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May 21, 2007 09:39 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Let's use this thread to help us track how Senators say they are going to vote on the Bush-Kennedy amnesty bill. Find stories online or better yet -- call and document how these senators from this state are going to vote. If you call, include date/time of your call.

Switchboard: 202-224-3121.

Be sure to ask:

1--Does the senator support the Bush-Kennedy comprehensive amnesty bill?

2-- Will the Senator vote to "invoke cloture" (i.e. end debate) on the amnesty bill?



Sean Ivy - Fire Society Editor
May 22, 2007 05:45 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Here's what I faxed to both my senators:

I am a concerned citizen who opposes the Kennedy-Bush Immigration Bill. This bill gives amnesty to illegal aliens and provides a path to citizenship for millions of uneducated people who have already demonstrated a disdain for our laws.

Further, I find the Heritage Foundation's multi-Trillion dollar cost estimate to the American Taxpayer to be believable and alarming. Clearly this is not the legacy that we want to leave for our children and grandchildren!

 I urge you to vote NO on the bill and NO on the "closure" vote to end debate on the bill. Further I urge you to use your influence amongst your fellow Senators toward those ends!

Respectively submitted,

Frank F. Eichman, Jr. 

May 23, 2007 04:13 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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I WAS IN NEW YORK NOT LONG AGO AND I VISITED LADY LIBERTY. TEARS CAME DOWN MY FACE WHEN I STOOD IN FRONT OF HER AND I SAW A BIG TEAR ON HER CHEEK SO I ASKED HER WHAT'S WRONG? SHE TOLD ME I CAN TALK TO YOU BECAUSE I REMEMBER THE IRISH AND POLISH SIDE OF YOUR FAMILY PASSING IN FRONT OF ME WITH "AMERICAN" FLAGS IN THEIR HANDS, THEY WAVED THERE FLAGS AND SMILED AT ME ON THERE WAY TO "ELLIS" ISLAND I CAN STILL HEAR THEM YELLING "GOD BLESS AMERICA" I WAS SO HAPPY BACK THEN..........SHE SIGHED AND SAID NOW I'M SAD, NO ONE PASSES ME NOW, THEY GO OVER FENCES, OR THROUGH TUNNELS THEY TAKE AND TAKE FROM ME YET WON'T SUPPORT ME. THEY WANT TO HAVE CHILDREN HERE, SO THEY BECOME AMERICAN'S THEY DON'T PAY TAXES, YET WANT FREE CARE AND COST THE REAL AMERICANS BILLIONS. WHERE DID I GO WRONG SHE ASKED ME...I SAID YOU DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG WE STILL HAVE THE MILLIONS OF "LEGAL" AMERICANS THAT WILL FIGHT WITH THEIR BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS FOR OUR COUNTRY AND THEY WILL MAKE OUR CONGRESS AND SENATE START DOING THE RIGHT THINGS FOR OUR COUNTRY AND I PROMISE YOU THAT....OK? SHE GAVE ME A SLIGHT SMILE AND SAID OK.....AND CAN YOU TELL AMERICA SOMETHING FOR ME, I SAID YES, SHE SAID TELL ALL THE "REAL AMERICANS THAT I STILL LOVE THEM" AND I WANT AMERICA TO BE GREAT AGAIN......THANKS AMERICA FOR READING THIS.  
May 24, 2007 09:51 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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The new French president has it right about how to handle illegals.   Read this article and send it on to your elected reps, maybe they can learn something!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=456666&in_page_id=1811&ito=1490

May 29, 2007 01:50 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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I called Trent Lott's office twice this week: Once on 23May07 and once on 25May07.  The first time the person politely took my name and opinion down and gave me a stock answer on Trent Lott's position on the bill: "The Senator does not have an opinion on the current legislation because the bill has not been debated yet and there will probably be ammendments to it"

Ok, so that was a non-answer, at least.   On Friday, 25May07 when I called I brought up his "No" vote for the Vitter Amendment that would have pulled the Amnesty from the bill. If you recall, David Vitter (R-LA) had proposed the same amendment last year, and it had yanked the teeth out of the bill.  Last year, by the way, Lott had voted for the Vitter Amendment, so I figured it was a good, valid question. 

Well this time I got a "let me redirect your call to" someone in his office that was supposed to handle his positions, I suppose.  The main point is all I got was an answering machine, which was not full by the way.

It's of note that Lott, the Minority Whip and number 2 Republican after being re-elected in November, has told the NY Times that:

  •  "Is the current situation in America with legal and illegal immigration intolerable and unacceptable?" Mr. Lott asked. "Yes. Everybody would agree. Is this bill better than the current law? Without a doubt, yes. Are we going to have another opportunity to do this better next year or the next year? The answer is no. We've got to do it. We've got to do it as good as we can. We've got to do it right now.  "The only thing that's unacceptable is to do nothing," said Mr. Lott, the Senate minority whip

Suprised? Not this longtime Mississippian.  Lott has been very good in the past of taking up positions and counting votes.  Since Mississippi has no recall law, he's 'bulletproof' from this type of thing, and at 65 he's trying to lay down a legacy.  He's also told others that he's had to 'shake the hands of the ones with the daggers' to get back on top, and it sounds like he's ponied up for the bill. 

I suggest that you lay in on him hard with your emails and faxes, as he is the Republian Whip and will drive the votes on this issue. Now that the Senator and the rest of the fold are on their two week hiatus and hiding to simmer the boil they have caused, I will be calling a bit more frequently to make sure the answering machine is filled up, or at least to keep the office folk happy.  I think everyone should be calling their Senators up and blasting/praising them depending on which way they are voting.

May 29, 2007 07:28 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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scumbunny said:

I called Trent Lott's office twice this week: Once on 23May07 and once on 25May07.....

I have emailed, called, and even faxed his office. No response. I even thought about driving to Jackson over the holiday weekend just to speak to him, but gas prices were a major deterrent.  When someone aggrevates me enough to call them, that is doing something. I hate talking on the telephone.
May 30, 2007 09:01 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Dear friends, if you love our country as I do, please call or send a fax today to your Senator and ask him-her to kill the compromise immigration Bill S 1348.

 

 

May 30, 2007

 

Senator Hutchison:

 

If you side with President Bush on the immigration Compromise S 1348, we will vote you out of office. This is a promise.

 

I send this letter to the President; we do not want any traitors to represent us in Washington or in Texas.

 

Mr. President, The voters do care about the future of American, the one that don't give a damn about it is you, you sell out to the big corporations and the greed of the people in business, for your info exploitation breed poverty and poverty breed crime, you are not going to make America our country another Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela or Argentina. Thanks’ God the people now know what you want and they will stop you, we have send the word, if any of the Senators want to keep their job, they must vote to kill this immigration Bill, any one that side with you will be out of office. We the people will not compromise and will vote out of office any Senator that supports this Bill. Hear this we want you to enforce the law period. No excuses. Mr. President we are tired of your BS.  You were elected to protect the interest of the American people. You sell out, you are a traitor you betray the people that voted for you and the whole country.  Your legacy is George W. Bush the Republican President that destroys the Republican Party and betrays the people of the United State by ignoring our laws and our constitution to give amnesty to Illegal aliens that are in violation of our laws to supply the Big corporations with cheap labor.

 

Juan Reynoso

txre1937@hotmail.com

 




June 3, 2007 02:39 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Hello, Mississippi

PLEASE to go this website and sign the petition.  Your State isn't on the list of participants, BUT sign it anyway.  Then put pressure on your State Reps & Senators to join 25 other states in fighting this bill!  Do it!  There is a coalition in the works at the state level.  Let's support them.  Pass the word and tell everyone you know!

http://www.statelegislatorsforlegalimmigration.com/




GET CONGRESS ATTENTION! CHANGE YOUR W-4 AT WORK AND CLAIM 10 DEPENDENTS SO NO TAXES WILL BE TAKEN FROM YOUR PAYCHECK. WHEN THE MONEY STOPS COMING IN MAYBE THEY WILL REMEMBER THEY ARE SERVANTS TO WE THE PEOPLE.
June 6, 2007 10:59 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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4th of July, the "No Longer Silent" majority rally.  It would almost seem scripted... Get the word out.  Email your friends, call local and national shows definitely Rush, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage.   Let's make it happen!  THIS IS NATIONWIDE!

MARCH ON JACKSON JULY 4TH 2007!!!
June 7, 2007 07:53 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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            To MS members of the Fire Society,

                      Please recruit and go after the flip flopping Trent Lott. I have always had respect in this man until now. Come election day he needs to be reminded exactly who he works for.




Alabama born and bred. Where we "Dare Defend our Rights!"
June 7, 2007 08:47 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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I always liked Trent too, until now.  I lived in MS and held him in my mind as a good Presidential candidate at one time.

Biloxi/Gulfport may have had an increase in illegal immigrant population because of Katrina rebuilding.  Actually I believe he lost a home to the hurricane.  Maybe he's seeing alot of them there.

Anyway, it is the poorest state in the Union, fights for last or second to last in public education quality but yet has the most generous people in the United States.  Illegal Immigration being a boon to MS businessman will delve it into deeper trouble economically.  Trent must want that for his rich buddies. 

 




I shouldn't have to press anything for English..............
June 7, 2007 07:34 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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 Trent Lott is really pushing to make this bill law.The good folks in Mississippi need to let him know that he is making a mistake.
June 11, 2007 11:25 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Please post anything that you find interesting and of value on other boards. There may be national campaigns that you are aware of that can be of value to other states. There may also be stories or information from more enlightened people that we can all make use of to educate ourselves and to act on. Do not hold back information! Share, share and share.


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June 11, 2007 04:09 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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I have been sending both of the MS. Senator’s e-mails and faxes ever since this bill came up. Guess what I do not receive any replies from either one of them. Lott always been a yes man to who ever was in power and that is all I see him doing now. We need some new blood in his job.

June 11, 2007 09:22 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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I sincerely hope he enjoys this as much as I did when I saw him cave in and damn near take teddy kennedy as his savior on the Senate floor the other day.   

Senator Lott,

Regarding amnesty legislation you were quoted as saying "I am getting calls, but I would say to my constituents: Do you have no faith in me after 35 years that I am just going to buy a pig in a poke here, or be for something that is bad?" Lott said.

Although I do not live in Mississippi I have met you on several occasions. As a long time conservative I defended you and your record during a time when many others turned their back to you after the Strom Thurmond comments incident. However, I have now lost faith in you as a Conservative leader. Like most of the American people I am sick of elitist bureaucrats in Washington ignoring the American people in favor of corporate special interest groups and bigoted ethnic organization lobbyist.

To put it in terms you might appreciate, yes you were trying to buy a pig in a poke. The American people and other more well reasoned Senators just didn't let you write the check!

You, Senators McCain, Graham, Kyl, McConnell, Martinez, Specter, Chambliss, Isakson, Domenici, Craig, Lugar, and Voinovich should face strong primary opposition.

Your collective weakness in the face of the Democrats and pandering to those breaking the law, both employers and aliens, while wanting the average American taxpayer to end up having to pay the price literally, some 2.5 trillion dollars, is too much to take.

Either secure the border, eliminate sanctuary cities, prevent illegal aliens from stealing from the American taxpayer, demand tamper proof VOTER ID and begin attrition through enforcement or for God's sake please close down that damn pathetic, spineless bureaucratic body until the AMERICAN PEOPLE can elect some Senators to represent their best interest.

June 12, 2007 08:38 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Your President, George W. Bush is bringing the Illegal Immigration Reform Bill S.B. 1348 back on the floor, and here is what the White House Press Secretary released last friday on the White House Web Site:

 
The White House, President George W. Bush

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
June 8, 2007

Best of the Immigration Fact Check: Top 10 Common Myths

     Fact sheet In Focus: Immigration

1. MYTH: This is amnesty.

  • FACT: Amnesty is the forgiveness of an offense without penalty.  This proposal is not amnesty because illegal workers must acknowledge that they broke the law, pay a $1,000 fine, and undergo criminal background checks to obtain a Z visa granting temporary legal status. 
  • FACT: To apply for a green card at a date years into the future, Z visa workers must wait in line behind those who applied lawfully, pay an additional $4,000 fine, complete accelerated English requirements, leave the U.S. and file their application in their home country, and demonstrate merit based on the skills and attributes they will bring to the United States.
  • FACT: Workers approved for Z visas will be given a temporary legal status, but they will not enjoy the full privileges of citizens or Legal Permanent Residents, such as welfare benefits and the ability to sponsor relatives abroad as immigrants.

2. MYTH: This proposal repeats the mistakes of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act.

  • FACT: The 1986 Act failed because it provided amnesty for 3 million immigrants, did not adequately secure borders, did not include a workable employer verification system, and created no legal avenue to meet the labor needs of the American economy. 
  • FACT: This proposal addresses every one of the shortcomings from 1986:

    • No Amnesty: Illegal workers must acknowledge that they broke the law and pay a fine to be eligible for a Z visa. 

    • Border Security: Border security benchmarks must be met before the Z visa and temporary worker programs go into effect.  These triggers include miles of fencing and vehicle barriers at the border and increasing the size of the Border Patrol.

    • Employer Verification System: An Employment Eligibility Verification System must be established and in use before any temporary worker or Z visas are issued. 

    • Temporary Worker Program: A temporary worker program will relieve pressure on the border and provide a lawful way to meet the needs of our economy.
  • FACT: The 1986 Act offered green cards after just 18 months, but under this proposal, green card applicants must meet a number of responsibilities – something which will take most candidates more than a decade.

3. MYTH: DHS has only one day to complete background checks for illegal immigrants already in the U.S.

  • FACT: To obtain probationary status, illegal immigrants must come out of the shadows to acknowledge they have broken the law and pass a preliminary background check.  There is a provision in the bill that says DHS has one day to find a "disqualifying factor," but that is not the end of the process. That is a very short term way of ensuring that if someone comes out of the shadows and admits their illegality, they will not be deported while the process is ongoing and can continue working while the full background check is completed.
  • FACT: Illegal immigrants may not obtain probationary status without applying for the Z visa.  Probationary status may be revoked at any time if a worker is found ineligible for the Z visa, fails to maintain a clean record, or fails the background check required for obtaining a Z visa.
  • FACT: To remain in the United States, Z visa holders are subject to updated background checks on criminal and security history and must maintain a clean record. 

4. MYTH: The temporary worker program is bad for American workers.

  • FACT: The temporary worker program relieves pressure on the border and meets our economic needs by allowing workers to enter the country to fill jobs that Americans are not doing.
  • FACT: The program protects American workers by requiring U.S. employers to advertise the job in the United States at a competitive wage before hiring a temporary worker.
  • FACT: To ensure "temporary" means "temporary," workers are limited to three two-year terms, with at least a year spent outside the United States between each term. 
  • FACT: A cap of 200,000 is set on the program.

5. MYTH: The government will not and cannot meet its promise to crack down on the hiring of illegal workers.

  • FACT: Before any temporary worker or Z visas are issued, an Employment Eligibility Verification System (EEVS) must be established and in use to prevent unauthorized workers from obtaining jobs in the United States. 
  • FACT: Employers will be required to verify the work eligibility of all employees using the EEVS, and all workers will be required to present stronger and more readily verifiable identification documents.  Tough new anti-fraud measures will be implemented to restrict fraud and identity theft.
  • FACT: Employers who hire illegal workers will face stiff new criminal and civil penalties.  For example, the maximum criminal penalty for a pattern or practice of hiring illegals will increase 25-fold, from $3,000 per alien to $75,000 per alien. 

6. MYTH: Illegal immigrants will come out of the shadows and on to the welfare rolls.

  • FACT: Z visa workers are not entitled to welfare, Food Stamps, SSI, non-emergency Medicaid, or other programs and privileges enjoyed by U.S. citizens and some Legal Permanent Residents. 
  • FACT: In order to apply for Z visa status, workers must be employed; in order to maintain Z visa status, they must remain employed
  • FACT: CBO estimates increased revenue from taxes, penalties, and fines under the bill will offset any estimated increases in mandatory spending, such as emergency Medicaid, and produce a net fiscal surplus of $25.6 billion over 10 years.  This surplus will be used to cover costs of implementing the bill, including a significant portion of the costs of better securing our borders and improving interior enforcement through additional Border Patrol and ICE agents.

7.  MYTH: Illegal immigrants may stay in probationary status for years without having to apply or meet requirements for a Z visa.

  •   FACT: Illegal immigrants may not obtain probationary status without applying for the Z visa, which requires coming out of the shadows and passing a background check.
  •   FACT: Probationary status is valid only while a Z visa application is pending – it may be revoked at any time if the applicant is found ineligible for the Z visa, fails to maintain a clean record, or fails the background check required for obtaining a Z visa. 
  •   FACT: If a worker is deemed eligible for a Z visa, probationary status terminates, and the worker must transition to a Z visa or leave the country.  Transitioning to Z status will require the worker to pay a $1,000 fine for head of household and $500 per dependent; up to $1,500 in processing fees per applicant, including heads of household and dependents; and a $500 state impact assistance fee. 
  •   FACT: To remain in the United States, the worker is subject to updated background checks on criminal and security history and must stay employed, maintain a clean record, and meet accelerated English and civics requirements by set deadlines.  In addition, Z visa holders must pay processing fees of up to $1,500 every four years in order to renew the visa.  Z visa holders are not entitled to welfare, Food Stamps, SSI, or non-emergency Medicaid.

8. MYTH: Illegal workers who remained in the country after they were ordered deported by an immigration judge are eligible for Z visas.

  • FACT: Illegal workers who ignored deportation orders are not eligible for the Z visa program, except in exceedingly rare cases in which they can demonstrate their departure would "result in extreme hardship."
  • FACT: The determination of what constitutes "extreme hardship" lies entirely within the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security, who has no interest in allowing this exception to be abused.

9. MYTH: The bill allows dangerous gang members access to the Z visa program if they renounce their gang affiliation.

  • FACT: Any gang member convicted of any of a wide range of criminal conduct is not permitted in the Z visa program, whether he or she has renounced his gang affiliation or not.  The list of crimes that disqualify Z visa applicants extends into the thousands and includes:
    • Any felony.
    • Any three misdemeanors.
    • Any serious criminal offense.
    • Violations of any law relating to a controlled substance.
  • FACT: Even if a gang member or other applicant has not been convicted of a crime, he or she is ineligible for the Z visa program if the Government concludes that he is sufficiently dangerous.  This is true for all applicants, including gang members who have renounced their affiliations. For example, among those ineligible is any gang member (or other applicant):
    • About whom there are "reasonable grounds" for regarding as a danger to the security of the United States;
    • Who the Government knows or has reason to believe seeks to enter the U.S. "solely, principally, or incidentally" to engage in unlawful activity; or
    • About whom there are reasonable grounds for believing has committed a serious criminal offense outside the U.S.
  • FACT: The bill would, for the first time, give the Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Justice (DOJ) tools to keep certain aliens out of the United States solely on the basis of their participation in a gang.  No conviction is required – if an individual has associated with a gang and helped "aid" or "support" its illegal activity, then he or she is not allowed to remain in the country – even if he renounces his gang affiliation. 

10. MYTH: By providing an opportunity for citizenship to illegal immigrants already here, the bill will exponentially increase extended-family chain migration.

  • FACT: The proposal reforms our immigration system to create a new balance between family connections and our national interests and economic needs.
  • FACT: Green cards for parents of U.S. citizens are capped, while set-asides for the siblings of U.S. citizens and the adult children of U.S. citizens and green card holders are eliminated.
  • FACT: To help keep our economy competitive, a new merit-based system similar to those used by other countries will give preference to attributes that further our national interest such as: job offers in high-demand fields, ability to speak English, and education.

Return to this article at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/06/20070608-10.html 

 
     
 
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June 24, 2007 08:01 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Hey Friends, I've decided to hit all those SCAMNESTY pushing idiots on Capitol Hill with a scathing yet somewhat respectful pour-it-out manifaxto like this one. It's written in wordy legalese for a reason because subconsciously they tend to respect it more than layman terminology. Guess I hammered on enough points here. AS THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN IS AWARE: IT IS INDEED A RISKY MATTER TO EVOKE THE IRE OF THE CITIZENRY OF THIS FINE REPUBLIC. BUT IN LIGHT OF YOUR RECENT COLLECTIVE GOVERNING PRACTICES, WHICH ARE DEEMED TO BE HIGHLY IRRESPONSIBLE AND ERRONEOUS BY THE VERY NATURE OF THEIR INCEPTION, THE CITIZENS FEEL WOEFULLY YET DUTIFULLY COMPELLED TO DEMAND THAT THE 110th CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA COMPLETELY AND FAITHFULLY REDRESS THE GRIEVANCES OF ITS PEOPLE HERE, NOW, AND FORTHWITH EXPRESSED, WHEREBY THEY MIGHT AVOID WITNESSING THE PUBLIC BEGIN EXERCISING CERTAIN UNPLEASANT POWERS OF REPRISALS GRANTED THEM BY THE 1st AND SUBSEQUENT CONTINENTAL CONGRESSES. I. PLEASE VOTE TO REMOVE S. 1348 FROM THE TABLE AND NEVER REVIVE MENTION OF IT AGAIN. IT IS THE MOST CRIMSON OF RED HERRINGS CONCEIVABLE TO COVER UP FOR MASS COLLECTIVE NEGLIGENCE. THE LAWS CONCERNING IMMIGRATION HAVE BEEN LAYED DOWN COMPLETELY AND RESOUNDINGLY TO LAST FOR A LONG TIME. SO, AN IMMIGRATION REFORM BILL AFTER ONLY THIS FAR INTO THE POST REAGAN ERA IS A HUGE DISGRACE AND A DANGEROUS MISTAKE COVERED WITH IMPRACTICAL BANDAIDS OF CONFUSION AND EXCUSES. I HARDLY THINK IT WOULD MAKE A GOOD ACT FOR DAMAGE CONTROL NOW OR EVER. ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS MY DISAPPROVAL OF PROPOSED S. 1105 THAT WOULD ENDANGER OUR VITAL RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH AS IT HAS DONE IN SWEDEN AND CANADA. I'VE BEEN THOROUGHLY ENLIGHTENED ABOUT THE MAIN GROUP BEHIND THIS LEGISLATION, BUT I ALSO FEEL THAT IT'S QUITE HYPOCRITICAL FOR GROUPS SUCH AS HOMOSEXUALS TO WANT TO OUTLAW 'NAME CALLING' WHEN THEY FEEL SO FREE TO SPEAK INSULTINGLY IN PUBLIC THEMSELVES. II. PLEASE PROPOSE WAYS OF ENFORCING CURRENTS LAWS THAT WILL PUNISH EMPLOYERS, LANDLORDS, AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS MORE DRASTICALLY FOR THE CRIME OF CATERING TO UNLAWFUL MIGRANTS. THIS SHAMELESS PRACTICE HAS GOTTEN TOO FAR OUT OF HAND. YES, UNFORTUNATELY, SOME COMMERCE MAY BE CRIPPLED AND OFFSET FOR A WHILE, BUT, WE DEMAND THAT THE CORRECTION PROCESS BEGIN NOW. YOU SEE CONGRESSMAN, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THIS REFORM BILL IS INTENDED FOR SOME GREAT HUMANITARIAN PURPOSE OR PERCEIVED AS A NECESSARY INFUSION OF A CHEAP LABOR FORCE TO REVIVE THE ECONOMY OR AS AN ACT OF PROTOCOL FOR A LOFTIER INTERNATIONAL AGENDA, I THINK YOU'D BE SURPRISED AT HOW MANY AMERICANS WOULD DIG THEIR HEELS IN AND REFUSE TO TOLERATE AN INVASION OF THEIR AVAILABLE JOB RIGHTS AND THEIR HOUSING RIGHTS AS THEY ARE INDEED REAL GENUINE CITIZENS IN THEIR OWN HOMELAND. SURELY, EVEN IN THE HARDEST ECONOMIC TIMES, IF WE CHOSE TO STOP BEING SUBSERVIENT TO A PRIVATIZED FOREIGN BANKING SYSTEM THAT HAS ALL BUT SHAMED THE U.S. DOLLAR INTO A RUSTY PENNY, AND WE HAD TO PRINT OUR OWN COLONIAL SCRIP AGAIN AND POINT OUR BIGGEST GUNS AT THOSE CREDITOR NATIONS THAT MIGHT TRY TO CALL IN OUR MARGINS TOO FAST, WE WOULD DO IT ! ABRAHAM LINCOLN DID IT AS YOU RECALL FROM HISTORY. SO WE ARE CERTAINLY BIG ENOUGH BOYS AND GIRLS HERE WHO BY PRINCIPLE ALONE ARE WILLING TO SEE IT THROUGH AS LONG WE KNOW THAT THIS TEAR IN OUR SOCIAL FABRIC IS BEING MENDED. MANY OF US ARE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN EVERY MENIAL JOB IN THE COUNTRY WAS FILLED BY AN AMERICAN OR LEGITIMATE GUEST WORKER. SO WE KNOW IT CAN BE DONE. BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE, WE WILL NEVER ACCEPT THE SCUTTLING OF OUR FREEDOM, OUR LIBERTIES, OUR SECURITY, OUR OPPORTUNITIES, OUR ECONOMY, OUR WELFARE, OUR LANDSCAPE, OUR NATIONAL TREASURES, OUR SOVEREIGNTY, IN ESSENCE: OUR COUNTRY !! NEVER !! III. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT WE HAVE GREAT DISDAIN AND RESENTMENT FOR BROKEN PROMISES SUCH AS AN ABANDONED BORDER FENCE PROJECT AND ARMED GUARDS NOT YET IN PLACE, AND FOR THE YEARS OF HEARING ONLY TALK ABOUT GLOBAL HAWK SURVEILLANCE. THIS MYSTERIOUS NEGLECT ALONG WITH THE DISCOURAGING OF BORDER PATROLS (BOTH OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL) FROM TAKING CHARGE OF THEIR ASSUMED DUTIES IS QUITE TROUBLING. BESIDES THAT, MANY AMERICANS FEEL THAT PROTECTING THE SOUTHERN BORDER IS CRUCIAL AND SYMBOLIC IN A GREAT NATIONAL DEFENSE MOVEMENT FOR THEIR LIFETIMES--IT'S "THE LINE IN THE SAND" THAT SHOULD NOT BE CROSSED THE WRONG WAY--AS THERE IS. OF COURSE, A VERY REAL DANGER OF MENACING INTRUDERS, TERRORISTS, AND CRIMINALS. WE'VE ALREADY SEEN THEM STEALING GOOD PEOPLE'S IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS TO ILLEGALLY ACQUIRE JOBS, HOMES, AND LOANS AND WE'RE ALL QUITE AWARE THAT THESE ARE MAJOR FELONIES COMMITTED ON A MASSIVE SCALE WITH ALL KNOWING PARTIES INVOLVED BEING PUNISHABLE. IF A CONGRESSMAN HAD HIS OWN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER STOLEN BY AN UNLAWFUL TRESPASSING FELON, I HIGHLY DOUBT HE'D BE SIGNING AN AMNESTY BILL TO FURTHER ACCOMMODATE THEM ALL. THE POSSIBILITIES OF FUTURE CRIME WAVES PLAGUING US ARE BOUNDLESS. I SHOULD ALSO POINT OUT THAT MILLIONS OF GENERATIONAL AMERICANS WHO HAVE BEEN HERE FOR QUITE A LONG TIME ARE FEELING FORCED OUT OF THEIR OWN HOME TOWNS TO MOVE FURTHER NORTH AND EASTWARD AS A RESULT OF OVERCROWDING BY AN INVASION OF SQUATTERS WHO HAVE UNDENIABLY DEFACED THE LAND AND TAXED THE INFRASTRUCTURE WHILE WE'RE ALL FOOTING THE BILL. SENATOR, DON'T WEAR THE SCARLET LETTER 'A' WHICH WOULD FOREVER BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS HIGHLY UNPOPULAR LEGISLATION !!! IV. PLEASE DON'T BE DELUDED INTO ASSUMING THAT WE ARE NOT AWARE OF THE MANY ULTERIOR MOTIVES TO ESTABLISH A CONDITION OF RELAXED BORDERS AND MILDER IMMIGRATION LAWS AND EVEN HIGHER QUOTAS OF NEW ARRIVALS. MANY HAVE HEARD OF THE FIX BEING IN FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION IN 2010, WHICH IS BEING DESIGNED AFTER THE EUROPEAN UNION AND SHAMEFULLY MAKING AN END RUN AROUND CONGRESS AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE--NOT EVEN A NATIONAL REFERENDUM HAS BEEN HELD ON THE SUBJECT AS THOUGH IT WEREN'T IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO US WITH ALL ITS TRICKLE DOWN ILL EFFECTS ON OUR ECONOMY, OUR SOVEREIGNTY AND OUR IDENTITY. THIS IS SO OUTRAGEOUSLY CRIMINAL IT DEFIES DESCRIPTION!!! ALSO QUITE ALARMING IS THE RECENT ADMISSION OF THE PENTAGON TO RECRUIT NEW TROOPS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES, ESPECIALLY MEXICO, TO FILL ITS LACKING QUOTAS OF SOLDIERS IN OUR MILITARY (SO WHO ARE THEY? THE NEW HESSIANS?) AND SURELY, THEY WILL LEAN HEAVILY ON YOU WITH THEIR OVERWHELMING LOBBYING POWER AS WILL SPECIAL INDUSTRIAL INTEREST GROUPS, AND OF COURSE, EVEN THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF WITH HIS OWN EXTRA AGENDA IN PUSHING THIS INSIDIOUS BILL FOR HIS LEGACY'S SAKE. BUT WE PRAY YOU WILL BE INSPIRED TO STAND STRONG ON YOUR COLLECTIVE DECISION TO CONSIDER THIS BILL DEFEATED AS YOU HAVE DULY DETERMINED IN YOUR RECENT CLOTURE VOTE ON THE ISSUE. YOU SEE, IT'S HARD NOT TO IMAGINE THAT THERE IS SOME KIND OF IMPROPRIETY OCCURRING IF IT CONTINUES TO SURFACE AFTER OFFICIALLY BEING VOTED AS DECEASED. BUT I HAVE ENORMOUS CONFIDENCE IN THIS SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND BALANCES. THE GOOD SENATOR SESSIONS HAS RECENTLY DISCOVERED QUITE A NUMBER OF LOOP HOLES IN THE CURRENT AMNESTY BILL PROPOSALS. AND WE DETERMINE THAT IT ALL AMOUNTS TO BEING A 'PARDONING BILL' FOR UNLAWFUL MIGRANTS AND IT COMPLETELY IGNORES THE DEMANDS AND WISHES OF REAL AMERICANS WHILE AWARDING THE SNEAK-INS WITH BENEFITS. FRANKLY SPEAKING, THERE ARE NO LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR APPROPRIATIONS THERE. THAT'S OUR WELFARE RESOURCE YOU'RE DOLING OUT TO THESE I.D. STEALING LINE JUMPERS. YOU KNOW, SIR, EXPERTS HAVE STATED THAT A HEALTHY IMMIGRATION RATE FOR THE COUNTRY IS ABOUT 200,000 PEOPLE A YEAR. CONSIDERING THAT LAWMAKERS WANT TO ALLOW EXPONENTIALLY MORE, IT WOULD SEEM YOU INTEND TO OPEN THE FLOODGATES AND WE CAN ONLY EMPHATICALLY DISAPPROVE!! SURE, IT'S A CRYING SHAME THAT TOO MANY COUNTRIES REFUSE TO DEVELOP A HIGHER STANDARD OF LIVING FOR THEIR PEOPLE, BUT THE GREAT "LIFEBOAT USA" CAN ONLY HANDLE SO MANY TILL SHE STARTS TO SINK. LATELY WE ARE SERIOUSLY DOUBTING THAT MOST OF THE CONGRESS PERCEIVES OURS AS BEING THE MAJORITY VIEW POINT SINCE THERE IS INTENSE LOBBYING FROM PRO-ILLEGAL ORGANIZATIONS. EVEN THE ILLEGALS THEMSELVES HAVE BEEN TRYING TO CONTACT YOU AT THE CAPITOL. OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW THAT YOU CANNOT REPRESENT THEM. BEING OUR LEADERS, YOU MUST CONSIDER AND HONOR AMERICAN CITIZEN'S WISHES. I'M SURE THAT IN YOUR YOUTH, SIR, YOU WOULD NEVER EVEN HAVE CONCEIVED OF THE ABSURD NOTION OF MEXICAN PRESIDENTS MAKING BOLD AND BLATANT IMPOSITIONS AND ARROGANT SELF-ENTREATMENTS ON US FROM THE SAFETY OF THEIR OWN CAPITOL TO HAND OVER OUR LAND, WEALTH, AND WELFARE BIT BY BIT AS THOUGH IT WERE NONE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'S BUSINESS. ARE WE TO UNDERSTAND THAT OUR PRESIDENT HEARS THEM AND NOT US? IS THIS SOME BAD NIGHTMARE COMING TRUE? HAS ANYONE NOTICED THAT THEIRS IS THE STRICTEST AND MOST CORRUPT BORDER SECURITY POLICY IN THIS HEMISPHERE (NEXT TO CUBA)? THIS IS COMPLETELY HYPOCRITICAL AND WE DEMAND THEY NOT BE PLACATED AND APPEASED LIKE SOME NEIGHBORHOOD THUGS!! LATELY, WE HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO PROVE THEY'RE OUR ALLIES. WHEN FOREIGN TRESPASSERS AND DRUG SMUGGLERS CAN SUE OUR BORDER PATROL AGENCIES AND PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL DAMAGES AFTER THEY'RE CAUGHT AND IN THE END THEY WIN THE FARM AND THE AGENTS GO TO JAIL, WE KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF ARIZONA. IT'S TIME FOR SOME SERIOUS HARDLINE DRASTIC MEASURES TO BE TAKEN SO THAT A REAL RESPECT FOR OUR LAWS WILL BE REGAINED BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. I MEAN WE KNOW WHAT MAJOR MOVES OF SECURITY IKE AND REAGAN DECREED ABOUT THIS PROBLEM...SO ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO UNRAVEL ALL OF THAT? IS THIS SIMPLY A DESPERATE ACT FOR DAMAGE CONTROL OR IS IT SOMETHING ELSE? ALSO, WE FEEL CERTAIN THAT YOU WOULD, IN PRINCIPLE, BE AGAINST THE NOTION OF UNLAWFUL MIGRANTS' CHILDREN AUTOMATICALLY BECOMING CITIZENS. AND THAT THE PROVISION GIVEN FOR THE CHAIN MIGRATION OF THEIR FAMILIES WOULD CAUSE AN UNNATURAL OVERGROWTH AND INFLOW OF OUTSIDERS AT AN ALARMING RATE. HOW DO WE EVEN KNOW WE COULD ACCOMMODATE THEM ALL WITH ANY PRACTICALITY? V. AND FINALLY DEAR SIR, WITH YOUR CONTINUED DILIGENCE, DETERMINATION AND CONCERN FOR THE INTEGRITY OF THIS UNIQUE, MIGHTY AND BLESSED NATION WITH ITS FREE AND NOBLE PEOPLE, WE CAN TRULY LIVE OUR LIVES UNTHREATENED BY, SHALL WE SAY, CERTAIN UNSCRUPULOUS POLITICIANS, BANKERS, AND DEED HOLDERS THAT MIGHT BE PERSUADED TO SELL OFF SUCH THINGS AS PUBLIC PROPERTIES, ASSETS, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND NATIONAL LANDMARKS FOR MERE THOUSANDS IN PERSONAL GAIN TO FOREIGN INVESTORS TO MAKE BILLIONS FROM NATIONAL TREASURES THAT SHOULD BE HELD AS OUR OWN. IS THIS AN ACCEPTABLE WAY TO PAY OFF OUR DEBTS? OR SHOULD IT BE CONSIDERED TREASON BY ATTRITION? THEN THERE'S THE CASE OF A CERTAIN IMPLICATED PRESIDENT QUIETLY GIVING MISSILE SECRETS TO CHINA (A MAJOR STOCKHOLDER OF AMERICA) TO KEEP THEM PACIFIED. IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, HOW MUCH DIFFERENT ARE THEY FROM THE ROSENBERGS? FOR ALL THE ELITES THAT HELP SELL OUT OUR COUNTRY, NO AMOUNT OF GOLDEN PARACHUTES AND RETREATS ARE GOING TO SOOTHE THEIR ACHING SOULS WHEN THEY FINALLY SEE THE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE THEY'VE DONE TO THE ONCE GREATER AMERICA. AND MAYBE YOU WOULD BE ONE, SIR, TO HELP HOLD OFF AN OUT OF CONTROL MILITARY POLICE STATE FROM HIRING FOREIGNERS (EASTERN BLOCK FOLKS WERE RAISED TO DISLIKE US, REMEMBER?) AND HARDENED CRIMINALS WHO WOULD BE USED TO OPPRESS US UNDER MARTIAL LAW BECAUSE AMERICAN BORN COPS AND SOLDIERS WON'T DO THE UNTHINKABLE LIKE FLIPPING REX 84 INTO A NATIONAL SECURITY MANDATE TO ROUND UP THE AMERICAN PEOPLE INTO FEMA CAMPS. WILL OUTRAGED CITIZENS BE CONSIDERED DISSIDENT TROUBLEMAKERS AND TERRORISTS FOR NATURALLY PROTESTING AND REBELLING AGAINST AN ILLEGITIMATE INVADER OVERTAKING US? WORSE, WOULD THE GOVERNMENT GIVE THAT INVADER A GREEN LIGHT WITH BONUSES. CONGRESSMAN, WE KNOW GUN CONFISCATION DRILLS ARE NOW BEING REHEARSED IN RURAL TOWNS AND WERE OFFICIALLY CARRIED OUT IN THE KATRINA CRACK DOWN (EVEN IN THE WEALTHY UNFLOODED AREAS). THESE PEOPLE WEREN'T ALLOWED TO KEEP THEIR GUNS TO DEFEND THEMSELVES AND THEIR HOMES. WHY? RICH PEOPLE DON'T ROB OTHERS AT GUNPOINT! AND WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE THE REAL MOTIVATION TO TERRORIZE CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS WITH MOCK S.W.A.T. TEAM RAIDS? AS IF WE WERE TO EXPECT SOME FORM OF MARTIAL LAW SOON...hhmm...rather brazen I'd say. AND PERHAPS, SENATOR, YOU WOULD JUST SAY NO TO AN ELITE UNHOLY ALLIANCE OF OFFSHORE PRIVATE BANKERS AND MILITARY INDUSTRIAL CONTRACTORS WHO FUND BOTH SIDES OF THE MAJOR WARS AS PRESIDENT EISENHOWER WARNED US ABOUT, AND SO-CALLED PHILANTHROPY FOUNDATIONS THAT FUND MEXICAN NATIONALIST GROUPS AND PRINT THEIR KIDS TEXT BOOKS THAT SAY AMERICA IS THEIRS FOR THE TAKING-JUST GO AND GET IT! WE WANT TO KNOW WHY THEY AND THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT ARE NOT BEING REPRIMANDED FOR SUCH TREASONOUS ACTS AS WELL AS FOR THE SHEER IMMORAL NEGLECT OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE. AND PERHAPS MOST OF ALL, SIR, YOU MIGHT JUST REFUSE TO SUBMIT TO A PRESIDENT WHO'S GOTTEN PRETTY HIGH HANDED LATELY AND YOU WOULD NOT ALLOW HIM TO DISSUADE YOU FROM YOUR CORE BELIEFS OR COERCE YOU TO QUICK-SIGN A 500 PAGE PREWRITTEN DOCUMENT LIKE THE HOMELAND SECURITY ACT WITHOUT READING IT FIRST (WE DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO EITHER). THERE'S A LOT OF ROOM FOR MISINTERPRETATION IN THERE-STRAIGHT FROM THE WHITEHOUSE BASEMENT. TO ME, THAT EVER PRESENT GLINT IN OUR PRESIDENTS' EYE SAYS HE KNOWS PLENTY MORE THAN HE'S TELLING ANYONE. HIS VERY INTENTIONS OF SETTING UP THE N.A.U. WITHOUT CONSULTING ANY OF US, AS WELL AS PUSHING S.1348, BUILDING THE TRANS TEXAS CORRIDOR, AND IGNORING THE FENCE, COMBINED WITH HIS FATHERS' VISION OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER, GIVES ME PLENTY OF REASON TO CONCLUDE THAT HE AND OTHER ELITES ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICE THE WEALTH, THE SOVEREIGNTY, AND THE INTEGRITY OF THIS NATION AT THE ALTAR OF GLOBALISM. YES, I BELIEVE YOU'RE A WELL INTENTIONED PUBLIC OFFICIAL AND A GOOD SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE WHO COULD MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES AND FUTURE WELL BEING OF US ALL. WE ARE CERTAINLY COUNTING ON YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES TO DO YOUR BEST. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME, YOUR ATTENTION, AND YOUR EFFORTS. SINCERELY, ME. (And we're all gonna stay in your face 'til it happens).


I LOVE MY COUNTRY AND THE FOUNDING SYSTEM THAT RUNS IT. GOD FORBID IT BECOME CORRUPT. SAY NO TO THE NWO & THE NAU www.infowars.com
June 25, 2007 07:16 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Comment updated June 26, 2007 03:46 PM

I almost hate to bring this up... Senator Lott was the MAIN reason that the President Clinton firing did not take place after the House Impeachment.  He also stated during negotiations on a budget bill loaded with HIS pork "We will bring Good  Government to the people AFTER this bill passes!  He is not a conservative, although he is the consumate politician!

I lived in this decent state for a number of years and am saddened that two left-leaning Republicans are in the Senate representing these great people. 

 




"This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer." Will Rogers
June 26, 2007 10:23 AM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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This just came in from grassfires [ CALL-E-MAIL-FAX]

  

Update 6/26/07--
 
I just heard that we are still a few votes short of defeating
today's "cloture motion to proceed" with the Bush-Kennedy
amnesty bill.

 

June 26, 2007 03:37 PM    View printable version     Link to this comment   
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Grassfire.org Alliance
Bush-Kennedy Amnesty Bill Update

 
Update 6/26/07-- post-cloture vote
 
 

 
The Senate just rejected the will of the American people
in voting 64-35 to "invoke cloture" on the motion to proceed.
 
And your Mississippi Senator has voted "yes" to amnesty!
 
What this means---
 
The Senate will now begin rushing the Bush-Kennedy amnesty
bill through a rigged process designed to suppress opposition.
We expect the second "cloture" vote to come within 48 hours
and final passage by week's end...unless we rise up as citizens
and say "No"!

 

I just received this from grassfire CALL-FAX-E-MAIL we just need a few votes to stop this at  the next vote. If  not we are all in for a change that none of us want. How can they sell us out to big business like this


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