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Wednesday, October 24, 2001

JUDGE THROWS AMERICAN PATROL SUIT OUT OF COURT
Outrageous ruling says Times killing of Villaraigosa ad was "free speech"
 JUDGES RULING DICTATED BY TIMES

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Emilie H. Elias tossed out lawsuit brought by American Patrol against the L.A. Times and Daily News claiming it was intended to "chill the valid exercise of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and petition for the redress of grievances." (California Code of Civil Procedures 425.16. (a))

EMILIE H. ELIAS (Times disqualified first judge as biased.)
Elias Ruling, page 1  |  Page 2		 WE ARE IN DANGER
   This outrageous ruling is a clear demonstration just how lawless our nation has become. The L.A. Times sought to stifle the free speech of American Patrol, not the other way around! A casual reading of the SLAPP law shows just how insane this ruling is. Our filing with the court proves it.
   Each and every time anyone seriously threatens the established power structure over immigration issues, they are slapped down. Proposition 187 was killed by an illegal act by Gov. Davis, following an outrageous ruling by a federal judge.
   The L.A. Times is a tyrannical organization. It does not permit dissension. It owns the Los Angeles Superior Court system. It was so desperate to keep this suit out of court, it persuaded a judge to violate the constitution.
We are all in danger.
--- Glenn Spencer
P.S. We will appeal.
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Note: In papers filed with the court, the Times and Daily News admitted that the Times threatened legal action against the Daily News if it printed our ad. The Daily News admitted that it had approved our ad and that it was only the Times' threat that killed it. The claim of copyright infringement issue was bogus and the court never ruled on it.

Our new video, "Conquest of Aztlan", will be shown at.....
UROC Convention - Monrovia - Oct. 27
Coming Up Oct. 31 - Glenn Spencer on KPDQ - Portland - 3 PM Pacific

Des Moines Register
INS requests fewer records
Immigration officials will narrow their request for detailed records on international students at Iowa and Nebraska colleges, they said Tuesday. -- The Omaha office of the INS last week asked 140 colleges that admit students from other countries to provide detailed information on most of them. After some colleges objected, the INS decided to ask for only the records of international students who indicated they planned to attend college but have not, said Tom De- Rouchey, the INS deputy district director in Omaha.

We Get E-Mail
Re: Judge Elias -- Atty. Buckley was right
Obviously, Brian Buckley was right. The Times went all out. They made sure that the hatchet woman - Judge Elias - was going to be the judge. And the RFK suit shows that whenever the going gets rough - the rough get Judge Elias. And ride over everyone else's rights. -- Her ruling is Kafkaesque (as is the SLAPP law). She claims that there was no contract for the LA Times to interfere with. Gee, that's funny. When someone takes $10,000, and promises to produce something on a specific date, that sure looks like a contract.		 Indy Star
Schools targeting immigrants
As Hispanic immigrants and other foreign students enroll in droves at the city's schools, principals and administrators are scrambling to find enough teachers -- and enough money -- to teach English to their new students. -- Indianapolis Public Schools as well as township districts in Marion County have seen spiking enrollments for students who have limited or no English skills. And every school district in the city saw an increase this year in the number of students in English as a Second Language programs.

San Diego Union-Tribune
Increased border security credited in arrests
Border officials are catching more criminal suspects and fugitives at the San Ysidro Port of Entry since last month's terrorist attacks. -- Since Sept. 11, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has detained 100 fugitives or criminal suspects at the port, said Lauren Mack, an INS spokeswoman. -- That's a dramatic increase from the 500 people detained last year, Mack said.

U.S. News
When charity goes awry
To date, the U.S. Treasury Department has frozen the assets of 66 people and organizations believed linked to al Qaeda­and the list is expected to grow. A number of them, such as the foreign charities Wafa Humanitarian Organization and the Al Rashid Trust, actually do relief work, but are also suspected here and abroad of funneling money to al Qaeda or other terrorist organizations. "These terrorists don't operate in a vacuum­they need a support network," says Ilan Berman.... 		Asbury Park Press
Getting new photo license too easy at DMV
A driver's license with a photo can help speed you past an airport security checkpoint, but an Asbury Park Press check has found such identification can be obtained at some motor vehicle offices with no questions asked. -- Here's how the system works: A license without picture, the kind used by about 40 percent of the nearly 6 million drivers in the state, can be upgraded to a photo license by stopping in any of the 45 Division of Motor Vehicles offices around the state and paying $5.

L.A. Times Lawsuit Controversy
Keep the "ad" controversy on the front burner... into infinity. -- Even if the judge couldn't "figure it out,"... the public CAN! MAKE the Times discuss "Reconquista" ... so everyone can see who's steering the boat over there!

National Post (Canada)
New calls for European style border policy
Canada needs to consider a border policy similar to the European Union, in which there is free movement of people and goods but controls on entry points to the Continent, the Conference Board of Canada said yesterday. -- Such a move would meet the goal of ensuring security in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and keeping the massive trade between the two countries flowing without impediments, the board said.		 NY Post
Rudman: U.S. must tighten up its borders
A former U.S. senator said yesterday that America's battle against terrorism has to be fought at home as well as overseas - and the first step is improving security along the country's borders. -- Warren Rudman, co-chairman of a commission that reviewed domestic security during the Clinton administration, quoted football legend Vince Lombardi, telling Fox News Channel, "The best defense is a good offense."

National Review
Alien Invasion - Illegal immigration skyrocketed in the 1990s
Conservatives welcomed the Census Bureau announcement last week that it would not "adjust" its statistical figures for the purposes of federal funding. What they failed to notice - and what the Center for Immigration Studies now has pointed out - is that the Census Bureau also said an unprecedented 8 million illegal aliens live in the United States. -- In a slower news cycle, this might have been front-page news. Ten years ago, the illegal-alien population was...		 Associated Press - 1996
Re: Judge Elias -- Lawyer Claims Possible RFK Photos Destroyed or Hidden by City
Photographs that may have shown the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy were destroyed or hidden by the city in an apparent cover-up that continues to this day, a lawyer told jurors Tuesday. -- In an opening statement met with numerous defense objections, photographer Scott Enyart's lawyer promised to show evidence of nearly 30 years of lies, forged documents and official bungling that has denied Enyart of his pictures and the country of answers to important questions.....

 THE DECLINE AND FALL OF CALIFORNIA
OCTOBER 24, 2001

 HEADLINES FROM TODAY'S LOS ANGELES TIMES
Davis Orders Hiring Freeze, New Budget Cuts
San Joaquin Valley Placed on List of Smoggiest Areas
Struggling Symphony Cancels Season

Washington Times
Report riles Arab-Americans in Michigan
This city has been cited in a state police report as a "major financial support center for many Middle East terrorist groups," setting the sizable Arab-American community on edge. -- The report, presented to the Michigan Legislature last week, also says that "members of [terrorist] groups commit criminal acts to raise financial resources to support terrorist operations overseas. ... [I]t is also conceivable that sleeper cells may be located in [the Southeast] area of the state. Southeast Michigan is known as a lucrative recruiting area and potential support base for [terrorist] groups." [Also see this letter to Spencer Abraham]

Florida Times-Union
Immigration: Changing times
Under normal circumstances, a few civil libertarians and immigration lawyers would be right when they insist greater safeguards are needed to protect non-citizens. About 700 people, mostly of Middle East descent, have been detained in the aftermath of Sept. 11, sometimes longer than usual and often under a cloud of secrecy. -- But these are not normal circumstances. More than 5,000 people were slaughtered on U.S. soil by Middle East terrorists last month... [Free Republic item] [Source URL]		 L.A. Times
National ID Card System Failing to Attract Supporters
Calls for a national system of identification cards sparked by the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have gained little traction, failing to win endorsements from the Bush administration or congressional leaders. -- Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Larry Ellison attracted national attention by calling for such a system in the wake of the attacks and offering to donate the database software that would be needed. [Reader note]

Open letter to Spencer Abraham
Since the attack on the United States last September 11, I wonder if you have had second thoughts about your role in bringing it about? I refer to your actions that were - over the six years of your term in the United States Senate, especially as Chair of the Subcommittee on Immigration - against the best interests of the citizens of this nation.

Phyllis Schlafly
Triad response to terrorism
As President Bush has warned us, this is a new kind of war. -- He is doing a good job of the military and diplomatic legs of the U.S. response to terrorism, but it's up to citizens to insist that the response on the homeland front be effective and constitutional. -- So far, it's not clear that the actions to improve our internal security, either by Congress or the administration, are moving in the right direction or moving fast enough.		 Debbie Schlussel - WorldNetDaily.com
Coming to America?
In the weeks since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, President Bush has uttered a constant refrain: "Islam is Peace." -- Wrong. Bush doesn't know any Arabic. Those with even a basic understanding of the language know that "salaam" is "peace" in Arabic. Islam means something entirely different. "The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic," the dictionary of choice at the University of Michigan's... [See reader comments]

Thanks, American Patrol
I commend you and your people for your patriotic efforts. I have sent these words before but I want to say them again. I appreciate all of your hard work... by all of you.

Orange Co. Register
Anaheim school trustee wants to tell INS on students
An Anaheim school trustee - spinning off Proposition 187 - is suggesting that the district seek undocumented students and report them to authorities for possible deportation. -- The proposal, just a few sentences on the school board agenda, is to be discussed for the first time Thursday. -- Voters sought to deny illegal immigrants public services such as education and health care in Proposition 187 in 1994, but a judge struck down...		 Valley Morning News
Mexican envoy: No water for Valley
Harlingen, TX - A Mexican envoy's refusal to pay back a swelling water debt could spell out a new policy that would devastate the Valley's agricultural base, incensed Valley officials said Tuesday. -- Under the official's interpretation, a 1944 treaty does not require the Mexican government to release water held behind dams built in northeast Mexico in 1992, they said. -- "We're looking at a disaster," said Gordon Hill, manager of the Bayview Irrigation District.

Sacramento Bee
Davis orders hiring freeze, $150 million cut
Gov. Gray Davis froze state hiring Tuesday and asked departments to come up with $150 million in immediate cuts as a first step to deal with a growing fiscal crisis in the wake of the September terrorist attacks. -- "While we were preparing for an economic slowdown, we now find ourselves faced with a much more challenging situation, requiring very difficult choices," Davis told reporters and Cabinet members convened to talk about the budget. [See reader note.]		 Radio Australia
US Congress gives more money for Pacific immigration
The U-S Congress is to give more money to Guam, Northern Marianas and Hawaii -- as compensation for the impact of immigration from other Pacific territories with Compacts of Free Association with America. -- Under the terms of the Compacts, citizens from the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and Palau are allowed unrestricted immigration to Guam, Northern Marianas and Hawaii.

CIS Press Release
Census Bureau: 8 million illegal aliens in 2000
When the Census Bureau announced its decision last week concerning statistical adjustments to the 2000 Census, it also released, virtually unnoticed, its estimate that 8 million illegal aliens live in the United States. This number, larger than might have been expected from earlier estimates by the INS, is especially troubling given the role failures in immigration control played in September's terrorist attacks.		 The News - Mexico City
DEA: California ecstasy ring linked to Mexican drug cartel
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials said Monday that a U.S. drug ring responsible for producing tens of thousands of ecstasy tablets for distribution in California and Mexico had ties to one of Mexico's largest drug cartels.-- U.S. Assistant Attorney Todd Robinson said members of the Escondido, California- based drug ring had contacts with the criminal organization led by one of Mexico's most notorious drug-traffickers.

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