Americans prefer plain talk to pandering and platitudes

oped: Well Bob all I have to say about 'The Donald':  http://sharlaslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2015/07/donald-trumpcarnival-barker-extrodinaire.html 

And forget Rand Paul...weak on security and the military...akin to his dad Ron!

 by Bob Livingston 

Republican presidential candidates are tripping all over themselves and each other in their efforts to run away from a winning issue that hits too close to home for their corporate overlords and political sugar daddies. While they run, Donald Trump is rocketing from crazy uncle to legitimate contender status because he’s saying what most Americans are thinking: Illegal aliens are criminals — many of them violently so — and the border needed to be closed 20 years ago.
Trump’s actual statement was:

When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

Front-runner Jeb Bush responded: “This is a guy who was a Democrat for most of the last decade. I don’t think he represents the Republican Party, and his views are way out of the mainstream of what most Republicans think.”
Bush is right only if the “most Republicans” he’s talking about are the establishment, progressive neocon Republicans inhabiting the District of Criminals and their crony overlords. He’s not talking about the Republican voters out in the hinterlands.

The history- and logic-challenged Rick Perry said:

Listen, Hispanics in America and Hispanics in Texas, from the Alamo to Afghanistan, have been extraordinary people, citizens of our country and of our state. They have served nobly. And to paint with that broad a brush that Donald Trump did is — I mean he’s going to have to defend those remarks. I never will. And I will stand up and say that those are offensive, which they were.

Trump was not referencing those who “have served nobly.” And “service” – meaning, in Rick Perry’s world, those who joined the military-industrial complex to serve as cannon fodder for the globalists, banksters and American imperialism — does not suddenly make one who broke the law any less a criminal. Nor is the military — or any of the other branches of the government law enforcement apparatus — free of criminal Hispanic (and other) gangs.

The 2013 FBI National Gang report claims that gangs like the Hispanic Latin Kings, MS-13, Sureños and Vagos MC have infiltrated very U.S. military branch.

Gang employment in law enforcement agencies, correctional facilities, judiciary or courts, and the US military threatens national security and thwarts law enforcement efforts to combat gang crimes.

The report continues:
By means of transfers and deployment, military affiliated gang members extend their operations and thereby potentially undermine security at military installations; some OMG support clubs, for example, utilize active duty personnel to expand OMG presence to other regions.

• As of June 2013, the NGIC identified at least 60 gangs whose members or associates have been either enlisted or have attempted to gain employment in the military or various government agencies. Of these gangs, 54 had members who served in the military or who were otherwise affiliated with the military.
• 2013 survey results show 16 law enforcement agencies reported that, in areas within or adjacent to their jurisdictions, a gang presence exists on military installations.
• Law enforcement officials in 38 jurisdictions report that the Black P Stones, Bloods, Crips, Gangster Disciples, DMI, Latin Kings, Sureños, and OMG groups such as the Bandidos, HAMC, Pagans, Untamed Rebels, Vagos, Warlocks, and Wolf Pack MCs are encouraging members without criminal records to enlist in the military to obtain weapons expertise, combat training, or access to sensitive information. 
• Gang members in the military engage in a host of criminal activities both on and off military installations. Gang members in the military, like their civilian counterparts, commit crimes, to include: drug trafficking, assaults, threats, intimidation, weapons trafficking, robberies, thefts, burglaries, fencing stolen goods, vandalism, and homicides.
  And lest Perry forget, Pat Buchanan reminded him the Mexicans at the Alamo were trying to destroy it and kill everyone inside (which they ultimately did) and it would be almost nine years after the Alamo before Texas became a part of these United States.
  
  Mike Huckabee’s response was to float a straw man, claiming he would, “never besmirch all the people who come here.” Nor did Trump.
  The establishment’s No. 2 darling and fallback option, the not-qualified-because-he’s-not-a-natural-born-citizen Marco Rubio, deflected by claiming that Trump’s comments “distract from the very serious debate on hand and that is this: We have a broken legal immigration system and an illegal immigration problem that isn’t just composed by the way of a porous border with Mexico.”
  Rubio continued his sophistry with the remark that 40 percent of illegal immigrants in America are “coming legally, [but] they are overstaying visas,” meaning that 60 percent of them are coming across the border illegally and 100 percent of them have engaged in criminal behavior, as Trump alleged.
  
  Ben Carson, Rick Santorum and also-not-qualified-because-he’s-not-a-natural-born-citizen Ted Cruz alone didn’t seek to distance themselves from Trump. Rand Paul avoided the issue entirely.
  But while the corporatist class that benefits from illegal immigration by the ready pool of workers content with slave wages and the politically correct crowd abandoned him, the people embraced him and Trump took a huge leap in the polls almost overnight. And then Trump got an assist on news that five-time deportee and illegal alien Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez allegedly shot and killed Kate Steinle in San Francisco.
  Americans in their hearts know that Trump is right and that what the political class tells them about illegal immigration is wrong. They may be afraid to admit it — afraid of the PC police and afraid to buck the crowd and conventional wisdom — but their hearts tell them Trump is right. And they’re latching onto Trump because they know he’s right and they admire that he’s not afraid to say it, not afraid to stand up to the globalists and corporatist oligarchs controlling American government and politics to the detriment of the people.
  
  They know he’s right because they see stories like these:
• Grant Ronnebeck, 21, was gunned down while clerking at a QuikTrip store in Mesa, Arizona, in January, allegedly by illegal alien Apolinar Altamirano, a criminal with a felony burglary conviction. “Since Grant’s death we’ve learned that 121 undocumented immigrants who were released while awaiting deportation after committing crimes were later charged with homicides between 2010 and 2014,” wrote EJ Montini of the Arizona Republic.
• Jamiel Shaw Jr. was gunned down execution style on the street near his Los Angeles home. An illegal alien released from prison on a gun charge days earlier was charged in the crime. Shaw’s father, a black man, says he now plans to vote for Trump because he’s “trying to stop illegal immigration.” 

• Manuel Perez-Vasquez, 29, told police he was high on drugs when he crossed the center line of a Maricopa, Arizona, road on July 4, crashing a Ford SUV into a vehicle carrying a mother and her two children, FOX 10 reported. Perez-Vasquez is an illegal immigrant who has been deported back to Mexico six times in three years.
• Juan Francisco De Luna Vasquez, who confessed to murdering his wife with a hammer in Laredo, Texas, is a four-time deported illegal immigrant who would not have been in the U.S. had he not been able to illegally cross back into the country multiple times from Mexico after his deportations. Additionally, the Laredo Police Department continuously encountered the man in violent episodes with his wife, yet did not notify Border Patrol, according to federal agents who spoke with Breitbart Texas on the condition of anonymity. 
• Prudencio Fragos-Ramirez, 25, an illegal alien from Mexico who was deported last year, is accused of fatally shooting and burning a Washington woman and her son in the woman’s car. The bodies of 18-year-old Maria Cruiz-Calvillo and her 3-year-old son, Luis Lopez-Cruz, were discovered in a remote area on Thursday. The two had gunshot wounds, but the boy was likely still alive when the car was set ablaze, according to Franklin County coroner Dan Blasdel.  According to the Tri-City Herald, Fragos-Ramirez was last deported in 2014 but had re-entered the country illegally. He has a rap sheet that includes charges for DUI and driving with a suspended license.
• Felix Rodriguez, a 67-year-old sex offender convicted of raping children as young as 4 in the 1990s, was freed in 2009 because Cuba would not take him back. Months later, he fatally shot his girlfriend in Kansas City, Missouri. He pleaded guilty and is serving 10 years in a Missouri prison. 
• Andrew Rui Stanley, convicted in 2000 of multiple counts of sodomizing a child when Stanley was 14, was released in 2009 after Brazil failed to provide a passport needed to send him home. For the next two years, he viciously abused three children in St. Louis and now, at age 31, will be in prison for the rest of his life.
• Santos Hernandez Carrera raped a woman at knifepoint and subsequently spent half his life in prison. But rather than being deported to Cuba when is term was up — and as the public sex offender registry claimed — Carrera, diagnosed with mental illness, was released in Florida. Rodriguez, Stanley and Carrera are just a few of hundreds of such cases uncovered by The Boston Globe.The Globe report indicated that often ICE has no idea where released criminal and sex offender aliens go once they are set out on the public.
• The Federation for American Immigration Reform website has dozens more examples of illegals, many of them previously deported, who have committed heinous crimes. 
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And the people know that in their government, neither Republicans nor Democrats seem to care because of facts like these:
In 2013, ICE freed 36,007 convicted criminal aliens from detention who were awaiting the outcome of deportation proceedings, according to a document obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies. This group included aliens convicted of hundreds of violent and serious crimes, including homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping and aggravated assault. The list of crimes also includes more than 16,000 drunk or drugged driving convictions. The vast majority of these releases from ICE custody were discretionary, not required by law (in fact, in some instances, apparently contrary to law), nor the result of local sanctuary policies. The document reveals that the 36,007 convicted criminal aliens freed from ICE custody in many instances had multiple convictions. Among them, the 36,007 aliens had nearly 88,000 convictions, including: 193 homicide convictions (including one willful killing of a public official with gun); 426 sexual assault convictions; 303 kidnapping convictions; 1,075 aggravated assault convictions; 1,160 stolen vehicle convictions; 9,187 dangerous drug convictions; 16,070 drunk or drugged driving convictions; and 303 flight escape convictions.

• During the tenure of the undocumented usurper currently despoiling the People’s House, ICE officials have knowingly released more than 165,000 criminally convicted illegal immigrants.
• According to a 2011 report by the Government Accountability Office, the number of criminal aliens in federal prisons in fiscal year 2010 was about 55,000. The number of State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) incarcerations in state prison systems and local jails was about 296,000 in fiscal year 2009 (the most recent data available), and the majority were from Mexico. The GAO estimates that costs to incarcerate criminal aliens in federal prisons and SCAAP reimbursements to states and localities ranged from about $1.5 billion to $1.6 billion annually from fiscal years 2005 through 2009. About 68 percent of the approximately 51,000 criminal aliens incarcerated in federal prison at the end of December 2010 were citizens of Mexico; and almost 90 percent were citizens of one of eight Hispanic countries, including Mexico. 
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• Illegals accounted for nearly 37 percent of all federal sentences in fiscal year 2014. Today, about 36 percent of the current prison population is illegal aliens; and 71 percent of those are Mexicans.

While most of the criminal aliens in the country are Mexican, Mexico is complicit in sending illegals from Central and South America countries straight to the U.S., and has agreements with those countries to do so. Although it has stronger immigration laws than the U.S., Mexico has an open corridor for illegals to stream through that country on the way to America unhindered by government.
The establishment — by that, I mean the unseen adepts who control the world (i.e., the globalists, banksters, the Council on Foreign Relations, etc.) — has already deemed that either Bush or Hillary Clinton will be the next president. So Trump’s growing popularity has them terrified.
I do not endorse a Trump presidency. He has no core principles outside of a pursuit of power, another dollar and self-promotion. In other words, he’s a private-sector model of a politician. He’s reality TV on steroids.
Were he to become president, it is doubtless he would expand or seek to expand executive power far beyond what Barack Obama or Bush the lesser ever even dreamed. The Constitution is, to him, no more than an old piece of parchment. To compare a possible Trump presidency to a train wreck is to minimize train wrecks.
The Republican establishment wants a continuous influx of immigrants — both legal and illegal — because the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Silicon Valley and large corporations funding their campaigns and super PACs and setting up their future lobbying gigs tell them they want it. Immigrants are content with slave wages. And an overabundance of potential workers helps keep wages low, which, of course, helps the corporate bottom line.

The Democratic establishment wants a continuous influx of immigrants because the unions that fund their campaigns want a new crop of dues slaves to harvest. Plus, immigrants are of a more socialist bent and embrace the progressive ideals of bigger, nanny-state cradle-to-grave governance, gun control and affirmative action and have a negative view of free-market capitalism.
But Americans are ready for a president who stands up for them, one who understands and can convey the message that illegals are committing crimes almost with impunity and stealing jobs from American workers — particularly from the poor and lower-middle-class whites and blacks — and driving down wages. They are ready for one who is unscripted, who doesn’t cater to the prevailing conventional wisdom and who doesn’t run his campaign on focus group-tested blather.
And it’s not just Republicans looking for someone who comes off as “real” and is not afraid to shoot straight. Democratic voters are embracing socialist Bernie Sanders for much the same reasons Republican voters are warming for Trump.

A real conservative who’s ready to buck conventional wisdom and the PC crowd and who is not afraid to take a stand similar to Trump’s has a chance of breaking through the establishment’s shackles, much as Ronald Reagan did, by attracting Republican and Democratic working-class people to his message.
The illegal immigration issue — both in terms of crimes illegals commit and in terms of their effect on jobs and wages — is a winner with American voters, white and black. And that candidate can count always on criminal illegals giving him new ammunition every couple of weeks.

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