Posted on 12/04/2005 5:47:19 AM PST by Liz
In his last six weeks in office, Councilman Bill Perkins is trying to push through a bill to let noncitizens vote in municipal elections.
It's a bad idea. On Monday, Perkins held a hearing of his Governmental Operations Committee, at which left-wing and union activists cheered on his efforts.
The session also provided his terminally odious colleague, Charles Barron, with a platform to cast the issue in purely racial terms: "White men just have too much power," said the Brooklyn Democrat (who once said he felt the need to slap the "closest white person . . . just for my mental health").
Added Barron: "They just don't want to give up on power." (Man, he's getting boring.)
Until two years ago, noncitizens could vote in city school-board elections; they lost that privilege when the boards were abolished.
Legal noncitizens should have the vote, so the argument goes, because they pay taxes like everyone else.
But noncitizens don't have the same commitment to the city — or anywhere else in the country — as those who've taken the time and trouble to obtain citizenship.
And though the "alien suffrage" movement says it wants to limit that right to legal immigrants and only for municipal elections, its next steps would come soon enough: Allowing illegal immigrants — excuse us, "undocumented Americans" — to vote, and in all elections.
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Clinton sponsored a tax refund for Puerto Rico residents that could pay out more than $50M over 10 years.. It lets some Puerto Rico residents — who pay no federal income tax — to get child-credit refunds on their Social Security and Medicare taxes.
Guess why? (snicker)
Puerto Rican support is crucial to her re-election — and to a run in 2008. She got helped into the Senate when Bill pardoned FALN terrorists.
Hillary calculatedly knows Puerto Ricans are born American citizens, ready-made voters when they move to the US.
Next she'll offer tax-paid tickets, homes, and living expenses to get them to move here.
There's always "alien suffrage."
She's already on record as wanting convicted felons to have the right to vote.
4 yrs after 9-11 and still no real effort from the pubs to secure our border.
Dim desperation is setting in, alright.
Look for other base escalation moves.
An outrage to be sure.
The US ought to put more pressure on Mexico to control its borders.
Why should we have to continually pick up the tab for their citizens?
Do my taxes, which pay for all manner of international aid, entitle me to vote in the elections of all countries which benefit?
Heheh....yeah, sure.
It's also the epitome of entitlmentism that we have to bow to all the cultures that land here, but their native lands would not life a finger to celebrate American culture.
Did these people ever ehar of assimilation.
But wait....assimilation....that's politically incorrect {{{{{gag}}}}}.
Why would Presidente Fox want to stop the billions of US dollars flowing back into Mexico from the illegal immigrants to their Mexican families & Mexico economy?
Don't look at Mexico for any assistance on this issue.
Wait until dems. realize Humanzees may be real. It's an untapped base that could put them on the road to victory.
Those who can't wait for the illegal to become legal is the beginning which is being witnessed by those who are not too ignorant to understand the consequences. Law and order has no meaning to those who would wish this curse upon this nation. If American citizens don't believe the enemy is inside the gates, this article should convince them. Nowhere in the world in any nation on the face of the earth is this legal. Making the illegal ... legal is akin to bringing chaos out of law and order. The goals of such people is worse than treason, yet we turn a blind eye each and every day and allow these people to become more bold and more brazen.
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From the Civil War II checklist.
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NYC has been there. Already done that.
A 1940's-50's city councilman named Vito Marcantonio was facing certain defeat, having lost the favor of Tammany Hall. He single-handedly brought in thousands of Puerto Rican families to his district and stayed in office for a while longer. Those who couldn't stand the climate, he flew in for the election. A lot of trouble, but this was before computerized vote fraud. At least these old-time crooks had the decency to make sure the people they registered were citizens.
Other councilmen picked up the idea, and the rest is history. At one point, there were probably more Puerto Ricans in NYC than in Puerto Rico. Nowadays, illegal aliens from the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Central America probably outnumber Puerto Ricans ... and outvote them, too.
Hillary, BTW, was the beneficiary of quite a bit of vote fraud in NYC. Someday, if I live long enough, I just might hear a Republican official talk about vote fraud.
According to a CNN report, Mexico sits on oil reserves worth about $400 billion, but Mexico's state-owned oil company, Pemex, doesn't have the investment funds to tap those reserves, and Mexico's Congress refuses to allow foreign investment in Pemex. However, some observers say this is due to gov't corruption, and the obsession to line their own pockets.
Adding insult to injury American taxpayers are subsidizing foreign aid transfers to Mexico. According to Visa International--which is now clamoring for a share of the transfer fees--American money sent South of the Border by illegals constitutes $38 BILLION this year alone constituting Mexico's second largest most profitable industry.
America should mandate proof for all cash transfers out of the US and/or force all transferring agencies -- banks, credit unions, Amex, Western Union to collect a substantial withholding tax -- 50%, say -- on every unexplained foreign remittance.
America needs to seal our borders and let Vincente Fox know that we will cut off every penny in aid he gets from the United States.
The unmitigated contempt for America, and working-class Americans cannot go unchallenged.
That's the vaunted "diversity" loved by liberals-----or as its more commonly known---"welfare and voter fraud."
Hillary, BTW, was the beneficiary of quite a bit of vote fraud in NYC. Someday, if I live long enough, I just might hear a Republican official talk about vote fraud.
Without voter fraud, there'd be no Dumbocrats in office.
Vito Marcantonio was the name of a Congressman (presumably the same man as the city councilman) who was such an extreme leftist (I'm not sure if he ever actually belonged to the Communist Party) that Richard Nixon used similarities between his voting record and Helen Gahagan Douglas' record to effect in his race for the Senate in 1950. Douglas was the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Nixon called her the Pink Lady.
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