Federal Officers to Obama: We’re No Terrorists
Posted on August 8, 2008
Obama’s contempt for the real America shows once again. That missing lapel pin said it all — depite the subsequent attempts at spin
The president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association has sent a blistering letter to Barack Obama castigating him for a remark he made that the organization says equates its members with “terrorists.”
Speaking at the National Council of La Raza convention in San Diego on July 13, Obama told the largely Hispanic audience that the nation’s immigration system “isn’t working.” According to Obama, the problem with the system is that “communities are terrorized by ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] immigration raids” and “nursing mothers are torn from their babies.”
The letter from the Association’s National President Art Gordon states: “On behalf of the 26,000 members of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA), I take great exception to your disparaging remark, `.communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids.’
“While the dedicated men and women of ICE endeavor to carry out their dangerous and noble missions, you somehow felt compelled to characterize their efforts as something akin to terrorizing.
“It’s one thing to remark intelligently on the need for immigration reform, but it’s quite another to berate ICE law enforcement officers who are risking their lives to enforce the laws passed by Congress.”
Charging that Obama and his fellow members of Congress have not passed any “meaningful legislations” on immigration reform, Gordon goes on to say: “Your bi-partisan fumble should not translate into labeling our members as terrorists by implication.
“ICE employs patriotic men and women who are outstanding law enforcement officers, not rampaging home-wreckers.” Gordon concludes by inviting Obama to meet with FLEOA officers, saying he would come away with an understanding “that those carrying the ICE shield are heroes, and not terrorists.”
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Real Americans (read conservative Republicans) are a bunch of baboons to begin with. If lapel pins matter that much to you, there’s no reason to take you seriously.
Mocmarc,
No worries. Nobody has taken leftist moonbats seriously for quite some time.
I was once a card carrying member of the ACLU. My first anti-war rally was organized by members of the ACLU and they loved having me with them because I was a war veteran with 8 years in the army. But like many of the neo-cons who was once enticed by the left, I was “mugged by reality” and I realize how easy it is to be seduced by those ideas – to believe we can reform by first tearing down. It doesn’t work that way. America is the best reason to oppose them and Islamism is the second best
reason to oppose their anti-Americanism and the idiot who commented above who called us baboons is the third reason. I rather be a naked ape who defends truth than the piss ant who is not proud enough to understand the importance of symbolism and wearing a flag pin which says
to those who hate our culture enough to blow up Americans and themselves that we stand united against them.
Hank Roth