From the Department Of Homeland Security website:

This Department of Homeland Security’s overriding and urgent mission is to lead the unified national effort to secure the country and preserve our freedoms. While the Department was created to secure our country against those who seek to disrupt the American way of life, our charter also includes preparation for and response to all hazards and disasters. The citizens of the United States must have the utmost confidence that the Department can execute both of these missions.

In light of recent events, the above reads like a comedy piece. Except nobody is laughing.

Brought to my attention via an article at Michelle Malkin’s site:

This past Sunday (4/19/2009), DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano was being interviewed on the CNN show ‘STATE OF THE UNION WITH JOHN KING’. At one point during the interview, King asked Napolitano about comments made by Maricopa (AZ) County sheriff Joe Arpaio. Here is the exchange including Napolitano’s jaw-dropping response:

KING: A lot of Democrats in Congress want to you investigate him. They think he is over the line. He says he is just enforcing the law and the problem is the federal government.

NAPOLITANO: Well, you know, Sheriff Joe, he is being very political in that statement, because he knows that there aren’t enough law enforcement officers, courtrooms or jail cells in the world to do what he is saying.

What we have to do is target the real evil-doers in this business, the employers who consistently hire illegal labor, the human traffickers who are exploiting human misery.

And yes, when we find illegal workers, yes, appropriate action, some of which is criminal, most of that is civil, because crossing the border is not a crime per se. It is civil. But anyway, going after those as well.

That’s right. The head of the Department of Homeland Security, an agency tasked with keeping our nation secure, just said on live television that crossing the border is not a crime. And John King, the hack, didn’t even call her on it.

For the record, illegal entry into the United States is a crime; specifically, first offense is a misdemeanor, second offense is a felony.

Of course, Napolitano knows damn well that it is a crime, and the fact that she’s willing to lie about it so freely is deeply troubling. The fact that she can lie about it without any fear of repercussions from above strongly suggests, if not proves outright, that she is carrying out the Obama game plan which, in my opinion, is to allow and keep as many illegals in our country as possible so that when amnesty is finally passed, the Democrats will have a voting base large enough to virtually ensure permanent Democrat rule.

Don’t believe it? Consider the fact that she:

• claims to want to target employers, but has not yet done so
• claims to be “going after those [border jumpers] as well“, but as we all know, has been doing nothing of the kind
• has pretty much halted all interior enforcement in the aftermath of the raid in Bellingham, Washington, where she ordered the release of the illegals picked up in that raid.

This pretense of getting tough while actually doing nothing at all, or worse - doing the opposite of what  they are telling us they are doing (try to square ‘tax cuts for 95% of Americans’ with Cap and Trade, for example, and see if your head doesn’t explode from the sheer dishonesty of it all) is classic Obama administration doublespeak.

With this administration, you just cannot listen to the words coming from their mouths. These people are masters of con.; you instead need to look at and scrutinize what is actually being done, or undone as the case may be, and then ask yourself if any of it passes the smell test. You’ll find that very little of it does.

In Napolitano, the President has found his perfect lap dog, and our national security and economic well-being is on a death spiral as a result.

Change indeed.

-Cnation

Enriching us with their culture and heritage

Quiet Amnesty takes another step forward. Nevermind the rising crime rate among illegal aliens, the almost epidemic number of illegal alien-caused drunken driving deaths, the propagation of illegal alien gangs like the latin kings or the ms13, the mexican drug cartels that have taken root in and brought horrific levels of violence to hundreds of cities across the country, or any of the millions upon millions of illegals who have driven blue collar wages into the dirt and put a corresponding amount of citizens out of work.

No, forget all that, because it seems that in the course of making even token efforts at enforcing our immigration laws we’ve managed to enrage “Latino community and religious leaders, immigrant advocates and civil liberties groups important to the Democratic base…”, which, as we all know, is much more important than the sovereignty of our nation and the safety of our family, friends and neighbors.

Is this an outrage? You bet your ass it is. At every turn though, Barak Obama and his administration are doing everything they can both here at home and internationally to bring the United States of America down. There’s simply no other explanation for their reckless disregard for the safety and well being American people.

Want some more? How about this from another Phoenix-area news agency:
Pinal immigration task force on hold

The bastards.

-Cnation

Is there nothing this administration won’t do to embolden our enemies?

From Fox News:

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has an explanation about why she never mentioned the word “terrorism” during her first testimony on Capitol Hill.

Napolitano tells the German news site Spiegel Online that while she presumes there is always a threat from terrorism: “I referred to “man-caused” disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.”

James Carafano, senior research fellow at the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation says: “By deliberately trying not to use the T word they run a serious political risk. If something does happen, they’ll be accused of taking their eye off the ball and no amount of explanation after the fact will suffice.”

Here’s a clue, bubblehead - it wasn’t a ‘man-caused disaster’ that took down the twin towers. It was a pair of commercial aircraft piloted by Saudi terrorists. You know, terrorism.

Hat tip to Sean Hannity, who said of this (I’ll paraphrase) “If you can’t even call it what it is, how can you expect to fight it?”

-Cnation