SF Sanctuary's Even Eviler Twin: Special Order 40

By Doug McIntyre

Today is the 164th day since police say an illegal-alien gangbanger named Pedro Espinosa shot and killed 17-year-old high school football star Jamiel Shaw II.

The 164th day since Jamiel Shaw Sr. heard the gunshots that took his son's life and propelled him down the block to find his boy dead in the road.

The 164th day since Sgt. Anita Shaw was sent home from Iraq to bury her son, murdered three doors down from the Shaw home while she protected other mothers' sons half a world away.

Today also marks the 164th day the city of Los Angeles has done nothing to right this dreadful wrong.

Yes, Espinosa has been arrested. Yes, he will be prosecuted and most likely convicted. But this pathetic scenario will be replayed again and again until the City Council and the mayor give up their deadly pig-headed devotion to political correctness.

Who are they kidding? Their blind devotion to Special Order 40 is killing our kids - it's killing black kids, brown kids and white kids. Political correctness has produced a diversity of death.

Sanctuary city policies can no longer be ignored.

The murder of Jamiel Shaw II should have been enough to mobilize Los Angeles to crush once and for all the plague of gangs. Instead, it mobilized a loathsome political damage-control campaign orchestrated by members of the City Council itself: Herb Wesson's pathetic attempts to keep Jamiel Shaw Sr. and Anita Shaw from speaking out; Dennis Zine's attempt to co-opt Walter Moore's proposed "Jamiel's Law" revision of Special Order 40 with a toothless do-nothing piece of fluff designed to look like action while maintaining the status quo; and finally, Jack Weiss, the man who hopes to be city attorney, the chairman of the council's Public Safety Committee, has kept even Zine's faux "Jamiel's Law" bottled up.

It does make one wonder who these people work for.

The murder of Jamiel Shaw should have been enough. Just as the murder of 23-day-old Baby Luis near MacArthur Park should have been enough, or the murder of 14-year-old Cheryl Green should have been enough, or the murder of then-LAPD Police Chief Bernard Parks' granddaughter should have been enough. Apparently we have an infinite capacity for carnage.

Those who claim a crackdown on black and Hispanic gangs is somehow "racist," or profiling, or political suicide, continue to stonewall and "study" what is obvious to everyone else - the gangs need to be crushed. This is not complicated, folks. Sanctuary city policies kill. Special Order 40 allows illegal-alien gangbangers to move about unmolested. We have enough home-grown barbarians without importing contraband killers.

Meet Danielle Bologna. Authorities say her husband of more than 20 years and both her boys were slaughtered on a sunny Sunday afternoon in San Francisco by Edwin Ramos, another illegal-alien gangbanger. Just like Jamiel's killer, Ramos was well known to the police and sheltered by Mayor Gavin Newsom's belligerent, in-your-face, open-border policies.

While Danielle Bologna buried half her family, Newsom honeymooned in Africa and was recently spotted lunching in Malibu with Gary South, presumably planning his run for governor.

And this week, Polytechnic High School in the Valley lost its second football player in four months to gang gunfire! Sixteen-year-old Edward Satterstrom was murdered in North Hollywood, police say, by 18-year-old David Aranda Hernandez.

Councilman Tony Cardenas called the murder "a random act of violence." It wasn't. Gang homicides are far too frequent in L.A. to be called random. While pimples and gawkiness, shyness and braces used to be a rite of passage, today's teens face a crucible of violence. An indifferent public allows casket after casket to be lugged to the boneyard.

Los Angeles Police Department Lt. Alan Hamilton hit the nail on the head: "The community has a responsibility to get suspects like this (Hernandez) into custody." That's right. The community also has a responsibility to elect council members who will work to ban body bags, not plastic bags.

Ask your City Council member what they're doing today that's more important - 164 days and counting.

first appeared at L.A. Daily News

via California Republic

Ramos Case Tip Of The Iceberg: More Illegal Alien Killers Shielded By Sick City

Jaxon Van Derbeken has uncovered more slimy-ness in Slime City... finding another Illegal Alien gang-banger criminal shielded by the Juvenile Probation Dept...

A suspected illegal immigrant - free after being shielded from deportation by San Francisco officials despite committing two gang-related assaults as a juvenile - is now facing charges that he tried to stab a man to death in San Mateo County, authorities say.

The case of Eric Antonio Uc-Cahun, now 19, is the second in which a youth offender protected from deportation in San Francisco has gone on to be arrested for a violent crime as an adult. The San Mateo County stabbing was especially vicious, authorities said - a top prosecutor said the victim had been "gutted, like you gut a pig."

Uc-Cahun's history of youth offenses in the city was similar to that of Edwin Ramos, a 21-year-old Salvadoran native facing triple-murder charges in connection with the June slayings of a San Francisco man and two of his sons on an Excelsior district street.

"How many of these people are there who were the beneficiaries of this process?" asked Joseph Russoniello, the U.S. attorney for Northern California, who has been critical of the city's practice of shielding of immigrants from deportation.

"This is what happens when the best intentions are misapplied," Russoniello said. "If there was any justification for this program, cases like this certainly undermine that expectation."

And... in what is now a common story here, the perp had a LOOOONG history of criminal activity - and hand-slap "punishment" - before nearly killing a man...

Uc-Cahun's criminal history as a juvenile dates at least from Aug. 13, 2006, when San Francisco police reports show that he was arrested along with two other suspected gang members in the assault on a man at Dolores Park. The victim was hit in the head and threatened with a gun after the group demanded to know whether he was a gang member, according to the reports.

Uc-Cahun did not cooperate with police, refusing even to say where he lived, authorities said. The police report on the attack says Uc-Cahun was a Sureño gang member known as "Tweety" who had "numerous prior contacts" with law enforcement.

Uc-Cahun, then 17, was taken to juvenile hall and eventually was found to have committed felony assault. A San Francisco juvenile court placed him on probation and freed him from juvenile hall.

On Oct. 18, 2006, shortly after his release, Uc-Cahun was arrested again, this time for allegedly being part of group that accosted a stranger on the street and ripped a chain from his neck.

He spent four months in juvenile hall before being found responsible for a single charge of felony assault. He turned 18 by the time he was freed in February 2007 and put on a year's probation.

Uc-Cahun was still on probation May 22, 2007, when he and several other suspected gang members allegedly jumped a man waiting for a ride on the 2700 block of Bayshore Boulevard in Daly City, said Steve Wagstaffe, chief deputy district attorney for San Mateo County.

Three men approached, accused the man of being a rival gang member and started beating him with a broomstick that eventually broke, Wagstaffe said. Other members of the group stripped the man of his jacket, and Uc-Cahun allegedly used a box cutter with a 2-inch blade to slash his abdomen open in two places.

"He basically gutted him, like you gut a pig to get to the meat," Wagstaffe said. The man survived and later identified Uc-Cahun as the man with the box cutter.

A month later, a still-jailed Uc-Cahun allegedly wrote a letter to a friend, providing the name and address of the victim and suggesting that the friend "take care of things," Wagstaffe said. San Francisco police executing a search warrant in May at a suspected gang house found the letter, he said.

Uc-Cahun was charged with witness intimidation along with attempted murder, robbery and other gang-related counts.

Criminal Commission Passes Criminal Resolution

The (Illegal) Immigrant Rights Commission - a group of 15 cretins that advises the Board of Stupidisors on "immigration issues," but, in reality, is basically an apologist body for illegal alien criminals - has once again sided with killers and released a resolution to Mayor Newsom ...

...urging the city to let young immigrant offenders stay in the city. The commission advises the Board of Supervisors and mayor about issues involving immigrants.

It called on San Francisco to pay nonprofit community groups to screen juvenile offenders to determine whether they should be entitled to city-paid immigration attorneys who would help them seek asylum as victims of abandonment, trafficking or abuse.

It also urged the city to provide adequate resources for placing the youths in "culturally appropriate" community programs approved by the juvenile court system, a policy that federal prosecutors have said was akin to harboring illegal immigrants.

And it advised the city to develop and expand safe housing, jobs and other opportunities for unaccompanied immigrant youth "because these youth are extremely vulnerable to exploitation by adult criminals."

How about "No, and fuck you to hell." Is that a good answer?


According to Newsom Spokesman Nathan Ballard, the Mayor has no intention of backtracking on his directive to turn illegal alien minor felons to the Feds.

Newsom spokesman Nathan Ballard said the mayor appreciated the commission's input but "has directed the juvenile probation department in no uncertain terms" to turn over juvenile felons to federal immigration authorities.

"Ultimately, the decisions must be made by the mayor, and that is where the buck stops," Ballard said.

Chief Numbnuts of the Commission Jamal Dajani said, "What happened in that unfortunate murder case created a lot of political debate, but, in the end, you cannot make a blanket policy to treat all juveniles the same," he said. "We shouldn't be punishing everyone because of one case, where we had a breakdown in the system."

First of all, I find it hilarious that this bitch is whining about a blanket policy, and yet these same assholes are the ones bitching for a blanket amnesty, that gives all illegal aliens - including felons, killers, and prisoners - all the rights of a law-abiding citizen.


Secondly, as for the "breakdown in the system," this is a system designed to shield criminals. There was no breakdown. It worked like a charm. And the Bologna-family killer would probably be safe in his home country now if the system had worked to its conclusion.

Once again, the answer to the Comission's recommendations: NO, and fuck you to hell!

What About The Poor?

This is an excerpt from a great post from Front Page Mag from Barry Loberfeld. It beautifully tears apart the argument that only Socialists care about the poor, and very succinctly explains why the "liberal" approach to poverty - and homelessness in particular - is a cruel one... as a collective flight from responsibility...

The conquest of poverty (to borrow the title of Henry Hazlitt's classic) requires just two weapons: wealth and compassion. So the only real question is: Who can better provide these – civil society ("the market") or the political state?

The answer as it regards wealth has now been settled: "[C]apitalism has won," conceded left-aligned economic historian Robert Heilbroner in 1989. "Socialism," conversely, "has been a great tragedy this century."

Paul Samuelson's famous textbook a few years later deemed state production the "failed model." It is a society of free people, not coercive government, that produces wealth. And yet, most bizarrely, liberals still believe it is government, not people, that possesses the compassion necessary to redistribute some of that wealth to those who find themselves in need of aid (a percentage of any population). Society will starve the poor, but the State won't.

How did it come to that? Mostly from the premise If government doesn't do it, it doesn't get done. But if we followed that consistently, we'd wind up right back with the "failed model" of socialist state planning of production and everything else, e.g., Stalin and Ceausescu's prohibition of abortion or the Chinese Communists' imposition of (even late-term) abortion. It is a premise refuted by an insight from an American Founder. We know Madison and his politics of limited government, we know Jefferson and his morality of individual rights, but we often forget Paine and his philosophy of the primacy of society over the State:

A great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It had its origin in the principles of society and the natural constitution of man. It existed prior to government, and would exist if the formality of government was abolished. The mutual dependence and reciprocal interest which man has upon man, and all parts of a civilized community upon each other, create that great chain of connection which holds it together. The landholder, the farmer, the manufacturer, the merchant, the tradesman, and every occupation, prospers by the aid which each receives from the other, and from the whole. Common interest regulates their concerns, and forms their laws; and the laws which common usage ordains, have a greater influence than the laws of government. In fine, society performs for itself almost every thing which is ascribed to government.

We don't need state charities for the same reason we don't need state churches, state families, or state anything else, i.e., we don't need state socialism because we already have civil society. Government, organized armed force, exists only to provide governance -- basically, defense against the violent criminal element (domestic and foreign, e.g., bin Laden). Condemning limited government for not performing the functions of the charity, the church, the family, the firm, the school, and the other organs of the body politic is like condemning the skeleton for not performing the functions of the brain, the heart, the stomach, the liver, the lungs, and the other organs of the body proper. Freedom is the framework that secures all other virtues.

Ironically, the widely expressed fear that people won't voluntarily help those who can't help themselves -- the foremost objection to the free market -- is self-refuting. If everyone is concerned about the poor primarily, then what's the problem? Religionists and secularists of virtually all stripes proclaim identical sentiments when it comes to aiding the less fortunate. And yet we have this theater-of-the-absurd chorus with each member wailing that he alone cares about his fellow man.

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"American Calcutta" from NY Post

Found this via Free Republic...

"American Calcutta" by Ralph Peters
August 2, 2008 --

ONE of the best ways to see a city's bones is to take a long jog in the hour before dawn. That's what I did in San Francisco this week.

The city reminded me of Calcutta.

By day, the camouflage of color and crowds makes the multitudes of homeless less apparent. At the chilly end of the night, though, they lie strewn on the sidewalks like plague victims, wrapped in filthy blankets and abandoned.

New Yorkers have no idea how bad a homeless crisis can be.

I didn't even run in the rougher sections, where old garbage fills the alleys and druggies prowl. My course ran from the slopes of Nob Hill, south of Union Square, down to the Embarcadero, up to North Beach and back. That's the better part of downtown.

My new symbol of San Francisco is a man with ulcerous calves exposed, head and torso thrust into a cardboard box in front of a Prada boutique.

What I saw as I sidestepped bodies wasn't just the failure of social policies, but a collective flight from responsibility. Shrugging our shoulders and declaiming The homeless deserve the right to make their own choices! just lets us all off the hook.

I refuse to romanticize the homeless - unlike those who live in San Francisco's multimillion-dollar Victorians and idealize the homeless from a distance, then cross the street to avoid giving a deranged beggar a quarter.

When it comes to the capable-but-unwilling homeless, John Stuart Mill's rule applies: The individual is entitled to the maximum individual freedom compatible with the freedom and well being of others. As long as he or she poses no criminal, health or aggravated-nuisance threats, the rest of us just have to suck it up.

My problem lies in our moral cowardice regarding those who aren't capable of making sane decisions. When we write off a man or woman who is clearly disturbed, incapable of basic sanitary practices and living at a level below that we accord our pets, we shouldn't pat ourselves on the back for giving him or her a handout now and then.

We're avoiding the hard moral choices, the questions whose best answers still leave us uneasy: We worry more about stray dogs and cats than we do about stray humans.

God may help those who help themselves - but it's left to the rest of us to help those who can't help themselves. Abandoning the incompetent to the streets helps no one.

Can't we have the moral integrity to admit that deinstitutionalization of the "nondangerous" mentally ill has been a disaster? Why is it more humane to let a badly disturbed individual sink into disease and squalor than to provide him or her with a structured existence?

For the left, it's all about the cruel fantasy of the cuddly homeless (as long as they don't actually have to cuddle them). For the right, abandoning the incompetent to the streets trimmed state and county budgets. Everybody wins - except the helpless.

I didn't just compare San Francisco to Calcutta for effect. My pre-dawn runs through the City by the Bay really did conjure morning jogs past huddled families and the occasional corpse in India.

But the comparison's unfair - to Calcutta. Bengali economic refugees staking a claim to a bit of crumbling sidewalk are seeking jobs; they have hope. San Francisco's homeless have no future beyond platitudes and handouts.

There are other similarities between the two cities: Left-wing traditions and governments; splendid cuisine and an artsy scene for the fortunate; quirky bookstores and a coffee-house culture for poets and musicians. But Calcutta's underrated, while San Francisco's overrated (and dirtier each time I visit).

The greatest difference between the two isn't the greater wealth of San Francisco, but the sense of the homeless as fellow human beings in Calcutta. From its asylum policies for violent illegal immigrants to its dog-biscuit "generosity" to the homeless, San Francisco's a city of ethically oblivious hypocrites: 6,377 homeless, 776,733 heartless.

As I walked the streets in the light of day, foreign tourists dodged the meandering, muttering homeless. I was ashamed of the image those visitors would take home.

I wished those tourists had chosen Manhattan instead. Or even, God help us, Washington, DC. The only thing San Francisco ever gave this country was bubonic plague.

Ralph Peters' latest book is "Looking for Trouble: Adventures in a Broken World."

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El Voz de Reconquista Luis Gutierrez Sinks To New Low; Calls US Law Enforcers "Gestapo Agents"

"Death To America!"

Reconquista, alleged American, corrupt Chicago politician, race-baiter, and all-around pusbag Luis Gutierrez sank to a new low by calling ICE "Gestapo Agents" and once again demanded amnesty for criminals.

Congressman Gutierrez has been a long-time proponent of amnesty and opponent of immigration enforcement. He even went so far recently as to openly call for a suspension of all such immigration enforcement actions until Congress passes "comprehensive" immigration reform. However, in an article appearing in the online publication The Politico on Aug. 6, Gutierrez lowered himself to using inflammatory rhetoric simply unacceptable for a member of Congress. "You know who is in charge now? The Gestapo agents at Homeland Security. They are in charge," Gutierrez told The Politico.

"Every American should be offended and outraged by comparisons between our dedicated public servants risking their lives every day to enforce our immigration laws and the Nazi secret police, no matter who is making the comparison. That such a vile statement was made by a member of Congress is truly reprehensible and irresponsible," said Dan Stein, president of FAIR.

Fortunately, DHS Assistant Secretary Julie Myers is not taking the little weasel's words lying down, and has called for Gutierrez' censure by the House of Representatives.

Let's state the obvious here: Here we have a member of the United States Congress, who has sworn to uphold the laws of the USA and protect it from all enemies foreign and domestic, calling the enforcers of his country's immigration laws "Gestapo agents."

What to make of it? Simple... the United States is clearly not "his" country: Mexico is. His allegiance is to his illegal alien brethren, and not to the country he seeks to invade and conquer.

Gutierrez is a little fucking punk, and a danger to this country. He should be censured... and then deported.

From: FAIR

BIG NEWS! Minuteman Project Sponsored Protest at SF City Hall on Wednseday July 30th!!! Come Demand The Resignation of Mayor Newsom!!!!

I just got an email from the Minuteman Project and my prayers have been answered!!!

After the horrific slaughter of three San Francisco family members by an AK-47 wielding gangster boasting allegiance to the notorious MS-13 street gang, Jim Gilchrist, President of the Minuteman Project, Inc. announced today that he will lead a rally demanding the resignation of that city’s mayor.

“I am calling upon all minutemen and women nationwide to join in this rally at city hall at 11: 00 am Wednesday morning, July 30 in downtown San Francisco,” Gilchrist said.

“What happened to the Bologna family is not an isolated incident,” Gilchrist says. “U.S. residents are murdered by illegal aliens on a daily basis in every major city across the country”.

“The Minuteman Project will demand the immediate resignation of Mayor Newsom,” Gilchrist concluded. “It is too late for an apology from Mayor Newsome. It is too late to prevent the deaths of Anthony, Michael, and Matthew Bologna. But it is not too late to begin replacing all of our political governors in every city across America with people who will truly and sincerely represent and protect the citizens of this country. Currently, too many of them represent criminal illegal aliens, simply passing on as “inconvenient” any serious attempt to keep the United States civilized under the rule of law.”

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CAPS Calls On Mayor Shitbag To Resign

CAPS Calls for the Resignation of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom

and a Show of Support for Mrs. Bologna by California Senators Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

(Santa Barbara, CA) – Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) President Dr. Diana Hull called for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to accept his responsibility in the murder of Anthony, Michael and Matthew Bologna. “Sanctuary for illegal aliens is misguided policy at its most irresponsible, permitting increased crime, drug dealing and now murder on the streets of San Francisco,” Hull said.

“Mayor Newsom should immediately rescind the Sanctuary City policy, make an affirmative statement that San Francisco will cooperate with federal immigration authorities and then resign,” Hull continued. “Thus far, no one has been disciplined for shielding illegal alien felons from federal authorities.

“California Senator Dianne Feinstein and Senator Barbara Boxer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi are all residents of the greater San Francisco area. Senator Feinstein was mayor of San Francisco until 1988 right before the initiation of the Sanctuary City policy,” Hull said, “yet nothing has been heard from our two Senators or the House Speaker so far. They have offered no sympathy and no determination to see that an incident like this can never happen again. Mrs. Bologna lost her husband and two sons because of both federal failure to enforce immigration law and San Francisco’s sanctuary policy.

“Californians hear constantly from those who represent us in Washington and in Sacramento, that immigration is a federal matter. But victims like Mrs. Bologna and her family were clearly not protected from outrages like this triple murder, by any level of government,” Hull said.

Wednesday, Edwin Ramos pled not guilty to multiple charges of murdering three members of the Bologna family.

Thursday, Hull faxed letters to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, asking that the federal government cut off all federal law enforcement money to San Francisco until city officials commit to cooperating with federal immigration authorities.

In her letter to Senators Feinstein, Boxer and Speaker Pelosi, Hull wrote, “If local governments will not obey federal law, they should be denied any federal government law enforcement assistance. And, the federal government should prosecute any city officials who fail in that duty. In addition, federal enforcement is spotty and inadequate at best,” Hull wrote, “but recently there has been some beginning attempt to apprehend the worst offenders.

“However, every level of government has a long way to go and lags terribly behind public opinion in matters pertaining to enforcement of immigration law,” Hull wrote, “This triple murder is the worst kind of tragedy and the outrage it will generate may herald some long overdue comprehension by elected officials about the extent of government failure in these matters, at every level, and what must be done about it.”

Illegal Alien Killer-Gate: Tancredo Asks Feds To Step In; Calls Mayor Newsom a "Modern Day George Wallace"

U.S. Rep Tom Tancredo has weighed in on Illegal Alien Killer-Gate, sending this letter to Attorney General Mike Mukasey. Reprinted from California Chronicle...

The Honorable Michael Mukasey

Attorney General

U.S. Department of Justice

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 1145

Washington, DC 20530

Dear Attorney General Mukasey,

Last week an illegal alien from El Salvador named Edwin Ramos gunned down a man and his two sons their way home from a picnic in San Francisco. As is the case all too often, this tragedy could have been prevented if current immigration laws were being enforced.

According to recent news reports, Ramos had been apprehended by local authorities on numerous occasions prior to this triple homicide, but because of San Francisco´s well publicized and illegal "sanctuary policy," federal immigration authorities were never contacted. He was released and never deported.

Mr. Ramos was first convicted of two gang-related felonies but was allowed to remain in San Francisco because local authorities had an official policy of non-cooperation with federal immigration officials. After being released, Ramos was then convicted of assault – but once again city law enforcement officials were prevented from contacting federal immigration authorities because of San Francisco´s sanctuary policy. A year later, Ramos was arrested for trying to rob a pregnant woman – and once again released. Most recently in March of this year, he was arrested yet again – this time on a gun charge – only to once again be released.

Because San Francisco´s political leaders have already demonstrated their willingness to act in flagrant violation of federal law, I do not believe that local judicial institutions can be trusted to fairly try the case or mete out an appropriate punishment. Instead, I hope that the federal government will consider stepping in to prosecute the case in much the same way the federal government was forced to intercede during the civil rights period when southern states refused to follow the law or protect the rights of African-Americans.

This is unacceptable.

When George Wallace attempted to forcibly block the implementation of federal law in Alabama forty years ago, the federal government responded. And when a modern day George Wallace like San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom openly defies federal law, it demands a federal response.

The plain language 8 U.S.C. 1373, makes it absolutely clear that such policies are illegal. The statute reads, "Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual." Despite this nearly decade-old federal law, no action has ever been taken by the Department of Justice to compel compliance – even though it is well known that many cities implement these misguided and illegal policies. Federal silence in the face of this shameful practice makes the federal government complicit in the crimes committed by persons who should have been deported.

In that vein, I suggest that you direct U.S. Attorneys to take decisive action against cities like San Francisco who maintain these dangerous and illegal sanctuary policies. Federal action now might discourage the next potential terrorist or murderer from taking advantage of these local "catch and release" policies that all too often allow them to continue victimizing other American citizens.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Tom Tancredo, M.C.

Latest on Illegal Alien Killer-Gate: Feds Denying There Was Any "Deal" To Let Illegal Immigrants Go Free

Federal Authorities are hotly denying assertions made by Public Bitch, er, excuse me, Public Defender Jeff Adachi, that Federal Authorities authorities went along with the city's practice of not turning over illegal immigrant juvenile offenders for possible deportation.

San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi said in a letter published Tuesday in The Chronicle that federal immigration officials locally had agreed in 1996 to go along with the city's policy of "reuniting undocumented youth with their families" rather than deporting them.

Joseph Russoniello, U.S. attorney for Northern California, said he had found no evidence of any such agreement and denied that federal officials had ever ceded authority to the city.

"No one can find any support, either from an individual or in documents, of what Adachi claimed," he said. "There are a number of people who remember the years from the '80s and the '90s - there was never any agreement."

Adachi said he did not have a copy of any agreement, and referred questions to Eleazar Aramburo, an immigration-rights attorney who was on the city's Juvenile Probation Commission in the mid-1990s.

Aramburo said Nancy Alcantar, then an official with the Immigration and Naturalization Service in San Francisco under the Clinton administration, had agreed in 1996 not to pursue illegal immigrant offenders for deportation. Alcantar is still with the local office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the successor agency to the INS.

"We met with Nancy. She reviewed the policy," Aramburo said. "Everyone was on board."

Alcantar declined to be interviewed but issued a statement that read, "We know of no agreement that was made between regional staff and juvenile probation over 10 years ago." She also said her agency's efforts to locate illegal immigrant juveniles in San Francisco had been thwarted for at least the past three years.

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Michelle Malkin Gives Us Hell!

I'm not the kind of guy that enjoys being beat up by a woman (I know, weird for San Francisco...), but I'll take the punches of Michelle Malkin any day!

Don't Believe The MSM: San Francisco is STILL an illegal alien sanctuary


By Michelle Malkin • July 3, 2008 05:54 AM

First things first. The San Francisco Chronicle’s Jaxon Van Derbeken has done excellent work this past week exposing the abject stupidity, recklessness, and fecklessness of SF Mayor Gavin Newsom’s open-borders administration. Van Derbeken’s reporting was so devastating and so solid that the p.c. editors at his newspaper who initially refused to call the illegal alien drug-dealers illegal (they were referred to as “migrants”) finally relented and used the forbidden word in the headline of Wednesday’s story on Newsom’s finger-pointing news conference. Amazing.

It’s only a matter of time, of course, before the multiculti mob fights back and demands its quota of sympathetic sob stories from the SFChronicle to make amends for–gasp–reporting on illegal alien criminals and the government officials who aid them. As sure as day, Geraldo and company will find and fixate on one poor “undocumented youth” to excuse San Francisco’s felonious harboring, aiding, and abetting of illegal alien crack dealers.

To which you should respond: Meet Erlan Colindres and spare us your bleeding hearts.

According to Van Derbeken, “The city has spent $2.3 million just to house illegal immigrants in juvenile hall rather than turning them over to federal authorities since 2005.” In the wake of national outrage over San Fran’s illegal alien drug dealer shuttle service and open-door group housing subsidies, Newsom is retreating slightly from the city’s longstanding policy of deliberate non-enforcement of immigration laws. Honduran illegal alien crack dealers won’t be getting publicly-subsidized escorts and transportation or refuge anymore. But make no mistake and don’t believe the MSM hype (the current headline on the WaP story is “San Francisco to Halt ‘Sanctuary’ Policy”):

Sanctuary remains the standing policy for the vast majority of illegal immigrants in SF. There is no effort underway to rescind the ordinance. There is no effort underway at the White House to punish outlaw sanctuary cities..

Hoping for change? A sanctuary nation doesn’t become a sovereign nation with taxpayers sitting on the sidelines.

It’s your choice.

Illegal Alien Murderer Was Shielded By SF Government

Jaxon Van Derbeken's recent series of articles in the SF Chronicle have brought to light the horrifying truth about San Francisco's Juvenile Probation Department shielding illegal alien criminals.

But his latest article is the most disturbing yet... where he reveals that 21-year old Salvodoran illegal alien Edwin Ramos - an MS-13 gangster who was arrested in the high-profile murder of three members of the Bologna family - was one of the youths who was repeatedly shielded from federal authorities, even after committing several crimes - including at least one felony.

The man charged with killing a father and two sons on a San Francisco street last month was one of the youths who benefited from the city's long-standing practice of shielding illegal immigrant juveniles who committed felonies from possible deportation, The Chronicle has learned.

Edwin Ramos, now 21, is being held on three counts of murder in the June 22 deaths of Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16. They were shot near their home in the Excelsior district when Tony Bologna, driving home from a family picnic, briefly blocked the gunman's car from completing a left turn down a narrow street, police say.

Ramos, a native of El Salvador whom prosecutors say is a member of a violent street gang, was found guilty of two felonies as a juvenile - a gang-related assault on a Muni passenger and the attempted robbery of a pregnant woman - according to authorities familiar with his background.

In neither instance did officials with the city's Juvenile Probation Department alert federal immigration authorities, because it was the city agency's policy not to consider immigration status when deciding how to deal with an offender. Had city officials investigated, they would have found that Ramos lacked legal status to remain in the United States.

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The Truth Abut San Francisco

The always awesome Brenda Walker put this fine piece in VDare: "Is San Francisco At The Tipping Point?" It's an absolutely dead-on critique of this town.

Here's the truth about S.F... it has NOT always been this crazy. There have always been unconventional people and eccentrics in town, but that is NOT what is going on now. There is a difference between a town that is a little wild and a town that is descending into madness. While there were 'wild n' crazy' people before, the new San Franciscan is just plain crazy. And this psychotic break that this city has been mired in for the last 7 years or so can be directly attributed to the ascendancy of the "progressive" movement as a Stalinist one-party state.

There have always been "unconventional" politicians who have done well and even bettered the City. A slightly nutty character can bring some welcome change to a government. But when you have an entire government made up of cultural Marxists - people who find fault with every good idea, people who reward the criminals and punish the law-abiding, people who make life hell for anyone who is not a bum, people who can't even take a piss without having a committee meeting to see if it "offends" anyone - then you have a recipe for disaster. For several years the recipe has been simmering, and now we are seeing what a truly "progressive" government brings to a city... chaos, crime, confusion, ruthless inefficiency, and a palpable civil insanity.

I have lived here for 20 years and it saddens and sickens me to see what is happening to my home. This is NOT the same City it was 10 years ago. San Francisco has NOT always been like this. This is madness.

Is San Francisco At The Tipping Point?

By Brenda Walker

San Francisco has recently gotten overdue censure for being the nation's biggest psych ward masquerading as a city, showing what happens when left-wing border anarchists are allowed to run a major metropolis.

The event which dismayed even the mainstream media: an expensive city program that protected illegal alien Honduran crack dealers claiming to be juveniles from federal authorities. Around the same time, a horrific triple murder caused a Supervisor to assess the city's gang violence as "out of control." The common thread of such wild lawlessness is immigration permissiveness and how San Francisco has taken it to new excess.

The news that the city had, as a matter of policy, hidden foreign drug-dealing criminals away from deportation by federal immigration authorities elicited anger and outrage locally and around the U.S. When eight of the convicted Honduran "youth" were ensconced at taxpayer expense in an open-door San Bernardino County group home, they simply walked out at will. What a surprise. San Bernardino County officials are furious that they were used without notice as a dumping ground and have demanded San Francisco turn over all records surrounding the case.

Just a couple weeks earlier, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom had been enjoying a wave of local popularity as same-sex marriage became legal in the state following a court decision on the issue that Newsom championed for years. He became a gay hero in 2004 when he ordered the city to begin issuing marriage licenses and opened City Hall for gay weddings with loud local fanfare and in defiance of California law of the time.

Then the wheels started coming off the liberal limousine that Newsom imagined would transport him to higher office. The crack dealer story broke just as the greasy-haired mayor launched his exploratory committee to run for governor—and soon after the brutal triple murder had shocked the city.

On June 22, a San Francisco father and his two sons were shot down in cold blood over a minor traffic altercation by a previously-arrested MS-13 gangster. Those murdered: Tony Bologna, 49, Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16.

Danielle Bologna, the grieving wife and mother pleaded for the death penalty for the killer with District Attorney Kamala Harris, [Send her mail] who was elected despite her pledge never to seek the death penalty. The bad news for the Bologna family: Harris did not pursue execution for a cop killer in 2004, so it's unlikely she will change now.

An apprehension was made several days later. The lawyer of the arrested shooter Edwin Ramos spun the tale that the accused was a legal immigrant. But authorities soon disproved that fiction. In fact, Ramos is an illegal Salvadoran, a known member of Mara Salvatrucha (AKA MS-13), who had been arrested in March:

“Ramos was also booked on felony weapons charges and as well as a separate count of being in a criminal street gang. Police cited ‘numerous documented contacts’ that officers had with Ramos and Lopez, and said both were ‘active members of the MS-13 street gang.’" [Triple-killing suspect escaped prior S.F. prosecution, By Jaxon Van Derbeken, San Francisco Chronicle, June 27, 2008]

And since San Francisco is a sanctuary city, Ramos had not been deported, but was released to do more crime.

So when news came out a few days later that the city was actually squandering serious taxpayer funds (specifically $2.3 million for housing illegal alien youth since 2005) to shield unlawful foreign crack dealers from the feds, public outrage was intense.

The audacity of spending the people's money to engage in illegal protection of criminals went over the line for most in the city, and particularly when an illegal alien had just committed a terrible triple murder. (In addition, the mayor had threatened in June to lay off hundreds of city workers because of hundreds of millions of dollars in red ink.)

Gavin Newsom apparently thought he could slime through the latest scandal, as he had done so often before (e.g. his treatment for drinking after embarrassing episodes of drunkenness and bonking the wife of his deputy chief of staff). Can you say "Out of touch?"

At his weekly advisors meeting, some wanted continued "compassion" for the long-suffering crack dealers, but prudence prevailed, because of politics and polling. As one meeting attendee observed, "Not only for someone running for governor... even here in San Francisco, it was a 80-20 loser." [Matier & Ross column, San Francisco Chronicle, July 7, 2008

A local CBS poll released July 1 revealed 79 percent of respondents agreed that San Francisco should "turn over convicted illegal immigrants for deportation".

As a result of overwhelming public opposition to Newsom's extreme sanctuary policy, he reversed his passionately held beliefs of conscience from a day before:

On July 2, he blamed everyone but himself for being in a hole and claimed to be powerless in the situation: Illegals Called Court's Problem [By Jaxon Van Derbeken and Maria Lagos, San Francisco Chronicle]

"I don't have the authority here," Newsom said at a City Hall news conference as he stood beside his handpicked juvenile probation director, William Siffermann. "I have a bully pulpit. The courts have the authority here."

Interestingly, in 2007 he had used that same bully pulpit to reinforce the sanctuary city ordinance enacted in 1989: Newsom pledges to make SF a sanctuary for illegal immigrants [by Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, June 22, 2007].

"I will not allow any of my department heads or anyone associated with this city to cooperate in any way shape or form with these raids," Newsom declared. "We are a sanctuary city, make no mistake about it."

But when he saw the tough poll numbers—and his plans for a brilliant political future quickly turning into dust—he dropped his identity as friend of foreign criminals like a salmonella jalapeno. Talk about a flip-flop! [S.F. mayor shifts policy on illegal offenders, By Jaxon Van Derbeken, San Francisco Chronicle, July 3, 2008]

“San Francisco will shift course and start turning over juvenile illegal immigrants convicted of felonies to federal authorities for possible deportation, Mayor Gavin Newsom said Wednesday as he took the blame for what he conceded was a costly and misguided effort to shield the youths…

"’All I can say is, I can't explain away the past,’ Newsom said. ‘I take responsibility, I take it. We are moving in a different direction.’"

The mishandling of dangerous criminals follows a series of minor embarrassments and policy gaffes that add to the picture of San Francisco as a hopelessly loony sort of place, where there is too much diversity ideology and not enough common sense:

In April, Mayor Newsom announced a publicity campaign costing $83,000 of the people's money to encourage illegal aliens to use taxpayer-funded city services, even as the budget deficit was projected to be $338 million.

Chief of Police Heather Fong admitted in June that she had not maintained her gun proficiency, a requirement of all police that they qualify at marksmanship every six months at the department's gun range. Apparently not enforcing immigration laws kept her too busy to fulfill a Chief's duties.

In an indication of San Francisco's hatred of all things even slightly military, the Board of Education voted in 2006 to ban the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) from local schools, despite the program's wide popularity with parents and students.

These aberrations are symptoms of a bad case of multicultural psychosis taken root in a once-great city.

Furthermore, there are many aspects to the crack dealer case that can cause a normal brain to throb in pain. One is how otherwise rational characters claim to be amazed that sanctuary statutes can be abused to such a degree. Former San Jose Police Chief of Police Joe McNamara remarked, "It's just incredible to think they were spending all that money to help criminals evade being deported." [Immigrant sanctuary laws seen as practical. By Tyche Hendricks, San Francisco Chronicle, July 6, 2008]

What does McNamara think has been going on in Los Angeles for these many
years? LA does not hand out free airline tickets home, but Special Order 40, its own version of sanctuary, has been directly responsible for releasing dangerous criminals onto the street who have then committed an array of violent crimes, most recently the murder of young Jamiel Shaw.

Illegal alien gangsters are a protected class in the way that police are permitted to deal with them. And Los Angeles has wasted plenty of money on useless social programs meant to deter gang activity.

But Joseph Russoniello, United States Attorney for California's northern district, didn't accept Gavin Newsom's press conference excuses for a minute.

“Russoniello wasn't buying it Tuesday, calling Newsom's explanation ‘all contrivance.’

"’They have said all along that it was the sanctuary policy that mandated they shield these people from ICE,’ he said. ‘It's only because it's so preposterous that the sanctuary law would shield drug dealers that they've now come up with this alibi.’ [Young illegal immigrants lose their San Francisco sanctuary, By Maria L. LaGanga, David Kelly and Anna Gorman, LA Times, July 2, 2008]

In addition, the spectacular city by the bay is shooting itself in the foot by its self-destructive politics, which have made it a far more dangerous place to live in or visit.

San Francisco depends on tourism as its #1 industry: it employs over 72,000 people and brought more than $8 billion last year.

Yet San Francisco politicians routinely offend the traditional values of its American visitors, for example when the Board of Supervisors voted in 2005 against berthing the WWII battleship Iowa out of anti-military venom. While discussing the issue on the Hannity and Colmes show, Supervisor Geraldo Sandoval remarked: "The United States should not have a military". (Even liberal Alan Colmes was stunned at that idea.)

The city's smug elite believe they can insult patriotic Americans at will without affecting tourist dollars. And so far, that supposition has been true. Tourist spending in 2007 was an all-time high and an increase of 6.2 percent over the previous year.

But if potential tourists begin to worry about safety issues, the number of visitors might well fall precipitously.

A local news story reporting the Bologna triple murder included an enlightening quote from Supervisor Geraldo Sandoval:

"The gang problem right now in San Francisco in the Mission, in the outer Mission, is really out of control, they are shooting each other, they are armed to the teeth, they are ready at a split moment to start firing."

It's a clip the Chamber of Commerce would probably prefer the public not see—along with the city's dense homicide map and the FBI list of San Francisco Featured Fugitives, which was a diverse assemblage at last viewing.

San Francisco is holding a tiger by the tail. Its politics dictate continued leftist adherence to permissiveness regarding immigration enforcement, but the increased violent crime that follows foreign gangsters dealing drugs is getting more difficult to overlook and could easily damage the city's vital tourist industry.

Is San Francisco approaching that tipping point now?

Brenda Walker (email her) lives in Northern California and publishes two websites, LimitsToGrowth.org and ImmigrationsHumanCost.org. She regrets the passing of the old San Francisco as much as anyone, and thinks it has gone from genuinely eccentric in an interesting way to plain bad crazy.

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Website of the Month: Sanctuary City

Urbanette dropped a nice line to me and asked me to check out her blog Sanctuary City.

Yes!!! Another San Franciscan with brain intact!!! Here's a great article that got put in ChronWatch...

San Francisco has a rich history of tolerance...for political corruption and tyranny, that is. These days, our favorite past time seems to be looking the other way while Gavin Newsom and his cronies on the board of supervisors, the chief of police, the district attorney and many others run the city into the ground. They focus on politically correct pet projects, pander to special interests (namely: gay rights, global warming, social controls, and protecting criminals) while neglecting their basic duties as public servants.

Gavin Newsom has been more concerned about green initiatives like solar panels and ending city spending on bottled water(!) and anti-gun programs than he is about enforcing local and federal laws, fixing the streets, or making San Francisco a hospitable place for middle class families.

He and his supporting cast of supervisors and attorneys and law "enforcement" (what a joke!) operate as though they are entirely above the law. Given his national notoriety for the whole gay marriage debacle back in 2004, this should be an obvious point. However, that was just one out of many incidents showing the utter disrespect that Newsom has for the law.

San Francisco's Sanctuary City Policy is a prime example of this disrespect. While the policy was created back in 1989, Gavin Newsom recently spent a pretty penny to advertise this policy across the city. The road to hell is always paved with good intentions, and the Sanctuary City Policy is chock full of good intentions. It's supposed to help illegal immigrants feel safe while seeking city services such as health care without fear of reprisal from immigration enforcement. The abuses of the policy have been widespread, as a recent series of articles from San Francisco Chronicle reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken show.

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A Small Victory For Sanity In SF

Things are happening fast and furious here. I don't have time to comment on it all now so here's the links in order of most recent....

Long story short... after public outcry and threats from the U.S. Attorney's Office, the City of SF has said it has discontinued both the practices of flying illegal alien juvenile criminals home and outsourcing them to group homes. Promising words. But this is only a change in policy - not ideology - as is clear from the comments of the Mayor and especially William Sifferman, the head of the Juvenile Probation Dept.

From The SFGate (SF Chronicle)...

Escaped Crack Dealer Nabbed (7/03)

Policy on convicted felons changes (7/02)

Newsom: Court has final say (7/02)

8 crack dealers in S.F. walk away (7/01)

Probe into migrant- offender protection (6/29)

Editorial: No sanctuary for drug dealers (7/03)

Officials: Expect bigger crowd at Juvenile Hall (7/03)

From The Examiner...

Safe Haven Ends For Felonious Juveniles by Brent Begin

Other Articles...

San Francisco To Halt 'Sanctuary' Policy from Washington Post

Just When You Thought This City Couldn't Possibly Get Any Stupider...

Jaxon Van Derbeken writes a follow-up article in the SFGate on the criminal activities of the SF Juvenile Probation Dept.

Shielded by S.F., illegal immigrant crack dealers escape

by Jaxon Van Derbeken in SFGate

An effort by San Francisco to shield eight young Honduran crack dealers from federal immigration officials backfired when the youths escaped from Southern California group homes within days of their arrival, officials said Monday.

The walkaways are the latest in a string of embarrassments for city officials who are protecting illegal-alien drug dealers from federal authorities and possible deportation because of San Francisco's 1989 declaration that the city is a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants.

Until recently, San Francisco flew juvenile illegal immigrants convicted of drug crimes to their home countries rather than cooperate with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, a practice that drew national attention when The Chronicle reported it Sunday.

When federal law enforcement authorities demanded that San Francisco halt the flights and began a criminal investigation, the city decided to house some of the dealers in long-term youth rehabilitation centers. Some of those centers are run by a not-for-profit outfit called Silverlake Youth Services in mountain towns southeast of San Bernardino.

Eight Honduran juveniles who had been convicted of dealing drugs in San Francisco were sent within the past few weeks to the company's group homes, where one month's placement costs $7,000 per youth - an expense borne by San Francisco taxpayers.

Within 10 days of being sent to the unlocked group homes, however, all eight youths ran away, said Bill Siffermann, head of juvenile probation in San Francisco. He said his agency has issued arrest warrants for them.

Siffermann said the city has stopped sending juvenile offenders to Silverlake because of the escapes. "We have now eliminated that as a prospect," he said, adding that the city is trying to come up with an approach for how to handle the juveniles that does not involve giving them to federal immigration authorities.

San Bernardino County sheriff's Capt. Bart Gray said Silverlake had reported the Honduran youths as runaways - not as juvenile offenders. Three of the youths were listed as missing from Silverlake's Douglas House in the town of Yucaipa, 16 miles southeast of San Bernardino, on June 20 and two more on June 22, Gray said.

Juvenile probation officials say three other Honduran youths who had been convicted as juveniles in San Francisco disappeared from another Silverlake-run group home, but it was not immediately known which one.

Silverlake officials confirmed that the youths had vanished but would say nothing further, referring inquiries to San Francisco officials. Silverlake's operations officer, Jeff Boyd, said he was barred by law from commenting.

Fruit trees and farm animals

Silverlake's Web site says the company maintains 10 group homes that "exist for the sole purpose of providing a home environment and psychological health care for troubled youth. The focus of the program is to provide residents with the opportunity to gain effective control over their lives through the acquisition of rethinking skills and positive character growth."

The site adds that many of the group homes "have large lots and offer the opportunity for the residents to garden, tend to fruit trees and raise farm animals."

San Francisco sent the youths to the Southern California group homes after federal authorities demanded that they stop the practice of flying illegal alien juvenile offenders to their homelands without alerting immigration officials.

Turning over the youths to federal authorities for deportation could have resulted in their being legally barred from ever returning to the United States. Federal officials said the city's practice of returning the youths to their homelands to be reunited with their families did nothing to prevent drug-dealing juveniles from coming right back to the United States.

They also noted that it is a crime to help an illegal immigrant cross the border, even if it is to leave the country.

San Francisco officials countered that many of the youths were victims of drug dealers and that it wasn't fair to bar them from ever becoming citizens.

Not eligible for CYA

The eight youths who escaped from the San Bernardino County group homes were scheduled to be flown back to Honduras before city juvenile probation authorities halted the flights in May. They were not convicted of violent crimes, so they were ineligible to be sent to the California Youth Authority. San Francisco did not send them to the county's Log Cabin Ranch on the Peninsula for the same reason.

The eight were among dozens of young Honduran illegal immigrants who have been arrested in San Francisco in recent years for dealing drugs. Police said many of the Hondurans - some of whom they believe are actually adults - live communally in other local cities at the behest of drug lords, who finance their travel here and threaten to kill their families if they cooperate with law enforcement.

Officials say there are at least 22 illegal immigrants being held at the city's juvenile hall.

San Francisco sent four illegal immigrant juvenile offenders from El Salvador and elsewhere to the Silverlake home in Yucaipa last year. All four escaped within three weeks, San Bernardino County authorities said.

County resentful

Undersheriff Richard Beemer said the practice of "dumping" youths in his county "is a huge concern."

"These are not youth placement facilities," Beemer said. "They are homes. They are not locked down."

The youths sent there are hundreds of miles from their probation officers in San Francisco, so "they end up being a problem in the community," Beemer said.

"This is in no way rehabilitating them," he said. "They are coming in and engaging in the same kind of conduct that got them sent down here."

Beemer added that "no community likes to have ex-felons. The same is true for juveniles who have committed felonies, who were engaged in criminal activity. We don't want them dumped in our community - they are not our responsibility."

Gray, the sheriff's captain, said his community is besieged by "imported" offenders who take up an inordinate amount of his department's resources.

Lidia Stiglich, president of the San Francisco commission that oversees the Juvenile Probation Department, said she was working with the mayor's office and the probation department to decide what to do with offenders the city refuses to turn over to federal immigration authorities.

"Everyone is looking at the current policies," she said. She would not comment on the San Bernardino County escapes.

With flights home and cooperation with federal authorities ruled out and the Southern California group homes off the table, Siffermann said, "We're running out of options."

Here's an option you flaming incompetent asshole... Turn them over to the Feds!

These people should - at the very very least - be fired, and preferably jailed, for illegally evading the Federal Authorities and allowing illegal alien drug dealers to escape to do harm to American citizens - all with taxpayer money.

If there is a better definition of "treason" I haven't heard it in a long long time.

A Quick Thought On The Supreme Court's 2nd Amendment Decision

Here's a quick thought about the Supreme Court's decision affirming the right of Americans to bear arms in their homes...

Liberals constantly use the "well-regulated militia" argument to try to deny law abiding individuals the rights afforded to them by the 2nd Amendment. So, it's reasonable to ask... why did the framers of the constitution choose not to explicitly affirm an individual's right to keep arms for self-defense???

The answer is easy... and it is just as true today as it was over 230 years ago...

The reason why the framers of the constitution did not explicitly affirm an individual's right to keep arms for self-defense was because they felt there was absolutely no need to.

They felt that the right to defend yourself was a God given one... one that certainly could not be legislated by any government that wouldn't call itself tyrannical... and that the only people who could possibly have a problem with someone keeping personal firearms were either...

a). insane,
b). criminals themselves who didn't want to get shot, or,
c). future despots wanting a docile populace to boss around.

So Mr. Liberal... which are you?

Perhaps it's d). all of the above!