30 | July | 2014 | The PPJ Gazette

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“State terrorism can be useful, if a perceived enemy, contrived or real, can be blamed for something. A decided public perception can thus be cultivated and massaged or shaped, as well as fear that permits the state to act in the way it desires–though highly objectionable otherwise– to alleviate the perceived threat” James Hufferd, “Troublesome Country”

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By: Shelley Kais

Ms. Kais is a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District. http://www.shelleykaisforcongress.com/

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What most Americans don’t yet understand is that the arrival of tens of thousands of Central Americans is no surprise: not to the President, not to the federal government’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), not to the many other federal agencies whose budgets have increased in recent years in preparation for it, and not to Congress, which approves those budgets.