Charlie Brown Evades Immigration Policy.
Charlie Brown, How Many Murders Does it Take?
October 19, 2008
4th District Congressional candidate Tom McClintock has called for federal funds to be cut off to San Francisco, based on their "sanctuary city" policy.
His opponent, Democrat Charlie Brown is not so bold. In fact, Charlie is strangely quiet for a man who claims he's against illegal immigration. He refuses to complete the Americans for Better Immigration (ABI) survey, which he's had for six months. This survey forces candidates to outline a clear policy on illegal immigration, and directly asks if they would cut funds for sanctuary cities.
In the wake of the cold-blooded murders of an innocent American citizen and his two sons, gunned down in the street by an illegal alien, Charlie's silence speaks volumes.
Charlie's blank ABI survey on the ALIPAC website sits next to Tom McClintock’s completed form. The election is fifteen days out, and bloodshed in the streets of San Francisco hasn't compelled Charlie to take a stand.
So when it comes to sanctuary cities, here's the question for Charlie Brown. How many murders does it take?
What follows is a snapshot view of two illegal alien juvenile offenders, harbored and shielded from justice and deportation, as their violence against American citizens escalated. We will never know just how many stories like this are out there, because juvenile records are closely guarded. We know this much. These glimpses of horror are a small fraction of the big picture.
Over $2.3 Million in the Name of Sanctuary.
An August 3, 2008, San Francisco Chronicle article reveals that mayor Gavin Newsom's office gave grants totaling over $650,000 since 2006, to provide free services to underage criminal illegal aliens. These city programs provided housing assistance, "arts and cultural affirmation activities," and immigration attorney fees. The city also provided free flights to foreign countries, and transportation to other sanctuary cities, all the while carefully helping these criminals evade ICE and deportation.
According to a July 4, 2008 article in the LA Times, Newsom admits that San Francisco "has spent $2.3 million to house 162 illegal immigrant youths since 2005, and an additional $38,955 to fly juvenile offenders to Honduras, American Samoa and Mexico over the last two years." Why did San Francisco fund flights of illegal alien felons to their homeland? To avoid subjecting these criminals to our country's deportation system, which would bar them from ever returning to the United States.
Tweety and the Box Cutters. Your Tax Dollars At Work.
Meet Mexican illegal immigrant Eric Antonio Uc-Cahun (aka "Tweety"), now 19, a long-time beneficiary of San Francisco's "sanctuary city" policy.
Tweety's teen-age crime spree in San Francisco should have ended with his first felony assault, and the reporting required by federal law. Instead, his violent crimes were committed with Tweety's sure knowledge that he could attack American citizens without risk of deportation to Mexico.
In San Francisco, the long arm of the law is actually quite short.
SF's sanctuary city policy prohibits law enforcement officers from notifying ICE (the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency), when they arrest illegal alien youths with a criminal past. This is in open defiance of federal law. So, to clarify, San Francisco will take federal funds. They just won't obey federal law
On August 13, 2006, SF police reports show that Uc-Cahun/"Tweety" was arrested with other gang members for an assault on a man in Dolores Park. The victim was hit in the head and threatened with a gun, after Tweety and his gang demanded to know if he was a gang member. Once arrested, Uc-Cahun refused to cooperate with police, or say where he lived, The police report on the attack says Uc-Cahun was a Sureño gang member known as "Tweety" who had "numerous prior contacts" with law enforcement.
Taken to juvenile hall, then 17, Tweety was eventually found guilty of felony assault, placed on probation and set free. Shortly thereafter, on October 18, 2006, Tweety was arrested again, for another felony assault. Once again placed in juvenile hall, he spent four months there before being found guilty. By the time he was freed in February 2007 and put on a year's probation, Tweety was 18 years old.
On May 22, 2007, while Tweety was still on probation, he and several other gang members approached a man waiting for a bus and accused him of being a member of a rival gang. Apparently such accusations are a mere formality for Tweety's gang, kind of an official notification of impending bloodshed. The man's denial of being a rival gang member was severely punished. Tweety's gang commenced to beating the man with a broomstick until it broke. Then Tweety used a box cutter with a 2" blade to slash the victim's abdomen open in two different places.
San Mateo County chief deputy district attorney Steve Wagstaffe's description of the assault: "He basically gutted him, like you gut a pig to get to the meat."
The man survived the attack, and identified illegal alien Tweety as the man with the box cutter. Arrested in September 2007, Tweety was ordered by the judge to be held without bail. After hearing the compelling testimony of his victim at his preliminary hearing, Tweety apparently decided it was time to influence future proceedings. He allegedly wrote a letter to a friend providing the name and address of his victim, and suggesting that his friend "take care of things," according to Wagstaffe.
The letter was found by police in May while executing a search warrant at a house suspected of being used by gang members. Witness intimidation was added to the charges of robbery, attempted murder and other gang-related counts Tweety already faced.
Foundation Training for Murder.
Meet Edwin Ramos, 21, an illegal alien from El Salvador and member of MS-13, a Salvadoran criminal gang. In 2000, at age 13, Ramos came to the U.S. He was arrested by San Francisco police in 2003 after he and other gang members boarded a bus and severely beat a man they thought was a rival gang member. Shielded from ICE, he was put in a shelter. In April, 2004, four days after he left the shelter on probation, he tried to mug a pregnant woman. With two felonies on his record, and still protected by the City of Love, in June, 2004 he was "sentenced" to live at the Log Cabin Ranch, a city-run camp in the hills of the Peninsula.
Edwin Ramos was released from the Log Cabin Ranch camp in February 2005. Federal immigration authorities still had not been informed of his presence in our country, much less his criminal record. Predictably, this illegal alien's violent juvenile career in our country proved a mere warm-up for things to come.
On March 30, 2008, Ramos was arrested in San Francisco's Tenderloin district after police found a gun in his car (they later discovered that it had been used just the day before in a double homicide). The district attorney's office did not press charges and Ramos was released.
Wrong Place At The Wrong Time.
On June 22, 2008, American citizens Tony Bologna, 48 and his sons Michael, 20 and Matthew, 16 were on their way home from a family picnic when Tony made the kind of innocent mistake that happens every day in traffic. On a narrow street in the Excelsior district, he temporarily blocked another driver from making a left turn.
It's the randomness of this tragedy that makes it even more sickening. Edwin Ramos was driving the other car. When Mr. Bologna politely backed up to let him drive past, Ramos pulled a gun and opened fire, murdering Tony and his two sons.
Charlie Brown Remains Silent.
4th District Congressional candidate Charlie Brown's response to this horrifying, senseless tragedy? Silence.
The Americans for Better Immigration survey is only 12 questions long, with yes/no answers. Charlie's had it for six months. Charlie is running for Congress in a border state, in a country where illegal immigration is recognized as one of our most important challenges, with nearby San Francisco as a poster child for the insanity of sanctuary cities. And yet Charlie Brown (perhaps mindful of his liberal supporters) hasn't yet filed an answer to the sanctuary city question on the survey, much less make a public statement condemning the policy.
On July 3, 2008, Mayor Gavin Newsom and City District Attorney Herrera finally swore to reverse their policy of shielding underage illegal alien "offenders." Was it the long history of violent crime perpetrated by the illegals they harbored, the box cutter slashing, or the triple homicide that convinced them? None of the above. It was the latest "embarrassing" result of San Francisco's years-long policy of shuttling illegal underage criminals hundreds of miles away, to group homes in other cities, in order to evade ICE.
Shortly after Newsom announced an interest in running for governor of California, San Bernardino County officials threatened to sue the city of San Francisco for sending a group of Honduran illegal immigrant, juvenile crack dealers to group homes in the city of Yucaipa without notification.
Eight juveniles simply walked away from the homes.
“The county is exploring every option to recoup all our police expenses,” said San Bernardino County Supervisor Gary Ovitt. “This lunacy needs to stop now.”
Apparently this round of newspaper headlines was too much to take. Newsom issued a statement that "minors in the country illegally who commit crimes will be turned over to immigration authorities." This neat trick of language reveals the mayor's latest version of situational ethics, since "minors in the country illegally," by definition, are already committing a crime. Newsom's office added another declaration designed to quiet the uproar. “In no uncertain terms, the mayor has directed city officials to stop sending undocumented immigrants to other counties,” said Nathan Ballard, Newsom's communications director.
But this story is far from over. San Francisco remains a sanctuary city for illegal aliens, and the city's defiance of federal law has created more than one monster. The San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission has recommended the continued protection of illegal alien felons who claim to be juveniles.
One victim whose suffering is immeasurable, is seeking the only form of justice left to her. Tony Bologna's widow is suing San Francisco for being partially responsible for the deaths of her husband and two sons.
Her claim states that the city knew Ramos was a member of the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13 gang, with a documented violent past, but nonetheless failed to report him as required by federal law to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
"When a city is violating federal law and that violation of law leads to horrific consequences like this, then the city has clearly acted in a negligent manner," said one of the Bologna's attorneys.
The recently announced federal grand jury investigation will no doubt present many tough questions, and even San Francisco's highly perfected art of evasion may crumble under the weight of federal subpoenas.
In the meantime, Charlie Brown still refuses to answer critical questions on illegal immigration policy, as he tries to convince the conservative 4th District to elect him to Congress. Which leads to the final question. Charlie Brown, what are you hiding?
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The above trash masquerading as a user blog post is being put up by a Public Relations Firm hired by Republican Tom McClintock. Who's campaign is broke, and in debt, so with any luck, they'll have problems collecting on the money.
winston_niles is the name of a fictional character in a Curt Vonnegut novel.
The Alliance "Minutemen Civil Defense Corps" is an astroturf group pretending to be concerned about immigration. The "Alliance" was founded by Alan Keyes, the fringe candidate. They run email solicitations on the internet targeting senior citizens by claiming all people of Hispanic descent are criminals and illegal aliens, incapable of becoming civilized. This is done to scare people into donating funds for a "border fence." They pretend to build a fence. They've been doing this for YEARS, and people still fall for the scam.
They are blatantly racist and people who are associated with these groups are white supremists. This was documented back in 2005 and 2006, when they used these hate mongering tactics to solicit money which they used to pay CONSULTANTS and political operatives and do mass mailings and smear advertisements on candidates. This documentation was not done by "liberals" but by conservative media and blogs who were sick of being scammed, and seeing people being scammed, such as red state and the Washington Times.
By looking at the filings of the Minuteman PACs, right now, they are using money for this PR hack jobs on candidates, and for targeting the Democratic nominee with racist garbage like putting his likeness on a fake "food stamp" with fried chicken and ribs and watermelon, and then sending the picture around to all of their Republican club friends. That was in the national news this past week. Don't you feel proud to be a Republican right now ?
They also take money they raise and pay a firm in Texas to do "voter caging" where they process the data they collect on voter registrations to try to throw people off the voter registration rolls. The woman who runs that company is also a member of Key's "Alliance" or American Renewal groups- they have several names. Most of their funds in the off season goes to pay her salary as administration costs.
Tom McClintock did stand down there on the steps of the State Capitol in Sacramento with all of these known right wing, racist extremists (one of their spokesmen, Simcox, the front guy, has a criminal record, including carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, plus abusing a family member, which they never mention) and call for funds to be cut off not only to San Francisco but to any city he thought wasn't following this old crappy BUSH era doctrine.
Reminding the READERS that the Republican Congress before the 2006 election attempted to pass draconium laws that not only were un Constitutional (no, you cannot legally just "cut off" any city you think isn't Republican enough ) but would have turned this country into a Fascist form of neo Nazi America complete with concentration camps.)
McClintock is a dangerous extremist who thinks that people should form private armed vigilante groups that go around demanding identification and turning in their neighbors to the federal government for interrogation. Wake up people, and ask yourselves if this sounds like rationale behavior from an elected person who is supposed to be in a democracy.
By the way, your local state assembly members helped pay for this by taking the lobbyist money in their state accounts and using it to pay for appearances of these Minutemen con artists with Tom McClintock, which is one of the reasons he's in trouble with the Federal Elections Commission campaign finance division, because using state funds for federal campaigns is not legal. Tom McClintock has received numerous warning letters from the FEC asking him why his expenditures do not match his income. McClintock responded by making a fake charity donation out of his state accounts TO HIS CAMPAIGN CONSULTANTS via political so -called "non profits" to try to cover it up.
Tom McClintock cannot run on the real issues.
Tom McClintock's every answer to what is WRONG with Republican economic policy that causes people to not be able to afford mortgages, food, and medicine is to pick a minority group to demonize and point fingers at, just like KKK Karl Rove taught the Bush and Cheney crowd to do.
A pathetic, washed up, has been candidate's last desperate attempt to get anyone to listen to a word he says.
But Tom McClintock can be sent back to wealthy suburban Southern Califiornia, where this type of racist hate mongering plays well with the crazy people.
For the record, I was named after my mother's hero, Winston Churchill. Notice that Canyon Rat sets right to work trying to distract readers from the message of the post. The question for Charlie Brown remains. Why won't you fill out the survey, and outline a clear position on illegal immigration? 4th District voters have the right to make an educated decision about the man they will send to Congress.
I, too am curious as to why Mr. Brown has not answered the survey? This has nothing to do with "racist hate mongering"...it has to to do with the law, FEDERAL LAW, and prosecution of crimes committed.
Yeah, sure, and I was named after Winston's mother.
Message of the post DON'T LOOK AT THE FEC FILINGS. LOOK, OVER THERE, OMG DOES THAT PERSON HAVE AN ACCENT ? "PAPERS PLEASE"
Message from the voters- go to the Brown website and read his posted policy.
CanyonRat
That post sounds like a conspiracy theory or written by one of Charlie‘s blogosphere trolls that has a fetish for Minutemen. Just stick to the issues, like illegal immigration or get off the net spend your time looking for UFOs.
It's pretty clear to everyone that a) Brown is avoiding the illegal immigration problem or b) is a Liberal open borders advocate.
Chesire- I've already documented all of it. So have many, many others. Can you say "Scam Artists?" Can you say Simcox and McClintock are Con Men? Come on, say it with me, "Scam Artists" "Con Men." I will continue to document who is really paying for this astroturfing racist garbage the McClintock campaign keeps cutting and pasting onto this site from other sites, until the election is over with.
Now tell us who pays for ALIPAC. Or it's time for another Doolittle story.
What part of "go to the Brown website and read his posted policy" did you have trouble comprehending ?
CanyonRat - Did you know McClintock is terribly fond of using winston_niles' sister, dee?