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2. I thought Runner was there for an Anti Illegal Alien Rally not part of a Tea Party Rally, this is where misunderstandings come into play. When you start putting everything and anything in the mix. KISS! No one knows what is going on or why they are there. 3. I say screw the people of SCV. What a bunch of idiots! All they are talking about is the incident with the Pastor/Runner/Frank. Not one mention of the fact that at the start of the Rally we were INVADED. A group of foreign nationals INVADED the rally site, speaking in a foreign language as they chanted Si Se Puede, (YES WE CAN) Si Se Puede and carrying signs in a foreign language. One woman barked, “We work so hard”.
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UPDATED: Santa Clarita council candidate arrested for alleged rape of 14-year-old girls
Santa Clarita City Council candidate Johnny Pride was arrested March 4 on suspicion of raping multiple victims younger than 18. Dan Watson (The Signal) By Signal Staff Posted: March 5, 2010 10:54 a.m. POSTED March 6, 2010 12:41 a.m. 1 Image Santa Clarita City Council candidate Johnny Pride has been arrested on suspicion of raping two 14-year-old girls, a sheriff's report said. Pride, 26, of Valencia, was booked on charges of rape, lewd conduct with a minor, sodomy, oral copulation of a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, the report stated. He is expected to appear in court Monday. The exact details of the alleged crimes could not be released because the victims were minors, said sheriff's Detective Brian Hudson of the Special Victims Bureau, which is heading up the investigation. Detectives arrested Pride on Thursday at 5:37 p.m. He was being held in lieu of $500,000 bail. Pride was arrested just hours after participating in a candidates' forum at a Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Pride, a model and actor, has appeared in at least two reality television shows, including "The Conveyor Belt of Love," in which he wore only bikini briefs and held a dog, and in "The Battle of the Bods," which showed Pride wearing only boxer-briefs. During his campaign for City Council, he said he works often with children and claimed to have started a nonprofit organization to bring them school supplies. However, the group he described was never registered with the state, as nonprofits are required to do. Pride worked briefly for the William S. Hart Union High School District at Canyon High School in 2008 for less than a month, said district spokeswoman Pat Willett. He was a walk-on coach and a substitute campus supervisor, though it was not clear which sport he coached, she said. Just after he announced his candidacy, Pride's MySpace profile listed his hometown as "YOUR MOMS (sic) VAGINA" and his occupation as "Your moms (sic) boyfriend!" He later changed his profile and told The Signal his MySpace profile had been hacked. At the SCV Chamber of Commerce candidates' forum, Pride spoke about his involvement with the city's youth and families. Jackie MacDougall, the co-founder of SCVmomsblog.com, asked all the candidates why they were the best choice for families. Pride responded: "Two years ago, I was a member of the city, state and national (Parent Teacher Association) and I have coached for the last three years in the city and I have dealt with numerous mothers," Pride said. "And I'll tell you what, I‘ve never seen a more active group." The crowd laughed. "Well, in a different way I've dealt with them, not in that way. I've heard their concerns and I know their struggle for safety, and they want the best for their children and I have dealt with that first-hand. So I know what they are looking for, and that is why I think I would be a great representative for the mothers out here." Signal staff writers Jonathan Randles, Marianne Love and Brandon Lowrey contributed to this report.
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Not so fast, Reza Mitch Bruckner Newhall Posted: March 4, 2010 10:57 p.m. POSTED March 5, 2010 4:55 a.m. Regarding "Kellar should be applauded" (The Signal, Feb. 20): "When you cross our borders without permission, you are here illegally and are not entitled to any benefits - period, end of discussion. It's very black and white in my book; no gray area," Mary Reza wrote. Really? What if someone here illegally, is robbed of his or her hard-earned day's pay and is shot in the chest? Should they be denied medical benefits? Illegal immigration is a complicated problem. Like all complicated societal issues, solutions require careful thought and responsible leadership. Economic issues have always been the driving force behind immigration to this great land. Like all the immigrant families that have preceded them, our Mexican neighbors come here with the dream of earning a living and proudly assimilating. Economics, not liberal politics, is at the root of the difficulties we are now encountering with our most recent generation of immigrants. "It's about time someone locally spoke out publicly about our illegal immigration problem. Yes, it's crippling us financially and culturally. It's a fact, folks," Reza wrote. Not so fast. Many U.S. companies and residents alike derive financial benefit from illegal immigration. Personally, what I believe is crippling our nation is a broken political system which caters only to the rich and powerful. The world's financial titans pull all the strings of our elected dummies, hoarding all the money, while the middle class receives less and less basic services. Race-baiting effectively distracts the mob from what is harming us most, turning us against one another while nothing ever changes. No finance reform despite a world teetering on financial collapse. No health care reform. No money for education. Not even immigration reform. Only corporate bailouts. It is our broken, corrupt political system that is crippling us. Not illegal immigrants. Stoking the ugly, racist instincts of the voting mob accomplishes nothing of value for society. I believe Bob Kellar is a good man and I'm glad he is on our City Council. The silly debate concerning his recent comments is an unfortunate distraction.
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One thing I have seen over the years is a tendency for people to judge others (both favorably and unfavorably) in occupations and conditions they themselves have never experienced. Some of the worst are managers and supervisors who have never engaged in the occupations they are overseeing, but people of every stripe somehow become "experts" concerning occupations they have never experienced. And, the greater the wealth of one who passes judgment, the less understanding there is. As well with the working class, if someone has a larger wage rate than "I", then that person doesn't really earn his money and rather than aspire to "His" income, "I" will demand that he be brought down to "mine". The old 19th century Robber Baron quote - "I can hire half the working class to kill the other half".
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[/QUOTE] Not one mention of the fact that at the start of the Rally we were INVADED. A group of foreign nationals INVADED the rally site, speaking in a foreign language as they chanted Si Se Puede, (YES WE CAN) Si Se Puede and carrying signs in a foreign language. One woman barked, “We work so hard”. [QUOTE]
Now there's an intelligent observation. How very true that under the collective nose's of SCV politicians and a state Senator these people made their appearance and harassed Americans who held in their possession a legal document to occupy the area they were in. Under the watchful eyes of the LA county Sheriff's the illegals and their supporters did indeed harass us by arrogantly and illegally (once here illegally everything they do is illegal) invade our space. The incident was a demonstration of everything that is wrong with politicians and law enforcement today. |
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Second case, in Lynwood (protesting a luncheon speech given by former Mexican President Vicente Fox, the Sherriff's Dept. pinned legal and law abiding citizens between the street and a hostile group of illegals, one of which pulled up his shirt revealing a pistol tucked in the waist band of his pants. When advised that this gangbanger had brandished a weapon, a Deputy REFUSED to do anything about it. Further, while the law abiding and legal citizens were exercising their Constitutionally protect right to free speech on PUBLIC property, the illegal aliens, and their spawn were on private property. The only place where LE was even remotely interested in assisting citizens exercising their First Amendment right was in Simi Valley. Law enforcement is either unable or unwilling to protect American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights from the illegal rabble that has invaded our country.
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