Don’t count on the State Legislature for help; They’ve joined the ranks of the Aztlan inclined.

Commentary:   It seems to me some of the most ruthless terrorists we have inside our borders are our own lawmakers.  Legislators like the infamous Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Phoenix have gleefully taken up the fight of the invaders.  As long as our Federal Government refuses to take a stand and enforce the laws that already exist, groups like the Minutemen are necessary and needed.    In regards to some of the minutemen carrying a side arm…  I should hope so!  Real terror-gangs such as  Mara Salvatruchas(MS13) are opposing the Minutemen and trying to keep the flow of human and drug smuggling alive and well.  Why isn’t Ms. Sinema concerned about that?  Is she on the Cartel payroll?  Last time I checked, carrying a firearm in the State of Arizona is completely legal provided you keep it visible (unless you have a concealed carry permit) and you’re not a convicted felon.  The Minutemen are doing the job that the Feds can’t or won’t do.  In their endeavor, not only are they doing what is required of them as American citizens, they are doing what is expected of them as American citizens.  The Marxist Ms. Sinema would just love to hold a press conference where she personally can hand over Arizona to Mexico and declare it New Aztlan.

Law would make Minutemen
guilty of domestic terrorism

‘Patrolling to detect alleged illegal activity’
while carrying any weapon would be felony  

By Jay Baggett
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

An Arizona lawmaker has introduced a bill to revise the state’s statutes on organized crime and fraud by defining “domestic terrorism” in such a way that members of the Minuteman Project or other border-patrol groups could be prosecuted and forced to serve a minimum six-month jail term.  Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Phoenix, introduced HB 2286in the Arizona House on Thursday.  Sinema, formerly of the Green Party, had earlier submitted a bill asking the legislature to make changes to a law used to prosecute customers of immigrant smugglers as conspirators under Arizona’s human trafficking law.  “None of us every dreamed it would be used in a co-conspirator fashion,” Sinema said. 

As WND reported, it was federal inaction that motivated Arizona lawmakers to approve the new law creating the crime of smuggling in 2005. Maricopa County District Attorney Andrew Thomas announced he would interpret the law to mean illegals caught with a smuggler could be prosecuted as co-conspirators if they paid a coyote to transport them across the border.  “If the customer pays a dope peddler money, he’s violated the law,” said Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who compares the relationship between coyotes and illegals to drug dealers and their customers. “(Here), they’re paying for transport.”         

That law was upheld last year by a county judge after defense attorneys questioned its constitutionality. Last month, the same judge who upheld the law also overturned the first jury conviction of an illegal immigrant charged as a conspirator under the law, Associated Press reported.

Now, Sinema is targeting border-security groups like the Minutemen with new legislation that would define anyone not formally affiliated with law enforcement, who patrolled in search of illegal activity while armed, as a domestic terrorist. If it becomes law, the bill would impose a mandatory minimum jail sentence, even if prosecutors recommend probation.

HB 2286 reads:

Sec. 2. Title 13, chapter 23, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 13-2320, to read:

13-2320. Domestic terrorism; classification

A. An individual or group of individuals commits domestic terrorism if the individual or group of individuals are not affiliated with a local, state or federal law enforcement entity and associate with another individual or group of individuals as an organization, group, corporation or company for the purpose of patrolling to detect alleged illegal activity or to individually patrol for the purpose of detecting alleged illegal activity and if the individual or group of individuals is armed with a firearm or other weapon.

B. Any city, town or county that suffers injury arising out of a violation of this section may maintain an action in superior court for the recovery of damages or for an injunction, or both. The court may award the successful party reasonable attorney fees.

C. If the court sentences the defendant to a term of probation, the court shall order that as an initial condition of probation the defendant be imprisoned in the county jail for a period of not less than six months. This jail term of incarceration shall not be deferred, deleted or otherwise suspended and shall commence on the date of sentencing. This subsection does not apply to persons who are sentenced to serve a period of incarceration in the state department of corrections.

D. A violation of this section is a class 5 felony.

Sinema and other Democrat legislators joined the ACLU and the American Friends Service Committee as legal observers during the Minutemen’s project on the Arizona-Mexico border in April 2005.  “I’ve been monitoring the Minutemen for a year now,” Sinema told vigilantewatch.org at the time, “and they’re just scary.”

“Race-based tactics always lead to violence,” she insisted. “Remember, the Ku Klux Klan was the first-ever group to patrol the border between the U.S. and Mexico back in the ’70s.”

As WND reported, a leader of the violent, terror-connected Latin American gang Mara Salvatruchas, Ebner Anivel Rivera-Paz, had reportedly issued orders from federal prison to members of his international criminal organization to teach a lesson to the group of Americans taking border control into their own hands.

The Mara Salvatruchas, founded in Los Angeles, has become one of the most violent and widespread gangs throughout South America, the U.S. and even Canada. Many of its members and leaders have been deported from the U.S., but the group is said to be deeply involved in cross-border arms-running and drug-smuggling operations, according to U.S. law enforcement sources.  Under Sinema’s bill, volunteers who still want to assist law enforcement by being eyes and ears along the border will have to do so unarmed.

Sinema was awarded the “Vladimir I Lenin” award from Arizona Federation of Taxpayers in 2005, a tongue-in-cheek honor given to the “most pro-big government legislator.” In 2006, she angered many conservatives when, in a magazine interview, she referred to them as “Neanderthals” and said women and moms who stay at home and don’t work are dependent on men and “leeching off their husbands.”

Hispanic swing to Democrats not permanent, La Raza says

Commentary:  Groups such as the latino supremicists “La Raza”, have and will continue to achieve political influence and control by methods so simple as going to the polls and voting.  Thier “Re-Conquista” agenda shows no loyalty to any particular party or candidate, but rather, to the cause.  They vote thier movement to power.  While I agree the tactics are sound and productive to thier agenda, I wonder how many are actually legally entitled to cast thier ballots.  

WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats recaptured a big part of the Hispanic vote in the November midterm election, support that Latino activists caution won’t necessarily be there in the next contest.

Nearly seven in 10 Hispanic voters supported Democrats in the congressional elections, according to exit polls. But that’s not the whole story. Republican candidates in several key states did well among Hispanics, suggesting that Latinos could be important swing voters in the 2008 presidential election.”Part of the defection had to do with dissatisfaction with the president, not necessarily satisfaction with the Democrats,” said Clarissa Martinez de Castro, state policy director for the National Council of La Raza, the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights group. “The Democrats will have to make sure they address the concerns of Latinos to keep that support.”Democrats have long counted on Hispanic voters as a core constituency, so they were concerned after President Bush captured about 40 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2004. That was the most ever for a GOP presidential candidate. “I think there was an assumption that Latinos were becoming more Republican,” said Lionel Sosa, an adviser on Hispanic outreach for Bush’s campaigns. “But the fact is the Latino is becoming more of a swing voter – no longer voting the Democratic Party line, but not calling themselves Republican, either.”  Hispanics are the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the country. But they don’t have proportionate political power in part because many are non-citizens, making them ineligible to vote.In some states, though, Hispanic voters make up a significant part of the electorate, including Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada – fast-growing places that could be important battlegrounds in 2008. All four states voted for Bush in 2004, but Democrats have had recent success in each state.”That is where both parties need to focus for the future,” Sosa said.Republicans in Arizona and Nevada received significant support from Hispanic voters in November. Sen. Jon Kyl carried 41 percent of the Arizona Hispanic vote in his re-election victory, according to exit polls. In Nevada, Republican Jim Gibbons won the governor’s race with 37 percent of the Hispanic vote. Analysts say it’s unlikely that a majority of U.S. Hispanics would back a Republican for president in 2008. Rather, national GOP candidates can expect to receive somewhere between 30 percent and 45 percent of the Hispanic vote, said Roberto Suro, director of the Pew Hispanic Center, a research organization in Washington. But in a close presidential race, the difference between those percentages could be decisive. Hispanics “are not swing voters in the way that white middle-class men have been for the past 20 years, like the Reagan Democrats,” Suro said.Suro said it would take a “seismic shift” for a Republican to garner 50 percent of the Hispanic vote nationwide. However, he added, Republicans would be disappointed to get only 30 percent.Many Hispanics were angered by the hard line some Republicans took on the illegal immigration debate, and it showed at the polls.”Latinos are no different than anybody else; they don’t want to be used,” said Rep. Grace Napolitano, D-Calif., outgoing chairwoman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.The outgoing Republican National Committee Chairman, Ken Mehlman, said there isn’t unanimity on the immigration issue within his party. He noted that Bush supported an immigration bill that would have provided an eventual path to citizenship for many illegal immigrants.Mehlman worked hard to reach out to Hispanic and black voters during his tenure as party chairman. His successor, Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida, was born in Cuba and is expected to continue the effort.Immigration is a big issue among Hispanics in the United States, but it’s not the only one of importance. When Latinos were asked in a recent survey to name the most important problem facing the country, more said the war in Iraq and the economy than illegal immigration.However, when asked about the most important problem facing the Latino community, far more said illegal immigration than any other issue. The survey, called the 2006 National Latino Survey, was conducted over nine months by a team of university professors from across the country.