The Pink Flamingo

Ten Percent of Postville Arrested in One Day

SJ Reidhead — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:58:58 -0600

ILLEGALS ARE PEOPLE TOO

"We are at the beginning of a national crisis," stated Ester R. Shapiro, a professor at UMASS Boston and a researcher at the Gaston Institute who contributed research for the report. "Homeland security guards told these mothers that DSS had already taken their children, that they had already lost their children.” Shapiro continued, “A detainee told me the worst night of her life was spent listening to the weeping of mothers who thought they had already lost their children. That is torture, and we have to take a …”stand against that."

No, they are not here ...

Two Stories About Illegal Migrants & The People Who Deal With Them

SJ Reidhead — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:27:13 -0600

GOOD BP - BAD ICE

Two stories are going to be presented for your edification. One will detail the absurd waste of taxpayer dollars disrupting the lives of up to 700 families. The other is an exemplary example of the Border Patrol at its best.

ICE REIGN OF TERROR CONTINUES
Does anyone know how long this reign of terror conducted by ICE will continue. Not only content to raid the largest Kosher packing plant in the nation, but they are also making absurd claims that Meth is being made on the property. The raid will probably disrupt the supply of ...

Why Is There No REAL GOP Leadership in the House?

SJ Reidhead — Sat, 10 May 2008 22:36:21 -0600

HOUSE REPUBLICANS ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT!

Novak has a Townhall piece today that is basically humiliating in nature for the GOP. Nancy Pelosi has run rough-shod over them for nearly 2 years and they’ve basically surrendered.
Flap is covering Newt Gingrich’s cry in the darkness.

“…Nine Acts of Real Change That Could Restore the GOP Brand

Here are nine acts of real change that would begin to rebuild the American people's confidence that Republicans share their values, understand their worries, and are prepared to act instead of just talk. The Republicans in Congress could get a start on all nine ...

Another Pink Flamingo I Told You So – It’s the Narco-War – Not Immigration

SJ Reidhead — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:34:56 -0600

ARE CHAVEZ, FARC INVOLVED IN MEXICO

If you think illegal immigration is bad now, just wait. If what I think is happening, we are in for a massive tide of illegal immigration – refugees fleeing the growing narco-war in Mexico. This is a war, perhaps involving Hugo Chavez, the FARC, and his plans to undermine Mexico and bring terror to the border.

Our precious little conservatives, who are pandering to hard-line racists who have nothing to do with the GOP are diverting money that needs to go into the fight against narco-terror. That is what it is. Wait, ...

Now That the NYTimes Says Illegals Die in Detention…Will Anyone Care...Yet?

SJ Reidhead — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:41:31 -0600

THIS WEEK’S IMMIGRATION NEWS

They are now called Juan Crow Laws.

I have a real problem here. I am noticing a growing trend within conservative (extreme, not Republican) blog ranks to classify La Raza as racist. Along with that, there seems to be this under tone that maybe Hispanics are less than acceptable. Or, if they are, we’re talking “OUR” Hispanics and the other (UPPITY) Hispanics. Let’s face some very nasty facts here. The same individuals who fought against the Civil Rights reforms and integration in the Sixties are the very ones helping to promote hard-line immigration reform. Does ...

Proving Hard Core Conservatives Wrong on Hispanics

SJ Reidhead — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:44:44 -0600

THE HISPANIC REPUBLICAN VOTE

Rubin Navarrette has a PJ Media piece about the Mexican flag. There is a double standard. Anything Mexican is bad – evil, evidently.

“…The point is, a lot of Americans look at anyone who waves a Mexican flag as secretly planning to take over the Southwest and hand it to Mexico. But they don’t suggest that anyone waving the Israeli flag - or the Irish flag, or the Italian flag or whatever - has something similar up his sleeve. In those cases, most people are likely to think that the display is harmless and that all ...

Is Your Anti-Hispanic Racism Showing?

SJ Reidhead — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:28:57 -0600

THIS IS BIASED - THIS IS RACISM

I want to tell you about a story I heard today. I am not telling who told it to me. The man is Hispanic. His family has been in New Mexico since the Conquistadors. THEY ARE REPUBLICAN. They have served in the military. They vote. They go to church, have jobs, and contribute to society. Unfortunately, my friend’s sister cannot find her birth certificate. She has lost her baptismal certificate. The state of New Mexico declares she was never born. She has a Social Security # and is receiving it. She has her ...

Michelle Malkin’s Secret Fear (John McCain & Hispanics)

SJ Reidhead — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:43:02 -0600

MICHELLE HATES MCCAIN
(or is it anything Hispanic)

Does this offend you? If it does, I suggest you join your little friends at Stormfront, or go flush some of your hard earned money down the coffers of any one of the minutemen groups. I also suggest you sit back, and breathe. There....in, out. Now sneeze. (wait, that's me). Think back on all the tales you remember - of Ronald Reagan's campaign. Think about all the GOP POTUS campaigns since then - and you might discover (if yo are willing to look) that EVERY Republican nominee for President of the ...

Stealth Conservatives, Not Republican, Against the GOP

SJ Reidhead — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:21:37 -0600

THEY BETRAY THEIR “CONSERVATIVE” IDEALS

I think there is this false perception that I do not like conservatives, and have something against them. In a way that is true. I am conservative. The only change I’ve been through in about 20 years of political evolution is the fact that I am now against the death penalty simply because I am so staunchly pro-life. It is rather ludicrous to be against abortion, but yet want to put criminals to death. It just doesn’t work. Other than that, I am as conservative (maybe a little more) as I was when Reagan was ...

If Chuck Baldwin Were Elected POTUS

SJ Reidhead — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:02:41 -0600

THE 'TRUE' CONSERVATIVE AGENDA

From Border Fire Report (for what it’s worth)

I keep telling you there are many conservatives who are not Republican. These are the individuals who have been doing all the agitating – and we’re not talking Ron Paul Bots. There is a division in the conservative ranks between libertarians, Constitution, and the new conservative party. The problem is these are the yahoos who basically cost the GOP the majority in the House and Senate in 2006. If we aren't careful and marginalize them, this will happen, once again, and could cost John McCain the election. They ...

When Narcissists Attack - Part II - A Convenient Untruth

SJ Reidhead — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:45:51 -0600

MALKIN’S HATRED OF JOHN MCCAIN

When Aristotle defined hubris, he may have been thinking of Michelle Malkin.

"...Aristotle defined hubris as follows: to cause shame to the victim, not in order that anything may happen to you, nor because anything has happened to you, but merely for your own gratification. Hubris is not the requital of past injuries; this is revenge. As for the pleasure in hubris, its cause is this: men think that by ill-treating others they make their own superiority the greater...."

Why does Michelle Malkin hate John McCain so much? We know she supports his military ...

Chertoff Lied About BLM Report on Border Fence

SJ Reidhead — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:30:04 -0600

FENCE WOULD CAUSE MAJOR DAMAGE

Demands are finally being made to force Michael Chertoff to either resign or be removed from his position as the Secretary of Homeland Security. It is possible the man has a track record of not telling the truth. Last September BLM officials informed Michael Chertoff that the proposed border fence would cause irreparable damage to the fragile San Pedro aquifer and the Riparian sanctuary. Evidently Chertoff LIED about the information the BLM gave to him and just went on as planned, ignoring the Constitution of the US.

“…Yet when U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael ...

A Cochise County Perspective - Part I

SJ Reidhead — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:47:51 -0600

COCHISE COUNTY, IMMIGRATION & CRIME

Last weekend some serious charges were leveled at The Pink Flamingo, questioning methods and sources. Several days ago Harold Hutchinson at Called As Seen detailed some of the problems. I was accused by someone who alleges to be from “the border” of not knowing what I’m talking about – of lying.

Years ago, when my sister and I were in high school, a women from our church and her husband confronted my mother, making some off the wall accusations about my sister and I. Our mother never said anything, but went the high school ...

A Anti-Catholic Minuteman Expose’ (on Video)

SJ Reidhead — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:41:20 -0600

THESE ARE THE MINUTEMEN

NOTE: I was planning to a piece on the FLDS (I have some new information) but was side-tracked by this story. I think this is something that needs to be told. I know I am telling it one-sided, against the Minutemen in California. But what I have found is so repulsive and so vile it needs to be exposed to the light of day. It is obvious someone is going to cross the line one of these days and shots are going to be fired. I have a feeling it will be a Minuteman or one ...

Why Are Republicans Having Such Problems Raising Funds

SJ Reidhead — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:48:49 -0600

COULD IT BE – IMMIGRATION?

Earlier today I spoke to our local Women’s Republican group, delivering what amounted to a partial doom and gloom prediction. While the talk was primarily about the various blogs for John McCain, I said the following:

The implications for the GOP could be disastrous if we do not change our ways and modernize our way of thinking. This is precisely what a group of us are attempting to do. If we cannot get the rank and file every day members of the Republican Party to perhaps re-think the wheel a little, I am afraid we ...

Are Sheriff Joe’s Follies Catching Up With Him?

SJ Reidhead — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:36:58 -0600

SHERIFF JOE TOSSES BILL OF RIGHTS!

“…So much for my speech. The struggle, I fear, is just getting started. Both our Mayor and Police Chief have challenged the Sheriff. Religious leaders, myself included, will soon be publishing an open letter in the paper, legal challenges will be mounted. No matter what your views on immigration or your ideas on how to solve this immensely complex problem, the Sheriff's heavy-handed intimidation is not the way. I hope that you will join with me and others in the religious community who are doing their best to balance the laws of our country ...

Is Malkin Anti-Catholic & Tancredo Steps in It!

SJ Reidhead — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:20:11 -0600

ANTI-CATHOLIC SENTIMENT SURFACES

I think by now any thinking person knows the Puppetmaster, John Tanton, is very anti-Catholic. Somehow I don’t think he is very happy with the visit of the Holy Father. So, he has sent his little minions of darkness out to try and ratchet up anti-immigration sentiment based on anti-Catholic bias. The man uses bias and ‘hate’ as his tools of the trade. His minions adopt his values and his tone. The result – well, you be the judge. I think we now know Tom Tancredo and Michelle Malkin are two of his little flunkies. I think ...

What’s Going on in Juarez?

SJ Reidhead — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:35:50 -0600

IT ISN’T GOOD

From the Opinionated Times comes a piece about the cops in Juarez.

My friend Maggie has a brother who lives in Juarez, married to a woman whose family has lived there for many years. They had a very good life up until the past few years. The problem with all the anti-immigration hype is the fact that Mexico has many social classes have been completely obscured. Once upon a time, life in Juarez was good.

When I moved to New Mexico a decade ago, it was nothing for someone to go to Juarez for a day ...

Sheriff Joe and the FBI

SJ Reidhead — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:01:08 -0600

AND OTHER IMMIGRATION FOLLIES

For your edification, I have provide a bunch o’ immigration links. I think the theme here is the possibility that people are starting to pay attention to the various and sundry outrageous committed by the various and sundry anti-immigration organization and political entities throughout the civilized world. Then there is Sheriff Joe and those nasty illegals (maybe). Mayor Phil Gordon of Phoenix has requested the FBI investigate Sheriff Joe Arpaio for

“…pattern and practice of conduct that includes discriminatory harassment, improper stops, searches and arrests."… Gordon's four-page letter details Arpaio's recent sweeps through predominantly Latino ...

Fun & Games with Sheriff Joe & His Keystone Kops

SJ Reidhead — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:06:10 -0600

HOW MUCH LONGER?

How much longer with people in Maricopa County continue to put up with this man and his racist incompetence and virulent vendettas? The man that many misguided conservatives worship as Mr. Law & Order is nothing but a tinplated dictator with delusions of godhood. (Sorry, I stole it from Star Trek). Every week something pops up to simply reinforce this image. Jon Garrido, an confessed Hillary supporter, has been doing some excellent digging into the Maricopa Kounty Keystone Kops and has come up with some very interesting information.

Yes, it's that time again - time for a ...

Defining Racism Down

SJ Reidhead — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:36:46 -0600

THUMBING THE NOSE ON RACISM

If there was a rational discussion about racism in this country, what Hispanics are experiencing and what my sister’s neighbor Steve Cohen (extremely liberal) is going through I think the rabble roused by Barack Obama would be a half way decent thing. The problem, though, is he is re-defining racism into something that it is not. No longer is racism a terrible, disgusting thing, but the new definition is any criticism of Barack Obama. It doesn’t matter if he deserves that criticism or not. Any commentary on Barack Obama’s character that comes from a person ...

Barack Obama, Planned Parenthood, John Tanton & Eugenics

SJ Reidhead — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:11:06 -0600

KEEPING AMERICA WHITE

Last night on his show, Sean Hannity profiled several young women who discovered that Planned Parenthood doesn’t mind taking donations to promote abortions within the Black community. This started me thinking about John Tanton and his anti-Hispanic eugenic ties. Is there a connection? Is it possible that the ultra liberal Planned Parenthood is nothing but a tool for racial cleansing and “keeping America white?”

Maybe it is stretching a little, but when you consider the usual suspects and the agenda, it sure looks like all this is part of an agenda. And the agenda sure looks like ...

Windstream Telecom Is Incompetent!

SJ Reidhead — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:54:52 -0600

SATURDAY, MARCH 29

I think the title says it all. I’ve discovered I AM NOT THE PROBLEM. My DSL goes off periodically requiring a complete re-start, just about every hour on the hour. It’s not my Ethernet cable. It isn’t my NEW Airport-Extreme. It’s NOT ME. The problem is with Windstream Telecom. I don’t know if it was part of that chain reaction that took down quite a bit of the East Coast yesterday or not. I do know how to locate the local supervisors for Windstream on Monday. If you don’t’ see a posting, just consider me under arrest. ...

Another Tanton Based Big Mac Attack in Full Bloom

SJ Reidhead — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:59:57 -0600

ATTACKING BIG MAC

Look, just color me cynical. I’m worried. Things are WAY too good for John McCain right now. If this were October, I would be a very happy person. Unfortunately this is March. What goes up must come down, unless…. Something like this occurs: Condi may be interested in the VP spot.

The Phoenix from Phoenix? Unfortunately it is too early and there are too many anti-McCain conservatives and way too many NON REPUBLICAN anti-immigration nativists who will do just about anything to throw a monkey wrench into the machinery.

I TOLD YOU SO
Last night ...

Reuters Great Big Border Whammy?

SJ Reidhead — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:13:38 -0600

TRUTH OR FICTION?

Anti-immigration Nativists are holding a wake for the much heralded Border Fence in Cochise County. First, it would be nice if some of these Nativists would ACTUALLY VISIT Cochise County and spent a little time there talking to someone other than the inmates at the OK Café, or the few anti-immigration neo-fascists who actually reside in Cochise County. Case in point is the mourning for the Border Fence, that a Cochise County rancher has pronounced DOA. It is tragic. So sad. But – the problem is John Ladd, rancher is question, is one of the very few ...

EX-CLUSIVE: The State of Affairs in Cochise County

SJ Reidhead — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:55:19 -0600

A Pink Flamingo Exclusive
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS NOT A REAL ISSUE

Yes, you read correctly. I’ve been doing a little snooping and discovered that immigration isn’t even much of an issue in Cochise County. In fact, I found people were probably less interested in it as a whole than they are in Lincoln County, where a few of my GOP colleagues are a little riled up about things. The answer I’m getting here from people I talk to is, “I don’t even think about it”. Evidently, aside from FOX News and a the anti-immigration groups, it is a total and ...

Obama’s Friends and the Friends of Hannity, Tancredo & Malkin

SJ Reidhead — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:30:59 -0600

IS THERE A DIFFERENCE?

Kyle-Anne Shriver has delivered with yet another hard-hitting American Thinker piece. She basically mentions the fact that her grandmother always mentioned that you are known by the company you keep. My grandmother Froehlich had her own version, “If you lie down with dogs you wake up with fleas.” Both versions work.

The real problem is while conservatives are castigating Barack Obama for his association and pathetic ‘denunciation’ of Jeremiah Wright, they are ignoring their own little problem. Months ago, when Sam Brownback began his failed Presidential campaign, he ran on a hard-line anti-immigration platform. Several ...

Immigration Deportation Horror Stories

SJ Reidhead — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:27:45 -0600

YOU REALLY WANT THIS?

As things heat up on the immigration scene and demands for whole-sale deportation increase, bad things happen. ICE is an agency that is out of control. They have no regard for the Constitution which applies to Illegals, as well as those who are here legally. A few quick examples are below. Yes, the incidents are isolated, but as demands for increased deportation increase, this type of thing will only increase.

Immigration Prof Blog has been keeping us updated on the story of Francisco Castaneda, who was allowed to die of cancer while in custody of ...