Janet Napolitano Must Go
I was wrong. Janet Napolitano is not a nincompoop. She’s dangerously incompetent and dishonest as well.
Here is what she said earlier this week about our border with Canada.
The furor began when Napolitano was asked to clarify statements she had made about equal treatment for the Mexican and Canadian borders, despite the fact that a flood of illegal immigrants and a massive drug war are two serious issues on the southern border.
“Yes, Canada is not Mexico, it doesn’t have a drug war going on, it didn’t have 6,000 homicides that were drug-related last year,” she said.
“Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it’s been across the Canadian border. There are real issues there.”
When asked if she was referring to the 9-11 terrorists, Napolitano added: “Not just those but others as well.”
When she was called on it, this is how she responded.
I can’t talk to that. I can talk about the future. And here’s the future. The future is we have borders.
Can someone, anyone, tell me what in the blue hell that means?
Of course that’s our future, though if she and the rest of her transnational left-wing friends have a darned thing to do with it, it won’t be. But that’s a subject for another time. The point is, borders aren’t just our future but our past and present, too, but what does that have to do with the price of maple syrup in Saskatoon?
Unfortunately for the citizens of both countries, she wasn’t done. Once she regained her composure, and someone told her that it probably wasn’t the best thing to leave the entire country of Canada ticked off at her, she came back with an answer that was, if not correct, at least on topic.
“I know that the September 11th hijackers did not come through Canada to the United States,” she said in the statement.
“There are other instances, however, when suspected terrorists have attempted to enter our country from Canada to the United States. Some of these are well-known to the public — such as the Millennium Bomber — while others are not due to security reasons.”
Okay, that was better, but it doesn’t actually correct what she said in the first place. She said, twice, that terrorists actually came into the United States over the Canadian border, not that they tried and were caught. There is a difference and I would expect the Secretary of Homeland Security not to confuse the two on purpose to cover her own ignorance.
Her bumbling, though, had revealed an even bigger problem than her penchant for dishonesty. Her implication that the Canadian border is more dangerous than the Mexican border is what ticked off our neighbors because it simply isn’t true. Pretending that there is no substantial difference between the two could very well get innocent Americans killed.
At this point, she’s already proven that she would rather lie to cover her rear than tell the truth and that she’s willing to put us at greater risk rather than face reality. Either one should be enough to earn her a pink slip. The President needs to demand her resignation. If he can’t summon the courage to fire her, she should resign. She is unfit, dishonest, and dangerous to us all.
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Janet ( from another planet) Napolitano has got to go. this matronly ex gov from the sunny state of Az must have spent most of her time in office in the sun on her patio at the gov's mansion.
She just does NOT get it.
Illegal aliens are not criminals? Illegal boarder crossing is NOT a crime? The capper to her mindset comes out to show her thinking on veterans of the United Stastes."Most homeless and indigent vets are radical right wingers" that'll get a lot of attention. the Commander of the american Legion has already expressed his thoughts-She has to go. The AL, VFW and DAV guys are all 501 chartered so they have to watch what they say. they can lose their desks and phones at all government and V.A. facilities if they bruise the Admin, so they are usually known for just making "A strong statement"
Out statement and from the hundred or so email that we have gotten in just the past few days, is definately Janet did not make a frueden slip on the radical vet metaphor–she actually thinks this way. Thats dangerous. this one won't go away. Vets are writing O'Rielly, Limbaugh and their congress critters that Janet is toast.
In America recently thousands of Americans banded together in order to stage mass protest "tea parties" throughout the nation in response to the recent bank bail-outs, stimulus, high taxes and lack of regulation over the Federal Reserve, a private banking institution which regulates and controls this nation's currency.
Prior to these organized events, a memo was issued from the Department of Homeland Security which now is targeting dissident Americans who do not hold with the federal government's continuing violations upon America's Constitution, including returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, as "extreme right wing" terrorists.
This memorandum was distributed to state and local law enforcement agencies throughout the nation.
The memorandum in part, had this to say with respect to it's definition of "right wing extremism:"
"Rightwing extremism," the report said in a footnote on Page 2, goes beyond religious and racial hate groups and extends to "those that are mainly anti-government, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely."
"It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," said the report, which also listed gun owners and veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as potential risks."
Several members of Congress are now confronting the Department's Secretary in an effort to gain an explanation for the broad-based and open ended language contained in the memo, which actually targets any and all who may disagree with governmental policy – although in America such dissident protests and positions are protected under the American Bill of Rights affording the right to "free association and assembly" and "freedom of speech."
In fact, these are fundamental rights and freedoms given to all natural or naturalized Americans, which restrictions in England actually were the basis of America's Revolutionary War in 1776.
Interesting enough, however, mention by these same Congressmen now objecting has not been made that in late 2007 over 400 members of the House passed an Act, "The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorist Act of 2007" in which such broad based language was included which actually is responsible for Ms. Napolitano's issuance of such an illegal and unlawful memorandum.
That doesn't, in and of itself, excuse Ms. Napolitano. After all, she is an attorney and should know that such an "Act" is a basic violation of the U.S. Constitution and prohibited under it. She is, after all, also as Secretary of Homeland Security bound by the Constitution in the execution also of her duties and not to Congress or the President – but the Constitution.
This Bill passed overwhelmingly in the House, although it is unclear whether or not it has yet been addressed or passed by the Senate. However, Senate members must be aware of it because sums in order to fund the provisions under it for the Department of Homeland Security for the National Fusion Center and these memos was included in the stimulus package. And those that are outraged now had the choice of abstaining from voting on the stimulus until they had the time to read it, so that is also no excuse but merely is political posturing for the public at this point.
This Act makes not simply acts of violent terrorism by foreigners against the country or American people a crime, but the mere political disagreement or political ideology which differs with elected or appointed governmental officials by Americans a crime in and of itself.
In short, governmental tyranny at it's core, and a fundamental violation of the basis upon which this entire nation was founded.
In fact, the Department of Homeland Security, according to a YouTube video, is using this Act in order to now rewrite American history, teaching local and state government officials that the founding fathers of this nation were actually the first terrorists.
Global socialism as exhibited with the AIG bailout, now is not only destroying this nation's economy, but it's very essence, by those now in Washington who have abandoned the very principles and foundations upon which those founders fought – freedom over governmental tyranny.
Actually, it appears this Act and memo have made the government itself a "hate group" of the majority of a significant number of the American people, by last polls, that do not agreement with the onging War in Iraq, stimulus provisions, Federal Reserves arbitrary monetary policies. It appears that instead of the government being representative of the people, it is now it's own hate group targeting the people.
You can read the provisions of the Senate version (S-1959) of this bill at:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill…
It is outrageous that this person is our head of homeland security. The department which she leads was created as a direct result of the 9/11 attacks and she can not even correctly identify how those attackers gained entry to the US. Her double talk to back out of this ridiculous display of not knowing anything about her job is even more embarassing.
Dissapointing that she doesn't know how the 9/11 murderers came into America but U.S. veterans seem to be a threat worthy releasing advisories. She is a buffoon.