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Tuesday, December 11, 2001

ANAHEIM ANARCHISTS?

Elected anarchists
 "Are the inmates in control of the asylum? It is one reason I moved from Van Nuys to Minneapolis several years ago. All over the southern half of once uncrowded and beautiful California we see efforts to blur or eliminate the distinctions between the citizens of the U.S. and Mexican nationals, especially those illegally in this country.
"What is so disturbing is that local government authorities appear to be anarchists, representing foreigners. It's more than sad."
Dell Erickson, Minneapolis
Los Angeles Times, 12/11/01
Who called it "anarchy of the elected" last year?
Anarchists

Among the crowd were several people in black-hooded sweatshirts and bandanna masks who called themselves anarchists.  L.A Times story 

Other Features

Action Alert - Anaheim City Council Meeting Today!
OUTRAGE IN ANAHEIM
How to contact the Anaheim Police and City Council

Today

Glenn Spencer on the John & Ken Show
4 PM Pacific - KFI - AM 640 - Los Angeles
World News with Peter Jennings - ABC- TV
6:30 PM Pacific - May run a segment on Mexican ID's

Newsday
'They just don't make a living wage.' [Importing poverty]
...It's an old story, said Joel Magallán, executive director of Asociación Tepeyac, a nonprofit group that emerged to assist Latino workers after the Trade Center disaster. "They are being fired even if they were not around the Trade Center," Magallán said. "People are coming to me asking if there are jobs in other states."

Unpublished - Orange Co. Register
Re: Anaheim demonstration against illegal aliens and fascist pig punks
So, a bunch of law abiding citizens exercised their right of free speech and some fascist pig punks showed up to keep them from exercising this right all the while the Anaheim PD stood by and did nothing. Is that about the way it went the other day in Anaheim?

CNN
Salt Lake City Airport employees arrested
Just two months before the 2002 Winter Olympics open here, 69 workers at the Salt Lake City Airport were indicted Tuesday on charges of lying to their employers about their immigration status or criminal background and providing false Social Security numbers on their applications for security badges. -- All but eight of those charged had top security clearance. Most of the suspects were Hispanic, mainly Mexican nationals, a spokeswoman for Warner said.

Associated Press
Jury finds Egyptian immigrant guilty of killing boy
A one-armed butcher, granted political asylum in this country because he was persecuted in Egypt, was convicted Tuesday of murdering a 12- year- old boy, dismembering his body and burying it in concrete. -- A seven-woman, five-man jury took only a day to convict John Samuel Ghobrial of first-degree murder. He faces a possible death sentence when the penalty phase of his trial begins Wednesday. 		San Diego Union-Tribune
City declares state of economic emergency at border
The city of San Diego declared a state of economic emergency at the San Diego- Tijuana border yesterday, hoping to persuade Congress to ease congestion at local crossings caused by heightened security after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. -- Council members unanimously supported the declaration, which won't result in financial aid for border merchants and requires no action or expenditures by the city.

BOND Press Release
BOND leader assaulted at Jesse Jackson - Toyota meeting
Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny (BOND) Founder and President Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson was assaulted by supporters of Rev. Jesse Jackson (head of Rainbow/PUSH Coalition) yesterday at a Los Angeles Trade Bureau Forum Meeting held at the L.A. Chamber of Commerce. The meeting between Jesse Jackson and Toyota Motor Sales officials was the unveiling of Toyota's "21st Century Diversity Strategy". Featured speakers were Jesse Jackson and Irv Miller, Toyota's Vice-President For Corporate Communications.

Times-Record
Accused child murderer faces more charges
The Honduran immigrant charged with killing and trying to sexually assault a 10- year- old Morristown boy in May was arraigned Monday on an unrelated weapons charge dating back to New Year's Day 1998. -- Long before Porfirio Saravia Jimenez was charged with murdering Walter Enrique Contreras Valenzuela, there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest on a charge of possessing a knife for an unlawful purpose.		 AZ Republic (Free Registration)
Another drug-smuggling tunnel found at Nogales border
Federal agents today uncovered a drug-smuggling tunnel crossing under the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, marking the 10th time in six years that authorities have found an underground passage in the area. -- Customs Service spokesman Roger Maier said the tunnel leads from a house in the 400 block of West International Street on the U.S. side of the border to a storm drainage tunnel in Nogales, Sonora.

Orange Co. Register - Published
Another side to Anaheim rally protesting use of Mexican ID
...This distinction - between anti-immigration and anti-illegal immigration - is often ignored by careless or biased reporters and editors in the mainstream media. Legal immigrants, as Spencer and others emphasized, are welcome into the American family. [If link is expired, click here]

Unpublished - L.A. Daily News
Why no story?
As a Daily News subscriber for many years I have a question I need answered. Why did your newspaper fail to inform it's readers about an assualt on the American citizens demonstrating legally and peacefully in Orange County by hooded thugs/Mexican nationals?

Associated Press
Man Indicted in Attacks Conspiracy
A federal grand jury indicted a French Moroccan for conspiracy in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the first indictment directly related to the suicide hijackings, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Tuesday. -- "Al-Qaida will now meet the justice it abhors and the judgment it fears," Ashcroft said. -- The suspect, Zacarias Moussaoui, had raised investigators' suspicions by seeking flight lessons in Minnesota a month before the hijackings.		 Financial Times - London
Bus workers charged over migrant smuggling
Managers and employees of a Los Angeles bus company have been charged with conspiring to smuggle 50-300 illegal immigrants a day from the Mexican border to drop-off points around the US west. -- Charges unveiled in Tucson, Arizona, on Monday by the Justice Department said about 30 people from Golden State Transportation collaborated with "coyotes", who lead groups of people across the border...

Washington Post
Illegal Salvadorans apply for temporary protected status
About a quarter-million Salvadorans in Washington and other parts of the country have deluged immigration authorities with applications for a program that allows them to live and work temporarily in the United States, far exceeding expectations, officials said yesterday. -- Thanks to the program, known as Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, the vast majority of Salvadorans living in the United States now have legal status.		 El Paso Times
Agents raid bus depot
Federal agents raided the Golden State Transportation bus depot in Downtown El Paso on Monday, looking for evidence in a multistate case of people smuggling. -- Lorenzo Sustaita, a Golden State ticket agent, said the agents surrounded the building at "9:30 a.m. sharp." -- After identifying themselves, the agents began hacking into the computers, Sustaita said."I guess they were looking for information about tickets, passengers and sales," he said.

Re: Border Business Woes
If the businesses in San Diego experience a drop of 60% of their sales due to less Mexican shoppers from over the border, why don't they move their businesses across the border to Mexico? Why should the "gringo taxpayers" help them with money?

Reuters / CNN
Malaysia to whip illegals
Malaysia is planning to whip people entering the country without valid documents, even for a first offence, newspapers reported on Sunday. -- At present only second-time offenders are liable to be whipped. -- The New Straits Times quoted Immigration Department Director- General Mohd Jamal Kamdi as saying changes to the Immigration Act would go to parliament next March. -- "The amendments are more or less finalised," Jamal was quoted as saying.		 NY Post - Dick Morris
A fake fix on immigration
How would you like to let 100,000 non- immigrant students and such from Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Syria, Cuba and North Korea into the United States next year? -- The Senate is considering and likely to pass a bill sponsored by Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) which lets the State Department admit them if it finds that they do "not pose a threat to the safety or national security of the United States according to standards developed by the Secretary of State."

Allan Wall - FrontPageMag.com
Mixed Signals From Mexico
Is Mexico our ally in this war? The mixed signals its government has been sending the past few months have not been encouraging. -- President Fox did respond rapidly - on September 11 - publicly expressing his sympathy and canceling Mexican Independence celebrations scheduled for the following weekend at Mexican diplomatic installations in the United States. -- Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda was more forthright, even hawkish, declaring Mexico's support and asserting that the U.S. had "every right" to retaliate.		 PR Newswire
Auto Theft Rises for First Time in 10 Years
"The study confirms that thieves target a wide range of popular passenger vehicle models," said Bryant. Further, these vehicles are popular in other countries and organized theft rings will illegally export them to foreign destinations." Bryant also recommended that people residing in or near port and border communities take special care to protect their vehicles because of the relatively easy access border crossings and ports provide to vehicle thieves.

Long Beach Press-Telegram
Port security upgrade sought
Local government officials, law enforcement authorities and port executives Monday unveiled a report calling for tougher security measures that include photo identification and background checks on workers at the ports of Long Beach and L.A. -- Union leaders have argued that dockworkers already carry photo identification. Also, they say, backgrounds of marine terminal and port authority employees are scrutinized by police as part of the civil service hiring process.		 Arizona Daily Star
U.S. calls Tucson the hub of illegal- entrant transport
The executives of a bus company conspired with people smugglers and made Tucson the hub of a multistate network that transported up to 300 illegal entrants a day, federal officials charged Monday. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft called the two- year investigation of California-based Golden State Transportation "the largest immigrant- smuggling case ever brought against a United States commercial carrier."

The News - Mexico City
Decrease in Mexican shoppers may trigger economic state of emergency in San Diego
The mayor of San Diego on Monday said he may declare an economic state of emergency to help border businesses recover from a 60 percent drop in sales since the Sept. 11 attacks. -- San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy said he hoped the emergency measures would make small and medium-size businesses on the border eligible for federal and state financial aide, telling local television he would "do whatever it takes to revitalize the border economy."

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