Mouth agape at FBI behavior
Re: “FBI plays stupid on Islamist terrorists,” Oct. 7
Diana West’s article questioning, but receiving no answer, why the FBI entertained for six weeks a Hamas operative at the top secret National Counterterrorism Center leaves one’s jaw hanging.
Alternatively, the FBI uses a hostile approach to pro-lifers. On Aug. 25, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice cosponsored a training seminar with Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation.
FBI and DOJ provided an 84-page document prepared by abortion advocates, “Resource Guide: Violence Against Reproductive Health Care Providers,” containing an analysis of alleged pro-life “violence”.
The so-called violence perpetrated by pro-lifers was constitutionally protected free speech: praying, providing women with information, and peaceful protesting or picketing. Violent organizations named in the document include Concerned Women for America, National Right to Life and Priests for Life.
Perhaps the FBI confused the violent Hamas with the peaceful Priests for Life.
William Luksic
Rockville
The nonsense of ‘new Americans’
Monday’s debate between Martin O’Malley and Bob Ehrlich was quite instructive, and no more so for me than when O’Malley used the term “new Americans” to describe illegal aliens not only residing in Maryland but throughout the nation and his support for a “comprehensive” solution to the problem favored by the Democrats and the Obama administration. Leave it to a Democrat to get it wrong on essentially all levels.
So, according to O’Malley and Obama and Democrat logic, anyone arriving in our country by hook or by crook is automatically a “new American” and that designation is rationalized by using the tired and boring anecdote that, hey, we’re all immigrants, in fact we’re a nation of immigrants.
As usual, Martin O’Malley is wrong. We’re not just merely a nation of immigrants. Rather, we’re a nation of legal immigrants. That’s a huge distinction. And under what circumstances should people be allowed to become legal immigrants? As the late, great economist Milton Friedman said, you can’t have open borders in a welfare state.
The immigrants to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the period from which most Americans can trace their immigrant roots, was far different than the situation today. When our relatives came to America, they had four choices after getting off the boat at Ellis Island. They could work, or be supported by relatives and friends, or return to their native country, or roll up in a fetal position and die. That was it.
That is decidedly not the case today, especially for illegal aliens living in Martin O’Malley’s Maryland, where supporting the illegal folks living in our state cost taxpayers over $1.4 billion last year alone in medical, education and justice system services. That’s money that should have been used for the citizens of Maryland as well as the legal immigrants that have moved here. That’s true compassion. That’s Bob Ehrlich’s style of compassion, trying to make the treasure of our state available to those that belong here, not those that lawfully do not.
Here’s a simple rule of thumb to determine the true motives of our Democrat leaders like Martin O’Malley and Barack Obama. How long would it take them to close the American borders if those illegals streaming across would likely be voting Republican instead of Democrat? Draw your own conclusions.
Joel Rosenberg
Ellicott City, Md.
