September, 2017, Part 2, Political Class Insanity: Security Breakdowns In Congress, Too Many Federal Laws, And Sex Crimes and Illegal Immigrants In New York

It is the beginning of another month which means it is again time to review the latest political class insanity from Washington and around the world. Political class insanity takes many forms including the wasting of taxpayer wealth, criminal fraud within government programs, inane and stupid political quotes and actions, the inability to create and implement effective and efficient government programs, stupid and ill performing economic policies and strategies, and other forms of insanity that continue to evolve and surprise and shock us.

1) While Democrats and the mainstream media have been obsessed with Trump and potential Russian connections, trying to prove that Russia endangered this country with its election meddling (a reality they have yet to come close to proving), they have mostly ignored a real crisis involving foreign nationals and U.S. national security. Tim Brown, writing for the Freedom Outpost website on August 18, 2017, detailed the real crisis that is unfolding in D.C.:

• Two former information technology experts on Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s payroll have been indicted for conspiracy against the United States.
• Pakistani born Imran Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, have been indicted on four counts of conspiracy in the DC District Court by a grand jury: ““Defendants AWAN and ALVI did unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly conspire, combine, confederate, and agree with each other to commit offenses against the United States,” including bank fraud, false statements, and unlawful monetary transactions, the indictment read.”
• Hini Alvi has already left the U.S. and returned to Pakistan and her husband almost did the same before he was pulled off a plane heading out of the country.
• The scary thing about these two is that they had access to computer systems and records used by almost two dozen sitting members of Congress and even though Wasserman-Schultz admitted in June that security violations had occurred relative to the Awan and his co-workers she had done nothing to curtail their activities and access to sensitive Congressional computer records even though four months before she had been warned about them.
• When police went to Awan’s garage they found smashed hard drives laying about.
• According to the article not only did his wife flee with their kids to Pakistan but apparently they had already moved hundreds of thousands dollars offshore beforehand.

Great, Congress hires foreign nationals and gives them access to highly secret and sensitive materials, ignores warnings that they may be up to no good, and then the accused attempt to free the country before they are indicted on what is so far, four counts of felonies. Insanity.

2) A couple of days ago we reviewed the stupidest state laws from every state. It showed a shameful waste of taxpayer money that politicians would actually propose, debate, discuss, and write up such stupidity while much more pressing issues do not get addressed or resolved. That post can be viewed at:

http://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2017/08/stupid-laws-by-stupid-politicians-by.html

But it is not just state level politicians that waste time passing laws that are useless, dangerous, and non-useful. Ed Krayewski, writing for Reason magazine’s August/September, 2017 issue showed how inane the Federal penal code is:

• First of all, no one seems to be able to figure out how many laws there actually are at the Federal level.
• In 1982, the Justice Department estimated there were about 3,000 Federal laws. 
• But the American Bar Association in 1998 said it was probably much higher but had no estimate of what that higher number was.
• In 2008, the Heritage Foundation estimated that there were 4,500 Federal laws.
• But it is not possible to check the accuracy of that number also since the Congressional Budget Office has stated that it did not have enough resources and manpower to figure out how many Federal laws there are.
• Civil rights attorney Harvey Silvergate wrote a book about Federal laws and estimates that the average American breaks or violates three Federal laws everyday of their life.
• If you have ever melted down a penny, used a power tool in the Kenai Wildlife Refuge, or sold jock itch powder but did not tell the buyer to use it every day for two weeks, you have broken a Federal law.
• On May 3, 2017, a U.S. citizen was convicted for disrupting the nomination of Attorney General Jeff Sessions because there is a Federal law against that kind of speech, namely that it is illegal to “parade, demonstrate, or picket in the U.S. Capitol building.”
• The Twitter account, @CrimeA Day, has been posting a different Federal crime everyday for four years and could probably go on doing so for decades since the U.S. Federal Crime Code contains 35 volumes and is 1,300 pages long.

This nonsense is so wrong. Why should Congress propose, debate, and enact, with a President’s signature, the proper way to apply jock itch powder? How many more important issues face tens of millions of Americans vs. whether or not someone melted down a penny? On one level this is a terrible waste of taxpayer wealth and resources. 

However, on a deeper level it is far worse. Since according to the article, many of these laws are vague and general, it gives the government, its bureaucrats, and the political class great leeway in suppressing and persecuting the rights of those citizens that disagree with policies and actions of those bureaucrats and politicians. Much like Obama used the IRS as a political weapon to silence his critics, a 1,300 page criminal code could be easily abused and used as another type of political weapon to the detriment of freedom everywhere.

3) A lot of liberals want do not deport illegal immigrants that have already made it into this country and in many cases have already integrated themselves into the community and workforce. Whether or not this is the right thing to do is a debate for another day. 

What I do not understand is why many liberals do not want to deport illegal immigrants who commit crimes in this country. It is as if it is okay for foreign illegal immigrants to commit a crime, we should not to do anything to them but it is fine to apply existing criminal codes and penalties to Americans who commit similar crimes. Makes no logical sense.

Consider a Breitbart article by Bob Price on August 9, 2017:

• Federal immigration officers and officials recently arrested 32 illegal immigrants who had previously been arrested for sex crimes.
• The arrests took place in a so called illegal immigrant sanctuary city in New York.
• The arrests were made as part of the Operation SOAR (Sex Offender Alien Removal) operation.
• The 32 had previously such crimes as sexual abuse, sexual assault on young children, rape, child endangerment, and promoting sexual performance of a child.
• The current charges are wide ranging and horrific including, “acting in a manner to injure a child, assault, third degree attempted rape, burglary, attempted sexual abuse, criminal sex act, endangering the welfare of a child, endangering the welfare of a physically disabled person, forcible touching, promoting a sexual performance by a child, public lewdness, first degree rape, second degree rape, third degree rape, reckless endangerment, first degree sexual abuse, second degree sexual abuse, sexual abuse, forcible compulsion, sexual contact with an individual incapable of consent and sexual misconduct.”
• The arrested have come illegally into this country from many Central American and South American countries.
• According to the article, the offenders included, “A 24-year-old Salvadoran national who was arrested and charged criminally with first degree sexual abuse and sexual contact with a victim less than 11 years old. Criminal charges are still pending. The victim in this case is a 4-year-old female. He was arrested in Wyandanch, Aug. 3 and will remain in ICE custody pending removal from the United States... 36-year-old national of Guatemala with a prior conviction of second degree rape and endangering the welfare of a child. The victim in this case was a 13 year old female. He was sentenced to six months in jail and 10 years of probation supervision...a 32-year-old Honduran man with prior convictions of criminal sexual act in the third degree, forcible touching, endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse in the third degree. He was sentenced to 10 years of probation supervision. The victim in this case was a 15 year-old female. He also has prior convictions of driving while intoxicated. This registered Level 1 sex offender was arrested in Brentwood, Aug. 1 and will remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.” Other, similarly heinous crimes were also included in the article.

Given just this small operation in a single geographic area, how can anyone still maintain that not enforcing criminal and immigration laws on illegal immigrants that commit such horrible crimes is racist or cruel punishment? How many other such atrocities against women and children are going on in other sanctuary cities across the country?

Again, if we want to debate immigration law relative to law abiding and productive illegal immigrants, fine. But government and politicians fail in one of their most basic duties, protecting the lives and property of real citizens when it allows criminals of any sort to go unpunished.

More insanity yet to come this week as government and politicians continue to fail at just about anything they do.

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