The Undocumented

For John, BLUF:  We have an immigration system, given us by Congress but the Biden Administrationo decided to bypass Federal Rules, and it has been a disaster.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Boston whistleblower warns of migrant crime spillover as Trump’s crackdown looms

Here is the sub-headline:

“The Healey hotels were well known for having sex trafficking, domestic violence,' said Fetherston, 'Now, you've opened it up to all of the cities and towns'

From Fox News, by Reporter Peter Pinedo, 30 August 2025, 9:00 am EDT

Here is the lede plus two:

As Democratic leaders in Massachusetts triple down on resistance against federal intervention to clamp down on crime, a migrant shelter whistleblower is sounding the alarm about an increase in crime in neighborhoods across the state and especially in Boston.

Jon Fetherston, who ran one of the state-funded migrant shelters in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and blew the whistle about rampant crime and sex abuse taking place in the hotel shelter system. He now says that since Democratic Gov. Maura Healey closed down the shelter system, there has been an uptick in domestic violence, sex trafficking, shoplifting and even auto accidents.

"The Healey hotels were well known for having sex trafficking, domestic violence. We've reported cases of rape, unfortunately, in there," Fetherston said. "Now, you've opened it up to all of the cities and towns in Massachusetts."

Mr Fetherston further elaborates:

"Governor Healey wants you to think she just snaps her fingers and closes all of the hotels and then disperses people into the communities that the thousand incidents that were reported back in 2024, and the state has refused to release the data for 2025, she just thinks that those serious instances aren't going to happen in the communities that now she's forced people into."

Yes, in the past, we have had immigrants who have formed criminal gangs.  However, the vast majority have come to peacefully build lives based on freedom and family.  This recent wave of undocumented immigrnts, thank you President Biden, seem to be more on the criminal side than the peaceful side.  This makes it harder for them to be accepted by the rest of us.

In the mean time, Democrts seem to want us to just accept these undocumented immigrants as though they had put in the hard work legal immigrants have.  Thanks to the US Congress, legal immigrants have to follow an ardous path to become legal residents and then citizens.  What lesson do the undocumented draw, aside from the partisan disaster on Capitol Hill?

Hat tip to my Friend Randy Gweleman, who recommends i move down South, "while you still have a chance!!"

Regards  —  Cliff

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Being Safe between Home and School

For John, BLUF:  Young men and women are reacting to confronting criminals on the streets.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Teen Girls Defend Themselves

From @Rightanglenews, by Right Angle News Network, 25 Aug 2025, 9:34 AM.

Here is the Text to accompny the video in the text:

BREAKING - Police have arrested and charged a 14-year-old girl after she was forced to brandish a knife to defend herself and her friend against a migrant who attempted to assault her near St Ann’s Lane in Dundee, Scotland.

It is a sign that the local Government is fialing the Citizens when young teen girls are going around armed to protect themselves from predators.

It is no surprise that Member of Parliament Nigel Fargage's UK Independence Partyparty is getting attention in Great Britian.  Labour and the Conservative Parties should pay attention

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

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End of Bombing in Cambodia

For John, BLUF:  History may be boring, but it is important.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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1973 – Vietnam War: The USAF bombing of Cambodia ends.

From Wikipedia.

Here is the extract:

August 15 – The U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends, officially halting 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia according to the Case–Church Amendment-an act that prohibits military operations in Laos, Cambodia, and North and South Vietnam as a follow-up of the Paris Peace Accords.

This is just a very small note on the last USAF mission into Cambocia.

In August of 1973 I was the Wing Commander's back seater in the F-4E, at Korat RTAFB (Royal Thai Air Force Base).  I had the position because I was an Instructor Pilot and Flight Examiner.  Five years laterr I again worked for Colonel Robert Crouch, although several layers down in the NATO Air Headquarters in Naples, Italy (AIRSOUTH).

It was public knowledge that our efforts in support of the Cambodian Military was coming to an end.  The US Congress had voted to quit.  I decided that there would be press present and I further decided that I would not wish to be interviewed.  I didn't expect I would have nice things to say.

So, I took leave and flew back to be with my family in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.  Sitting in our Florida Room I watch Colonel Crouch on TV News, nding the last official flight, taxing into his parking spot and deplaning, alonog with Major Paul Schwimm, who was his back seater for the day.  That was my war [termination] protest.

In researching this blog post I came across a New York Times article from 16 August 1973, "No Champagne or Cheers as Last Plane Comes In From Cambodia;" which said the last to land from Cambodia was Captain Lonnie 0. Ratley, an A-7 Pilot.  I knew Lon Rstley, from Ramstein Air Base, in Germany.  He was a Suadron Commander in the 86th Tactical Fighter Wing.

Retired in Lowell, MA, every week I run into Refugees from Cambodia, or their children.  My State Rep is a Cambodian Refugee.  I know a couple of City Councillors, including our Vice Mayor, who are Cambodian Refugees.  Sometimes I apologize for our failure in our support of the Cambodian Army, which led to the Cambodian Genocide.

UPDATED.

Regards  —  Cliff

Whom to Trust?

For John, BLUF:  Question everything.  Tear and compare.  Trust few, unless they have proven themselves worthy of trust.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Meet the Leakers!  Russiagate Was More Incestuous Than You Could Believe

From PJ Media, by Columnist Stephen Green, 13 August 2025, 11:20 AM.

Here is the lede plus four:

Many years ago, Bill Whittle gave me the sharpest definition you might ever read for the proper role of journalism in a healthy republic:  "They're the antibodies of the body politic." But we do not live in a healthy republic — and journalists too often are part of the cancer we're trying to eliminate.

Case in point:  So-called journalists who, instead of investigating Russiagate claims, performed as marionettes for the Obama-era intelligence community, determined to rig and then undo a presidential election.

And now we have at least two names.

I'll get to those in just a moment, but first, this important reminder.

At the center of the Obama White House’s fabricated Russia collusion narrative is Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) — currently under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland for mortgage fraud.

The two are Reorter Ellen Nakashima, of The Washington Post, and Reporter Michael Schmidt, of The New York Times.

Then there is this:

John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy reported late on Tuesday that "Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman admitted to [FBI] agents in interviews he routinely communicated on behalf of [then-FBI director James] Comey, his longtime friend, with Times reporter Michael Schmidt, whose work was among the newspaper's 2018 Pulitzer-winning stories on Russian election interference."

Pulitzer-winning fake news — good grief.

The sad part of this, for me, is that a Pulitzer Prize was awarded and likely won't be revoked.  Just as Reporter Walter Duranty's Pulizer for what turned out to be the Holodomor, was never revoked.

I am counting on the Press to aim for the target and to come close.  For them to be a partisan hack is not only very disappointing, but is bad for our Republic.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Let's Not Be Brazil

For John, BLUF:  Ms Tulsi Gabbard has uncovered corrupt action by a orevious Administratio.  We need ro takeaction, to send a signal, while avoiding actions where former presidents or recent Candidates are pursued in a way that appears political  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Gabbard Refers Barack Obama for Criminal Investigation Over Russiagate Scandal

From PJ Media, by Columnist Matt Margolis, 23 JULY 2025, at 3:22 PM.

Here is the lede plus three:

Barack Obama has long pretended that he had no hand in the Russia collusion hoax, but that narrative is crumbling fast. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has just declassified a trove of explosive documents that reveal the Obama administration’s direct role in fabricating the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) — the cornerstone of the bogus claim that Donald Trump was a Russian asset.

One key piece of evidence is a 2020 House Intelligence Committee report that flatly states that there was no Russian cyber interference connected ato Trump’s win. Despite that, Obama demanded a rushed intelligence assessment in the final weeks of 2016, deliberately designed to push the false claim that Vladimir Putin helped install Trump. The goal? To sabotage the incoming president before he was even sworn in.

According to the documents, Obama and his top advisers — working hand in glove with Hillary Clinton’s campaign and their loyal media allies — staged a coordinated, calculated effort to weaponize U.S. intelligence for political warfare. What began as a smear campaign has now turned into something much bigger.

On Wednesday, Gabbard confirmed during a White House press briefing that her office has officially referred Obama to the Department of Justice for criminal investigation over his leading role in the conspiracy.

I like and respect DNI Tulsi Gabbard.  Her actions to reveal criminal actions during the RussiaGate activities is fundamental to restoring order to our politics.  That saud, I think Attorney Geenerral Pam Bonfi should use some discretion in who is prosecuted.  In particular, we should avoid legal action against presidents andmajor contenders.♠ 

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro< is an example of a high ranking politician being harrassed by the opposition in office.  We should avoid that king of thing strongly.  It could destroy our Republic.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  In the election of 1920, Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist Party presidential candidate, polled nearly a million votes without ever hitting the campaign trail.&  Candidate Debs was in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, serving a 10-year sentence for sedition. It was a not a bum rap. Debs had defiantly disobeyed a law he deemed unjust, (Under President Wilson's Sedition Act of 1918.