July 5, 2010  This news story carries many subtexts. It reveals that once again, as he has done for years, president Correa lies a lot about his counternarcotics activities. Correa lies a lot to tell the world he fights drugs. He does not. AS usual, and as we see in this report, the US DEA- on overwhelming and accurate evidence, gives Correa a courtesy call to inform that he might want to shut down he narco sub factory with 50 workers operating with Correa’s approval for years. Of course Correa, like Chavez and Morales, will not welcome the US DEA to actually operate inside Ecuador so that Correa’s team can better lie about his own complicity with the drug lords. And of course when Correa’s crack team arrives in Sucumbios province, Correa’s own FARC zone, the drug perps have scattered because Correa’s team always tips off the cartels. Why the US DEA refuses to state these facts, which we all know, is entirely bizarre to us. They think that this is what the US Department of State demands: their politesse and from-a-distance complicity to never, ever report the facts about Correa. Were the US DEA to actually evaluate how many times they have helped Correa with cartel crime intel and how many times Correa has abused this intel to assist and build the narco empire of Ecuador, the US DEA might be embarrassed that they are being gamed by Correa. Maybe they would start issuing fact based analysis on Ecuador. Oh wait, we forgot, what Tom Shannon started to assist the narco unity of the ALBA nations and the Obama team of Soros activists has expanded, not one scrap of verifiable evidence about Ecuador is on the table still yet today. This is a direct avoidance of fact based reporting and reveals a stunning compliance with dishonesty which Mrs. Clinton calls helping a friend. We call it aiding and abetting crime which is still yet a crime in the USA, contrary to the incompetent Mrs Clinton and her criminal chum Correa.

And just as this multi million dollar sub was set to launch, it is now in the hands of even more liars to tell us that no one knows anything about it. And if you think that Correa’s symbolic arrest of a 24 year old schmuck for this multi billion dollar diesel powered sub factory is relevant, you are stupid. It is not nice to game US laws and game the US DEA and the US military….not nice at all. That is not diplomacy and is quite disgusting. Politics do not exist to aid and abet criminals, no matter what Soros’s own Dan Restrepo tells you from inside Obama’s White House on how wonderful these crime cartels really are for they are not. Ecuador’s Correa needs to stop supporting global criminals for his own self enrichment.  Correa calls this his human right- to run humans and drugs. We call it criminal.

Drug-smuggling submarine seized in Ecuador jungle is quantum leap for traffickers, DEA says
Published on July 4th, 2010              AP

BOGOTA - A 100-foot (33-meter), twin-screw diesel submarine seized at a jungle shipyard in Ecuador marks a quantum, if anticipated, leap in drug-smuggling evasion technology, the top U.S. counter-drug official for the region said Sunday.

"It is the first fully functional, completely submersible submarine for transoceanic voyages that we have ever found," Jay Bergman, Andean regional director for the Drug Enforcement Administration, told The Associated Press.

Until now, all the smuggling vessels seized on the high seas or at clandestine shipyards built to haul multi-ton loads of cocaine under the Pacific's surface were semi-submersibles. They typically unload off Central America and Mexico drugs destined for the United States.

Equipped with air intake and engine exhaust pipes, none of those craft were capable of fully submerging, which would evade radar and heat-seeking technology of drug-interdiction aircraft.

The camouflage-painted vessel seized by Ecuadorean police Friday appears by contrast to be capable of long-range underwater operation — a development U.S. analysts have long expected, Bergman said.

Acting on a DEA tip, the Ecuadoreans found it at a sophisticated shipyard on a jungle estuary several miles from the Colombian border, he said. It had yet to make a voyage.

Built of fiberglass and other composites, it has a conning tower, periscope and air conditioning system and measures about 9 feet (2.7 metres) high from the deck plates to the ceiling, the DEA said. Ecuadorean police told the DEA the vessel has the capacity for about 10 metric tons of cargo, a crew of five or six people and the ability to fully submerge, Bergman said.

Compared to semi-submersibles, which cost less than $1 million each to build, "this is in a new maritime drug-trafficking class of its own," Bergman told the AP.

He said U.S. nautical engineers would be taking the submarine apart in the next few days to determine its dynamics.

The head of Ecuador's anti-narcotics police, Maj. Enrique Bautista, refused to offer details of the sub when contacted by the AP in Quito.

He said its seizure was "in preliminary stages of investigation." But he confirmed a 25-year-old man named Jose Antonio Rincones was arrested at the jungle shipyard, which Bautista said had living quarters for at least 50 people.

Bergman said it is hoped Rincones will shed some light on how long it took to build the submarine and who engineered it. He said authorities are still investigating who financed the sub's manufacture and which trafficking organization intended to use it.

A number of illegal armed groups operate in the area, including the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Authorities say drug trafficking is now the movement's chief source of income.

The commander of Pacific operations for Colombia's navy, Adm. Hernando Will, told the AP on Sunday that Colombia seized 22 semi-submersibles along its coast last year but only one so far this year.

In the cat-and-mouse game that law enforcement has played for three decades with drug traffickers in Colombia — the origin of some 90 per cent of the cocaine sold in the U.S. as well as heroin — the smugglers have continuously adapted to stay one step ahead of their pursuers.

The introduction of transoceanic submarines — given the major investment they represent — amounts to raising the stakes ever higher, Bergman said.

"A lot of thought, a lot of resources, went into this."

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AS for president Rafael Correa’s dishonest scam of taking money to run humans and drugs to the USA- calling this a human right for Open Borders and immigration [which it is not], we at ECrisis note that nothing from Correa’s mouth is honest. Moreover, he holds no facts to back up anything he officially Reports and does. Worse yet, importing FARC agents in to the USA, currently called Ecuadoreans with fake passports, debases the intentions of a normative law and order. The USA has no obligation to warehouse- feed, clothe, shelter and grant immunity to Ecuadoreans any more. Ecuadoreans today in the USA are over-run by their government’s incessant crime ring…..shipping millions in to the USA for money. No Ecuadorean should be welcome in to the USA any more because the state itself is intent on shipping criminals, under the fake guise of a handful of needing-jobs workers. A few escaping Ecuadorean poverty give cover to the majority from Ecuador today- Correa’s fee for service placement of criminals inside the USA.

And because you think that Americans actually want dishonest and manipulating Ecuadoreans everywhere, think again and consider what value any Ecuadorean carries today: what code of ethics, what commitment to liberty, faith and self reliance. You will find, as we sadly have found, that their faith is fake, the work ethic is lazy and the moral fiber is so consumed by their selfishness that almost all Ecuadoreans are unpleasant and unbearably in need of rejection, sad to say. Only you can prevent self manipulation and dishonesty.

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Michelle Malkin

July 2, 2010

Assimilation and the Founding Fathers

They would scarcely understand the language of the immigration lobby.

Obama blames “politics” for the intractable immigration debate. Whose politics? The amnesty mob has taken to ambushing congressional offices this week to scream at lawmakers to choose “reform” (giving a blanket path to citizenship to millions of illegal aliens) or “racism” (their description of any and every legislative measure to stiffen sanctions for and deter the acts of border jumping, visa overstaying, and deportation evading).

Is there no middle ground for all sides to agree that clearing naturalization-application backlogs should take priority over expanding illegal-alien benefits, or that tracking and deporting violent illegal-alien criminals should take precedence over handing out driver’s licenses to illegal aliens, or that streamlining the employee-citizenship-verification process for businesses (E-Verify) and fixing outdated visa-tracking databases should come before indiscriminately expanding temporary-visa and guest-worker programs?

Must every response to even the most modest of immigration enforcement measures be “RAAAAACIST”?

Further, as I’ve noted many times over the years when debating both Democrats and Republicans who fall back on empty phrases to justify putting the amnesty cart before the enforcement horse, we are not a “nation of immigrants.” This is both a factual error and a warm-and-fuzzy non sequitur. Eighty-five percent of the residents currently in the United States were born here. Yes, we are almost all descendants of immigrants. But we are not a “nation of immigrants.” (And the politically correct president certainly wouldn’t argue that American Indians, Native Alaskans, Native Hawaiians, and descendants of black slaves “immigrated” here in any common sense of the word, would he?)

Even if we were a “nation of immigrants,” this would not explain why we should be against sensible immigration control. The Founding Fathers were emphatically insistent on protecting the country against indiscriminate mass immigration. They insisted on assimilation as a precondition, not an afterthought. Historian John Fonte assembled their wisdom, and it bears repeating this Independence Day weekend:

George Washington, in a letter to John Adams, stated that immigrants should be absorbed into American life so that “by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, laws: in a word soon become one people.”

In a 1790 speech to Congress on the naturalization of immigrants, James Madison stated that America should welcome the immigrant who could assimilate, but exclude the immigrant who could not readily “incorporate himself into our society.”

Alexander Hamilton wrote in 1802: “The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education, and family.”

Hamilton further warned that “the United States have already felt the evils of incorporating a large number of foreigners into their national mass; by promoting in different classes different predilections in favor of particular foreign nations, and antipathies against others, it has served very much to divide the community and to distract our councils. It has been often likely to compromise the interests of our own country in favor of another. The permanent effect of such a policy will be, that in times of great public danger there will be always a numerous body of men, of whom there may be just grounds of distrust; the suspicion alone will weaken the strength of the nation, but their force may be actually employed in assisting an invader.”

The survival of the American republic, Hamilton maintained, depends upon “the preservation of a national spirit and a national character.” “To admit foreigners indiscriminately to the rights of citizens the moment they put foot in our country would be nothing less than to admit the Grecian horse into the citadel of our liberty and sovereignty.”

As pro-amnesty extremists moan that “we didn’t cross the borders, the borders crossed us” and illegal-alien marchers haul foreign flags above Old Glory, President Obama pretends that the “common national sentiment” our Founding Fathers embraced still binds us all together. Many of us still have faith in a strong, sovereign America — the unhyphenated, the law-abiding, the gratitude-filled sons and daughters and grandchildren of legal immigrants for whom such distinctions still matter. But it’s no thanks to the assimilation saboteurs who put “one world” over “one nation under God.”

In his immigration speech on Thursday, President Obama heralded America as a “nation of immigrants” defined not by blood or birth, but by “fidelity to the shared values that we all hold so dear.” If only it were so. Left-wing academics and activists spurned assimilation as a common goal long ago. Their fidelity lies with bilingualism (a euphemism for native-language maintenance over English-first instruction), identity politics, ethnic militancy, and a borderless continent.
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The United States of America has enough Cuban-ALBA Chavista-Correaista communists. The quota is full. There are millions now and they need to move on, like locusts to some happy new fertile ground… like Antarctica for starters. But as long as the entire statehood of Ecuador is firmly affixed to Correa’s communist ALBA crime cartel, not one Ecuadorean is without suspicion as a dishonest idiot at best and a known paid actor for evil at worst. Only Ecuadoreans can prevent their own ruination and embargo. Who needs more selfish/ self absorbed, lazy Ecuadoreans who only care for their own manipulative life and their own untruths? Spain sure does not. The USA does not. Unless and until Ecuadoreans carry honest values, they carry no value and present even less value. If you do not want to be repulsive, start acting with sincere character and bring value to your days.

-- Pedro Camargo for ECrisis