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The illegal alien swing vote

The illegal alien swing vote

The right to vote is precious, the politicians preach. Our democracy hangs in the balance, the pundits screech.
Yes, but if we all value the sanctity of the voting process so highly, why is it that I've never once been asked to produce identification of any kind in the 16 years I've been a voter, from Ohio to California to Washington state to Maryland?
And why is it that we can't protect our elections from people who have no right to vote, no right to be here, and no right to undermine our safety or sovereignty?


Last week, the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch reported that illegal alien Nuradin Abdi -- the suspected shopping mall bomb plotter from Somalia -- was registered to vote in the battleground state of Ohio by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a left-wing activist group. Also on the Ohio voting rolls: convicted al Qaeda agent Iyman Faris, who planned to sabotage the Brooklyn Bridge and had entered the country fraudulently from Pakistan on a student visa.

In the battleground state of Florida, indicted terror suspect Sami Al-Arian illegally cast his ballot in a Tampa referendum in 1994 while his citizenship application was pending. He claimed the unlawful vote was the result of a ''misunderstanding.'' State officials declined to prosecute.
You've heard about those satirical ''10 out of 10 terrorists agree: Anybody But Bush'' bumper stickers? There may be more truth to them than you think. John Fund, author of ''Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy,'' reports that at least eight of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were eligible to vote in Virginia or Florida while they plotted to kill Americans.
What's to stop the next foreign terrorist plotter from casting a tainted ballot in the nation he has sworn to destroy? Not much. According to the Franklin County Board of Elections, the Dispatch reports, the office simply ''takes a person's word, that they're (sic) a U.S. citizen.''

FAIR's investigation also alleges that a deputy registrar in Racine registered two individuals -- one posing as an admitted illegal alien -- and reportedly advised them to lie on their forms. The report notes that the deputy registrar -- working for the open borders lobbying group, Voces de la Frontera -- then gave the couple information on other illegal alien benefits, including employment rights and bank accounts.
Law enforcement officials in Wisconsin -- which has been swamped with voter fraud shenanigans -- have copies of the report, affidavits from the couple who dealt with the registrar and recordings of their conversations. But no action, if any, is likely until after the Nov. 2 election.
Democrats at the state and federal levels have aggressively courted the illegal alien swing vote. The most egregious example, of course, was the taxpayer-funded Citizenship USA program under the Clinton-Gore administration, which abandoned criminal background checks to naturalize 1.3 million immigrants (including scores of criminal alien felons) in time for the 1996 elections.

Ethnic and racial grievance groups, with backing from the likes of Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy, have forcefully opposed basic ID requirements at the polls. And they have armies of lawyers standing by to assist them. Responsible election officials who ask for proof of citizenship will be accused of ''harassment'' and ''intimidation.'' They will be accused of causing a ''chilling effect'' -- never mind the corrosive effect of unchecked illegal alien voter fraud on law, order and the integrity of our electoral system.

Political correctness cost us 3,000 lives on Sept. 11. It may cost us an election on Nov. 2.


By While unhinged Democrats

In My Heart, I Was Already a Cit

Illegal immigrant who served in Iraq becomes citizen


PHOENIX - A 23-year-old undocumented immigrant who served for the U.S. Army in Iraq for eight months was sworn in as a citizen.
''In my heart, I was already a citizen,'' said Pfc. Gildardo Vergara Calderon, following a naturalization ceremony held just for him. ''I've been fighting for a country that has given me so many opportunities. This is just a piece of paper.''

Vergara, who came to the United States illegally from Mexico with his family when he was 14, is one of more than 11,000 so-called ''green card'' soldiers who have become citizens since July 3, 2002, when a law was passed making it easier for legal permanent residents in the U.S. military to become citizens.

There are 38,000 immigrants on active duty who are legal residents but not citizens, said Marie Sebrechts, spokeswoman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Laguna Niguel, Calif


By Illegally Mexico when he was 14

Pennsylvania Is Now A Squeaker

Pennsylvania Is Now A Squeaker

by KYW's Tony Romeo
A day after releasing a poll showing New Jersey ''in play'' (see related story), Quinnipiac University?’s latest poll shows President Bush has erased John Kerry?’s lead in Pennsylvania.

Clay Richards, the assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, cautions that the what the poll really shows is that the race is still too close to call:

''Bush has done a better job in the last week of firming up his base, Republicans and men, while taking away some women voters from Kerry.''


The new Quinnipiac poll shows that Bush is now in front by two percentage points, 49 to 47, among likely voters -- including those ''leaning'' toward a candidate.

Four percent were undecided. The margin of error is 3.3 percent.

Kerry was ahead by five points in the school?’s previous poll, released last Friday.

Richards says the new numbers suggest that Kerry?’s strategy of hammering away at reports of missing explosives in Iraq may be backfiring:

''It shifts the emphasis from the economy, which is clearly a Kerry issue, to Iraq, which is clearly a Bush issue.''

In the latest poll, Kerry still leads by one point among all registered voters.

The results are based on a telephone survey of 909 voters conducted between Friday and Tuesday.


By Clay Richards

It Wasn't Long Before We Were To

Kerry's Radical Past: When Vietnam Protests Turned Violent


I arrived at the University of Washington in Seattle in the fall of 1970, happily prepared to study oceanography on a naval scholarship. I was unprepared for the level of hostility that would greet me, an American soldier in uniform.

At my first meeting with our new commanding officer, a Capt. Dick McNees, he told me to let my hair down--literally. At first I thought he was joking when he told me, ''In order to blend in with the student body, you will let your hair grow.''

More troubling to me was his order that we not wear our uniforms on campus. Capt. McNees was worried that, if we were identified as military servicemen, there would be trouble. We risked not only being verbally harassed, but physically attacked, by the peaceniks. By that point in the Vietnam War, there had been a number of incidents on campus. Two years before, the NROTC building on campus, Clark Hall, had actually been firebombed, sustaining over $100,000 in damage.

Little did I know that things were to heat up even further in the months to come.

My hair had only begun to grow out when, in early1971, members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) met in a Detroit, Mich., hotel to document war crimes that they had supposedly participated in or witnessed during their combat tours in Vietnam. During the next three days, more than 100 self-proclaimed Vietnam veterans (many of whom had been no closer to Saigon than I had at that point in time) gave dramatic, emotional testimony describing hundreds of atrocities against innocent civilians in South Vietnam, including rape, arson, torture, murder, and the shelling or napalming of entire villages. These ''witnesses'' (who later refused to sign affidavits) stated that these acts were being committed casually and routinely, under orders, as a matter of policy.

One of these ''pretenders'' was John Kerry, who emerged from the meeting as the spokesman for Vietnam Veterans against the War (VVAW). Because he had served, if only briefly, as a naval officer in Vietnam, Kerry knew perfectly well that the charges being made by these ''veterans'' were bogus, yet he went about the country loudly accusing American servicemen of committing precisely these crimes.


Around that time, I arrived at the NROTC building one morning to find it cordoned off by police. The windows had been blown out, and there was other evidence of damage. It turned out that someone had planted a bomb in the basement locker room where all the cadets kept their books and uniforms. The explosion at around 7 a.m. caused considerable damage to the locker room, but no deaths or injuries, since the cadets had not yet arrived for their classes. Had the blast occurred later in the day--especially if it had gone off during a class break when the cadets congregated downstairs--it could have been fatal to many.

John Kerry's photograph hangs in the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, in a hall called the ''War Protester's Room.'' It clearly belongs there. The Vietnamese communists placed a high value on Kerry's support of their efforts during the Vietnam War.

It should not hang in Clark Hall, the NROTC building on the University of Washington campus, as the Commander-in-Chief. Nor anywhere else, for that matter.


By Capt. Dick McNees,