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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: The War at Home Is Far Deadlier Than The One In Afghanistan August 20, 2010 by Chip Wood In researching another topic, I stumbled across a column I wrote three years ago. That was back in the days before Personal Liberty Alerts started sending my musings to more than 500,000 people every week. No, in the fall of 2007 I had just 1,000 or 2,000 readers, most of them were probably named Wood. So the column below didnt reach very many people. If its okay with you, Id like to run it again. Because the message it contains is quite literally a matter of life and death for every one of us. See if you dont agree. Here it is. Like me, you were no doubt sickened by the news from Newark, New Jersey that three young college students, Terrance Aeriel, Dashon Harvey and Iofemi Hightower, were ruthlessly murdered at a school playground. Each was forced to kneel on the ground and then shot, execution-style, with a bullet to the brain. What you may not have heard is that the person accused of the crime, a 28-year-old thug named Jose Lachira Carranza, was in this country illegally and the authorities knew it. His alleged colleague in this heinous crime is also an illegal alien. Moreover, this was not Carranzas first or only vicious assault. He had been arrested just one month earlier and charged with repeatedly raping a 5-year-old girl and threatening to kill her family if anyone called the police. A year earlier he was charged with assaulting patrons at a bar. One of the better commentaries Ive read on this topic is by former House Speaker (and soon to be presidential candidate?) Newt Gingrich. In his weekly column, he wrote, There is a war here at home and it is even more deadly than the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Far more Americans are being killed by violent, evil people here in America than in our official military combat zones overseas. The truth is, all too many Americans are being killed. But what is so completely senseless is having the lives of three young, achieving college students cut brutally short by someone who not only should not have been in the United States in the first place but also, after two previous arrests for violence, should not have been on the streets. Instead, the suspected killer should have been in jail awaiting trial, sentencing, prison and eventual deportation. And then Gingrich reminds us of a story Id almost forgotten: New Jersey was already in the news for its failure to protect its citizens from illegal aliens when the federal government arrested six would-be terrorists for plotting to kill U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix. We soon learned that three of them had been illegally in the U.S. for 23 years, during which they had been charged by the New Jersey police more than 75 times. And still, our government never discovered they were here illegally. The former congressman then points his finger at the real culprit:
the government of the United States is not protecting the people of America. He continues: The federal governments incompetence, timidity and uncoordinated efforts to identify and deport criminal illegal aliens have had devastating consequences for innocent Americans. Rather than just rail against injustice, though, Gingrich proposed a solution to this tragic situation. He called for new legislation, named after the three murder victims in Newark. The Terrance Aeriel, Dashon Harvey, Iofemi Hightower Act would do five things: But this is an approach I can endorse. After all, what is governments first and most sacred obligation? Isnt it to protect its own citizens from assault; to guard against attacks on our persons or threats to our property by all enemies, foreign and domestic? No, we cant prevent every crime by every illegal alien. But we can make certain that, once caught, he never gets a chance to prey on an innocent victim again
at least, not in this country. Ill let you know when (or if) the Aeriel-Harvey-Hightower Act gets introduced in Congress. And what happens when it does. Back To The Present At the end of his column three years ago, Gingrich wrote, We should demand more of our leaders or we should get new leaders. Thats still a good idea even though I suspect he is one of the new leaders hes talking about. Until next time, keep some powder dry. Chip Wood
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#1. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
And hopefully it never will. It federalizes all crime and forces local sheriffs/police to answer to the feds. The US Constitution gives no power to the federal government to handle or prosecute domestic crime. And anyway, nobody elected Gingrich to any office. He's just another roaming Globalist issuing dictates.
NO amount of dead Americans will stop the brown-tide spewing across our southern border. Our congresscritters and endless succession of moronic presidents are deaf to the plea's and demands of Americans to seal the border and deport the invaders.
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