Anti-Gun Laws Support Criminals

One year ago Australians were required by a new law to forfeit their personal guns. The Australian government spent more than $500 million on this so-called "crime stopping" program.

Over the previous 25 years there had been a steady decrease in armed robberies. Armed robberies have drastically increased over the past 12 months. In addition, other first year results of Australia's new anti-gun program are now revealed, as follows:

• homicides have increased 3.2 percent
• armed assaults have increased 44 percent
• Just in the state of Victoria, homicides have increased 300 percent!
• There have also been dramatic increases in break-ins and assaults on the elderly

Honest citizens followed the law and turned in their guns. The criminals did not! Criminals in Australia are now even bolder in doing what they want, since they know their potential victims can not shoot back.

Let this be a warning to all the flaming, a - - liberals out there. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and protect property, and gun-control laws only benefit criminals.

10-Point Plan To Deal With Illegals

Dear Congressmen,

My comments to you regarding illegal immigration are presented in outline format to make them more easily understood. I offer a firm but fair and objective 10-point proposal to counter our nation's illegal immigration situation.

1. Close our borders to further immigration by Arabs and Mexicans, as well as anyone immigrating from "unfriendly" nations until we have the "illegal" situation under control.

2. Increase surveillance and security at air and shipping ports.

3. Make it a federal felony with stiff punishment and severe fines to hire anyone without a valid social security number, as determined by the IRS. If illegals can't find work there's no reason for them to come to or remain in the U.S. Exponentially increase the fines and sentences for recurring violations by the same person or business.

4. Double ALL penalties for anyone not already a native or naturalized U.S. citizen for any crime they commit in the U.S.

5. Triple ALL penalties for anyone illegally in the U.S. for any crime they commit in the U.S.

6. Bill the country of origin for all costs and penalties adjudged against those in items 4 and 5 above that those individuals cannot feasibly bear themselves. This should prod those countries, primarily Mexico and China, to be more careful as to who they permit to come to the U.S. Affect payment of such costs by reducing the foreign aid and/or trade allowances with those countries.

7. Treat those described in items 4 and 5 above as they would be treated in the prisons of the country of origin, not including, or course, torture or starvation.

8. Children should be considered citizens of their parents' country of origin.

9. Absolutely NO social services afforded to any person or their family members who are in the U.S. without legal status. Let such services be allowed only by nongovernmental social service organizations established to provide such services. Those organizations should be given the legal right to refuse any services to illegal immigrants if they so choose.

10. Repeal the current "chain immigration" regulation that allows individuals who are legally in the U.S. to sponsor an unlimited number of relatives, regardless of how distant their relationship, into the U.S. Such sponsorship should only be permitted for immediate relatives. That would only included parents, spouse, and children, and even they should be required to successfully complete our naturalization process. Those relationships must be proven by official documents from their country of origin.

Congress has had more than ample time to solve this problem. It's past time to stop playing politics with our security and our future, and instead start listening to the American people - your employers.

Bush Attempts To Cover Up

I don't care how much corruption there was in previous Congresses or White House administrations. There comes a time when we must say, "Enough is more than enough!" Maybe that time should have been decades ago. Just because no such stance was taken in the past does not free us from taking a stand today. That was the past and other generations. Do we really want to be equalled to them in our allowance of political corruption and deceit?

The dismissal of up to nine US Attorneys involved in critical public corruption investigations centered around elected and public officials reeks of political maneuvering at a time when scandals at the highest levels of government have rocked America's faith in its institutions of power.

From Jack Abramoff's influence-peddling to Duke Cunningham's "bribery menu," investigations have brought the truth to light and have served as an invaluable purpose to the American public: ensuring that our laws apply to everyone, regardless of station or elected office. To disrupt public corruption investigations derails this process of accountability.

Corruption investigations are no place to play politics. Insulate our US Attorneys from partisan political interference so that they can do their jobs and get to the root of the corruption infecting our government.

More Welfare For The Wealthy!

On an almost party line vote, the House Republicans today voted to grant oil companies $500 million of your tax dollars for exploration of new oil.

Oil company executives in a Senate committee hearing late last month told Congressmen that, though they would gladly accept the money, they do not need such an incentive to explore for more oil sources. According to them the current price of oil, expected to remain high or higher for quite a while, is enough incentive. Even Bush in a press conference urged Congress not to offer the funds.

That's just another moment of evidence that, though Bush has been a problem to the prosperity of average Americans, it's the Republicans in Congress that are the real problems for anyone but the wealthy.

Prove Your Non-Support!

Okay, so the illegals want to teach us how valuable they are to our economy by boycotting all businesses and schools on May 1.

Well, folks, we have the right to reciprocate. Do some research in your area on May 1. Determine all businesses and organizations that supported their boycott. Then boycott them in return for at least 1 month. We can prove to them what little importance they actually have to our economy.

Don't forget the politicians. Any that support the boycott, or support guest worker programs or amnesty for the illegals should be ousted from office for not putting the American workers' needs first and foremost.

Who Gains From Illegal Aliens?

Who stands to gain by allowing illegals to enter and remain in the U.S.?  The most obvious are corporations.  By hiring low-waged illegals they force the acceptable wage rate lower, and their resulting profits higher.  The second group that profits by hiring illegals are large vegetable and fruit farms.  They’re too cheap to invest in crop picking machines, and they don’t have to if they can hire people at below poverty wages.

Lawmakers comprise the third group that favors amnesty for illegals.  This group includes two sub-groups.  The first is those who think more of their corporate sponsors than they do the American workers.  I think of people like Harry Reid and Rick Santorum when I think of this sub-group.  The other is those who stand to gain most from the influx of potential new voters in the 2006 or 2008 elections.  That could be a significant help to people like Hillary Clinton or John McCain.  In fact, I can think of no Congressman or bureaucrat that truly cares about the American worker that is in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens or any form of guest worker program.

Who loses?  The American worker who pays for the welfare, free health care, free education, free child and family services, and the costs of trials and incarceration of illegals when they commit crimes.

Illegals Aren't A Burden?

I’m sick of hearing that illegal aliens are not a burden to the American economy, and the illegals only take low-paying agriculture jobs Americans don’t want.  The facts don’t support either statement.

I decided to undertake a quick study using the most recent publicly available information from INS and the Bureau of Labor Statistics – 2004.  I included only legally naturalized citizens 18 years and older, and only those from Mexico, since that’s where the vast majority of illegals are now coming from.

Here are the results:

• 1.65% serve in our military


• 2.10% are in jail/prison (this includes all Hispanics and is from the Dept. of Justice)


• 12.32% hold administrative and managerial positions


• 22.95% work in construction, manufacturing, transportation, repair and service jobs


• 60.24% are unemployed and subsist through various welfare and social programs


• Only .83% work in any form of agriculture.  Only a small portion of these actually work in the low-paying, migrant type jobs.

Remember, those I’m reporting are only the newest U.S. citizens from Mexico.  Just imagine the costs to American taxpayers for eleven to fifteen million illegals that flooded across our border.

Nooooo.  Illegals won’t take American jobs.  Nooooo.  Illegals won’t be a burden to working class Americans.  We already have 3.7% of our citizens that can’t find work.  The unemployment rate is actually 5.7%, but there is always about 2% of our work force in transition between jobs.  So whose jobs AREN’T the illegals going to take?  Who AREN’T they going to be a burden to?