issue by both Republican- and Democratic-controlled Congresses.

Since Senators Clinton, Obama and McCain were all present and close-up witnesses to the series of beatings Bush took, is it realistic to expect that the first matter of business for whoever is elected will be amnesty?

Not very likely…and that’s not just my opinion either.

During a trip to Washington D.C. in December I attended separate meetings with immigration reform leaders that included NumbersUSA Executive Director Roy Beck, Mark Krikorian and Steve Camarota of Center for Immigration Studies, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow John Fonte and the Federation for American Immigration Reform. The overwhelming consensus is that amnesty is “too toxic” a subject and that it will not rear its ugly head until 2010 at the earliest.

This is a huge change. Remember that in January 2007, when the 110^th U.S. Congress was sworn in, nearly every immigration reform advocate on Capitol Hill assumed that the Senate would pass an amnesty again after a tough fight (as it did in 2006), and that we would ultimately have to stop it in the House of Representatives.

Beating it back in the Senate was seen as requiring something of a political miracle, given the odds against us.

For a solid six months, newspaper editorial boards, the majority of columnists and reporters as well as the leadership of businesses, unions, civil rights groups, universities, religions (most visibly the Roman Catholic Church) and ethnocentric lobbyists predicted that “comprehensive immigration” legislation was inevitable.

They were all wrong. Instead, the bill was stopped in the Senate without ever getting to the House.

Here’s what happened instead:

The Senate defeated amnesty and a green card increase in May…and again in June!

A smaller amnesty, the Dream Act, also considered inevitable because of its impact on “the children ” went down in October.

As a result of three consecutive defeats and despite a massive assault by the print media and the Chambers of Commerce nationwide predicting bushels of unpicked rotting fruit, an AgJobs amnesty never surfaced.

The new Democratic leadership in the House headed by illegal immigration fanatic Nancy Pelosi did not even attempt to move an amnesty bill through a subcommittee—let alone the floor.

In the meantime,

Rep. John Gingrey (R-GA) introduced H.R. 938, the Nuclear Family Priority Act that will reduce the numbers of family sponsored immigrants (chain migration) and limit them to spouses and minor children.  The bill currently has 31 co-sponsors.

Rep. Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) has added 58 co-signers to his H.R. 1430, the Security and Enhancement Fairness for America Act that would eliminate the 50,000-diversity visa lottery. This is a significant move forward in reducing legal immigration.

And, most significantly, Congressional Democrats proposed tough enforcement legislation

Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC) introduced the SAVE Act (Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement) that bulks up the E-verify system to identify legal U.S. workers. The bill has been co-signed by 142 representatives—50 Democrats and 92 Republicans.

Mark Pryor (D-ARK) and David Vitter (R-LA) forwarded legislation similar to Shuler’s in the U.S. Senate.

Use 2007—widely but incorrectly predicted to be a disastrous year for patriotic immigration reform—as a guideline.

And, big difference, in 2008, we are forewarned and forearmed.

Not the slightest clue exists that Americans are more receptive to amnesty than they were in 2007. In fact, the reverse is true.

Judge for yourself where we standing by asking this simple question: would you rather be on our side, winning the battles as we fight them, or on La Raza’s team, consistently losing while its captain, Janet Murguia, becomes more frighteningly unhinged with each defeat?

Sure, it would be nice not to have to go to the mat again and again. I’m at a point in my life where I’d like to write fewer columns so I could spend more time upgrading my butterfly collection.

But I’m confident that no matter who wins the November election—the bad, the worse or the worst—we’ll beat back our opponents as consistently and as thoroughly as we have for the last several years.

We have brought immigration into the limelight of presidential politics—a huge triumph in itself—and we’ve won on the playing field.

So don’t fall victim to negativity. Based on our recent record, there’s no real reason for it.

And my credentials for saying this? I don’t like to blow my horn. But I predicted that the McCain-Bush-Kennedy Immigration Surge/ Amnesty bill would fail and when it was exhumed, I predicted it would be reburied. I predicted that front-runner Giuliani would flame out. I said that Mitt Romney should stop Hispandering and run against illegal immigration—without which, as Steve Sailer has pointed out, Romney “would have been tarred and feathered and run out of California on a rail”.  And I warned New York’s Spitzer that his driver licence plan would end in Gray Davis-type humilation.

So I repeat: McCain won’t be President. Amnesty will not pass.

Joe Guzzardi [ e-mail him] is the Editor of VDARE.COM Letters to the Editor.

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Get out the Clinton "IS" Parser and apply it to McCain's CPAC2008 speech. He tried to build up on what could conceivably be positives and just blows off the numerous negatives. This is where he says he will consult us. He wont change anything as he pushes amnesty but he will consult us. I do not believe him.

I think that Joe Guzzardi has it right. The Democrats and liberals that assisted McCain in getting as far as he has now will be abandoning him in the general election to vote for Clinton or Obama. McCain is already feeling the cold draft out there on that lonely limb and finally decided that he needs the conservatives after all. Sorry John, we dont need you. Here is a big "TOLD YA SO!"

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The Bush State of the Union - Unrequited Amnesty

Last night in his final State of the Union speech, Bush had assembled members and guests standing while clapping and cheering on most issues.

Bush bemoans the failure of his amnesty legacy - His immigration topic was applauded by the pro-amnesty caucus. This is what Bush seems to consider as the keystone of his legacy. It failed in two previous attempts. He sounded like there would be one last great lame duck push.

2006 - The open illegal alien demonstrations, the gathering of all the senate panderers, the US Council of American Catholic Bishops, National Council of Churches, The US Chamber of Commerce, AFL-CIO, La Raza, The DNC (funded and backed by MoveOnKoSoroStryker), all seem to be an implacable, unstoppable army of pro-amnesty foes for the forcefull push for passage of S.2611. The senate AXIS of Amnesty tossed in Social Security to sweeten the package for illegals. The Citizen Patriots defeated them.

2007 - They made another try (S.1348/S.1639) to slip it past us by stealth this time. Secret back room meetings to formulate the amnesty package with no committee discussion or debate. La Raza and other amnesty special interets were allowed input to the content of the amnesty gift package. Then the panderers ran it right out to the Senate floor as a completed amnesty abortion ready for an up-or-down vote with limited floor debate. They tried several cloture votes to stop debate/filibuster and FAILED! This was the legislation that would have given illegals aliens legal status after a phoney 24 hour status check. Remember the confident Bush statement: "I'll see you at the signing!" He fully expected to be able to slip this one to us. Despite attempts to isolate legislators to curb citizen protests against the treachery of the government, patriotic citizens prevailed again.

2008 - Bush is not done. His amnesty wet dreams are still a possibility in this lame duck legislative period. We must be vigilant for the next Kennedy-Bush-McCain amnesty attempt. Many of the senate RINOs are still in place too. The whole pander coterie on the socialist Democrat side of the aisle are still there. While there are patriotic citizens that claim membership in the Democrat coalition, they apparently did nothing about their illegal alien pandering representatives. We have a hard core panderer in the Michigan delegation that is seeking re-election this November, Senator Carl Levin. Levin is a hard core panderer. If McCain becomes president, we will be fighting amnesty all over again. If Clinton or Obama become president, we will also be fighting against amnesty. Catch your breath and get ready to fight all over again.

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The 2007 Amnesty Year Review

2007 was the year when a powerfull axis of organizations joined to try to force amnesty for illegal aliens against the will of the citizens of the USA.

Cross posted from the Cox Newspaper 2007 Archives

Groups Join Forces on Immigration

By Eunice Moscoso | Thursday, January 18, 2007, 02:17 PM

Groups lobbying for changes in the nation’s immigration laws, including a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, have dubbed themselves the “Alliance for Immigration Reform 2007.” [aka "The Amnesty AXIS", "The AXIS of Evil", or just "The AXIS"]

The organizations, which announced their new name Thursday in a conference call with reporters, include the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic civil rights group; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; the Service Employees International Union; the National Immigration Forum; and the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank based in New York.

“This is the year to get this done,” said Tamar Jacoby, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. “Everybody, no matter who they are, is sick of the illegality and the porous borders. Businesses are tired of lying to the government and having to break the law just to get the work done. Latinos want to see their friends and family able to work with dignity. And soccer moms and dads want to see Congress solve something.”

Bruce Josten, executive vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said he expected President Bush to address immigration in his State of the Union speech Tuesday.

“I have absolutley no doubt that he will raise this issue and he will press and stay on the message he has been on since a candidate for this office for a comprehensive solution to immigration,” Josten said.

White House spokesman Tony Snow confirmed the topic.

The speech “will address major issues, including the war on terror, energy, health care, immigration, and education,” he told reporters Thursday.

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The AXIS: Despite the backing of the US Chamber of Commerce, the Bishops, Arch Bishops, and Cardinals of the American Catholic Church, Big Union (AFL-CIO represented by SEI), a putatively conservative think tank (Manhattan Institute), El Presidente Bush, the DNC including all but a bare handfull of Democrat senators, approximately half of the GOP senators (including Frist, the GOP senate majority leader), MoveOnKoSoroStryker (arguably this IS the true leadership of the DNC politburo), and the MSM which is always sympathetic to socialist/leftist causes, but especially for amnesty...

The Patriots: Patriotic Citizens of all political persuasions joined together to turn back the AXIS attempt to dissolve our national sovereignty that would have effectively thrown open our borders to tens of millions of newly arriving illegal aliens.

The amnesty attempts were formulated in secret with no involvement in legislative committees. La Raza and other amnesty pimps were allowed to give input as to the content of the first bill (S.1348) to be taken directly to the senate floor, where The AXIS thought they had enough votes to force it through.

A very smug George Bush said, "I'll see you at the signing!" [...instead he got bitch-slapped again, just like with Dubai Ports and Harriet Miers. This may explain why he had his pet prosecutor, Jonny Sutton, dump border guards in prison while using a Bush Cartel drug smuggler as witness in the star chamber trials.]

Can you imagine the expression on the face of El Presidente Bush when he found out that The PATRIOTS had been flooding their senators and congressmens phones, faxes, and emails with demands that this bad legislation be defeated... and it was.

The AXIS made another stealth attempt with a renumbered amnesty package (S.1639). They tried a tactic of making the legislators unavailable except through special hotlines to allow illegal aliens to call in, excluding The PATRIOTS. These numbers were made public and citizens started using them too. Once again, The Patriots prevailed over The AXIS.

The midterm elections in 2006 was a turning point. It turned the senate and house, starting in 2007, over to Democrats. The new majority was made possible by new Democrat candidates who ran on platforms that were, in most cases, more conservative than their opponents. Time will tell if this is true.

The AXIS was not through with their attempts though. Instead of the comprehensive, big package approach, they shifted gears and now are using the incremental approach of attaching small items to other unrelated legislation to slip it to us a little at a time. The DREAM act was such a piece of legislation.

The AXIS had one victory in December of 2007. The managed to defund and kill the border fence that was authorized in 2006. This is a reason that patriotic citizens must stand together.

[The "death by a thousand cuts" analogy has been made as relates to the slow infiltration, occupation, and take over of our southwestern states without a shot being fired except by criminal gangs of illegals. El Presidente Bush has no intention of enforcing immigration law strenuously during his tenure, so this will fall to whoever is elected as the next president. By that time it may be necessary to use military units to clean out and retake our territory from the occupying hoard while guarding the border against military incursions from the south.]

See: I am an American Citizen

Here is the page about the private hotlines for illegals to use to call in: Bush Listening

The Bush scandal that the MSM refused to cover, because it was a willing participant, is known as Bordergate. The MSM tried to fabricate out of whole air various things to use as a scandal for Bush, such as manufactured military records by CBS/Damn Rather, when they had everything they need, if they had not been so heavily involved themselves, via their political allegiance to the socialist Democrats who are also primo amnesty panderers.

In December 2007, Michigan AG Mike Cox issued his opinion (weight of law unless successfully challenged in court) that illegal aliens may not be issued Michigan drivers licenses, a reversal of the opinion of the Democrat former AG Frank Kelley. How this will affect the illegals already holding Michigan Drivers Licenses (and possibly voter registration cards) was not dealt with as far as I can ascertain. We may well face a certain number of illegal voters at the polls.

Independent Liberal Democrat and amnesty co-conspirator Senator Joe Lieberman endorsed John McCain for president.

Bush pardoned and commuted sentences of 105 criminals (fraud, robbery, drug smuggling, forgery, counterfeiting, car theft, income tax evasion, military AWOL, moonshining and bootlegging (illegal liquor), theft of US mail, illegal weapons) and no pardons or commutations for Ramos, Compean, or any of the other law men who were railroaded into prison by his pet prosecutor, Johnny Sutton. George did spring Scooter Libby (commuted not pardoned).

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The Bush Pardon List (no Ramos or Compean)

After looking over this lest of embezzlers, bank robbers, bootleggers, dope smugglers and dealers, you can appreciate how we are moving toward a corrupt government like Mexico has. The list of criminals pardoned and commuted by Bush (so far) is impressive and shows you that it is advantageous to have the head of the Bush Cartel in the drivers seat of the United States as we move toward becoming another banana republic. Bush still has not figured out how to declare himself dictator for life.

Take a look at the assorted druggies and other criminals that Bush cut loose. He has NOT made any move toward springing Compean or Ramos. It was his corrupt prosecutor and judge that railroaded them into prison.

The list comes from The Pardon List as published in Wikipedia

Pardons

1. James Leon Adams (1965 selling firearms to out of state residents and falsifying firearms records)[3]

2. Kristan Diane Bullock Akins (1990 Embezzlement by a bank employee)[4]

3. Charles James Allen (1979 conspiracy to defraud the United States. A former federal employee, Allen was convicted for approving payments to James Hilles Associates Inc., a Virginia firm, for office supplies that were never delivered. In return, Allen received car parts, a radio, a freezer and other gifts from the firm. Pardoned December 21, 2006)

4. Tony Dale Ashworth (1989 unlawful transfer of a firearm)[3]

5. Alan Dale Austin (1987 misapplication of mortgage funds)[5]

6. William Sidney Baldwin Sr. (1981 conspiracy to possess marijuana. Pardoned December 21, 2006)

7. Timothy Evans Barfield (1989 aiding and abetting false statements on a Small Business Administration loan application. Pardoned December 21, 2006)

8. Bruce Louis Bartos (1987 transportation of a machine gun in foreign commerce)[6]

9. David Thomas Billmyer (1978 military conviction for making a false claim)[7]

10. James Allen Bodendieck, Sr. (1959 interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle)[8]

11. Clyde Philip Boudreaux (1975 military conviction for borrowing money from enlisted men, accepting a noninterest-bearing loan from a government contractor and signing and swearing to a false affidavit. Pardoned December 21, 2006)

12. Gene Armand Bridger (1963 Conspiracy to commit mail fraud, and mail fraud)[9]

13. Marie Georgette Ginette Briere (1982 possession of cocaine with intent to distribute)

14. Jeffrey James Bruce (1994 possession of stolen mail)[8]

15. Charles Wayne Bryant (1962 theft of U.S. mail matter by employee)[8]

16. Carl E. Cantrell (1967 moonshining)[10]

17. Charles Winston Carter (1964 conspiracy to steal government property)[10]

18. Meredith Elizabeth Casares (1989 embezzlement of US Postal Service funds)[11]

19. Ronald William Cauley (1980 Misapplication of bank funds by an employee)[4]

20. Cathryn Iline Clasen-Gage (1992 Misprision of a felony)[9]

21. Thomas Kimble Collinsworth (1989 Receipt of a stolen motor vehicle that had been transported in interstate commerce)[9]

22. Charles Russell Cooper (1959 bootlegging) [5]

23. Anthony John Curreri (1976 Mail fraud) [12]

24. Morris F. Cranmer, Jr. (1988 Making materially false statements to a federally-insured institution)[9]

25. Dale C. Critz, Jr. (1989 making a false statement)

26. William Charles Davis (1983 income tax evasion)[7]

27. Randall Leece Deal (1960 and 1964 liquor laws)[3]

28. Paul Jude Donnici (September 23, 1993) Use of a telephone in the transmission of wagering information [13]

29. William Henry Eagle (1972 moonshining)[3]

30. Mark Alan Eberwine (1985 conspiracy to defraud the United States by impeding, impairing, and obstructing the assessment of taxes by the Internal Revenue Service and making false declarations to the grand jury. Pardoned December 21, 2006)

31. Rusty Lawrence Elliott (1991 Making counterfeit Federal Reserve notes)[9]

32. Robert Carter Eversole (1984 theft)[3]

33. Gerald Douglas Ficke (1992 money laundering)[11]

34. Harper James Finucan (1980 marijuana possession with intent to distribute)[10]

35. Kenneth Clifford Foner (1991 bank fraud)[3]

36. Anthony Americo Franchi (1983 tax evasion)

37. Colin Earl Francis (1993 accepting a kickback of about $9,000 for helping a vendor for United Technologies Corp.'s Sikorsky Aircraft division, where Francis worked at the time, land a contract. Pardoned December 21, 2006)

38. Victoria Diane Frost (1994 conspiracy to possess)[3]

39. William Grover Frye (1968 AWOL and 1973 sale of stolen car)[3]

40. Joseph Daniel Gavin (1979 military insubordination, drunkenness, threats, and other offenses) [5]

41. George Glenn (1956 accepting $50 bribe while in military)

42. Samuel Wattie Guerry (1984 food stamp fraud)[13]

43. Adam Wade Graham (1992 Conspiracy to deliver 10 or more grams of LSD)[9]

44. Charles E. Hamilton (1989 mail fraud)[13]

45. Stanley Bernard Hamilton 1990 (money order fraud)[3]

46. Brianna Lea Haney (1991 failure to report monetary instruments)[6]

47. George Thomas Harley (1984 aiding and abetting the distribution of cocaine. Pardoned December 21, 2006)

48. Rufus Edward Harris (1963 Possession and selling tax-unpaid whiskey)[9]

49. Jesse Ray Harvey (1990 Property damage by use of explosives and destruction of an energy facility)[9]

50. David Custer Heaston (1988 false statement)[6]

51. Melodie Jean Hebert (1984 defrauding U.S. with false claims)[3]

52. Patricia Ann Hultman (1985 conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine and other controlled substances. Pardoned December 21, 2006)

53. Bobby Frank Kay Sr. (1959 moonshining)[10]

54. James Ernest Kinard, Jr. (1984 fraudulent firearms dealer records)[3]

55. Richard Ardell Krueger (1979 mail fraud and 1980 and false statement on a loan application)[7]

56. Devin Timothy Kruse (1979 AWOL from Coast Guard)[3]

57. Margaret Ann Leggett (1981 false claims)

58. Raul Marin (1982 failure to appear in court) [5]

59. Larry Paul Lenius (1989 Conspiracy to distribute cocaine)[9]

60. Larry Lee Lopez (1985 Conspiracy to import marijuana)[9]

61. Bobbie Archie Maxwell (1962 Mailing a threatening letter)[9]

62. David B. McCall, Jr. (1997 False entry in bank books and aiding and abetting)[14]

63. Melvin L. McKee (1982 conspiracy to make false statements on a loan application)[10]

64. Charles McKinley, (1950 moonshining)[10]

65. Michael Mark McLaughlin (1983 mail fraud and conspiracy)[7]

66. Craven Wilford McLemore (1983 Conspiracy to defraud the United States and Caddo County) [12]

67. Denise Bitters Mendelkow (1981 Embezzlement by a bank employee)[9]

68. Michael Robert Moelter (1988 illegal gambling business)[6]

69. Billie Curtis Moore (1977 income tax evasion)[7]

70. Richard Arthur Morse (1963 transportation of a stolen vehicle)[11]

71. Gerard Murphy (1972 car theft)[3]

72. Kenneth Lynn Norris (1993 unlawful disposal of hazardous waste)[13]

73. Joseph Mathew Novak (1994 possession and transfer of an illegal weapon)[3]

74. Eric William Olson (1984 military conviction for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, possession with intent to distribute, possession, and use of hashish. Pardoned December 21, 2006)

75. Donald Lee Pendergrass (1964 armed bank robbery)[10]

76. Fred Dale Pitzer (1976 transportation of falsely made securities)[11]

77. Charles Blurford Power (1948 transportation of a stolen vehicle)[10]

78. Michael John Pozorski (1988 Unlawful possession of an unregistered firearm)[9]

79. James Edward Reed (1975 marijuana possession with intent to distribute)[7]

80. Thomas R. Reece (1969 violating the Internal Revenue Code pertaining to alcohol. Pardoned December 21, 2006)

81. Cecil John Rhodes (1981 false statement on a loan application)[11]

82. John Louis Ribando (1976 and 1978 marijuana dealing)[3]

83. Larry Gene Ross (1989 making false statements in a bank loan application. Pardoned December 21, 2006)

84. Ernest Rudnet (1992 conspiracy to file false tax returns) [5]

85. Gary L. Saltzburg (1995 theft of government property) [5]

86. John Gregory Schillace (1988 conspiracy to possess cocaine for distribution)[10]

87. Russell Don Sell (1995 aiding and abetting a false statement on a loan application)[11]

88. Stephen Davis Simmons (1981 Possession of counterfeit obligations)[4]

89. Scott LaVerne Sparks (1989 theft of government property)[7]

90. Wendy St. Charles (1984 conspiracy to trade narcotics and cocaine distribution)[10]

91. David Lloyd St. Croix (1989 disposal of stolen explosives)[5]

92. Jearld David Swanner (1991 making false statements in a bank loan application. Pardoned December 21, 2006)

93. James Walter Taylor (1991 bank fraud. Pardoned December 21, 2006)

94. Johnson Heyward Tisdale (1994 food stamp fraud)[13]

95. Edward Rodriguez Trevino, Jr. (1997 theft, convicted in military court)[3]

96. Janet Theone Upton (1975 mail fraud. pardoned December 21, 2006)

97. Jerry Dean Walker (1989 cocaine distribution)[3]

98. Joseph William Warner (1995 arson on an Indian reservation)[5]

99. Mark Lewis Weber (1981 Selling Quaalude tablets, selling, using, and possessing marijuana )[9]

100. Roger Charles Weber (1969 Theft from an interstate shipment)[4]

101. Jimmy Lee Williams (1995 false statements on a loan application)[10]

Commutations

Two commutations of sentence were granted on May 20, 2004. They were granted to:

* Geraldine Gordon (1989 distribution of phencyclidine) (sentenced to 20 years plus 10 years supervised release; sentence commuted after 15 years, term of supervised release left intact) [13]

* Bobby Mac Berry (1997 conspiracy to manufacture and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, money laundering) (sentenced to 9 years imprisonment plus 5 years supervised release; sentence reduced to 6 and a half years, terms of supervised release left intact) [13]

A commutation of sentence was granted on December 21, 2006 to:

* Phillip Anthony Emmert (1992 conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine) (sentenced to 21 years and 10 months plus 5 years supervised release; sentence reduced Feb. 21, 1996; sentence commuted to 15 years and 1 month plus 5 years supervised release)

A commutation of sentence was granted on July 2, 2007 to:

* I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby (2007 perjury, obstruction of justice) (sentenced to 30 months plus 2 years supervised release, a fine of $250,000, and a special assessment of $400; sentence commuted to 2 years supervised release, a fine of $250,000, and a special assessment of $400) [15]

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Drivers Licenses for Illegals

On June 29, 2007 I wrote an article on this blog ILLEGALS REGISTERING TO VOTE IN MICHIGAN. And then...

In July, I was flailing away, trying to get someone, ANYONE, to pay attention to the case of Michigan issuing illegal alien drivers licenses. Our AG Mike Cox doesn't seem interested. I emailed his office and it probably ended in the circular file. Talking to the Michigan Sec. of State office is equally unproductive. I was told that it will take an act of congress to make them stop issuing drivers licenses to illegals.

Today, I heard Rush Limbaugh devoting a segment to the issue of the state of New York issueing drivers licenses to illegals. Welcome aboard Rush!

FINALLY! Someone is taking notice of my alarm message on drivers license and voter fraud.

On July 6th I posted here on my blogs, article #936, about drivers licenses for illegals:

Michigan Drivers Licenses for Illegals

Since the Michigan Drivers License is the only form of ID required to register to vote in Michigan and the Michigan Secretary of States office issues Michigan Drivers Licenses to illegals, then it seems logical to stop the practice.

I have received emails from state employees confirming my worst fears, and they say that it will take an act of congress to make Terri Lynn Land stop.

Time to get the publicity ball rolling!

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and on July 29th I posted article #956 on the subject:

Are we ready for massive voter fraud?

Illegal Aliens CAN register to vote in Michigan!

To vote you must be a citizen by birth or naturalization. Immigrants, legal and illegal are not eligible.

Voting is a CITIZENSHIP privelege but it is quietly being extended by panderers to non-citizens.

The system is rigged to look like our government is protecting citizens rights. It has been subverted by not listing citizen status on the government ID or drivers license. Appearances are that the attorney general is a participant. It has been pooh-poohed at the state level so far.

Here in Michigan, the ID requirement to obtain a Michigan Drivers License or ID looks tough.

There is no citizenship (born or naturalized) requirement for a Michigan Drivers License.

Immigration status (illegal or green card) is not mentioned anywhere on the drivers license or ID card.

How could an illegal alien get the prime identification of the State of Michigan?

If they spent any time in one of the border states, they probably have a Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, or California drivers license. Many states issue a drivers license to illegals. Do these states also use the license as ID for voter registration? These out-of-state licenses are accepted by the Michigan Secretary of State as a valid ID when applying for a Michigan Drivers License. Also I have found out that, even though it isn't listed with the required identifications, the Mexican Consulate issued Matricula Card is being accepted too.

Q: What does having a Michigan drivers license enable you to do?

A: You can register to vote! (Even as a non-citizen because of possession of a Michigan Drivers License!)

Q: What else is needed to register to vote?

A: Utility bills or other papers showing residency. Then you sign a statement that you are a citizen. This should pose no problem to someone who is already violating laws by being here illegally. What is one little lie about your citizenship status on top of all the federal laws already being broken.

The Michigan Drivers License is the ONLY form of ID required to vote in Michigan. No birth certificate or naturalization papers are needed.

We have heard that La Raza and other subversive organizations are on a drive to register voters... now we know how they are going to do it!

I have emailed Mike Cox, the Michigan AG, about this and nothing has been heard since. The Michigan Secretary of State and the Michigan Attorney General seem to be in agreement that this is OK. The word from the Michigan SOS offices is that an act of Congress is necessary to make them stop these practices.

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Both of these were cross posted to the CAII member forum for wider distribution.

Along with this, back in July I posted several times on the local churn Grand Rapids MLive.com forum, and also posted to the AARP.com forum on the subject. I sent messages to TheHill.com, RollCAll.com, Washington Post, Detroit Free Press, and and other publications via the Congress.org media contact pages. I sent messages to Rush and Sean Hannity. With Rush giving it air time, this now has a chance of being challenged and reversed.

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