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American Exceptionalism A Problem

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Fred Stopsky| Leave a comment

The Republican party is prone to boast how the United States of America is an “exceptional nation” which is not bound by international rules and regulations. International law states that foreign person who is arrested in a strange land has the right to contact someone from their country’s Embassy in order to secure legal help. Humberto Leal, a Mexican national was arrested for the brutal murder of a young girl in Texas, but was never allowed to speak with someone from the Mexican Embassy. Governor Rick Perry, who has denied clemency to 230 cases during his ten year reign as governor of the state. He refuses to hold off the execution of Leal despite pleas by the US State Department. Donald Verrilli, Solicitor of the US, warns there will be serious international complications if the execution takes place. It would result in lessening “the ability of American citizens traveling abroad to have the benefits of consular assistance in the event of detention.”

Heck, we Tea Party folk threw out the British and we don’t want any “furriners” telling us what to do. Anyway, who told an American to spend time with foreigners!

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ON IMMIGRANTS — ANY TYPE!

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Fred Stopsky| Leave a comment

My pap walked a thousand miles to get a boat which took him to America. So does an illegal immigrant walk hundreds of miles. They are my brothers and sisters–WELCOME TO THE PROMISED LAND!

I am an immigrant in heart and soul. So are you. Only you don’t know it.

Each person whether from Asia or Africa or Europe is an illegal immigrant. Heck, the Indians came from Asia and never had the legal right to enter.

Alexander Hamilton was an immigrant who created our banking system.

My uncle was an illegal immigrant from Germany in 1919. The immigration people caught up with him in 1922, The said: “Mr. Zuckerman, you are a hard working baker with two nice children. Study to become a citizen and when you become one, vote.” He did what they asked. How many born here vote in every election?

If I turn my back on an illegal immigrant, I turn my back on myself.

By the way, has anyone ever seen the birth certificate of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Andrew Jackson, etc…?

I am an American and so are any dwelling in our nation.

I once stood on a street in Frankfurt, Germany where my uncles and aunts used to live. I cried in gratitude they had been able to flee Nazi Germany in time. Yes, they were immigrants.

During World War I, one of my uncles fought in the German army, one in the Austrian army, one in the Russian army, and one in the American army. We are an all American family.

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How To End Drug Wars

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Fred Stopsky| Leave a comment

I do not agree with many of Ron Paul’s views on politics or social policy, but one must admit he is the only American political leader who is willing to speak the unmentionable–it is time to legalize drugs and end the madness which envelops so many parts of the Western Hemisphere. Yesterday in Mexico they found 38 bodies strewn along a major highway, people who, either were in a gang shoot-out or happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. During the past four years over 38,000 innocent people have died due to drug lords and drug wars. And, the American people sleep peacefully, unaware their desire for drugs has devastated large areas of Latin America and created two bit thugs who parade around with hundreds of millions which can be used to pay off politicians and police.

The United States lost the drug war during Prohibition and finally admitted the episode was a mistake. It is time to admit another mistake and legalize drugs by placing sales in the hands of the government. Low cost drugs would be available to anyone who enters a drug program or we could simply offer free drugs to heavy users in exchange for rehabilitation programs. The flip side is saving billions in criminal costs, prison construction, and revenue by the sale of drugs.

END THE MADNESS!!

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Speak The Truth, Seek A New Job

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Fred Stopsky| Leave a comment

Carlos Pascual is the American ambassador to Mexico and he does have a grasp as to what must be done to curb drug wars in the country. As a result of Wikileaks, he has been asked to vacate the job seek other employment. What was his crime? Pascual was highly critical of how American and Mexican officials handle the drug wars. He blasted the lack of coordination in Mexico of how to deal with drug lords and was highly doubtful if honesty was the norm in Mexico and expressed concerns about corruption and inefficiency. Naturally, that was the last thing President Felipe Calderon wanted to hear, given that thousands of innocent people have died during his ineffective campaign to curb the spread of gangs and drugs.

There are two issues related to drugs in America and Mexico. One, the need to legalize drugs in the United States and cease creating conditions that allow criminals to become enormously wealthy. Second, confront the issue of widespread corruption in Mexico. Perhaps, if we did number one, we would not have to worry about number 2.

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“Shoot Em Like Hogs”

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Fred Stopsky| Leave a comment

Just when we thought American politicians had run out of creative ideas on how to handle issues and conflicts in our society, a young legislator from Kansas has come to the fore with new solutions to issues of illegal immigrants. Kansas Rep. Virgil Peck stepped up with a new idea concerning the presence of illegal immigrants. Listen to these words of wisdom from a man who stands out for his daring ideas. “Looks to me, if shooting these feral hogs works, we may have found a solution to our illegal illegal immigrant problem.” Another Republican legislator thought he was joking, but Virgil made clear: “I was just speaking like a southeast Kansas person.” One has to admit Virgil is an innovative thinker. One has to admit that Virgil not only speaks what is in his heart but the hearts of many other Americans.

God bless Virgil for revealing the true feelings of so many members of the Tea Party who lack the guts to tell it like it is! Who knows, perhaps America has finally found a man who can beat Barack Obama. The good news is Virgil was born in Kansas, not in Kenya.

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Arizona Checks Hospital Patients

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Fred Stopsky| 1 Comment

A bill is winding its way through the legislature of Arizona which would require hospitals to notify the immigration and naturalization department if they find an illegal immigrant in the building. We assume legislators would favor the following:

Patient: Doctor, will I live?
Doctor: Before I can answer a question from someone who might be an illegal alien, I must first find out if you were born in this country?
P: My folks brought me here when I was a one year old.
D: So, you are not a natural born American? This means your disease could be a foreign born one.
P: I have spent my entire life in Arizona.
D: The law says I can not provide services to an illegal person.
P: But, I was told there had to be a heart operation.
D: Yes, without a heart operation you will die.
P: So, are you saying that you will do nothing and allow me to die?
D: I resent your comment. I am doing something, I am telling you that we can not operate on illegal immigrants.
P: Without the operation I will die!
D: Perhaps, the next time you will tell your parents not to bring you along with them into America.
P: But, I was only one.
D: A one year old can think. You should have thought more carefully about what you were doing.
P: Please don’t let me die.
D: In this country, we want to devote our hospitals for the care of native born Americans.
P: But, I will die.
D: I just got word, the INS will be here to pick up the body.
P: Body?
D: Sorry, our grave yards only accept legal folk.
P: I thought Americans were Christians.
D: We are, we love all Christians born in America!

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Madness Of Anti-Immigrant Movement

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Fred Stopsky| Leave a comment

Every so often one encounters stories which vividly depict the cruelty and hypocrisy of those opposed to immigrants. In the United States right wing Republicans are against the Dream Act which would allow children brought to America at a very young age and who have spent their lives as Americans to be eligible for citizenship. A case of an eight year old boy in the Netherlands highlights the lack of morality and spirituality of those who want to deport immigrants. An eight year old boy from Sri Lanka was brought by his parents who illegally entered the Netherlands several years ago, and today the boy is dying of a brain tumor. Immigration Minister Gerd Leers is reviewing the case. Reviewing! The boy WILL DIE. You cannot claim he will be a drain on your budget for years, he is going to shortly die.

I always give the ‘Jesus Test” to cases like this. What would Jesus Christ do in this case if he was minister of immigration?

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Suffer Little Children, But We Need Drugs

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Fred Stopsky| Leave a comment

Every so often the madness that is drugs shoves a fist into one’s face because it becomes clear those who use drugs are not the only ones suffering because of addictions. A fourteen year old boy, known simply as, “El Ponchis” told Mexican authorities of how he was recruited by drug lords and compelled to perform murders and torture on humans. He was arrested with his teen age sister at an airport. Apparently, he became a hired killer about age ten, and as he told authorities: “I participated in four executions, but I did it drugged and under threat that if I didn’t they would kill me.” His voice in describing crimes in which he beheaded people was calm, sort of matter-of-fact and absent any sign of remorse at what he did in life. the boy was born in America and sent back to Mexico to live with grandparents when he was seized by drug lords. Together with his sister, they worked for Julio “El Negro” Padilla who was involved in a drug war against other gangs.

The boy’s sister described being part of a girl’s gang that was responsible for dumping dead bodies. According to the boy, “when we don’t find the rivals, we kill innocent people, maybe a construction worker or a taxi cab driver.” They are lost children of our refusal to legalize drugs and end drug wars. They are victims who kill the innocent, but those responsible in Washington D.C. will never see the inside of a jail despite their refusal to bring peace to the minds of children.

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Tunnel To Fantasy Land

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Fred Stopsky| Leave a comment

Border police and soldiers discovered a tunnel leading from Mexico to the United States that was the length of six football fields, and at the end of this pathway in San Diego was a warehouse that contained about 20 tons of marijuana. Mexican police were able to find the entrance warehouse which had 10 tons of marijuana. In a sense, finding a tunnel is not a victory, but in reality simply evidence our drug laws and drug counter-actions are not working. OK, they will destroy this tunnel, along with the other 75 that have been found, but tomorow there will be another tunnel, and the day after still another.

When will the American people wake up to the reality one can not stop the use of drugs anymore than we were able in the 1920s to stop consumption of alcohol. We can continue blowing up tunnels or we can begin blowing up laws that do not work. End drug laws, make all drugs legal, tax use of drugs as we tax use of alcohol and have an extra $50 billion a year to use for important things like — developing new industries that create jobs.

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Is California The Future?

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Fred Stopsky| Leave a comment

Mexico is in virtual chaos due to drug wars raging between rival gangs and the past weekend massacre of fifteen young people at a party is undoubtedly linked to one drug lord or another. California is the first state in this nation which has the courage to confront the stupidity of our drug laws that have transformed ordinary honest citizens into criminals. Prohibition did the same for a decade and the result was lawlessness and corruption of police forces and government. Proposition 19 will be a California referendum issue this November. If adopted, it will be legal in California for those 21 years or older to grow or possess marijuana and it would allow local government to license and tax retail outlets which are selling marijuana. An estimated $2 billion will be collected by the government.

The United States did NOT have any drug laws until 1914 when the initial ones were passed in order to criminalize Chinese immigrants who smoked opium. In reality, marijuana in this country is available to anyone. Reality is that middle class people who use drugs rarely wind up in court, and the 750,000 currently in jails for drug offenses are either from poor white or black and Hispanic backgrounds.

Let common sense rule. Allow California to take the first step in ending Mexican drug lords. Legalize drugs and end our madness.

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