April 30, 2005
Trespassing in New Hampshire [James
Fulford]
MassBackwards, a right wing blog in a
left-wing state,
reports that New Ipswich Police Chief
W. Garrett Chamberlain in New Hampshire has arrested
an illegal on a novel legal theory: criminal trespass.
That is, since Jorge Mora Ramirez
is in the
United States illegally, he's committing criminal
trespass anywhere he is.
According to a
New Hampshire Union-Leader
On April 15 the New
Ipswich police arrested Jorge Mora Ramirez, an illegal
alien from Mexico. Chamberlain charged Ramirez with
criminal trespass.
State law states that a “person is guilty of
criminal trespass if, knowing he is not licensed or
privileged to do so, he enters or remains in any place.”
Chamberlain says Ramirez, as an illegal alien, is not
“licensed or privileged” to be in the state, and is
therefore trespassing.
Sounds like solid
reasoning to us. If a judge in Jaffrey-Peterborough
District Court agrees on Tuesday, police departments
throughout New Hampshire could arrest illegal aliens
just for being illegal aliens, which is something that
only federal officials have had the authority to do.
"ICE officials have not
said what they intend to do with Ramirez. Last July they
refused to detain or deport nine illegal Ecuadorians
arrested in New Ipswich. The aliens were released, and
who knows where they are now?
Michelle Malkin reported on Chief
Chamberlain's earlier problems trying to get action out
of the ICE in
Homeland Insecurity: The Dangerous Game Of
Catch-And-Release Continues, last year.
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It's the anniversary of the fall of
Saigon. You can read Peter Brimelow's
discussion of it in his review of
A Bright Shining Lie, a major propaganda
effort by the kind of person who
helped lose that war. It received nothing but
positive reviews from the mainstream media. Brimelow's
review
provoked an unusual
type of letter: passionately assenting, enclosing
similarly hostile reviews from obscure service journals
and even private memos, apparently dashed off to relieve
the writers' powerless rage. None of this found
expression in the establishment media.
The Vietnam War is
over. America's civil war goes on.
The recent
election proved that
once again.
The loss of Vietnam left another
legacy, Vietnamese
immigration, some
good, some
bad, some
worse.
I
wrote in 2001 that the
The
Vietnamese loved their country. Their ancestors were
buried there, and they didn’t want to leave, but when
[President Gerald]
Ford and
the House Democrats
abandoned them, they had little choice about
leaving.
And they're still in the US, of
course.
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Another recent anniversary:
Sai-i-gu, (April 29). That's what the
Korean immigrants who were burned out during the
Rodney King riots called the incident.
Michelle Malkin points to the rapper
Ice Cube as one of the instigators of the
anti-Korean violence. I've written about rap
here, and so has
Paul Craig Roberts. Occasionally the
SPLC, or someone says that right-wingers are
guilty of hate. Not like
rappers, we're not.
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Minuteman in Reverse: The
Benedict Arnold Girls [James
Fulford]
The BBC has an interview with some
college girls [audio
link, WMA] from Colorado College down in Mexico on a
school sponsored trip to an illegal staging area, to
learn why people cross into Mexico through the burning
desert.
One local woman, for example, is
hoping that the American
taxpayer will put
her son through college.
The girls provide sympathy,
encouragement, and advice. There's a major
sob story factor here. Listen to one girl's tone as
she says "People are employing 'illegals' or
however you would call it."
Just the way she says "illegals"
is instructive.
The Arizona Star
reports that Colorado College has also sent some
volunteers to aid the crossers by providing water in the
desert, "with the help of two private grants."
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