By Rachel Ehrenfeld

Rachel Ehrenfeld--sued in Britain for exposing the evils of Islam!

Paul Williams has lived in Pennsylvania all his life. Yet with pretrial proceedings that begin today, Canadian libel laws now threaten to ruin him financially.

Williams is a National Book Award-winning writer whose 2006 éxposé, “The Dunces of Doomsday,” revealed potential terrorist threats to the United States emanating from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Although the book was published only in the U.S., he’s being sued for libel in Canada by the university, which is demanding an apology and $2 million in damages.

Williams is just the latest entry on an increasingly long list of victims of “libel tourism” – a list that includes me. In this chilling assault on American free speech, “libel tourists” use foreign laws and courts, which lack America’s robust First Amendment protections, to try to silence American authors and force them into financial ruin.

Congress has the power to stop this dangerous tide, if it acts now.

Williams’ reporting centered on the penetration of McMaster’s College of Engineering by alleged Al Qaeda operatives. When the suspected terrorists left the school in 2004, 180 pounds of nuclear waste went missing. The U.S. government issued a “be-on-the-lookout” order and posted a reward of $5 million for each suspect.

Yet for daring to write about the threat, Williams is now being sued across the border. And Canadian libel laws are notoriously plaintiff-friendly.

The same is true in Brazil, where Joseph Sharkey, a New Jersey-based freelance business columnist, is being sued for reporting about the aftermath of a plane crash he survived over the Amazon. The plaintiff is a woman who maintains Sharkey offended the “dignity” of Brazil by criticizing its incompetent air-traffic control. She is demanding $500,000 and a series of international apologies. Sharkey is likely to be convicted.

In 2005, Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz sued me for libel in London; in a heavily researched book, I had alleged that he funded Al Qaeda. Mahfouz was a one-man wrecking crew of Americans’ free speech rights, who after 9/11 sued or threatened to sue dozens of American writers in plaintiff-friendly English courts. When Mahfouz came after me, I refused to acknowledge the British court, asserting my rights as a U.S. citizen. Nevertheless I was rendered a judgment by default and ordered to pay Mahfouz more than $250,000 and destroy the book.

We must stop this assault on free speech.

Fortunately for Williams, Pennsylvania is represented by U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who wrote and introduced the Free Speech Protection Act of 2009. The bill would protect American writers and publishers from foreign libel judgments rendered in countries lacking America’s free speech protections.

New York was the first state to pass an anti-libel tourism law, with similar laws following in Florida and Illinois. But these patchwork protections don’t do nearly enough. Congress needs to intervene.

Specter’s bill, co-sponsored by Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), is now idling in the Judiciary Committee. President Obama should urge its immediate passage – before more American journalists are silenced by foreign courts.

Ehrenfeld, author of “Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed – and How to Stop It,” is director of the American Center for Democracy.

by Paul Williams

Schumer: “Borders Now Secure”

$1 Trillion in Extra Health Care Costs

Charles Schumer (D-NY), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says that the borders are now “secure enough to move forward on immigration reform.”

Mr. Schumer’s statement comes on the heels of the murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent Robert Rosas, who was gunned down by members of a Mexican smuggling ring in July.

Five suspects have been taken into custody by Mexican law enforcement officials.

Immigration reform for Mr. Schumer, according to the Minuteman PAC, is the granting of full amnesty to all illegal aliens who live within the U.S.

Mr. Schumer pledged that his committee will have the new bill ready by Labor Day.

Agent Rosas, 30 years-old, leaves behind a wife and two young children who may grow up wondering why the government their father swore an oath to serve left him under-equipped to handle the violent flood of illegal aliens, crime, and drugs coming at him every day.

Mr. Schumer’s proposal, according to the Minuteman PAC, represents amnesty for the 12 to 32 million illegal aliens who have already made their way into the United States.

An outline of the plan has been endorsed by President Barack Obama. “My administration is fully behind an effort to achieve comprehensive immigration reform,” Mr. Obama said at a meeting with the bipartisan group of legislators. “What’s also been acknowledged is that the 12 million or so undocumented workers are here–who are not paying taxes in the ways that we’d like them to be paying taxes, who are living in the shadows, that that is a group that we have to deal with in a practical, common-sense way.”

Mr. Schumer says that the new legislation will be ready for congressional consideration before Labor Day.

The measure for amnesty will circumvent and curtail concerns over health care for the illegal Latinos.

Overnight they will become resident aliens with full rights to all government programs, including welfare, social security, and health care.

The measure, according to the Minutemen, will cost the U.S. taxpayers more than $1 trillion.

Despite the enormous ramifications of Mr. Schumer’s proposed legislation, it has attracted little attention from major American news outlets.

The Immigration Reform Bill will impose a new national worker identification system on all U.S. residents. Mr. Schumer says that the system “must have the strictest privacy and civil liberties protections, and must only be used for employment,” not other federal ID purposes.

But the Senator was silent on whether the government would maintain a database of fingerprint or other biometric information on all workers, or if data could be locked into a portable card or other microchip-bearing device held by an individual.

Situation Worsens–Back Door Remains Open

by Paul Williams, a No Compromise Media Contributor

The Real Face of Obama's Open Immigration Policies

Something bad is taking place at the border.

“We’re seeing a lot of MS-13,” says Agent Mike Scioli of the U.S. Border Patrol. “They’re typically known to be guns for hire, they’re known to smuggle narcotics and human traffic across the border illegally.”

MS-13 stands for Mara Salvatrucha, the most violent street gang in the western hemisphere.

Last week Border Patrol agents arrested two MS-13 members: one in Tucson and one in Nogales.

The Nogales arrestee was identified by his tattoos – - the letter M on his right bicep; the letter S on his left; the number 1 on his right triceps; the number 3 on his left.

“He was already deported from Los Angeles back to Mexico and he was attempting to re-enter to join back up with his gang,” Scioli says.

Tucson’s Border Patrol Sector is the busiest in the U.S. Last year its agents arrested about 317,000 illegal immigrants. Scioli says 16 percent, or almost 50,000, had some type of criminal record.

But the presence of MS-13 merits special concern.

They specialize in transporting arms and drugs across the border. Most of the weapons come from El Salvador – - the homeland of most of the gang members – - where a hand grenade sells for $10; an M-16 rifle for $200; and an AK-47 for $1,500. The Maras have made a fortune by purchasing such weapons and selling them to members of other street gangs throughout the U.S.

In recent years, the Maras have taken over drug routes that had been established by other Latino gangs. At present, nearly 90 percent of the cocaine and marijuana that flows into the states comes from Mexico and the lion’s share from the trafficking remains under the control of MS. The drug business is so brisk that the gang has set up large warehouses to store the illicit drugs in Matamoros, Mexico, just south of Brownsville, Texas.

Along with importing, the Maras also engage in exporting stolen goods from the U.S. to Latin America – - including massive amounts of baby formula, health and beauty supplies, cologne and perfume, and diabetes test strips from Texas; electronics from Arizona and California; and automobiles from nearly every state in the Southwest.

According to gang investigators from the District Attorney’s Office in Orange County, California, 80% of the cars on the streets of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have been stolen from the United States by members of Mara Salvatrucha.

Thousands of MS members now occupy prison cells from Maine to California for such crimes as trafficking in illegal narcotics, home invasion, burglary, carjacking, extortion, witness intimidation, rape and murder, including the assassinations of three federal agents.

Many migrants who want to cross the 1,820 mile border between Mexico and the United States must come to terms with more than three thousand MS gang members who keep watch over the border crossings like turkey vultures.

The going rate for safe passage is $5,000. Families without the requisite cash are compelled to relinquish all their possessions – - family heirlooms, gold necklaces, silver bracelets, wedding rings, even their shoes and sombreros. Those with neither money nor tangible goods must come up with other offerings, including the sexual favors of their wives and children.

Those who resist payment are often hacked to pieces or tossed from moving trains. “There are hundreds who are pushed off trains by the Maras if they resist the robberies,” says Asdrubal Aguilar Zepeda, the Salvadoran counsel in Tapachula, Mexico, near the Guatemalan border. The bodies and body parts of dead migrants are often strewn along the railroad tracks from Tapachula to the northern regions of Mexico.

By controlling the leading passageways into the U.S., Mara Salvatrucha has transmogrified into a multimillion dollar enterprise, and, by so doing, has become a leading international Mafia.