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Meet Daniela.
With a grade point average of 6.7, she is North Miami Senior High School’s valedictorian.
Her older brother served in the U.S. Army for two years, including a tour in Afghanistan. Then he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He served this country before it was his country.
Daniela wants to be a heart surgeon.
A federal immigration judge says she needs to leave the country, instead.
Daniela didn’t do anything wrong. She was brought to America illegally when she was only four years old. In the 14 years since, she has been the archetype of American ideals, bringing the best of her heritage into our own community and giving only her best. It costs us nothing to afford her the opportunities many of us take for granted, but instead our government chooses to reject her for being of the wrong origin.
What does Daniela have to say about this injustice?
“I consider myself an American no matter what.”
Daniela is true to herself and her country. Her country should be true to itself, too.
Link: Miami Herald
FBI training includes anti-Islam indoctrination
From Wired, here’s what the FBI teaches its counterterrorism agents about the average Muslim:
The stated purpose of one [briefing], about allegedly religious-sanctioned lying, is to “identify the elements of verbal deception in Islam and their impacts on Law Enforcement.” Not “terrorism.” Not even “Islamist extremism.” Islam.
Pretty un-American indoctrination in a federal agency whose motto is, “Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity.” Read the full article at Wired
MG Siegler — Remember When Twitter Was A Joke? No One Is Laughing Any More.
Twitter is now too serious to be dismissed:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/06/all-the-presidents-tweets/
George W. Bush pulled out of an appearance in Denver scheduled for tomorrow upon learning that WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange had been invited to appear at the same conference via video.
I wonder if this policy would apply to those who ran his torture program. Or those who ran his program of extraconstitutional kidnappings. Or all the politicians that tore constitutional rights apart with the PATRIOT and FISA acts.
Security expert Bruce Schneier concisely describes our broken approach to airport security:
It’s not even a fair game. It’s not that the terrorist picks an attack and we pick a defense, and we see who wins. It’s that we pick a defense, and then the terrorists look at our defense and pick an attack designed to get around it. Our security measures only work if we happen to guess the plot correctly. If we get it wrong, we’ve wasted our money. This isn’t security; it’s security theater.
Read the whole thing at The New York Times.
Let’s take back our rights and our flights from the TSA.
The TSA has outdone itself this time with its invasive new searches: if selected, travelers must choose between having pictures of them naked taken via x-ray, having their genitals very aggressively handled, or not flying.
Republican Congressman Ron Paul has introduced the American Traveler Dignity Act to the House of Representatives. (Read his announcement of the bill here.) The legislation simply clarifies that security must not abridged:
My legislation is simple. It establishes that airport security screeners are not immune from any US law regarding physical contact with another person, making images of another person, or causing physical harm through the use of radiation-emitting machinery on another person. It means they are subject to the same laws as the rest of us.
Please call or write your Congressional representative today and ask them to cosponsor Congressman Paul’s bill.