Debbie Schlussel: ICE Agents Respond to Obama, Sort of
Many Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents sent me a July 22 letter written "on their behalf" to Barack Hussein Obama in response to Obama's outrageous comments at the La Raza convention, at which Obama characterized ICE agents as terrorists.
While the letter is pretty good, the author isn't. Art Gordon, the letter writer, is president of FLEOA, the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. He's part of the reason ICE is such a joke and Obama can get away with attacking the agency, unchallenged. That's because--in opposition to most ICE agents--Gordon (who is NOT an ICE agent) supported President Bush in his nomination of the incompetent, unqualified Julie L. Myers a/k/a "The ICE Princess" to head ICE. That undue endorsement went a long way for her and she used it in getting Senate support for her nomination.
FLEOA is not a union. Many ICE agents don't belong to it. They don't want to pay exorbitant dues to people like Gordon who claim to speak on their behalf and endorse positions and parties anathema to their interests. One such agent was the principled Matt Issman, a then-career ICE agent and then-Vice President of FLEOA, who was sickened by Gordon's endorsement of Myers and who publicly spoke out against it.
And most agents view many of those involved in FLEOA as social-climbing resume-packers, such as former FLEOA Vice President Brian M. Moskowitz a/k/a "Abu Moskowitz," ICE's Islamopandering, terrorist-schmoozing Michigan/Ohio Special Agent in Charge. When he held office in FLEOA, he was schmoozing Congressmen in his quest to head ICE and climb the ladder. And Moskowitz endorsed--in the Washington Post--the jack-booted INS kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives, after which he was returned to Castro's Communist tyranny.
So, while the letter to Obama was good, you have to consider the source, Mr. Gordon, and how he helped usher ICE into the Julie Myers era and into clowndom and Rodney Dangerfield-ness.
And take it with a grain of salt. Remember, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Tick-tock.
Posted by Debbie on August 4, 2008 04:58 PM to Debbie Schlussel