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USING A SEVEN YEAR OLD 11/17/06

Parts of the world are all a-rage with the story of Saul Arellano, a 7 year old American second-grader and his illegal Mexican immigrant mother, Elvira. She crossed the border illegally in 1997, was sent back to Michoacan, crossed again, got pregnant at some point or another, and gave birth to Saul in Oregon. Sometime after his birth, she and her son moved to Chicago. She was scheduled to be deported back in August but instead of surrendering to authorities, she and her son began living in a storefront church, the Adalberto United Methodist Church.

The trouble had begun with her job as a cleaning woman at the O'Hare Airport. That is how she was found out. She was arrested in December of 2001. After an appeal or two-- who paid for her lawyer?-- she was ordered to report in August of 2006. That is five years almost, well, four and three/quarters, that she remained illegally in Chicago where she still is. The immigration department has not gone to the church to pick her up. They could. But no one has. Why not? Saul is "in therapy" because he supposedly has nightmares about his mother being sent back to Mexico. Who is paying for that?

Elvira says that her son wants to fight for her to stay in Chicago. Saul says he does not want to live in Mexico because he does not want to leave his school and playmates behind. A small contigent of American let-the-illegals-stay activists were with Saul when he went to the Mexican Congress. Are they the ones who helped him make the journey without his mother? Well, no. There is a man who did. His name is Emma Lozano. Lozano is the executive director of Centro Sin Fronteras, an immigrants-rights group in Chi-town. There is also a "sanctuary movement" to content with over here as well. They help illegals stay. How? By relocating them rather than allowing them to get caught and be deported? Did they buy the new tan suit that Saul was wearing when he was speaking to the 500 deputies in the Mexican Congress on Tuesday? Saul and Elvira were depending upon friends to supply food to them while at the storefront church. Elvira still is at the church as far as we know.

Little Saul spoke to the Mexican Congress [Chamber of Deputies] and the result was that the folks there are now asking President Bush 41 to forget about deporting her. They are also asking, in the interest of fairness of course, that any other illegals who are parents of children born here also be allowed to stay and not be deported. In practical terms, that means the illegal parentals of somewhere between 3 million and 4.9 billion kids [depending upon whose estimate one believes] who are also in Saul Arellano's situation would be allowed to stay.

Mom says that deporting her would deprive her son Saul of his rights as an American citizen. Hmmm. What rights would those be? The right to sponge off of our tax money? Oh, I forgot, she had been working. With a fake social security number but no matter. She was working. I should not pick on her for that. Nor for wanting the best for her son. After all, if she is intent upon little Saul receiving an American education and an American upbringing, she could leave him with one of those oh so helpful friends.

Oh, and before I forget, Elvira is not an illegal immigrant-- she is an uncounted immigrant and also an immigrant activist. Maybe I should relocate to Mexico without being counted and have a kid there while I'm at it.

radical sapphoq
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/11/14/news/nation/08_22_7411_13_06.txt http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4332027.html http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/11/16/2003336580 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/
la-fg-boy15nov15,0,4430315.story?coll=la-home-headlines http://www.kpvi.com/index.cfm?page=nbcheadlines.cfm&ID=37661

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WHERE ARE THE IRANIAN STUDENT-LEADERS-TERRORISTS NOW 27 YEARS AFTER 11/16/06

My friend Jeremy Crow over at:
http://blog.jeremycrow4life.com/2006/11/lets-talk-about-history-baby-volume-5...
blogged about the 27th anniversary of the American Embassy in downtown Tehran and the notable lack of American media coverage covering it this year. On November 4, 1979, Iranian students-turned-terrorists busted through the locked gates of the American Embassy, seizing hostages and holding them until January 20, 1981. The Israeli press mentioned that Iranian students, war veterans, and children celebrated on November 4th this year, as they have every year, by burning the American flag in front of the old embassy building [this year, they also burned the Israeli flag], protesting and marching in the streets, and chanting such enlightened slogans as, "Death to America!"

This year's "celebration" arrives on the heels of 10 days of war games and Iran nuclear missile testing in defiance of a United Nations order not to. The United Nations is currently talking about the disobedient Iranians. In light of possible sanctions and/or military actions against Iran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a letter to President Bush via the Swiss Embassy offering an alternative solution to the conflict regarding Iran's nuclear energy program. The sending of the letter is remarkable considering that the United States has broken off all diplomatic ties with Iran since the take-over of the American Embassy in downtown Tehran by a gang of militant Iranian students who were members of the OSU. The OSU [Office of Strengthening Unity] was in favor of a strict Islamic regime as embodied by the spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini and was responsible for the purging of dissident students and profs [read: arrested and/or put to death].

Star Reporter Mark Bowden visited Tehran several times throughout 2004 in order to track down the six, seven, or eight student leaders who were involved in the planning of the storming of the American Embassy on November 4, 1979. He found that all of them were involved in politics and/or journalism, although several of them had switched allegiances to less radical Iranian political parties.

One of them-- Abbas Abdi-- had in fact spent time at the infamous Evin prison where some of the hostages had been held by their student-terrorists for the crimes of criticising the Iranian regime and daring to publish results of a poll that purported to show that 76% of folks in the poll wanted to renew talks with the United States. Abdi had also gone to France in hopes of talking with one of the captives about the events of November 4, 1979 through January 20, 1980. That plan fell apart when he refused to apologize for the hostile takeover of the US Embassy.

Muhammad Hashemi had just retired from the Iranian counterpart to the CIA-- the Ministry of Intelligence and Security. He had hopes of promoting a tourist vacation retreat on the Caspian Sea, even speculating that the hostages would want to return to vacation there a quarter of a century later. That business venture fell through and December of 2004 found him and his spouse [an Iranian student who had lived in Philadelphia, brought in as translator, and referred to as 'screaming Mary' by several of the hostages] living with her mother.

Hussein Sheikh al-Islam was appointed to be Iran's Syrian diplomat and was living in Damascus.

Ibrahim Asghar Zada [or Asgharzadai] is a leader in the Islamic Solidarity Reform Party and the owner of Hambastegi, a conservative Iranian newspaper. His newspaper is thriving today and offers translations in French and English on the web. He was banned from seeking political office in Iran.

Said Hajarian was employed by the Office of Security and Intelligence and may have had an attempt made upon his life.

Hoseyn Shariatmadari was running an Iranian offficial newspaper called the Kayhand.

Ma'ssouma Ibtikar was a parliamentary deputy during the Khatami regime [the president preceeding Ahmadinejad and recognized as being more moderate than Ahmadinejad]. He served as vice-president under Khatami. In 2003, he was quoted as saying that the student protests that occur regularly in Iran are proof that Iran is a democracy.

Seyyed Mohammad Reza Khatami is one of former President Khatami's younger brothers. He had managed a newspaper called Mosharekat until it was banned. He has a wife and two children.

Mohsen Mirdamadi led a protest by some of the Iranian Parliament when all reformed candidates were disallowed from running in the 2005 election. Mirdamadi was among those with thwarted political ambitions. He was attacked in 2004 the night before he was supposed to meet with journalist Mark Bowden, receiving head and chest wounds.

Habibullah Bitaraf became Iran's Minsiter of Energy.

Some of the former hostages specifically remember current Iranian President Ahmadinejad as having a role in their captivity. He was thought to be student-leader-terrorist head of security and chief interrogator. Others of the hostages do not remember him. The OSU students-- and some hastily-trained volunteers-- were also each assigned responsibility of a particular group of captives. The hostages were split into groups and were moved around Iran in a series of private homes as well as stays at Evin and at the Embassy itself. It is highly probable that those with no memory of a younger Ahmadinejad didn't encounter him.

Three of the former student-leader-terrorists also have denied President Ahmadinejad direct involvement with the takeover of the American Embassy. This is also not surprizing considering that during interviews with Mark Bowden, anyone expressing regret at his role in the crisis did so quietly and with hesitation at expression of any criticism of the Iranian's current regime's anti-USA position. An Associated Press picture showing a possible younger version of Ahmadinejad holding a captive by the arm in 1978 was distributed in June of 2005 shortly after he came to power. His own website shows pictures of himself during that period looking quite different. I saw the pictures and read his cirriculum vitae and I believe it is the same man.

President Ahmadinejad had joined the OSU in 1979 as a student. He later was employed as an interrogator at Evin, had a hand in planning the assassination of many people via the elite Guard which he headed up, and considers the United States to be the Oppressor of Islamic nations. He denies the historical accounts of the Holocaust. He wants the nation of Israel to be nuked away or at the very least "re-located" to somewheres in Europe.

President Jimmy Carter failed the hostages and the American people by his inability or unwillingness to take action to end the crisis. The one military attempt to free the hostages resulted in the deaths of eight servicemen when two planes collided over the Iranian desert during a hasty retreat. Fragments of the jets are shown today to Iranian schoolkids who visit the former American Embassy now a museum.

If you have read this far, you really ought to head over to the Carter Memorial Library on-line at: http://jimmycarterlibrary.org/documents/r_ode/ where at the bottom of the Robert Ode page, you will see three links to his journal that he was allowed to keep during his ordeal as one of the American hostages.

radical sapphoq

Other sources I used were:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2005/iran-050701-rferl01.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2005/iran-050701-irna01.htm
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200512/december-1979
http://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/bin/wc.dll?groveproc~genauth~1479~4110~DESC
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200411u/int2004-11-09
http://www.thememoryhole.org/espionage_den/
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0IBP/is_4_45/ai_75332515
http://www.netnative.com/news/02/sep/1079.html
http://www.hambastegi.org/english/index.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-11-05-iran-us_x.htm?csp=34
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200510/iran-president-ahmadinejad
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/667/re11.htm
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/717/re81.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6116358.stm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1439070/posts

posted by sapphoq at 5:28 PM

2 Comments:

Jeremy Crow said...

Holy Shit Spike ... This is excellent ... I learned quite a bit about all of this that I had no clue about, and I am again very proud of your data skills ... I never thought to look up what these twits are doing today and find it rather "Fascist" how they now control Government and the Media ... The "More Moderate" leader before Ahmadinejad showed his wonderful Moderate Leadership by cutting the public stoning of women who demanded equal rights to about 70% of what his predecessor did ... Ahmadinejad actually cut it in half so far so perhaps he is really the Moderate ;-) JC

6:34 PM

sapphoq said...

thanks jer. it all just makes me real glad to be living here.

spike q.

11:53 PM

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SAD NEWS 11/16/06

Thank-you 1588c for letting us know about this:

Please join me in remembering a great icon of the entertainment community. The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and trauma complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71.

Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and Captain Crunch. The grave site was piled high with flours.

Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man who never knew how much he was kneaded. Doughboy rose quickly in show business, but his later life was filled with turnovers. He was not considered a very smart cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times he still was a crusty old man and was considered a positive roll model for millions.

Doughboy is survived by his wife Play Dough, two children, John Dough and Jane Dough, plus they had one in the oven. He is also survived by his elderly father, Pop Tart.

The funeral was held at 3:50 for about 20 minutes.

If this made you smile for even a brief second, please rise to the occasion and take time to pass it on and share that smile with someone else who may be having a crumby day and kneads it .

INTRODUCING LIZARD LADY 11/15/06

My friend Lizard Lady is over at:
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-HV.mW6Amcqjwqv9vPhPztt.V?p=139&n=28500
Please go check her stuff out. She writes about life in a very real earthy way.
spike q.

BUG ME NOT AND SPAMBOB 11/15/06

*i made the tag above. if for some reason, you feel compelled to save it, then right-click. if you wish to strip any of the words off of the background to use as you wish, i don't care.*

Hi 360 buddies and others,




I'm back.

Most of us don't like spam. In fact, we detest it on a basic level-- unless we are the spammers in which case we hope that it makes us some money. Privacy is increasingly becoming something that we have to fight for on many levels. Good, bad, or somewhere in-between, that is the way of things these days. There are several ways to go about privacy on the web: proxies, patches, and tunneling are the ones that I tend to think about first. Last night, I found two low-tech ways of maintaining some control over personal information when surfing websites that require registration. And they are both free.

The first one is called BugMeNot and it can be found at: http://www.bugmenot.com/ . Basically, BugMeNot lists user-names and passwords for various sites which any of us can use. The interface at the BugMeNot site is simplistic and charming-- I like it! One can type in an addy like www.whateversiteyouwishtovisit.com and come away with several user-names and passwords to try out. One can also report back on the ones that work or don't work; as well as submitting sites with user-names and passwords.

Those sites that protest being included have the option of requesting their sites to be blocked and they are. An example of one such site is http://www.rapidshare.de .
Typing www.rapidshare.de into the BugMeNot search engine will yield the information that the rapidshare site is blocked because rapidshare offers a free [albeit slower] option and a paid option.

If you are looking for outstanding medical info, one can type in www.medscape.com and the results will yield a collection of user names and passwords which can be used at http://www.medscape.com. [Medscape is one of my personal favorites].

If the website you desire to surf without filling in a registration form is not in the BugMeNot database, you can then go to one of several temporary e-mail addy sites and then register with your new temporary e-mail box addy. I have used a few of these though the one I like with three options is over at http://www.spambob.com.

SpamBob allows for three variations of the temporary e-mail box. You can put any name on a box you wish. The suffixes determine whether the e-mail is simply deleted automatically [for when you need only an e-mail box], deleted after a few hours to several days [for when you need a password to be sent to you], or one that is active for a longer period of time.

What I did is that I assigned myself an e-mail box name with SpamBob and a dot net, dot com, or dot org extention depending on how long I wanted the e-mail box to collect e-mail [read: spam], went back to the unincluded site, registered using my SpamBob e-mail addy, and I was in like flin. Meanwhile, I saved my e-mail box from being filled up with more garbage. And I saved my personal information from falling into the wrong electronic hands.

Those who have scruples about such things do not have to use them. I don't have those pangs of guilt and I will tell you why. Most spam companies nowadays are run by organized crime circles. [To my sixth grade teacher who tried hard to convince me that the Mafia does not exist: you were wrong. It does].

BugMeNot and SpamBob are both legal at this time. The fact that BugMeNot allows for an individual or a company to opt-out of being listed is an arguement for their service.

If you are confused by all of this but curious, then head yourself over to BugMeNot and take a look.

If for some insane reason, I get banned or censored by the Y-bots for printing this information, if you type "sapphoq" into your Google engine, you will find some of my other blogs maintained on other sites.

I will be making the rounds to the sites of other 360 buddies tonight and tomorrow. Till then, hang loose and as always-- take care of YOU !

spike q. the darling of sapphoq.com and more