Renee Rodriguez's bond was revoked this morning and is closer to where he belongs!
"Assistant state attorney Adam McMichael said there was "probable cause" to charge him with driving under a suspended license, leaving the scene of a fatal crash, and "ultimately, DUI manslaughter," in Wednesday's crash."
Friday, February 13, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Day Laborers with Murky Immigration Status for Hire in Lake Worth
Day Laborers with Murky Immigration Status for Hire in Lake Worth
By Amy Guthrie in Business, Palm Beach
Post your opinion regarding our day labor center's success on the link below.
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Running from Vehicular Manslaughter!
As reported tonight Rodriguez has been stopped twice before for driving with a suspended drivers license! As we can see this did little to deter Rodriguez from getting behind the wheel and cause this fatal crash. He should be jailed without bond and the maximum penalty imposed......No mercy for this low life!
"Sun Sentinel
February 12, 2009
A 23-year-old man ran a red light in an SUV early Wednesday, crashed into a car and killed the driver, then tried to escape, investigators said. But a witness caught him.
Renee Rodriguez, of Lake Worth, was headed south on Federal Highway about 6 a.m. when he crashed into a Toyota driven by JoAnn Padilla, 49, of West Palm Beach, east on Lake Avenue, deputies said.
Rodriguez then tried flee but hit Padilla's car again, as well as several street signs and a pole before stopping, deputies said. He ran on foot, but a witness caught him and brought him back to the scene, the Sheriff's Office said.
Padilla died at the scene. Charges are pending against Rodriguez. Investigators suspect alcohol was a factor in the crash."
We can only hope that justice is served!
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Obama and Democratic Stimulus Sellout
"Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA"
IT'S FINAL -- Stimulus Jobs Have to be Shared with Illegal Aliens -- Banks Can Replace U.S. Workers
All protections for U.S. workers were stripped from the Stimulus Bill tonight. Illegal aliens can be hired at the same rate as usual.
House Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Reid and the Obama White House were absolutely certain about one thing for the House/Senate negotiating committee on the Stimulus Bill:
* There was to be no special restriction to keep illegal aliens from getting new jobs created by the bill at a cost of $250,000 to $500,000 each."
FAX to Obama via NumbersUSA:
President Barack Obama
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Obama:
The American people are hurting and instead of helping them, you have decided to work against them by working behind closed doors to modify the economic stimulus package. I hope you realize that your actions have harmed millions of American workers.
How can you and your Democratic colleagues on the Stimulus Package Conference Committee oppose two House amendments that would protect American and legal immigrant workers and a Senate amendment that would prevent banks which have received stimulus funds from importing unnecessary H-1B foreign workers? Don't you want to help America's struggling, less fortunate, and downtrodden?
The House amendments would have reauthorized the E-Verify system for a period of five years and mandated its use by any business or locality that receives stimulus funds. How can you find these amendments so objectionable? Don't you wish to help unemployed Americans? The E-Verify system is tried and tested and has a 99.5% success rate; it is the best tool American workers have in ensuring they receive a fair chance at acquiring a job. Or would you rather ensure that illegal alien workers have a fair chance of receiving tax-payer funded stimulus jobs?
The Senate amendment, cosponsored by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Charles Grassley, would have prevented banks that receive stimulus funds from hiring H-1B workers for a period of one year. This would ensure that American workers are the first to receive stimulus-funded jobs in financial institutions. What part of this amendment did you find so objectionable?
One of your major campaign promises was to run the White House in an open and honest fashion. I do not believe that holding meetings behind closed doors with the intent of harming American workers is the best way for you to live up to these promises.
Go to NumbersUSA link on right to send your fax!
...
IT'S FINAL -- Stimulus Jobs Have to be Shared with Illegal Aliens -- Banks Can Replace U.S. Workers
All protections for U.S. workers were stripped from the Stimulus Bill tonight. Illegal aliens can be hired at the same rate as usual.
House Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Reid and the Obama White House were absolutely certain about one thing for the House/Senate negotiating committee on the Stimulus Bill:
* There was to be no special restriction to keep illegal aliens from getting new jobs created by the bill at a cost of $250,000 to $500,000 each."
FAX to Obama via NumbersUSA:
President Barack Obama
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Obama:
The American people are hurting and instead of helping them, you have decided to work against them by working behind closed doors to modify the economic stimulus package. I hope you realize that your actions have harmed millions of American workers.
How can you and your Democratic colleagues on the Stimulus Package Conference Committee oppose two House amendments that would protect American and legal immigrant workers and a Senate amendment that would prevent banks which have received stimulus funds from importing unnecessary H-1B foreign workers? Don't you want to help America's struggling, less fortunate, and downtrodden?
The House amendments would have reauthorized the E-Verify system for a period of five years and mandated its use by any business or locality that receives stimulus funds. How can you find these amendments so objectionable? Don't you wish to help unemployed Americans? The E-Verify system is tried and tested and has a 99.5% success rate; it is the best tool American workers have in ensuring they receive a fair chance at acquiring a job. Or would you rather ensure that illegal alien workers have a fair chance of receiving tax-payer funded stimulus jobs?
The Senate amendment, cosponsored by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Charles Grassley, would have prevented banks that receive stimulus funds from hiring H-1B workers for a period of one year. This would ensure that American workers are the first to receive stimulus-funded jobs in financial institutions. What part of this amendment did you find so objectionable?
One of your major campaign promises was to run the White House in an open and honest fashion. I do not believe that holding meetings behind closed doors with the intent of harming American workers is the best way for you to live up to these promises.
Go to NumbersUSA link on right to send your fax!
...
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Honorable protesters don't whine..Panagioti Tsolkas!
I couldn't begin to write this as well as the Dan Moffett from the Palm Beach Post so I will quote the article as written:
"Dishonoring civil disobedience
By Dan Moffett
Palm Beach Post Columnist
Sunday, February 08, 2009
What name does not belong?
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mahatma Gandhi. Cesar Chavez. Panagioti Tsolkas.
If you answered Gandhi, you're right. All the others are Americans. But you get extra credit if you answered Panagioti Tsolkas. The others understood the power of civil disobedience and used it to force social reforms. For Mr. Tsolkas, Palm Beach County's most devoted anarchist, civil disobedience means throwing a public tantrum to show contempt for things he is certain deserve contempt. For him, that amounts to just about everything.
Last week, Mr. Tsolkas, 27, began serving a 60-day jail sentence for three misdemeanor convictions from a protest last February against Florida Power & Light's West County Energy Center project. He and dozens of others tied themselves together with chicken wire and formed a human chain that shut down Southern Boulevard for hours. It took about 100 sheriff's deputies to reopen the road.
Mr. Tsolkas and his followers, including a protester who got 30 days, left the courtroom claiming that County Judge Laura Johnson had committed an unconscionable breach of justice. How was it, they complained, that two "community activists" received jail time for minor charges such as unlawful assembly and trespassing?
"This is the United States of America!" cried one supporter. Apart from its geographic precision, the remark was an unwittingly appropriate reflection of the moment in historical context. Judge Johnson's sentences were as American as it gets, and extended the legacy of the many distinguished and committed citizens who have gone to jail for acts of civil disobedience.
The difference between the ranks of the legitimately committed from other eras and Mr. Tsolkas' camp, however, is in the whining. Honorable protesters don't whine; they accept the consequences of their decision to break minor laws in order to advance higher causes.
In fact, the willingness to go to jail and sacrifice personal freedom for greater purpose is a common characteristic of all great activists. They wouldn't pout over a 60-day sentence they knew they had coming. Mr. Tsolkas and his associates deserved what they got because they had prior convictions for other minor offenses. Five other Everglades Earth First! protesters who had no records got probation. The judge was sublimely reasonable.
The FPL protest may have been nonviolent but it also was disruptive and expensive. It frustrated commuters and left taxpayers with at least $50,000 in cleanup costs. Mr. Tsolkas and his colleagues also wasted the time of two public defenders who concocted a grandiose defense theory that linked blocking Southern Boulevard to halting global warming.
All this compromised the credibility of the protesters, who have legitimate environmental issues about the FPL plant. Instead of drawing attention to those concerns, they made themselves the story with a self-congratulatory display of slapstick narcissism.
Four years ago, Mr. Tsolkas ran for mayor of Lake Worth. Apparently, anarchism isn't what it used to be either. Mr. Tsolkas told The Post Editorial Board that, in the unlikely event he were elected, he would abolish the police department and replace it with a system where "citizens would police themselves." Afghanistan has a similar plan in place.
Lake Worth voters have made a number of questionable decisions in recent years, but rejecting Mr. Tsolkas' non-platform platform wasn't one of them. Still, he is a better candidate than a protester.
Anarchists make terrible activists. After the street theater is over, they have no second act. For Dr. King and Gandhi, the second act was all that mattered."
I don't always agree with the PB Post but this said it all so well.
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"Dishonoring civil disobedience
By Dan Moffett
Palm Beach Post Columnist
Sunday, February 08, 2009
What name does not belong?
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mahatma Gandhi. Cesar Chavez. Panagioti Tsolkas.
If you answered Gandhi, you're right. All the others are Americans. But you get extra credit if you answered Panagioti Tsolkas. The others understood the power of civil disobedience and used it to force social reforms. For Mr. Tsolkas, Palm Beach County's most devoted anarchist, civil disobedience means throwing a public tantrum to show contempt for things he is certain deserve contempt. For him, that amounts to just about everything.
Last week, Mr. Tsolkas, 27, began serving a 60-day jail sentence for three misdemeanor convictions from a protest last February against Florida Power & Light's West County Energy Center project. He and dozens of others tied themselves together with chicken wire and formed a human chain that shut down Southern Boulevard for hours. It took about 100 sheriff's deputies to reopen the road.
Mr. Tsolkas and his followers, including a protester who got 30 days, left the courtroom claiming that County Judge Laura Johnson had committed an unconscionable breach of justice. How was it, they complained, that two "community activists" received jail time for minor charges such as unlawful assembly and trespassing?
"This is the United States of America!" cried one supporter. Apart from its geographic precision, the remark was an unwittingly appropriate reflection of the moment in historical context. Judge Johnson's sentences were as American as it gets, and extended the legacy of the many distinguished and committed citizens who have gone to jail for acts of civil disobedience.
The difference between the ranks of the legitimately committed from other eras and Mr. Tsolkas' camp, however, is in the whining. Honorable protesters don't whine; they accept the consequences of their decision to break minor laws in order to advance higher causes.
In fact, the willingness to go to jail and sacrifice personal freedom for greater purpose is a common characteristic of all great activists. They wouldn't pout over a 60-day sentence they knew they had coming. Mr. Tsolkas and his associates deserved what they got because they had prior convictions for other minor offenses. Five other Everglades Earth First! protesters who had no records got probation. The judge was sublimely reasonable.
The FPL protest may have been nonviolent but it also was disruptive and expensive. It frustrated commuters and left taxpayers with at least $50,000 in cleanup costs. Mr. Tsolkas and his colleagues also wasted the time of two public defenders who concocted a grandiose defense theory that linked blocking Southern Boulevard to halting global warming.
All this compromised the credibility of the protesters, who have legitimate environmental issues about the FPL plant. Instead of drawing attention to those concerns, they made themselves the story with a self-congratulatory display of slapstick narcissism.
Four years ago, Mr. Tsolkas ran for mayor of Lake Worth. Apparently, anarchism isn't what it used to be either. Mr. Tsolkas told The Post Editorial Board that, in the unlikely event he were elected, he would abolish the police department and replace it with a system where "citizens would police themselves." Afghanistan has a similar plan in place.
Lake Worth voters have made a number of questionable decisions in recent years, but rejecting Mr. Tsolkas' non-platform platform wasn't one of them. Still, he is a better candidate than a protester.
Anarchists make terrible activists. After the street theater is over, they have no second act. For Dr. King and Gandhi, the second act was all that mattered."
I don't always agree with the PB Post but this said it all so well.
Link
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