John Stirrup has nominated Robert Duecaster, one of the authors of the Immigration Resolution, as an appointee to the Strategic Task Force for PWC. He will sit on the Health and Human Services Committee if approved. Let me quote from Mr. Duecaster as best I can:
“This issue is not really about immigration or illegality or legality, it’s not about economics, I’m going to tell you right now what it’s about. It’s about an invasion of this country. This county is being invaded no less than if hordes of armed people were coming across its border. This invasion is not armed, but they’ve got weapons. The weapons they use are their anchor babies.”
“Mark these words, we are going to repel this invasion, one way or another. You can part of that repulsion or be on the other side.”
Mr. Duecaster is the secretary for Help Save Manassas, which is recognized by The Southern Poverty Law Center as a “Nativist” group. In addition to this label, the Anti-Defamation League has now added Save the Old Dominion AND Help Save Manassas to their list of “Extremist” anti immigrant organizations. You will see that Mr. Duecaster uses many of the code words that ADL lists as tools to move extremist rhetoric into the mainstream. I find this nomination unaccpetable! What is John Stirrup thinking?
A closer look at the public record reveals that some of these supposedly mainstream organizations have disturbing links to, or relationships with, extremists in the anti-immigration movement. Often identified in the media or their mission statements as “anti-illegal immigration advocacy groups,” they attempt to distort the debate over immigration by fomenting fear and spreading unfounded propaganda through the use of several key tactics:
Describing immigrants as “third world invaders,” who come to America to destroy our heritage, “colonize” the country and attack our “way of life.” This charge is used against Latinos, Asians and other people of color.Using terminology that describes immigrants as part of “hordes” that “swarm” over the border. This dehumanizing language has become common.
Portraying immigrants as carriers of diseases like leprosy, tuberculosis, Chagas disease (a potentially fatal parasitic disease), dengue fever, polio, malaria.
Depicting immigrants as criminals, murderers, rapists, terrorists, and a danger to children and families.
Propagating conspiracy theories about an alleged secret “reconquista” plot by Mexican immigrants to create a “greater Mexico” by seizing seven states in the American Southwest that once belonged to Mexico.
Blaming immigrants for eroding American culture, institutions and quality of life and impacting our environment and natural resources.
This anti-immigrant propaganda and rhetoric, once the domain of hate groups, is now part of the lexicon used by anti-immigration advocacy organizations, politicians and media figures considered mainstream.
In this report, part of a series of reports on immigration and extremism, ADL exposes those individuals and groups who are playing a key a role in mainstreaming extremist rhetoric in the immigration debate in various aspects of American life.
NGL, I don’t know. I’ve been thinking about it this afternoon and I don’t believe that the other supervisors would ordinarily vote against the apointment, mostly for shortsighted, selfish reasons. The dynamic in this particular instance is a little different however. Such a course of action might have some appeal for a variety of different reasons, revenge for the manner in which the resolution was ramrodded, positioning for anyone coveting the chairmanship, personal differences with John, embarassment over the nomination, etc., etc., etc. Citizens Time speeches, e-mails and the such may actually work if delivered in sufficient volume and if supported by his statements both written and video. Here’s where it gets tricky though, you have to engender and demonstrate disgust with the nomination across the political spectrum both in terms of affiliation and experience. For example, and I probably take my life in my hands here, if you could somehow get NOVA Scout and Jim Young to agree that the nomination is not in the best interests of the county or the local GOP, you might actually get some traction.
Now JY, I can see you getting beet red and firing off a response but stop and think about it, does this nomination really advance the party at a local level and given his propensity for untoward remarks do you believe that what is likely to be the constant presence of Mr. Duecaster in the press as a result of his participation on the committee will aid or hinder the party either in the short term or in next years GA elections.
I can think of very few BOCS appointments that should be as opposed as Robert Duecaster’s. Setting aside all the volatile accusations of his both during Citizens Time at the BOCS meetings and as Advocator on BVBL, he started in motion a resolution that set the residents of this county up as financial, social, legal guinea pigs for an organization/lobbying firm that was all too willing to use us as such. We are now paying Robert Duecaster’s (and HSM’s,Stirrup’s,Stewart’s,Letiecq’s,FAIR’s) bill and it has cost the county residents dearly in the waste of our tax dollars, the animosity created among residents, the diminishment of our reputation, and the fear planted in some of our residents. This has been an extraordinary year – and not in a positive way – and the bigot behind our present predicament absolutely should NOT be rewarded with any appointment. If anything, he should join the Community Service crew (?) that picks up roadside trash – let him make a small dent in the garbage he’s heaped on this community.
John Stirrup shows himself to be an unrepentant co-conspirator in this disaster as well. I find it hard to believe that there are no worthier residents of the Gainesville district for this appointment.
“Look at it this way – can you think of anyone who has a greater need than Ducaster to be locked in a room full of therapists and social workers?”
LMAO!!!!!!!
He’d never make it out alive…….
Mom, I do think if we got up and read Duecaster’s quotes at citizen time, it would digust most rational people or at least embarass them that this is who Stirrup chose.
Mom, would Duecaster really be in the press a lot as a result of being on this committee? That would be a public relations disaster! (Funny how that word keeps coming up when we discuss this man.) Honestly, I’ve never heard of who these committee members were in prior years. Has it really shaken down that way in the past?
And, sorry to ask but who is Jim Young NOVA Scout and how do we reach out to them?
I suspect that he would use the committee meetings as a forum and that an otherwise uninterested press will show up just for the circus factor. As to JY and NOVA Scout, I merely use them as an example of opposite ends of the spectrum, albeit opposite ends of the GOP spectrum, that needs to be encompassed. In this instance, its not enough to demonstrate disgust from its usual source in the middle or on the left, you have to demonstrate a disdain for the appointment from elements of the right and particular those conservative elements embodied by JY. I’m generally from the same region of the political spectrum as he but he has certain local bona fides that I do not.
Jack Ledden (Social Services) and Tom Geib (CSB) are some mighty smart guys. They could make Duecaster squirm without breaking a sweat.
But as Elena says this horrid appointment should be highlighted.
Oh wow he spoke some politically incorrect truths. Better attack him, quick, before people find out they have the option to speak what they see and feel.
Thanks for the info, “Mom.” I agree with you it has to come from all sides. Do you feel strongly enough to write them an email?
Rick Bentley, what would it take for you to oppose bigotry as a foundation for county policy? Is there anything we could say to convince you?
Excellent points mom!
It’s not about bigotry, with me. I think though we are being invaded. The invasion is aimed at degrading wages in America and focusing wealth into the hands of land and business owners and away from the rest of us.
I guess that’s not the same position Duecaster has but he and I do want the same thing. A voice for the American people in what our laws are and whether they are enforced.
You make a good arguement Elena but I think the 14th Amendment and the bizarre interpretation of it that our government is using does lead to and is leading to chaos. I think that’s the real issue here.
Rick, you say it is not about bigotry for you.
But let me just accept at face value that you think it’s about economics.
Mr. Duecaster said it was NOT about economics. He said it’s about an invasion. It’s about “internationalization” which he says with more hate than I have ever witnessed in person.
Isn’t that sad that the most hate I have ever witnessed in person is at the place where we are supposed to feel welcome to participate in government?
What does that say if hate is such a welcome emotion that a man this hateful is invited to write our laws and are strategic plans?
But back to Rick’s notion that he agrees with Duecaster.
I don’t understand anyone making an economic argument AGAINST immigration, or against the legalization of immigration at a level that is sufficient enough to meet our labor needs. But let’s say there is an economic argument AGAINST immigration. Duecaster says that’s not his concern. So there he doesn’t represent you.
And you say you it is not about bigotry for you. If that is true, how do you feel when a man who represents himself in public as a bigot is chosen to represent you in government? Is that a fair representation of your views?
Or, do the ends justify the means?
Rick likes to jerk chains.
It says what it says. Seems pretty clear to me. One of the first tests was back in 1898, United States vs. Wong Kim Ark. This was not a recent decision.
Mom, you make some excellents points. I have not seen NOVA scout post here, I am very sorry to say. He presents a balanced point of view and is an exceptionally talented writer. If you know how to get him here, please go for it. Does NOVA scout live in the county or in Fairfax?
Hey, perhaps Duecaster isn’t as dangerous or as deranged as he seems! He takes Gospel Greg down a notch in his Citizens’ Time speech from Tuesday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wChlNMk0oZY
That was all for show. Greg is dangerous because he is a cult leader and a bully. He operates on spin and grain of truths. He is excellent at what he does, I will hand him that much.
I guess that John Stirrup is now a part of that “repulsion’ of which Robert Duecaster spoke. Repulsion is exactly what I feel in knowing that someone on the BOCS would appoint this man.
If you take all of his internet posts and put them aside, you are still left with the film footage of his speeches. Duecaster hatefully refers to “anchor babies,” indicates that he advocates a “one way or another” (a.k.a. by any means necessary) stance on getting illegal immigrants out of Prince William, says that he thinks fear in the community is “overdue,” states that he thinks PWC will be degraded to “a third-world slum” unless his resolution is funded, and lies when he says that the only people in this county against the resolution are the ones profiting from illegal immigration.
You can’t tell me for one minute that John Stirrup is unaware of this footage. In any case, he was IN THE ROOM when all of these things were said. Thus, his appointment of Robert Duecaster indicates to me that Stirrup finds Duecaster’s language and palpable display of hatred completely acceptable. Stirrup is effectively telling PWC that its decisions should be made based on hate. He has forged a relationship with yet another vitriolic fear monger, and has now given said person a position of public power.
This is a new low…
DG,
You anaylsis, point by point, is outstanding. We don’t need his written word, his televised speeches are enough. Duecaster finds it incomprehensible that average citizens, with no personal gain, would find people like him AND his tactics, reprehensible. John Stirrup has insulted not only the citizens of this county, but he demoralized himself. History will demonstrate that John and Corey were part of a bigoted movement and I truly will feel sorry for them when they see how history portrays them through their deeds and their words. Certainly there is a discussion to be had regarding immigration, fair wages, and stress on specific localities, but their approach was pandering to a segment that only cares about hate and fear mongering.
I am sure there have been others in history who thought everyone was with them and that their ideas were right on the mark. We are still reading about them in history books and time has not been kind nor are their actions looked upon with favor.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that in today’s world calling children ‘vermin,’ groups of people ‘invaders,’ or stating ‘…emergency room anchor babies are sucking the lifeblood out of our County (sic)…,” is not not polite talk. This is hate speech.
Do we need someone giving input into human services when that someone speaks of HUMANS as sucking the life-blood out of our county?
Is this the solution Mr. D will propose or is he just posturing when he says “Buy guns and ammo during the hiatus Mando. They scare the $hit out of liberal politicians, fat broads, and illegal invaders.”
Any one of our supervisors who might vote yes for approval this appointment should be targeted in the next election cycle for removal. Mr. Duecaster and his long paper and film trail is unfit for any public position in our county, IMHO.
Mr. Stirrup needs to recind his own appointment and appoint a citizen of the Gainesville District who is more mainstream. Mr. Stirrup has given his district the finger– Flipped us the bird.
“how do you feel when a man who represents himself in public as a bigot is chosen to represent you in government?”
That arguably happens all the time. But if the statements are pro-Latino or pro-black, I’m expected to sit, enjoy it, and say thank you at the end.
Why does the statement have to be pro-latino or pro-black? Why do statements need to be pro or con anything? I would prefer to deal with the behavior and leave race or culture out if possible.
Many of us have private opinions that might not agree with our friends, neighbors, and fellow-Prince Williamites. However, smart people don’t leave a paper trail, much less a film trail.
Rick, what does your wife think of what you just said? (raising an inquisitive eyebrow)
Rick,
Can you give me some specific examples of what you mean. Are you suggesting that those who are systematically disrcriminated against, and speak out for equal rights, are somehow ANTI of another group?
Duecaster’s comments may be injudicious, but I do believe our whole way of life is indeed under attack. So I support his nomination to any committee, until and unless he does something in that position that I can’t agree with.
Remember, if I had the income and the family situation to bail out of here, I would have done so 2 years ago. I don’t want to live in the (Spanish) ghetto that was developing around me. Does it make me a bigot that I resent the lawless behavior all around me that made my neighborhoods unfriendly, unsafe, and loud? Some would say yes.
Due to people like Stirrup and Duecaster, I’m comfortable here again. No one got shot. No one got beat up by police or thugs. No bombs were planted. No public campaign against Latinos or anyone else was ever undertaken. All that happened were that some people got deported and some people got told they can’t pack several families into single-family townhouses illegally.
Bigotry is in the eye of the beholder. I don’t think we have established bigotry here in PWC. I don’t think the rule of law is bigoted.
If Stirrup wants to put someone on a committee, I support his decision. He’s fighting for me.
Honestly, ask yourself, what would the 7-11 on route 1 look like now if we all had embraced the illegals instead of working to reduce their numbers? My guess is it would either be standing room only in the parking lot among other nearby businesses, or a vacant building that serves no one. A drive down the Woodbridge section of route 1 is hardly a model of what I want my community to emulate! Wake up and admit that things were spiraling out of control regardless of the country from which these folks came. We don’t need thousands of unskilled low wage workers in one small section of any county, otherwise it will indeed start to become a place similar to the ghettos from whence they came. This is just a fact of life. People usually live the way they are used to living regardless of the location.
Okay, so now I just finished watching the video of this past Tuesday’s public meeting (thank you ShellyB) and my response is this: what in the world is going on down there in Prince William County? It’s astounding.
While I thought it was nice for Corey Stewart to declare September 15 – October 15, 2008 as Hispanic Heritage Month in Prince William County, his comments later are a spit in the face to the county’s Hispanic community.
He pointed out that 4.5% of the interviews for the county Satisfaction Survey were done in Spanish and then had the indecency to ask if any of those interviewees were legal residents.
What in the world does one have to do with the other?
It was a clear display of his latent prejudice against Hispanics, demonstrated by his identification of “Spanish” with “illegal” (and it is well documented how Corey feels about “illegal” immigrants).
It’s disgusting.
What you have in Prince William County, my friends, is a good old fashioned witch hunt.
“Can you give me some specific examples of what you mean. Are you suggesting that those who are systematically disrcriminated against, and speak out for equal rights, are somehow ANTI of another group?”
Governor Kaine on SWaM : “I’m not yet happy where the numbers are for women-owned and minority-owned businesses. The numbers have improved pretty steadily since I came in, but they are still not at the level that I am happy with.” I.e. I need not apply.
“Governor Tim Kaine has appointed a local health district director to a new state health department position. Doctor Michael Royster will serve as director of Minority Health and Public Health Policy at the Virginia Department of Health. Royster, a native of Fairfax, will coordinate the agency’s efforts in addressing health disparities. ” I.e. I’m too healthy and if another group of people are less healthy because they’ve earned less income collectively or engaged in high-risk behaviors to a greater extent per capita or have less money in part because of skyrocketing out-of-wedlock birth rates, we need to diminish my health care to make theirs better.
Kaine’s opposition to 287(g) = selective enforcement of the law based on his groveling for “foreign investment” to prop up his spending plans. I should live next to a houseful of 20 crammed in and making my life worse so as to make some foreign conglomerate feel better?
Kaine’s original position on in-state tuition for illegal immigrants – biased against legal citizens rather obviously. But I guess they’re mostly privileged whites, so it makes sense to Kaine.
“What in the world does one have to do with the other?”
Well, duh, if you don’t speak English (cue the Jeff Foxworthy voice) You just MAGHT be an illegal immigrant.
If you have a townhouse with 2 parking spots but there are 5 vans dropping people off at your house, you MAGHT be an illegal immigrant.
If you can’t read the signs on the highway you just MAGHT be an illegal immigrant.
If your idea of leisure activity is to sit on a stoop and drink Modestos with 5 other guys, you just MAGHT be an illegal immigrant.
If you get into a fender bender, and your reaction is to bail out of the car and run away, you might be Halle Berry, or you just MAGHT be an illegal immigrant.
Ricardo Bentley,
This is Merriam-Webster definition of ethnic cleansing is as follows:
According to the definition there are 3 important aspects:
1.Ethnic Cleansing does not require bloodshed. You said:
2.Ethnic Cleansing is the expulsion of a minority. You said:
3.Ethnic Cleansing requires that the dominant majority their ethnic homogeneity. Does anyone doubt that the new people moving into PWC are not people of color? You said:
It’s unavoidable to conclude that ethnic cleansing is what took place here. How can anyone deny it?
Mackie that is absurd to say.
“in order to achieve ethnic homogeneity ” That was neither aimed for nor acheived. And I know that the demographics on race around here bear that out.
Robb,
All I can say is you had to of been here a year or so ago. It’s easy to show distain for PWC actions as the media never will show the downside of what was happening, as it wouldn’t have been politically correct what with the people in question being a minority. Come to think of it, what group isn’t a minority today except for whites? Naturally when a majority white community complains it must be based on racism by default, so say the detractors.
Rick if the people whose behaviour you didn’t like were not ethnic, and the only people who supported you on repelling this in “invasion one way or another,” were those who couldn’t afford to move away from a handful of neighbourhoods with loud non-ethnic music and crowded houses, the parade of irate Citizens Time screamers would not have materialised.
I doubt it would have interested men like Letiecq or Duecaster.
If you had been feeling helpless in this non-Duecaster violent outburst on Ch23, non-Letiecq automated fax and email blast to Supervisors, non-racial social issue, would you have been the one to rally the hatred and bigotry that was necessary to bully the Supervisors into voting against the better angels of their nature and ours?
What if, say, a religious witch hunt would do the trick … a propaganda campaign to convince people who don’t live in such neighbourhoods to scream at Citizens Time anyway, because the non-ethnic bad neighbors were suddenly Catholics, or Jews, or Muslims (in their minds at least)?
Even if you yourself could not possibly hate these religious groupss, and were able to claim anonymously that you were married to each, would it be ethical to spread false accusations that they are all violent criminals and that they don’t pay taxes, and to constantly harp on whatever vaguely accurate stereotypes might develop?
You’d get your non-ethnic bad neighbors to feel unwelcome and flee. The only price would be tremendous damage to our public safety (because certain religious minorities would no longer report crimes), to our economy (because we’d lose property value, sales tax, and worker output when the population falls off suddenly), and our reputation as a county to move to and invest in. You wouldn’t have to spread the non-ethnic bigotry yourself, you could recruit a hate-monger politician like Weasel John Stirrup, but motivated by religious more than racial hatred, to be the public face!
Would it be worth it to you to bring in such a politician and ruin the county while saving your neighborhood?
Of course you’d then find that over time, the houses made vacant by your expulsion would sell at bottom basement prices to slum lords who would then rent them at bottom basement prices and attract a whole new invasion of lower class neighbors for you to deal with, depreciating the value of your home forever and making it impossible to leave times two. But if you lacked the foresight to know this, would you initiate the hate campaign in order to achieve the shortsighted outcome of empty houses instead of crowded ones?
Rick,
None of your Foxworthy cues definitely prove jack.
-Not speaking English? Maybe yes maybe no.
-Bunch of vans? Maybe yes, maybe no.
-Drinking beer on the front porch? maybe yes, maybe no. Try driving down Stasburg from Lomond and take a look on your left, Hiltonian, any given afternoon. I am not sure of the brand but…definitely a bunch of beer swilling guys drinking on the front porch. Some are a lot whiter than I am.
Rick, you have some very valid complaints. I have never denied that. Taking your parking place is beyond inexcusable. Overcrowding is unacceptable. (where is your HOA?) I think you can address these concerns from a behavioral point of view rather than from a legal vs illegal point of view. You do not know who is and who isn’t.
My problem with the illegal vs legal position is simply this: You do not know who is legal and who isn’t. Because you do not know, the illegal shroud tends to cloak everyone who is hispanic(because you don’t know). Once we have done this, then we start sliding down the racist slippery slope.
In our area, this phenomena gets even dicier because our Hispanic community is 75% Salvadoran. Many Salavdorans do not speak English very well (first generation thing) and they ARE legal because of TPS visas.
“in order to achieve ethnic homogeneity ” is an unspoken goal of the axis of evil: Stirrup, Duecaster, and Leteicq (I left out Corey because he’s just a political prostitute).
It will happen by default.
The climate of fear and humiliation will be the tool.
How many families of color will want to move here when they fear their kids will grow up feeling like second class citizens? So which group will move in by default into the dirt cheap homes?
There is another point of view here. Rick, be glad your bad neighbors were Hispanic. Had they been white rednecks, they would have known their rights and told you about them every second of the day. That is what is happening now over on a street near me. Nasty ones!
At least with your Hispanic neighbors, they were here temporarily and if they were out of status, you could probably intimidate them into leaving. You can’t do that with rednecks. Rednecks are forever.
If it sounds like I am prejudice about rednecks who come in and trash up a neighborhood…bingo!
Mackie,
I think I inadvertently answered your question. it was totally unintentional. We crossed in the mail.
Rick, are you a PWC resident? If not, we (the PWC residents) are footing the bill for the Duecaster Disaster. We voted to spend money on parks, schools, libraries – not chasing our Hispanic neighbors. Duecaster and co-horts hijacked the priorities of other county residents. You know – the residents who, as voters, approved bond issues. We did not vote on or approve an immigration resolution. Our board was blindsided by a bunch of out-of-state emails into believing that they were hearing from actual citizens and they frittered away our money accordingly. If you’re not footing the bill for this fiasco, you shouldn’t be lobbying to put Duecaster on any PWC board. It would sound as though you’re trying to live off my dime.
“Rednecks are forever.”
LOL!!! Ain’t that the truth!
Hurricane Ike has demolished Texas.
The people who had citizenship ran for the hills.
But Immigrants fearing deportation, sat still and took the brunt of the blow.
http://xicanopwr.com/2008/09/as-hurricane-ike-looms-closer-immigrants-refuse-to-leave/
For immigrants in Texas, the choice is:
risk drowning vs. deportation
But the Texan Letiecq clones will find safety in a shelter far from the danger. And after the storm has passed, they will return and continue their persecution of the immigrants.
Actually, texas will need the immigrants to help rebuild so maybe they’ll delay the renewal of their persecution until AFTER the immigrants have done all the dangerous work necessary to rebuild what Hurricane Ike demolished.
Is this really any different than they way chinese workers were exploited like animals to build the railroad?
Don’t mess with Texas. Yeeehaaaaw!!!
http://www.tripso.com/today/delivered-by-a-midwife-in-south-texas-could-mean-no-passport/
Screw Texas.
Honestly, the first time I saw this video, all I thought was “what a crazy old coot”. I just figured he was some mentally unstable creton. It wasn’t until at least several weeks, if not month’s later, that I found out THIS was the person selected to draft the Resolution. To say I was shocked would be mild. What a disgrace.
And now, to find out that a member of the Board of Supervisors, in fact, the man that represents the district I LIVE IN, supports this man, his ideas and rhetoric, it’s unbelievable.
Admin,
Can we create a new thread concerning Corey Stewart’s intention to appoint Chris Royse to the Economic Development and Transportation Strategic Goals Task Force?
Chris Royse almost beat Principi last election on a platform based largely on persecution of immigrants. This guy is dangerous.
Honestly, I’ve come to the conclusion that Stirrup’s appointment of Duecaster is meant to distract us from Chris Royse’s appointment. It’s a ruse.
Chris Royse has serious political aspirations. Duecaster does not. Chris Royse is being groomed here by Stewart to beat Principi in the next election. As part of this task force, he will be making friends with some very key players.
He’s a ruthless opportunist. This is the platform he ran on. Persecution of hispanics under the color of the law in Woodbridge. It effectively would have created a police state, but only for hispanics:
http://www.alipac.us/ftopic-87773-0-days0-orderasc-.html
Mackie might be on to something with the distraction. I haven’t decided if Stirrup wanted to just give those the finger who opposed HIS resolution, since he introduced it, or if there is something more draconian.
Stirrup might have breezed through the last election cycle. Corey Riley really didn’t run much of a campaign and he got almost zero help from PWCDP. He will not breeze through this time he weaseled Duecaster into a policy-setting position.
Corey Stewart referred to many of us as blowhards. They will see what blowhards we really are when the campaigning begins. We also might be grooming a candidate that might just give Stirrup a run for his money.
If ever there was a blowhard in this county it’s Chris Royce. He’s like Corey Stewart but a little tubbier and a little dumber, and a EVEN MORE right wing fringe, I mean way out there, in his views.
Chris Royce not only appeals to Freedom Fry Voters. He IS one.
Stewart’s appointment demonstrates that at no point in his exercising of the people’s business does he consider the best interest of the county. It’s all politics, all the time for him.
Dis. Gust. Ting.
This is really awful. Did you see the new video? On the same day as Stirrup makes the nomination, there he is talking about guns and attack dogs to protect himself from who exactly…? If I were Rob Duecaster, I would have opted NOT to speak at Citizens Time that day, and hope the Supervisors wouldn’t recognize his name. What an embarrassment for Stirrup. That’s two this week. I feel ashamed to admit I voted for him.
This man needs some psychological help and soon before he blows up and hurts somebody.
“Rick, are you a PWC resident? If not, we (the PWC residents) are footing the bill for the Duecaster Disaster.”
My story is on record. I lived through the whole influx in PWC and my life suffered. I would be willing to pay much larger amounts of taxes to restore quality of life.
I wonder if the Post and our politically correct media in general showed this story from the average resident’s point of view, how many people from other areas would see it differently. The influx was huge, and illegal, and to top it off as everyone knew would happen most of the houses that were flophouses – about 10 on my block of 25 – are now so bombed out that the owners try to sell them for $100,000 less than the ones next to them sell for.
“How many families of color will want to move here when they fear their kids will grow up feeling like second class citizens?”
Around me, a lot of non-white families are moving in. And why wouldn’t they? The only people with anything to fear are the illegal ones.
WHWN, it’s not about ethnicity. Ethnicity comes into this primarily because those who defend lawlessness and overcrowding violations do so with the rationale that upholding social mores is “biased against Hispanics”. Because of that, the debate shifts to whether Hispanics are disproportionately represented in the illegal alien population and in the population of flophopuse owners and residents.
I want to mention again that I/we were quite friendly to our new neighbors circa 2004/2005 and that any bad will that happened wasn’t because we had any preconceived bias. It was because of the way people acted and the way some (not all) just didn’t give a damn about being good neighbors. As Moon-howler says, bad neighbors come in all ethnicities. However, when your neighbors are illegal, they usually have 2-3 times as many people in that house and about 2-3 times as many bad apples in your neighborhood.
Moon-howler – seriously – if one of these day laborers – or one of the miscellanious bunches of rotating characters who used to hang out at night in my neighborhood – breaks into my house and rapes a child, I should call the HOA? Seriously?
Most illegals are not child molesters but the ones who are aren’t being tracked the way citizens are, and roam with impunity.