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ARIZONA GETTING HOTTER: Judge Blocks Heart and Soul of Immigration Law (Guest in EDT)
In a move that was surprising to many experts who felt the Arizona immigration law was more than constitutionally sound—heck, even more constitutional than the federal law after which it was modeled—a federal judge ruled on Wednesday to block its most robust provisions.
Naturally, some are calling it a victory for the Obama administration, liberal Democrats and civil rights activists. But conservative political commentator, blogger and part-time talk show host, Steve Bussey, says it’s a “sad” defeat for the America that was founded on blind justice, the rule of law and a model of government built to serve the people, not itself.
Most notable among the provisions that were blocked was the requirement of state and local law enforcement officers to determine an individual’s immigration status if stopped for some other law violation inside Arizona state lines. For all intents and purposes, that was the teeth of Arizona’s effort to ratchet up its security against crime perpetrated by illegal immigrants and Mexican drug runners.
In his blog released immediately after the ruling (see the link below), Bussey cuts right to the contradictions that expose the real intent behind the White House’s lawsuit:
“Right now in America, we have the federal government sending in excess of $17 million to Texas to aid state and local law enforcement agencies in enforcing federal immigration law, while that same federal government sues Arizona for enforcing immigration law. Thousands of law enforcement officers from around the nation are trained by the Immigration Customs Enforcement Agency to enforce federal immigration law, while we sue Arizona. Rhode Island enforces federal immigration law, while we sue Arizona for enforcing federal immigration law.
This is not about civil rights or profiling because the federal government did not argue that in court. This is about nothing less than the politics of power, race baiting and the balkanization of America. Your individual liberty and national sovereignty are being sold in order that the Democrat Party might garner more votes in future elections.”
For a deeper look at this injunction, a projection on how it will play out when the law inevitably moves from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals all the way to the Supreme Court, and an analysis of what to expect come November, call Special Guests to schedule an interview with Steve Bussey.
STEVE’S BLOG ENTRY CAN BE FOUND IN ITS ENTIRETY AT:
http://stevebussey.com/wp/
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE MAY BE USEFUL FOR SHOW PREP:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704895004575395703643810936.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
ABOUT YOUR GUEST, STEVE BUSSEY:
Steve Bussey is a conservative talk radio guest host heard each and every Sunday afternoon from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Melbourne, Florida, on WMMB AM 1240/1350. He is a conservative political activist, commentator and experienced blogger who has appeared regularly on the Bill Mick LIVE Radio Show heard weekdays from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. on WMMB A.M. 1240/1350, as well as political talk radio shows throughout Florida. Steve has had several guest editorials concerning local, state, national and international politics published in Florida Today newspaper in Brevard County, Florida, and has been a guest speaker at several Tea Party and 9-12 Project events. But he hasn’t always been so good looking and talented.
Steve has been many, many things over the past 50 years. He’s been a civilian and military cop, a special agent, undercover drug agent, tactical counterintelligence collector in the Philippines, working against communist insurgents as they killed Americans and blew up American property; a private investigator, medico-legal death investigator, sports official at every level from tee ball to Division II College, including baseball, fast-pitch softball, football, men’s amateur baseball, and basketball.
Steve has been a convenience store clerk, laborer at a meat packing plant, has unloaded rolls of insulation from railroad freight cars one summer, roofer, altar boy, actor, equipment operator and grunt for an overhead power line crew, probation officer, restaurant dish washer, occasional local delivery truck driver (whew), and a few more things.
So, why does Steve do all of this political stuff now? He does it because he has an undying and unyielding love of country, and is embarrassed about what has become of the great gift left him by his ancestors.
In 1775 George, Thomas, Benjamin, William and Hezekiah Bussey answered Paul Revere’s warning, grabbed their muskets, and left farm and family to begin the struggle for freedom in the world. Today, struggle as he may, Steve Bussey endeavors to meet his ancestors’ expectations to care for that which they conceived in liberty and birthed by fire – to ensure the sacrifice of their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor shall not have been in vain.
The tradition of Bussey military service to this great nation did not end with the great revolution that shook the very foundations of the world. Another Hezekiah Bussey and others fought the British once again in the War of 1812. Over 100 men with the Bussey name fought, sometimes each other, during the Civil War.
As the story continues, James Madison Bussey, Steve’s great grandfather, joined the Texas Rangers around 1870 at the tender age of 17, and lived the life of which many men can only dream. His son, Steve’s great uncle John Travis Bussey, was felled by a German machine gun bullet in October 1918 in the last major offensive of the War to end all wars – WW I, while his brother, Steve’s grandfather, Charlie Bussey, served as a wrangler with F-Troop, 12th Cavalry along the New Mexico border with Mexico. But even that wasn’t enough service for the Busseys.
Steve’s Uncle J.W. made three Pacific landings with the Marines, his Uncle Harold fought in Korea, his father, William Bussey, served in the Korean and Vietnam wars and continued on to serve 30 honorable years in the U.S. Navy. Steve’s brother fought in Desert Storm and his nephew served multiple tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, while his own son has recently served a tour of duty in Afghanistan.
As for Steve . . . well, he joined the United States Air Force on December 1, 1976, and retired on December 31, 1996 after 20 years of honorable service to his country in military law enforcement, and he doesn’t believe his oath of enlistment is moot simply because he retired, not with his family history and tradition to live up to. And so, Steve Bussey fights on for the Constitution, for the truth, and for our posterity.
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