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Posted on Thursday, September 02, 2010 at 04:12 PM
Jan Brewer loses head over immigration tactics
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Jan Brewer, governor of Arizona, must enjoy a good ghost story.
I mean, she's certainly good at telling them. To defend her endorsement of the anti-immigrant SB-1070 bill Brewer told the press in July that 'law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded.'
Decapitated in the desert? Yikes, well, since you put it like that Jan.
'I believe today, that the majority of the illegal trespassers that are coming into the state of Arizona are under the direction and control of organized drug cartels and they are bringing drugs in,' Brewer said.
Apparently it's Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome in Arizona now, every single goddamn day.
But wait, didn't the Arizona Republic recently publish an exhaustive report that found that, according to statistics supplied by the FBI and Arizona police agencies, crime in Arizona border towns has been 'essentially flat for the past decade.'
Woops.
Then last month the Pima County sheriff who patrols the territory and knows it better than anyone in America reported that 'the border has never been more secure.'
Again, woops.
Why does this matter? It matters because fears of drug cartels and decapitations were the blocks that Brewer's SB-1070 law were built from. If those stories are false - and if South American drug cartels are not in fact chopping the heads of fair skinned citizens of Arizona every day - then Brewer's law is built on a fallacy.
Scary claims of violence gave us the SB-1070 bill and they also explain the American public's support for it. But if those scare tactics aren't true it starts to look like you've bought a bazooka to pluck a daisy. It starts to look like the powers that be talked up the threat to get a bill they liked.
No wonder the reporters in her home state are chasing her down corridors insisting she admit she was wrong about the non-existent beheadings. Horror tales like the one's she's been telling are bad for Arizona, bad for the state's tourism, bad for it's image and profoundly bad for the nations political climate too.
It's time for Jan Brewer to tell the truth instead of run from it.
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Posted by maloney on Sep 12, 2010, 11:19 PM EDT
old is just a state of mind, & I don't. Disabled is only being able to last 1 hour instead of 4 or 5 a few years back
Posted by seanomelbourne on Sep 10, 2010, 01:36 AM EDT
what's old and disabled?
Posted by Monsoonman on Sep 10, 2010, 12:40 AM EDT
Saw a very interesting interview on the Greta van susteren show tonight. Two politicians from Rhode Island, one a democrat the other a republican, decided to travel to Arizona and see for themselves what the situation is. They sounded the alarm, Az. is in deep need of help, it is getting overrun by illegals and the feds are doing nothing but putting roadblocks in the way of the citizens. This is not a partisan thing or a racist issue it is the survival of our country.
Posted by seanomelbourne on Sep 08, 2010, 09:16 PM EDT
Grey! getting there, the cost of internet depends on the service you require I pay $50 a month-.N.C.Maloney at least they have good banjo players.
Posted by maloney on Sep 08, 2010, 05:56 PM EDT
Hey seano...losing hair isn't one of my problems this go around but I'll admit to my own fair share of gray. By the way, how much does internet cost you down under? I'm in North Carolina, cable, 19.99 mo. They want more but I hit em up for old & disabled.
Posted by seanomelbourne on Sep 07, 2010, 11:37 PM EDT
If you open your eyes you will see I accepted Mmans
word that the feds erected the road signs. MaryM232 offered innuendo and rumour and has yet to prove her case. You'll have to stop nitpicking or you will have no hair left.
Posted by maloney on Sep 07, 2010, 08:06 PM EDT
seano... you accuse poor Jan of lying about beheading & of putting up signs. Look below to MaryM232 for beheading proof & monsoonman for signs. Who is the liar? Now I know how to take your posts in the future. Just like obummer, full of it. Throw it out to see if it sticks. busted!!! Getting gray & senile.
Posted by WatchingMedia on Sep 07, 2010, 05:23 AM EDT
It's not an anti-immigrant bill. It's an anti ILLEGAL alien bill. Obama is doing a lousy job protecting our borders, and he is not adhering to the US Immigration laws.
Drugs, sexual slavery, etc. are all coming across our southern border.
Posted by rcrdskpr@aol.com on Sep 06, 2010, 02:20 PM EDT
gee, i guess thats why obama uses a teleprompter and biden doesnt. how about some of bidens big lies and one liner gaffes?
Posted by hancock on Sep 06, 2010, 12:26 AM EDT
You started it, you old school marm.
Posted by seanomelbourne on Sep 05, 2010, 11:56 PM EDT
Gee you got me Hancock call out the Arapaio posse and arrest me,mind you I do(use to) have black hair.
Posted by hancock on Sep 05, 2010, 07:42 PM EDT
Stop the presses, stand corrected, try spelling does again while you're at it.
Posted by seanomelbourne on Sep 05, 2010, 07:21 PM EDT
I stand corrected on the roadside signage Monsoonman but that doe's not give Brewer a leave pass for fear mongering and lying. I still believe she lost her ear piece and was dumbfounded,she could not make a case without a prompt. I can see the new DEM campaign add already.
Posted by maloney on Sep 05, 2010, 02:12 PM EDT
God bless MaryM232
Posted by MaryM232 on Sep 05, 2010, 10:55 AM EDT
What the media and illegal alien lobbyists don't want discussed is the fact that a month prior to Brewer making her statement, an Arizona sheriff in a town at the border did find the head of a man in Arizona. What's more, for the past four years, police in the southwestern US, and even up into Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois and other states have found beheaded corpses of men in apartments and houses later found to have been illegal aliens involved in the drug cartels. There are reports of mass beheadings just across the border in Mexico.
Arizona police, most especially Sheriff Joe Arpaio have rescued illegal aliens held hostage by coyote smugglers, in drop houses. There have been high rates of killings, rapes, child molestations, kidnappings, burglaries, drug dealing by illegal aliens, and it's make life hell for citizens. Perhaps Cahir O'Doherty wants to embrace the third world lifestyle? If so, he's welcome to emigrate to Mexico, but he's not entitled to demand it be imposed on the US citizenry.
seanomelbourne, Australia is an isolated land body, it doesn't have a Mexico attached to it, with it's criminal element pouring in, mores the pity. Perhaps you should demand your country open it's doors to a flood of Mexican illegals, there are tends of millions of them who would love to be a burden to you and your fellow taxpayers.
Posted by Monsoonman on Sep 05, 2010, 01:19 AM EDT
lad the signs were put up by the federal governments bureau of land management, has nothing to do with the state because it is feceral property. If the feds don't warn people of the danger and someone gets hurt there is legal liability...but nice try though to try to pin it on jan brewer. Why don't you live on the border in arizona and report in to us on how safe it is...
Posted by seanomelbourne on Sep 04, 2010, 08:47 PM EDT
Australia his hardly a small state(as big as mainland U.S.).Why is Sheriff Arapiao"s district the only district in Arizona to show an increase in law breaking. Why did Brewer lie about beheading's and when found out did not have the moral turpitude to face the press and resolve the matter.Of course Brewer is lining the highways with fear mongering signs,what else can she offer the people of AZ. She is morally bankrupt.
Posted by olovely on Sep 04, 2010, 07:26 PM EDT
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Jan is at the ball park today to catch a double header.
Posted by maloney on Sep 04, 2010, 06:40 PM EDT
Jan Brewer... A true American Hero.. Hey hillary, bill's got a cigar for ya!!
Posted by Monsoonman on Sep 04, 2010, 02:36 PM EDT
Hillary clinton is a corrupt liar, who looks the camera straight in the lens and prevaricates without blinking her eye. she and her husband are such practiced lars they would pass a lie detector test with ease. Sadly the only thing bill got caught on was the blue dress because there was hard fast evidence of his lies...When in reality he should have been impeached for such utter corruption, way beyond a lie about his affair with an intern....Yet you sheep drink his kool aid and sing the praises still.
Posted by allentown on Sep 04, 2010, 12:55 PM EDT
Isn't our Secretary of State the same person who said she landed under fire in Bosnia?
Posted by Monsoonman on Sep 04, 2010, 12:51 PM EDT
Lad, I wonder how you would be if the federal government unleashed all of its lawyer hounds directly at you and your small state? Do you think you would be a bit preoccupied? Even the sheriff is getting sued by eric holders injustice department. In the meantime along interstate 8 in Arizona the federal government is posting signs warning motorists the area is dangerous and overrun with violent drug cartels...This is in my country and what does the federal government do to the state when it tries to protect itself? Sues them!!!If you think I am lying or stretching the truth or being a racist just look up on google a picture of the warning signs along interstate 8, then get back to us.
Posted by seanomelbourne on Sep 03, 2010, 11:49 PM EDT
Brewer has the courage of her convictions? Why doe's she avoid the press.The idiot secretary of state!!! A flower among thorns.
Posted by borefield on Sep 03, 2010, 09:13 PM EDT
Jan Brewer has the courage of her convictions and beliefs. I guess Cahir O'Doherty wouldn't recognise these attributes.We need to take back our country and people that want to come here and work and be part of this great country should try the legal route like many of us did.
Posted by McNabb1966 on Sep 03, 2010, 08:24 PM EDT
Cahir serves up yet another fact-free, low-credibility koolaid beverage with zero relevance and all the bitter aftertaste of Lefty failure. Drink up, wingnuts! lol
Posted by Liamkeyes on Sep 03, 2010, 08:13 PM EDT
The Threat to the Citizens of Arizona or any other American Citizens are not overstated. Have you heard of the "Juarez Cartel" yet? It is up to us to join with our fellow Americans in Arizona and other Border States to support them.
Posted by maloney on Sep 03, 2010, 08:08 PM EDT
hollowbutgroul.. you math sucks as does your opinions.Say what you want, you will be boohooing come Nov.
Posted by hancock on Sep 03, 2010, 07:58 PM EDT
What about that idiot Secratary of a State?
Posted by seanomelbourne on Sep 03, 2010, 07:41 PM EDT
Who switched off her ear piece, she now joins the ranks of "dumb blonds".But! she has good company,Gretchen,Gloria,Ann and the honorary blond Malkin.
Posted by patrick1945 on Sep 03, 2010, 05:46 PM EDT
What are your sources, I've seen reports that differ from yours. Why is the federal government putting up signs that it is unsafe for citizens to enter parts of the state. There would be no governor Brewer in the news and no SB-1070 if the federal government would enforce federal law already on the books. As for decapitated bodies look just across the border. If they find them there what's to keep them from finding them on this side of the border. And didn't you leave out the word "illegal" in your statement "Anti-emigration bill SB-1070".
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