Janet Contreras Vs. Ed Pastor : The Border War

First of all: It is a war. There is a reason Janet Contreras lists Securing The Border first on her campaign website as she works to unseat nine-term incumbent Ed "Progressive" Pastor....just as there is a reason Pastor is on record as favoring amnesty and wide open borders. To clarify:

Ed has stated simply that he believes illegal immigrants are a net boon to our nation--okay, that's slightly paraphrased; his precise wording was "net benefit". Janet approaches every issue with much deeper thought than that, but one sentence from her website discussion of border issues does underscore the problem rather well:

"Every sad story of illegal immigrants being deported can be matched with a story of illegal immigrants committing violent felonies, like murder and rape."

You tell 'em, Janet. Hopefully, lots of readers will visit your site (click on the link above) to check out the full text of what you have to say on this topic so crucial to not only Arizona but to the entire country. As Sarah Palin clearly understood you had the "right stuff" when she endorsed your candidacy. In the meantime, a personal insight....

My wife and I live in Cochise County near Palominas, Arizona, just one mile from the Mexican border. In addition to plenty of northbound foot traffic hoofing it through the eastern edge of our property, mostly in the dead of night, we get occasional "special treats" in the form of air traffic.

Last year, this was for some months a weekly happening, regular as (literally) clockwork. Somewehere between 9:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. each Wednesday evening, well after dark but well before midnight, we'd hear a light plane--a really light plane, most certainly a single engine Piper or Cessna or whatever's the rage these days--pass overhead. Not quite overhead, actually, not buzzing our camp trailer, but no more than 100 yards to the east. We figured the pilot was using my 40 watt lamp, shining through the uncurtained window as I sat typing articles like this one, as a reliable landmark.

Drugs and/or a cartel boss headed to a meeting.

The following night (Thursday) at around the same time, the airborne smuggler would return, southbound, on precisely the same flight track.

Guns and/or a cartel boss returning from a meeting.

We've detected the night flyer's passage less frequently since moving into the Border Fort I built single handed...but did notice him headed north last Sunday evening at his "standard" time. These walls are thick, and it's much easier to ignore stray sounds from outside. Additionally, my office in the Fort is in the northwest corner...and that same 40 watt lamp gives a northbounder no help at all, especially with the room-darkening blinds closed.

It is a war, people...and the voters in Arizona CD4 are waking up fast, just like the voters across the rest of America the Beautiful. It is a war, and Ed Pastor is--knowingly or not--on the wrong side. Janet Contreras is the George Washington of Phoenix...while Ed Pastor has been cast, knowingly or not, in the role of Benedict Arnold.

The most dangerous part of any assault, from the recipient's viewpoint, is before realization dawns that an attack is even taking place. General George Armstrong Custer was known to the Lakota and Cheyenne peoples as Son of the Morning Star because of his preference for bringing his Seventh U.S. Cavalry down on sleeping Indian villages just at first light--in other words, just when his victims were letting their guard down. When they began to relax, believing they'd made it through one more dark, dangerous night. When he and his Long Knives had all day to finish their butchering before night fell once again.

We in America today--and Arizona CD4 is no exception--are facing that most dangerous hour. From Obama, Pelosi, and Reid to Giffords, Grijalva, and Pastor, the Progressives are vigorously swinging their Long Knives as they seek to disembowel our Constitution, eliminate our southern border entirely, and herd us en masse onto the Welfare Reservation.

Fortunately, I believe our nation is going to avoid that worst case scenario...by, among other things, electing true Constitutional conservatives all across this land on November 2, among them Janet Contreras from Arizona CD4.

Contreras 2010 and Remember in November.