Here are three short updates to stories previously covered at Homeland Stupidity. We’ve got good news and bad news. First, the good news.
Immigration officials said that they probably won’t have to activate a contingency contract to build emergency detention centers to house illegal immigrants, because immigration arrests dropped in fiscal year 2006, from 1.2 million last fiscal year to 1.1 million this year. Julie Myers, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said that as long as arrests continue to decline, the agency won’t need to build the detention centers. The contingency contract with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root is potentially worth $385 million over five years.
Nobody really wanted the so-called REAL ID Act of 2005, and states are scrambling to implement its provisions by a May 2008 deadline. In Kansas, a controversy has been over whether people will be able to renew their driver licenses locally, or travel hundreds of miles to a special regional center. The Department of Homeland Security has said that it won’t require such regional centers, and counties can continue to issue licenses — as long as they cooperate with whatever DHS wants. And DHS hasn’t yet decided what it wants.
The government has lost yet another laptop with personal information on it, this time 4,600 people who applied for Reserve Officers Training Corps scholarships. The Army’s Accessions Command in Ft. Monroe, Va. reported the computer missing this week and is notifying the people affected. The command said that it is implementing security measures for laptops with personal information, including encryption. Numerous government agencies have reported data breaches this summer after the House Government Reform Committee asked for reports. And each report is yet another reason to simply not give the government any personal information.
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Karl Marx would love the popular moves among politicians in various state governments and the federal government to ban so-called "junk" food in schools, and to "put healthy food in" convenience stores and on the tables of those they define as poor. It's a very elitist and arrogant mindset that promotes this ideology, and it needs to be addressed.
Ultimately, the war supporters in Congress prevailed in the vote on the resolution. Still, the vote was significant because it places every member of Congress on the record as supporting or not supporting the unconstitutional, costly, violent occupation of a country that never attacked us. This vote should serve as an important reminder to the American people of where their representatives really stand when it comes to policing the world, empire building, and war.
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Dana Hanley
Nov 05, 2006
Here’s another update on an old story…Abraham Cherrix, who thankfully won the right to choose his own medical treatment and whose parents had charges of medical neglect dropped, is feeling better.
He underwent a treatment with low doses of radiation, along with his immunotherapy (through supplements and food) and his tumors have shrunk. He came home last month, has a CT scan scheduled in VA next month and the month after will be seeing his oncologist in Mississippi again the following month for a check up.
http://kdka.com/health/health_story_283102747.html
kathy l
Nov 10, 2006
We need to get this national ID repal soon, to much of goverment in
ours lives. the gov. need to closed the border.
Robert Biggins
Nov 10, 2006
Please repeal the Real ID Act.
aristocutionor
Nov 10, 2006
You’re all being lulled to sleep. Congress passed a bill to put a fence along the Mexican border to stop illegal immigration? Oh, really? Well, it’s NOT funded. They need to keep them coming because that way there’s more money to pilfer from the Social Security coffers.
And of course the illegals only take jobs we won’t take – Yeah, like laying fiber optics in Klamath Falls with illegal immigrant labor. It’s not so amazing that the Government encourages illegal immigration, and delibertly over-looks its responsibility to protect our borders – They are sell outs to the vain philosophy of global geo-political economics.
There is an agenda to reduce the working American’s standard of living by 50%, and the (more like 40 million) illegal immigrants are certainly helping the cause. Don’t believe it? Ask the founder of Intel.
Marilyn
Nov 13, 2006
My insurance company sent me a missive stating that i would have to apply for the National ID Card to maintain insurance coverage. I am a cancer suviver and can not afford to lose my insurance. I already have enough identification to prove without a doubt to anyone in any country who I am and do not wish to recieve this card.
Robert Biggins
Nov 13, 2006
Repeal those the Real ID Act of 2005 and the Military Commissions Act of 2006, those are abuse our freedom and those people are good people gone and can’t reach vote for good next President in 2008. It is not fair. That mean, the rest of people left over are going to vote next no good President. See clearly? What a beautifull hoax! ! ! !
cc wills
Nov 13, 2006
Please go to “nonationalid.com” and sign the petition to repeal the act.
richard Tucker
Dec 07, 2006
The Real ID Act satisfies all three prophetic criteria for the Mark of the Beast; mandated by the State, tied to the hands and face, enables commerce. I’ve been following the development of this technology for almost thirty years, and up till now, the last criteria, mandatory participation, has been absent. If you don’t want to spend eternity in Hades, resist this system until you die. Taking the Mark is one of only two completely unforgivable sins listed in the Bible. The other is blaspheming against the Holy Spirit. I can’t say this any plainer.