| Los Angeles County, CA | November 5, 2002 Election |
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TerrorismBy Hal NetkinCandidate for Councilmember; Proposed City of San Fernando Valley; District 11 |
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It has been just over a year since 9/11, and the gravity of the situation has still not set in with our local leaders.On December 17, 1999, an Algerian National "terrorist" thought to be tied with Osama bin Laden, was caught in Seattle after crossing the Canadian Border, with materials to fabricate a highly destructive bomb meant to blow up LAX (Los Angeles Airport). This should have been a wake up call to our local government to beef up Los Angeles security. Instead, recently (July, 2002) the city council voted to give official recognition of unverifiable Identification Cards (Consular Matricula) issued by Mexico to its citizens in the U.S. illegally. Since then, Guatamala and Poland have decided to follow Mexico example by also providing their citizens illegally in the U.S. with ID's. And you can expect many other countries to also want this privilege for their citizens. Although the vast majority of illegal immigrants are not criminals or terrorists, the council dismissed the possibility that someone smart enough to learn to fly an airliner into a high-rise, could also be smart enough to disquise themselves as an illigal immigrant and obtain an ID that the City of Los Angeles recognizes as legitimate. As exhibited on September 11th 2001, the preferred delivery system of weapons of mass destruction, is no longer an ICBM, it is an illegal immigrant. So why would a terrorist want to pose as an illegal immigrant? Because our L.A. leaders profile. They believe that only someone who looks like an Arab could be a terrorist and that anyone who looks Hispanic is just an honest, hard working immigrant looking for a better life. As 11th District Council Member, I will call for a halt to profiling and recognition of foreign IDs. |
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