Calderon gets another border cop

This story will not have a happy ending as the Department of Justice is picking up cold cases and targeting border patrol agents on their reports and the accuracy of their reporting. It appears to be a oxymoron from my point of view as the recent illegal activities of the ATF regarding the willingness to sell guns to the Mexican cartel and the allowance of these guns to kill American cops on the border or our cities has gone as a sanctioned event until a whistleblower revealed the corruption of those lying and hiding the facts of that case from the American citizens. To the best of my knowledge, these officials lied and deceived our citizens for purpose of not revealing their poor judgment and tactical mistakes in the war against the Mexican cartel who are buying guns in the USA. What gets this story twisted is they [U.S. officials] love the "lack of candor" charge, but the government’s top managers at Department of Homeland Security and the DOJ have been lying for years and continue to get away with it under the current administrative level of tolerances as they continue to push the blame of all this political whitewash down to the officers who work the trenches and give their blood sweat and tears to get the job done.

Today I read in a publication called The Hispanic Speaking News that “In Maine on Tuesday, a helicopter pilot with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency was arrested on charges of lying to federal agents in regards to an incident that occurred in the Rio Grande, and resulted in the death of Mexican man in 2005. the pilot, James Peters in now facing four counts of lying to federal agents who were investigating the death of Carlos Delgadillo Martinez, 22, who drowned in 2005 after Peters allegedly purposefully flew his helicopter too close to the victim. Federal prosecutors say Border Patrol agents working near one of the international bridges in Laredo saw a helicopter hovering low over two Mexican men on an inner tube in the Rio Grande on December 14th, 2005. According to federal records, radio transmissions revealed that the helicopter pilot told a Border Patrol agent that he was about to attempt to make the men “go back.” The helicopter’s rotor wash caused the inner tube the men were holding onto to flip over. At least one of the men lost their grip. Delgadillo Martinez’s body was found in the river on Christmas Day, 11 days later.”

Whatever happened to crossing the border is at your own risk and if for some reason the trip is too dangerous you assume all responsibility of your poor decision making on yourself.... or is there a double standards for illegal immigrants. It would appear that there is - One for citizens, one for Mexican Aliens. This madness if fed by the US government politically correct approach to all of Mexico’s complaints about border abuses by border agents that has netted numerous agents in a politically entwined web that has no purpose other than pleasing the Mexican government while demoralizing our border agents.


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http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas-de-noticias/details/cbp-helicopter-pilot-arrested-in-immigrant-death-case/4906/

America without fences taints the fruit on the tree

The first question that pops into my mind was the one asked by so many about amnesty and the President of the United States wanting to legalize millions of illegal immigrants and give them citizenship in the most wonderful country in the world. The answer would seem obvious as the answer would be to deny all that came here illegally amnesty and deport all those who entered our country illegally. These people have already broken our laws as an indicator of their moral values and disregard for the American traditions of life and the pursuit of happiness as American citizens, here legally and not smuggled or transverses during the darkness of night across our borders and open spaces to avoid detection and capture by the law authorities o the broken spirited border patrol who have been under fire by its own administration for doing a job so well that in infringes on the government’s wishes to open up the borders in a most covert manner and allow as many illegals to enter without resistance.

The second question that comes to mind is what we do with all those 12 million or so illegal aliens that we have currently living inside our country and sponging off the social system that is going bankrupt because of the poor economy and the high unemployment rate. The most logical answer would be to enforce and uphold the immigration laws already on the books and deport them through an avenue that can track their identity and prevent repeat offenders from settling down thinking they made it safe and are now home free. According to the laws, these people need to be arrested when identified and returned to the custody of ICE and detained until they complete their processing and then returned to the border where they can arrange going back the same way they arranged coming in. Regardless, that is not America’s problem once they are back across the borders where they came in from.

Pondering the third question we must surely be mystified why the Obama administration is working so hard against the efforts of the border patrol and their associates in keeping the border secure and prevent anymore of the social systemic breakdown that has occurred within every law enforcement agency that aggressively and effectively enforce these immigration laws through the 287g laws on the book and why this administration is so hell bent on leather to make the cops the bad guys and the illegal aliens the good guys. Our moral values regarding this matter have been twisted into a new and unacceptable direction and must be changed in 2012. Cops are the heroes and the criminal aliens are the bad guys. Now before someone cries foul and calls me a racist, I am agreeable that if the person follows our laws to become a citizen and take the test and oath for their allegiance to our country, they are more than welcome to stay and remain free under the protection of the constitution that was founded by our fathers back in the colonial days but who drafted constitutional amendments to ensure that liberty and freedoms were protected as it stipulated that no man can become a president of the United States unless he or she was born here and an American citizen. Surely they must have thought that for the good of all, a good leader must be American to lead America in its destiny as the greatest and most compassionate country in the world.

Finally, people who follow the laws and live within the spirit of the laws are most welcome to join the melting pot of millions of foreign born immigrants who went through the established procedures to become citizens or permanent legal residents. Character must be sound and background checks must reveal no prior history of law breaking or immoral conduct. Self admitted turpitude disqualifies those who want to come here and enjoy the good life. The logic is simple, if a man steals he is willing to lie, and once one laws have been broken it becomes easier to break more and more laws creating a domino effect that is harmful to our nation and its moral fiber to remain America the beautiful.

All leaders are not equal

Taking the time to look inside the minds of those who seek absolute power, I found out one thing for sure and that is the fact that power corrupts but it corrupts only those who think they deserve it. Having the inability to look inside their heads since it was never one of my own ambitions, I looked it up to see how the psyche of such a person works and found it to be very interesting to say the least. Anecdotally, at least, the connection between power and hypocrisy looks obvious

Experiencing a culture of entitlement in today’s business place, there has always been the discussion between power by position or authority and those who gain power by influence. Needless to say those not in a position of power can’t compete with those who have the position thus it is often an unbalanced equation that results in the shifting of power to those who have the authority to do the things they desire. Studies have revealed that those who are powerful and who have been primed to believe they are entitled to their power readily engage in acts of moral hypocrisy.

People with power think that they are justified to break rules not only because they can get away with it but also because they feel at some intuitive level that they are entitled to take what they want. This sense of entitlement is crucial to understanding why people misbehave in high office. In addition, there arrives a sense which some powerful people seem to have that different rules apply to them and genuinely believe it. Regardless of what tests you apply to those in power, the results will show that the powerful do indeed behave hypocritically and relative to a higher their position, the less harsh they are on themselves thus suggesting that they condemn the transgressions of others more than they do their own.

This entitlement to power also applies to the entitled to abuse as it appears to be the way powerful people conduct themselves. It is speculation that corruption and hypocrisy are the price that societies pay for being led by alpha type persons although the opposite solution, although not acceptable in most cases, is to be led by wimps. We clearly do not want to be led by wimps as an alternative to the alpha's. There would seem to be another possibility though. If we selected leaders literally at random from a large pool of qualified people and gave them a fixed, non repeatable, term of power, that they were expected to serve as a public duty, then perhaps we would get the best of both worlds. Another option would be to invite being led by either corrupt "alpha males/females" or wimps, the alternative are not being led by anyone at all. Lead yourself, and leave everyone else to do the same. Follow your own moral compass and do the best job you can.

Age and the Job market

Record high jobless rates and new college graduates hitting the job market makes finding a job so much harder for those who have been laid off or can illustrate a “long and varied list of work experience.” Struggling through both time and financial constraints to earn a degree and acquiring “extensive training” in areas of specialties that normally would have guaranteed them a foot in the door, it has become harder to find a job at 50 plus. Seeking to compete with the younger, the techno knowledge of the internet and the more vibrant group coming out of college with no experience, their chances are slim of being hired.

However, there may be a hidden fact that impacts such action as many well qualified people over 50 and looking for a job have engaged in what we call a “self-fulfilling prophecy” or a self demise of their own confidence and ability to compete with others and maintaining the edge to compete. Thinking too much about your age can hamper your chances thus showing even the slightest about how your age applies to the job you seek your own words or actions may put the nail in the coffin to terminate your opportunities to be successful. Employers will never reveal the reason for the not-hire decision as they are most aware of federal discrimination laws and its impact on their business if suspected. However, it may be the applicant who directs themselves to such a decision based on their own concerns about age and the ability to compete in a particular market or job assignment.

Self-promoting of your experience and willingness to pass on that experience to others in an organization can in fact provide an effective management tool if recognized. Many employers have mentor programs that can benefit from such an approach and if used wisely, it could in fact be a growth factor for successful career development for others who may lack the experience or are novice but identified as being potential great employees with mentoring and training.

Talking to a career expert and proper preparation for future interviews should be considered if you are lacking the self-confidence to implement this approach on your own. Selling your own experience and wisdom can in fact be recognized as you forget about age discrimination and allow your creativity and energy to remain positive and pass this on to the future. Finally, as for age discrimination in the hiring process I am sure it does exist or happen but as career specialties will tell you “if you walk in the door believing that's what's going to happen, that's what's going to happen and it's not because of age. You are going to be discriminated against because you are not presenting yourself as the professional they are looking to hire."

Moral Compass = moral intellect = individuality

We all know that at times in our lives there are events occurring that cross our own moral values thus creating conflicts that have to be resolved most of the time, under pressure especially in the workplace. Working with individuals who are driven and influential in your personal and professional life creates situations or needs to resolve or find resolutions on both ends that require a certain degree of delicacy to fix the problem. Learning how to do the right thing is not easy and requires strength and internal fortitude to stay the course according to your own moral compass. Walking a fine line between being a compliant worker or a disgruntled worker, you try to meet your organization or your family in the middle balancing a tightrope that resembles walking on the top of a picket fence. Your first reaction is to react with anger and become verbally aggressive towards the source of the issue often resulting in shooting the messenger rather than the person sending the message. Executives walking a fence are rarely acceptable in leadership positions thus your own conscious must alert you to what direction to take as you expand your own personal and professional endeavors. Explaining his moral reasoning he writes “

So how do we do the right thing under pressure and strategies do we use to avoid conflicts? The answer is strength in emotional intellect [think smart] and moral intellect [think right] as you make your decision based on these two principles that are not the same in any way. Emotional intellect can be defined as doing something good or bad or ethical or unethical in many cases. Moral intellect is skills that are driven to do good and is a very important element of leadership. It is the cause and course we take that is worthwhile and gives us the necessary fundamentals for life’ challenges.

Being a good leader you must believe in holding on to a set of well developed principles and consistently use those principles to guide you through your daily events. This same set should be the same set that all organizations adhere to throughout time but as we already know, there are many who have drifted away from the “right” thing to do and created their own fundamental beliefs that are embedded to suit their own needs rather that the “good” for others. Embracing the universal principles throughout the business world and your personal life includes taking and recognizing the elements of personal responsibility, reciprocity of your acts or good faith, and the ability to empathize with others. Basically this resembles those qualities taught in most religions and preached throughout the world as sound guidance for positive behaviors that self respect, taking responsibility for your own acts and caring for others.

Antonio Rossini’s Theory of Ethics explains moral powers are “two kinds of moral powers: those moral in themselves and those moral by participation. The former direct the practical judgment and the latter regulate affections and external acts. External moral acts presuppose the power of acting externally, this becomes a moral power when moved by moral affectivity. This power in turn becomes moral when moved by practical esteem or practical judgment which in itself is a moral power. The others are powers by participation. When speaking on the “Conscience” Rosmini wrote “If I make a practical judgment based on non moral motives I sin, and certain affections and immoral actions follow. I am conscious of sinning, and experience interior bitterness. I am conscious of not assenting to direct knowledge and of violating it. I judge myself, declaring my practical judgment evil and immoral. This judgment is moral conscience. It is a speculative judgment on the morality of my practical judgment and its consequences. We say we must follow our conscience. That is, we must appreciate and judge things for what they are worth, love them proportionately, and then act according to this well ordered love. Conscience precedes practical judgment, indicating how it should be made. When it has been made conscience approves or disapproves of it.”

Explaining his definition of moral reasoning he writes “Practical Reason: Is the capacity of voluntary reflection to form decisive esteem of the object and consequently of the action which follows. As we saw above, decisive love is bound up with this esteem and the external action then follows. The practical reason is the power which controls the practical judgment. This power vacillates in its preference between moral and eudaimonological [concerned with human happiness. It is the power to apply being as a rule for judging our own subjective good] motives presented to it. After it has considered them, it makes the practical judgment or esteem which activates the affection and then issues in an external act. It is the judge between the utility and probity of actions. It judges what is better to do here and now and is based on moral and eudaimonological reasons. For example, 'Do I feed myself and leave my brother or sister to starve, or do I deprive myself and give them what they need?' Both ethical and eudaimonological reason are included in practical reason. These are theoretical and speculative and reduced to practice by practical reason. A comparison is made between moral and eudaimonological motives, their importance is weighed and an operative judgment is made. Affection and action follow immediately. This is the practical judgment as opposed to the speculative judgment and it is controlled by the practical reason.”


Walking the talk means to be in position with your self-identified moral compass [that includes your basic moral principles, personal values, and beliefs]; your goals and your behavior including those inward or unspoken thoughts, emotions and external actions. Living in alignment means being consistent with personal goals and is not something that is accidental in any means. Moral intellect is an outgrowth of “living in alignment,” the interconnection of an individual’s moral compass (basic moral principles, personal values, and beliefs); their goals; and their behavior, including inward thoughts, emotions, and external actions. “Living in alignment means an individual’s behavior is consistent with their goals and that their goals are consistent with their moral compass. Living in alignment is not accidental. It requires individual strength in understanding and building on each component while maintaining alignment among all components, especially during pressure points in our work or personal life.”

Just like your vehicle’s GPS serves as your navigational tool while you are on the road, your moral compass keeps you on track in your life’s journey, analogous to the GPS used in your vehicle. However, just like the GPS system it may lead you into the right direction but there are many individual and sometimes complicated decisions that have to be made to stay on course. Giving you the aide of general directions gives you confidence in your destination and goals but to achieve the best out of life you must be creative and use your personal strengths and potential to arrive at your destiny with a safe and sound attitude or purpose.

The bottom line is if you use your moral compass with good awareness of its power as it would be hard to conduct your business or personal life with ignorance and deniability of what is right or wrong in the matters at hand. A leader must recognize this advantage gives them the ability to achieve lasting personal and organization performance and dependability others seek to acquire through sound mentorship and leadership methods.

Border Patrol Agent Jesus Diaz is in Solitary confinement, another form of punishment

Border Patrol Agent Jesus Diaz is looking at getting multiple years inside a prison for “pulling handcuffs” during arrest in Texas. Meanwhile, he’s been in jail since the verdict nearly two months ago. He’s in solitary confinement 23 hours per day for his safety. So far, the judge has refused to allow bond while Diaz awaits sentencing. Solitary confinement in itself is punishment and extreme living conditions inside a prison or jail.

Solitary confinement in itself is punishment and extreme living conditions inside a prison or jail. Prisons designed for solitary confinement are instant isolation units merely by their design. Many times, when ex-lawmen are convicted of a crime they are placed inside one of these concrete boxes to do their time in protective segregation units inclusive of maximum custody in many states or federal prisons.

None, even the best of the best, choose to remain inside one of these boxes any longer than they have to because of the steady pandemonium that exists within cell to cell and inmate to inmate.

Many have electricity but often, if the inmate is problematic in sorts, the breaker is turned off for a designated amount of time undocumented anywhere. The same applies to delayed letter deliveries, torn books, food thrown on the floor as a message that the inmate “needs to clean up his act” and other SID methods of satisfying the boundaries of control and who is actually in control of the box. Never getting a hot meal or balanced diet, they live like that forever until someone questions why this inmate is not getting a regular meal.

This builds animosity between staff and inmates and often results in frequent force being used during those periods where the inmate is escorted out of his or her cell to go to the recreation pen.

Personal property is limited especially if designed a suicide problem or behavioral troublemaker. SID can be used by staff, employees or even other inmates. SID is destructive and responsible for homicides, suicides, serious assaults on both staff and inmates and is rarely identified as the cause or catalyst for such disruptive conduct. Any inquiries by family members may prompt further SID treatment and create additional stress between the administration and the inmate

Don't Walk with the Devil

Don’t walk with the devil for he will steal you soul

Don’t talk to the devil for he will change your role

For you cannot run or hide from his evil ways

And often the persons you will admire and embrace

So let me give you some sound advice

Don’t walk with the devil for you cannot afford his listed price

You can find the devil almost anywhere

Don’t look into his red red eyes with his evil stare

Don’t fall for his tricks, his promises that he cares

For his evilness will shake your hand and cause you pain

And for certain his wicked ways will cause you to drain

Don’t walk with the devil for you will see

What he has done to you and me

Run as fast as you and don’t look back

For his influence is worst that an ounce of crack

Don’t run with the devil don’t even dare

For your heart will falter and no longer care

About those you love and those you have chosen

Don’t let him trick you into a heart that becomes frozen

Don’t run with the devil for he won’t set you free

He’ll keep you around to spread the seed

Don’t run with the devil for he will make you sow

Every evil seed that is planted on devil’s row

Don’t smile at the devil for he will make you cry

As he makes you forget those scriptures written from the sky

Those parables and verses you know so well

Will lead you on his well paved road to a place called hell

Don’t run with the devil, it’s plain to see

His evil was meant to destroy you and me

Don’t look at the devil with his mesmerizing eyes

And never forget he speak his words with nothing but lies

Don’t run with the devil with his trickery voice

As long as you are free you have a choice

To decide to walk hand in hand with the angels of God

And deny the devil what he so desperately sought

So walk with God and his angels true

And keep His word so close to you

For as long as you speak of our Lord and son

Your work for God has just begun

And when the devil comes up to you

Turn your head and ignore his taboo