Reinhard Heydrich: the Butcher of Prague

File this under more things about WWII they don’t teach you in school.  I have spent two hours writing to my “cousin” in the Czech Republic.  Trying to write in a language you don’t know well can be very tiring.  I wasn’t going to blog, just read the news of the day.  I felt the need to post this.  As many of you know, I post news from the Czech Republic.  This one comes from the archives of Radio Praha.

[27-03-2008 11:36 UTC] By David Vaughan

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At the end of September 1941, Hitler appointed Reinhard Heydrich as acting Reichsprotektor of occupied Bohemia and Moravia. The radio reported on his inauguration at Prague Castle, and the sound of the SS military band hammering out the German national anthem followed by the Horst Wessel song still sends a shiver down the spine.

Reinhard Heydrich

Heydrich was one of the darkest figures of the Third Reich and one of the prime instigators of the Holocaust. Almost immediately he arrested the Prime Minister of the Czech puppet government, Alois Eliáš, who had maintained secret contacts with the Czechoslovak government in exile in London. On October 2 1941 the radio announced Eliáš’ execution.

But Heydrich’s reign was to be short lived. Less than eight months later, he was assassinated by Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík, who had been parachuted to the Protectorate from London. He died from his wounds eight days after the attack and the Nazis gave him a huge military funeral. The entire event, attended by numerous Nazi dignitaries, was broadcast on the Protectorate radio.

In revenge for Heydrich’s death, the Nazis trumped up a connection between the assassination and the village of Lidice, west of Prague, making the following radio announcement in German:

“In the course of the search for the murderers of SS Obergruppenführer Heydrich, irrefutable proof has been found that the inhabitants of the village of Lidice near Kladno, gave the perpetrators support and help.”

The burning village of Lidice

The village was wiped off the map, all its men, nearly two hundred in all, were shot and most of the children were gassed in Poland, with only seventeen returning after the war. But Lidice also became a strong rallying point in the countries fighting against Hitler. This is how the Czechoslovak President in exile, Edvard Beneš, responded to the massacre on a British newsreel.

“Heydrich is dead. So are hundreds of innocent Czechs, among them women and youth under the age of eighteen. So are all the men who lived in the little village of Lidice. Their mothers, their wives and sisters are in a concentration camp, but in our own records and in the records of humanity, the name of Lidice will loom large. Lidice will live for ever.”

This may seem like “old news” to some of you.  “History doesn’t matter.”  “It happened in Europe a long time ago.”  When the events of World War II were beginning Americans said, “It is happening over there.”  Because of this attitude, millions of Jews and non-Jews were  killed.  The reason for knowing history and knowing what is going on in “those far away places” is so we don’t repeat history.  Americans need to pay attention to the world around them, so that things don’t fester up to the point that others lose their lives and liberties.

This whole story just sunk my heart.  It is so heart wrenching that the Nazis would have kill an entire village of people.  These power hungry savages had no soul whatsoever.

I Found a “Cousin” in the Czech Republic!

Some of you who have been following this blog, either since I have been blogging on WordPress or have been following the original Michigan Redneck on Blogspot, know that I have been searching for my Bohemian/Czech ancestors. Yesterday, I checked my Czech email on Seznam. I found someone in Nosalov, Czech Republic who shares the same ancestors.

The email was in Czech. I haven’t been study my Czech language books in a while. While I love to be blogging and passing info to my readers, I need to reduce my daily posts so as that I can study and research more.

Fitna Movie has been Released (Update)

A few days ago I posted about the protest in the Netherlands, regarding the Geert Wilders’ yet unreased film.  Miss Beth posted on Grizzly Groundswell that the FITNA film has been released.  You can read her post here.  She has linked to many sites that have more details about Geert Wilders, his film and the Fatwas (threats).

This is not a film for the lighthearted.  Yet it is a film that all Freedom loving Americans, and those the world over, must watch.  I have watched it and there are things that will shock you.  No wonder why Muslims were protesting it.  There is no way they can prove the film is a lie.

Watch it at United American Committee, here or at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d9_1206624103.

UPDATE Biker Mailman at The Mailman’s bag has posted that Network Solutions has done some rethinking and now you can also watch the video at http://www.themoviefitna.com/?p=52#comments.

If you are going to link on any of the links to the movie, whick I hope you do, The last link provided is the one you should go to.

Czech Republic will Assume European Union Presidency in January ‘09

Is the Czech Republic the new “bad-boy” of the European Union?

[25-03-2008 14:20 UTC] By Dominik Jůn

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In January 2009, the Czech Republic will for the first time assume the EU presidency. But the current Czech coalition government may have a problem – its policies have often seemed hostile to European consensus politics. With bilateral negotiations between the government and the US on a proposed radar base as well as a visa waiver programme, many have the impression that the current government, like its Polish counterpart, is hostile to the EU.

I asked political analyst Jiří Pehe if such assessments were fair:

“When the government of Mirek Topolánek started in January 2007, it started with many ideological precepts which were almost hostile to the European Union, and it thought it could fulfil those ideological goals by co-operating with Poland. Later the government discovered that it would have to be more co-operative with Brussels otherwise the Czech Republic could be really sidelined, and so the government has become sort-of Euro-realist rather than Euro-sceptical, but it still pursues policies which make the Czech Republic stand out as the bad-boy in Europe.”

Petr Mach is the Executive director of the neo-liberal Centre for Economics and Politics, founded by Czech president Václav Klaus. He points out a crucial tension within the current coalition government:

Petr Mach

“You know that the Czech Republic has President Václav Klaus who is considered a Euro-Realist or a Euro-Sceptic, but in the Czech Republic, the power lies with the government not with the president. In fact it is a coalition government made of three parties. Not only Klaus’s Civic Democrats, but also there are two minor partners – the Christian Democrats and the Greens. Especially the Greens are a very pro-European party.”

And what about the Czech Republic’s negotiations with the US regarding the abolition of visa requirements for Czech citizens – does the Czech strategy not weaken the EU’s collective bargaining position? Petr Mach again:

“I think that it is not just the Czech Republic but it is also Poland and the Baltic states and Hungary. All these countries have negotiated with the United States their visa agreements separately because it is not the EU power to negotiate on behalf of member states had not made any deal with the United States regarding visas for Eastern and Central European countries so it is quite natural that these countries tried to negotiate it themselves.”

David Král

David Král, is the director of the Institute for European Politics. He notes a key shift in the approach of the current government:

“What we saw with the previous government led by the Social Democrats in the Czech Republic was aligning with the European mainstream. Basically, not making too much of a fuss around some of the issues, but right now, the government has diverging opinions from the majority of the EU members. There is a certain scepticism for example on the Lisbon Treaty which is not viewed as the best way forward or some of the issues for instance climate change or the liberalization of the internal market inside the European Union - then the current government makes its voice heard quite strongly.”

Mirek Topolánek, photo: CTK

The recent re-election of Czech President Václav Klaus has clearly strengthened the position of current Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek, but many believe that it has also increased the influence of the constitutionally apolitical president over his Civic Democratic party. Jiří Pehe again:

“In my view, Mr Topolánek would like to continue with his Euro-realistic policies. However, Mr. Klaus after his re-election will certainly be pushing the government and the government in particular into a more radical Euro-sceptical stance and that may be reflected in Czech policies. I think that the reason why the Czech Republic has earned a bad reputation in Europe is not so much based on the Euro-sceptical views of the government, as it is based on the attempts of the government to act as a solo player on issues which would require co-operation, consulting with the rest of Europe and the Czech government on issues such as abolishing visas for travel to the United States, placing the American radar on Czech territory. Basically it has decided to act on a bilateral basis with the United States.”

So why do many Eastern European countries have a seemingly stronger bond to the US than to the EU? Petr Mach again:

Václav Klaus, photo: CTK

“Generally, the post-communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe, are probably more ‘Atlanticist’ countries, just because America was their role-model during the communist era. And these countries wish to have a strong link with the United States regardless of what government is there, whether it is Republican or Democratic.” [more here]

Distilling home brandy may soon be decriminalized

For centuries, Czechs have been fermenting and distilling their own fruit brandies. They have been doing so despite the fact that it’s illegal and that they could face up to twelve months in prison for tax evasion. However, this may be about to change. The lower chamber has started debating an amendment to the penal code that could decriminalize home distilling.

Home distilling of fruit, mainly plums, apples and apricots, has a long-lasting tradition here in the Czech Republic. Every second household in Moravia in the eastern part of the country is said to own an undercover distillery, which is usually hidden in the cellar. Producing home-made brandy is evidently a matter of pride among the locals. A shot of home-made brandy a day is believed to have miraculous healing powers able to cure virtually any kind of ailment.

A proposal to decriminalize home distilleries was debated a few years ago, but it failed to win approval. Now it has turned up again. According to Supreme Court judge Pavel Šámal who worked on the proposed amendment the ban is a relic of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, when the state had a monopoly on distilling.

In practice, however, no one has been sentenced in years for making brandy for their own consumption. In most cases, the police have turned a blind eye on illegal producers. Moreover, the ban has led to the establishment of a network of local distilleries, where people can have their fruit distilled officially, and the number of home producers has dropped.

Under the new proposal home-making of brandy would not be regarded as a crime but only a minor offence, punishable by a fine. Those who produce alcohol in greater volumes in order to sell it illegally would however face more severe punishment.

Whether the amendment is passed or not in the end, one thing is clear: when the autumn comes around, Czechs will be ready to harvest their fruit and make their traditional brandy. [source]

If home brewed Czech brandy is anything like commercial Polish brandy, it sounds pretty good.  If they are going to make it only for themselves, I don’t see a problem with it.

Obama’s Pastor Slurs Italians

Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been a member for two decades, slurred Italians in a piece published in the most recent issue of Trumpet Newsmagazine.

“(Jesus’) enemies had their opinion about Him,” Wright wrote in a eulogy of the late scholar Asa Hilliard in the November/December 2007 issue. “The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans.

“From the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ birth (in a barn in a township that was under the Apartheid Roman government that said his daddy had to be in), up to and including the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ death on a cross, a Roman cross, public lynching Italian style. …” Wright wrote. “He refused to be defined by others and Dr. Asa Hilliard also refused to be defined by others.

“The government runs everything from the White House to the schoolhouse, from the Capitol to the Klan, white supremacy is clearly in charge, but Asa, like Jesus, refused to be defined by an oppressive government because Asa got his identity from an Omnipotent God,” said Wright.

Every issue of the magazine published last year included Wright’s column, “The Message,” in which he covered a range of subjects, including his views on other African-American churches as expressed in his April 2007 commentary “Facing the Rising Sun.”

“In a world that is controlled by white supremacy, in a country that is on its way to hell in a hand basket because of lying politicians, in a culture that still thinks ‘white is right’ and with young people who do not have a clue as to our story, our history, our legacy or our destiny, we still have African-American Christians who are more concerned about ‘bling bling’ than about freeing our minds,” Wright wrote. [more here]

Supreme Court Ruled Against President Bush, Mexico and Jose Medellin

Today on the Glenn Beck show he interviewed Randy Ertman, father of one of Jose Medellin’s victims.  Jose Medellin was an illegal alien who brutally raped and killed two young girls, in Texas.  He was sentenced to death by the Texas courts.  The Mexican consulate stepped in.  Said he didn’t get to contact the consulate and it was against international law, blah, blah, blah.  Wanted to have a new trial.  Brought suit in the court of United Nations.  World Court said that Jose Medellin should have been allowed to meet with an official from Mexico.  AMERICAN PRESIDENT George Bush sided with Mexico, instead of his fellow Texans and Americans.  Here is the conversation Glenn had with Mr. Ertman and another guest regarding Tuesday’s Supreme Court Decision that international law does not trump American law.

BECK: Have you ever wondered what a killer asteroid from outer space would really be like? Yes. Me, neither. I don`t worry about things like that and global warming. I think about problems that are actually going to kill us all. Like for instance, how do with we pay for Social Security and Medicaid in — I don`t know — about 11 years? How do we stay solvent as a country? Details in tonight`s “Real Story” make blood shoot out of your eyes. Don`t miss it.

No, I believe that there`s some powerful forces inside our government. Boy, this is going to make me sound like a nut. They want America to become Mex-Ameri-Canada, one big multinational family. It`s the only answer I can come up with that explains all the things that are going on with our border.

I say, you know what, I`m going to roll dice with America. I think we can do it. I believe our national sovereignty is in jeopardy. But yesterday the Supreme Court helped us hold on to our sovereignty for a little bit longer. This is good news.

Back in 1993 Jose Medellin — he is an illegal alien, which is not something anybody would print in the paper today. He was from Mexico. He led a gang of boys attack, rape and murder two teenaged girls in Houston. Medellin was arrested and found guilty. He was sentenced to death. I said God bless Texas.

Then, after Medellin was convicted, Mexico brought suit in the court of the United Nations, charging the U.S. with violating the — the Vienna Convention. They claim that arrested foreign nationals, i.e. the illegal alien, be allowed to meet with an official from their home country. It`s a tool treasured by diplomats, especially ones trying to get away with murder. Mexico`s against capital punishment, you see, and they say that Medellin was denied his rights.

Damn. Too bad for him, huh?

I find it surprising and shameful that the Bush administration actually sided with Medellin and against the people of Texas. Thankfully, in a 6-3 decision yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled against Bush, Mexico and Medellin. Texas will get to carry out the will of its people. I say have fun in hell, Jose.

On the phone with me now is Randy Ertman. His daughter, Jennifer, was one of Medellin`s victims.

Randy, I know this is — I was going to say, I know this feels like a victory to a lot of people. But for you, does it help ease anything at all?

RANDY ERTMAN, FATHER OF VICTIM: We feel a little bit more vindicated than we did before. And I mean, we lost everything else before the Supreme Court. We thought we`d lose this one. And for a change we won.

BECK: What does it — what does it feel like, or what did it feel like to have the president of the United States come out and be on the side of the bad guy?

ERTMAN: What come to our mind was, we felt like we were back in court. And instead of having a defense attorney representing Medellin, it felt like the president was sitting there with him.

BECK: I don`t even know — I don`t know how to put this. I don`t mean to be insensitive at all, Randy. And I know we`ve talked before. And I hope you know…

ERTMAN: You`re a good man, sir. So ask me anything you want (ph).

BECK: Losing your daughter had to be — had to be tough. And I can`t even imagine it. But it — how crazy is it to have gone through the last 15 years when you believe in our system, when you believe in our president, and you believe in our system of justice and everything else, and to have it all turned upside down through the U.N. and Mexico? How insane was that?

ERTMAN: We`ve been through five capital murder trials, and we`ve seen two of them get off of Death Row, because the Supreme Court voted that, if you were 17 years old and you committed capital murder, then you`re not a man. You`re not responsible for your actions. So, they were given life instead.

So after losing those two, we figured we`d lose this one. And the only way that we learned is — I mean, we used to get angry. And you know, I would lash out.

But you learn you have, otherwise you`re going to lose your insanity, that the only thing you can do is be a strong husband to your wife and, if you`re a father, if you have other children, to be a good father. And you just have to become strong and move on, you know. You can`t allow it to pull you down, like. It took 15 years to learn that.

BECK: Randy, I have to thank you so much. And I know this fight isn`t done. And we`ll be with you, and we will continue to follow it.

Congratulations, people of Texas. It`s a win for you and a win for the people of America, as well.

Ted Cruz now, let`s turn to him. He`s a Texas solicitor general. He`s the guy who stood in front of the Supreme Court and argued this case. Ted, how did this even happen where George Bush is — is talking about — we should honor international court.

TED CRUZ, TEXAS SOLICITOR GENERAL: Well, it was an unfortunate turn of events. I think the president was very poorly advised in this particular regard.

BECK: By whom?

CRUZ: The State Department. The State Department pressed the president to do this, and he took their advice in this particular case. And the Supreme Court resoundingly rejected that position.

BECK: Now, when — I`m sure the State Department was trying to make the case of, well, you know, we should play by the rules and we should — we should make sure we honor international, the international court and abide by those rules. Does anybody abide by what we were being asked to abide by?

CRUZ: No. That`s one of the great ironies here, is Medellin was arguing that the U.S. should subject itself to the world court. But no other nation in the world does what he was asking the U.S. to do.

In any other country in the world, if you have a judgment from the world court, you can`t enforce it in the courts there. And the Supreme Court held exactly the same, which is the world court has no authority to bind the courts in the United States of America.

BECK: This is really good news. Is it over?

CRUZ: Hopefully. With capital litigation it`s hard to know for sure. But the U.S. Supreme Court rejected all of Medellin`s claims. The prosecutor in Houston has indicated they intend to go forward and set an execution date. And you know, you were just talking with Randy Ertman. I cannot imagine what he and his family…

BECK: Insult to injury. Can you imagine losing your daughter to a horrific crime like this, and the guy gets away — you know, starts to get away with it? And then the president comes out. Oh, my gosh. I think I`d lose m mind.

CRUZ: Well, it`s dragged on for 15 years. It`s gone twice to the U.S. Supreme Court. Twice, Texas has won in the U.S. Supreme Court.

But the victory yesterday was the most important. Because the victory yesterday really answered those who would like to see America sovereignty undermined. Because what it said is the world court`s decision has no authority within our borders. The world court can`t bind U.S. citizens.

BECK: Thanks — thanks very much, Ted. And thanks for all of your hard work in the Supreme Court.

I have to tell you. Remember — remember who that advice was coming from, our own State Department. [transcript here]

A while back on the original Michigan Redneck I posted about an email update from Glenn Beck.  It was regarding Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D take on the Jose Medellin case.  I found the post in which I copy/pasted from the email, here.  Here is what Mr. Corsi had to say. 

• Almost unbelievably, President Bush has argued at the U.S. Supreme Court that a Mexican murder on death row should be given a new trial at the demand of the UN’s International Court of Justice in the Hague, all because this illegal alien killer was not allowed to first call the Mexican consulate when he was arrested.
• At issue is the death penalty verdict for Jose Medellin, who confessed in 1993 to participating in the rape and murder of two Houston teenagers, Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena. Both were sodomized and raped for over an hour by Medellin and eight of his Mexican illegal alien gang members.
• The girls made a fatal mistake. After a pool party that ended late, they decided to take a shortcut home by the railroad tracks, trying to make one of the girl’s midnight curfew.
• In their hour-long torture, one of the girls was hit so hard teeth were kicked out of her head. Medellin and his gang buddies strangled the girls to death with their belts. Medellin then boasted of keeping one girl’s Mickey Mouse watch for his girlfriend as a souvenir of the crime.
• Medellin and four others were convicted of capital murder and sent to Texas’ death row. One of these criminals has already been executed for the crime.
• Now, the Bush administration is arguing that Medellin’s confession should be thrown out because years after the crime Medellin complained that his civil rights were violated because the Mexican consulate was not invited to take on his defense.
• The Supreme Court has already rejected Medellin’s complaint once and the Texas appellate court has properly instructed President Bush that under the Constitutional separation of powers the chief executive has no authority to tell Texas criminal courts how to conduct their business.
• Medellin has now appealed the Texas court decision and the case is back at the Supreme Court a second time. This time, President Bush sent the Solicitor General to argue alongside Medellin’s attorneys that international law has supremacy over U.S. criminal law, such that U.S. treaty obligations under the Vienna Convention trump Texas criminal law.
• If Bush prevails and Medellin’s confession is thrown out by the Supreme Court, there may not be enough evidence to retry Medellin, meaning he would have to be released despite his confession to the heinous crime.
• What is at stake is the very foundation of U.S. judicial sovereignty.
• Truly, the UN’s World Court in the Hague hates the death penalty, just as Mexico is loathe to see even their worst criminals in the United States be put to death for their capital offenses.
• The case, shocking to most Americans, provides further evidence that the Bush administration under the Security and Prosperity Partnership is doing everything possible to open our borders and placate Mexico.
• If Medellin’s appeal is successful, will our law enforcement officers be required to call the Mexican consulate every time a Mexican illegal alien is arrested?
• Even worse, with so many sanctuary cities in place, the police dare not ask arrested Mexicans if they are legally here or not. So, if Medellin’s appeal is successful, the police will have to call the Mexican consulate every time any Mexican, legal or illegal, is arrested.
• Yet even this will not be enough.
• Since the police cannot racially profile, maybe we should just call the Mexican consulate every time anybody is arrested. That way we can be sure we do not violate the civil rights of any Mexicans who commit violent capital crimes while they are illegally here in what used to be our country.
• Jerome R. Corsi is a Staff Writer for World Net Daily and Author of The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada.

Since this was copy/pasted from an email, I do not have a link to the write up.  For my opinion, go to my October 27 post, here.

Some of the legal mumbo jumbo;

March 26, 2008, 12:00AM
Supreme Court trumps executive power
President can’t force a new trial for Mexican in 1993 murders, the justices find

By BENNETT ROTH
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Texas cannot be forced by President Bush to reopen the case of Jose Medellin, a Mexican citizen sentenced to death for raping and murdering two teenage girls in Houston.

By a 6-3 vote, the court said that a memo by Bush instructing the state to comply with a world court decision for a new hearing in the 1993 case was not sufficient to require the state to act.

The dissenters, however, expressed concerns that the ruling would harm the United States’ relationship with Mexico and make it more difficult to enforce international treaties.

Tuesday’s decision will not immediately lead to an execution date for Medellin, who has exhausted all appeals and confessed to the killings of Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16, after they happened upon a gang initiation.

Harris County Assistant District Attorney Roe Wilson said the next step must wait until the justices resolve another case regarding the legality of lethal injections. All executions are on hold until that ruling is handed down. [more here]

ABC News has a good write up also;

By ARIANE de VOGUE
March 25, 2008

In a defeat for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 Tuesday that President George W. Bush does not have the authority to force a state to reconsider a death penalty case, even if the conviction in that case violates an international court’s ruling.

Story

Bush Administration, Texas Wrangle Over Death Penalty Case

Jose Medellin, a Mexican national, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1994 for raping and killing two teenage girls in Houston.

However, the International Court of Justice at The Hague, Netherlands ruled that his conviction was in violation of international treaties, which ordered that the home country of any defendant had to be notified upon the arrest of a foreign national.

Article 36 of the Vienna Convention requires authorities to notify “without delay” a detained foreign national of his right to request assistance from the consul of his own state. At the time of Medellin’s arrest, the United States was a signatory to the treaty, but Mexico was never notified of his arrest.

Medellin, a Mexican citizen who had lived in the United States most of his life, claimed that had he known that he could inform Mexican consular officers of his detention they could have potentially assisted him by providing funding for experts or investigators or ensuring that he was represented by a competent defense counsel. Currently, there are 50 other Mexican nationals on death row in America. [more here]

Some people may be upset that I am posting negative stories about President Bush.  But what I have realised and what I hope my fellow conservatives realise, is that Americans need to be Americans first.  Not associate ourselves with a party and party leader and be zombies where if  the party says or does this or that, it must always be good.  When it comes to George Bush, there are liberals out there who think that everything he does is bad and evil.  Then there are the Republicans out there who think everything George Bush does is great. 

In issues of immigration and activities of illegal aliens, I am an American first and foremost.  If A Republican is doing something wrong to coddle illegals and/or halting progress on border security, you can bet your sweet bippy that I will speak out against that person.  If I think a Democrat is doing something good to keep out the flow of illegal immigrants coming into this country and committing more illegal acts, I will praise him or her.  In the end, it’s about what’s good and right, not what’s red or blue, or who’s an elephant and who’s a donkey.

Ton of pot discovered: Stash-house bust also finds undocumented immigrants

h/t Immigration News Daily;

Federal agents toting strollers, baby bags and fuzzy blankets escorted a group of immigrant children out of a suspected “stash house” busted Tuesday in a Northeast neighborhood.

What began in the morning with an anonymous call to El Paso police about a suspicious vehicle turned into a seizure of 2,309 pounds of marijuana and an investigation into immigrant smuggling involving children ranging in age from 2 to 8, law enforcement officials said.

The children were with parents.

“The activities of a (drug) stash house and a human trafficking house are very similar,” police spokesman Javier Sambrano said, while narcotics officers in ninja masks searched the beige brick home.

Around 11:30 a.m., a patrol officer responding to the suspicious-vehicle call found two men and some marijuana in a large trailer hooked to a red Ford Expedition that was backed into the driveway of the house in the 10700 block of Port Arthur, Sambrano said.

Police arrested Baltazar Galan Lopez, 48, who lives in the home, and Daniel Lopez, 24, who lives at another address on the same street, Sambrano said.

After backup officers arrived, more marijuana bricks were found in the home, along with three women and their six children, officials said.

“The mothers have agreed to voluntarily return to Mexico, and they are choosing to take their children with them,” Zamarripa said.

Other neighbors said the drug bust was unexpected on the street where children regularly play outdoors. [more here]

It is pretty bad when illegals are participating in drug trafficking, but when they bring children into the environment, that is worse.  I am glad that the women are doing the right thing by going back and taking their kids.  Hopefully they will find better men to raise their children with.  This is also bad that neighbor children had to be subjected to this.

Why Does Hillary Clinton Lie?

Hillary’s Other Fabrication

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:15 PM

By: Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

Now that Hillary Clinton has been nailed in an outright fabrication of her role in Bosnia, it is time to remind ourselves of another, even more galling fantasy that Hillary tried to sell the voters.

After 9/11, Hillary had a problem. New Yorkers were desperately focused on their own needs for protection and they were saddled with a Senator who was not one of them — an Arkansasn or was it a Chicagoan?

Interviewed on the “Today” show one week after 9/11, she spun an elaborate yarn. The kindest thing we could say was that it was a fantasy. Or a fabrication.

She said that Chelsea was jogging around the World Trade Center on 9/11 and happened to duck into a coffee shop when the airplanes hit. She said that this move saved Chelsea’s life. But Chelsea told Talk magazine that she was in a friend’s apartment four miles from ground zero when the first plane hit. Her friend called her, waking her up, and told her to turn on the TV. On television, she saw the second plane hit, disproving Hillary’s claim that “she heard the plane hit. She heard it. She did.”

So why did Hillary make up the story about Chelsea? Most likely to was because her co-senator (and implicit rival for the voter’s affection), a real New Yorker Chuck Schumer spoke of his daughter, who attended Stuyvesant High School (Dick’s alma mater) located next to the TRade Center, being at real risk on 9/11. Hillary needed to make herself part of the scene.

She invented the entire story on national television, the “Today” show, and didn’t blink an eye.

Her fabrication on the “Today” show was no unique foray. It is her standard M.O.. It gives us pause in evaluating all of her stories and calls into question her entire credibility.

What Mr. Morris was talking about regarding the Bosnia lie, here.  Considering these two lies and the one she told about being named after Sir Edmund Hilary, I think she might be an ex-boyfriend with a sex change.  This guy would just lie to lie.  He had low self respect and didn’t like himself.  So he would tell stories just to make himself look more interesting.  Actually, I met him after Bill Clinton was president.  But I think Hillary lies for the same reason my ex did.  We do not need someone in the White House like that.

Surprising Facts About Planned Parenthood

This article in the Washington Post begins talking about the myth that most Americans believe about Planned Parenthood.

The abortion industry

By Gerald R. McDermott and Carol M. Swain
March 26, 2008

Planned Parenthood enjoys a good reputation. Many Americans think it performs necessary services — screening for sexually transmitted diseases, forestalling teen pregnancy and controlling family size.

But there are some disturbing realities behind the scene. For example, Planned Parenthood’s confidentiality principles (it promises not to tell anyone of a teenager’s problems) conflict with laws in every state that require health care workers to report suspected sexual abuse or statutory rape to law enforcers. Not surprisingly, investigators are finding a national pattern of failure to report sex crimes against underage teens.

Some of the myths debunked are that planned parenthood protects pervs who prey upon young girls and knock them up.  Most of their money comes from tax payers and they are not in need of money.  In fact, the president “earns” $1 mil a year.  Abortion numbers are declining, yet Planned Parenthood’s abortion numbers are climbing.  Planned Parenthood markets to minorities.

It is well known that Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, aligned herself with the eugenicists concerned with eliminating undesirables from the population. Moreover, Sanger received and accepted an invitation to address a Ku Klux Klan chapter and gave a speech that led to additional Klan invitations. Although we do not know what she said, we do know that recently questions have been raised about racism at Planned Parenthood clinics.

I have heard that Margret Sanger invited herself to black churches and preach about the “positives of black women having abortions.”  Sick, just sick.

Many taxpayers may not be comfortable with the ways that Planned Parenthood has been active in the political arena. Partial-birth abortion strikes many as a particularly hideous way to kill a baby, yet Planned Parenthood lobbied againsta ban on that practice. The Born Alive Infants Protection Act would have defined a viable fetus surviving the abortion process as a person entitled to medical assistance. Nurses have testified that babies who survive a botched abortion are sometimes of the same size and condition of those successfully treated in neonatal units across the country. Typically, they are left to die. Nurses have reported that some manage to survive for hours. Planned Parenthood lobbied against this bill as well.

One must wonder, then, whether taxpayers should continue to support an organization that is flush with money, has beenwilling to skirt or ignore laws intended to protect the people it claims to serve and may be targeting minorities with a practice many Americans believe immoral.

The name “Planned Parenthood” is very misleading.  It makes one think that it is for poor families wanting to plan for being parents.  What they do is anything but.