Well, maybe.  Right now, the White House / President Obama is making noise that all of these illegal alien kids that have been violating our border aren’t “illegal immigrants”, they’re not even “migrants.”  Based on his say so, they are ALL deemed to be “refugees from crime, violence, and drugs” even as they face the same pressures and ills of, oh say, two thirds of the planet’s populations.  Not to add fire to the pile, but that seems to also describe Chicago under his sidekick’s reign as Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel.

Not waiting for our “national discussion on immigration” to happen (especially as it pertains to Congress and, you know, creating actual LAW!), as he is wont to say (or stealing from his other minion, the impeached head of Obama’s DOJ, AG Eric Holder, who called us all cowards when it came to talking about race – nice way to set THAT discussion), it looks like Obama has already put another set of wheels in motion in pre-deciding how that “national discussion” is going to end up…

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I’ve been blogging about Dover, NH and the concerns and eventual outcomes that injecting (either by resettlement or the later chain migration that will happen) up to 3,000 Congolese refugees into a city with merely 30,000 residents.  An Obama “fundamental transformation” to be sure.  I caught this over at Instapundit who quoted Eugene Volokh (law professor and blogger) on the nature of open borders / and a “no constraints” immigration:

I think, though, that the “Pilgrims = Illegal Aliens” equation illustrates the exact opposite. The whites immigrated to America — and took over the place. (I’m glad they did, but I can surely understand why the Indians might have disagreed.) Likewise, Jews immigrated to Palestine (adding vastly to the numbers already present), sometimes illegally — and eventually there were more Jews in some parts than Arabs, so Jews started running the place. Now Israelis are sensibly objecting to Palestinians’ asserted “right of return” to their and their parents’ homes, because if enough Palestinians are allowed to immigrate into Israel, they’ll start running the place.

The bottom line is that for all the good that immigration can do (and I’m an immigrant to the U.S., who is very glad that America let me in, and who generally supports immigration), unregulated immigration can dramatically change the nature of the target society.

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From Glen Reynolds, a pithy observation:

2014: GOP Counting on ‘Motivated Base,’ Courting ‘Low-Propensity Voters’ to Win This Fall. They’ll do better if the Republican apparat — I’m looking at you, NRSC — doesn’t piss off the base with racial attacks on Tea Party candidates. You know?

Indeed.  So I followed the link:

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The Union leader is reporting the Democrats abrupt 180-degee-Kabuki-Dance-Walk-Back of the Hassan Administrations Tax grab.   Long story short–the Hassanistas have “pulled their request off the table,” and Democrats are trying to spin it.

Allow me to cut through the Democrat BS for you.

Hassanista Bureaucrats claimed the existing rules for ground leases have expired.  They are just (innocently?) “going to the legislature” with their proposal to “clarify” the rules for taxing ground leases, you know, because they expired.  That is what they are supposed to do,  mmmm-Kay?   And they say the rules were poorly constructed.

Poorly as in, they didn’t tax as many people or tax them as often as Governor Hassan and the Democrats would have liked?

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NH State Rep Leigh Webb (D): “The role of government is to legislate behavior“

And that is not the expression of one that values or cherishes Freedom; instead, it is THE  seedling of Totalitarianism.  Obamacare, ObamaZoning – different facets of the same evil – those that have the hubris of incomplete knowledge that feel they have the right to demand how others should live their lives.   This, from RedState talks how Obamacare is incompatible with one of our Constitutional Republic’s main Pillars…

Sidenote: Sorry to keep sounding like Johnny One-Note lately, but I don’t think that our Republic’s philosophical underpinnings get enough conversations.  Progressives prefer it that way – they can use emotion to win at the surface level of a debate – but ONLY at the surface level.  They are, generally speaking, unable to debate vigorously and in depth, because once the centralized totalitarian nature of their philosophy is exposed, they cannot defend it.  That said, if anyone on the Left side of the aisle wants to come on GrokTALK!, we’ll treat you fairly – we ARE about the debate!

…that of The Rule of Law (emphasis mine):

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Let’s assume for a moment that the members of the NH Legislature that voted for HB 1360 (Restricting the use of cell phones in motor vehicles) are almost, but not quite as smart as they think they are.

Even under these more than gracious circumstances, voting to ask law enforcement to randomly fine people in New Hampshire, for engaging in conversation with an electronic device, when holding that device up to their ear, in their motor vehicle, while driving, a practice the majority of them have engaged in thousands of times individually, millions and millions of times collectively each year without incident, must be viewed in its proper context.  It is an arbitrary tax on talking.

There was never conclusive evidence of any sort that a cell phone ban would reduce accidents or save lives by itself so what else could it be?

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Dr. Silverman stopped a spree killer by choosing to exercise his second amendment rights, despite a Delaware County hospital campus policy prohibiting firearms.  Dr. Silverman shot Richard Plotts after Plotts chose the victim zone and opened fire, killing a case worker.  Plotts just assumed he would have a force monopoly.  Turns out he was wrong.

Silverman, like many conceal carry permit holders, ignore these arbitrary requests to disarm, and with good reason.

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In response to our post on Dover having to receive 3000 “refugees” being plopped here courtesy of our kind, caring Federal Government (that Democrats said that “Government is the only thing we all belong to” (no choice at’all)), a new blog to me sent a link:  Refugee Settlement Watch and they did a commentary on our post – so we are far from being alone on this:

Forget what you hear about local communities having no say, whether tiny historic Dover or surrounding towns will become new resettlement sites for Africans, Asians and Middle Easterners will all depend on the turnout and the questions asked (and answers given!) at an upcoming public meeting scheduled for Dover city hall August 13th, 7 p.m.

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Well, it seems that the notice of the Federal government, probably via some “Social Services Organization” (formerly a charity that has lost its way and has been “captured” by the lure of taxpayer money) trying to move up to 3, 000 refugees into Dover (10% of the population – you think that amount of folks would not “fundamentally transform” that city?) has caught a bit of the viral stuff.  From an interested reader, an link on some stories.  I found this one, sent along as well, to be more informational:  January 2014: Cultural Orientation Resource Center, The Congolese Caseload (begin page 3): http://www.resettlement.eu/sites/icmc.tttp.eu/files/CAL_CongoleseBackgrounder_013014_highres.pdf (I have downloaded the doc):

DEMAGRAPHIC — The Congolese caseload is relatively young, with nearly 55% under the age of 18 and an additional 18% between the ages of 18–25. Only slightly more than a quarter of the caseload is over the age of 25, and only 3% of the population is 50 years of age or older, a stark indicator of the hardships this population has suffered. There are slightly more females (51%) than males (49%) in the caseload. …

UNACCOMPANIED MINORS — The Congolese minor caseload includes unaccompanied and separated minors of all ages (below 18 years of age). 

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“…but they won’t move them to new communities where its citizens demand answers to the all important questions“

BREAKING – I got a little birdie singing in my ear that the planned meeting with the Dover City Council has been called off: “…GraniteGrok has moved the needle again“.  From my earlier post comes the above line from Refugee Resettlement Watch – now we know it is true.  Which also means that, once again, when ordinary citizens shine big powerful Flashlights on a concern that they feel is wrong, they can accomplish EXTRAordinary results.  Flip that around – isn’t rather sad that our Elites, our own Government, feels that they must sneak around in the dark corners and hallways of our country to do things.

Sidenote: Wasn’t it President Obama who proclaimed that HIS Administration would be the most open and transparent EVAH??  Guess that got “fundamentally transformed” as well, huh?

Anyways, this is just BREAKING – we are awaiting more confirmation on this news.  It also seems that I was right about “formerly called a charity now a mere Social Services Organization” being involved with this.  According to the birdie, it may well be the Lutheran Social Services bunch out of MA – I call them a “Seagull

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