Washington, D.C. – Lawyers for the Obama Administration recently filed a lawsuit to prohibit the enforcement of Arizona’s new immigration law. In its filing, the federal government says it is currently targeting “dangerous aliens” and that Arizona’s attempt to enforce the full scope of existing federal laws against illegal immigration will — in the words of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder — “only create more problems than it solves.”

Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are speaking out about this controversial legal move by the Obama Administration.

“In suing the State of Arizona over its new immigration law, the Obama Administration is once again putting politics over the will of the people,” said Deneen Borelli, a Project 21 fellow. “Poll after poll show that Americans nationwide support stronger enforcement of immigration laws and question their tax dollars being used to fight an earnest attempt by Arizonans to enforce the laws Obama is apparently unwilling to enforce. But, just like with the takeover of health care, President Obama seems to favor ideology over reason.”

“Obama and his supporters are engaged in their own ‘Southern Strategy’ that demonizes Arizona in a cynical attempt to court Hispanic votes. While rewarding lawlessness is by no means a popular idea among Hispanics, it is definitely something that is creating a rift between the black community and the White House,” said Project 21 member Bob Parks. “Losing even a small portion of the black electorate could be devastating for Obama’s liberal agenda, but it may teach the President that if you live by the race card you may also die by it.”

“Rhetoric against Arizona’s immigration law and now this lawsuit has made things just plain silly,” said Project 21 member R. Dozier Gray. “Bishop Desmond Tutu, for instance, further tarnished his Nobel Peace Prize by wading into our national debate to slyly imply that Arizona’s attempt to enforce and complement federal immigration law could eventually lead to something akin to the now-defunct apartheid system of his native South Africa. In what world is adherence to existing law prohibiting anyone from illegally crossing our borders like government-enforced segregation and discrimination?”

Much debate has transpired for many years over illegal immigration and much more attention has been given Arizona with the state’s recent passage of illegal immigration laws that mirror our federal laws that are not being enforced. This debate has sharply divided political ideals, where on the one side the progressive liberals believe in open borders and a destruction of our sovereignty as a nation, an abolition of a distinct identity. On the other side, Americans want law and order, a means where immigrants seeking to share in the American Dream can legally come to this country and assimilate, as our present laws provide. Truly we find the polar opposites of idealism at work and as such we are witness to forces behind the propagation of political agendas.

Many Americans are of the mind that environmentalism is all about saving and protecting the planet. This has been drummed into our heads for a very long time and is now an integral part of our education/indoctrination system in this country. Truly, how can one question that environmentalists don’t have the best interest of protecting our landscape, our waters and our atmosphere at heart?

Here’s a look at reality! I have written about it before, as have many others. At the Desert Rat Blog, a colleague who lives and works in Arizona, asks where are the environmentalists when it comes to the incredible destruction of the landscape caused by illegal immigrants being marketed into this country by thugs and criminals?

Desert Rat provides some photographs that clearly depict the piles and piles of trash and relates of things called, “rape trees”, where the “coyotes”, who market the illegals, rape the women and hang their underwear in trees as trophies.

Where are the environmentalists? This man-caused annihilation of our environment is something everyone should be alarmed about and yet the same environmentalists who would eagerly sue the pants off any oil company, remain silent. Why is that?

It’s a simple answer really and Desert Rat spells it out precisely.

Where are the environmental groups? I guess when their political agenda is stronger than their supposed environmental motives, they suddenly lose their voice.

And therein lies the rub! This is the opportunity that few Americans ever get to see as most of their information comes from a biased media who celebrate the same political agendas, while also suffering from a loss of voice, or should I say a selective loss of voice.

The lesson we all need to learn from this is that the sickness of environmentalism, disguised as people who care about our planet, are driven by political agendas far stronger than any environmental husbandry.

I’m sure it began long before our obsession with self-esteem. So consumed we became with making sure our kids’ feelings were never hurt, we lost all reason and understanding and began teaching that exceptionalism wasn’t “fair”. (Oh, there’s the four-letter word that should be banned.)

Was it diversity? We were being indoctrinated that diversity was admirable, that some was good and more was better. Lost in all this was the importance of retaining identity, for without identity how can a child’s self-esteem have a foundation?

I’m afraid it all began a long time ago. Little by little we lost the focus of what made America great.

Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Elbridge Gerry, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison and Edward Rutledge, are only a few of the exceptional people who signed our Declaration of Independence. One trait that made them exceptional was their desire for and understanding of freedom. They didn’t want to be like England or any other. They wanted to be like America.

John Adams at a very young age wrote of his dreams that someday America would be the greatest nation on earth, not to look down on others but to draw them up unto this country’s greatness. Adams’ dream came true. America did become the greatest nation on earth, doing more to help other people than any other nation. It came from liberty, the freedom to excel, the desire to be the best of the best. It was called exceptionalism. It is what made America a magnet that draws others to come here. Why do we want to extinguish the magnetism?

As I sat yesterday and watched the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderone, stand at the stage of the greatest legislative conclave on earth, the symbol of liberty and everything great, and ridicule America while members of that Congress stood in applause for such treasonous, anti-American sentiments, I wondered if the above mentioned exceptional men had been sitting in that audience, what their reaction would have been.

As President Barack Obama stood outside the White House with Calderone, in what certainly appeared to be an affirmation from our President of his hatred toward America, I pictured George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson gathered amongst the bushes of the Rose Garden, standing in utter disbelief.

Tom Remington

Read the editorial here.

The truth is many of us can and do see only what we want to see. This is partially what defines us. God forbid we should all be so much alike that life would be boring. The black box above can represent anything you would like it to be and probably even some shrink would tell you that what you wrote would be a reflection of your inner being, perhaps even your suppressed fears, or hopes and dreams.

So much has been made of the Tea Party movement. From both sides we have witnessed the influence of the Tea Party. The Republicans, who seem to think they own the movement, got handed a rude awakening as we saw what happened in Utah with Bob Bennett. The Democrats as well, are dropping like flies as Americans in general are fed up with politics as usual.

If you don’t fit the mold of what the local Tea Partiers want, you won’t get their support. Why is this considered bad by some? Isn’t this exactly what American politics was supposed to be? A country governed of and by the people?

That black box takes on odd illusions I think for some. We have always had political organizations that put their support behind the candidate of their choice. But this Tea Party thing is grass roots and scares the living hell out of some people. As a result a person’s black box becomes a living nightmare for them.

Witness an opinion piece posted at Politico by Charles Postel, an assistant professor of history at San Francisco State University, about the Tea Party that he labels the “dark side of conservatism”.

For whatever reasons, in Postel’s black box he focuses on the main stream media and their insistence on calling Tea Partiers, “populists”. In case Postel hadn’t figured it out yet, the MSM is clueless when it comes to the Tea Party and they too are petrified of it. He spends much of his time wanting to paint the Tea Party, as he says, the “dark side of conservatism” by disproving the media’s contention that it is “populist”.

Here is a grocery list of the things Postel sees in his black box as what makes Tea Parties, “dark”.

1. Tea Partiers are conservatives
2. They repeat catchwords of Goldwater and Reagan
3. “echoes of a well-known grass-roots movement of the 1950s and ’60s — the John Birch Society”
4. Sound like the John Birch Society
5. Author views Obama as a moderate
6. Believes all TPers think Obama a communist
7. Tea Partiers have “angrily taken to the streets”
8. Tea Partiers “are boiling mad”
9. They are “punishing politicians”
10. Tea Partiers are “more concerned about possible inflation of the future than with the current ordeal of the unemployed.”
11. Tea Partiers don’t care about unemployment among blacks
12. Tea Partiers are like Ku Klux Klan members who want to protect their Protestant religion and white race from communism and immigration.
13. Sees Tea Partiers as “birthers”, opposed to immigration and against Mulims.
14. Tea Partiers, being “radical rights” have a “soft spot for bigots”.
15. Tea Partiers are “a movement of the haves and well-protected who” that since FDR, “have feared that their freedom will be lost” if government expands its powers and steals from the rich to give to the poor.

That’s a lot of things to see in a black box. The Tea Party is many things but “dark” is not one of them. It is unfortunate that Mr. Postel sees those who cherish the American dream and a return to following the Constitution as being “dark” and all the other nasty things he sees.

Makes you wonder what kind of a childhood he must have had. (snicker)

One more thought. Has anyone even considered the environmental devastation that will occur once a central meeting place and watering hole has been established?

For Release: Friday, April 2, 2010
Contacts: Jose Viramontes 505/248-6404 or 505/550-3113 – jose_viramontes@fws.gov
DRAFT ASSESSMENT OF WATER STATIONS ON REFUGE LANDS COMPLETE:
Public Input Being Solicited

Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge) announces the availability for public review and comment of a draft assessment on the compatibility of a proposal to establish and maintain drinking water stations on the Refuge to prevent deaths due to dehydration. The Refuge is encouraging input by the public on this Draft Compatibility Determination before a final decision is made whether to permit the proposed use.

Over the past several months Refuge staff has been working with humanitarian organizations to identify a way to place water stations on the Refuge in a manner that causes the least impact to sensitive Refuge lands and resources. Through these efforts both entities have identified specific measures that allow the goals of both groups to be met.

In a Compatibility Determination the Refuge Manager reviews a proposed use on a refuge and determines whether the use is compatible with the purpose for which the refuge was established. If determined to be compatible, then the use may be permitted. If the use is determined incompatible, then it is not permitted to occur on the Refuge. Compatibility determinations are provided to the public for review and comment.

This draft determination finds the proposed use ‘compatible’ with stipulations.

When completing compatibility determinations, the Refuge Manager uses sound professional judgment to determine if a proposed use will materially interfere or detract from the fulfillment of the Service’s mission or the purpose of the Refuge. When preparing a compatibility determination, the Refuge Manager must also decide whether or not there are sufficient resources, including staffing and funding, to manage or oversee the use.

This assessment finds that when established and maintained within the agreed upon stipulations these water stations should result in a decrease in the number of individuals dying due to dehydration on Refuge lands, decreased traffic by illegal immigrants in sensitive areas away from water stations, reduced environmental impact by efforts of humanitarian organizations, and a greater likelihood of habitat protection, recovery and restoration.

The Draft Compatibility Determination is available on-line at: http://www.fws.gov/southwest

Copies may also be obtained by visiting the Arivaca and Green Valley Public Libraries.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
News Release Public Affairs Office
PO Box 1306
Albuquerque, NM 87103
505/248-6911
505/248-6915 (Fax)

The interested public has until close of business on Monday, May 3, 2010 to provide comments in writing to Refuge Headquarters, P.O. Box 109, Sasabe, AZ, 85633. Also, written comments may be sent by fax to (520) 823-4247 or by e-mail to Mike_Hawkes@fws.gov.

Comments received will be reviewed and, if appropriate, incorporated into the Final Compatibility Determination. Individuals who submit comments will be notified upon completion of the Final Compatibility Determination.

Rob was always active in the community. He served as President of the Cochise/Graham Cattle Growers, Board of Directors of the Arizona Cattle Growers, President of the Whitewater Draw NRCD (National Resource Conservative District) and he was involved with many other organizations as well.

Rob was a good man. He was a kind and gentle man, a loving husband, brother, father, grandfather and a good friend to all. He will be sorely missed.

Rob is survived by his wife of 36 years Susan (Cochise County Republican Precinct Committeeman), two sons Andrew and Frank, daughter Kyle, two grandchildren, sister Susan and brother Phil.

A rosary will be held at St. Luke’s Catholic Church, 211 E. 15th St., Douglas on Friday, April 9th, at 6:00pm. A memorial service will be held at Douglas High School Gym on Saturday April 10th at 10:00am.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations are made to the “Rob Krentz Memorial Fund”, The Cowbelles – c/o Carol Riggs – 4466 N. Brooks Road, Douglas, Arizona 85608.

Condolences can be sent to: Krentz family, PO Box 3592, Douglas, Arizona 85607

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”