Tuesday, July 15, 2008

If You Can't Beat-em…Join-em

This should not really come as a shocker to anyone who should read this, but border patrol agents that are on the take. Yes, US border patrol agents are receiving bribes to help smuggle people and drugs through the border. According to Reuters, Drug smugglers are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to border patrol agents to help them. This is way more than what a border patrol agent makes in a year. Lets face it, after the two border patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, were sent to do hard time in prison (lets face it those two are still lucky to be alive), what kind of message do they think was sent to the rest of the agents. If you do your job and stop illegal immigrants, then there is good chance you will have the rest of your life ruined! But stop and wait a minute, you can "pretend" to be a border agent, look the other way, stay out of jail, and make millions in the process. Thanks to President Bush a dangerous precedence has been established. To be honest, fifteen thousand dollars is WAY BETTER THAN FIFTEEN YEARS! I am not saying that I would do it…but …you know…times being what they are…and if doing my job could land me in prison… you do the math! Until our government stops pandering to every special interest in this country, you will see an increase in corruption. Just a decade ago the FBI Border Corruption Task Force, only had a few dozen cases a year, now they are busier than ever. You know They say character does not matter in a leader (they claimed that with former impeached but not removed president Clinton) but if President Bush would have sided with those who were doing their job rather than trying to please Mexico City; then we would not have as much corruption as we do today. Congress could do with growing a pair also; and with catering to the so called "latino" vote, they are afraid of not getting re-elected. Maybe that is what we need. Unfortunately the wants of a few do out weigh the needs of an entire nation. As an end note, this corruption does not stop at the border patrol, it goes up the chain and even includes an L.A. Attorney for ICE; and transport contractors that return illegals to the border. This all flies in the face of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's campaign against drug lords, who, are fighting him for control of northern Mexico.
Bottom line, there is a lot more to illegal immigration than just picking vegetables for  cheaper market prices.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

So is it blacks or is "African American?"

"I was in a conversation with a fellow guest at Fox on Sunday. He Asked about Barack's speeches lately at the black churches. I said it can come off as speaking down to black people." Weds July 9, Reuters reporting on Jesse Jackson talking about Obama.

I am in a quandary, just when I thought this election cycle could not get on my nerves, Jess Jackson opens his bigoted mouth. I just have one question, you know, being a "white boy", I need to know how come he does not refer to blacks as "African Americans." I have had "Afro" this and "Afro" that pounded into my head. I have even been told by an "African American", aka the black man, while wearing a leather African medallion; that I would stand before the black judgment throne and answer for my crimes of being white. The Jesse "high priest" Jackson has recently attacked Barack Hussain Obama for "talking down to black folks" and at " black churches." I will give you time to think about what the Jesse high priest Jackson said. All right times up. Class what is it that came out of the race baiting white hating bigot. Sorry little Johny it was not African American or African American Churches. Go to the back of the class you brain washed idiot. All the rest of you who could separate a race baiting genius from ordinary black Americans or "folks" you get a gold star. On one hand I can understand a race pimp pushing his own, especially towards others who are not of his exalted race; he should do what he does. What I find embroiling is the fact that he would exempt himself from his own edict's and imposed sacraments. This high priest (Rev. in name only) has the audacity to not refer to blacks as African Americans (which is what we "whites" have been "told" to do) but as "black folks." I have been given ugly looks when I use the term black to…describe… a black person. I almost feel that I should say African American just to keep from feeling that I have done something wrong. For this man to even just say "black church" and "black people" is just plain blasphemous, and has violated his own sacred commandments. Now you have to understand why I am upset, you know, being a "white boy" that I have never  been referred to as a "European American." But this begs the question, when do you stop being a hyphenated American and become just an American? 
Once again I digress, there is no money to be made if there are not different classes of people to exploit. By this I mean if "African Americans" become just Americans, just like white Americans. Jesse would stand to loose all that he has or be forced to get a real job!
Just as a side note, the US is, I believe, the only place that hyphenates so many people, one people my behind!
As always I will be just a white boy (with Cherokee ancestry) and never anything special. Oh wait… I am very special… I AM AN AMERICAN!


Note: The person who wrote this story for Reuters, went out of their way to be P.C.
"Jackson, talking to CNN on Wednesday, said Obama has given what amounts to 'lectures' at African-American churches"