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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seanomelbourne | Sep 10, 2010, 01:36 AM EDT
what's old and disabled?
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Monsoonman | 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.
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seanomelbourne | 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.
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maloney | 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.
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seanomelbourne | 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.
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maloney | 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.
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WatchingMedia | 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.
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rcrdskpr@aol.com | 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?
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hancock | Sep 06, 2010, 12:26 AM EDT
You started it, you old school marm.
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seanomelbourne | 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.
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hancock | Sep 05, 2010, 07:42 PM EDT
Stop the presses, stand corrected, try spelling does again while you're at it.
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seanomelbourne | 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.
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maloney | Sep 05, 2010, 02:12 PM EDT
God bless MaryM232
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MaryM232 | 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.
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