AN AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW

June 2010

May 2010

December 2009

92 % OF ALL AMERICANS BELIEVE IN GOD

66 % OF ALL AMERICANS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS AS THE BIRTH OF CHRIST

AS AMERICANS WE NEED TO DO THE FOLLOWING THINGS

-PUT PRAYER BACK INTO OUR SCHOOLS

-BUY ONLY PRODUCTS MADE IN WHOLE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY LEGAL AMERICAN WORKERS

-BOYCOTT BUSINESSES, PUBLICATIONS, AND ENTERTAINMENT THAT DON’T SUPPORT OUR CORE AMERICAN VALUES

-VOTE ALL NEW PEOPLE INTO OFFICE ON THE NEXT ELECTION AND EVERY ELECTION THERE AFTER – PUBLIC OFFICE SHOULD NOT BE A CAREER AND NO ONE SHOULD DO MORE THAN ONE TERM OF OFFICE IN ANY ELECTED POSITION

-VOTE DOWN ALL NEW TAX INCREASES UNTIL OUR FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS GET SPENDING UNDER CONTROL

- BE GOOD STEWARDS OF OUR RESOURCES AND OUR ENVIRONMENT (WE SHOULDN’T NEED THE GOVERNMENT TO TELL US HOW TO DO THAT)

NOVEMBER 2009

Obama is a Muslim 

OCTOBER 2009

SEPTEMBER 2009  

On September 20th 2009, this flag, the flag of the Communist Peoples Repulic of China, will fly over our White House in our Nations Capital.  There will be a hosted celebration by the Chinese government honoring 60 years of communist tyranny and aggression, human rights violations, lies and propaganda.  How many American lives were lost fighting these same communists, during World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.  Now our leaders choose to dishonor all of thosed honored dead and disgrace our nation with this despicable act.  

God Help Us!

August 2009

              http://la-gun.com/manning/obama2/

June 2009

MORE QUOTES FROM THOMAS JEFFERSON

Dear Mr. Obama, 

Where are the jobs? Where is the economic recovery? Where are all of the things that you promised on the campaign trail?   

In the words of the Toby Kieth song " A LITTLE LESS TALK AND A LOT MORE ACTION"     

Cow Fart Tax?

$175.00 per dairy cow

$87.50 per beef cow

$20.00 per hog

Can you believe it?  The EPA is proposing this tax as an answer to the methane gas created by livestock when digesting the grain and hay that they eat.  It is really scary to think that we have fools like this making decisions in our country.  My question is how is the tax going to alleviate or cure the gas problem.   It's just another excuse to tax.  I'm not planning on giving up steak are you?  This smacks of PETA!

Here is one of many links.  Check it out for yourself.

MEMORIAL DAY 2009

October 2008 

At the present time our nation is 9.5 trillion dollars in debt and we have spent 2.9 trillion in 2008.  If our National budget remains the same and assuming  we were to try to pay off our debt over the next 20 years at an interest rate of 3% and then have a balanced budget from that point on here is what we would have to do.

 
With a population of 300 million in the US today each man, woman and child would have to pay $2,107.44 on the principal and interest each year toward  the 9.5 trillion dollar national debt, and  $9,667.00  each year to maintain a 2.9 trillion dollar budget.  That is a whopping $11,774.44 per year for every man, woman and child.  That means the average family of four would have to pay $47,970.76 to the US Government every year for the next 20 years.  

Now if the interest rate were 5% on that debt our payments would then increase to $2,507.88 per person per year for the principal and interest.  Total annual payment for a family of four to keep a balanced budget and pay off our debt would be $48,698.52

Then when the National debt is finally paid (20 years down the road) to maintain a 2.9 trillion dollar budget each man, woman  and child would have to continue to pay $9,667.00 per year.  A family of four would pay $38,667 per year from that point on.

In point of fact our government is BROKE.   We need to get our spending under control SOON or there WON'T  be a United States of America for our children to inherit.

Our national debt is getting larger every day.  By the time you read this it will probably be over 10 trillion dollars.

September 2008

 Pray for our Nation!

Our Government is 9 and a half trillion dollars in debt.  How can we bail out businesses who are broke when our Government is broke

August 2008

Having been a Naval Officer myself I have a great deal of respect and admiration for all men and women who serve and have served this great nation of ours.  When I think of the sacrifice that many of them made for all of us a lump rises in my throat and my eyes tear up. 

On April 9^th 1942,  75,000  Filipino and American troops were surrendered to the Japanese at Bataan.  These starving, injured and diseased men were then force marched 90 miles over the next 6 days to prison camps to the north.  One in four of these men died in route due to the sadistic cruelty of the Japanese.  If a man fell from exhaustion by the road side or if he stopped to help a comrade who had fallen,  he would be shot, bayoneted or beheaded by his captors.   Those that survived spent the next three years as prisoners of the Japanese.  It has been sixty six years since those terrible days and not many of the men who survived are alive today.

Sunday August 17^th, I had the great privilege  of having lunch with one such hero.  He was 17 years old at the time he was captured.  He weighed 78 lbs when he was released three years later.  His name is Robert Block.  Bob, I salute you and your comrades who fell.  May God Bless and Keep You.

Michael Thomas

July 2008

Father-Daughter Talk

    A young woman was about to finish her first year of college.  Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth.   She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.

    One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing in school.

    Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she  spent all her time studying.

    Her father listened and then asked, How is your friend Audrey doing?

    She replied, Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties, and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over.

    Her wise father asked his daughter, Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.

    The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back,  'That's a crazy idea. How would that be fair? I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!

    The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, 'Welcome to the Republican Party.

June 2008 

Here is an interesting table that I copied from

" It is amazing when you think of all that man has achieved.  We have the ability to continually find ways of accomplishing difficult tasks quicker, easier, with greater efficiency and with less sweat and toil every day.  If it weren't for lazy people, We would still be in the Stone Age"

Mike Thomas

 Here are some quotes from two books written by Barack Obama

May 2008

OURS TROOPS NEED OUR PRAYERS

Here is a link that everyone should listen too:

February 2008

Billions & Taxes

The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner,  think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.   A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.

        A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

        B.. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

        C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

        D.. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

        E. A billion dollars a go was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let's take a look at New Orleans.    It's amazing what you can learn with some simple 
division . . .   Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking Congress for  $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans .  Interesting number, what does it mean?

        A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of New Orleans

             (every man, woman, child), you each get $516,528.

        B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans,

             your home gets $1,329,787.

        C. Or, if you are a family of four, your family gets $2,066,012.

       

Washington, D.C .. HELLO!!! ... Are all your calculators broken?

        Tax his land,
        Tax his wage,
        Tax his bed in which he lays.
        Tax his tractor,
        Tax his mule,
        Teach him taxes is the rule.
        Tax his cow,
        Tax his goat,
        Tax his pants,
        Tax his coat.

        Tax his ties,
        Tax his shirts,
        Tax his work,
        Tax his dirt.

        Tax his tobacco,
        Tax his drink,
        Tax him if he tries to think.

        Tax his booze,
        Tax his beers,
        If he cries,
        Tax his tears.

        Tax his bills,
        Tax his gas,
        Tax his notes,
        Tax his cash.

        Tax him good and let him know
        That after taxes, he has no dough.

        If he hollers,
        Tax him more,
        Tax him until he's good and sore.

        Tax his coffin,
        Tax his grave,
        Tax the sod in which he lays.
        Put these words upon his tomb,
        'Taxes drove me to my doom!'

        And when he's gone,
        We won't relax,
        We'll still be after the inheritance TAX!!

        Accounts Receivable Tax
        Building Permit Tax
        CDL License Tax
        Cigarette Tax
        Corporate Income Tax
        Dog License Tax
        Federal Income Tax
        Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
        Fishing License Tax
        Food License Tax
        Fuel Perm it Tax
        Gasoline Tax
        Hunting License Tax
        Inheritance Tax
        Inventory Tax
        IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax),
        IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax),
        Liquor Tax,
        Luxury Tax,
        Marriage License Tax,
        Medicare Tax,
        Property Tax,
        Real Estate Tax,
        Service charge taxes,
        Social Security Tax,
        Road Usage Tax (Truckers),
        Sales Taxes,
        Recreational Vehicle Tax,
        School Tax,
        State Income Tax,
        State Unemployment Tax (SUTA),
        Telephone Federal Excise Tax,
        Telephone Federal Universal Service Fe e Tax,
        Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax,
        Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax,
        Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax,
        Telephone State and Local Tax,
        Telephone Usage Charge Tax,
        Utility Tax,
        Vehicle License Registration Tax,
        Vehicle Sales Tax,
        Watercraft Registration Tax,
        Well Permit Tax,
        Workers Compensation Tax.

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.   We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.  What happened?  Can you spell 'politicians!'  And I still have to 'press  1' for English.  

January 2008

THE 2ND AMENDMENT TO OUR CONSTITUTION STATES

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed

James Madison - the man who wrote this amendment said -

RON PAUL !

LISTEN TO THIS GUY,  I THINK HES RIGHT!

I received the following 2 emails from friends this month and I feel they are worth sharing

November 2007

'Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.'
~Thomas Jefferson

August 2007

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with a result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship. The average age of the world s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence:

>From bondage to spiritual faith;
>From spiritual faith to great courage;
>From courage to liberty;
>From liberty to abundance;
>From abundance to selfishness;
>From selfishness to complacency;
>From complacency to apathy;
>From apathy to dependency;
>From dependency back into bondage.

-- The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic
Alexander Fraser Tyler (1748 - 1813)

July 2007

Dog finally off Wash. state voter rolls

Did you know that Iraqis are paying .25 cents a gallon for gasoline and our government is subsidizing it!

November 2006

There is a movement to consolidate the United States, Canada and Mexico into the North American Union.  This is similar to the European Trade Union.  I think that this would be a disaster for our Country.  Please take the time to read this letter that I received.  Ask the Candidates of this election where they stand on this!

One million Americans to lose their homes or businesses to foreign, privately owned company

North American Union
Point of View Commentary
by Kerby Anderson

I want to talk to you about the establishment of a North American Union and the building of the NAFTA Superhighway. These issues are going to be given a great deal more prominence in the news in the next few weeks. For example, there will be a press conference next week at the National Press Club. Attending will be such people as Howard Phillips, Jerome Corsi, Phyllis Schlafly, as well as members of the House of Representatives who have introduced a resolution (H. CON. RES. 487) calling for an investigation into the North American Union and the NAFTA Superhighway System. The sponsors of the bill are Virgil Goode, Jr. (R-VA), Walter Jones (R-NC), Tom Tancredo (R-CO), and Ron Paul (R-TX).

Let me give you some background on these issues. It all started with a meeting in Waco, TX on March 23, 2005 with President George Bush, Mexican President Vincente Fox, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. At the end of the meeting they announced the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. Some people in the press reported it, but no one thought much of it until people began to read the details of the agreement.

Essentially, the Security and Prosperity Partnership (or SPP as most people call it) created a new administrative infrastructure that could transfer these three countries into a North American Union similar to the European Union. And this was done without a treaty and without a vote in Congress.

But don't take my word for this. As we say on "Point of View" so often, read it for yourself. The Department of Commerce has developed a website: www.spp.gov. You can go there and read more about this. You can also print out this commentary and look up the endnotes to find more reading material on this than you might imagine.

If you go to the SPP website and read some of the material, you will find that the SPP has created "20 different working groups spanning a wide variety of issues ranging from e-commerce, to aviation policy, to borders and immigration." They have produced a number of memorandums of understanding as well as trilateral declarations of agreement. These new trilateral agreements essentially rewrite our administrative law so that it can be harmonized and integrated with these two other countries. And these working groups report to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, and Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez.

This plan was spelled out in detail in a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) 59-page document called "Building a North American Community." It describes a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter." The entire task force report of 175-pages is available at www.cfr.org from the Council on Foreign Relations.

So what does this mean to the United States? Here are two examples that Jerome Corsi uses to explain what this would mean to our country. The first is the issue of open skies. The Department of Transportation has agreed to give our GPS system and our wide area navigation system to Canada and Mexico. That means that Mexican and Canadian air traffic controllers will be able to direct airplanes into our air space and land them in our airports as if they are landing them in their own countries. Now in order to do that safely, they also need to know how to identify U.S. military aircraft. So you can see, we will be giving away quite a bit of technology and information.

The second example is the idea known as "trusted trader-trusted traveler." The SPP working groups I just mentioned have announced that they will give biometric cards to all Americans, Mexicans, and Canadians to identify them as trusted North American travelers. Remember the goal here is to erase the borders between Mexico, Canada, and the United States. The North American Union will supposedly protect the perimeter of North America but will essentially remove the borders between these three countries. If you think about this, it will change the nature of the immigration debate. Mexicans who have these biometric cards and come to the United States by definition won't be illegal immigrants.

These working groups provide for the designation of a trusted trader. There is talk about putting a Sentri electronic devices in their trucks so that it would only take a few seconds to crosshe US-Mexican border in Laredo, Texas. In a sense, it would be like using an EasyPass on one of our toll roads in America.

That brings us to the other issue: the NAFTA superhighway. The Texas segment (known as the Trans-Texas Corridor) will begin construction next year. You can read about this at a Texas Department of Transportation website: www.keeptexasmoving.com. t
In April 2006, TxDOT released a 4000-page Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that describes a corridor that will be 1200 feet wide (the size of four football fields). It will parallel Interstate 35, and be five lanes north and five lanes south (3 cars, 2 trucks). In the middle will be pipelines and rail lines. It will also have a 200-foot wide utility corridor.

The corridor will start in Laredo, Texas run past Austin to the Texas-Oklahoma border. However the plans ultimately call for building some 4,000 miles of highway-railway-utility super-corridors throughout Texas over the next 50 years, using some 584,000 acres of what is now Texas farm and ranchland, at an estimated cost of $184 billion.

The project will be financed by Cintra Concesiones de Infraestrusturas in Spain and a San Antonio construction company Zachary Construction Corp. Cintra is an investment consortium owned by the Juan Carlos family in Spain that will collect the tolls. That's right the money for this project will go to Spain. Eventually, this NAFTA superhighway will ultimately connect through Kansas City into Canada.

This NAFTA superhighway will connect with ports in Mexico (specifically Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas) for NAFTA trade. "The plan is to ship containers of cheap goods produced by under-market labor in China and the Far East into North America via Mexican ports. From the Mexican ports, Mexican truck drivers and railroad workers will transport the goods across the Mexican border with Texas. Once in the U.S., the routes will proceed north to Kansas City along the NAFTA Super-Highway, ready to be expanded by the Trans-Texas Corridor, and NAFTA railroad routes being put in place by Kansas City Southern."

The advantage to retail companies like Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and Home Depot (to mention a few) is enormous. Currently the cost of shipping and ground transportation can nearly double the cost of cheap labor and slave labor from China and the Far East. China will be able to unload these huge cargo ships in these deep water ports in Mexico and bypass much of those costs. Mexican workers undercut the Longshoreman Union port employees on the docks of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Mexican truck drivers undercut the Teamsters. And U.S. truckers and railways will no longer be needed to move goods across the Rocky Mountains.

Oh, by the way, these Mexican ports will be controlled by the Chinese communists through a company we have talked about before on "Point of View." The company is Hutchison-Whampoa. This name should sound familiar. Hutchison Ports Holding owns Panama Ports Company which controls both ends of the Panama Canal.

The Chinese are also working to deepen and widen the Panama Canal so they can sail their enormous container ships to Florida and travel north through another corridor. Ultimately, the plan is to have seven of these corridors in the United States.

And while I am talking about the Panama Canal, I might mention that the man who is considered the father of the North American Union is Robert Pastor. And if that name sounds familiar it should. He is the man who proposed that the United States give away the Panama Canal during Jimmy Carter's presidency. He was the co-chair of the May 2005 CFR report, "Building a North American Community."

So how will the North American Union be put in place? There is good evidence to show that this plan will implemented the same way it was done in Europe: incrementally. There will be various bureaucratic regulations to eventually transform the United States, Canada, and Mexico the way Europe was transformed into the European Union from the Common Market. In fact, Robert Pastor has proposed that we get rid of the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexico peso. Instead we will have what he calls the amero (just like Europeans have the euro).

Just recently (September 12-14, 2006) there was a secret meeting in Banff , Alberta. Apparently its goal was to bring representatives from the three countries to advance the cause of the North American Union. You can read about these proceedings in a recent article that provides both the agenda and the attendee list.

Those who have been investigating this have also been filing Freedom of Information Act requests. Much of this information is posted on www.judicialwatch.com, and additional materials will soon be posted at www.minutemanproject.com. They show memos of governmental officials discussing how our laws can be changed or how the laws of Canada or Mexico can be changed so that we would have North American laws.

So what should we do? First, we need to educate ourselves and pass this information on to others who would also be concerned about the loss of American sovereignty. The success in defeating the Dubai Ports issue (as well as other initiatives) demonstrates that once the American people know what is going on, they call and write their legislators. Get a copy of this commentary from our website and distribute it. Go to the references and endnotes that I provide to get additional information.

Second, find out where your elected representatives stand. Do they support a North American Union or do they support American sovereignty? It is better to find out before the elections.

Those of you in Texas should also ask the candidates for governor and other elected officials where they stand on the NAFTA superhighway. Eventually there will be 4,000 miles of highway. The state will use eminent domain to take this land. Under the Supreme Court Kelo decision, they can take that land even though the superhighway will be built for private benefit. Some have estimated that up to one million people in Texas may lose their land or their business under this eminent domain action. Where do these Texas candidates stand on this issue?
Third, express your support for the resolution (H. CON. RES. 487) introduced by Representatives Goode, Jones, Tancredo, and Paul. Its says that the United States should not enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada. And it says that the United States should not engage in the construction of a NAFTA Superhighway System.

We can win this battle with education and action. Go to www.pointofview.net (or www.StopPerry.com) to get more information and get involved in this crucial battle.

posted by Sal Costello @ 10/21/2006 0 comments links to this post

THE ABOVE PICTURES WERE TAKEN DURING A RECENT PROTEST BY MEXICAN STUDENTS AT A HIGH SCHOOL IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

As an American who has served this country in the U.S. Navy, I find the above pictures outrageous and insulting.  They are in my view totally unbecoming of anyone who loves this nation and is a citizen or desires citizenship.  Hundreds of thousands of our best young men and women have paid the ultimate sacrifice over the last 230 years to make our nation what it is today.  They did not give their lives so that illegal aliens could just walk across our borders and demand the same rights that we as Americans have earned with the blood of our best.   I believe in immigration if done legally for we are a nation of immigrants.   I don't believe in amnesty for illegal aliens who have invaded our county, taking our jobs, sending our currency back to family members in foreign countries and all the while, enjoying a free public education for their children at our expense, demanding that we teach Spanish as a second language in our schools, receiving Medicare and Medicaid benefits that we the tax paying citizens of the United States pay for, and celebrating Mexican Independence Day on our courthouse squares.  Our Government spends billions of dollars every year giving aid and assistance to countries all over the world while neglecting our own here at home.    Our government allows the oil companies to make record profits while blaming the inflated prices on the war in Iraq.   If there wasn't a war then they would blame it on the fabricated shortage and the need for expensive exploration to find more oil.  It doesn't take an overly intelligent person to notice all of the oil wells in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas that are capped off and not pumping because they want to use foreign oil and not our own reserves.  Now our Government is going to give legal status to the millions of illegal aliens that have invaded us over the last few decades.  We are rapidly becoming a third world nation ourselves.  Our complacency and self serving interests are going to be our undoing.  We the people of the United States are the Government and it is time that we control IT, before IT controls us.  Write, Call, Email and generally make a nuisance of yourselves to your State and Federal Congressmen.  I guarantee that they will listen if they think we are not going to  re-elected them if they don't!   Don't be surprised if you are ignored by most of them at first, they are probably busy drafting legislation suggested by the lobbyists paid by the meat and poultry packing companies and the oil companies, etc..  Remember, big companies do not have a vote, but you do.  The difference between big companies and the individual voter is that big companies are tenacious about using their voice through lobbyists.       YOU HAVE A VOICE --- USE IT!

Respectfully

Michael R. Thomas

INVASION USA Gang expert backs Tancredo charges Retired cop says Mexican drug cartels rig elections to take over U.S. cities Posted: June 27, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern   By Joseph Farah © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com   Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. WASHINGTON – Rep. Tom Tancredo's charge that Mexican drug cartels are buying up legitimate businesses in U.S. cities to launder money and using some of the proceeds to win local mayoral and city council seats for politicians who can shape the policies and personnel decisions of their police forces, has been backed up by a veteran gang investigator. Richard Valdemar, a retired sergeant with the L.A. County sheriff's department and a longtime member of a federal task force investigating gang activity, went beyond the charges made by Tancredo, the chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus who has led the fight to secure America's southern border. In fact, he cited first-hand experience in investigating attempts to take over seven cities in Los Angeles County – Southgate, Lynwood, Bell, Bell Gardens, Cudahy, Hawaiian Gardens and Huntington Park. He also told WND in an exclusive interview that he has since become aware of similar efforts by Mexican drug cartels throughout the Southwest – in New Mexico, Arizona and Texas.   The stunning disclosures substantiate claims made by Tancredo in his new book, "In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security," in which he exposes what he has learned from meetings with law enforcement authorities regarding a concerted effort by the Mexican mafia and drug cartels to extend its corruptive influence in urban areas dominated by illegal alien populations. Tancredo says some of these small cities have become hostile and dangerous places for legitimate law enforcement officials. Valdemar agrees, saying the sophisticated technique being employed in the U.S. was "invented in Mexico." Valdemar, the grandson of legal Mexican immigrants and now a consultant to law enforcement agencies across the country on gang activity, explains how the operations work. "In the typical scenario, a wealthy Mexican immigrant opens a business in a small town," he says. "It could be a very nice Mexican restaurant. He's well-dressed, speaks English, seemingly a real gentleman. He gets involved in the community. His business welcomes police officers with discounts. He makes friends with city officials and other businessmen. No one has any idea where his money comes from – the Mexican drug cartels." Valdemar says the agent of the cartels often sets up other businesses – including the sale of cheap used tires and used autos. These businesses are used almost exclusively as fronts for laundering money.