Wednesday, August 10, 2011

London should be a wake up call for the U.S.

Been extremely busy with work so I apologize for the infrequent posting but had to write this up real quick. What is going on in London should be a wake up call for us here. These riots are not about a man that was shot by police but more like a flame waiting for the spark. This was going to happen regardless of the excuse and all that was needed was an incident. This will happen here too. Bad economic conditions, highest percentage of unemployed youth and a culture that believes government and the rich owe them everything make for an extremely volatile mix. All that is missing is the spark. Watching the footage of the riots proved to me that it is not a race riot but an opportunistic riot. All races and classes are in on it trying to get their fair share of the loot. Citizens are now starting to patrol their neighborhoods to protect their property. When you have a generation that grows up with an entitlement mentality and never had to struggle to make it then this is what will happen when you try to take things away from them. They never heard of the word sacrifice and grow up to be disrespectful, ungrateful bastards. This will happen here, just remains to be seen on what scale it will happen. 

Monday, August 1, 2011

War On Drugs A Waste Of Money?

 Americas longest war in it's history is not the war on terrorism but the war on drugs. For decades now, and untold billions of dollars later, we only need to look at the record amount of drugs being seized at our borders and in our parks and national forests to see that we are no better off now than many years ago when it comes down to eliminating drugs from our streets. Sure, every so often a huge drug bust is made and the price on the street goes up in some areas. But with a seemingly unlimited supply crossing our borders every year, it seems a new approach might be needed. Drug seizures are on the rise again after falling in 2010. In the San Diego sector alone, marijuana seizures have already tripled their 2010 levels to over 65K pounds and we still have two months left in the fiscal year to go. Cocaine seizures tally 1,368 pounds, also a record level in that sector from last year. However, record levels of seizures does not guarantee that lower levels of drugs are hitting our streets. The only hard fact to take from record seizures is that record numbers of drugs are being produced south of our border. Recently, the Mexican authorities found a 300 acre pot farm in Baja California, Mexico. While it was reportedly destroyed, do we trust Mexican law enforcement given the huge history of corruption in that country? Another front in the war is inside our borders in our parks and national forests. Every year, more and more states report wild pot farms growing in the parks and forests inside their borders. This story is the latest to come out about that front. Over 460,000 plants were removed. At a potential profit of 5K a plant (as reported on CNBC), that is over 2.3 billion in revenue for the cartels in Mexico from just that one wild farm. Not only is it dangerous to those that go inside these areas for recreation, but do not forget about the environmental disaster taking place. Runoff from fertilizers and chemicals enter those streams, lakes and rivers and causes untold harm to both fauna and flora. Yet not one environmental organization has come out and said anything about this disaster. The same goes for their lack of condemnation about the over twenty-five million pounds of trash on our border. More and more people are coming across armed men, mostly illegal aliens, guarding their wild pot farms. This is a problem that will not go away any time soon. In upstate New York, pot growers go into the corn fields when the corn is growing and plant their pot so it is hidden by the corn plants. Then they harvest the pot before the corn is harvested. One way these tactics are discovered is by helicopter. But since New York is out of money they have reduced these flights by as much as 60 to 70 percent. Problems like this are going on all over the country, not just New York. The question is though, do we continue going down the same road or do we look for a new approach?

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

E-Verify Is Crucial To U.S. Security

 Most Americans laugh when asked if this federal program works or if that federal program works. The overwhelming majority of citizens would no doubt say the majority of federal programs do not work, are corrupted, are ripe with fraud or simply are a waste of taxpayer money. However, the E-Verify program is one such program that actually does work. It has an effective rate of over 97 percent. It is a means to keep illegal aliens from getting a job on the books. That, in turn, keeps those job openings for American citizens and legal immigrants. It works by a company signing up with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. www.uscis.gov. Then anytime a prospective employee files an application, his info is sent to USCIS and that company will get a response within 24 hrs as to whether that individual is legal to work in the United States. There is no racial profiling or any kind of bias. USCIS simply checks the info in the database and gives the company a straight up yes or no answer as to the legality of the prospective employee. That is all there is to it. It will take an employee about 10 to 15 minutes to register with USCIS AND IT IS FREE TO DO SO. There is no charge so companies really have no excuse not to use it unless they do not know about it or are looking to use illegal alien labor. This is one tool you can use to help fight illegal immigration. No jobs means no ability to stay here. if you are a business owner like I am, THEN REGISTER AND USE IT! If you are an employee, then pressure your boss to use it. Like I said, it takes 10 to 15 minutes to register and it is free. No loss of employee production because of this program. There are a lot of states now looking to make it mandatory for any company in their state to use E-Verify. With unemployment at 9.2 percent (U3 index), this is one way to ensure jobs go to those that have a right to them. The real unemployment number (U6 index) is actually over 16 percent now. Few people realize how illegal immigration is decimating our economy from the federal level all the way down to the local level. One key to stopping it is to turn off the jobs for people who do not have a right to work in this country. We all need to do our part!

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Illegal Indian Alien Numbers On The Rise!

Seems there is a major smuggling network specializing in Illegal Indian Aliens going on from Central America to Texas!

Story here.

Monday, July 11, 2011

One Threat Removed, One Just Starting!

A major fear of the residents of Hereford, AZ in the aftermath of the Monument Fire is flooding. The monsoon season in southern Arizona is now upon them and as you can see from these videos the flooding has begun. With the underbrush, trees and shrubs burned away, there is nothing to soak up large amounts of rainwater. The flooding will be especially bad this year. Cochise County has already begun providing residents with free sandbags to do what they can to offset this problem.

In this video posted by a resident in Miller Canyon, you can hear the terror in her voice as flood waters flow down from the mountain.


This second video shows the start of something serious.




If any of you are in a position to get to Hereford please do. I am sure they can use extra volunteers to fill sandbags, deliver them and put them in place.

Just got some pics in too:




Massive tons of earth are also being driven from the mountains as there is nothing to keep it in place with everything burned away.


At the top of the short hill on right you can see the red from the slurry the air crews used to fight the fires.














Friday, July 8, 2011

Hezbollah Terrorist Organization Confirmed Active in Mexico!!!

 While I was down in Arizona volunteering at the Monument fire, a group of hackers hacked the Arizona DPS (Dept of Public Safety). A virtual treasure trove of information is now coming to light as to what we are not being told by our federal government as well as state and local governments and police departments. This article is on the admission by Tucson police that Hezbollah is indeed active not only in Mexico, but in an area of South America called the TBA(TriBorderArea). Read the story here and pay particular attention to the part about the arrest of a man in Mexico and a weapons cache found related to him. Drug cartels have also used car bombs on a few occasions over the last two years and these have all the fingerprints of Hezbollah.
 Our border group is researching the leaked memos and is quite shocked at what is being found. I will try to post our findings here for you to read.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Pictures from the Monument fire in Arizona!!




Here are some pictures I snapped while volunteering to help the locals out in Arizona. Our border operations group suspended border ops to focus on humanitarian missions for evacuees such as helping the elderly relocate things from their house due to mandatory evacuations, clearing brush away from houses with rakes, shovels and pick axes, assisting the Arizona Rangers with security at one of the shelters, going door to door to announce the mandatory evacuations, assisting in the pet shelter at the high school, pick up and deliver items to the firefighters. Felt really good to help those people.

58 homes were destroyed, unknown number burned. 6 businesses lost. Many animals like dogs, cats and horses are missing also.