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I don’t want to live scared: Jersey’s John Doe

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The John Does who last January saw a video showing the Fort Dix Six firing automatic weapons took Rosie O’Donnell’s advice. When they could not find the number to the Department of Homeland Security, they Googled it. The New York Post had the story yesterday:

The tape, Sierer said, “starts with a bunch of guys driving down an icy, snowy road in a pickup truck.” “After a while, they get out, and that’s when you can see where they are,” he said. “There’s woods all around, and then a clearing in the middle. They grab their guns out of the back of the truck, and they walk into the open field.” When they began shooting and yelling, Sierer “was definitely afraid.”
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Unable to find a phone-book listing, they Googled Homeland Security, found a number and called. Federal agents arrived within an hour, Sierer said. “One of the guys says, ‘Make me a copy of that tape, will ya?’ ” he recalled. The agents also took the work-order form, which included a cellphone number, for the men who had dropped off the tape.
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Since word of Circuit City’s role in the bust came out, employees have rallied around Sierer and the two clerks, and complained that they got no reward – not even a day off – for their heroism. Sierer said that doesn’t matter. “I don’t want to live scared,” he said. “And it felt good to be able to do something like that for my country.”

Earlier reports said the John Does at the Circuit City in Mount Laurel, NJ, initially worried some would perceive them to be bigots for then thinking as they did. It light of 9/11, that strikes me as amazing. Yet Nate Sierer’s greater fear, back then, was the men in the video might be terrorists planning an attack so he reported what he saw. That took courage.

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Scrap this “comprehensive” immigration bill: Fred Thompson

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Congress is likely to approve the latest comprehensive immigration reform measure before the public even gets a chance to see it. Like all previous amnesty legislation, Congress is putting the cart ahead while the horse remains missing; illegal immigrants will get rewarded for breaking the law before our borders are secured. Former Senator Fred Thompson wrote this yesterday and offered an alternative:

No matter how much lipstick Washington tries to slap onto this legislative pig, it’s not going to win any beauty contests. In fact, given Congress’s track record, the bill will probably get a lot uglier — at least from the public’s point of view. And agreeing to policies before actually seeing what the policies are is a heck of a way to do business.

We should scrap this “comprehensive” immigration bill and the whole debate until the government can show the American people that we have secured the borders — or at least made great headway. That would give proponents of the bill a chance to explain why putting illegals in a more favorable position than those who play by the rules is not really amnesty.

Syndicated talk-radio host Mark Levin interviewed Senator Thompson last night. He said we do not have to choose between amnesty and the impossible task of rounding up and deporting 12 million illegal immigrants:

You can have attrition through enforcement. If we enforce the law with regard to employers — we have an eligibility verification system out there that’s voluntary and ought to be mandatory. If we made arrests. If we reduced the inducements, especially [what] some states give, some of which is against federal law and is not being enforced. If we talk a little straighter to Mexico and the fact their national policy is dependent upon the exportation of their own citizens… There’s plenty of things we can do to take care of this problem if we would do it.

You can hear the entire interview here.