ON ENERGY, THIS CARTOON PRETTY MUCH SAYS IT ALL

On Energy, This Cartoon Pretty Much Says It All

By: Pat Cleary

Source: Glen McCoy, Slate

A DAY WITHOUT ILLEGALS

A Day Without Illegals

Congratulations Democrats!

LA’s May Day was a huge success! The leaf blowers were silenced, the air was clear, emergency rooms were empty, and the smoke-belching clunkers driven by millions of unlicensed and uninsured illegals were safely parked for much of the day, unclogging our usually-constipated freeways for speeds not seen since the 1984 Olympics! Crime, collisions, and classroom sizes were all down, and commuters returned from work with enough time to mow their lawns and clean their homes before dinner. For one day, Americans caught a glimpse of life without illegals and saw that life wasn’t so bad.

Democrats should be especially proud. Forty-six years after JFK inspired millions of American children to serve their country, the Party’s new Marxist leadership herded a million foreign nationals with vague demands of justice and fairness, redefining si se puede into a crude form of what’s in it for me?

The Party has finally devolved into a cult. Democrats court members the way perverts cultivate neglected children. They spit words like fairness, justice, and racism the way spoiled children spit mashed peas. But like the cranky children they are, they deserved a good spanking and a time-out. For one day, Angelenos enjoyed some peace.

“Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You are old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die… Through love of having children, we are going to take over.”

– Augustin Cebada
Brown Berets

Children aren’t born bigots. Bigotry is neither racial nor genetic. Bigotry is an acquired taste – as easy and addictive as a first cigarette.

Like the Cootie games played at schoolyards and drinking fountains, bigotry is a group activity. It is not fun unless others are in on the joke. Bigotry must be practiced like a piano, cultivated like a garden, and allowed to age in cool dark places far from the light.

Those who question Augustin’s bigotry are attacked as oreos, racists, and tacos. These epithets terrify the fainthearted, for they are as insoluble as the evil eye, hexes, spells, cooties, voodoo, and other primitive superstitions. Augustin and others like him use them, for they cannot exist without them.

“California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn’t like it should leave.”

– Mario Obledo
California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations

Bigotry is a political art that commands the psyche of targeted groups to make them their own. Individuals either ignore its coercion, or surrender to it. Many who resist are ostracized and suffer socially and professionally, while those who surrender inoculate themselves from derision by targeting others.

By framing bigotry as a white-male-Christian-heterosexual- conservative-Republican-pro-Israel attribute, the party that enlisted the KKK, Jim Crow, and segregation to control freed slaves now use words like fairness and justice to hammer non-believers as political heretics. They hammer in classrooms, on the streets, and in the media.

But cavemen like Augustin don’t understand freedom or America. To Augustin and grifters like him, America represents opportunities to exploit hatred by projecting it away from themselves. Augustin speaks for no one of cultural or spiritual consequence. The immigrants I know and love came to America with strong family values, good hearts, and an unflagging yearning to become American. To them, Augustin is an embarrassment – a third-world loser looking for walls to tag and cripples to mug. Augustin hates Americans because we remind him of his irrelevance.

“Remember 187 — proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens —was the last gasp of white America in California.”

– Art Torres
Chairman, California Democratic Party

The United States isn’t a geography, but an idea made of laws that has freed billions of people throughout the world. Humanity lives better today because millions of Americans gave their energy and blood to let freedom ring

Because America is more of an idea than a place, multicultural bigotry is antithetically un-American. It is a blister upon America’s supple breast, a virus spread by one infectious group to poison others. Those who question it often become the object of it: If you like cooties, you must have cooties too. Those not steeled by self-confidence and education risk coming down with the illness and spreading it to others.

“The American southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.”

– Excelsior
national newspaper of Mexico

As an LA cop, I sought assignments in poor neighborhoods like Pacoima because that was my first home. When my mother arrived in 1956, she had no intention of returning to Brazil. She worked for tips at a local restaurant because no one could legally employ her.

I walked a beat and responded to radio calls. Immigration status only crossed my mind while arresting murderers, burglars, robbers, rapists, and junkies who had no business in the United States. I was a marine and a cop, but LA’s Special Order 40 undermined my promise to protect and defend LA residents. The Mayor’s order is partly why my peers live outside of Los Angeles, and why violent crime in LA remains well above the national average.

I was most distressed at shootings, stabbings, and traffic accidents where people lay bleeding. I rode with injured men, women, and children to hospitals already full of illegals who sat watching sit-coms while their babies drowned out the canned laughter. Those I rode with had no insurance, so LA residents paid for their treatment. I accompanied the dying into operating rooms where doctors hacked through breastbones, cauterize bleeders, and massaged quivering hearts. I recovered the bullets so the murder cases wouldn’t fall apart if the doctors didn’t testify. You, the taxpayer, always picked up the tab.

“We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population… I love it. They are shitting in their pants with fear. I love it.”

– Jose Angel Gutierrez
Professor, University of Texas

As the Catholic Church preyed on their children, Latino gangs robbed, burglarized, intimidated, shot, drugged, extorted, and stabbed illegals who didn’t move fast enough, didn’t have cash, offended their assailants, or just for fun. Women were most vulnerable, often raped or beaten by husbands or boyfriends who later abandoned them. Only a fraction of these crimes were ever reported, unless the woman’s death or injury made reporting unavoidable. That’s when I’d get a call, protect the crime scene and look for witnesses. The summer evening crowds gathered around the tape, but few came forward. Organizations like Pico-Union’s El Rescate, the Catholic Church, ACLU, and Amnesty International had warned them that cops like me could not be trusted to help them.

“We are politicizing every single one of these new citizens that are becoming citizens of this country… I gotta tell you that a lot of people are saying, ‘I’m going to go out there and vote because I want to pay them back.’”

– Gloria Molina
Los Angeles County Supervisor

Friday night footbeats were not unlike the Wild West. The bars that lined Van Nuys Boulevard were packed as tightly as the thrift shop miniskirts worn by the girls. Freshly scrubbed rancheros packed these smoky discotheques, where last week’s kiss became this week’s triangle. Unless they were stabbed, shot, or rolled in the alley, many drove home drunk.

The traffic accidents were the worst – smoking deathtraps sometimes filled with children whose lives ended on windshields, dashboards, or the pavement. Many of these children looked like my own. Gore is part of the landscape, but it does not haunt like the cold skin of a broken child.

Centuries before Al Qaeda and today’s nuclear threats, Pieter Breughel depicted a landscape that now haunts the imagination of many Americans. If you search the despoiled scene long enough you will find two lovers who are too preoccupied with themselves to care about what approaches on the horizon. Their sentry sees, but cannot act on what others refuse to see.

“We are practicing ‘La Reconquista’ in California.”

– Jose Pescador Osuna
Mexican Consul General

Although I retired from the LAPD six years ago, my heart did not. I left the job to politicians who care more about their careers than my country. I left my country to prosecutors too paralyzed to act. I’ve left my courts to judges who use foreign laws to adjudicate cases. I left Justice to lawyers who hate the words and symbols printed on their 40% cut of taxpayer dollars.

Although others think my country is dead or dying, I know that we are only sleeping – taking an afternoon nap after an infancy of agriculture, war, industry, and technology. But I caution those who test our will. A few insects may topple a some towers, but ideas are much harder to kill. You must kill us in our sleep, but don’t let us awaken before your deed is done. And if we awaken, hold onto our ankles as long as you can. Enjoy the last moments of your meaningless lives. America stirs. Make your cuts fast and deep. Don’t let us stand!

Had we secured our borders decades ago, disenfranchised Latinos might have forced revolution in their own countries. Instead, Central America used our borders as pressure valves to Americans eager to exploit the desperate masses. We enjoyed their products and services like a bottle of scotch, hoping that the party would not leave us with headaches in the morning.

“They’re afraid we’re going to take over the governmental institutions and other institutions. They’re right. We will take them over… We are here to stay.”

– Richard Alatorre
Los Angeles City Council

But the headaches have come with rising taxes, closed hospitals, overcrowded schools, gangs, and the social and cultural changes that come with open borders. Those who questioned our policies decades ago were ridiculed as intolerant. But after centuries of manipulating the Negro psyche, Democrats hope to control the Latino psyche by blocking their education and instilling the same racial superstitions they use on gullible blacks. And by using multiculturalism as a pretext, Latino handlers can control the information that gets to their populace. Frightened and frustrated Latinos make obedient slaves, as long as the ACLU and Catholic Church manage the virtues they bring with them.

“We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos…”

– Professor Fernando Guerra
Loyola Marymount University

As the protest date approached, a disgusted man said he would never again vote for Latinos because he cannot trust them. This is what Democrats want – another two-hundred years of political division along racial lines. The media profits from it and our schools and unions promote it, because the Democrat Party cannot survive without it.

David Hernandez is running for office in Los Angeles. He spent years fighting the ACLU and other godless politicians to keep our historic county seal intact. His heart says more than his name and dark complexion. Unlike David, Augustin and his ilk need bigotry’s multicultural hammer. They use it because they are nothing without it.

“Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada!”
(Everything for the Race - Nothing outside the Race)

– Antonio Villaraigosa
MECHA

As a lifelong Angeleno and 30-year public servant, I know that good men and women come in all colors and walks of life. They may not have names we can pronounce, but they are the real face of America. Those who would shatter America’s melting pot into ethnic pieces are not real Americans. They should be ignored like the marching mobs that gave us our vacation without illegals.

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Clark Baker is a senior contributor* to CaliforniaConservative.org. He is an author, a filmaker, a father and a retired LAPD officer. And he’s currently running for a seat on the California Assembly.

You may read more of Clark’s work here and regarding his campaign here (Scroll down). For more, visit JoinClark.com, the official campaign website.

ANY WONDERS WHY THE BORDERS MUST BE CLOSED!!

Oakland Cops Seize $700,000 in Cocaine From 19-Year Old Illegal Alien

Sí, se puede. And then some.

This morning, InsideBayArea reports: OAKLAND, CA — A 19-year-old man who despite his youth is being described as a “major player” in the city’s narcotics trade has been arrested after more than $700,000 worth of cocaine and $178,000 in cash was seized at his house, police say.

Authorities said Monday that Jose Perez, who drives a tow truck for his family’s auto repair business, will be arraigned today on possession of cocaine for sale and other charges. He was being held on $50,000 bail.
. . .

During the investigation, police identified Perez as a major player in Oakland’s lucrative narcotics trafficking enterprises who used his house in the 1200 block of 92nd Avenue as his stash pad, Karsseboom said.

He said Perez sold mainly to midlevel dealers in Oakland, but would also make sales in Richmond and parts of southern Alameda County. He said police believe Perez was selling up to 3 kilograms of cocaine a week, with a street value of $300,000.
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Karsseboom said Perez told police he had come to the United States from Mexico as a child but had never obtained a green card or become a citizen. He could face deportation if convicted. [Publisher’s note: “could face deportation?” Is anybody talking about immigration reform? INS should be visiting the whole Perez family]

The $178,000 was the largest amount of cash ever seized by the department’s Special Operations Group, which is part of the task force. The cocaine was the second largest amount ever seized by the operations group.

Guess that’s what they mean by “legal or illegal,” a day without an immigrant.

RELATED:
Un Día Sin Inmigrantes: No Mas?

THE PICTURES YOU WON'T SEE

By Michelle Malkin

Compare the NYTimes' white-washed May Day photo section with these candid shots of yesterday's National Day to Hate the Yanquis:

Protest Warrior Chicago exposed ugly, American flag-trashing advocates...

And a Che-approved, border-sabotaging message...

Reconquista in Albuquerque (credit: SharkJumper)...

And yes, it's Che again peeking out behind the "Manifest Destiny?" placard...

SharkJumper also snapped this photo showing the protesters' love for open-borders President Bush...

And it was May Day Che in Topeka (video hat tip: JD Johannes)...

Freeman Hunt photographed the Springdale, AR illegal alien rally. This one says it all...

Aztlan lives in San Ysidro, Calif. (check out the shield on the right)...

And Slapstick Politics in Denver saw a pro-illegal immigration sign-waver who makes the open-borders agenda crystal clear:

Is this our inevitable destiny? If the GOP and the White House roll over, they won't have to play dead in 2006 and 2008. They' will be long-gone cold and stiff.

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Pajamas Media's photo album of the LA protests is here.

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Update 5/2 940am EDT. Your reconquista quote of the morning. From an interview yesterday on NPR's "All Things Considered:"

...Gloria Ramirez Vargas is a local politician from Baja, California who spoke to the crowd today.

Ms. GLORIA RAMIREZ VARGAS (Politician, Baja, Calif.): (Through Translator) Many Mexicans are nourishing the ground in the U.S., but those lands were once ours. Those same lands, which now with intelligence, with love and with a lot of work, we are re-conquering again for our Mexico.

Jim Hoft has video of the violence in LA.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: 10 POINTS FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This was because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card.

2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.

3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.

4. Over 2/3’s of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers.

5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.

6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.

7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.

8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.

9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.

10. In L.A.County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak Spanish (10.2 million people in L.A.County).

(All 10 from the Los Angeles Times)

Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops but 29% are on welfare.
http://www.cis.org

Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration.

The cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University].

The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a NEGATIVE

29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.

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Resa LaRu Kirkland (aka WARChick) is an avid military historian, with her main focus being on the Korean War and its forgotten warriors. She is a contributor to CaliforniaConservative.org and you can read more of her writing here and here.

A DAY WITHOUT ILLEGAL ALIENS-- HOW ABOUT 365?

Well .. here we go again. It's May 1st. May Day. A day which, ironically enough, was once a huge holiday in the Communist World. No ... it's not Lenin's birthday. In the U.S. we celebrate Lenin's birthday with something called "Earth Day." That in itself is rather strange, considering the fact that Earth Day has become somewhat of an anti-capitalist celebration. But, I digress. The Marching Mexicans will be at it again today ... they're filling the streets with the avowed attention to "close down" some major American cities.

First of all, boycotts, especially short ones like this, don't work. Why? If any immigrants do boycott anything, they're sure to go right back to it tomorrow. That's work/school/shopping being delayed, not denied. Second, this does have one convenient side effect. Perhaps just for one day...and maybe one day only...the 12 million criminal illegal aliens will go away for one day. We can dream, can't we?

Political correctness seems to be the order of the day in the media. I'm listening to CNN this morning as I prepare these program notes. Time after time I hear the word "immigrants." Only once thus far have I heard any derivative of the word "illegal" used in a story. The idiotic phrase "undocumented workers" comes up now and again. It seems that the last thing that the media wants to do is to call them what they are .... illegal aliens. By definition they are not "Immigrants." Immigration is a legal procedure which these people have not followed. They're aliens ... again, by definition ... and they're here illegally. That adds up to illegal aliens. While they're trying to close down some American cities why can't we just call them who and what they are?

Almost everything that can be said about the Mexican invasion force has already been said. There's really nothing new here, except for the fact that the illegal aliens and those who support them will be on the streets again today. Though the basic facts remain the same, there are a few things that are changing out there. First, with every demonstration, and the continued inaction on the part of the Bush Administration and the Congress, the illegal alien lobby becomes stronger and bolder. Second, average Americans, those who don't derive their power through the ballot box or gain financial advantage by using illegal alien labor, are getting a bit fed up with this whole "day without immigrants" BS.

As I said .. the facts here haven't changed. Only the boldness and arrogance of those who have violated our laws, and those who support them, has changed .... for the worse.

Last week I posted a review of some facts about the Mexican invasion you may not have been aware of, or may have missed. Those facts are just as valid and meaningful today as they were last week. So ... I'll post them again, revised and expanded:

Since 1990 an estimated 25 million Latinos have crossed the Mexican - American border .... northbound. The reason you keep hearing the 11 million figure is because the other 13 to 14 million were given amnesty during the mid-1990s. By any measure this is an invasion. No ... they aren't carrying guns with them, but they are carrying another weapon that may be just as effective; their willingness to exploit our compassion. They will eventually use our compassion (misplaced, in this case) and our surrender to the gods of political correctness to achieve their goals.

Mexicans have come to view crossing the border into the United States in order to work and send money back home as a way of life. According to an AP article by Mark Stevenson (4/23/06) "Mexico's economy, society and political system are built around the assumption that migration and amnesties for undocumented migrants will continue -- and that the $20 billion they send home every year will keep coming, and almost certainly grow." For those of you who went to government schools --- a translation. The Mexican economy, and Mexico's social and political system operate on the assumption that Mexicans will be free to move across the border with the U.S. at will, get work in the U.S. at will, and then send much of what they earn back to Mexico to shore up a bad Mexican economy caused primarily by rampant government corruption. Vicente Fox, Mexico's president, considers the illegal aliens to be "heroes." Why? Because they send those tens of millions of dollars back to their families, thus, at least to some extent, relieving Fox of the necessity of tackling corruption in the Mexican government and reforming the Mexican economy so that these people can earn that money there instead of invading the United States to get work. In short, these illegal aliens give cover to corrupt Mexican officials. As long as they can exploit the United States in this manner there will never be any impetus for the Mexican government to straighten it's act out for the benefit of the Mexican people.

Stevenson also reports that Mexicans -- the ones actually living in Mexico -- are giving their babies American names like Johnny and Leslie so that they will fit in better once they've moved to the United States. This is merely another way to prepare to be a part of the invasion.

Imagine trying to give someone directions that involved this street. Sent in by Psycho.

And please don't forget our friend, Professor Charles Truxillo of the University of New Mexico. Professor Truxillo says that there will be a new, sovereign Hispanic nation formed within the United States and northern Mexico in the not-too-distant future. The good professor says that this new nation, called "Republica del Norte" will take in all of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and southern Colorado, as well as several northern Mexican states. How strongly does Professor Truxillo feel about this new Hispanic nation? Well, he says it is "inevitable," and that it should happen "by any means necessary." How will this all happen? Truxillo says it will come as a result of electoral pressure of the "future majority Hispanic population in the region." Wait a minute! Truxillo isn't saying that our wonderful and glorious political class is going to bow to the pressure of the masses, is he? I thought we were a government of laws! Surely under a government of law, not of men, our politicians are going to chose to enforce the law rather than to bow to the wishes of the mob, won't they? Yeah --- and Cynthia McKinney is going to encounter a difficulty this week without screaming racism. Let's all hold our breath.

You think it can't happen? Do you think this invasion can't succeed? Twenty-five million over the past 16 years and you don't think the invasion is going well? Them could you please tell me, then, why Mexican magazines are publishing articles praising the exploits of the "reconquistadors"? Translation? Re-conquerors. Now if you send a force across a border to conquer .. what part of that doesn't fit the definition of an invasion? These same magazines carry stories entitled " "with all due respect, Los Angeles is ours !" Come on, folks. Wake up and smell the salsa.

The president will tell you there's not much that can be done. We can't send them back. OK .. we can't SEND them back, on that I agree. We aren't prepared to handle the reaction from Latin America and the howls of protest from the United Nations if we actually try to gather up these invaders and send them back from whence they came. There is, however, another way. Once again, let me lay it out for you step-by-step.

1. Close the borders. Not next month. Not next week. Now. Right by-God now. Send the National Guard. Send American troops. What are they for if not to defend the borders of this country? Start stringing the barbed wire. Patrol with dogs. Do whatever needs to be done, but shut the border down. Let the rest of the world scream, but we have every right to defend our borders against invaders. Remember ... by their own admission, it's an invasion force.

2. Immediately pass legislation providing for harsh penalties for any and all businesses and individuals who hire illegal aliens. No half-measures. Make it hurt. Two weeks ago immigration officials arrested over 1000 illegal aliens working for one company that makes pallets and shipping crates. The officers of that company should be headed to jail, and the company should be seized by the government and sold at auction with the proceeds being used to pay for securing our border. Put employers in jail --- take their stuff. Let them know that this is serious and that hiring illegal aliens is tantamount to giving aid and comfort to the enemy. The hell with their campaign contributions. Fine them and jail them. Make 'em scream. As for getting these jobs done? Pay a wage that will attract Americans. It won't hurt. The majority of people working in agriculture and construction in this country are citizens. They'll do the work. Spreading pine straw may be a problem.

3. Heavily tax all wire and other transfers of money from illegal aliens to their homelands -- or just take all of the earnings! . If Mexico is getting $20 billion a year from illegal aliens in the U.S., seize about 30% of it. Call it a fine. If you can show that the money was earned here illegally there would be absolutely nothing wrong with taking a bit of it when it is sent back to Mexico to shore up Vicente. Look ... if you drive by a car and solicit a prostitute the cops can confiscate your car. You were using that car in the commission of a crime, it can be taken. If you sell illegal drugs the government can confiscate the money you earned selling those drugs ... and the government can do it under asset forfeiture laws without even proving that you were guilty of a crime. All they need is a reason to believe that you committed a crime. If, in fact, you earned that money legally you can sue the government to get your money back. Same rule for illegal aliens. Confiscate their cash. Take their paychecks. That is money earned during the commission of a crime. If they can prove they earned it legally, let them have it back. This would be a lot of money that could be spent on border and immigration control.

4. Change the law so that any child born to a person in this country illegally does not automatically become an American citizen. That child will adopt the citizenship of its mother.

5. Put an end to providing all but emergency social services to illegal aliens. No food stamps, no welfare benefits, no access to taxpayer-funded government schools ... no taxpayer-funded government services except for life saving medical care.

6. Free rides to the border. Heading south. Rather self-explanatory.

The illegals and those who support them are overplaying their hand. I'm sure I'm not the only American that's fed up. Don't be so naive as to believe that we can't lose a sizeable portion of our country to these invaders .. these reconquistadors. This country is still worth defending.