By Timothy Birdnow ——Bio and Archives--July 22, 2014
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"Barack Obama Washington, June 30 (EFE) US President Barack Obama has said the expulsion of the Honduran president by the country's armed forces was illegal and reminiscent of Central America's "dark past". Speaking to reporters alongside visiting Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, Obama repeated his condemnation of Sunday's events in Honduras, where the army ousted President Mel Zelaya and forced him into exile in Costa Rica. "It would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition rather than democratic elections," Obama said in the Oval Office Monday. The situation in Honduras has "evolved into a coup", Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said earlier Monday, , adding that the US does not plan to suspend aid to the Central American nation. "Our immediate priority is to restore full democratic and constitutional order in that country," Clinton Said at a press conference."
"The Hemisphere: A Honduran official has warned that deposed President Mel Zelaya was in league with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to ship drugs to the U.S. If true, can this really be the man the U.S. wants back in power? Foreign Minister Enrique Ortez dropped a bombshell last week when he said Zelaya, the president who was thrown out by a constitutional process June 28 after defying the law, had a little side business with the Caracas caudillo allowing cocaine to roll into Honduras from Venezuela before heading to the U.S. "Every night, three or four Venezuelan-registered planes land without the permission of appropriate authorities and bring thousands of pounds ... and packages of money that are the fruit of drug trafficking," Ortez told CNN En Espanol. "We have proof of all of this. Neighboring governments have it. The DEA has it." If Ortiz is right, the U.S. effort to restore Zelaya to power would be suicidal for U.S. efforts to destroy drug organizations south of our border. It would undercut Mexico's and Colombia's savage drug wars and give drug lords such as the Sinaloa cartel's Shorty Guzman, who has bases in Honduras, reason to strengthen operations. It also means the U.S. must start asking questions about Chavez's role in the drug trade now that U.S.- Venezuelan diplomatic ties are being restored. right now, it's such a hot potato that nobody in either the state department or the drug enforcement administration wants to comment on it."Zelaya had called for drug legalization. One must wonder if there is some link to the Obama Administration's characterization of the removal of Zelaya as a coup and the fact that comrade Manuel wanted to end the drug war. A better question is, is there a benefit to the leftist of the Obama Administration from the violence that has since erupted in the drug trade in Central America? Bear in mind, it is this violence which is driving the explosive invasion of illegal aliens along the southern border of the United States. The Administration recently introduced a softer, gentler anti-drug program that promotes treatment rather than legal sanction, and this mirrors their approach all along. Of course, several states have legalized marijuana in the last few years, and the general attitude towards narcotics is shifting toward legalization. One must ask; if pot is legal why isn't cocaine? Heroin? The minds of newly legalized dope smokers in Colorado or Washington State will not see the difference, and there certainly has been an explosive growth of the drug market since Mr. Obama took office. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,:
"The rate of current illicit drug use among persons aged 12 or older increased from 8.1 percent in 2008 to 9.2 percent in 2012. The rate in 2012 was similar to the rates in 2009 to 2011 (ranging from 8.7 to 8.9 percent), but it was higher than the rates in the years from 2002 to 2008 (ranging from 7.9 to 8.3 percent)."
"The United States is expanding its military presence in Honduras on a spectacular scale. The Associated Press reported this month in an investigative article that Washington in 2011 authorized $1.3 billion for U.S. military electronics in Honduras. This is happening while the post-coup regime of Honduran President Porfirio Lobo is more out of control than ever, especially since the Honduran Congress staged a "technical coup" in December." [...] "In the last few years, the U.S. has been ramping up its military operations throughout Latin America in what the Associated Press called "the most expensive initiative in Latin America since the Cold War." The buildup has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $20 billion since 2002, for troops, ships, clandestine bases, radar, military and police training and other expenses. U.S. military expenditures for Honduras in particular have gone up every year since 2009, when a military coup deposed democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya. At $67.4 million, 2012 Defense Department contracts for Honduras are triple those of 10 years ago. The U.S. spent $25 million last year to make the U.S. barracks at the Soto Cano air base permanent, and $89 million to keep 600 U.S. troops based there. U.S. direct aid to the Honduran military and police continues to climb as well."So, the U.S. was down in Honduras fighting the drug war and yet the situation continued to degrade, to the point where tens of thousands of people are fleeing north to El Norte Americano. Is there perhaps a causal link?
"A pernicious, little-known Obama administration policy -- one that that incentivizes adult illegal immigrants to use children as human shields to escape arrest and deportation at the border -- largely has escaped the media's notice. This same policy is driving the historic surge of children at the border, as everyone from coyotes to illegal immigrant adults already in America seeks to use children to guarantee their safe passage into the country, or to protect them from deportation if they are illegally living here. The flood of illegal immigrant children, piling up like hum an debris on the US border, won't stop until conservatives learn about the obscure Obama administration policy that's deliberately driving it and reverse it. Issued in August of 2013, the policy is called the "Family Interest Directive," and it essentially forbids Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from deporting, arresting or even detaining any illegal immigrant who is the caretaker of a child. That includes parents, legal guardians and even unrelated adults who merely claim they care for the child in question. The theory behind the directive is that it would be morally wrong to separate children from their "caretakers."Couple this with threats by Obama to amnetize illegals through Executive Order, it is little wonder that this flood of illegals are pouring into our country. And this President knew this was coming. Here is an interesting policy paper by the National Center for Border Security at the University of Texas El Paso. What is interesting is this was commissioned by the U.S. government, and shows foreknowledge of the coming "humanitarian crisis".
Both Border Patrol and ICE ERO officers agreed that the lack of deterrence for crossing the US-Mexican border has impacted the rate at which they apprehend UACs. Officers are certain that UACs are aware of the relative lack of consequences they will receive when apprehended at the U.S. border. UTEP was informed that smugglers of family members of UACs understand that once a UAC is apprehended for illegal entry into the United States, the individual will be re-united with a U.S. based family member pending the disposition of the immigration hearing. This process appears to be exploited by illegal alien smugglers and family members in the United States who wish to reunite with separated children. It was observed by the researchers that the current policy is very similar to the ‘catch & release’1 problem that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) faced prior to the passage of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. (uac - unaccompanied alien child) [...] UTEP was informed that the number of UAC arrests have more than doubled in the Rio Grande Valley since 2011. Both Border Patrol and ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officials believe that the numbers will continue to increase, stating that the best-case scenario is a leveling out of UAC numbers. They also believe that the new ‘baseline’ for UAC flow in the region is now at the elevated level of at least fiscal year 2013. Officials from ICE ERO informed UTEP that in October of 2013, the average intake of UACs received per day was 662. Given these numbers, UACs are a priority for all agencies involved and are processed before adults. In addition, UTEP was informed that CBP and ICE ERO experience a surge in overall arrests over weekends, with the peak days of the week for the U.S. Border Patrol being Saturday through Monday.So this has actually been happening since 2011. Interesting; the year after the Democrats took a beating in the off-year elections, with the rise of the Tea Party. And we had a strong presence in Honduras, remember. Judi McLeod, writing at Canada Free Press, points us to a Liberty News article that shows that the government was prepping for this children's crusade from Central America for several years, and was paying Catholic and Baptist churches large sums of money to assist in this plot to overrun the United States with Central American children. Once inside the U.S. these "children" are being scattered to the four winds, sent all over the interior of the United States. And, thanks to a law designed to stop human trafficking that allows children from non-contiguous nations to stay, Mr. Obama is creating an new nation inside of our country. He is breeding the old Americans into a minority. But that's not all; the Department of Housing and Urban Development are asserting the right to control zoning in private communities, and are using money to promote According to Ray Ramano of Net Right Daily:
"In 2012, HUD dispersed about $3.8 billion of these grants to almost 1,200 municipalities. According to La Raza’s comment in favor of the regulation, “Hispanic families often do not know their housing rights and have cited fear of deportation as reason for not reporting rights violations.” This is telling. By La Raza's own analysis, then, HUD implementation of the racial rezoning rule will benefit those who "have cited fear of deportation"--that is, low-skilled, low-income illegal immigrants, either those who were outright illegal the moment they set foot in the U.S. or who have simply overstayed their visas. After all, who else would fear deportation? Therefore, one of the sure effects of HUD's regime will be to flood unwilling communities with a significant percentage of illegal immigrants. While the current relocation of thousands, including children, from detention centers on the U.S.-Mexico border has garnered national headlines and the ire of elected Republicans including Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Gov. Dave Heineman (R-Neb.), the HUD regulation has largely flown under the radar. But it's every bit as important. It's not enough to arbitrarily implement amnesty--whether through refusal to enforce existing law or Congressional action--the federal government wants to draw the maps of where the new residents will live, forcing local communities to make room whether they like it or not. And there may be nothing more to it than a cynical partisan motive. It is no secret that Republicans with their low tax message tend to do better among the middle and upper middle classes, while Democrats with their social welfare regime tend to do better among the poor. The political effect of the HUD rule will invariably be to gerrymander Republican districts at the local level."More and more this invasion by illegals appears to be an overarching plan, something designed to "do the work of remaking America". I cannot help but believe this whole thing has been planned. I have made the argument that many on the Left, and especially the "citizens of the World" types like Barack Obama, William Ayers, George Soros, and those who have supported Obama's rise to power see America as filled with racist bigots and greedy white capitalists who want to oppress minorities and steal all the wealth they can while despoiling the natural world. They want to breed out the more disagreeable characteristics of the American public, the stiff-necked, willful advocacy of liberty, the religious superstition, the desire to live better than others. So they will breed these traits out of us by bringing in another people. That is a large part of the motivation of those who want open borders, as I argue at American Thinker here and here. This will also benefit them politically, creating nations inside of the U.S. that will not be digested and thus diluting the power of the American People. Multiculturalism exists to promote this very thing; it is not about blending good traits of immigrants into the American melting pot so much as to create nations within nations. We know how well that has worked out in the Balkans, or in the Caucasus, or in Rwanda, or Israel, or India. Nations generally cannot coexist in the same space. There is as yet no smoking gun, but the circumstantial evidence is growing quite large, and I suspect a good investigative reporter, one who speaks fluent Spanish, would find evidence down in Central America of steps taken to pave the way for this invasion. We know that Central American governments have been promoting illegal colonization of the United States. This nation will collapse if we continue on this trajectory, and I suspect that William Ayers and the other communists in Obama's circle know this full well. I've made that very case here. I think this was planned all along, long before Mr. Obama was elected President. I think that eventually the truth will come out. So Let us pray it is not too late.
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Timothy Birdnow is a conservative writer and blogger and lives in St. Louis Missouri. His work has appeared in many popular conservative publications including but not limited to The American Thinker, Pajamas Media, Intellectual Conservative and Orthodoxy Today. Tim is a featured contributor to American Daily Reviewand has appeared as a Guest Host on the Heading Right Radio Network. Tim’s website is tbirdnow.mee.nu.