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Obama & Holder Rush To Lessen Restrictions On Guns For Immigrants

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Coming to a neighborhood near you … guns for legal aliens.  Your President and your Attorney General seem hell-bent on finding ways to arm everyone but citizens of this country.  First, Eric Holder and his DOJ saw to it that weapons were smuggled from this country into the Republic of Mexico, where at least one of the weapons was later used to murder a US Border Patrol Agent — not to mention the other weapons used to murder innocent Mexican citizens.

Now Obama’s administration want to ease the restrictions on purchases of weapons in this nation by legal aliens.

Wait for it.  It’s not far away and you can read about it by following the link posted below:

Guns For Legal Aliens

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For Greater Glory: The Movie

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Pastor Max Comments:

Catholic, non-catholic, believer or non-believer should see this movie “Greater Glory” to grasp a glimpse of what we may be faced with if government takes control of our main family value “Faith”. When in the U.S. Navy in service for this country, I was willing to lay my life down in protection of our freedom. As a family man and a Christian I am more so willing to do so for the protection of my family and certainly to practice my faith in obedience to my Father in Heaven…..For I serve God, Family and Country in that order as they stand together.
Pastor Max


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Opening in Theaters Nationwide on June 1st!

For Greater Glory – starring Andy Garcia, Eva Longoria and Peter O’Toole – is the true story of how the Catholic Church, through a three-year conflict called the Cristero War, won its freedom from the government of Mexico. Pope Benedict XVI, during his recent visit to Mexico, visited the Cristo Rey Monument that honors the Cristero fighters, who took up arms in 1926 when the Mexican government outlawed and forcibly suppressed the Catholic faith – including the public execution of priests and parishioners by hanging and firing squad. Many were martyred for the freedom the Cristero fighters eventually won in 1929.

The film opens June 1st across the country, and we would very much appreciate you helping promote this epic piece of cinema. Cardinal Seán O’Malley blogged about the film and recently offered this:

“As a nation established on the principal of freedom for all people, For Greater Glory reminds us of the important values that we as Americans and Catholics share and must be willing to protect.  This film helps us to understand the history surrounding the Cristero War and its importance in the Mexican Catholics’ efforts to fight for religious freedom and tolerance.  Those values are as relevant today as they were almost one hundred years ago.”    


Below are just two of the recent stories highlighting For Greater Glory. Click on the links below to read each article.

National Catholic Register

 Hollywood Reporter story


With the struggle for religious freedom mounting in our country today, this a film we should all see opening weekend. Consider that the U.S.C.C.B. in its statement on religious liberty from the Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty has plainly emphasized that “the age of martyrdom has not passed.” This film chronicles exactly that and alerts us what lies ahead if we don’t mobilize ahead of November.
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If You Haven’t Heard …

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Then now would probably be an excellent time for you to hear about Hezbollah and the Mexican drug cartels. If you were never concerned about illegal migration and the potential for dirty dealing posed by illegal aliens and infiltration by terrorists, just read on  from ProPublica and Sebastian Rotella:

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U.S. authorities are building a politically explosive case that Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, finances itself through a vast drug-smuggling network that links a Lebanese bank, a violent Mexican cartel and U.S. cocaine users.

Federal prosecutors Tuesday charged Ayman Joumaa, an accused Lebanese drug kingpin and Hezbollah financier, of smuggling tons of U.S.-bound cocaine and laundering hundreds of millions of dollars with the Zetas cartel of Mexico.

“Ayman Joumaa is one of top guys in the world at what he does: international drug trafficking and money laundering,” a U.S. anti-drug official said. “He has interaction with Hezbollah. There’s no indication that it’s ideological. It’s business.”

To those defending Hezbollah and its sister, Hamas, whether governments or groups like the codepink organization, there seems to be no need to chastise you as you’ve never paid attention to criticism, just as you’ve never paid attention to reason and truth.  But here’s some more in case you care to read:

Now a powerful partner in Lebanon’s government, Hezbollah presents itself as a legitimate political party and rejects allegations of terrorism. But Tuesday’s case reflects increasing concern that Hezbollah and its ally, Iran’s intelligence service, are expanding their presence in Latin America as conflict with the West intensifies over Iran’s nuclear program.

Hezbollah allegedly uses the cocaine trade to develop revenue and build foreign networks, according to U.S., European and Israeli officials. In October, the Justice Department charged an Iranian-American resident of Texas and two Iranian intelligence officers with plotting to hire Mexican cartel gunmen to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington.

Acting in February under the Patriot Act, the U.S. Treasury Department publicly identified the Lebanese Canadian National bank of Beirut, Lebanon’s eighth-largest bank, as a “financial institution of primary money laundering concern” linked to Hezbollah. Authorities alleged that the bank facilitated the financing of Hezbollah by Joumaa, a 47-year-old businessman who speaks excellent Spanish and resided many years in Colombia. About eleven years ago, he shifted his base to Lebanon because of law enforcement pressure, according to U.S. anti-drug officials.

We’ll paste more from the article just below, but be aware there has been denials from Hezbollah and other of the accused whether institutions or individuals.  We suugest you read the related articles which follow the next portion of the ProPublica article and the link to the rest of the article:

Joumaa allegedly coordinated the smuggling of at least 85 tons of Colombian cocaine through Central America and Mexico in partnership with the Zetas, the brutal Mexican cartel founded by former commandos, according to the indictment. Between 1997 and 2010, Joumaa’s mafia laundered hundreds of millions of dollars for the Zetas and their Colombian and Venezuelan suppliers, regularly picking up southbound bulk cash shipments of $2 million to $4 million in Mexico City, the indictment says.

“Ayman Joumaa is accused of facilitating the shipments of huge amounts of cocaine for the United States while laundering the proceeds all over the globe,” said DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart. “According to information from sources, his alleged drug and money laundering activities facilitated numerous global drug-trafficking organizations, including the criminal activities of the Los Zetas Mexican drug cartel.”

The indictment in Virginia results from a continuing investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration targeting Hezbollah, which has a bloody history of terror attacks against the United States and Israel.

Here is the link to the rest of the story:

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More Fast & Furious Guns Found In Mexico

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The guns were actually “found” by drug cartel and other gang members when they were smuggled into Mexico and turned over to the criminals.  Now they are showing up at serious crime scenes in Mexico.  According to Reuters US Edition in a report by Jeremy Pelofsky:

Mexican authorities found AK-47 assault rifles, powerful .50 caliber rifles and other weapons in late 2009 that were later linked to the U.S. sting operation to trace weapons going across the border to Mexico, the report said.

Guns from the program, dubbed “Operation Fast and Furious,” also were found at the scene of the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in the border state Arizona last December. It is not clear if they were the weapons responsible for his death.

The committee in the US House of Representatives is expected to issue their report on the scheme today:

The House of Representatives Oversight Committee, led by Republican Darrell Issa, and the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Charles Grassley, have been investigating the sting and will issue the report Tuesday.

Their investigators say at least 122 firearms bought by suspected gun traffickers were found at Mexican crime scenes or caught going to the cartels.

Of the 2,000 weapons sold to the suspected gun traffickers, just over half remain unaccounted for, the report added. The Justice Department said that the ATF was not aware of the majority of those gun sales when they occurred.

According to this report the Justice Department is investigating the program on its own and has stated the following:

The Justice Department said it could only confirm 96 guns recovered in Mexico were tied to suspects being tracked in the operation, but it said that ATF did not have complete information on how many were recovered at crime scenes there.

The agency said another 274 weapons were recovered in the United States and, so far, about a dozen were found at U.S. crime scenes, according to information given to Grassley obtained by Reuters.

The final report by the congressional committee investigating this idiotic program will reveal if AG Holder and POTUS may have lied or if no conclusive evidence of their part has been determined, additional and more in-depth examination may be ordered.

For now you can read the Reuters story by clicking here.  It looks as though the writer and editor of the article has mistakenly given the year 2001, when they should have said 2010 in the next to last paragraph of the story.

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We Provide — You Decide

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Actually, we don’t provide, we just found this information partly based on the Tucson Police Department hacking exploit, interesting and compelling.  If the information and documents provide factual information, we could be in for serious surprises sooner rather than later.  The basic information comes from FrontPageMagazine.com. This online publication is associated with the David Horowitz Freedom Center.  You can see a report on their activities thus far during the current year (2011) if you click here.

Mr. Horowitz make no apology for his unabashed dislike (perhaps hate is a more accurate descriptor) of Jihadists and others advocating the destruction of Israel or the killing of Jewish people. But you can read as much as you like by accessing the last link provided above.

We provide the link to the article titled, Hezbollah Sets Up Shop In Mexico.  We ask  you to access the links provided in the story — particularly the link to the Tucson Police Department hacked report.  By now the information has traveled around the world and is in the hands of radical elements, including Mexican and other drug cartels in countries abutting Mexico.  In case you missed it in the article, here is a link to the hacked and linked memo:

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I just wonder if any of the Project Gunrunner/Fast and Furious weapons have been placed in Hezbollah’s hands.

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Fast & Furious Hearings Gain Speed

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On 6/14/2011 and today (6/15/11) joint hearing by the House of Representatives and the United States Senate received direct testimony and other investigative information; some of which will be provided today on this blog.

The information provided comes from C-Span.org and their work is gratefully acknowledged by Gadabout-Blogalot.

The reader/viewer will be provided narrative and video from yesterday’s hearing and today’s hearing current to the time of posting this article. First here is the video from yesterday’s hearing:

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It’s Fast and Furious Gun Running With BATFE

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Yesterday (5/17/11) we posted an article about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) seeming complicity in illegal gun smuggling into the Republic of Mexico.  Now called Fast and Furious , the bad act resulted in the death of a Border Patrol Agent, by one of the smuggled firearms.  The death of the agent took place in December 2010, but stone-walling of facts, circumstances and anything close to details has put up a shield against truth.  Thankfully, CBS has been able to interview cooperative agents from BATFE and much more is known about the infighting within the agency involving managers and operations personnel. Numerous agents and low-level managers protested  the operation (sometimes called Gun Walking) was being carried to extremes and there existed a real danger an US federal agent would be murdered with one of the weapons.  As we have just said, that is exactly what happened.  We can surmise that other murders on both sides of the US/Mexican border have resulted with other of the 2500 weapons allowed to cross into Mexico.

Posted below are video and narrative links from CBS, both delving further into the smuggling and the resulting death of a respected Border Patrol Agent.

Fast & furious Gun Running With BATFE  (Video and Narrative CBS)

Yes, I’m Convinced … NOT!

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By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009 – 2011)

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Excuse me for shouting, but I’m still ignorant … I guess.  Mr. Gore, Warmist Extraordinaire  is still bloviating  about the hot causing the cold.  Monkeys, birds crocodiles, serpents have frozen to death and likely a brass billy-goat or two have seen their horns fall off due to the extreme cold.  Not in Alaska, not in Michigan, but in the Republic of Mexico in the State of Chihuahua.  Close to Juarez, Chihuahua in a zoo, when the heating devices failed to work due to electrical power failure.

It seems cold is breaking out and breaking records all over and just eight miles from Edgewood (my hometown) toward Texas in Moriarty, New Mexico, the temperature was said to be under -30°F.   Notice I said, “said to be.”  As it turns out, my search for the past week showed -18°F and no lower in Moriarty, but I’m not going to tell my good neighbors how cold they or their geography might have been.  The important thing for all of us in this area is it was cold enough to wreak havoc on our plumbing and there were several three-dog nights working back to last Thursday.

I have never appreciated the cold, and now, thanks to global warming I may never get an opportunity to experience extreme cold.  The folks that used to identify Gore’s Phenomenon as global warming, now tout it as climate change.  This change in weather extremes has to be difficult for those investing in the New Energy Economy and MoveOn.org,, both of whom have helped to excite several state cr-p and raid movements.  Not to worry Warmists, Soros and those similar to him never lose money.  Therefore, if you can but hold on until global warming makes a return, your money will be alright — if there is any left from the last big printing run.

Meanwhile, why not take a look at the story from Mexico.  There is no sign about what this change in Mexico and United States’ weather  might do to the illegal immigration problem from south of the US border, but the countries to the south of Mexico might see increases in population.  That is, unless the cold continues to fly south.

Climate change, sí — anthropogenic fail

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Persistance Pays — Sometimes

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To the mom, who is a court bailiff in New York City, the story from the Mexico authorities just did not ring true … because she was sure she knew her son and that he would not have committed the crimes the Mexicans said he did.  That is why she pressured American politicians until she got results.  Here is part of the story hosted by Google and filed by the Associated Press (AP):

— Joseph Proctor told his girlfriend he was popping out to the convenience store in the quiet Mexican beach town where the couple had just moved, intending to start a new life.

The next morning, the 32-year-old New York native was dead inside his crashed van on a road outside Acapulco. He had multiple bullet wounds. An AR-15 rifle lay in his hands.

His distraught girlfriend, Liliana Gil Vargas, was summoned to police headquarters, where she was told Proctor had died in a gunbattle with an army patrol. They claimed Proctor — whose green van had a for-sale sign and his cell phone number spray-painted on the windows — had attacked the troops. They showed her the gun.

His mother, Donna Proctor, devastated and incredulous, has been fighting through Mexico’s secretive military justice system ever since to learn what really happened on the night of Aug. 22.

It took weeks of pressuring U.S. diplomats and congressmen for help, but she finally got an answer, which she shared with The Associated Press.

What do we say about these incredulous tales — that they happen all over the world?  At least events somewhat similar happen anywhere bad people, cops or not, do something extraordinarily stupid and then compound their criminal acts by staging circumstances or happenings to make the innocent appear guilty.  Let us suppose that a good cop, good mother, good father or a good wife happens upon such a scene and before they can begin to fathom what has happened they are set upon by the criminals and murdered.  We, the world’s citizens that is, leave so much to be desired.

Here is the link to the rest of the story.  Don’t forget to follow any links set below.

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Six New Mexico Counties Miss The Deadline For Sending Overseas Ballots

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The Washington Post has reported that six New Mexico Counties have settled a case on Tuesday regarding their failure to send ballots to overseas and military citizens of the New Mexico.  The report comes as part of an article dealing with New York State’s and other states’ failure to meet the deadline legislated under the Move Act passed in 2009. This is reported today by Ed O’Keefe in his Federal Eye:

The Justice Department is suing New York State and has settled a similar case with New Mexico for missing deadlines to mail ballots to overseas troops as part of a new federal overseas voting law.

The legal action comes less than three weeks before Election Day and as Republican lawyers are urging the Obama administration to closely monitor the distribution of absentee ballots to troops.

While, I can only hope that the failure was not in any way intentional and was just ineptness on the part of the various county clerks involved in the failure, it certainly does not bode well for those clerks if they are running for re-election.  Talk about fodder for a big loss on November 2nd, I really can’t think of a shot to the foot, or the rear, which could make a bigger hole than a mistake such as the six counties were part of.   According to sources other than the Washington Post, the counties were Curry, Los Alamos, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and Taos.  No, I haven’t looked to find the party affiliation of the setting county clerks in the named counties.

I don’t intend to spend a lot of time ranting about this, but it may serve as one more example of why some folks believe New Mexico is Mexico.  I’m not saying that Mexico would or could make a similar mistake, but ….?  It does seem that the United States Justice Department is pursuing this issue with due diligence and that is a good thing.  Let’s hope they continue and resolve the issue so everyone who falls under the MOVE Act will be able to vote and have their votes counted and tallied for the candidates and issues of their choice.

You can read the rest of the story here and you’ll find New Mexico mentioned toward the middle of the story.  Be sure to check for other links to the story below.


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