In Reno, Nevade, the local news got wind of a business that was flying the Mexican flag over top of the American flag, which is illegal under flag etiquette laws, although of course the Federal Government can pass no law on the subject which the Supreme Court is bound to respect.

Flag of Mexico Flown Illegally Over Reno Business
Greg Knight, News 4

On Monday afternoon we received a call from a KRNV News 4 viewer who said a business near downtown Reno was flying a Mexican flag above an American flag… which is in fact illegal.

To read the relevant Federal law, please click here.

This, after photos and comments about the flag were posted on Craigslist this morning. When we were able to have a photographer go and check everything out we found the story to be true.

It also didn t take long before the situation provoked a strong reaction. If you click on the video link in this story we will show you , unedited, what happened.

Click on the video to see what our photographer caught live to tape.

If you go here, you can see the video, by going through their “check the video you want to watch” procedure, and you’ll see an American hauling down the two flags, cutting the flag off the lanyards with a Ka-Bar knife, dropping the Mexican flag on the street, and folding the American flag, which he was taking away with him.

He was challenging anyone who might want the flag back, (presumably the property of the business owners) to come and take it back, if they wanted to, and were willing to fight for it.

You probably need to watch this video. You especially need to watch it if you live inside the Beltway, and you’ve been supporting Hispanic immigration, because you may not realize how mad people are getting in Americaland.

Michael Williams posted an item saying “As I pointed out in July, illegal immigrants distort our political system even when they don’t vote illegally.’”

Illegals could cost congressional seats

Published: 2, 2007 at 3:42 PM

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) — U.S. states with large numbers of undocumented immigrants could receive additional seats in Congress after the 2010 census is conducted.

A University of Connecticut study concluded Arizona, Texas and Florida could all see their House delegations increase due to rising populations that include sizable numbers of illegal immigrants.

He also writes “Expect to hear more about this now that illegal immigration is a national issue and we’re getting closer to reapportionment.”

This was one of the first things I posted about on VDARE.com, and it applies to legal immigration as well–the size of your state’s Congressional delegation, and your share of the Electoral College vote depends on the population of your state, whether or not they’re American citizens.

Here’s what Fred Siegel wrote, in The Future Once Happened Here, , a book about the decline of cities:

Most Latino pols in L.A. are classic ethnic operatives - with a twist. What’s different is most represent “rotten boroughs,” districts where, because of recent immigration and the youth of the average Latino, the percentage of voters in the total population is tiny. This means that the real voting base is that small fraction of the population already eligible to vote and sometimes directly dependant on government employment programs. In practice this means that Latino-elected officials, like county commissioner Gloria Molina and City Councilman Richard Alarcon, support the failed bilingual education programs for the same patronage reasons they oppose charter school reform. Their support is based on getting their group’s cut of the local government and social service jobs.

Looking back, 1991-1995 seems like one of those eras (such as the late 1960s or 1917-1920) when America was undergoing a national nervous breakdown. Nothing symbolizes the free-floating hysteria of the era better than the vast brouhaha that erupted in October 1991 over Anita Hill’s charges that Clarence Thomas … uh … well, it’s hard to remember precisely what it was that so obsessed the nation at the time, but the essence of her complaint was that he had implied, in so many words, that he was a man and she was a woman.

This led to The Year of the Woman (as the media declared the 1992 election year to be) that Bill and Hillary Clinton surfed into the White House. Which was pretty funny, considering what ol’ Bill had been up to down in Arkansas, but nobody got the joke at the time. (I must say, though, that I did write an article in December 1992, “A Specter Is Haunting the Clinton Presidency,” forecasting that the incoming Clinton Administration would be put in mortal peril by a sexual harassment charge made by an Arkansas state employee. But nobody would publish it.)

If only Clarence had married Anita instead of that white woman, all this might have been avoided!

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

At the time, I thought the craziness of the era was related to the recently completed war, just as WWI unleashed a lot of nuttiness. But, in retrospect, it seems more directly to be CNN’s fault.

Before Desert Storm, so few people watched CNN that the Ricola cough drop company was able to use its tiny ad budget to buy a huge number of spots on CNN for its commercial of three Swissmen in lederhosen on top of an alp blowing giant Swiss horns. By the time the war was over, however, all of America not only had heard of Ricola cough drops but were heartily sick of the thought of them.

The war in Jan-Feb 1991 alerted people to the fact that there was this cable channel that broadcast news 24 hours per day. People started glancing at the TV news all day long. Of course, once the war was over, there really wasn’t anything all that important to fill the vast 24 hour news hole, but they had to put something on, so why not testimony about various scandals? It was pretty close to free. And the public assumed that because it was on TV all the time, it had to be important.

The Golden Age of Cable News lasted from Anita Hill to the OJ Simpson trial in 1995, after which people started to realize that they were wasting their time.

In case you needed any more evidence for the principal reason musical theater isn’t the great white way of American popular culture anymore, here’s an LA Times article about an upcoming musical entitled “Most Wanted.” It’s about “the life of Andrew Cunanan, an alluring, chameleonic party boy from the San Diego gay-bar scene. In 1997, he went on an unexplained, 2 1/2 -month cross-country killing spree, climaxing in his infamy-sealing trophy killing of fashion designer Gianni Versace.”

What red-blooded American wouldn’t want to see a musical about Andrew Cunanan?

This story is as weird as it gets. I couldn’t make this one up even if I tried.

A Cape Girardeau, Missouri State Representative named Nathan Cooper pled guilty to H-2B visa fraud. He isn’t just any politician though–he was a practicing immigration attorney (AILA perhaps?). His scheme involved obtaining fraudulent H-2B work visas for hundreds of New Zealanders to come to the U.S. to drive trucks. Among other things, he got visas for fake trucking companies with names like “Speedy Express” and “Retail Trucking”. [ Missouri State Lawmaker Pleads Guilty in Visa Fraud Case U.S. Department of Justice St. Louis, MO August 9, 2007]

In case you are wondering why Cooper or anybody else would think of importing truckers from New Zealand, where they drive on the left side of the road, a little searching the Wikipedia yields a possible answer. New Zealand has a strange counter-culture of hippies and gypsies called “housetruckers“. They are a nomadic labor pool that would be sure to make U.S. trucking companies drool.

After reading that article you will welcome the Mexican NAFTA truckers with open arms!

Seriously though folks, there are websites out there that recruit New Zealanders for U.S. trucking jobs. For instance, check out this one: Driver Recruiting - Truckers For USA.

Perhaps it’s coincidence, but the website says they have offices in Missouri as well as Sydney, Australia. Right there on that web page it says:

Q. Who are we?

A. We have been recruiting drivers for US companies since 1999. We have now placed over 450 drivers at seven trucking companies in 2001. We are incorporated in the USA, and operate from New Zealand.

The website has the following disclaimer:

This is 100% legal, and you receive your work visa before leaving home. It is now impossible to obtain a Commercial Drivers License to drive trucks in America without a work visa.

Cooper could get 15 years in the pokey for his unlawful behavior. According to Cooper, he was merely a bit overzealous in helping trucking companies to ensure that they had “an adequate workforce.” By adequate he probably meant cheap!

The U.S. attorney’s office agrees with Cooper–check out this classic shortage shouting:

According to the U.S. attorney’s office, prospective clients in the trucking business reported to Cooper that they had chronic shortages of workers.[Cape State Representative Pleads Guilty to Visa Fraud Charges By Christy Hendricks & Associated Press, KVS12.com, August 10, 2007]

You can watch a short video report of this story by going to the KSDK story,Missouri Lawmaker Pleads Guilty To Visa Fraud
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Jim Michaels, who died last night at the age of 86, was Editor of Forbes Magazine for nearly 40 years, creating the franchise and in the process making a great fortune for the Forbes family, which they appear to have squandered. Almost unknown outside the industry, part of his implicit dark concordat with an egomaniacal proprietor, Michaels was nevertheless a truly great editor, who left an indelible impression, not infrequently painful, on everyone who worked for him. He was professionally and personally vital to me during my own career at the magazine. I have told elsewhere the story of his reaction to Steve Forbes’ suppression of my Bell Curve cover story. He was supportive as I wrote Alien Nation while working for him full time, although we both knew the Forbes family would never allow the subject (or, as it turned out, the book) to be mentioned in the magazine. He reacted with contempt, although privately, when Kip Forbes was quoted in an interview attacking me over immigration.  He was supportive throughout my late wife’s long mortal illness and he was gracious and charming when he met my new wife a few weeks ago.  Despite his gentle demeanor, Michaels was a very tough man and not detectably sentimental, but I find I cannot contemplate his passing without grief.