Did CFR, Globalists Hijack State's New Immigration Laws?

What do the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Silverado S&L-Keating 5 scandal, and Bush-Clinton administrations have to do with Colorado's "tough" (not!) new immigration laws? Read on:

In 2004, Dr. William Herron, founder of the Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform (CAIRCO.org), floated a proposed State initiative addressing immigration. Supported by Congressman Tom Tancredo, the initiative raised red flags by ambiguously extending new, undefined "non-emergency" State, county, and local services to legal immigrants including the right to sue for enforcement. Further, the initiative gave Colorado's hostile, pro-illegal alien legislature control over which "non-emergency" services illegal aliens could access as well as official oversight of enforcement-related lawsuits.

Open-borders adversaries sued to kill the initiative, but Colorado's Supreme Court approved it in early May of 2004. Herron, ex-Gov. Dick Lamm, CAIR's co-Chair Fred Elbel and other insiders chose not to seek the required 68,000 voter signatures to place it on the November 2004 ballot, claiming it was too late to guarantee success. By law, this tabled the initiative for two years, during which time a growing cabal of open-borders legislators, mainly Democrats, aligned with globalist Gov. Bill Owens (RINO) to kill similar legislation.

In January 2006, Fred Elbel set up Defend Colorado Now (DCN) to promote a **nearly** identical initiative. (DCN inexplicably added a comma and transposed two words of the Court-approved 2004 version, predictably triggering new legal challenges.) Elbel named as DCN Co-Chairs former Gov. Dick Lamm (D), U.S. Congressman Tom Tancredo (R), unknown Latino Waldo Benavidez and ex-State Sen. John Andrews (R). The Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform (FAIR), a group with close ties to Elbel and Lamm, supported DCN's effort.

While many believed DCN's team to be strong, I had seen Gov. Lamm on local tv deem massive deportation of illegal aliens "impractical," while lending his support to Pres. Bush's controversial amnesty proposal. In 2003, I witnessed Sen. Andrews amend a bill that would have blocked all use of foreign ID such as the Mexican Consular card to access public service so that it instead gave illegals with anchor babies up to age five full access to State and local services. Enacted in 2003 as Colorado's "Secure and Verifiable ID Act", the bill was also amended to grant full immunity to all Colorado law enforcement officers so that they could accept insecure, unverifiable IDs. These two amendments, championed by Andrews, converted Colorado into a Sanctuary State for illegals.

Privately, immigration-control activists discussed major concerns with the 2006 initiative. Some wondered why DCN, CAIR and FAIR had rejected Arizona's successful Prop. 200 as model legislation, instead promoting DCN's questionable mandates.

As the Supreme Court battle over the modified initiative dragged on, DCN collected nearly 50,000 of the required 68,000 valid voter signatures, anticipating the Court's approval. But on June 12, 2006 Colorado's Supreme Court ruled against DCN's initiative on the basis that it failed to meet the State's "single-issue" standard. This decision guaranteed that no immigration-control initiative would be on the State's ballot until 2008, at the earliest. DCN's minor changes to the Court-sanctioned 2004 wording paved the way for this defeat.

Gov. Bill Owens, who for years had blocked countless efforts to deny services to illegals, joined with Elbel, Lamm, Andrews and Tancredo to quickly charge "activist judges" with usurping the Citizens' right to decide.

Texas native Gov. Owens, a globalist and long-time "W" Bush buddy, uncharacteristically vowed to "let the People decide" by calling for an immediate "Special Legislative Session" to pressure adversarial legislators into placing the initiative on the November 2006 ballot. Even Owens' most severe critics, conservative Republicans, felt cautious optimism that Owens was sincere. But we were wrong. ( http://tinyurl.com/hwkoe )

As legislators publicly proclaimed support for strict measures to contain costs of illegals, DCN's Gov. Dick Lamm (D) suddenly announced on June 27 that he had cut a backroom deal with two private citizens. notably the disgraced ex-U.S. Senator Gary Hart (D) and ex-MALDEF attorney, ex-Denver Mayor and former Clinton cabinet member Federico Pena (D). Pena and Hart were identified as leaders of "Keep Colorado Safe", whose sole purpose was to defeat DCN's initiative.

More importantly, both Pena and Hart are members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The CFR in 2005 published "Building a North American Community," a report outlining its plan to merge Mexico, America and Canada by 2010 into one big borderless barrio. The CFR's seditious schemes violate and destroy our Constitution and Bill of Rights by simply dissolving America.

A self-proclaimed national security expert living in a *walled* bunker nestled safely in the Rockies, Gary Hart recently opined that a border wall would solve nothing. He told the Rocky Mountain News that illegal immigration affects "the international community" and "cannot be fixed in Colorado". Hart's website reports that he "...co-chaired both the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, which issued three public reports forecasting the age of terrorism and outlined a new, post-Cold War national security policy, as well as the Council on Foreign Relations task force on homeland security, which recently released its report "America—Still Unprepared, Still in Danger". bio, ( http://www.garyhartnews.com/hart/about/official_bio.php ).

Besides capitulating to CFR demands that DCN be removed from legislators' consideration, Lamm "negotiated" mutually acceptable, toothless talking points for the upcoming Special Session. ( http://tinyurl.com/hwkoe )

Lamm's bizarre deal, applauded by pro-illegal Democrats, stunned DCN supporters. Denver talk show host Peter Boyles (KHOW-AM) demanded Lamm explain on air (1) why he negotiated with Hart and Pena; (2) why a shadowy deal brokered by 'private citizens' should in any way impact a legislative session; and (3) why Lamm had agreed to kill his own DCN initiative days before the Special Session would likely place it on the November ballot. Boyles also suggested that the deal by Democrat loyalist Lamm was partisan, noting the private pact allowed Democrat incumbents facing election to avoid going on record as supporting illegals.

Lamm's incredible response to Boyles' incisive questions was that he'd had "no cards to play," insulting 50,000 signers of DCN's now-moot ballot petitions. Lamm then made the disturbing revelation that DCN leaders (i.e., Elbel, Tancredo, Andrews and Benavidez), and FAIR had approved of his negotiations, a statement denied only by DCN's Benavidez. Then he endorsed "Immigration-is-a-Federal-Issue" Bill Ritter (D) for Governor. ( www.khow.com/pages/shows-boyles_archive.html ) Lamm later denounced Coloradans who ranked illegal immigration as Colorado's #1 problem, saying this was "not a very good reading on what problems the state faces."

Other than Boyles and two other talkshow hosts (KHOW's Caplis and Silverman), Colorado media never questioned Lamm's scam or why Gov. Owens and Colorado's Democrat-controlled legislature embraced its terms. No one mentioned the CFR connection.

With DCN's initiative off the bargaining table, Colorado's Special Legislative Session -- spun as the Mother of All Anti-Illegal Marathons -- ran from July 6th to 10th. Immigration-control activists reported being herded like cattle from room to room with non-stop chaos and misinformation making informed, relevant testimony on proposed bills "impossible."

On July 8th, a pious Gov. Owens sternly warned majority Democrats that loopholes in their proposals would cost his support.

Yet, just hours later, Open-Borders Owens approved those bills and later signed them into law.

Despite the spin on how "tough" Colorado's new laws are, they are worse than nothing, serve only to advance the CFR's globalist agenda by making Colorado, and America, a welcome mat for illegal aliens at Citizen expense.

Among these laws many destructive mandates are: (1) expressly granting illegal aliens from birth to age 18 unlimited State, county and local public -- and many private -- services; (2) mandating "free" prenatal care for illegals churning out "jackpot" anchor babies; and (3) instructing employers to follow USC Section 8, 1324a, a rarely enforced law that utterly fails to stop greedy employers from hiring illegals. Colorado's new law does not mandate use of the highly successful 24/7 Pilot Program/Federal database that immediate verifies employee names match Social Security Numbers, merely citing USC, Section 8 1324a, a rarely enforced law that has (See HB 1023 and HB 1017 ( http://tinyurl.com/epd8f ).

The pathetic Special Session's HB 1017, claimed to be "tough" on employers of illegal aliens should not be confused with Rep. Bill Crane's (R) truly tough bill (HB 1343), introduced in February 2006, which requires contractors seeking State and local government work to verify employee immigration status using the Federal Basic Pilot Employment Verification Program. Crane took heat from Republican employers, garnered by bipartisan support, and Owens signed the bill into law.

Democrat legislators rejoiced as Owens and DCN declared victory. "House Bill 1023 is arguably one of the strongest measures of its kind in the country," Owens said.

"We are especially pleased with Governor Owens' success in bringing together two polarized political parties on the issue -- no easy task," stated DCN co-chair Dick Lamm. ( http://tinyurl.com/z5zao )

FAIR's Ira Mehlman said that, "Colorado is probably out ahead of the country in the sense that they have decided that just because the federal government isn't doing its job doesn't mean the State and local government can't address a serious problem."

Yet betrayed, disgusted Republican legislators publicly attacked Owens and the sham laws.

"Bill Owens is the Bill Clinton of Colorado politics," said Sen. Shawn Mitchell (R). "He took over eight years ago, when Republicans were in the majority in the legislature, and he's lost that. Now he continues to triangulate and make clever deals and treasure his personal approval rating." ( http://tinyurl.com/j5czl )

Rep. Josh Pence (R) called Owens' claim that the new laws were "tough" was "misguided rhetoric." Sen. Tom Wiens (R) told KHOW's Peter Boyles that he believed Owens had set up and sold out Republican legislators. Rep. Dave Schultheis (R) agreed that Owens' claims were false, and that the Special Session laws that were weak, at best.

Reponding to angry Republicans, Owens circulated a letter saying, "The leading immigration-reform group is the Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform [FAIR]. In a July 12 letter to me, its president wrote “this bill should prove to be a major breakthrough in the fight to control the costs of illegal immigration” and “is significantly stronger than any passed anywhere else in the country to date.” The bill we passed with many Republican votes, including the Republican leaders in both houses, has earned the support of not only FAIR but immigration-reform advocates such as Rep. Tom Tancredo and former Gov. Dick Lamm." [Note: Lamm chairs FAIR's National Board of Advisors

Notably, FAIR is also promoting Georgia's "tough" new immigration law, which also creates a new, unprecedented "right" for illegals to access "free" (i.e., publicly funded) prenatal care, paid for by Georgia's Citizen-taxpayers.

Besides citing support from Tancredo, Lamm, and FAIR, Owens further justified his betrayal by saying key Republican donors had met with him, warning that Colorado housing prices would jump 5% if cheap illegal-alien construction workers were unavailable. (Denver Post, 07/11/2006)

Who were these Republican donors who convinced Owens to enslave Colorado's Citizen-constituents, now legally mandated to support illegal aliens, while ensuring greedy employers could hire them and pay to birth, feed, educate, medicate, and incarcerate their illegal or anchor baby offspring? Denver media named Richmond Homes developer Larry Mizel. Mizel, CEO of MDC Holdings, Inc. -- Richmond's parent company -- earned a bonus of $20.5 million in 2005, according to Business Week Online, no doubt profits derived from cheap labor costs.

To ensure cash-strapped Citizens would be legally mandated to pay for illegals and compete with them in the job market, Mizel reportedly donated a measly $29,150 to Republican PACs and candidates, and $25,000 to the Republican National Committee in 2006. That's roughly the annual cost of educating just six of the thousands of illegal alien students in Colorado, thanks to Mizel & company. ( http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4035126 ). Unnamed sources said the miserly Mizel sealed his "immigration law" deal with Owens for just $30,000 "donation."

But Mizel in not just a greedy corporate fat cat. Quick research revealed what Colorado's mainstream media would not:

* Mizel's MDC Holdings, Inc., was parent company of Silverado Savings (Neil Bush, Director), California's Imperial Savings and other financial institutions which collapsed in the infamous Keating 5 Scandal, costing taxpayers at least $1 billion.

* MDC's former Director and attorney for both MDC and Silverado S&L, Norman Phillip Brownstein, served as CIA counsel for then-Director George H.W. Bush. Brownstein's power in Washington, DC was acknowledged by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-MA, who has dubbed Brownstein "the 101st Senator."

* MDC's former Director James M. Lyons served as lead litigation defense counsel for some of El Dorado's Directors and Officersfacing $200 million in claims in FDIC v. Silverado Savings, et al. and was General Counsel to Pres. Bill Clinton in 1992-93. ( http://tinyurl.com/mza3m )

* Pres. Bill Clinton pardoned MDC's former Director Philip D. Winn, convicted of a felony for bribing HUD. ( http://tinyurl.com/pag3l )

* Pres. George W. Bush in late 2005 pardoned MDC attorney Wendy St. Charles, convicted of drug offenses.

* MDC, Mizel, and Winn reportedly made large donations to then-Denver Mayor Federico Pena's 1987 re-election campaign during the Denver International Airport (DIA) fiasco. Key areas of the over-budget, problem-ridden airport -- then still on the drawing board -- were subsequently located on land owned and sold at great profit by Silverado and MDC.

Attorney Steve W. Farber was the second donor named as having successfully lobbied Gov. Owens to reject strong Republican bills in favor of the open-borders Democrat bills proposed during the Special Session. Farber's bio notes he is co-founder and President of Phillip Brownstein's law firm (Brownstein, Hyatt & Farber) is also a former MDC Director and MDC's outside counsel. ( http://tinyurl.com/oyhwy ) He is Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Rose Community Foundation, known to fund non-profits advocating for and serving illegal aliens. Farber also sits on the ADL's Board of Trustees. ADL lobbyists have testified against strong immigration reform bills proposed by Republican legislators.

Gov. Lamm has called the Brownstein/Farber law firm, "...the most politically astute and civic-minded firm in Denver." Lamm's former top aide, Tom Strickland, was a name shareholder of the firm for a time.

Many website detail MDC's connections to the Bushes, Clintons, DIA, Silverado, the Keating 5 and AIMCO. Time and space do not permit adequate discussion of this tangled web.

Of Owen's political pimping to Mizel and Farber, Rep. Lynn Hefley (R) said, "We know, and names were named here, who came and who gives big bucks to the party. It's my party too, and I came [to the Special Session] for us to do a job, and I'm ashamed of us."

That Colorado's new immigration laws were crafted by CFR globalists and political-corporate elitists linked to the highest levels of our Federal government -- often through criminal and dubious activities -- is undeniable. The fact that Colorado's new laws are being sold by those claiming to be on our side as "the toughest in the nation", meant to serve as model legislation for other states, is despicable and alarming. Wake up, America!

As patriotic Citizens seek State solutions to Federal failures to enforce immigration laws and protect us from foreign invasion, We the People must seek and destroy stealth efforts to hijack grassroots efforts.

Beware of those who exploit State's Rights and 10th Amendment limitations on the Federal government to craft and enact dangerous State laws that may well trump desirable Federal legislation.

Coloradans must now undo the terrible blow dealt to our sovereignty by trusted immigration control moles, RINO Bill Owens, elected/appointed public servants and corporate elitists.

As a witness to what happened here regarding immigration initiatives and laws, I can only conclude that we Coloradans were betrayed. The results speak for themselves.

>The CFR's seditious schemes violate and destroy our Constitution and Bill of Rights by simply dissolving America.
That's it in a nutshell.<

And they're doing it while Americans are watching "American Idol", "Grey's Anatomy", or any of the inane sitcoms tv offers. Dumbed down by government education, the sheeple turn to anything that will keep them from thinking; from facing what is happening to their country.
The question is what can those of us who recognize all this do about it?

The question is what can those of us who recognize all this do about it?

1) Join Minutemen and get active.

2)Vote Constitution Party or some other 3rd Party.

3) Teach young people how to shoot.

4) Pray.

What do you expect #2 is going to do that is useful? Ensure that the more fanatic flavor of globalist: Kerry / Gore / Clinton and their state level equivelents take over the FedGov? Are you thinking that when the Dems run everthing they will ruin it so fast we can get to the shooting war sooner? That's the only possible slightly rational spin I can put on encouraging people to vote for the third party candidates.

You know, the debate is no longer about republicans and democrats, and its foolish to couch everything political in that context. All politics in the country now, are international, and Americans better face up to that.

The real debate is national sovereignty and the defense of our Constitutional Republic against globalism and the re-engineering of nations into trade regions with unelected supranational councils running the whole show.

The debate has been changed, its time the American people face up to it and defend their country from these traitors. That means NOT reelecting over and over and over globalist anti-Americans. It means voting for the RIGHT person, who will stand up to these monsters if elected.

This is a very high stakes game, because the American people and our domestic economy has been looted to pay for the internationalist's global conversions. If we stop paying for it, and we stop electing their candidates, their whole ponzi scheme falls apart, and that is something we must do now. Another option would be to dissolve the transnational corporations who are contributing to the demise of this country. Stopping it will shore up our domestic economy and help to preserve the middle class in this country.

The only people in that tangled web that I know are CFR are Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush. Whether the other slimeballs are CFR remains in question, and how deep their federal connections are remains to be proven (apart from Brownstein, I suppose).

What do you expect #2 is going to do that is useful? Ensure that the more fanatic flavor of globalist: Kerry / Gore / Clinton and their state level equivelents take over the FedGov?

So, you are saying that a less fanatic flavor of globalist (Republican) is acceptable? Here is where I disagree. Any flavor of globalist is unacceptable. (I would also disagree that Dems are automatically more globalist than Repubs, too. The International Corporation Wing of the Republican Party is the worst of them all.)

Are you thinking that when the Dems run everthing they will ruin it so fast we can get to the shooting war sooner?

Something like that. "The worse, the better." It's the old saw about boiling a frog. The slower the loss of our sovereignty and Constitution, the less likely people are to even notice.

The real debate is national sovereignty and the defense of our Constitutional Republic against globalism and the re-engineering of nations into trade regions with unelected supranational councils running the whole show.

Absolutely! Couldn't agree with you more.

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