RSSNews Melange: ICE, Fidel, Rodney King
Gene Lalor | September 10, 2010
From the Good News/Bad News Department: The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, affectionately known as ICE, announced that as of September 5, 2010 it had apprehended 506,232 illegal aliens over the course of about 10 months. That’s about 50,623 bad guys and gals per month nabbed by the agency, which is pretty outstanding enforcement.
That’s the good news.
The bad news about ICE, which could also be termed the TBA, for Teats on a Bull Agency, is that they also announced they had released 506,232 illegal aliens who are now no longer considered illegal aliens but rather fugitive aliens.
ICE/TBA takes a curious approach to law enforcement and fulfilling its mission; its approach is founded on placing trust in its apprehendees.
In effect, our federal agents say to the criminal, illegal aliens, “Now, you be good, okay? Just show up on the appointed day so we can have a hearing and deport you. Got that?” The illegals gladly say, “Si, senor!” and are never seen or heard from again, that is, unless they get busted for committing a crime, which many do, or unless they return to Mexico to spend a night with mamacita and get apprehended one more time as they re-cross our border.
The other good new is that the ICE backlog has been reduced by 28,262 criminal fugitive aliens on the run: http://tiny.cc/ab60f
How dare anyone say our people aren’t doing an awesome job protecting our border!
From the “We Told You So” Department: Good, old Fidel Castro may not be getting religion but, in his dotage, he’s finally getting the word that Communism sucks. More precisely, the semi-retired, 84 year old co-dictator with brother Raul of the island of Cuba now concedes the Communist economic model doesn’t work.
Possibly reflecting his age or a touch of Alzheimers, Fidel was interviewed by Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic magazine. Goldberg asked him if he still believed Cuba’s economic system was worth exporting to other countries. Fidel responded, in a rare attack of honesty, “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.”
The pertinent question is, Did it ever?
Nevertheless, without elaborating on that abject failure, Fidel indicated he was sticking with socialism and isn’t about to go capitalist even if Russia and China are prospering under a modified version of that successful system.
At the same time, Fidel and Raul’s subjects are being advised to work harder and expect less.
It’s hard to imagine getting less in Cuba since “The state controls well over 90 percent of the economy, paying workers salaries of about $20 a month in return for free health care and education, and nearly free transportation and housing” and their food is rationed: http://tiny.cc/6t5ai
So much for the former “Worker’s Paradise.”
Whether Castro is attempting to reinvent himself, polish his tarnished legacy, or just slipping, he also admitted he was wrong in urging the Soviets to nuke the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis and told his good buddy, Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to stifle his anti-Semitism: http://tiny.cc/6t5ai
From the Happily Ever After Department: Rodney King is taking a bride. You may remember Rodney, the 25 year-old, drunk, ex-con cabbie who took the LAPD on a high-speed chase back in March, 1991, was pummeled repeatedly and tasered after he was caught, refused to exit his vehicle and resisted arrest.
He beat the drunk driving/speeding/resisting arrest raps thanks to the police brutality trial of his captors in which they were exonerated. That set off the L.A. riots which resulted in 53 deaths, 2,383 injuries, 7,000 fires, and a billion dollars in damages. Two cops were subsequently re-tried and convicted of civil rights violations.
After being awarded $3.8 million for his troubles, King ran over his wife, crashed his car on a few occasions, was arrested for speeding while under the influence a number of times, was strangely hit with birdshot, and became a PCP addict.
Well, all’s well that ends well, right? Now 44, divorced with 3 kids, King is set to marry Juror #5 from his lawsuit trial, Cynthia Kelley, who witnesses say had spent much of her time winking at him from the jury box.
The obviously-smitten Rodney gushed, “It just so happened that we reconnected. It was like we were never apart from one another. She is a godsend, a blessing in my life. I don’t know what I would have done without her in my life. I can’t wait to make her my wife:” http://tiny.cc/oszsd
You got that blessing part right, Rodney. She helped make you a millionaire!
It’s a real heart-warming story about the “Can we all get along” man. Those winks finally paid off for Kelley and she can now share in what’s left of Rodney’s $3.8 mil.
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