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Today, I am glad I got it wrong.
By now you know that, today, Abdullah Al-Muhajir a/k/a Jose Padilla and his co-defendants–including former Assistant Superintendent of Detroit Public Schools, Kifah Wael Jayyousi–were found guilty of terrorism charges and several other crimes. That’s a great thing.
I predicted that Padilla would walk because the Justice Department has a very bad track record in these types of cases, and I felt that they significantly watered down their case from the dirty bomb charges they originally had. I’m very glad to hear that my prediction was wrong.

I didn’t predict that Jayyousi would walk free, though. And that’s because the evidence against him was far stronger. Add to that, his attorney, William Swor–a Christian Arab who carries water for assorted Islamists and terrorists who would kill him were they in power–who loses a lot and is more pan-Arabist bluster than actual legal victory eagle. He was on the board of , here in Detroit, about which .
As I’ve written, it’s scary to note that his client, Jayyousi, had . Imagine the havoc he and his Al-Qaeda buddies could have carried out if they were so inclined. After all, we can’t discriminate against Muslims holding such positions, even if they openly support Al-Qaeda. And that’s crazy.
For now and probably for life, Jayyousi can dream about it from a prison cell. But we should be dreaming up–and enacting–laws to prevent Islamists like him from having access to such vital and vulnerable means to harm children in our schools. Unfortunately, the ACLU and others will continue to thwart any chance of that.
Again, I’m glad I was wrong about Padilla–and that all three defendants couldn’t sway the jury to free them. The next step: stiff sentences for all three, and hopefully federal Judge Marcia Cooke–a liberal former public defender appointed by Bush–will throw the book at them.

I’ll be on the nationally syndicated, Los Angeles-based “Larry Elder Show”, Today at about 6:20 p.m. Eastern Time. Larry, “The Sage From South Central,” can be heard on both XM and Sirius Satellite and on these radio stations across America.
Larry and I will discuss on the deleted Muslim honor-killing scene in the upcoming anti-ICE/pro-illegal alien movie, “Crossing Over” and the controversial immigration status of the movie’s writer/director, Wayne Kramer. We’ll also discuss the , which I got in response to the column.

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I’ve written a lot about , the illegal alien ordered deported, who lives inside a Chicago church. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) won’t touch her because they won’t enter the church.
There is no law preventing ICE from going in and arresting her, but ICE public relations doesn’t want to be seen invading places of worship. , by maintaining this PR-conscious policy, ICE has made all mosques, churches, and synagogues de facto sanctuaries to which illegal aliens can escape. It’s ridiculous. What may be good for PR, is not good for national security and law enforcement.
As you may know, Arellano announced that she will soon leave the Adalberto United Methodist Church to lobby Congress for immigration reform.

Elvira Arellano & Anchor Baby Son Saul
But that’s a ruse. What Arellano is really doing is showing that she as a prominent, undeported illegal alien can walk around free and untouched. We all know that “comprehensive immigration reform” a/k/a illegal alien amnesty is dead. Arellano’s idea to lobby Congress now is a little late. But that’s not what this is about.
What it really is, is a brazen taunt to American and ICE. And because all ICE Chieftess cares about is how she looks on television, you can bet she and her stooge-atrix, ICE Director of Investigations Marcy Forman-Friedman a/k/a , will order ICE agents to stay away. Ditto for ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) director, , FoTL ().
Why do I say this? Well, aside from the PR, ICE “leadership” simply doesn’t have the guts (even though most agents do). As I’ve noted, when there were mass illegal alien demonstrations, ICE agents were ordered to stay away. Top ICE brass just simply didn’t have the will to take on the easy-for-the-picking mass gathering of deportation targets.
And that hasn’t changed. Myers and company don’t want camera footage of them arresting this attractive illegal alien and her American-born son, while liberal Congressmen wag their fingers in the background. And Myers will do whatever it takes to please liberal Senators who are holding her nomination for the position she now serves in as a recess appointment.
Of course, since I predicted it, ICE leadership just might arrest her to prove me wrong and dissuade ICE agents from believing what they read here. And if that’s the case, terrific. But I doubt it.
I think this convicted criminal, Amber Arellano (who served three years probation for using a false social security number to serve as a cleaning lady at Chicago O’Hare Airport), will be free to go to Washington to “lobby” for legislation that was long dead. And to taunt America and assert even newer strength for illegal aliens–the primary objective.
It gives warped, new 2007 meaning to “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.”

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What if your dear brother was Missing In Action while working on behalf of America in a war zone? How would you feel, if Hollywood–adding insult to injury–portrayed your brother as Charles Manson in a widely acclaimed movie?
That’s what the makers of “Rescue Dawn” did to a great American.
I . But now that I’ve learned more, that praise comes with a major asterisk. Actually, with a dark stain.
It’s no secret that Hollywood distorts reality. But what the makers of “Rescue Dawn” did to the memory of Eugene “Gene” DeBruin is unforgivable. And an outrage.

Gene DeBruin, POW & Hero (Left),
Defamed in “Rescue Dawn” Like This (Right)
(Thanks to David Lunde for Assistance with Both Images)
In “Rescue Dawn,” the story of Navy Pilot Dieter Dengler’s escape from a Laotian POW camp, DeBruin is portrayed as a crazy Charles Manson-esque fellow POW. In the movie version, he tries and threatens–at every step–to turn in Dengler and the other POWs to their barbaric Pathet Lao captors.
To make the point, DeBruin is played by actor Jeremy Davies, who played Manson in the TV movie, “Helter Skelter.” In the film iteration, Dengler shoots the prison guards and stages the escape, and DeBruin is portrayed as a spaced-out, lazy, uncaring person who fails to do his part and then asks Dengler, “What will I do now?”
But that’s not what happened. And it’s not the kind of person Gene DeBruin was. It pains his brother Jerry DeBruin and other family members and friends–including the one surviving member of the POW camp escape–to see this fiction, this great defamation of a POW who was actually a hero and is still missing.
Reality’s Gene DeBruin did not sabotage Dieter Dengler’s escape from Ban Houei Pathet Lao Prison in 1966. He helped plan and implement it. But he heroically stayed behind to care for a sick fellow POW who could not make it. That was his “crime.” That was his “Helter Skelter.”
The real Gene DeBruin was spoken of highly by Dieter Dengler, the movie’s hero. He described DeBruin as a strong leader and peacemaker when differences threatened their escape plan, NOT the man who sabotaged it in the silver screen story. In real life, Pisidhi Indradat–the only living, free survivor of the camp–calls this silver-screen “Charles Manson, “The finest man I have ever met.” He believes that Dengler would be appalled by “Rescue Dawn,” had he lived to see it.
DeBruin’s family and friends repeatedly tried to reach out to “Rescue Dawn” Director Werner Herzog to get the story straight. But they were blown off. Ditto for Indradat, who was actually there. And while Herzog claimed he was loyal to his friend, Dengler’s story, his movie is starkly at odds with the Dengler’s own words–his letters, his book, “Escape From Laos,” and this statements in the Herzog documentary, “Little Dieter Needs to Fly.”
The real story is at Rescue Dawn, The Truth, a site compiled by the friends and family of Gene DeBruin.
Since Mr. Herzog would not tell the truth, I will. I feel a special responsibility to do so, since I gave such accolades to a film, I now know defamed not only an innocent American POW, but a heroic one.
Gene DeBruin was a Staff Sgt. in the Air Force for four years and obtained his pilot’s license. After being honorably discharged and graduating from college, DeBruin ultimately became a smoke jumper and a cargo “kicker” for the CIA’s secret airline, “Air America,” in Laos. He and his crew were shot down over Laos, while they were delivering rice and buffalo meat to the people there. They were sent to several brutal POW camps, and repeatedly tortured.
DeBruin was shuffled to a fifth prison, where he spent 2.5 years before Dieter Dengler ever arrived. He and fellow prisoners spent that time formulating an escape plane and storing rice in bamboo tubes in preparation. In the movie version, DeBruin is not only against any escape, but it is Dengler who comes up with the idea to store rice in the tubes (and DeBruin who tries to eat it beforehand).
In the movie, DeBruin is cold, callous, and inhumane. In real life, DeBruin taught his cellmates English, shared his blanket with them on cold nights, and shared his food with them.
DeBruin was every bit a part of the attack on the guards and the escape. And by the way, the prison guards were killed by fellow POW Indradat, NOT Dengler (as in the movie version).
DeBruin was healthy and could have escaped through the jungle with Dengler. But he chose to stay behind to care for Y.C. To, whom he knew was too ill to make it without help. Dieter Dengler, himself, testified that DeBruin shook his hand after the escape, shouting, “See you in the States,” and returned to help To. Truthfully depicting that act of courage on-screen would not have taken away from “Rescue Dawn.” It would have enhanced it.
As DeBruin’s brother, Jerry, points out, it is false to say that only those who successfully escaped the POW camp are heroes. Gene DeBruin was every bit as heroic to give up his chance at freedom to help a sick, helpless fellow POW. Maybe even more so. It is that sacrifice, that humanitarianism that helps make America great, sometimes to our detriment.
Dieter Dengler’s escape from the POW camp and survival in the Laotian jungle is certainly still heroic. But there was no reason to devalue and defame DeBruin to tell Dengler’s story. If Herzog was so intent on twisting events and characters for dramatic purposes, he could have used fake names for fake personas. There is no decent explanation for giving an honorable and decent man–a hero, no less–the undeserved persona of Charles Manson.
Eugene DeBruin is still Missing In Action. If he is still alive, he is 74 years old. His family has not given up on him and wants to bring him home. Photos of him in a Pathet Lao prison and subsequent sighting reports are all proof that he is a Pathet Lao prisoner, and that they should be held accountable for his fate. September 5th will mark 44 years since he was shot down by the Viet Cong-allied Pathet Lao.
Says Jerry DeBruin,

My basic fear is that the makers of movies such as “Rescue Dawn” will prey upon both released and missing POW/MIA family members, purporting untruths, and dragging them through what our family is going through today.

Let’s hope that, some day soon, Gene DeBruin is brought back home to America alive.
And that his reputation is brought back with him.
Director Werner Herzog and his Hollywood friends tried to take that away from him.
But they cannot take Gene DeBruin’s honor and heroism.

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Border Patrol agents have directed my attention to a letter their union, the National Border Patrol Council, sent to the City of Newark:

August 10th 2007
Dear City of Newark
If your city officials had reported Mr. Carranza as an illegal alien to DHS while he was in your jail for raping children, the three young people murdered by Mr. Carranza would be alive. Other sanctuary cities pay heed, because it is only a matter of time until it happens to someone in your town.

Several promising lives snuffed out in an instant by Jose Carranza. All might have been prevented. Very tragic.

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A far less serious topic than I usually address on this site (gotta write about something fun and inane once in a while) . . . .
Well, no-one actually called me blondophobe. But, last year, when I , I offended a blond male ICE agent. That made me feel bad, because really, I’m not a hair-ist, and blond men (the real kind, NOT the frosted kind like Ryan Seacrest) have never been excluded from my Hot List. .
Actually, I think there are plenty of very attractive blond men. But James Bond was meant to have dark hair. It says so in the Ian Fleming books–that Bond had Black hair.

Daniel Craig Plays Dashing Doctor in “The Invasion”
However, last night, I screened “The Invasion,” a fantastic thriller out Friday (see my full review then; loved it). And Daniel Craig actually looked really good. Very attractive and sexy. It’s just that in the Bond movie, he looked haggard, tired, and, well, effeminate, in that biker shorts swimsuit you see at gay gyms in South Beach.
Not so in “The Invasion,” where Craig was suave and debonaire–the way he should have been–but wasn’t–as Bond. See, I’m not a blondophobe.
Still can’t forgive him, though, for his performance in Abu Spielberg’s propaganda piece, “,” in which he uttered the absurd line, “The only blood I care about is Jewish blood.” Sorry, but that ain’t the Jewish ethos. Far better suited for Mohammedanism.
And there are other blonds I like, like this guy (hate his Clinton politics, though):

The Shark, Greg Norman
But this guy (non-blond, sorry) is my favorite golfer (whom I got to meet at the 2003 Masters, super nice guy):

Fred Couples

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**** UPDATE, 06/05/08: ****
Why are so many big players in Hollywood afraid of me and my website? Why do the filmmakers for “” want to shut me up?
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And I think there’s something to the questions I raised, last week, about .

ICE, The Movie, Producers and Writer/Director Threaten Schlussel
Why else did I get threatening letters from two different lawyers representing both Kramer and the Weinstein Brothers, nearly a week after my piece exposing the Muslim honor killing scene they deleted from their anti-ICE agent movie, “Crossing Over” (which also questioned how Wayne Kramer became a citizen)?
I think it’s also interesting that they’re upset that I posted the Muslim honor-killing scene they removed from their movie, under pressure from Muslims. I won’t remove it from my site. They cite the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which does not affect my rights to fair use. Under the Fair Use Doctrine, long held and established by federal courts, I can quote and/or excerpt a portion of a copyrighted, written work for the purpose of commentary and/or criticism. A court might look at the economic value that has been decreased by my posting of the work, but in this case, the scene was removed from the movie, so it’s hard to make a case that I decreased the value of the work.
Clearly, these Hollywood First Amendment clowns don’t believe in the First Amendment when it comes to their critics.
I’m not worried about either of these threats, and I won’t be silenced by them. But if I were an entrepreneurial ICE supervisor in Los Angeles, I’d ask my agents to immediately start looking at Kramer’s immigration file. I think I hit a nerve.
Whoever replaces is going to have a heck of a press conference if, in fact, he gets to announce:

Today, ICE in cooperation with the Justice Department announces federal immigration fraud charges against Wayne Kramer, writer and director of “Crossing Over,” starring Harrison Ford, Sean Penn, Ray Liotta, and Ashley Judd.

I think that would be fitting, given that Kramer’s movie questions the “difficulties” of the immigration process in America (which is actually rife with gaping holes) and ICE agents who do their job–and took out the only accurate scene in the movie, the Muslim honor-killing scene. So, without further ado, here are the e-mails I received from Hollywood lawyers yesterday, coupled with my responses:

From: Leah Antonio-Ketcham leah@laklaw.com
Date: Aug 14, 2007 3:10 PM
Subject: Wayne Kramer
To : writedebbie@gmail.com
Cc : “Kline, Laine” Laine.Kline@weinsteinco.com, Eric Roth eric.roth@weinsteinco.com
Dear Ms. Schlussel,
I represent Wayne Kramer, the writer and director of the film currently entitled “Crossing Over” (the “Picture”). A copy of your August 9, 2007 blog newsletter entitled (the “Article”) has been forwarded to me for attention.
I have reviewed the Article and have found that it contains several defamatory remarks concerning my client. For example, you have suggested that Mr. Kramer fraudulently obtained his immigration status and therefore fraudulently achieved his American citizenship. You couldn’t be more misinformed. The character in CROSSING OVER is purely fictional and it is outrageous that you make such accusations based on the Picture’s script.
Your remarks about Mr. Kramer are baseless and without merit. You are directed to immediately cease and desist from any further defamatory actions or remarks concerning my client. In the event you fail to do so, Mr. Kramer intends to vigorously pursue all of the rights and remedies he has against you or any other third party. Nothing herein shall be deemed a waiver of any of Mr. Kramer’s rights and remedies at law or in equity, all of which are hereby expressly reserved.
Yours truly,
Leah Antonio-Ketcham, Esq.
Law Office of Leah Antonio-Ketcham, Esq.
520 Broadway
Suite 350
Santa Monica, CA 90401
310-496-4333
Leah@laklaw.com

My Response:

From: Debbie Schlussel writedebbie@gmail.com
Date: Aug 14, 2007 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: Wayne Kramer
To: Leah Antonio-Ketcham leah@laklaw.com
Dear Leah:
I suggest you and your client take reading comprehension lessons. I asked whether he defrauded immigration. I did not state that he did.
Since many characters in this film, including the one that is a Jewish South African (just like your client), defraud immigration–and since he said he went through all the experiences of the characters in his film, I suggest you tell your client to be more careful with what he tells the public, these days. Apparently, I need to remind you of this quote from YOUR client, Mr. Kramer:
“I’ve lived every step of the way in the screenplay.”
Then your client speaks of people trying to get citizenship here: “the people caught up in it and forced to do fraudulent things.”
If he lived every step of the screenplay, it’s a fair conclusion that he did fraudulent things. So, did he, in fact, defraud immigration?
As Shakespeare might say, Thy client doth protest too much through a lawyer. Sounds to me like your client is actually worried that the many ICE agents who read my site might actually investigate your client and discover something. Will they? A Hollywood director who defrauded immigration–assuming your client did not lie when he said he lived every step of the screenplay–would be a big get and the subject of a big press conference for whomever replaces ICE chieftess Julie Myers.
Please provide me with a detailed account of under what circumstances your client arrived in America and how he went about getting any visas, green cards, identifications, and, ultimately, American citizenship. Did he work in America at any Hebrew or Jewish schools? Was there an Israeli woman who was a principal at a Jewish school, who deliberately looked the other way and knowingly allowed him to defraud immigration? If that is not the case, then clearly, your client lied to the press in the interview about his movie. And he’s lying and defrauding the international movie-going public about what goes on in Jewish schools in America, that they don’t, in fact, deliberately defraud ICE and CIS, as you and I and Mr. Kramer all know.
Please also provide me with a list of all rabbis he knows, including any who were in any way involved in your client’s immigration and citizenship quest. If there is no rabbi like the one in the film, then, again, your client lied to the press and lied about the Jewish people for the purpose of making a fraudulent movie.
Ms. Antonio-Ketcham, it is either one way or another. Either his movie is a lie–defaming ICE and CIS agents and adjudicators, Jews, Israelis, and Rabbis, in order to sympathize with Muslim extremist illegal aliens–or your client is a liar about his immigration experience. You cannot have it both ways.
Please also provide me with your client’s complete immigration file and the names of all immigration adjudicators (probably under the now-defunct INS). I will look forward to reviewing it. And I look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
Debbie Schlussel

When they were unable to faze me with that, they sent me this:

From: Kline, Laine Laine.Kline@weinsteinco.com
Date: Aug 14, 2007 5:20 PM
Subject:
To: writedebbie@gmail.com
Dear Ms. Schlussel
My name is Laine Kline, and I am the Senior Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs for The Weinstein Company and am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyrighted works currently posted on your website.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, I am writing to you to request you immediately disable access to the following link, which includes pages from the script for our film “Crossing Over”, which has not been authorized by us to be used on your or any other website at this time:

I hereby confirm that I have a good faith belief that use of these materials is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agents, or the law. The information in this notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
I trust that this matter will be addressed promptly and with the utmost care. Would you please let me know when these have been removed from your site?
This letter is sent without prejudice to The Weinstein Company’s rights or remedies in connection with this matter, all of which are expressly reserved.
Very Truly Yours,
Laine R. Kline
Senior Vice President, Business and Legal Affairs
The Weinstein Company
5700 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 600
Los Angeles, California 90036
tel: +1 (323) 207-3098
facsimile: +1 (323) 954-7028
Email: laine.kline@weinsteinco.com

My Response:

From: Debbie Schlussel writedebbie@gmail.com
Date: Aug 14, 2007 9:09 PM
Subject: Re:
To: “Kline, Laine” Laine.Kline@weinsteinco.com
Dear Laine:
The amount used on my site is a tiny percentage well within the fair use restrictions, as you well know. I look forward to your response. Say hi to the Weinstein Brothers for me. FYI, you are the second lawyer to threaten me with regard to “Crossing Over.” Why are you guys trying so hard to silence me?
Regards,
Debbie

I expect this will be the end of The Weinstein Company and Wayne Kramer trying to harass me into silence. But if it isn’t, and they do sue me, it will be very, very interesting.
And not for them. Everyone will want to know what’s in Wayne Kramer’s immigration file and why the Weinsteins are trying so hard to squelch a Muslim honor-killing scene.
Like I said, I think I hit a nerve.

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Today’s Washington Times story about Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) employees accepting bribes from Muslim extremists in exchange for visas and other documents, while an outrage, should not be a surprise to anyone. Certainly not to reades of this site. (The article also said that ICE agents were helping to smuggle items in diplomatic pouches from China into the U.S.)
I’ve detailed background on this problem on this site. To wit:
* The Justice Department does not do much to prosecute CIS and other immigration officials who accept bribes in exchange for helping illegals and other malefactor non-citizens.

I , a Customs and Border Protection port Director in the San Diego area and Detroit Metro Airport. She took thousands in bribes to allow drugs and human cargo to be smuggled into the U.S. She stood to do–and should have done–36 years in prison. Instead, she got probation. She did not even have to return the cash, hot tub, or work on a Mercedes–all of which she took to betray our country . . . her country. And she was never even arrested.
Then, there are two other cases, one of them in Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS). Several CIS sources say that Detroit’s top CIS official, Carol A. Jenifer, was caught taking bribes in exchange for immigration benefits (visas and citizenship). Despite that, she was allowed to remain in the job for at least four years thereafter. She retired in January with a huge party and lots of hoopla. This is how Citizenship and Immigration Services chief Emilio T. Gonzales rewards his top employees for betraying America, when he’s not pre-occupied with .
Over the years, I saw Ms. Jenifer pander to extremist Muslims at a variety of town hall meetings hosted by Islamists with strong ties to the Government of Iran and Hezbollah. She even donned a headscarf. Maybe that garners bigger payments.
Who do you think bribed her? I’ll give you a hint: One of her employees got caught accepting thousands in bribes in exchange for speeding up the citizenship applications for over 100 Lebanese and Yemeni Muslims in the Detroit area. Instead of punishing these Muslims, Federal Judge Avern Cohn, granted them the right to stay here and get citizenship, untouchable by ICE. Those that ICE already deported for the bribery scheme were allowed to return to America and eventually get citizenship.
No-one got punished, except her lowly employee who accepted the bribes. Not Jenifer, not the Muslim “immigration consultant” who paid the bribes. And not the over 100 Muslims who paid her to make the pay-off.
Then, there is Roy Bailey, the former Field Office Director Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Bailey was allegedly caught stealing property of illegal aliens being detained in his facilities prior to deportation. That part is not as disturbing as the fact that he owned a Dodge Viper, other expensive cars, and property that he could not afford on his salary. He lived well beyond his means and was under investigation for taking bribes from illegal alien detainees, presumably to release some of them or not deport them.
Bailey was removed from his position in 2003, and has been receiving full pay ($139,900 per year) and benefits, while he hangs out at home . . . for the last four years. This summer, he was allowed to retire and take full pension benefits. That’s right, he was never prosecuted, and you, the taxpayer, will pay his $100,000-plus annual pension and full healthcare.
ICE agents are livid that they work so hard while he got an extended four-year pre-retirement vacation for apparently breaking the law. You should be livid, too.
There is a race element involved the Caganap, Jenifer, and Bailey cases. All three are Black, and ICE, CIS (before that INS–for whom both worked), and CBP were afraid to take action against them because of their race, inside sources say.
That’s sad, because we know that the majority of Black agents in these agencies–like the majority of White agents–are loyal Americans dedicated to enforcing the law and doing their jobs. Being afraid to properly punish these employees merely because of their race tells us that the Department of Homeland Security (for whom all three worked) views all of its Black employees like those three and is, itself, dominated by a racist pathology.
* There is virtually no investigation by the agencies involved. This is detailed extensively in today’s Washington Times piece.
As I’ve written on this site, Michael Maxwell was the the Director of Security for CIS. He tried to enforce the law and investigate wrongdoing. He raised objections when that was not done and malfeasance was allowed. He was forced to leave the agency and is now “under investigation.” Emilio T. Gonzalez appointed the woman who was in charge of the environment and weather for the Coast Guard to replace him, which has “everything” to do with security. Reportedly, she didn’t last long.
, the Director of the Office of Professional Responsiblity (OPR) at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was in charge of investigating Roy Bailey and did nothing, allowing him to retire. She remains in her job, but–we hear–not for long.

Traci Lembke & Julie Myers: ICE’s Laverne & Shirley Comedy
(Julie Myers Diet Coke by David Lunde)
Lembke, as head of ICE OPR, had jurisdiction over CBP, but she appears to have lost that because she is not getting the job done. No surprise, when she won’t even fully investigate and discipline the ICE employees–like Bailey–in her purview. Some sources inside ICE say that ICE “leadership” is non-plussed at her inability to work together with Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General and CBP Internal Affairs. Apparently, there is a search for a new high-paid, high-ranking position for her to occupy (like a lump of coal) at ICE. By publishing this on my site, I probably (unfortunately) single-handedly saved her job.
Says another high-ranking source in the know (one whom I deeply respect):

I found this article [from today’s Washington Times] interesting for two reasons. USCIS has, like CBP, formed its own internal affairs bureau as an alternative to continuing to use ICE OPR for these services. That’s a continued reflection on the poor quality of service these organizations were getting from ICE OPR (although per the WT article, USCIS isn’t doing all that hot a job on its own, to include not filling the 65 investigator positions it is apparently authorized).
ICE has multiple vacancy announcements out for temporary promotions around the country at the GS-14 and GS-15 levels for 3-year tours of duty at OPR offices. On the one hand that’s a good thing, we argued for years that IA/OPR agents should be GS-14s with managerial experience. Of course, these GS-14s are upgrades which means they won’t have managerial experience, so it’s a bit of a sidestep for part of the reason we wanted the increased grades. But it may be an incentive for good agents in OI to make the move over to OPR to get the increased pay (which counts towards their retirement calculations); OPR continues to have real problems attracting quality agents, particularly given their lousy management at the top.

Like they say, the fish rots from the head down. ICE Chieftess bears the blame for this mess. She pulled every trick in the book to make her grrlpower friend (and ‘s) Lembke the Director of ICE OPR, giving her flexible hours and other cushy conditions no male agent would ever get at the agency.
They can’t–and won’t–even investigate corruption in their own agency. And you expect them to investigate the illegal alien problem?
The motto atop ICE–and CIS: Cast thy dung upon the waters . . . .

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Earlier today, I told you that Hussein Dabaja–who in Windsor, Canada–was (it was Free Pioneer’s scoop). His name kept bothering me because I know about a number of cases involving Dabajas in the Detroit area.
Well, I just realized what it was. Hussein Dabaja–and I believe it’s the same one–is the subject of . The Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission recently filed a case against , alleging that the Judge improperly tried to get a case involving Dabaja assigned to him and taken away from another judge.

Hezbollah’s Hussein Dabaja of Windsor/Detroit
& His Lovely Hezbo-Chick Muslimas
It appears that Judge Hultgren was getting pay-offs to try to get the case and handle it favorably. From my previous entry on this:

The Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission filed a complaint Tuesday against a 19th District Court judge for interfering in a case last year already assigned to another judge in the same court.
According to the complaint, Judge William C. Hultgren met with an acquaintance, Ali Beydoun, in October 2006. Beydoun discussed a debt collection case involving Hussein Dabaja, the cousin of Beydoun’s business partner, Frank Dabaja.
The commission accuses Hultgren of several violations of judicial standards, including conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice.

I noted in that entry that the Dabajas and Beydouns are prominent Hezbollah families from Bint Jbeil, South Lebanon and that Hezbollah’s Middle Eastern values have now taken over a Mid-Western Court.
Looks like Hussein Dabaja–if it’s the same guy, and it appears to be–is an international Hezbollah crook. If he is crossing borders and is in the used car trade, it’s a fair conclusion that the money is likely going to finance Hezbollah. That’s a common Hezbollah money-laundering tactic.

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In the past, I’ve written about filed against 3M (over Scotch Tape), candy companies (over calories in chocolates), and many other ridiculous things. If you are a plaintiff in the class action, you get almost nothing. But greedy law firms get hundreds of thousands–often millions–of dollars from companies that would rather settle than fight these costly battles over nothing.
The latest suit, advertised on Page 2C of today’s USA Today is even more absurd. It beguns thusly:

If You Purchased Bananas From May 1, 1999 to the Present . . .

Now, that’s a lot of people. It definitely includes me and probably most of you readers or your spouses. So, what is the suit about, and what will you get if you join the other plaintiffs agree to the just-announced settlement?

Joe Solo, Tim McGraw (probably not THAT Tim McGraw), Jeannie Staman, and Dennis Coughlin sued Chiquita, Del Monte, and Dole claiming that they conspired to fix banana prices. The case, Solo, et al. v. Chiquita Brands International, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 05-61335-CIV-JORDAN/KLEIN, was filed in federal court in Miami in 2005.
Two years later, if you agree to the settlement, you will get . . . nothing! Instead, the settling banana companies will donate produce and packaged foods worth $2.5 million to Amercia’s Second Harvest Food Bank. Gee, that’s really nice. All those bananas I bought and ate over the last 8 years, and I’m a multi-million dollar donor a la Warren Buffett (yes, I know, he’s a billionaire).
But the law firm in this case (which isn’t listed, but I believe it’s Jordan Klein)? Well, they aren’t quite so charitable as you and I– the banana consumers–are. Are you kidding? They wouldn’t have filed the suit–and found four jerks willing to sue over a few cents extra they paid for bananas in 1999–if they weren’t making considerable coin over it.
In this case, the law firm is getting far less than the usual bounty for filing class action cash cows: “Only” $250,000, plus $75,000 “expenses” (publishing ads to find plaintiffs for their ambulance, er . . . banana chasing).
And guess who will pay for that cool $325,000 the law firm gets? Why, you and me–the banana consumers, again–in the form of higher banana prices.
Oh, but hey, I did learn something interesting from this ad for the banana class action, which is bananas in so many ways:

“Bananas” mean any fruit from any plant of the genus Musa.

Gee, thanks, class-action lawyers. You make the world such a better place. And so very educational, too.