100 days

Actually I'm not going to write anything about President Obama's first 100 days in office .... if you want that there are going to be plenty of news stories and analysis columns out there with out me throwing in my 2 cents worth. I think most of you can probably figure out my opinion of how the present administration is going without me having to specifically spell it out.

What I am going to ramble on about for a bit is Janet Napolitano, the current Head of the Department of Homeland Security (or whatever the actual title is). Where in the hell did President Obama dig her up? I mean she starts off by issuing a report (that was first bounced but she decided to go ahead and make it public anyway) that in very broad sweeping terms called anyone who believed in secure boarders, owned weapons, and were white Americans 'right wing extremists' that needed to be watched as potential terrorists. Compounding that the report claimed that such organizations were increasing their activity and military personnel were at risk of being recruited into such organizations (and thus also needed to be watched).

Seriously? Yeah, the report is so broad with its definition of 'right wing extremists' that I could basically be considered a domestic terrorist. Isn't this FUN? I wonder if they've started the wiretaps yet.

Don't get me wrong ... I'm not saying that there are no groups in the US that are right wing extremists and I dare say that there are a few that are probably deserving of the term 'terrorist' and should be monitored closely by authorities, but when you make your definition and profile so broad that a good 50% or so of the nations population fit the criteria, it becomes meaningless and nothing more than a political attack on people who have an opposing viewpoint.

But Janet Napolitano wasn't done there ... no no no. She had to drag her office down even further with the following gem:

"(in reference to illegal aliens) ... 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."

Civil? WRONG.

Crossing the boarder illegally is .... dun dun DA ... ILLEGAL and thus it is a crime. In fact the first offense is a misdemeanor, the second is a FELONY. If they did not immigrate into this country through legal channels then they broke the law, and every day that they continue to stay in this country they continue to break it. They may obey every other law perfectly (though many do not) but they are still willingly breaking the law every day and are, thus, CRIMINALS.

They may be perfectly nice people, but if they do not have a basic respect for the laws of this country then they do not have any respect for what this country stands for and they do not belong here. I don't care what the Head of Homeland Security says.