Can You Find a Better Candidate For the Death Penalty?

Today, Texas teenager Dexter Johnson had to be restrained in court. After hearing he was sentenced to death for brutally carjacking and murdering two people during a month long crime spree, he lunged at victims' family members, and had to be tackled by court deputies. Good riddance, scumbag. Execution can not come soon enough for this 19-year old thug.

Supreme Court Limits Affirmative Action in Schools

Today the Supreme Court "rejected diversity plans in two major school districts that take race into account in assigning students but left the door open for using race in limited circumstances." (AP) The case involved two school districts which utilized programs to assign students from black and white neighbors to schools which were often far from their homes in order to artificially attain some sort of nebulous "diversity" within individual facilities.

In the majority opinion, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the following:

"Simply because the school districts may seek a worthy goal doesn't mean that they are free to discriminate on the basis of race to achieve it."

An eloquent point, and a highly intelligent one, made in this debate over means and ends. For quite awhile, those blinded by their focus on the ends have ignored the gross hypocrisy in their support of means so similar to the very evil they were fighting against: discrimination. Can one, in good conscience, use discrimination to reverse discrimination? Especially discrimination against individuals whose only "fault" is to share an ethnicity with people who may have discriminated against people who share your own ethnicity? This game of racial guilt, blame and perceived privilege is in itself simply another form of bigotry, another form of prejudice, another form of ugly racism, as individuals would be rewarded or punished based on skin-color rather than personal belief, action, guilt or achievement. All affirmative action has done is to institutionalize discrimination and promote tribalism over individuality. Affirmative action has been a ill-conceived assault on personal liberty and responsibility.

In a moment evoking Yogi Berra, Roberts also put forth these words of wisdom:

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

While somewhat obvious, this is a point often lost or intentionally ignored in the discussion. You cannot battle the practice of racial discrimination and privilege with a different form of racial discrimination and special privilege. If it is wrong to judge and discriminate against blacks based on their race, then it is equally wrong to do the same to whites. The anti-affirmative action argument is not suggesting the wrongness of discrimination against blacks, as many times as proponents would like to race-bait and toss the word 'racist' around; it argues that discrimination of any sort, for whatever "lofty goal," is wrong. The affirmative actionists have merely attempted to argue that one form of discrimination is worse than another, depending on who are the victims, again attempting to create some sort of race-based (ie, bigoted) hierarchy of worthiness of victimhood.

Justice Clarence Thomas, the only black person on the Supreme Court, wrote this in a separate opinion endorsing the majority ruling:

“What was wrong in 1954 cannot be right today. The plans before us base school assignment decisions on students’ race. Because ‘our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens,’ such race-based decisionmaking is unconstitutional.”

I would go even further to say that plans which incorporate any consideration of ethnicity, any attempt to artificially "promote diversity", or alter ethnic proportions within a group, are equally discriminatory, whether or not they do so directly. Thomas also wrote:

"Every time the government uses racial criteria to 'bring the races together,' someone gets excluded, and the person excluded suffers an injury solely because of his or her race."

Amnesty Defeated

On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on S.1639 ):

YEAs ---46 (Villains)
Akaka (D-HI) Bennett (R-UT) Biden (D-DE) Boxer (D-CA) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Clinton (D-NY) Conrad (D-ND) Craig (R-ID) Dodd (D-CT) Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI) Feinstein (D-CA) Graham (R-SC)	Gregg (R-NH) Hagel (R-NE) Inouye (D-HI) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Klobuchar (D-MN) Kohl (D-WI) Kyl (R-AZ) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Lieberman (ID-CT) Lincoln (D-AR) Lott (R-MS) Lugar (R-IN) Martinez (R-FL)	McCain (R-AZ) Menendez (D-NJ) Mikulski (D-MD) Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) Obama (D-IL) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Salazar (D-CO) Schumer (D-NY) Snowe (R-ME) Specter (R-PA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---53 (Heroes)
Alexander (R-TN) Allard (R-CO) Barrasso (R-WY) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Bingaman (D-NM) Bond (R-MO) Brown (D-OH) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burr (R-NC) Byrd (D-WV) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Coleman (R-MN) Collins (R-ME) Corker (R-TN)	Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Dole (R-NC) Domenici (R-NM) Dorgan (D-ND) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Grassley (R-IA) Harkin (D-IA) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Landrieu (D-LA) McCaskill (D-MO) McConnell (R-KY) Murkowski (R-AK)	Nelson (D-NE) Pryor (D-AR) Roberts (R-KS) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sanders (I-VT) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Smith (R-OR) Stabenow (D-MI) Stevens (R-AK) Sununu (R-NH) Tester (D-MT) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) Voinovich (R-OH) Warner (R-VA) Webb (D-VA)

Not Voting - 1

Johnson (D-SD)

The bill has fallen 14 votes short of the 60 necessary to limit debate and clear the way for final vote (and possibly passage) of the dreaded legislation.

Despite this victory, now is hardly the time to rest. The people has spoken quite loudly on the issue of illegal immigration, and it is time to demand real action. After this fight, the amnesty crowd will avoid this issue like the plague, but there is still real work to be done, real reform to be made.

The first is to demand border and national security. For the most part, all that needs to be done is for our government to enforce and follow existing laws. The building of a border fence which was signed into law last year must be completed. The border patrol must be given the tools and the support necessary to protect this nation and stop the swarm of illegal aliens across the border. The judicial and executive witch hunt of border patrol agents must be stopped - agents should no longer be punished for doing their job. Illegal aliens must be held completely accountable for their disregard of the law of the land, both for entering this country without permission, and for any other laws broken during their stay. Local police must be given the tools and authority necessary to assist in the battle.

Secondly, the incentives for illegals to come here must be eliminated. Businesses which hire illegals must be held accountable for breaking the law. Landlords who knowingly provide housing to illegal aliens must face punishment. Government services and handouts, including free health care and education, for illegal aliens must be eliminated.

The federal government, overall, has proven unwilling to do what is necessary to stop the flow of invaders and secure the borders. Despite more empty promises made by the supporters of the awful amnesty bill, promises which cannot be trusted one iota given the past record of this government, the citizenship of this country does not trust our representatives and judicial system to do what is right and necessary. The lies of the past cannot be forgotten, and awareness of these untruths played a major role in the public's reaction to this latest legislative attempt.

The proponents of the amnesty bill often told the people that "something must be done," but the people saw through this empty reasoning. Something RIGHT must be done. Something EFFECTIVE must be done. If a man is drowning in a river, something must be done. But that something should not be shooting him in the head. It should be rescue. To just do something is not enough. That something needs to work. And no one believes you if you say you're going to do something, but you sat around doing nothing - or worse than nothing - while three people drowned before him. Or if you actively prevented others from rescuing those people as well - stopped others from throwing out ropes. And, even worse, you pushed more people that couldn't swim into the rapids; your actions encouraged them to take a devastating dip.

This nation is threatening to be drowned by waves of illegal aliens. Presidents, Senators and Congressmen will visit disaster zones after fires, earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes, but fail to visit the disaster zones that are the American neighborhoods that have been devastated by the storm of criminals brought to this land as a result of inaction and turning a blind eye to policies and procedures that have created an open border atmosphere.

Am I optimistic that the current administration and Congress will awaken to these troubles and toughen up their stances and actions against illegal aliens? Not much. To some degree the fight must be taken to the local level as well. Communities are already beginning to rebel against a federal system that has abandoned them and ignored their needs. Local ordinances and a support of local law enforcement against illegals are the beginning of the way to both fight the battle at a community level, and to increasingly make the power brokers and special interest panderers in Washington aware of just how critical this issue has become.

We, the people, have slapped the government across the face for not only their failure, but their willingness to sell out the interests of this country to special interests, be they race-baiters and America-haters, or conscienceless shady business opportunists. And that slap has stung.

Those opposed to amnesty for illegal immigrants were branded "extremists," but they were truly the only moderates, the only rationalists, in the debate. The architects of amnesty legislation called themselves compromisers, but let their own extreme lack of integrity motivate them to ignore the best interests of this country and the will of the people. The only thing they truly compromised was their own honor and their own commitment to serve this nation and its citizens.

Illegal Aliens and Terrorist Protesters Have More Rights Than Law Abiding Citizens

You may remember hearing about the May Day melee in MacArthur park in Los Angeles, during which the LAPD was drawn into a situation where they found it necessary to use force against a crowd of thugs and rambunctious illegal aliens holding a so-called "peaceful protest" calling for special privileges and amnesty for illegal aliens. The LAPD has undergone a lot of criticism for their handling of the situation, especially as a lot of bystanders and press members who failed to comply with police orders were caught in the crossfire.

Of course, what the liberally biased media often fails to report is that the police were provoked by a group of slime-ball agitators and anarchist terrorists, who hurled insults, frozen bottles of water turned into rock-hard missiles of ice, bottles filled with urine, and other peaceful protests at the heroic officers, all the while hiding behind a wall of "peacefully assembling" accomplices (with children!) who acted as a shield during the seditious attacks on police officers. Buying into the politically correct but factually erroneous version of events, LA's mayor, city council and police chief also refuse to lay any blame on, or make much mention of, the rioters who were directly responsible for causing and escalating events. TV camera-persons claiming that they were attacked by the LAPD can be seen on tape being pushed over by their reporter colleagues. Everyone refuses to acknowledge the fact that TV reporters on the sidelines hit with rubber bullets were most likely hit by accident, and never take into consideration that guns and rubber ammunition are hardly 100% accurate, nor that sticking around during a melee in order to grab some footage when they've been ordered to leave puts oneself at risk of getting hit by stray bullets. And that this is a risk the media chose to take by ignoring police warnings.

To add further insult to injury, as the public, the media and city officials take the side of the criminal rioters and foreign invaders over our own brave and much maligned protectors, another incident occurred this past weekend further proving that the media and the LA city government is in league with criminals, pandering to the interests of illegals over their own citizens.

An anti-illegal immigration rally was planned in Leimert Park on June 24. However, another group of violent agitators were allowed to take over this park, and the groups with the legal permit to hold their rally had their right to peaceful assembly violated. The LAPD, stinging from a lack of community or official support, were justifiably unwilling to clear out the terrorists a second time. And the police blocked access to the park so that the anti-illegal immigration could not enter, fearing a "mini riot." Read a slightly slanted story on the events here. Of course, a group of people not in line with the leftist view on illegal immigration being violently intimidated by radicals and morons like ANSWER Los Angeles will not generate as much news as perceived infringements against the rights of the press or antagonistic leftist organizations.

Totalitarian, bullying and violent leftism wins again.

Obama's wife calls him The Answer

Yesterday, addressing a crowd at a Harlem community center, Barack Hussein Obama's wife Michelle had this to say:

"I am married to The Answer. And I'm not just saying that because I'm his wife."

The Answer to what question? "Who is the biggest fraud in politics"? Obama has about as much integrity and authenticity as a designer purse you purchase from a hidden room in a souvenir shop in Chinatown. The Emperor's New Clothes of the current political arena is nothing more than a puff of hot air, an empty shell of a politician, who feels more like he was created by a PR firm or a kinda liberal television script writer than an actual person with real ideals and principles. Here are some other questions to which B.O. might be "The Answer":

Whom am I never voting for?

Who can read a pretty, vague speech once at a convention and thusly convince a lot of brain-dead zombies he's the second coming of Kennedy?

What's uglier than Hillary Clinton, slicker than Bill Clinton, less tolerable than Al Gore on stage, and more of a hypocrite than John Edwards?

Who thinks that by tossing around nebulous terms like "hope" rather than addressing real issues or actually thinking during a debate, he can win over the hearts rather than minds of the American people, who are all too willing to vote image over substance?

Who is a big enough arrogant prick to have his wife refer to him by a hyperbole like The Answer?