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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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