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LOL!  Even San Fransicko is fed up with "undocumented Canadian" crime!

Killings Turn Focus on San Francisco Sanctuary Law

July 24, 2008 - From: apnews.myway.com

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: a driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left.

But authorities say that was enough to cause Edwin Ramos to unload an AK-47 assault weapon on a man and his two sons, killing them.

The deaths immediately drew public outrage, which intensified when authorities revealed that Ramos, 21, is an illegal immigrant who managed to avoid deportation despite previous brushes with the law.

The case has put San Francisco's liberal politics to the test, setting off a debate over its sanctuary law that shields undocumented immigrants from deportation.

On Wednesday, Ramos pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder in the deaths of Anthony Bologna, 49, and his sons, Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16.  Bologna and his older son died in the intersection on June 22.  His younger son succumbed to his injuries days later.

Shortly after that, police arrested Ramos, a native of El Salvador and reputed member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, known as MS-13.  Investigators believe he was the gunman, though two other men were seen in the car with him.

The heinousness of the deaths has put pressure on San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris to seek the death penalty against Ramos.  Harris, who campaigned on an anti-death penalty platform and has never pursued capital punishment during her more than four years in office, has declined to say exactly how she intends to proceed.


"This case has been charged as a special circumstance case," making it eligible for the death penalty, spokeswoman Erica Derryck said.  "No additional announcement has been made about this aspect of the charging."

Ramos' attorney, Robert Amparan, said his client was not the shooter.  "They have the wrong person," he said.

Amparan declined to discuss details of the case, but he denied his client was involved in gang activity and said Ramos entered the country legally.  Federal authorities contend Ramos is undocumented.

The victims' family learned that Ramos had been arrested at least three times before the shooting and evaded deportation, largely because of San Francisco's sanctuary status.

The policy, adopted in 1989 by the city's elected Board of Supervisors, bars local officials from cooperating with federal authorities in their efforts to deport illegal immigrants.

Officials in the juvenile offenders agency interpreted the law to also shield underage felons from deportation by refusing to report undocumented ones.  Mayor Gavin Newsom said he rescinded the policy regarding juvenile offenders after learning about it in May.

The Bolognas' relatives say Ramos apparently benefited from the policy when he reportedly was convicted twice of felonies in 2003 and 2004 but never was turned over for deportation.

"All San Francisco's sanctuary ordinance has done is bring violence and death to this once-great city," said Frank Kennedy, who is married to Anthony Bologna's sister.

Kennedy called for an investigation of the sanctuary policy and demanded "prosecutions for violating the law."

Meanwhile, local and federal authorities are pointing fingers at each other over Ramos' most recent arrest before the shooting.

Ramos was arrested in late March with another man after police discovered a gun used in a double homicide in the car Ramos was driving.

The district attorney's office decided not to file charges against Ramos, and he was released April 2 even though he was in the process of being deported after his application for legal residence was denied, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

San Francisco Sheriff's Department spokesman Eileen Hirst said jail officials faxed ICE on March 30 asking if Ramos should remain jailed.  Ramos was freed after Hirst said immigration officials didn't respond.

ICE spokesman Timothy Counts said his agency did not receive word of Ramos' arrest in March.  He said the only communication received about Ramos was an "electronic message" from the sheriff's department three hours after his release.

The case has garnered national attention, leading U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., and an anti-immigration group called Californians for Population Stabilization to ask the U.S. Department of Justice to take over, alleging San Francisco authorities have mishandled it.

"Because San Francisco's political leaders have already demonstrated their willingness to act in flagrant violation of federal law, I do not believe that local judicial institutions can be trusted to fairly try the case or mete out an appropriate punishment," Tancredo said in a letter sent Tuesday to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey.

Justice Department spokesman Charles Miller said he was unaware of the case and the congressman's request.  Miller said the attorney general routinely responds privately to such requests.

Diana Hull, president of Californians for Population Stabilization, called on about a dozen cities nationwide with similar sanctuary policies to end those programs.

"We need to remember always that a death-dealing policy like 'sanctuary' hides behind the false mantle of compassion," Hull said.

Nathan Ballard, a spokesman for San Francisco's mayor, said city officials were wrong to shield undocumented, juvenile felons from federal immigration authorities.

"The sanctuary program was never intended to shield felons," Ballard said.  "The policy was inappropriate."

However, Newsom "still supports the worthwhile aims of denying the federal government" assistance in deporting otherwise law-abiding undocumented residents, he said.


California is liberal shithole with a large non-white population.


You won't be hearing this on "Off The Hook!"

Anti-Obama Bloggers Say They Were Silenced

August 5, 2008 - From: www.nysun.com

By Anna Phillips

Web loggers who are campaigning against Senator Obama's presidential run are accusing Google and Obama supporters of silencing them after their Web logs were marked as spam and their accounts temporarily frozen.

On Thursday, hours after publishing a post about an online petition demanding that Mr. Obama publicly produce his birth certificate, an associate professor of business administration at Brooklyn College, Mitchell Langbert, found that he could no longer access his Web log.

Google's Blogger hosting service had suspended "Mitchell Langbert's Blog," which Mr. Langbert describes as "two-thirds academic stuff I'm working on and one-third politics," until it could verify the Web log was not a "spam blog," or a site designed solely to increase the page views of associated Web sites.

A day later Google lifted the block on the account, but the incident and earlier Web log freezes in late June have led Mr. Langbert and other anti-Obama bloggers to accuse the Illinois senator's supporters of intentionally identifying their blog addresses to Google as spam blogs.  They also say the company has reflexively suspended the sites.

"These tech-savvy smart alecks have figured out that if you report a blog you don't like, you can do some damage to a person," Mr. Langbert said.

A spokesman for Google, Adam Kovacevich, said in a statement that an overzealous antispam filter was responsible for the blocks.

"We believe this was caused by mass spam e-mails mentioning the 'Just Say No Deal' network of blogs, which in turn caused our system to classify the blog addresses mentioned in the e-mails as spam," he said.  "We have restored posting rights to the affected blogs, and it is very important to us that Blogger remain a tool for political debate and free expression."

Several of the blogs that were blocked, including hillaryorbust.com and comealongway.blogspot.com, are part of the "Just Say No Deal" network of anti-Obama blogs.  But Mr. Langbert's blog is not, leading him to conclude that Obama supporters had targeted him.

On her right-leaning blog "Atlas Shrugs," Pamela Geller keeps a list of blogs that Google has temporarily blocked.  "The blockings do come in waves," she said.  "The last wave was this past week, and now it got very quiet."

Some writers have had their blogs unblocked, while others have moved them to WordPress, a rival blog host.

"I don't think" Google has "malicious intentions at all, it's just that spammers can literally overrun a service if you're not careful, so their defenses have become overzealous," a spokesman for WordPress, Matthew Mullenweg, said in an e-mail.

"We always have human review before turning off an active blog," he said.  "People invest so much time into their blogs, to treat it with anything less than the utmost respect is criminal."


Ever hear about illegal spics setting up an aerospace company or increasing property values in neighborhoods?

Feds Nail 10,000 Violent Gang Members in the US; Many Are Illegal Aliens

August 9, 2008 - From: www.theconservativevoice.com

By Jim Kouri

CPP - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, working in conjunction with federal, state and local law enforcement partners across the United States, have arrested the 10,000th gang member under operation Community Shield, according to a report submitted to officials of the National Association of Chiefs of Police.

This ongoing operation started in 2005 to curb gang violence and weed out transnational gangs gaining hold in urban and suburban US cities.

Transnational gangs pose a growing public safety threat to communities throughout the country.  It is estimated that there are over 900 different criminal gangs roaming US streets and neighborhoods.  These gangs no longer own turf in just the inner city but have spread their criminal networks throughout suburban and rural communities.

These transnational street gangs have a significant number of foreign-born members and are frequently involved in human and contraband smuggling, immigration violations and other crimes with a nexus to the border.  ILike any street gang, these transnational gangs also have a propensity toward violence.  Their members commit myriad crimes including robbery, extortion, assault, rape and murder.

"This recent arrest, marking the 10,000th arrest under Operation Community Shield, is a significant milestone," said Julie L. Myers, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for ICE.  "The violence being perpetrated by foreign-born gang members and associates is as shocking as it is pervasive.  ICE is committed to using the full force of our enforcement authority to make our cities and towns safer from gang violence."

In a recent Chicago area Community Shield enforcement operation, one of the men arrested by ICE was Valentin Sierra-Martinez, a 20-year-old confirmed "Norteno-14" gang member. Sierra-Martinez is the 10,000th gang member or associate arrested by ICE as part of Operation Community Shield.

Sierra-Martinez, a Mexican national was in the US illegally and has an extensive criminal background including convictions for residential burglary, domestic battery, possessing drug paraphernalia and knowingly damaging property.  He remains in ICE custody pending removal to Mexico.

ICE has the unique and powerful authority to remove foreign nationals from the US, including illegal aliens and legal permanent residents based on their criminal history.

ICE's Operation Community Shield statistics:

Since inception, ICE agents working with hundreds of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies nationwide, have arrested members and associates of more than 700 different gangs including more than 2,000 MS-13 gang members.

ICE has received thousands of names of known and suspected gang members from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, as well as from foreign governments.  This information is routinely compared with ICE's immigration and customs databases to identify and prioritize gang suspects who may be subject to ICE's legal jurisdiction.

Operation Community Shield, part of the National Gang Unit at ICE gathers intelligence, develops sources of information to ultimately disrupt, dismantle, and prosecute violent street gang members and their organizations by employing the full range of ICE authorities and investigative tools.








Note how large liberal corporations like Microsoft are forcing non-white, shit-skin diversity onto others, while not applying any diversity to their own employees.  Don't expect Bill Gates to move to an all-black neighborhood!

Welcome to the mind of a "progressive."

Microsoft to Offer Counsel Diversity Bonuses

July 21, 2008 - From: www.law.com

By Leigh Jones

Microsoft Corp. will announce on Monday a diversity initiative that will give bonuses to outside counsel based on their inclusion of minority and women attorneys.

The unique plan applies to Microsoft's 17 so-called Premier Preferred Provider law firms, which collectively receive about $150 million in fees from the technology giant each year.  The plan also enables Microsoft's in-house lawyers to receive bonuses based on improvements that the law firms make in their diversity numbers.

A lack of progress in increasing the number of minority and women attorneys in the legal profession, particularly within large law firms, is the impetus for the change.

"It seems we're still spending an awful lot of time talking about why diversity is important rather than achieving concrete results," said Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith.  "The focus has been more on activities than outcomes."

Firms that participate in the diversity initiative can make an additional 2 percent bonus, on top of the 3 percent increase that all of Microsoft's preferred firms are eligible to receive in fiscal year 2009, which started on July 1.  The program is voluntary.

Tracking Plans

The plan calls for Microsoft's preferred law firms to choose by Aug. 15 one of two ways that they want Microsoft to track their diversity progress.

Under the first formula, law firms must demonstrate a two 2-percentage point increase in the hours worked by diverse attorneys as a percentage of total hours worked on Microsoft matters, compared with the same period in the prior year.

Under the second formula, law firms must show a 0.5 percentage point increase in total diverse attorneys as a percentage of the firms' total attorneys, regardless of whether they worked on Microsoft matters.  Included in Microsoft's definition of diverse attorneys are women and those attorneys who are African-American, Latino/Hispanic, Asian, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, American Indian, Alaska Native or of mixed race.

It applies to partners, associates, of counsel and any other full-time or part-time permanent attorneys, but does not apply to contract attorneys.

The definition does not include gay, lesbian or bisexual attorneys, due to confidentiality, but leaves it to the law firms to include those individuals in their diversity numbers.

Microsoft will count only attorneys in U.S. offices, and law firms must stay with the formula they choose for one year.  The company will pay bonuses either quarterly or annually.  The company will review the plan after one year and consider modifying it, including whether to increase the 2 percent incentive.

"This is somewhat of an experiment," said Susan Foster, a partner at Seattle-based Perkins Coie, one of Microsoft's preferred law firms.  She said that although 2 percent provides an adequate incentive, the important point is that Microsoft is willing to pay a higher rate for more diversity inclusion.

Some of Microsoft's preferred law firms are K&L Gates; New York-based Weil, Gotshal & Manges; New York-based Sullivan & Cromwell; Washington-based Arnold & Porter; Heller Ehrman; and Washington's Covington & Burling.


The Grande Hotel in Beira, Mozambique

    

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In the late 70's there were 300,000 whites and Zimbabwe was called Rhodesia.  It was the shining star of sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa.  Whites built modern cities.  Whites over doubled the average life expectancy of Negroes in Rhodesia.  White farmers produced enough food to feed all the inhabitants of the country with enough left over to export all over the world.

In 1997, there were still about 70,000 whites.  White owned farms still kept the Negro population fed.  Then came Magabe's land grab of white owned farms.  Along with the organized mass murder and forced expulsions of whites.  Today there are only about 10,000 whites left.  The once ultra-modern farms lay in ruins and the Negro population starves to death.  Average life expectancies have plummeted to some of the lowest in Africa.

(http://cofcc.org/?p=2240)