October 09, 2008 America’s Hobson’s Choice: Leftist Obama, Treason Lobbyist McCain
By
Peter
Gadiel The major political parties again have failed us. They have thrown up two presidential candidates unfit for the office. The Democrats have given us Sen. B. Hussein Obama. In saner times, every fact of this man’s political life would by itself be sufficient to render him unfit for any responsible position. "Mentored" by Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis who was chosen for this role by Obama’s white grandfather, as an adult Obama chose to remain closely tied to radical leftists, such as unrepentant Communist bomber William Ayers (Question many are asking: "What do Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden have in common? Answer: They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon."). For twenty years Obama attended the church of mad dog, anti-white racist Jeremiah Wright and cultivated the support of the equally racist Louis Farrakhan. By Obama’s own admission, his work experience prior to running for office was as a "community organizer" for extremist left wing groups such as ACORN, to which as a public official he steered taxpayer funds. By the evidence of his life, Obama
is a man of the
radical left. Thus to entrust this man with the
secrets that a President of the But even if Obama were no further to the left than the socialists who make up the Democratic Party, he is unfit because he is the product of Chicago’s Daley machine, which is corrupt in all the traditional ways, including bribery, siphoning of public funds, kickbacks, cronyism, and of course the fixing of elections (the 1960 Illinois presidential race). Obama’s sleazy dealings with Tony Rezko show that he has learned well the lessons that Daley had to teach. B. Hussein Obama is the ultimate in
unfit candidates, a unique blend of the
crooked and the
communist. What less could Well…there’s John McCain, the
Republican who claims The 9/11 Commissioners
found that nearly all the
September 11 mass murderers had authentic, US-issued
drivers licenses that enabled the terrorists to rent
hotel rooms, cars and apartments, open bank accounts to
transfer funds and obtain everything else they needed to
plan, rehearse and carry out their attacks. And on the
morning of the attacks, the Commission found, the
hijackers used their The Commission emphasized that identity documents are as important to terrorists as money or weapons. It stated:
"Recommendation: Secure
identification should begin in the Government must
"meet its own
obligations to the American people to prevent the entry
of terrorists"
by
"disrupting terrorist travel" by properly identifying all individuals entering and
leaving the McCain, like most of his fellow
politicians, chose to exploit 9/11 for his benefit. He
called for enactment of
"all forty-one" of the Commission’s recommendations. In 2004, he
introduced S.2774 which he
described as
"an effort to fortify the nation’s homeland and national
security . . . to implement recommendations made by the
9/11 Commission." But McCain was lying about the true
intent and effect of his bill. (The relevant language of
S.2774, later amended into S.2845), can be found
here,)
To carry out
this deception, McCain included lots of language that
created the illusion of creating strict federal
guidelines. Example:
"No federal agency may accept for any official purpose,
a drivers’ license" that did not meet certain
minimum standards that were to be set by the Secretary
of Homeland Security under the terms of the legislation.
McCain
strengthened the illusion by throwing in verbiage such
as requiring: "security standards to ensure that driver's licenses and identification
cards are—(i) resistant to tampering, alteration, or
counterfeiting; and (ii) capable of accommodating a
digital photograph or other unique identifier; and…"etc.[Section
890B]
But McCain
undermined the alleged intent of his legislation by
allowing the DHS Secretary to determine when it would be
"practicable" for the states to comply. This
meant that the Secretary, after being lobbied by the
US
Chamber of Commerce,
LaRaza, the
ACLU, the rest of the
Treason Lobby, and no doubt McCain himself, could
have decided that the year 2050 was the earliest
"practicable" date for states to implement whatever
regulations he decided to issue.,
To ensure a
significant delay, McCain included language that made
the earliest possible effective date for those
regulations eight
years after enactment of the bill. Under the terms
of the bill, if it were signed into law in December
2004, the Secretary would have had to issue regulations
by December 2005 and states could not be subject to
these regulations until December 2007.
In addition,
licenses issued up to that date under the old
regulations to illegal aliens (and any terrorists and
violent felons among them)
would remain valid until the expiration date of the license. That
meant that any illegal aliens (and terrorists etc.) who
got their licenses in December 2007 would still have in
their possession "valid IDs" issued by state
government until December 2012.
Unless of course
the Secretary had decided that it wasn’t
"practicable" to deny Muslim terrorists licenses for
another few decades. Betraying And, just in case the point didn’t
get across in that paragraph, McCain repeated it in the
next section, to make dead certain that states could go
on forever issuing licenses to illegal aliens (and
therefore the unknown terrorists among them):
"[The
Secretary] ((C)
may not require a State to comply with any such
regulation that conflicts with or otherwise interferes
with the full enforcement of such eligibility criteria
by the State." The effect of McCain’s "9/11 Commission Report Implementation Act of 2004" was to embed for the first time in U.S. law the principle that states are entitled to grant drivers’ licenses and other valid identity documents to illegal aliens (and terrorists etc.) Prior to this time federal law did not address the issue. So it was a matter of debate whether states could legally issue licenses and other ID to illegal aliens (and terrorists etc.) Thus, when members of 9/11 Families for a Secure America and other opponents of issuing licenses to illegals (and terrorists etc.) lobbied state legislatures to end the practice, we argued that it undermined enforcement of federal immigration law. In response the ACLU, Catholic Church and the rest of the illegal alien/terrorist lobby claimed that because federal law was silent on the matter states were free to give ID to illegals (and terrorists etc.) if they wished. McCain’s so-called "9/11 Commission bill" would have settled the matter. . . in favor of allowing states to issue licenses to illegals (and terrorists etc.). On the floor of the Senate.
McCain misled
"This amendment addresses the terrorist travel and screening sections of
the 9/11 Commission report. Contained in this amendment
are the recommendations found on pages 383-390 of the
9/11 Commission report."
"Much remains to be done to target terrorist travel, combine our
multiple screening systems and ensure that
identification documents used to enter this country or
to be used as feeder documents are trustworthy."
"Better technology and training to detect terrorist travel documents are
the most important immediate steps to reduce
"By restricting terrorist access to
travel documents, we increase the difficulty to
travel into the
"Lastly, this amendment would implement 9/11 Commission's recommendation
that the Federal Government set standards for the
issuance of birth certificates, driver's licenses, and
other sources of identification. "
"Our amendment would require birth certificates and driver's licenses to
meet new minimum Federal standards in order to be
accepted by a Federal agency for any official purpose.
Minimum standards would be established for proof and
verification of identity by the applicant, and to make
the documents themselves more resistant to
counterfeiting and tampering. The amendment also would
require minimum standards for the processing of
applications to address a widely recognized and growing
problem of fraud within the
offices that issue licenses and
birth certificates, including the Arizona Department
of Transportation's Motor Vehicle Division."[Senate
Debate on the National Intelligence Reform Act
(09/30/04)] McCain lied in his remarks on the floor. He evidenced his understanding of the importance of denying travel documents to terrorists. He claimed that his legislation will implement the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations on licenses and that his bill established "minimum standards". But by allowing issuance to illegal aliens—people whose true identities are unknown—he was rendering meaningless the entire legislation, and making a mockery of the Commission’s recommendations. McCain intended to fool Americans into thinking that they would be protected by his bill, when in fact he was guaranteeing access for illegals (and therefore terrorists etc.) to the very documents that made possible the 9/11 attacks.
S 2774 was passed, over the objections of nearly all
House Republicans and signed into law by Pres. Bush
on Truly, American voters face a Hobson’s choice in voting for president in 2008. The Democratic candidate, B. Hussein Obama, product of and puppet for crooks, lifelong buddy of Communist bombers and racists. The Republican candidate a guy who pretends to be guardian of national security while selling it out for treasonous political gain. The political system has
failed us.
Peter Gadiel (email him) is president of 9/11 Families for a Secure America. His son, 9/11 World Trade Center victim James Gadiel (North Tower, 103rd floor), was 23 at the time of his murder. |
