The insanity of our home state is
getting to be too much:U.S. border guards got a surprise when they searched a Mexican BMW and found a hardline Muslim cleric - banned from France and Canada - curled up in the boot.
Said Jaziri, who called for the death of a Danish cartoonist that drew pictures of the prophet Mohammed, was being smuggled into California when he was arrested, along with his driver Kenneth Robert Lawler.
The 43-year-old was deported from Canada to his homeland Tunisia in 2007 after it emerged he had lied on his refugee application about having served jail time in France.
His fire and brimstone sermons and rabble-rousing antics catapulted him into the public eye during his short tenure as imam at a Montreal mosque.
He branded homosexuality a disease and led protests over cartoonist Kurt Westergaard's illustrations poked fun at Islam and were published in a Danish newspaper in 2006.
He also caused anger when he campaigned for a bigger mosque to accommodate Montreal's burgeoning Muslim population.
But after his deportation he complained that he had been physically and mentally tortured during the 13-hour flight repatriating him to Tunisia, a claim Canadian authorities deny.
He was being held as a material witness in the criminal case against Mr Lawler, who has been charged with immigrant smuggling.
Jaziri had allegedly paid a Tijuana-based smuggling cartel $5,000 to take him across the border near Tecate, saying he wanted to be taken to a 'safe place anywhere in the U.S.'
And, of course, that meant California - where
"you can believe what you want to believe". Jesus. Even terrorism?
Those on the "Left Coast" aren't going to be happy until they bring this country to it's knees. On the other hand, those in "flyover country" are well aware of this, and are ready and willing to cut them loose at the first hint of trouble - because Californians are bringing it on themselves by
setting out the "welcome" mat for anyone but patriots, spending too much, and (through political correctness) making it impossible to earn a living.
We never thought we'd say this, having grown up in Los Angeles, but "California Dreaming" is sincerely becoming a nightmare.
The insanity of our home state is getting to be too much:
Those on the "Left Coast" aren't going to be happy until they bring this country to it's knees. On the other hand, those in "flyover country" are well aware of this, and are ready and willing to cut them loose at the first hint of trouble - because Californians are bringing it on themselves by setting out the "welcome" mat for anyone but patriots, spending too much, and (through political correctness) making it impossible to earn a living.
We never thought we'd say this, having grown up in Los Angeles, but "California Dreaming" is sincerely becoming a nightmare.
Is "California Dreaming" becoming a nightmare or is it already a nightmare?
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a little kid, the men at the barber shop all agreed that California was "the land of the fruits and nuts."
That was well before Archie Bunker would became their champion.
I never had much use for that kind of groupthink, frankly.