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That is an excellent list – if Obama manages to achieve half of it he will have done well. Shame he doesn’t mention North Korea.

Shame he doesn’t list the war crimes committed by Palestine either.

“Pull of from Iraq” – and let genocide commence.

“Israel’s withdrawal to its pre-1967 borders” – yawn.

More of an aside, really, but “open letter to the President” really does sound a bit silly, in fact open letters generally do. Just call it editorial, that’s what it is.

Unless you want to be associated with Grandpa Simpson’s open letter to the President:

Dear Mr. President, there are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. P.S. I am not a crackpot.

Uh Peter, is there anything you want Obama to ask of the Palestinians, or is it just Israel that needs a talking to?

It’s climate “chaos” now is it…now that the warming has stopped?

There are no pre 1967 borders. There are armistice lines of 1949 and there are borders with Egypt and Jordan.

If Barack Obama could install a better social security system in the USA so that people do’nt go broke if they are sick, it would be appreciated by the Americans.

Propose a new UN International Human Rights Convention, enforceable worldwide.

Two points: 1. Against the US Constitution. 2. This would swiftly mutate, and efforts already have mutated into an attempt by the UN (hijacked by the OIC) to prevent any sort of criticism of a certain religion (you know which one we’re talking about).

Recognise and support the International Criminal Court, to bring to justice the perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity

Again, against the US Constitution. In any case, I’ll believe the ICC is worthwhile when it arrests Asmadasadinnerjacket for inciting genocide and Kim-ll-Jung for being a genocidal brutal dictator. The last twenty years have shown us that the only time the perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity are actually brought to justice is when the US Marines roll their sleeves up and get involved.

Instruct the State Department to compile a Global Index of Human Rights, measuring the record and ranking of every country on key human rights issues. Raise abuses of these rights in the UN and with offending states, such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Israel, China, Sudan, Uganda, Iran, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Burma, Afghanistan, Russia, Iraq and Sri Lanka.

Agreed, but remember this is the UN we’re talking about here – a support club of dictators and religious fanatics.

Make US foreign aid conditional on countries achieving significant progress towards upholding human rights.

Certainly agree.

Show the way by ending the US use of detention without trial, torture and extraordinary rendition, and by closing down Guantanamo Bay

Some analysts have estimated thar HALF of the Jihadists already released from Guantanamo have went back to AL-Queda/the Taliban. The simple and moral solution is of course to summarily execute the Jihadists there and then, on the battlefield, as per the rules of the Geneva Convention.

Cease propping up corrupt, pro-western human rights abusers, such as the governments of Uganda and Nigeria.

Agree. Of course, you were opposed to us ceasing to prop uo a corrupt pro-western human-rights abuser (Saddam) in the past.

Use the network and resources of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to train human rights defenders and support human rights organisations, especially in poorer developing countries.

Fully agree.

Press for the worldwide decriminalisation of same-sex acts.

Completely and utterly agree, totally.

Seek the universal abolition of capital punishment, and give a lead by ending the death penalty in the US.

Completely disagree. In a democratic society, with the appropriate judicial safeguards, the death penalty is a reasonable and apt punishment for certain crimes commited by certain criminals.

Withdraw diplomatic, economic and military support from tyrannical regimes like Saudi Arabia that persistently deny freedom to their own people and oppress their own citizens, on grounds such as gender, race, nationality, religion or belief, language, sexual orientation, transgender identity and so on.

Amen!

Pull out from Iraq and renounce the US policy of selective and unilateral military intervention to overthrow foreign dictatorships, like the Saddam Hussein regime, in favour of a policy supporting democratic and humanitarian civil society organisations within those countries, in order to empower the victims of oppression to liberate themselves.

No. Keep in Iraq until the job is done. War doesn’t end just because one side gives up and goes home.

There are many dictatorships worldwide where the victims of oppression are unable to liberate themselves, and where the US Marines are the only chance to overthrow the dictators. Iraq was a case in point – the Saddam regime had such a tight grip upon society that there was *no* chance of any interal overthrow in the next 30 years, not until Saddam, Usay and Qusay had kicked the bucket.

Prioritise peace with justice in the Middle East, to secure a permanent negotiated settlement to the Israel-Palestine conflict, including Israel’s withdrawal to its pre-1967 borders and the creation of a viable, independent, democratic, secular Palestinian state, where everyone enjoys full and equal human rights.

There already is a Palestinian state – its called Jordan. The only way for peace in the middle east is either to forcibly de-Islamise the entire region, or inflict enough trauma on the Arab psychology that it finally is serious about peace.

Devise a new, more just international economic framework, where the common good, environmental protection and global equity take priority over private privilege, corporate greed and national self-interest.

If you are talking about ending protectionism and bringing down trade barriers, fully agreed. It is the left and the NGO sector (the jobs of this latter constituency are dependent upon keeping poor people poor) who want to entrench protectionism and self-interest.

A fairer, sustainable, regulated and accountable international economic system is our best hope to safeguard jobs, homes, savings, public services, welfare provision, the environment and to bridge the chasm of inequality between the global north and south.

Only one economic system actually *works* and can deliver this: capitalism allied with proper property rights and free trade.

Take action to save the lives of the 1.5 billion people on our planet who are malnourished and without safe, clean drinking water. What is the point of securing human rights if millions of people are left to die of starvation and disease?

Agreed. And you will find that there is a pretty high correlation between malnourished, dewatered people and socialist corrupt dictatorial governments who do not respect property rights.

Lobby for a UN Convention Against War and Poverty, whereby the nations of the world, including the US, agree to cut their annual military expenditure by 10% and to divert the $100,000 million saved into a ‘Marshall Plan 2’ for the total eradication of hunger, malnutrition, dirty drinking water, poor sanitation and preventable illnesses by the year 2025.

Far more effective, and of more immediate use would be a UN Convention against Dictatorship and Socialism. Ever noticed that advanced capitalist economies that respect property rights don’t have problems with hunger, malnutrition, dirty drinking water, poor sanitation and preventable illnesses?

Act now to halt the single greatest threat to the future of humanity: climate chaos.

Agreed. Ignore most renewables which don’t actually work and don’t provide enough reliable energy (solar and geothermal are the exception) and build enough nuclear fission power stations to tide us over until fusion can be developed properly. Most of all, ignore the luddite puritan eco-fascists who would want to drag us back into a new dark green age (I’m looking at you, Moonbat you fascist fuckwit).

Although I admire Peter Tatchell’s work, and his willingness to speak out against the government on issues of community cohesion, this list seems rather naive, considering issues in vacuum.

“Instruct the State Department to compile a Global Index of Human Rights, measuring the record and ranking of every country on key human rights issues. Raise abuses of these rights in the UN and with offending states, such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Israel, China, Sudan, Uganda, Iran, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Burma, Afghanistan, Russia, Iraq and Sri Lanka.”

Why, when other organisations would be better placed and equipped to do this at less cost? What particular good would it achieve against the likely cost of further antagonising other countries, promoting the view of American self-righteousness and damaging relations with a whole host of countries?

“Cease propping up corrupt, pro-western human rights abusers, such as the governments of Uganda and Nigeria….”

But what if in so doing you were to plunge these countries into civil war, cede them over to even worse human rights abusers, and open the way for anti-western governments to replace them?

And in a similar vein, you call for the US to “Withdraw diplomatic, economic and military support from tyrannical regimes like Saudi Arabia that persistently deny freedom to their own people and oppress their own citizens, on grounds such as gender, race, nationality, religion or belief, language, sexual orientation, transgender identity and so on.”

But if we remove such support from Saudi Arabia, we run the significant risk of letting it fall into the hands of al-Qa’eda. They would make the current régime look like a bunch of muesli-eating Guardian-readers in comparison. Not only that, but the severing of all ties with Saudi Arabia would further embolden the Iranian régime to expand its powergrab in the Middle East.

Even your support for human rights is not absolute: you say “What is the point of securing human rights if millions of people are left to die of starvation and disease?” In terms of the strategic realities a weakened, unpopular and humiliated US has to face, it is unlikely that it would be able to accommodate all the political, diplomatic, economic and military fallout generated by such policies.

“in order to empower the victims of oppression to liberate themselves.”

And what better way of empowering them is there than to remove the source of their oppression? The Saddamist regime was not the GDR: the chances of the Iraqis marching quietly to the equivalent of Normannenstrasse and storming the offices of the Mukhabarat were slim to none.

Interest defined in terms of power is necessary as the basis of all foreign policy. You can’t promote liberty unless you first have influence to do so. This calls for the abandonment of the latter for the sake of the former, and will result in neither.

“Lobby for a UN Convention Against War and Poverty, whereby the nations of the world, including the US, agree to cut their annual military expenditure by 10%”

What if that means that in absolute terms the democracies we wish to defend have to cut their budgets less than the evil nasty human rights abusers you condemned earlier? What if that then encourages them to act in an aggressive manner towards their liberal-democratic neighbours? Reducing military spending can actually start wars (like the Falklands).

“Seek the universal abolition of capital punishment, and give a lead by ending the death penalty in the US.”

This is not something that the Office of the President can achieve – it is under legislative control. The most he can do is pardon those on Death Row, and refuse to sign their death warrants. Imposing that as a blanket policy would lead to a constitutional crisis.

What will be done to compensate all the people made unemployed by such a recession in the military sector and associated industries?

Wasn’t Christmas nearly a month ago?

I don’t see any call for the creation of a free, sovereign Cornwall in that shopping list.

Sell out!

Does Barack Obama read Harry’s Place then?

Yes.

What will be done to compensate all the people made unemployed by such a recession in the military sector and associated industries?

Why, jobs will be magically created for them all!

Least if you’re McBean or Greens or any other economic illiterate, who thinks jobs can just be summoned out of thin air by state fiat.

Seek the universal abolition of capital punishment, and give a lead by ending the death penalty in the US.

Democratic presidents don’t do that now; in fact they are unlikely to even state they are against the death penalty. The last Democratic presidential candidate who stated his opposition to the death penalty (a standard position in Europe) was Michael Dukakis. Since then all Democratic presidential nominees have worn their support for the death penalty like a lapel pin, and have not remotely retreated from it.

And I thought I’d read some grievous acts of Obama-olatry before…but this takes the biscuit. Is this what professional diversitycrat and brown-tongue Trevor Phillips meant, when he said Britain has a ‘new attitude to race’?

We are all Husayn and every land is Kerbala!!

Shame he doesn’t list the war crimes committed by Palestine either.

Well, he is a prominent member of an antisemitic party. That’s why he screeches this moronic nonsense about Israel’s pre-1967 ‘borders’.

I am sure Obama will read with great attention this self-important letter from this ridiculous little man.

Dear President Obama,

Huge numbers voted Democrat last year because they wanted their country back. The name of that country is America. She is the country that long led the world in protecting high-wage, high-skilled, high-status jobs both against the exportation of that labour to un-unionised, child-exploiting sweatshops, and against the importation of those sweatshops themselves. And she is the country that could until very recently say that she led the world in that she “did not seek for monsters to destroy”.

For she is the country of big municipal government, of strong unions whose every red cent in political donations buys something specific, of very high levels of co-operative membership, of housing co-operatives even for the upper middle classes, of small farmers who own their own land, and of the pioneering of Keynesianism in practice.

At the same time, those same voters made it clear at exactly the same polls that (in Florida and California) they wanted back the country where marriage only ever means one man and one woman, that (in Colorado) they wanted back the country that does not permit legal discrimination against working-class white men, and (in Missouri and Ohio) that they wanted to preserve the country where gambling is not deregulated. The name of that country is America, too.

Your betrayal of those voters where appointments are concerned has already cost the Democrats a Senate seat in Georgia, and thus a filibuster-proof Senate majority.

Midterm meltdown awaits unless both you and the Congressional Democrats wake up to these realities.

Since then all Democratic presidential nominees have worn their support for the death penalty like a lapel pin, and have not remotely retreated from it.

Not particularly true of Obama, but it’s simply not an important issue for presidential candidates because it’s not something the president controls. Executions are almost all done by the states and the president couldn’t stop them if he wanted to short of commuting/pardoning everyone on death row.

Democrats for president tend to state their support for the death penalty to make themselves appear tougher, not usually as an actual policy position.

And Israel’s breach of Human Rights is …

its existence? A country where Mr Tatchell is protected by the law from bigotry and persecution – silly me the place is run by them pesky joos which of course is of itself a breach of the world’s Human Rights – just ask the UNHRC!!!

Mostly what Morgoth said.

Although I’d also ask the President to demand Pakistan hand over all its nukes before the ‘country’ falls apart and those warheads become ‘misplaced’.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/magazine/11pakistan-t.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

“secular Palestinian state”

In Israel too…

“if he wanted to short of commuting/pardoning everyone on death row.”

This is nonsense, you yourself claimed he has the constitutional power to do so, it is up to him to do uphold human rights in his own country.

Nearly Oxfordonian:- ” self-important……ridiculous little man.”

Physician, heal thyself.

“….. do all of these, raise the dead and walk on water.”

UNSCR 242 does not call for Israeli withdrawal to the 1949 armistice lines, rather it implicitly acknowledges that Israel needs secure and recognized borders.

The negotiations between Israel and her adversaries is based on the implementation of UNSCR 242 and 338. So could someone please explain to me why today it is assumed that Israel needs to withdraw to the “1967 border” (which does not actually exist).

Secondly, just to push the idea further, if it is a precondition of negotiations that Israel withdraw to the “49 Green line, what is left to negotiate?

I should have also pointed out that when it comes to the Death Penalty, it is very rarely a federal matter. It is usually a matter for the state level.

“Although I’d also ask the President to demand Pakistan hand over all its nukes before the ‘country’ falls apart and those warheads become ‘misplaced’.”

That is extremely unlikely. The West will more likely have to lend military support to stabilising the country lest the nukes fall into enemy hands. That would contradict other points on the manifesto though.

Pls fix the world.
KTHXBY

Indeed not Nobby, and with yourself I am in excellent company.
I do hugely enjoy it when you call *other* peple self important and pompous though, and when you imply your own “comments” are “worthwhile”. Fair cheers my day it does. More, more!

Hey, this Open Letter is merely an attempt – however limited and deficient – to set out a few policies that might add up to progressive agenda for the Obama administration.

Plenty of them are not realistic or likely to be actioned in the short term. But if we don’t push for them, they will never happen. If we do push for them, they might happen, eventually.

I have seen many “hopeless” causes that I have supported go on to triumph in my lifetime – the end of capital punishment and the granting of Aboriginal land rights in my homeland of Australia, US withdrawal / defeat in Vietnam, independence for East Timor, the end of apartheid in South Africa, freedom for the Birmingham Six, equal pay for women (at least formally if not always in practice) and LGBT equality (almost) in the UK.

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde:

“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Barack Obama is rapidly turning into one of those Single Transferable Speech politicians.

But his call for a new Declaration of Independence is most interesting.

Americans should declare independence from Israel, independence from Arab oil and Russian gas, independence from Gulf funding of their politicians, independence from any pointless military role in Europe, independence from China, independence from Austrian economics, independence from the products of un-unionised and child-exploiting sweatshops, independence from the importation of those sweatshops themselves, independence from cultural colonisation by means of the erosion of the status of the English language, and independence from the seeking of monsters to destroy.

Just for a start.

POTUS has no jurisdiction over state sentences — they can only pardon/commute federal sentences.

Obama supported the death penalty for aggravated child rape even when there was no murder.

Peter Tatchell

I wish Obama had more balls over the death penalty issue; but one of the first things he did was endorse it, even though, previously, he had expressed concerns about it.

Dear Barack:

There’s a cute dog that sleeps in the carpet outside my house. It’s cold and he has nowhere to go. I think his owner probably died or went to a home for old people and now the dog has nowhere to live.

I think he would be just the ideal pet for your daughters. I would take him myself, but my two cats would make his life miserable (cats are evil creatures).

He is a bit old, but well, take it on the bright side, he will not spoil the furniture as puppies do. He’s not big, so the girls can carry him on their arms, bath him themselves and it will not cost much to feed them.

I know you’re being flooded my demands of dogs to adopt, but look at it this way, the american people being a generous people, someone else will eventually adopt the other candidates to first dog.

I am sure that as an attentive reader of all my comments here on Harry’s Place you will not be indifferent. The administrator will provide you my email.

send my regards to Michelle and a kiss to the girls
Sarah

ps: Sorry that I can’t go for the inauguration party. You know I love parties, but I can’t stand the cold, but thanks for the invitation anyway.

US withdrawal / defeat in Vietnam

Cheer often for tyrannical dictatorships do you?

Is this another one of your brain farts, Peter, or are you being serious in actually wanting a tyrannical dictatorship to win? May I remind you about the vast numbers of LGBT people that suffered horribly until Communism?

Joe: The negotiations between Israel and her adversaries is based on the implementation of UNSCR 242 and 338. So could someone please explain to me why today it is assumed that Israel needs to withdraw to the “1967 border” (which does not actually exist).

I assume that the main part of UNSC 242 that people believe makes this demand is the call for “Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict” – ie the 1967 war. (I do realise that controversy then came to focus on whether ‘territories’ meant ‘all territories’ or just some, and the discrepancy between the French and English texts of the resolution, but there you have it.)

Dear President Obama;

Ignore Peter Tatchell. I remind you that you are president of the United States and not of the world. Your obligation is to fix your own country’s problems, not everyone else’s.

Much of this thread puts me in mind of the reaction to the death penalty pronounced against Saddam Hussein? Blair had already betrayed our opposition to torture, and in principle to indefinite detention without charge on the mere say-so of a Police Constable. So why not to capital punishment as well?

Dear Barack:

Your inauguration speech was the greatest oration in human history! You are awesome!

Reading Peter Tatchell is a bit like listening to a GWB speech; one sincerely hopes it will go well, because his heart is generally in the right place. But instead of – in the GWB case – flinching in anticipation of some new or repeated malapropism – one twitches in anticipation of a rather more egregious ‘trooferesque’ type moment.

Press for the worldwide decriminalisation of same-sex acts.

I’m sorry to have to inform you that pro-homosexuality is a rather marginal pastime of a handful of small, demographically collapsing western societies. A pastime that’s set to slide into history as a result of the suicidal ideology which it embodies.

I can’t imagine why any country looking at the mess that gay-rights, anti-family countries have found themselves in would find anything to emulate.

But good luck with your cultural imperialism all the same.

Oh I quite like most – not all but most – of Morgoth’s suggestions, but I suspect I’m slightly to the left of him on economics, I’d have said something about regulated markets, minimizing the size of government yet having mixed economies and harnessing the power of markets.

I would also suggest that the UN is quite possibly a lost cause; rather can it and start again with a forum of democracies with certain good governance standards.

I would also suggest that given that US social indicators are quite noticeably on the middling to low side for a developed economy; that these are specifically targeted by the US administration

not all but most

Which ones do you disagree with?

This personal attack on me was left in situ:

Physician, heal thyself

My reply was censored.

So much for the hypocrites running this site under the mendacious slogan “the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear”. They really mean: “what we think you should or shouldn’t be allowed to say”.

could someone please explain to me why today it is assumed that Israel needs to withdraw to the “1967 border”

Because a lot of people don’t like Joos.

Americans should declare independence from Israel

They can’t. The tentacles of the Mossad reach everywhere, through little chips implanted in the brain of every single American.

Hey, this Open Letter is merely an attempt – however limited and deficient – to set out a few policies that might add up to progressive agenda for the Obama administration

How about combatting the official antisemitism in your own party, before you try to run the USA?

I do realise that controversy then came to focus on whether ‘territories’ meant ‘all territories’ or just some, and the discrepancy between the French and English texts of the resolution, but there you have it

There is no ‘controversy’, only Israel-hating lies. The English text is the definitive one, and was quite deliberate – read what Carrington has to say on this.
Of course, the requirement for security comes before any need for Israel to move an inch. Israel-haters ignore this deliberately.

“”"”But good luck with your cultural imperialism all the same.”"”"

Great, now pressing for the decriminalization of same-sex acts is cultural imperialism…

then I need to make new visitors cards, saying

Sarah Franco
Cultural Imperialist

Maybe I can start a trend…

hugh, in what universe are you living??? and your paranoid insinuation of a link between homosexuality and low birth rates???

the problem of homosexuals being denied the right to become parents by being refused the right to adoption and the right to medically assisted procreation is something that should concern all of us but I suspect that’s not your perspective.

the fallacy of ‘let’s focus on priorities’ is a classic for non-assumed homophobes. In the west, homophobes are victims of cultural imperialism. fortunatelly there are places on earth, where culture and tradition are respected, like Iran where gays are regularly condemned to death by hunging…

cultural imperialism is really an awful thing!!!

I wish Obama had more balls over the death penalty issue

Oh you Brits are amusing, imagining you have something to teach the world about criminal justice.

These people given standard remission will be out of jail in less than five years. Put your own house in order before lecturing others.

CONGRATULATIONS PRESIDENT OBAMA. MAY THE GOOD LORD GUIDE YOU IN THIS ENORMOUS JOB YOU HAVE JUST EMBARKED UPON

Oh you Brits are amusing, imagining you have something to teach the world about criminal justice.

That’s a bit sweeping, innit? This Brit has no such illusions. Don’t tar us all with the same brush, just because some pompous Brits (some of them expats and with no clue about today’s Britain anyway) want to lecture America on criminal justice. Not all of us are prats, although some are: every nation has to content with those.
But I will tell you this: after our disastrous experience with one snake-oil salesman, it’s sad to see the USA elect another one.

Ooooooo those rude Canadians not genuflecting to the messiah:

Obama’s Terrorist Pal Bill Ayers Turned Away at Canadian Border

The Toronto Star reported on the incident:

“I don’t know why I was turned back,” Ayers said in an interview this morning from Chicago. “I got off the plane like everyone else and I was asked to come over to the other side. The border guards reviewed some stuff and said I wasn’t going to be allowed into Canada. To me it seems quite bureaucratic and not at all interesting … If it were me I would have let me in. I couldn’t possibly be a threat to Canada.”

That’s a bit sweeping, innit? This Brit has no such illusions.

I’ll make an exception for you, N.O.

Striking though that there’s not been a peep of complaint about these sentences from the Lefties here, who normally wax indignant about the injustices of this world. What about justice for this poor girl whose life has been ruined? A most curious and telling silence. It’s as if they imagine that if there was real justice in this world, fewer people would go to jail, for shorter sentences. In fact, a lot more people would go to jail, and more of them would die there. That would be justice.

Can’t argue with that, SK.
And thanks.

I thought Peter was King of the Posers till the Mugabe incident and for the first time saw the role in the individual in persuasion. I developed a grudging respect for him!
If Peter wants to go around humming Abba Songs to himself and I do not just mean “Dancing Queen” that alright by me.

ref: “To paraphrase Oscar Wilde:
“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.”

I’ll rework my own paraphrasing of Oscar Wilde a week ago here on this blog: Only somebody with a heart of stone could read through Mr. Tatchell’s wish list for without nearly choking from laughter.

Mr. Tatchell is a world-class yefei nefesh, as those nasty and sardonic Zioneocons might say:

“the term is yefei nefesh – yefei from yafe – beautiful, and nefesh – like
the arabic nafas, soul, spirit.

nasty and sardonic Zioneocons

You don’t like Jews very much, do you?

like the arabic nafas

It’s hilarious when Arabic speakers start claiming that words in the Old Testament are really Arabic ones.

Tatchell is still king of the posers. The Mugabe incident got him column-inches, which is what he lives for. There is less chance of that in combatting the antisemitism in his own party, so I don’t think we’ll see his courage on that front any time soon.

About which version of Resolution 242, the English or the French is the legally binding one; I believe should be decided by the language of the country who won at Trafalger and Waterloo!

Rule, English Speakers, Rule!

HOW TO CORRECT OUR BORDER PROBLEM WITH MEXICO
AND
HOW TO CREATE OVER 200,000 MORE JOBS FOR OUR AMERICAN WORKERS—————-

1. Immediately close off our border with Mexico by constructing a double fence, 12 feet high, at the front and the back of a mile wide ENTERPRISE ZONE, for the establishment of new business manufacturing facilities. The Zone would run the entire length of our border with Mexico. This would accomplish an immediate shut off of any illegal traffic and establish thousands of jobs for those people who truly want to work legally in the USA.
2. Allow present companies in the USA to establish an additional manufacturing branch only, as we would not want companies to move their main facilities from any other area of the USA, thus closing down jobs in that area. Remember, this is to be a tax incentive ENTERPRISE ZONE, established solely for the purpose of creating a multitude of starting salary jobs, so that the Hispanic people of Mexico can get the chance to earn a decent wage and learn a skill.
3. Start-up companies will be encouraged to establish within the ZONE.
4. All GUEST workers must speak ENGLISH. NO EXCEPTIONS!
5. If a guest worker wishes to work in our fields picking crops, then he/she must have a farmer sponsor vouch that he has work for them and will be responsible for their well being & conduct while in the farmer’s employ.
6. The U.S. will maintain security at all of the present Border Roads that run thru the ZONE, allowing only those people with either the proper papers of VISA and/or GUEST WORKER PERMITS to enter and exit on a daily basis.

John Donnellan
jondonn@comcast.net
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