“U.S.-Mexico Border Safest Area in America,” says U.S. Customs and Border Director

ILLUSIONISTS AT WORK

Left: Gene Garza, director of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Laredo, Texas. Right: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (Photos: CBP, AP)

Via CNSNews.com:

The U.S. side of the southwest border is home to “some of the safest communities in America,” Gene Garza, the director of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the Laredo, Texas field office, told lawmakers on Tuesday. [...] However, the U.S. Attorneys’ Annual Statistical Report for Fiscal Year 2011 paints a different picture, showing that 80 percent of all cases filed against criminal defendants in U.S. Magistrate Courts were filed in districts along the U.S.-Mexican border. [...] There were 71,387 cases filed in U.S. Magistrate Courts against criminal defendants between Oct. 1, 2010 and Sept. 20, 2011 (FY 2011), according to the Attorneys’ latest statistical report. Among those cases, 57,310 (80 percent) occurred along the southwest border. Despite the U.S. Attorneys’ data, DHS Secretary Napolitano echoed Garza’s claims that the border communities are among the safest in the country, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 25: “Violent crime in U.S. border communities has also remained flat or fallen over the past decade, and statistics have shown that some of the safest communities in America are along the border.” Do you feel any safer now? UPDATE - “U.S.-Mexico Border Safest Area in America,” says U.S. Customs and Border Director in Laredo, TX

ARIZONA SHOOTING: How the Left Falsely Accused Conservatives (videos)

THE LEFT = MERCHANTS OF HATE, LIBEL, MALICE This past week, the Left (mainstream media and Democrats) decided to exploit the Tucson massacre to destroy those whom they hate and to advance their political agenda. They let lose the dogs of their own hellish madness to link Conservatives or the Tea Party to the violent act. Within hours of the shooting, there were reports indicating that the shooter might be insane. The Left decided to ignore the facts. They continued with their witch-hunt and pushed their narrative to re-write the facts. They blamed political rhetoric (of course, from the Right). More facts were being discovered indicating the shooter, Jared Loughner, was not a Tea Partier, but actually a registered independent, who didn’t vote in the crucial 2010 election, and who didn’t watch TV or listen to political radio. Friends claimed that Loughner was a liberal pothead influenced by the anti-religion, anti-Capitalist movie “The Zeitgeist”. There was no evidence that political rhetoric from the Right had contributed to the shooting. Liberals were not deterred – they were determined to obtain a political advantage out of the tragedy. The Left saw an opportunity to further exploit the tragedy by attacking the First and Second Amendments. They re-directed the national discourse from repealing Obamacare and cutting government waste to gun control and censorship. Besides advancing their repressive agenda, liberals are trying to tacitly perpetuate the myth that the shooter was a right-wing extremist and not a demented person. On top of that, leftists are now pontificating about civility and bi-partisanship. These merchants of hate want Americans to forget their vitriolic past against Bush or against anyone who disagrees with them. They have no shame! They want to be our “Civility Police” and control our behavior and our speech. One question remains: How many people are going to fall for these tricks from the Left? Here is just a sampling of how liberals blamed Conservatives for the Tucson shooting without any evidence:

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1/8/2011 - The Left blames Sarah Palin, Tea Partiers, Limbaugh, Beck, etc. - Paul Krugman Blames Giffords Shooting on Palin, Limbaugh and Beck - Jane Fonda Blames Giffords Shooting on Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and the Tea Party - AZ Pima County Sheriff blames political rhetoric for shooting - Olbermann blames Palin, Allen West, Angle, Beck, O’Reilly, and the Tea Party - Geraldo Goes Out of His Way to Connect Tea Party With Tuscon Shooting - CNN on AZ Massacre: Palin “Allowed This Kind Of Instance To Happen” 1/9/2011 - Democrat James Clyburn blames Sharron Angle rhetoric for Giffords shooting - NY Daily News: “Giffords blood is on Sarah Palin’s hands” - CNN’s Candy Crowley Pushes Palin ‘Cross Hair’ Motive Narrative - Rep Bob Brady: Let’s ban crosshairs - Pima County Sheriff continues to blame Sarah Palin and Sharron Angle for shooting - AZ survivor Patricia Maisch: “The Extreme Right Have Added to This Problem” (Video mark 9:08) - Fox News Megyn Kelly Confronts Sheriff Dupnik Over His “Political Spin” On Shooting 1/10/2011 - NBC’s Today Show links Palin to AZ shooting - Arizona Sheriff blames Rush Limbaugh - Brokaw Blames Guns For AZ Massacre - Democrats conveniently forget Obama’s calling Latinos to punish their “enemies” - Hillary Clinton in Abu Dhabi: ‘We Have Extremists In My Country’ just like you - Bill Maher: 2007 vs 2011 On Inciting Violence And Hate 1/11/2011 - Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson: Violent Rhetoric Comes Exclusively From The Right - MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer: ‘People’ Are Blaming ‘Vitriolic Right-Wing Talkers’ for Shooting - Liberals use Giffords shooting to press for gun control - Democrat Brad Sherman: Az Shooter Picked Up Some Extreme Right Positions - Maher: Right-Wing Believes “Wouldn’t It Be Fun To Kill The People We Disagree With” - A Tale of Two Matthews: How MSNBC’s Host Handled Tucson Shooting vs. Ft. Hood Shooting 1/12/2011 - Media Matters’ David Brock: Beck Responsible for 3 Assassination Attempts - Democrat Rep. James Clyburn: We Need the Fairness Doctrine or Something (Video) - Hillary Clinton: Tucson Shooting Was Political Extremism - Oakland vigil for Tucson victims turns into a malicious blame-mongering event - Anti-Palin Posters Appear In San Francisco - Democrats call for Speech Limits - “Brown Relief”: NPR Latino Glad Assassin Was A “Gringo” (video) - MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: Palin Used ‘Blood Libel” To Appeal To Extremist Christian Conservatives 1/13/2011 - Democrat Rep. Clyburn Says “Double Barrel” After Denouncing Violent Rhetoric - Liberal Talker Thom Hartman: Beck Is Like Osama Bin Laden…The Right Is Activating Lone Wolf Terrorist - Tom Brokaw: I’d be nervous of going to a bar in Arizona (video) - Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.): Palin Should Have Said Sorry For “Overblown Rhetoric” - Pelosi Calls Tucson Murders an ‘Accident’ (Rep. Gabrielle Giffords did not vote for Pelosi as Speaker) - NY Times Shamelessly Spins Quote to Imply Giffords’ Shooter Was a Pro-Life Zealot - PoliticalWire claims Palin’s blood libel is a “dog whistle” to conservatives 1/14/2011 - AZ Shooting Victim Blames Boehner, Palin, Beck and Angle - MSNBC’s Resident RINO Joe Scarborough Says “This Probably Ended Sarah Palin’s Political Career” - Democrat Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr: Giffords’ Shooter is an “Anti-Government Activist”

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ARIZONA VICTIM MAKES DEATH THREAT TO TEA PARTY LEADER

KGUN9 News (Hat tip: GatewayPundit): Toward the end of the town hall meeting [being taped for an ABC-TV special] Saturday morning, one of the shooting victims, J. Eric Fuller, took exception to comments by two of the speakers: Ariz. state Rep. Terri Proud, a Dist. 26 Republican, and Tucson Tea Party spokesman Trent Humphries. According to sheriff’s deputies at the scene, Fuller took a photo of Humphries and said, “You’re Dead.” Deputies immediately escorted Fuller from the room. Pima County Sheriff’s spokesman Jason Ogan said later Saturday that Fuller has been charged with threats and intimidation and he also will be charged with disorderly conduct. Eric Fuller’s comments after the Tucson shooting: Eric Fuller said in an interview with leftist Democracy NOW! (1/14/2011): “It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target. Their wish for Second Amendment activism has been fulfilled — senseless hatred leading to murder, lunatic fringe anarchism, subscribed to by John Boehner, mainstream rebels with vengeance for all, even 9-year-old girls. There was a little girl named Christina Green, 9-years old, who is one of the deceased.” Eric Fuller to leftist Media Matters: (1/14/2011) “I would put Sarah Palin in first place there. I think, really, she should be incarcerated for treason for advocating assassinating public officials.”

SARAH PALIN RESPONDS TO ARIZONA SHOOTING (video)

SARAH PALIN: AMERICA’S ENDURING STRENGTH

Via her Facebook page and Vimeo.

SARAH PALIN’S & DEMOCRATS’ MAPS WITH CROSSHAIRS, TARGETS, BULLSEYES

MILITARY METAPHORS IN AMERICAN POLITICS ARE NOT NEW Liberals’ hypocrisy is only matched by their malice. They are using the Arizona tragedy to advance their agenda. The liberal media and Democrats claim that warlike metaphors used by Sarah Palin and other conservatives incite violence like the Saturday’s shooting in Tucson, Arizona. But these leftists intentionally fail to mention that both parties use military analogies and warfare metaphors in political campaigns and debates, e.g., “being in the crosshairs”, “bull’s-eye” map, “targeted districts”, “battleground states”, “targeting for defeat”, “air war”, “campaign”, etc. Who can forget “Clinton’s War Room” or “Obama’s War Room” referring to their campaign centers. Caustic rhetoric and imagery are a tradition in American politics: - John Adams called Alexander Hamilton “the bastard brat of a Scotch peddler.” - Lyndon Johnson was regularly hanged in effigy. - George Washington was sarcastically called “Saint Washington,” accused of overdrawing his salary, and compared to Nero and “a common pickpocket.” - Andrew Jackson was regularly called “King Andrew” and accused of seeking to establish a monarchy. - Abraham Lincoln, in an 1863 political cartoon, was depicted as a monkey handing the Emancipation Proclamation to a minstrel-show stereotype of a black man. Saul Alinsky (Obama’s hero) and his Machiavellian book Rules for Radicals is full of warfare metaphors: - Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. - You can miss the target by shooting too high as well as too low. - Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. - Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. - The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
PALIN’S MAP with Cross Hairs Symbols FROM SARAH PALIN’S FACEBOOK PAGE The text accompanying the map is clearly about elections. The “cross hairs” map was part of Palin’s “Take Back the 20″ campaign in the 2010 elections, in which she urged Americans to vote out of office 20 Democrats who voted in favor of ObamaCare.
DEMOCRATS’ MAPS with Bullseyes/Targets Symbols FROM THE DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE: (http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=253055&kaid=127&subid=171)
FROM THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE (DCCC) – Recovery for America: The DCCC has been deleting their “TARGETED Republican” map, but here is an Archived version. (The original links: http://www.dccc.org/content/recovery, http://dccc.org/blog/archives/dccc_announces_12_house_republicans_targeted_in_major_grassroots_campaign/) The DCCC announcement of their “TARGETED Republicans” map stated they were “targeting Republicans who opposed President Obama’s economic recovery bill.” “We will hold accountable those Republicans who continue to vote in lockstep against President Obama’s economic recovery plan for the American people…The site includes an interactive map that illustrates the job creation and tax cuts by state, information about targeted Republicans…” (http://dccc.org/newsroom/entry/dccc_announces_12_house_republicans_targeted_in_major_grassroots_campaign/)
Each red target represents a “Targeted Republican” like these ones:
VerumSerum found their Recovery for America Facebook page and saved a screenshot:
Maps via VerumSerum, HotAirPundit, Sweetness & Light, RedState

FACTS: WHO IS ARIZONA SHOOTER JARED LEE LOUGHNER?

JARED LOUGHNER’S SICKNESS IS NOT THE PRODUCT OF POLITICS We are learning more about Jared Loughner, the man responsible for the shooting rampage in Arizona where he tried to assassinate Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killed and wounded other people. Jared Loughner Despite the rabid efforts from the mainstream media and many Democrats to pin this massacre on the right wing, the facts show that Loughner is a crazy man who cited Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto as one of his favorite books; was intrigued by flag-burning videos; and, in one of his YouTube videos, said, “No! I won’t trust in God.” ● He is a left-winger who likes watching US flags burn & his favorite books are Communist Manifesto & Mein Kampf ● His YouTube videos reveal grievances on currencies, grammar, religion, Constitution (videos) ● A lunatic who wanted to kill cops: - The shooter has made death threats before and been contacted by law-enforcement officers. - The suspect is unstable, Sheriff Dupnik said. - A former classmate of Loughner at Pima Community College said he was “obviously very disturbed.” - He entered bizarre comments on his MySpace and YouTube accounts. ● Loughner was rejected from the Army in 2008 because he failed a drug test ● Gifford’s Shooter ‘Believes the U.S. Government Was Behind 9/11′ ● Believed Government Was Behind 9/11 ● Friend of Loughner: “As I knew him He was a left wing, quite liberal” ● Loughner’s Lethal Message: “I Planned Ahead”: Investigators seized an envelope from Loughner’s safe with messages such as “I planned ahead,” “My assassination,” and the name “Giffords” next to what appears to be the man’s signature. The FBI also found a letter in a safe from Giffords, on Congressional stationery, dated Aug. 30, 2007 that thanked Loughner for attending a “Congress on your Corner” event at the Foothills Mall in Tucson. ● Loughner Fixated on Giffords Since 2007 Way Before Palin ● MAKESHIFT SATANIC SHRINE Found at Loughner’s Home ● His college professor called police after classroom confrontation with Loughner last year…more here ● Loughner’s troubled past: - Jared Loughner had 5 Run-ins with College Police. - College sent a letter to Loughner telling him that if he intended to return to school, he would have to get a letter from a mental health official indicating “his presence at the College does not present a danger to himself or others.” - Students remember how Loughner made them really uncomfortable. - Loughner expressed his interest in grammar and logic on the Internet as he made bizarre claims – such as that the Mars rover and the space shuttle missions were faked. - He frequently used “if-then” constructions in making nonsensical arguments. For instance: “If the living space is able to maintain the crews life at a temperature of -454F then the human body is alive in the NASA Space Shuttle. The human body isn’t alive in the NASA Space Shuttle. Thus, the living space isn’t able to maintain the crews life at a temperature of -454F.” - Loughner also said in one video that government is “implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar.” He described America’s laws as “treasonous” and said that “every human who’s mentally capable is always able to be treasurer of their new currency.” - In October 2007, Loughner was cited in Pima County for possession of drug paraphernalia, which was dismissed after he completed a diversion program, according to online records. - A year later he was charged with an unknown “local charge.” That charge was also dismissed following the completion of a diversion program in March 2009, the Arizona Daily Star reported. ● Loughner is a registered independent but didn’t vote in 2010 election ● His High School Used Curriculum Founded by Communist Bill Ayers (friend of Obama) ● Did Pima County Sheriff Dupnik dismiss Loughner threat?

LIST: INFLAMMATORY RETHORIC & HATE SPEECH FROM THE LEFT

Arizona Shooting (1/8/2011) The Left is trying to blame the Right, the Tea Party and Republicans for Saturday’s shooting in Arizona. Liberals never want a crisis go to waste. They are using this national tragedy to silence political opposition and advance their repressive policies. However, the Left can no longer distort the facts and re-write history. Bloggers and the alternative media remind Americans how the Left, not the Right, owns the political violence and the inflammatory rhetoric: ● An Illustrated Guide to Leftist Hate ● Democrats also use the ‘bulls-eyes’ map for political campaigns ● Leftist blog (Daily Kos) put a bulls-eye on Rep. Giffords in June 2008 ● Liberal Rep. Who Wants to Restrict Threatening Language Keeps Photo of Himself in Boxing Gloves On Website ● Obama’s Inflammatory Rhetoric: ** Obama: “They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun” ** Obama to His Followers: “Get in Their Faces!” ** Obama on ACORN Mobs: “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!” ** Obama to His Mercenary Army: “Hit Back Twice As Hard” ** Obama on the private sector: “We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick.” ** Obama to voters: Republican victory would mean “hand to hand combat” ** Obama to lib supporters: “It’s time to Fight for it.” ** Obama to Latino supporters: “Punish your enemies.” ** Obama to democrats: “I’m itching for a fight.” ● Inflammatory rhetoric from the Left ● The 2006 film about the assassination of George W. Bush ● Bill Maher was sorry the 2007 assassination attempt on then Vice President Dick Cheney failed ● The Real Radio Hatemongers and more ● Hate from the Left

Obama to Senator Kyl: “Republicans will not Support ‘Immigration Reform’ if I Secure the Border (video links)

Arizona Senator Kyl: ‘Obama says no border security without amnesty’ (H/t: DrudgeReport)

Report & videos: Obama tells Kyl in private Oval Office meeting: I won’t secure border because then Republicans will have no reason to support “comprehensive immigration reform.”