Oscars turn into blatant homosex-fest

WND ACADEMY AWARDS 2009
Oscars turn into blatant homosex-fest
'You will have equal rights federally across this great nation of ours'
Posted: February 22, 2009
10:37 pm Eastern

By Joe Kovacs
© 2009 WorldNetDaily


Dustin Lance Black

The Oscar winner for best original screenplay used his acceptance speech as a pro-homosexual soapbox tonight, promoting same-sex marriage and federal equal rights for "gays" and lesbians.

Dustin Lance Black won his Academy Award for writing "Milk," the story of Harvey Milk, the first openly homosexual man to be elected to major public office in America. Milk was portrayed by Sean Penn in the film set in San Francisco in the 1970s. Penn was awarded the Oscar for best actor.

The emotional Black stated in his acceptance speech:

When I was 13 years old, my beautiful mother and my father moved me from a conservative Mormon home in San Antonio, Texas to California, and I heard the story of Harvey Milk. And it gave me hope. It gave me the hope to live my life. It gave me the hope one day I could live my life openly as who I am and then maybe even I could even fall in love and one day get married.

I wanna thank my mom, who has always loved me for who I am even when there was pressure not to. But most of all, if Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he'd want me to say to all of the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told that they are less than by their churches, by the government or by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights federally, across this great nation of ours.

Thank you. Thank you. And thank you, God, for giving us Harvey Milk.

Sean Penn also promoted the homosexual agenda during his own acceptance speech for best actor, saying, "We've got to have equal rights for everyone."

He first addressed the audience as "You Commie homo-loving sons of guns."



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Supreme Court decides if aliens liable for using stolen citizen identities

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Illegal: 'No clue fake IDs belong to Americans'
Supreme Court decides if aliens liable for using stolen citizen identities
Posted: February 23, 2009
10:58 pm Eastern

By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily


(photo: FBI)

The Supreme Court is considering whether illegal aliens who have used fake Social Security numbers can escape federal aggravated identity theft charges – including a mandatory two-year sentence – by simply claiming they never knew the identity belonged to a real person.

In 2000, illegal alien Ignacio Carlos Flores-Figueroa of Mexico used a bogus Social Security number and resident alien card to get a job with a steel company in East Moline, Ill. He worked under a false identity for six years and then decided to begin using his real name and another fraudulent Social Security number.

His employer notified U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and authorities found Flores-Figueroa's aliases belonged to U.S. citizens.

The illegal alien was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2006, and he pleaded guilty to two counts of misuse of immigration documents and one count of illegal entry into the United States.

However, he refused to plead guilty to aggravated identity theft under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A – a federal statute that mandates a two-year prison term for anyone who "knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person."

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa convicted Flores-Figueroa of two counts of aggravated identity theft, and sentenced him to a prison term of 51 months for the misuse of immigration documents and entry without inspection offenses and a consecutive 24-month prison term for aggravated identity theft.

Flores-Figueroa claims he is not at fault because he "had no intention of stealing anyone's identity" when he purchased numbers from a person in Chicago who sells sham IDs.

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So, with Kevin Russell of Howe & Russell representing him, the illegal alien took his case to the Supreme Court.

On Wednesday, in Flores-Figueroa v. United States, the court will hear arguments on whether an illegal alien who fraudulently uses identification can be charged under the statute without proof that he knew the ID was stolen.

An estimated 8 million U.S. citizens become victims of identity theft every year. The case could protect illegal aliens from prosecution if the Supreme Court rules they cannot be charged under the federal statute unless prosecutors can prove they knew their fraudulent IDs belonged to American citizens.

Acting Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler wrote in the brief that the federal statute is meant to "provide enhanced protection" for victims of identity theft.

"The harm the victim suffers when her identity is so misused bears no necessary relationship to the perpetrator's awareness of her existence," he wrote.

Los Angeles attorney Stephen Masterson supported Kneedler's position, stating that the question of whether an illegal alien knows he is stealing an existing identity is irrelevant because "the havoc wrecked on the victim's life is the same either way."

But Flores-Figueroa and at least 20 illegal alien activist groups, defense lawyers and privacy experts are claiming the federal statute only applies to identity thieves who use stolen information to empty bank accounts and incur bills in other people's names – not illegals who use American identities to find work.

The government has applied the statute to aliens caught using phony identification during immigration raids. Illegals are often given the opportunity to plead guilty to lesser immigration charges and submit to immediate deportation rather than face prosecution as identity thieves.

Chuck Roth, litigation director for the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago, accused the government of using the federal statute as "a bludgeon" to coerce illegals into pleading guilty to lesser charges and agreeing to leave the country.

Flores-Figueroa's lawyers told the Associated Press, "When a person makes up a Social Security number, having no idea whether it belongs to someone else, it is hard to see how that conduct qualifies as 'theft' much less 'aggravated theft.'"

The Philippines will slaughter 6,000 pigs

MANILA, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The Philippines will slaughter 6,000 pigs at a hog farm north of the capital Manila to prevent the spread of the Ebola-Reston virus, health and farm officials said on Monday.

But the government has lifted a quarantine on a second hog farm after tests by experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO), World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and Food and the Agriculture Organisation (FAO) showed no more signs of the disease.

The country has more than 13 million heads of swine and the discovery of Ebola-Reston on two hog farms north of Manila was isolated, the government said.

"There is ongoing viral transmission in Bulacan ... as a precautionary measure, depopulation will be carried out in the Bulacan farm," Health Secretary Francisco Duque told reporters, referring to the farm just north of Manila.

The government said 6,000 pigs would be killed, burned and buried as experts sought to determine the source of Ebola-Reston in pigs as well as pig-to-pig and from pig-to-human transmission. Duque said 147 human samples have been tested for Ebola, but only six have tested positive. But all six remain healthy, he added.

"Ebola-Reston poses a low risk to human health at this time," Duque said.

It is the first time the virus has been found outside monkeys and the first time it has been found in pigs. The virus had previously jumped from monkeys to humans but this was the first case of a jump from hogs.

The Ebola-Reston virus was found in the Philippines as early as the late 1980s and 25 people were found infected after contact with sick monkeys. But only one developed flu-like symptoms and later recovered. (Reporting by Manny Mogato; Editing by Sugita Katyal)