Immigrant Exaggeration

I want to thank the reader and I want to encourage you to fact check, and I want truth to emerge in the marketplace and in the political arena. Truth is not fake. Truth allows us to live in light, rather than darkness. I want to wish America a great 250th birthday coming up over our fight for Independence over the British. Our Founding Fathers gave us freedom, liberty and the rule of law when they created the U.S. Constitution. Every American citizen must make sure that all of our politicians respect and honor that great document!

What a crock!

I am 88 years old, a grandfather, a retired small business owner, a writer by avocation, and an army veteran with two older brothers buried in Arlington National cemetery.

I love our country, our history and our traditions. I will never forget that Patrick Henry, at St. John's church in Richmond VA, 250 years ago, stood before a crowd including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and said, “I know not what others may do, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death”. Then imagine in 1776, Nathan Hale was on a spy mission and the British caught him. On the scaffold, before his death, he uttered this statement, “I regret that I have but one life to give for my country”. Dear reader, this is our American history. This is what people 250 years ago, fought to give us in freedom and liberty. Now I must ask the question, does a nation like ours have a mortal soul? I think we do. Our U.S. Constitution is our legal Bible, protecting the rule of law. And the Old and New Testament of the Bible is practiced, according to polls, by 65% of Americans.

Let’s look at these issues that are testing our souls right now. They are immigration, Project 2025, and the 2021 insurrection at the Capitol Building.

Immigration

Is there a criminal immigrant behind every tree in America, or in every subway? Are they lurking everywhere to strike at our citizens? It's important dear reader for you to know, and to fact check. Hard data show that in America, crimes are committed more by American citizens than by immigrants. This is an important fact. Then why are we engaged in picking up tattooed gang members, supposedly from Venezuela, looking at their tattoos and then making a decision to arrest them, shave their heads, put them in white prison garb and sneakers, bend them over, chain them together and have masked agents leading them to a bus? Eventual destination, a concentration camp in El Salvador. Fact check this, am I exaggerating ? And remember the police made sure that they were tough in dealing with these so-called “criminal immigrants”. Dear reader, why the tough guy approach to so many arrests? Is it done for pure unadulterated theatre? Yes, it's done as a dramatic warning to the viewer, to the public, and to those easily led. It makes you think of the Bolshevik method of dealing with the public. Its treating them like dupes, stooges and willing idiots that will believe anything you tell them or show them. Now we have decided to embrace the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. What is the reason this Administration is using it? It gives them more rights than normal. The question is, is this a wartime problem we are having? Is it so terrible that we have to have ancient war laws put back in force? No, it's all a crock. We don't need gulags in El Salvador, we don't need students picked up off the street, we don't need to break into houses and literally take personal possessions from innocent people, while the ICE agents thoroughly ransack their house. Then they made the mother and the two daughters go outside in the rain in their underwear. Dear reader, the facts are this was an innocent family that was temporarily arrested in a rented house at 2:00 in the morning by ICE agents who wouldn't identify themselves. The mother told them, you've got the wrong house, the wrong people, we are not guilty of anything, we just moved in. Despite this dear reader, they took all their personal possessions, identification papers, telephones, computers and all of her cash. The husband had remained in Maryland to close out his business there. He left his wife as much cash as they needed to live on. They were informed their possessions would be given back in a few months! This is America? Listen carefully dear reader, those agents, all the agents that are masked and picking up supposedly “criminal immigrants” have been given a recent $45,000 bonus for their activities. Dear reader, fact check these stories.

Sound goofy? How about American citizens shipped out of the country without due process? Is that OK folks? Some circles and the MAGA Republican community suggests there's 21 million immigrants in America with possible unlawful standing. So now we must believe they're all criminals, they all should be treated poorly, they all should be manhandled, they all should be arrested in the street without warrants or reason? I'm sorry to pass it on but it's all a crock! Again, remember immigrants commit fewer terrible crimes in America then our American citizens. I don't care how many photographs are along the driveway of the White House, that is not a true representation of what's going on in America. You cannot pick a few criminal immigrants off the street or those that have been convicted of crimes, and say that it applies to everyone that is an immigrant. That is a totally unfair strategy to rile up the voter. And the other reason they're doing it is called divide and conquer. You pick a target to devalue, a group you want to make miserable. Think of Germany in 1933. Those 500,000 Jews that resided in Germany were not a threat to the German society. They were a target, using a group to blame for everything wrong in Germany. We don't do that stuff in the United States of America. The American voter will get what they deserve if they buy into disinformation and all of this drama and theatre created for affect. Fact check!

The other important thing to remember is it cost the U.S. Treasury more money to create all of these embellished theatrics. In the beginning when they first started taking these so called criminals, when they were first taken to Guantanamo Bay and then had to be removed elsewhere. They were using giant military transport airplanes that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to operate. All of this expense for 45 arrested immigrants? They were so hasty, it was all a mistake and the destination they had chosen had to be changed. Act in haste, repent at leisure! Dear reader think of the money irresponsibly spent. Where is the oversight? Where is the accountability?

Project 2025

What is it? It was hatched 3 years ago by Russell Vought, Kevin Roberts, and JD Vance as well as a whole host of right-wing politicians and operatives that wanted to demonstrate a new formula for our Governmental Institutions and Agencies. It was really created to overcome all of the supposed damage done by “wokes” in our society. President Franklin Roosevelt started the Social Security system. President John F Kennedy started USAID. President Lyndon Johnson set up Medicare, and Richard Nixon set up the EPA, and of course we have many many other departments all set up legally and properly.

The object of the Project 2025 founders was to try and stop inspectors from various Federal Institutions from going into corporate offices for oversight and inspection. They of course were looking to protect honesty and proper activities that are regulated. But regulations from the Federal Government often irritate corporations. Remember, it is not a right to do business in the United States, it is a privilege. We have not reached the point where corporations can dictate to government. All government is trying to do is properly maintain compliance and a rule of order, a rule of law. So now they've set up a system to find waste, fraud and abuse everywhere in the system. How are they handling it? Well, set up a Department of Government Efficiency and put Elon Musk in charge. He earned that right by giving the Trump campaign $260 million toward the campaign last summer. Elon Musk is not available for fact checking, in fact he's suggested many times he doesn't like it. He is averse to it. So, as he attacked the agencies and departments, did he use proper business tactics, proper investigation, proper notices? Not hardly. He boasted about getting rid of the “weeds” and getting rid of the Institutions or the “weeds” will come back. His missions was to find $2 trillion in savings from waste fraud and abuse. But now they have admitted that they could only find $150 billion of savings. Remember what they are doing, is targeting over 50,000 Federal employees, "weeds" to be terminated. They laid off thousands by mistake and have had to call many back as too essential to be let go. The strange ways of Elon Musk must be pointed out; as he called the Social Security Administration a Ponzi scheme. What was that based on? Dear reader, it was a crock. The Social Security Administration is supported by over 90% of the workers in America. Fact check it. They do pay their way. Dear reader note well, studies have shown that the Social Security Administration bureaucracy serving 73 million Americans is indeed well run. It is fraud and abuse to say otherwise.

Now we have a problem over DOGE as so many professional Americans, well educated, very talented, many great scientists, are being released. The result of these arbitrary and capricious breaking up of Americans institutions? Well, China is in line, England is in line, France is in line to take all these qualified people. All these foreign universities will take our American talented staff and just may leave us drained of our best brains. People look up to our universities and now that is at risk. There's other areas of Project 2025 that end up being questionable. They seem to represent Christian Nationalism as favored over any of the 40,000 other Christian sects in the world. Are they the chosen people? The Christian Nationalists, do they get to decide how the rest of us interpret religion? Remember in the Constitution the Founding Fathers wanted no religious test. JD Vance actually criticized Pope Francis’s stance on immigration. Apparently he doesn't like it that Pope Francis had empathy, sympathy, and sometimes tears, for immigrants. And meanwhile both JD Vance and Elon Musk have criticized moderate European Union politicians for not giving more sway to the right-wing German politicians who are now soft on some of their terrible evil past. Fact check! The EU has complained that Elon Musk, using his social media platform X, is pushing too much disinformation. Dear reader Elon Musk has lost upwards of 70% of his Tesla sales. Fact check!

Project 2025 also seemed to want to stretch their ideology into Universities, what we read, what we can teach, and they have their own curriculum. Dear reader, our Founding Fathers were not anti-science, anti-truth or afraid of opinions that were different from their own! Project 2025 disdains DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) which was put together to bring all Americans to the table. How in the world can that be a bad idea?

The Presidential Joe Biden election

Dear reader I get a serious headache when I hear that Joe Biden’s Presidential election in 2020 was stolen by Democrats. Huh? I have searched and I have searched, and then searched some more for facts, evidence and proof that demonstrates Joe Biden and the Democrats did something wrong over the 2020 election. Sixty-two courts rejected MAGA lawsuits. The Attorney General appointed by Donald Trump said the election was proper. The head of Cyber Security, also a Trump appointee, said the election was well run. Dear reader, they were both fired within days of making these truths public.

Dear reader, dear MAGA Republicans, if you still believe in fairy tales, go ahead, keep fooling yourself, but remember history and a just God are also observing this fraud, a rigged election. Now we are confronted with 1,600 insurrectionists attacking the Capitol Building because of the urging of President Donald Trump. As they were attacking the Capitol police, they obviously did not care that they were attacking Capitol police that had actually voted for Donald Trump; as many as 50%. 1,600 insurrectionists were properly convicted. Within two days of taking office on January 20th 2025, newly elected Donald Trump pardoned all of them. Dear reader, check the polls, then check them again. 83% of the American public disagreed with the pardons! What kind of world are we creating when we allow these rigged election lies to continue, under threat? In other words, MAGA Republicans are not allowed to say that Joe Biden won properly. What a crock! Here is another observation that will help MAGA Republicans embrace truth. In February of 2024, over 100 professional political scientists polled said that President Donald Trump's four years in office put him in last place for all Presidents that have served the United States of America. Don't forget he broke a record for fiscal deficit spending when he spent $7.8 trillion in four years. Again, a record for a first term President. Meanwhile in that same survey, Joe Biden was ranked 14th out of 46 Presidents and don't forget why. He made peace with the European Union, he assisted Ukraine, he passed infrastructure bills, he created 17,000,000 new jobs! Please fact check fact check. It is a disgrace to observe MAGA Republicans on Fox News, the pundits, still throwing rocks at Joe Biden. Remember, President Joe Biden had 50 years of public service. Dear reader, shouldn't he have garnered millions and millions of dollars after 50 years of service? No. The only substantial money he ever made above his salary was minor investments and a book on his son, Beau. He is transparent, he showed his tax returns contrary to Donald Trump. Fact check, fact check!

Dear reader why do so many MAGA Republicans have to continuously harbor disloyalty to a decent political opponent? Joe Biden is not the enemy of the people, he is a gentleman, and has served us honorably and well.

I want to thank the reader and I want to encourage you to fact check, and I want truth to emerge in the marketplace and in the political arena. Truth is not fake. Truth allows us to live in light, rather than darkness.

I want to wish America a great 250th birthday coming up over our fight for Independence against the British. Our Founding Fathers gave us freedom, liberty and the rule of law when they created the U.S. Constitution. Every American citizen must make sure that all of our politicians respect and honor that great document! The rule of law should be honored as the 11th Commandment!

God bless, and keep our children safe from chaos and mayhem.

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