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April 19, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 19, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away and this is your undocumented anchorman filling in no supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Rush is at a funeral today but he will return live on Monday to take you through another week of excellence in broadcasting.
In the meantime, the show has been outsourced to Cheap Foreign Labor.
We're coming to you live from Ice Station EIB. in northern New Hampshire, a stone's throw from the Canadian border.
So if you're a Chechen Jihadist on the lamb, fleeing the country, do swing by and say hello.
You can't miss us.
There's a big sign on the highway saying last Rush guest host before the border.
Jokar Sarnaev is still at large.
He became a United States citizen on September 11th, 2012, the 11th anniversary of 9-11.
Young Jokar Sarnayev stood up and took his oath of citizenship and swore allegiance to the United States Constitution and renounced all foreign princes and potentates.
That was a little over six months before he was seen on video leaving the bomb that killed his eight-year-old fellow resident of the Boston area, Martin Richard, and blew off the leg of that little boy's sister and put his mother in serious life-threatening brain surgery.
This young man has lived in the United States apparently since he was six years old.
He is an American citizen.
His brother, Tamilan Tsarnayev, was out of the country for six months last year, which ought to cause you, if he's not yet a citizen, ought to have caused him some immigration difficulties.
He flew out from JFK to Sheretmievo Airport in Russia, which is one of the big airports that serves Moscow.
And it's not clear what he was doing in Russia for six months.
But he was out of the country, which should have caused him some difficulties if he was still a green card holder or merely a green card holder or merely on some kind of other less permanent visa.
The fact that he took a six-month absence from the country in one calendar year should actually have caused him a bit of trouble, but apparently it didn't.
So he was still around to participate in Monday's bombing.
He is now dead and various members of his family are speaking out.
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That's not right.
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It is the end of the week, and you know what that means.
Live from Ice Station EIB, it's open live Friday!
Yes, as you know, from Monday to Thursday, the show is under the ruthless control of a highly trained broadcast specialist who will not permit any of you dilettantes and flyby knights to think that you can just call in and determine the content of America's most listened to radio show.
But it is Friday, the end of the week, and we do not have a highly trained broadcast specialist here today.
We only have me.
So you can call up and you can talk about anything you want at all.
Anything.
Just go for it.
Go for it.
We've been talking about these guys came from what was formerly the Soviet Socialist Republic of Chechen Ingushitya.
It was Chechnya and Ingushita.
And the Ingush people decided they didn't want to be mixed up with the Chechens and they formed their own breakaway republic of Ingushitia.
And we've been talking a lot about Chechens and we haven't heard from the English community.
So if there's any English guys out there you want to call up and have a word with me, talk about what's happening in Ingushitia or whatever, do feel free.
1-800-282-2882 because it's Open Line Friday.
And that means that you can talk about any single thing you want to talk about.
The comprehensive immigration reform.
That boat has sailed.
That train has hit the buffers.
We were following the breaking news in less time than it takes to follow a Massachusetts steakout, the Comprehension Immigration Reform Hearings in the United States that came and went.
I think they, what were they, 25 minutes, 20 minutes?
I don't know.
But they came and went this morning.
So that's it.
So we're going to have a big vote on the thing, and then it'll be one of the, in keeping with American tradition, they'll pass a 4,000-page bill and then say that as soon as we pass it, we can find out what's in it.
But what is happening in Massachusetts is highly relevant to what is happening in the immigration debate.
It's not funny, this stuff.
There are real people who are dead, not just the victims on Monday, like the eight-year-old boy I was talking about, but an MIT police officer last night was killed.
An MBTA, that's one of the transportation cops in Boston, was wounded this morning in a chase.
The guy took off in a car, poignantly enough, with a coexist sticker on it.
As I said earlier, if you were writing a movie and you put that scene in, people would think it was just a bit, wee bit too pat, a wee bit too cute.
But the jihadist, the jihadist who, in pursuit of his ideological goals, is willing to blow an eight-year-old boy sky high, an eight-year-old boy who looks like all the other eight-year-old boys that he has gone to school with.
This guy, by the way, somebody called up and did the old Celebrate Diversity gag in the last couple of hours.
This kid has lived the diversity life.
The school these boys went to, Boston Ringe and Latin, is one of the most diverse schools in America.
They boast about it.
There are children from 83 different countries present in this student body at this American high school in Boston.
83 countries.
83 countries.
That's like two-fifths of all the countries.
There's about what is it, 200 countries in the world.
So it's just under half, about two-fifths of all the countries in the world are represented in this one spectacularly diverse public high school in Boston, where these two boys went.
One boy got a scholarship.
The other guy was on the New England boxing team.
America had been good to them.
America had been good to them.
They'd grown up celebrating diversity.
They'd been taught about the importance of celebrating diversity, of celebrating not only their background, but all the diverse backgrounds of the people from the other 82 countries at the school they went to.
And in the end, in the end, on Patriots Day, on the morning of the Boston Marathon, they sat there making their homemade bombs, walked out on the streets of Boston, and left them to kill their supposed fellow Americans.
That was their priority.
Whatever that coexists bumper sticker means they beg to differ.
So you can live in your delusions.
You can live.
It would be nice if it was all coexist.
If there really was no difference, if you could stick that Christian cross and the Star of David and the Islamic Crescent and the GLBT bathroom logo or whatever it is, if you could stick it all there together and be one happy family.
And we have, as I said earlier, you have the nice sheeshi gay couple who like to go antiquing up in New Hampshire on the weekend, living at 23 Elm Street.
And next door is the big bearded Imam with the four child brides, and they're all coexisting and chit-chatting over the fence.
And the Iman with the big beard is saying to the nice gay guy, I do like the way you trimmed your beard.
I may try that myself.
Mine's getting a bit out of control.
If it was all like that, if it was like the fiction of the coexist bumper sticker, wouldn't it be a perfect world?
But unfortunately, coexist is just a bumper sticker, and the guy taking it on the lamb in the car with the coexist bumper sticker is the reality.
And that's what half the fatuous commentary that we have read since Monday on this issue has refused to acknowledge.
When that guy at Salon is saying that Rush was talking about the urge to make this some white guy, oh, let it be a tea party guy.
It's got to be a tea party guy.
I just want it to be someone who it'd be fabulous if you went to a Sarah Balin fundraiser and there's a photo of them together.
Oh, wouldn't it be marvelous, marvelous?
There is something, the urge, the urge to make it that, to make it that, is absolutely the psychosis of that.
I mean, say what you like.
If you think it's crazy for these Chechen guys to go around killing a bunch of people because they're so invested in the idea of shaking off Mother Russia and having their own Chechen Republic that they're prepared to look those school kids in the Beslan massacre in the eye and put a bullet between those eyes.
If you think that's crazy, that's all well and good.
That's true.
That is crazy.
That's sick.
That's depraved.
But there is something not quite psychologically healthy about your first reaction to the news of an atrocity like this being that you hope it's all some white male guy, a lone male hunter, perhaps someone who's some kind of Second Amendment nut.
Because what that means is that there are real enemies out there.
There are real enemies.
There are people out there who think the United States is the great Satan and they want to destroy it.
And they're real and they really exist.
And there's something very bizarre about the wish to turn.
James Taranto, the Wall Street Journal, was talking about this this morning.
The wish to turn, instantly turn your political opponents, your fellow citizens, into enemies of the state, deranged nut killers.
The wish to, the urge, the urge, the palpable urge to see them like that is as psychologically unhealthy as any of the bulldogas that these Chechen loons happen to believe when they've got all their Mardist ideology cooking up.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush on the EIB network.
We'll take more of your calls in just a moment.
Mark Stein, in for us on the EIB network, Open Line Friday.
Let's go to Mike in Sierra Vista.
Mike, great to have you with us on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hey, Mark.
Hello, Mark.
Can you hear me?
Yes, I can.
Loud and clear.
I'm a retired immigration inspector and author of 10 Years on the Line, My War on the Border.
There are three reasons why this bombing occurred.
Clinton Gore Project 500,000 in the late 90s.
The 9-11 Commission Lies to the Commission by Doris Meisner, INS Commissioner, and the airline industry.
And let me explain.
In late 90s, they knew it was going to be a close election in 2000, so Clinton put Gore in charge of the Project 500,000 with the intent of naturalizing that many immigrants for U.S. citizenship, assuming that they would be voting Democratic.
Gore ordered the INS to tell the adjudicators whose job is to determine their eligibility to ignore the criminal background checks, to not bother with the English certification, doing the interview in English, and a few other things.
This resulted in several thousand criminal aliens receiving U.S. citizenship, which the FBI, in a rare occurrence, revoked their citizenships and deported them, or tried to deport them if they could find them.
During the 9-11 Commission report, Commission hearings, I was working as an immigration inspector and watched Doris Meisner, I think she was the former head of INS, lie to the 9-11 Commission when she said, immigration inspectors have always had the authority to deny entry to people applying for entry into the United States.
That was a blatant lie.
Our job description dictated that we do so, but management from the top down told us every day to quit bothering looking for proof that entry applicants actually lived and worked in a foreign country.
That was a daily battle for us.
But there was a commission staffer who followed her that hit the nail on the head.
And she said, nothing is going to change until INS changes from a service-minded agency to an enforcement-minded agency.
And it still hasn't.
Now, the airline industry's culpability in this is their influence over the State Department and the INS.
And the phrase was common to airport inspectors, don't F with the 7As.
The 7As are the students, foreign student visas.
Right, right.
And you're right, Mike, that in theory, that inspectors have power to actually deny immigration applications.
Right.
But the organization takes a view.
And something similar, not as blatant as Operation 500,000.
I heard from a U.S. immigration officer just before the election was happening that people were being fast-tracked through.
And you know, you'd know better than I do, that when you apply for certain of these certain kinds of visas or for citizenship, there's a fee of $200, $300, $400, whatever it is.
It's not a lot of money for the citizenship of a new nation.
It can be waived in circumstances of extreme hardship.
I was told that the Immigration Service had ordered inspectors to waive it as a matter of routine in order to fast-track people straight, put them on the express check-in for U.S. citizenship.
And you have to ask, if a guy can't even afford $200 for the application form, is he really likely to be, even if he's not a terrorist, is he likely to be of much economic benefit to the country he's emigrating to?
Right.
Well, you're absolutely spot on with the chain immigration analysis.
And there's a man who does a very pictorial, very graphic display of immigration in the United States using gumballs and tubes.
And the United States cannot absorb that many immigrants every year and maintain their security.
Are you still there?
Yes, I'm still there.
Yeah, I think you're absolutely right.
The problem at the airports is inspectors are browbeaten to pass people through.
But I want to remind America that it was an immigration inspector who stuck to his guns in Miami that prevented the 19th or 20th terrorists from entering.
And it was an immigration inspector in Canada who, after chasing down a suspicious applicant for entry, was threatened with suspension and being fired for the guy that wanted to bomb the LA International Airport.
That's a guy called Ramsey Youssef, who was a guy on welfare in Montreal and was stopped at the British Columbia-Washington State border crossing purely on the judgment call, as you say, of a very alert immigration officer.
He was en route to blow up LAX.
That's that guy, Ramsey Youssef, Mike.
Problem is because if they deny him entry, the airline industry has to pay for the seat going back, and that would cost them money.
And that's why 9-11 occurred, in my opinion.
Yeah, there's reasons why 9-11 occurred.
I mean, there's things that they want to bring back, like the fast-track entry for Saudi students.
But there's also the fact that as a matter of policy, the United States does not scrutinize a lot of those visas.
So if you look at the paperwork that those guys filled in, they put things like, it said address in the United States, and they'd put Hotel America, or they'd put Holiday In America, you know, because that's what you're told.
Name a mid-market chain.
Don't say you're going to be saying at the Plaza Hotel on Central Park, because that's the sort of thing they can track.
Just name a mid-market chain.
Just put Holiday in America.
So these 9-11 guys, they put Holiday In America, they put Hotel America, and they got in the country.
And when that paperwork was obtained through Freedom of Information requests, that paperwork should have led to the firing and to the complete overhaul of the U.S. immigration bureaucracy.
But it didn't.
Nobody paid a price.
None of the bureaucrats, none of the guys from the Money No Object Fancy Pants acronyms from the INS and all the others who failed that day.
Nobody was fired.
Nobody, not a single person was fired for that.
And that's the point.
That's the systems they're going to put in place after comprehensive immigration reform.
Address in the United States, holiday in America.
That's comprehensive immigration reform.
Yes, great to be with you.
Rush is at a funeral and memorial service today.
He will return live on Monday for full-strength all-American excellence in broadcasting starting at 12 noon Eastern on Monday.
We have been following developments in Boston.
The mother of these two suspects.
By the way, before we get too invested into the fact that they're just lone wolves like all the other card-carrying members of the amalgamated union of lone wolves, the authorities are at pains to emphasize that these two guys are not the only two guys they're looking for.
These two brothers are not the end of the story in this bombing.
And we should remember that actually pulling off a successful bombing is actually quite difficult to do.
There's a reason why a lot of mass murderers use guns, because guns are professionally manufactured and are reliable.
Bombs are homemade and not unreliable.
When you have the lone wacko who guns down a bunch of people, he's the one who's unstable.
When you have bombs killing a bunch of people, it's the bomb that's unstable.
It's actually quite difficult to pull off, as these guys did, two bombings.
And so the idea that they're just a couple of amateurs, I don't think stands up.
At the very least, they had some kind of training.
And police seem to think there are others involved.
The mother was arrested last year for stealing $1,600 worth of clothes from Lord and Taylor.
This is Zubedat Sunaver 45, charged with two counts of malicious and wanton damage and defacement to property after allegedly stealing the merchandise in Massachusetts.
The aunt, the aunt, there's no end to members of this family in North America.
The aunt is in Etobicoke, Ontario, where I used to live.
I don't want anyone to jump to conclusions about whether I'm part of this tightly knit Chechen community, but the aunt has gone on television and said that she now believes that the Boston bombing was staged with the intent of framing her sons.
They're Americans.
We know that the youngest one, the one still alive, the one still at large, became an American citizen on September 11th last year.
A bleak jest, almost as funny as the fact that the car he attempted to escape in has a coexist sticker on it.
And one of the strange aspects of immigration to the West, and one of the reason why John McCain and Co. are so ridiculous when they say, if only they knew us, if only they spent more time with us.
It's the ones who do know us, who do spend time with us, who are committed to the destruction of Western civilization.
It happens all the time.
I mean, speaking of Chechens, there were a bunch of Islamic terrorist plotters in the Toronto area who are plotting to behead the Canadian Prime Minister live on television.
Wouldn't be a big story in America because most people in America wouldn't recognize the Canadian Prime Minister even if he had his head on.
So the fact that they chop his head off doesn't make any difference.
They're still not going to know who he is.
These people, one of the female members of this group, her father was the pharmacist at the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Base in Alberta.
He was a classic first-generation Muslim immigrant who assimilated, became a patriotic Canadian, supports the work that the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry were doing in Afghanistan and was proud to be a pharmacist at the base.
Pop supports the mission.
The daughter is a crazy, foaming, Islamic imperialist ideologue who names her child, this guy's grandchild, names her child after a Chechen terrorist killed by the Russians and is so hot for jihad that she makes her husband sign a prenup agreeing to commit jihad.
Everyone here is familiar with the prenup that you have before you get married.
You know, Zajar Gabor and all the rest of the people have the prenups down here.
This lady in Toronto, who has spent her entire life in Canada, names her child after a Chechen terrorist killed by the Russians and makes her husband sign a prenup, agreeing that if he doesn't commit jihad within a certain amount of time, the marriage will be dissolved.
That is the difference between some of the disassimilation that's going on among the younger members of the community.
Let us go to Rick in Norfolk, Virginia.
Rick, you are live on the Russian Board Show.
It's great to have you with us.
Hi, Mr. Stein.
I was inspired to call after hearing your brilliant, brilliant analysis of immigration problems, which makes the immigration debate that's going on here look minuscule compared to what you've been talking about.
These two fellows, their whole history of this incident and their families and everything, I think it does for it should do for immigration debate what the sawdusty 9-11 guys did for Muslims taking air pilot classes in the United States.
It should put it on a certain level to see that being here for 10 years, which for Obama makes you an American.
Just being here, the way you are in a union, if you've lasted 10 years, you have seniority, regardless of how bad a worker you are, you go to the top.
Being here for 10 years makes you an American.
But your analysis is not a question of time.
That becoming an American requires more.
It requires understanding, respecting our liberties, our tolerance of others, unlike ourselves, our form of government, our history, struggle for freedom, not only here, but in other countries.
But these things have to be taught.
So the immigration problem is also an educational problem.
I mean, it's so vast.
It's encompassing so many things in this country.
You know, that these people were given scholarships even for education.
I would be interested to know what type of students they were from the age of 9, 10, 11, and 12.
Well, all accounts, Rick, I mean, you're right here, because this is the thing.
You say you have to be taught it.
You're right.
Now you think of these kids.
They're in the Massachusetts school system.
They're in a school that celebrates diversity, that is proud of the fact that there's 83 people from 83 countries in this student body, which is something that would have been unusual if you'd been at this particular, this is one of the oldest public high schools in the country.
It would have been considered highly unusual.
Not 300 years ago.
This school, I think, started in the 1600s.
Not 300 years ago, not 200 years ago, but even 50 years ago, the idea that there would be people from 83 different countries there would be regarded as unusual.
And that's fine if you're providing the glue that will make those people from 83 countries American.
If you're not providing the glue, if you're saying that Boston and Massachusetts and the United States is like the gate at Logan Airport, then it's no more than the collection of guys who happen to be standing around in it at one time, then people will look elsewhere for allegiance and for identity.
And these guys found their allegiance and identity.
The guy stood there in front of the citizenship judge and formally took his oath to the United States on September the 11th.
But he found his real allegiance and identity elsewhere.
And that may be because there's a great big hole in the heart of where this society is supposed to be inculcating a sense of identity, Rick.
Yeah, and you know, Obama approves of this lack of instilling American values in our educational system.
He approves of that.
And with the recent wave of immigrants, which are mostly Hispanic, who can almost ignore what we call a traditional American educational and language, those type of things, they're even more removed.
They have their own insulated and insular communities.
So they can just avoid the whole thing.
And Obama approves of that.
He doesn't, I don't think Obama approves of teaching American history courses and the excellence of America and the Bill of Rights and what that really means.
I don't think he really approves of that.
No, I mean, I think that is right, Rick.
I think if you look at the world he's been marinated in since day one, he takes the kind of Howard Zinn view of America, which is that it is a series of sins for which the present generation of Americans has to atone.
And one way it can atone for that is by bringing in millions and millions of people who are not tainted by the sins of those original Americans.
That's Rick in Norfolk, Virginia.
Mark Stein in for Rush on Open Line Friday.
More straight ahead.
Mark Stein, in for rush on the EIB network.
There is one important aspect of this story that we should mention regardless of how events shake out today.
9-11 was spectacular.
Spectacular.
These guys did something that is supremely difficult to do.
They hijacked four American jet aircraft, and they not only flew them into buildings, but they flew them into great iconic landmarks of America's military power and commercial power, into the World Trade Center and into the Pentagon.
And they would have done it into the White House or Capitol if that fourth plane hadn't been taken down, or the Capitol if that fourth plane hadn't been taken down in Pennsylvania.
That is extremely difficult to do.
It's bigger, not just in the death toll, but in the symbolic value of it, than anything the IRA or the Badermine Hofgang or the Red Brigades or any of the continental terrorist groups of the 70s had ever managed to do, ever managed to do.
And because it had great symbolic value, Al-Qaeda supposedly then did not do follow-ups because they wanted to top that.
They pulled off something spectacular and they wanted to match that.
And the Madrid train bombings, it chased The Spanish out of the Iraq war, but didn't have the same symbolic value.
The London tube bombings.
The tube is a London lamb up, didn't have the same symbolic value.
And because we have been the beneficiaries of that, because if they'd wanted to, if they'd followed up 9-11 by blowing up a school bus here and a school bus there a couple of time zones away the terror in this country Because there's no way you can secure all that.
I mean, the government would have tried.
You think of the worst lines at the airport with the TSA.
They would have tried.
They would have tried to do something similar with that, to secure every schoolhouse, every shopping mall.
And this country would have ground to a halt.
And still, if you're just interested in putting a nail bomb and blowing apart a couple of grannies while they're in a shopping mall, it's easy to do that.
I lived through that.
i worked in belfast at the height of the so-called troubles i've lived in london when the ira were bombing there and you find yourself stuck at the bottom of a tube shaft because a suspicious package has been they can bring they can bring the whole place to a halt very easily and And they don't even have to be successful.
They just cause so much economic damage.
But they do get successful.
And so two people die.
Three people die.
Six people die.
Not 9-11, but just terror, just randomly.
A train station here, a shopping mall there, a school bus somewhere else.
And if this turns out to be not just a couple of freelancers from the Amalgamated Union of Lone Wolves, but if it turns out to have something with deeper roots than that, then this will be a significant and unprecedented development because it will be, as the IRA recognized, the IRA in their time had a couple of high-profile targets.
They got Airy Neve, who was one of Mrs. Thatcher's closest aides.
They blew up Lord Mountbatten, who was the Queen's cousin.
But it became more difficult to do that, and they realized they couldn't.
And then they just started blowing up anybody.
You know, anybody will do.
In fact, they didn't even have to be human.
They blew up the Queen's horses in Hyde Park.
And if this is not just a couple of weird, disaffected Chechen brothers, but something where it's part of a wider group, and it is part of a philosophical reorientation of Islamic terror, then it will represent something, a new and dangerous stage in the war on terror.
9-11 demonstrated nothing except the worthlessness of all our big government fancy pants acronyms, all the guys who got it wrong, INS, FBI, CIA, all the money-no-object agencies that failed that day.
But it was a huge symbolic victory, made worse by the fact that we left the stupid hole in the ground for two decades.
It'll be two decades before there's a finished building there.
That's something to do with al-Qaeda.
Blowing up the building, taking down the building, was the work of al-Qaeda.
Leaving the big stupid hole in the ground was Mayor Bloomberg and New York and a reflection on us.
But, but, they can't do that every week.
They can't do that every year.
They can't do that every decade.
A bombing like Mondays, they can do far more often, and it may represent a new and dangerous stage in Islamic terror in the Western world.
Mark Stein for Rush, more ahead.
The Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Mark Stein, in for Rush.
In the days after the Boston Marathon bombing, some people thought it would be a Muslim terrorist.
Other people on the left were gleeful that it would prove to be a Caucasian male.
In fact, it's both.
They're Caucasian Muslims, that's to say, Muslims from the Caucasus, from Chechnya.
At least one of them is a United States citizen.
His aunt is on television in Toronto explaining that, in fact, the pictures are set ups and the bombings have been staged to frame her nephews.
But at the moment, that nephew, that surviving nephew, Joker Sarajevo remains at large in the Watertown area of Massachusetts.
And the city itself remains in lockdown.
It's a ghost town.
It is weird to look at pictures of a great, iconic East Coast city and to see the famous streets empty.
Aside from anything else, look at the commercial value that has been wiped off Boston and Massachusetts business.
We will learn more as the weekend proceeds.
And Rush will be here to put it all together for you on another week of excellence in broadcasting starting Monday, live at noon Eastern.
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