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The Daily Media Masturbators : Cretins talking about Mexico's Fall to scare idiots - History of Colombian Capos and how they were defeated
Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha ( Alias El Mexicano ), Super billionaire Colombian Powerful Capo with dozens of big luxurious country houses was killed in 1989, from a cinematographic persecution with fast boats and helicopters, other criminals including his son died with him in this adventure in the beaches of Colombia, close to Cartagena. El Mexicano's bathroom faucets and taps were made of pure gold, and the metal pieces of the toilets too !!
Pablo Escobar was killed in year 1992, so the Colombian Government concentrated on the Cali Cartel.
In a few years "El ajedrecista" Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela and his brother where in jail. Both are in U. S. Jails now.
All these years the Colombian Government has exported lesser capos, men of less criminal power to the USA. Cargos of 20 narcos have arrived to Miami in a single DEA Airplane, all of them in chains.
The extradiction has proved to be the best weapon against Narcos.
Mexico is many times richer than Colombia.... in Economic Terms .... It is a country with a richer culture and cultural life than the South American Nation.
So I have said for years that Mexico is not going to fall ....
Enter Racist Bigots like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs, Rush Limbaugh and other less important demagogues and populists.
These people live on Hate, Fear, Paranoia, scaring fools, promoting Jingoism and UberPatriotism, that is the most foolish kind of Chauvinism and Nationalism. But can make a rich man of a perfect cretin like Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh.
They are interested in keeping an audience of "Confirmation Bias" and "Bias Confirmation" .... Fools interested in their daily masturbation of Fox News or Rush Explosions of Macho Cowboyness.
I hope that Intelligent People realize how foolish is to believe that a nation with so many resources of Honesty and Integrity as Mexico can fall pray to a few scoundrels.
If Colombia survived and defeated the Narcos and the Guerrillas ( in a 90% ) then why not Mexico ??
The Narcos that survive in Colombia are small operations, or jungle operations.
And the Media Masturbators are a bunch of undercover hypocrite racists.
Vicente Duque
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Gift for Internet Buffs : How the battle ship "Lou Dobbs" was sunk with a broadside of Facebook Torpedos from extremely small submarines - Huff Post
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Gift for Internet Buffs : How the battle ship "Lou Dobbs" was sunk with a broadside of Facebook Torpedos from extremely small submarines - Huffington Post
The Fall of an idol with clay feet :
Huffington Post
How Targeted Online Ads Helped Sink Lou Dobbs at CNN
March 5, 2010
By Colin Delany
Founder, Epolitics.com
Colin Delany is founder and editor of Epolitics.com, a website that focuses on the tools and tactics of Internet politics and online advocacy. Launched in July of 2006, Epolitics.com received the Golden Dot Award as "Best Blog - National Politics" at the 2007 Politics Online Conference. The site also features two downloadable e-books, "Learning from Obama" and "Online Politics 101."
How Targeted Online Ads Helped Sink Lou Dobbs at CNN
Some excerpts :
Gift for Internet Buffs : How the battle ship "Lou Dobbs" was sunk with a broadside of Facebook Torpedos from extremely small submarines - Huffington Post
The Fall of an idol with clay feet :
Huffington Post
How Targeted Online Ads Helped Sink Lou Dobbs at CNN
March 5, 2010
By Colin Delany
Founder, Epolitics.com
Colin Delany is founder and editor of Epolitics.com, a website that focuses on the tools and tactics of Internet politics and online advocacy. Launched in July of 2006, Epolitics.com received the Golden Dot Award as "Best Blog - National Politics" at the 2007 Politics Online Conference. The site also features two downloadable e-books, "Learning from Obama" and "Online Politics 101."
How Targeted Online Ads Helped Sink Lou Dobbs at CNN
Some excerpts :
Be sure to catch this article from the February issue of Politics Magazine, particularly if you're looking for examples of how even a relatively small online ad buy can reverberate across the media landscape. Late last year, longtime CNN host Lou Dobbs resigned due to pressure from a coalition of organizations, including media watchdogs and groups representing Latinos and immigrants. Lacking a huge budget, the organizers used a strategy planned to leverage their limited money into as much news coverage as possible. According to Josh Koster and Tyler Davis, online advertising gurus working with the coalition and the authors of the Politics Mag piece:
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Not long thereafter, Dobbs was history at CNN. The lessons from this second example of clever Facebook ad targeting we've seen this week? First, integration is key -- these ads weren't floating out in a vaccuum but were part of an overall communications strategy that included the proposed television ad, online petitions and direct outreach to journalists and the outlets they read. Second, the size of the audience you reach online matters a lot less than reaching the RIGHT audience, in this case not just reporters but also bloggers and activists who could help spread the word and keep the pressure on CNN.
Finally, careful targeting can make your campaign seem omnipresent and a far more potent force than it might actually be -- on the internet, even a tiny dog can bare some big teeth. And in this case, put a big bite on a powerful opponent and sent him scurrying home, tail between his legs.
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Not long thereafter, Dobbs was history at CNN. The lessons from this second example of clever Facebook ad targeting we've seen this week? First, integration is key -- these ads weren't floating out in a vaccuum but were part of an overall communications strategy that included the proposed television ad, online petitions and direct outreach to journalists and the outlets they read. Second, the size of the audience you reach online matters a lot less than reaching the RIGHT audience, in this case not just reporters but also bloggers and activists who could help spread the word and keep the pressure on CNN.
Finally, careful targeting can make your campaign seem omnipresent and a far more potent force than it might actually be -- on the internet, even a tiny dog can bare some big teeth. And in this case, put a big bite on a powerful opponent and sent him scurrying home, tail between his legs.
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The Magnetic Poles are reversing polarity - The North Pole will be the South Pole - And Cruel Racist Barack Obama is going to oppress the White Underd
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The Magnetic Poles are reversing polarity - The North Pole will be the South Pole - And Cruel Racist Barack Obama is going to oppress the White Underdogs beginning with the tanning tax
The World is going to be subjected to Total Changing of Everything in Magnetism, Poles and Everything.
The Polar Bears will have to migrate to the South Pole and the penguins to the North Pole that will be the South Pole.
And the Anti-Christ Barack Obama is going to oppress the White People - Having White Milk Skin will be like wearing a Yellow Star in the Ghettos of Poland under the Nazis, when the Jews were waiting for their bath in Auschwitz, Treblinka or Dachau.
In fact Obama already began his performance as anti-Christ by imposing a tax on tanning inside spas and beauty clinics.
This is Helter Skelter, but not like Charles Manson wanted it with a war between Blacks and Whites but with the subjection of Whites peacefully by changing the Supreme Court ( Obama already began with Super Racist Sonia Sotomayor ) .....
Obama is also creating the Socialist Framework for his Helter Skelter ...
So people in the tropics can enjoy the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis.
The Australians will not be Down-There but Up-There.
The Canadians will be Down-There.
The Scottish will wear blue jeans and the English the Kilts or Skirts.
And Brazil, Argentina and Germany will be always forever defeated in soccer. That is the part that I like most of the New Era of Aquarius.
The Teabaggers were right after all !
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The Magnetic Poles are reversing polarity - The North Pole will be the South Pole - And Cruel Racist Barack Obama is going to oppress the White Underdogs beginning with the tanning tax
The World is going to be subjected to Total Changing of Everything in Magnetism, Poles and Everything.
The Polar Bears will have to migrate to the South Pole and the penguins to the North Pole that will be the South Pole.
And the Anti-Christ Barack Obama is going to oppress the White People - Having White Milk Skin will be like wearing a Yellow Star in the Ghettos of Poland under the Nazis, when the Jews were waiting for their bath in Auschwitz, Treblinka or Dachau.
In fact Obama already began his performance as anti-Christ by imposing a tax on tanning inside spas and beauty clinics.
This is Helter Skelter, but not like Charles Manson wanted it with a war between Blacks and Whites but with the subjection of Whites peacefully by changing the Supreme Court ( Obama already began with Super Racist Sonia Sotomayor ) .....
Obama is also creating the Socialist Framework for his Helter Skelter ...
So people in the tropics can enjoy the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis.
The Australians will not be Down-There but Up-There.
The Canadians will be Down-There.
The Scottish will wear blue jeans and the English the Kilts or Skirts.
And Brazil, Argentina and Germany will be always forever defeated in soccer. That is the part that I like most of the New Era of Aquarius.
The Teabaggers were right after all !
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About the Hutaree Militias and many other similar Madmen - The FBI has raided several compounds of Right Wing Terrorist Madmen preparing for Murders
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About the Hutaree Militias and many other similar Madmen - The FBI has raided several compounds of Right Wing Terrorist Madmen preparing for Murders.
Failures and Losers :
It is very sad that Innocent and Noble Policemen and FBI agents are targets of Right Wing Extremism.
The Internal Revenue Service Employees are also targets for many madmen of the NO-Government NO-Taxes Assault-Weapons everywhere absurd ideology.
More repulsive and repugnant is that these right wing extremists target the families, wives, children, grandmothers of policemen or federal employees and agents.
These are the same madmen with the same ideology as Tim McVeigh that killed many children to "liberate" America ( that is to enslave people with his idiotic ideas ! ).
Tim McVeigh always considered these children as "Collateral Damage" and never repented until executed.
I feel a lot of repugnance for all those around the world that consider Children, Women and the Old as "Collateral Damage" after performing their repugnant COWARD TERRORISM of Mass Murder. Even if they allege noble ideals.
I hope that the FBI indicts and accuses these people and put them in jail for many years. For their own safety and that of all Policemen, Federal Agents, Federal Employees and even common citizens.
Nobody is secure in his life or properties while these madmen are free. Many years ago mostly Blacks were the victims of the Ku Klux Klan, now everybody is a potential victim of the grandsons or greatgrandsons of the KKK Cowards.
These Cretins and Idiots are more repugnant for saying that they are Christians. The message of Jesus of Nazareth was a message of Peace and Love.
Talking of the Apocalypse or "Revelation" only tells me how big is the consumption of Alcohol and Drugs and how deteriorated are they in their brains.
These people are boxes filled with inferiority complexes, Hate, Racism, Family Dysfunctionality, Revenge against Life, Hate for the Other and the Otherness. They are failures and losers in Business, Love, Family Life, Social Life, Jobs, Professional Life, etc ...
They have no better idea than Violence !
Vicente Duque
About the Hutaree Militias and many other similar Madmen - The FBI has raided several compounds of Right Wing Terrorist Madmen preparing for Murders.
Failures and Losers :
It is very sad that Innocent and Noble Policemen and FBI agents are targets of Right Wing Extremism.
The Internal Revenue Service Employees are also targets for many madmen of the NO-Government NO-Taxes Assault-Weapons everywhere absurd ideology.
More repulsive and repugnant is that these right wing extremists target the families, wives, children, grandmothers of policemen or federal employees and agents.
These are the same madmen with the same ideology as Tim McVeigh that killed many children to "liberate" America ( that is to enslave people with his idiotic ideas ! ).
Tim McVeigh always considered these children as "Collateral Damage" and never repented until executed.
I feel a lot of repugnance for all those around the world that consider Children, Women and the Old as "Collateral Damage" after performing their repugnant COWARD TERRORISM of Mass Murder. Even if they allege noble ideals.
I hope that the FBI indicts and accuses these people and put them in jail for many years. For their own safety and that of all Policemen, Federal Agents, Federal Employees and even common citizens.
Nobody is secure in his life or properties while these madmen are free. Many years ago mostly Blacks were the victims of the Ku Klux Klan, now everybody is a potential victim of the grandsons or greatgrandsons of the KKK Cowards.
These Cretins and Idiots are more repugnant for saying that they are Christians. The message of Jesus of Nazareth was a message of Peace and Love.
Talking of the Apocalypse or "Revelation" only tells me how big is the consumption of Alcohol and Drugs and how deteriorated are they in their brains.
These people are boxes filled with inferiority complexes, Hate, Racism, Family Dysfunctionality, Revenge against Life, Hate for the Other and the Otherness. They are failures and losers in Business, Love, Family Life, Social Life, Jobs, Professional Life, etc ...
They have no better idea than Violence !
Vicente Duque
Monday, March 29, 2010
New York Times : Frank Rich : History of Social Legislation, Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Present Agitation on Health Care has a lot of Old Racism
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New York Times : Frank Rich : History of Social Legislation, Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Present Agitation on Health Care has a lot of Old Racism
New York Times
The Rage Is Not About Health Care
By Frank Rich
March 27, 2010
The Rage Is Not About Health Care
Some excerpts :
New York Times : Frank Rich : History of Social Legislation, Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Present Agitation on Health Care has a lot of Old Racism
New York Times
The Rage Is Not About Health Care
By Frank Rich
March 27, 2010
The Rage Is Not About Health Care
Some excerpts :
When Social Security was passed by Congress in 1935 and Medicare in 1965, there was indeed heated opposition. As Dana Milbank wrote in The Washington Post, Alf Landon built his catastrophic 1936 presidential campaign on a call for repealing Social Security. (Democrats can only pray that the G.O.P. will “go for it” again in 2010, as Obama goaded them on Thursday, and keep demanding repeal of a bill that by September will shower benefits on the elderly and children alike.) When L.B.J. scored his Medicare coup, there were the inevitable cries of “socialism” along with ultimately empty rumblings of a boycott from the American Medical Association.
But there was nothing like this. To find a prototype for the overheated reaction to the health care bill, you have to look a year before Medicare, to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Both laws passed by similar majorities in Congress; the Civil Rights Act received even more votes in the Senate (73) than Medicare (70). But it was only the civil rights bill that made some Americans run off the rails. That’s because it was the one that signaled an inexorable and immutable change in the very identity of America, not just its governance.
The apocalyptic predictions then, like those about health care now, were all framed in constitutional pieties, of course. Barry Goldwater, running for president in ’64, drew on the counsel of two young legal allies, William Rehnquist and Robert Bork, to characterize the bill as a “threat to the very essence of our basic system” and a “usurpation” of states’ rights that “would force you to admit drunks, a known murderer or an insane person into your place of business.” Richard Russell, the segregationist Democratic senator from Georgia, said the bill “would destroy the free enterprise system.” David Lawrence, a widely syndicated conservative columnist, bemoaned the establishment of “a federal dictatorship.” Meanwhile, three civil rights workers were murdered in Philadelphia, Miss.
That a tsunami of anger is gathering today is illogical, given that what the right calls “Obamacare” is less provocative than either the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or Medicare, an epic entitlement that actually did precipitate a government takeover of a sizable chunk of American health care. But the explanation is plain: the health care bill is not the main source of this anger and never has been. It’s merely a handy excuse. The real source of the over-the-top rage of 2010 is the same kind of national existential reordering that roiled America in 1964.
In fact, the current surge of anger — and the accompanying rise in right-wing extremism — predates the entire health care debate. The first signs were the shrieks of “traitor” and “off with his head” at Palin rallies as Obama’s election became more likely in October 2008.
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They can’t. Demographics are avatars of a change bigger than any bill contemplated by Obama or Congress. The week before the health care vote, The Times reported that births to Asian, black and Hispanic women accounted for 48 percent of all births in America in the 12 months ending in July 2008. By 2012, the next presidential election year, non-Hispanic white births will be in the minority. The Tea Party movement is virtually all white. The Republicans haven’t had a single African-American in the Senate or the House since 2003 and have had only three in total since 1935. Their anxieties about a rapidly changing America are well-grounded.
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But there was nothing like this. To find a prototype for the overheated reaction to the health care bill, you have to look a year before Medicare, to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Both laws passed by similar majorities in Congress; the Civil Rights Act received even more votes in the Senate (73) than Medicare (70). But it was only the civil rights bill that made some Americans run off the rails. That’s because it was the one that signaled an inexorable and immutable change in the very identity of America, not just its governance.
The apocalyptic predictions then, like those about health care now, were all framed in constitutional pieties, of course. Barry Goldwater, running for president in ’64, drew on the counsel of two young legal allies, William Rehnquist and Robert Bork, to characterize the bill as a “threat to the very essence of our basic system” and a “usurpation” of states’ rights that “would force you to admit drunks, a known murderer or an insane person into your place of business.” Richard Russell, the segregationist Democratic senator from Georgia, said the bill “would destroy the free enterprise system.” David Lawrence, a widely syndicated conservative columnist, bemoaned the establishment of “a federal dictatorship.” Meanwhile, three civil rights workers were murdered in Philadelphia, Miss.
That a tsunami of anger is gathering today is illogical, given that what the right calls “Obamacare” is less provocative than either the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or Medicare, an epic entitlement that actually did precipitate a government takeover of a sizable chunk of American health care. But the explanation is plain: the health care bill is not the main source of this anger and never has been. It’s merely a handy excuse. The real source of the over-the-top rage of 2010 is the same kind of national existential reordering that roiled America in 1964.
In fact, the current surge of anger — and the accompanying rise in right-wing extremism — predates the entire health care debate. The first signs were the shrieks of “traitor” and “off with his head” at Palin rallies as Obama’s election became more likely in October 2008.
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They can’t. Demographics are avatars of a change bigger than any bill contemplated by Obama or Congress. The week before the health care vote, The Times reported that births to Asian, black and Hispanic women accounted for 48 percent of all births in America in the 12 months ending in July 2008. By 2012, the next presidential election year, non-Hispanic white births will be in the minority. The Tea Party movement is virtually all white. The Republicans haven’t had a single African-American in the Senate or the House since 2003 and have had only three in total since 1935. Their anxieties about a rapidly changing America are well-grounded.
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
"First they came for the socialists and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. - Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not spea
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"First they came for the socialists and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me."
German Pastor Martin Niemöller in 1946.
Martin Niemöller's
famous quotation:
"First they came for the Communists"
What did Niemoeller really say?
Which groups did he name?
In what order?
a page by Harold Marcuse, UC Santa Barbara
created Sept. 12, 2000, last updated Dec. 26, 2009
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/niem.htm
Excerpt :
In 1931 Niemöller became a pastor in a wealthy Berlin suburb. As a German nationalist he initially supported Hitler, but as the Nazis began to interfere in church affairs, he moved into opposition. In 1934 Niemöller founded first the Pfarrernotbund (Pastors' Emergency League), then the Bekennende Kirche (Confessing Church), a branch of the German Protestant (Lutheran) Church. In 1937 he was arrested because of his outspoken sermons, and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In 1941 he was moved to Dachau, where he stayed until the end of the war.
Vicente Duque
"First they came for the socialists and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me."
German Pastor Martin Niemöller in 1946.
Martin Niemöller's
famous quotation:
"First they came for the Communists"
What did Niemoeller really say?
Which groups did he name?
In what order?
a page by Harold Marcuse, UC Santa Barbara
created Sept. 12, 2000, last updated Dec. 26, 2009
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/niem.htm
Excerpt :
In 1931 Niemöller became a pastor in a wealthy Berlin suburb. As a German nationalist he initially supported Hitler, but as the Nazis began to interfere in church affairs, he moved into opposition. In 1934 Niemöller founded first the Pfarrernotbund (Pastors' Emergency League), then the Bekennende Kirche (Confessing Church), a branch of the German Protestant (Lutheran) Church. In 1937 he was arrested because of his outspoken sermons, and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. In 1941 he was moved to Dachau, where he stayed until the end of the war.
Vicente Duque
Killing a dog is a graver offense : Six Coward Terrorist kicked a man to death and are as free as birds - Police Obstruction of Justice, Corruption
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Killing a dog is a graver offense : Six Coward Terrorist kicked a man to death and are as free as birds - Police Obstruction of Justice, Corruption, Extortion - Redneck Orgy of Satisfaction
Last news from Shenandoah Pennsylvania :
Luis Ramirez, a small man, was killed by Six Football Players, in Shenandoah Pennsylvania in July 2008. He did not provoke them, it was a racist murder.
"While the men yelled racial epithets at Ramirez, they punched and kicked his head and body so severely that he lay foaming at the mouth with two skull fractures.
Once Ramirez was on the ground he was continually kicked until brain matter leaked from his skull."
Please read the Hate Comments of people that write to the "Republican Herald" .... It seems that the Six Coward Perpetrators should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ... They have become heroes for many people in Shenandoah Pennsylvania as many racist meetings and demonstrations attest this fact.
Those comments and many others in other Forums are a Redneck Orgy of Satisfaction !
The Happy times when Racism no longer exists !
Republican Herald
Pottstville Pennsylvania
Federal trial set for Shenandoah men charged with hate crime
By Peter E. Bortner
March 27, 2010
Federal trial set for Shenandoah men charged with hate crime
Some excerpts :
Killing a dog is a graver offense : Six Coward Terrorist kicked a man to death and are as free as birds - Police Obstruction of Justice, Corruption, Extortion - Redneck Orgy of Satisfaction
Last news from Shenandoah Pennsylvania :
Luis Ramirez, a small man, was killed by Six Football Players, in Shenandoah Pennsylvania in July 2008. He did not provoke them, it was a racist murder.
"While the men yelled racial epithets at Ramirez, they punched and kicked his head and body so severely that he lay foaming at the mouth with two skull fractures.
Once Ramirez was on the ground he was continually kicked until brain matter leaked from his skull."
Please read the Hate Comments of people that write to the "Republican Herald" .... It seems that the Six Coward Perpetrators should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ... They have become heroes for many people in Shenandoah Pennsylvania as many racist meetings and demonstrations attest this fact.
Those comments and many others in other Forums are a Redneck Orgy of Satisfaction !
The Happy times when Racism no longer exists !
Republican Herald
Pottstville Pennsylvania
Federal trial set for Shenandoah men charged with hate crime
By Peter E. Bortner
March 27, 2010
Federal trial set for Shenandoah men charged with hate crime
Some excerpts :
Two Shenandoah-area men now know when and where their federal hate-crime trial will begin in connection with the fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant.
Derrick M. Donchak, 20, of Shenandoah, and Brandon J. Piekarsky, 18, of Shenandoah Heights, must appear at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 4 in Courtroom 3 of the Max Rosenn United States Courthouse, Wilkes-Barre, for the start of their trial, which could put each behind bars for life.
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The federal trial will represent the second time the men will have faced charges resulting from the beating of Luis Eduardo Ramirez Zavala.
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A Schuylkill County jury convicted Donchak and Piekarsky on May 1, 2009, of simple assault and alcohol-related offenses, while acquitting both of more serious crimes, including third-degree murder in Piekarsky's case.
Schuylkill County President Judge William E. Baldwin, who presided over that five-day trial, on June 17 sentenced Donchak to seven to 23 months in prison and Piekarsky to six months and seven days to 23 months behind bars. Each man has been paroled from Schuylkill County Prison and both are on home detention, which restricts them to their residences except for work, education, church, medical treatment, lawyer visits, court appearances and other approved activities.
Three former Shenandoah police officers, Matthew R. Nestor, William Moyer and Jason Hayes, also face charges in connection with allegedly obstructing the investigation of Ramirez's beating. Nestor, Moyer and Hayes were police chief, lieutenant and officer, respectively.
In an unrelated case, Nestor and former Shenandoah police captain Jamie Gennarini are charged with extorting money from illegal gambling operations in the borough.
All four former police officers have resigned their positions with the borough. Like Donchak and Piekarsky, they are on home detention pending the starts of their trials; Caputo, who also is presiding over those cases, has not scheduled their trial dates.
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Derrick M. Donchak, 20, of Shenandoah, and Brandon J. Piekarsky, 18, of Shenandoah Heights, must appear at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 4 in Courtroom 3 of the Max Rosenn United States Courthouse, Wilkes-Barre, for the start of their trial, which could put each behind bars for life.
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The federal trial will represent the second time the men will have faced charges resulting from the beating of Luis Eduardo Ramirez Zavala.
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A Schuylkill County jury convicted Donchak and Piekarsky on May 1, 2009, of simple assault and alcohol-related offenses, while acquitting both of more serious crimes, including third-degree murder in Piekarsky's case.
Schuylkill County President Judge William E. Baldwin, who presided over that five-day trial, on June 17 sentenced Donchak to seven to 23 months in prison and Piekarsky to six months and seven days to 23 months behind bars. Each man has been paroled from Schuylkill County Prison and both are on home detention, which restricts them to their residences except for work, education, church, medical treatment, lawyer visits, court appearances and other approved activities.
Three former Shenandoah police officers, Matthew R. Nestor, William Moyer and Jason Hayes, also face charges in connection with allegedly obstructing the investigation of Ramirez's beating. Nestor, Moyer and Hayes were police chief, lieutenant and officer, respectively.
In an unrelated case, Nestor and former Shenandoah police captain Jamie Gennarini are charged with extorting money from illegal gambling operations in the borough.
All four former police officers have resigned their positions with the borough. Like Donchak and Piekarsky, they are on home detention pending the starts of their trials; Caputo, who also is presiding over those cases, has not scheduled their trial dates.
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Friday, March 26, 2010
The New York Times editorial board, which has lashed into Steve Levy regularly, suggested that he was at least somewhat complicit in the attack that k
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The New York Times editorial board, which has lashed into Steve Levy regularly, suggested that he was at least somewhat complicit in the attack that killed Marcelo Lucero in Long Island, November 2008
Huffington Post
Phony Republicans, a New York Tradition, Live on in Steve Levy
March 19, 2010
By Dan Collins
Dan Collins is the New York Editor of the Huffington Post. A veteran journalist, Collins has worked as a correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, a reporter for the New York Daily News and a senior producer for CBSNews.com, the Web site of CBS News. His stories have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice and other publications. Collins has co-authored four books, including Grand Illusion The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11 (with Wayne Barrett); I, Koch, a biography of New York Mayor Ed Koch; In the Name of the Law, the story of former Abscam prosecutor Tom Puccio; and The Millennium Book, a book about the year 2000.
Phony Republicans, a New York Tradition, Live on in Steve Levy
Some excerpts :
The New York Times editorial board, which has lashed into Steve Levy regularly, suggested that he was at least somewhat complicit in the attack that killed Marcelo Lucero in Long Island, November 2008
Huffington Post
Phony Republicans, a New York Tradition, Live on in Steve Levy
March 19, 2010
By Dan Collins
Dan Collins is the New York Editor of the Huffington Post. A veteran journalist, Collins has worked as a correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, a reporter for the New York Daily News and a senior producer for CBSNews.com, the Web site of CBS News. His stories have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice and other publications. Collins has co-authored four books, including Grand Illusion The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11 (with Wayne Barrett); I, Koch, a biography of New York Mayor Ed Koch; In the Name of the Law, the story of former Abscam prosecutor Tom Puccio; and The Millennium Book, a book about the year 2000.
Phony Republicans, a New York Tradition, Live on in Steve Levy
Some excerpts :
The big thing that you will hear about Levy in the coming months is that he's anti-immigrant. As county executive, he proposed deputizing local cops as immigration law enforcement officers. He clamped down on efforts to organize meeting places for illegal workers so that they'd stop hanging around on street corners and in parking lots, waiting for day labor contractors to drive by. He's referred to illegal women who have children as the mothers of "anchor babies." He waved off the murder of an immigrant from Ecuador by white teenagers as a "one-day-story."
The New York Times editorial board, which has lashed into Levy regularly, suggested that he was at least somewhat complicit in the attack. When a politician tolerates "the poisonous notion that "illegal" is a stain that can never be erased, with no path to atonement, then you turn the undocumented into a permanent class of presumed criminals who have no rights," the Times said.
The state is hungry for a new kind of leadership - any kind of leadership. Levy could, at minimum, prod someone like Cuomo to really take a stand on the hard questions that face New York.
But are we ready for a leader who handles the most difficult, inflammatory issue in his community simply by giving voice the frustration of the majority? So far, there hasn't been much evidence that Levy has done anything to make the problems of illegal immigration better, and it's easy to make the case that he's made things worse.
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The New York Times editorial board, which has lashed into Levy regularly, suggested that he was at least somewhat complicit in the attack. When a politician tolerates "the poisonous notion that "illegal" is a stain that can never be erased, with no path to atonement, then you turn the undocumented into a permanent class of presumed criminals who have no rights," the Times said.
The state is hungry for a new kind of leadership - any kind of leadership. Levy could, at minimum, prod someone like Cuomo to really take a stand on the hard questions that face New York.
But are we ready for a leader who handles the most difficult, inflammatory issue in his community simply by giving voice the frustration of the majority? So far, there hasn't been much evidence that Levy has done anything to make the problems of illegal immigration better, and it's easy to make the case that he's made things worse.
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"Media Matters" : Did Newsday reassign two reporters after receiving complaints from Steve Levy, the county executive of Suffolk County, New York?
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"Media Matters" : Did Newsday reassign two reporters after receiving complaints from Steve Levy, the county executive of Suffolk County, New York? - Racist for Governor of New York
Media Matters
Is the pressure getting to Newsday?
by Joe Strupp
March 08, 2010
Is the pressure getting to Newsday?
Some excerpts :
"Media Matters" : Did Newsday reassign two reporters after receiving complaints from Steve Levy, the county executive of Suffolk County, New York? - Racist for Governor of New York
Media Matters
Is the pressure getting to Newsday?
by Joe Strupp
March 08, 2010
Is the pressure getting to Newsday?
Some excerpts :
UPDATE: Newsday responds to this article.
In a statement to the website Journal-isms, Newsday editor Debby Krenek responded to this article:
"Our coverage is determined only by sound journalistic practices and judgment. ... No one outside of our news staff influences what we cover or how we cover it. Reporters' assignments have never and will never be made based on outside requests or influence."
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Did Newsday reassign two reporters after receiving complaints from Steve Levy, the county executive of Suffolk County, New York?
Significant evidence suggests that the newspaper -- the largest daily on Long Island -- did, including Levy's own admission that he urged the paper to reassign one of the reporters.
This raises serious concerns for the paper's readers and local community leaders, who must be able to trust Newsday's coverage of politics and government.
Some community leaders and Newsday staffers say they have seen Levy's influence at work. They say he has sought to keep comments from sources critical of him out of the paper and that he pounces on the daily when anything negative is written. This could hurt Newsday's credibility, to the detriment of its real shoe-leather reporting.
Since taking office in 2004, Levy has taken a hard line with the press, a fact that has become well-known locally.
Levy has a history of criticizing Newsday's coverage -- writing lengthy letters to reporters that pick at every bit of coverage, complaining to editors, and even calling press conferences to take issue with the paper's work.
At least two reporters assigned to beats that required them to cover Levy -- Bart Jones and Chau Lam -- were reassigned in recent years after he complained about them to Newsday's management, according to sources connected to the newspaper. Neither reporter would comment on the situation for this report, and Newsday officials declined to comment as well.
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In a statement to the website Journal-isms, Newsday editor Debby Krenek responded to this article:
"Our coverage is determined only by sound journalistic practices and judgment. ... No one outside of our news staff influences what we cover or how we cover it. Reporters' assignments have never and will never be made based on outside requests or influence."
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Did Newsday reassign two reporters after receiving complaints from Steve Levy, the county executive of Suffolk County, New York?
Significant evidence suggests that the newspaper -- the largest daily on Long Island -- did, including Levy's own admission that he urged the paper to reassign one of the reporters.
This raises serious concerns for the paper's readers and local community leaders, who must be able to trust Newsday's coverage of politics and government.
Some community leaders and Newsday staffers say they have seen Levy's influence at work. They say he has sought to keep comments from sources critical of him out of the paper and that he pounces on the daily when anything negative is written. This could hurt Newsday's credibility, to the detriment of its real shoe-leather reporting.
Since taking office in 2004, Levy has taken a hard line with the press, a fact that has become well-known locally.
Levy has a history of criticizing Newsday's coverage -- writing lengthy letters to reporters that pick at every bit of coverage, complaining to editors, and even calling press conferences to take issue with the paper's work.
At least two reporters assigned to beats that required them to cover Levy -- Bart Jones and Chau Lam -- were reassigned in recent years after he complained about them to Newsday's management, according to sources connected to the newspaper. Neither reporter would comment on the situation for this report, and Newsday officials declined to comment as well.
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New York Daily News gives more information on Racist Steve Levy that would be Republican Governor of New York - Murder and Terrorism in Long Island
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New York Daily News gives more information on Racist Steve Levy that would be Republican Governor of New York - Murder and Terrorism in Long Island
New York Daily News
Levy needs more light, less heat: He should focus his campaign on fiscal issues, not immigration
By Bill Hammond
March 23rd 2010
Levy needs more light, less heat: He should focus his campaign on fiscal issues, not immigration
Some excerpts :
New York Daily News gives more information on Racist Steve Levy that would be Republican Governor of New York - Murder and Terrorism in Long Island
New York Daily News
Levy needs more light, less heat: He should focus his campaign on fiscal issues, not immigration
By Bill Hammond
March 23rd 2010
Levy needs more light, less heat: He should focus his campaign on fiscal issues, not immigration
Some excerpts :
Levy's biggest liability as a statewide candidate is his controversial track record on illegal immigration.
In what is probably America's most immigration-friendly state, Levy's often ham-handed handling of the hot-button issue could come back to bite him.
During six years as Suffolk County executive, Levy developed poisonous relations with many Latino leaders - including former friends and colleagues in the Assembly who now treat him as a pariah. His get-tough policies and callous-sounding comments convinced them and others that Levy was exploiting resentment of undocumented aliens to score cheap political points.
Some of the attacks on Levy are completely over-the-top, especially the accusation that the governor wanna-be is a racist. Levy, in fact, launched a crackdown on housing discrimination in his highly segregated county.
But whether he acquired his baggage fairly or not, Levy needs to shed it quickly and convincingly - or ethnic animosity could derail his otherwise promising campaign.
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"I am for legal immigration," he told the board. "This country has it totally backward. We make it too hard to immigrate here legally and far too easy to immigrate here illegally."
He went after overcrowded immigrant housing, he said, for health and safety reasons. He doubled-checked that county contractors didn't have illegals on their payroll, he said, so as not to cheat competitors who play by the rules.
And what about his infamous comment that the apparently bias-motivated killing of an Ecuadoran man by a gang of teenagers would have been a "one-day story" anywhere but Suffolk?
That, he explained, was a quote taken out of context after he issued multiple statements decrying the crime as a heinous act and an abomination.
The explanations are a start - but given the share of controversies of which he has been a part, he's got to keep talking to reassure voters he's not a bomb-thrower.
Step one is not to make illegal immigration an issue in this gubernatorial campaign, which he assured me yesterday he would avoid.
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When Pataki argued in The News that Levy's record will cost him Latino votes in a general election - which is undeniably true - Levy chided Pataki for "looking the other way" on illegal immigration.
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Which tells me that illegal immigration doesn't belong in the top 10 topics to be debated in this governor's race.
Which tells me that there are a lot more pressing issues the next governor should spend his time on.
Which tells me that Levy should be very careful not to demagogue the issue.
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He needs to make sure those relevant achievements, and not his close-to-the-edge immigration rhetoric, are front and center on voters' minds.
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In what is probably America's most immigration-friendly state, Levy's often ham-handed handling of the hot-button issue could come back to bite him.
During six years as Suffolk County executive, Levy developed poisonous relations with many Latino leaders - including former friends and colleagues in the Assembly who now treat him as a pariah. His get-tough policies and callous-sounding comments convinced them and others that Levy was exploiting resentment of undocumented aliens to score cheap political points.
Some of the attacks on Levy are completely over-the-top, especially the accusation that the governor wanna-be is a racist. Levy, in fact, launched a crackdown on housing discrimination in his highly segregated county.
But whether he acquired his baggage fairly or not, Levy needs to shed it quickly and convincingly - or ethnic animosity could derail his otherwise promising campaign.
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"I am for legal immigration," he told the board. "This country has it totally backward. We make it too hard to immigrate here legally and far too easy to immigrate here illegally."
He went after overcrowded immigrant housing, he said, for health and safety reasons. He doubled-checked that county contractors didn't have illegals on their payroll, he said, so as not to cheat competitors who play by the rules.
And what about his infamous comment that the apparently bias-motivated killing of an Ecuadoran man by a gang of teenagers would have been a "one-day story" anywhere but Suffolk?
That, he explained, was a quote taken out of context after he issued multiple statements decrying the crime as a heinous act and an abomination.
The explanations are a start - but given the share of controversies of which he has been a part, he's got to keep talking to reassure voters he's not a bomb-thrower.
Step one is not to make illegal immigration an issue in this gubernatorial campaign, which he assured me yesterday he would avoid.
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When Pataki argued in The News that Levy's record will cost him Latino votes in a general election - which is undeniably true - Levy chided Pataki for "looking the other way" on illegal immigration.
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Which tells me that illegal immigration doesn't belong in the top 10 topics to be debated in this governor's race.
Which tells me that there are a lot more pressing issues the next governor should spend his time on.
Which tells me that Levy should be very careful not to demagogue the issue.
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He needs to make sure those relevant achievements, and not his close-to-the-edge immigration rhetoric, are front and center on voters' minds.
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Super Racist Bigot wants to be Republican Governor of New York - Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy - Promoting violence and Hatred in Long Island -
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Super Racist Bigot wants to be Republican Governor of New York - Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy - Promoting violence and Hatred in Long Island - Intolerance and Murder
Racist Steve Levy :
Many depredations and lots of Violence against Latinos and Immigrants in Long Island, with grave acts of violence and the Coward Terrorist Murder of Marcelo Lucero in Patchogue in November 2008, just after the Presidential Election.
Many acts of harassment and brutal racist violence - Steve Levy attempted to bring the Minutemen ( Famous for Murder of beautiful nine year old Brisenia Flores and her father Raul in a home invasion in May 2009 in Arizona ) - Steve Levy has been very tolerant with many acts of Violence.
POLITICO.COM
Race in N.Y. may be a test for GOP
By BEN SMITH & JONATHAN MARTIN
March 26, 2010
Race in N.Y. may be a test for GOP
Some excerpts :
Super Racist Bigot wants to be Republican Governor of New York - Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy - Promoting violence and Hatred in Long Island - Intolerance and Murder
Racist Steve Levy :
Many depredations and lots of Violence against Latinos and Immigrants in Long Island, with grave acts of violence and the Coward Terrorist Murder of Marcelo Lucero in Patchogue in November 2008, just after the Presidential Election.
Many acts of harassment and brutal racist violence - Steve Levy attempted to bring the Minutemen ( Famous for Murder of beautiful nine year old Brisenia Flores and her father Raul in a home invasion in May 2009 in Arizona ) - Steve Levy has been very tolerant with many acts of Violence.
POLITICO.COM
Race in N.Y. may be a test for GOP
By BEN SMITH & JONATHAN MARTIN
March 26, 2010
Race in N.Y. may be a test for GOP
Some excerpts :
A surprise candidacy in the New York governor’s race has brought into stark relief a central dilemma facing resurgent Republicans this year: Should they stick with reliable conservatives or field candidates who are perceived as more electable?
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, a Democrat, has switched parties to run on the Republican line, which had been widely assumed to be the property of Rick Lazio, a former congressman best known for stepping in when Rudy Giuliani dropped out of the 2000 Senate race against Hillary Clinton. Lazio, a bank lobbyist in the interim, is a well-liked local figure, a reliable Republican and a patient and deferential man who has waited his turn but has run what many believe is an uninspired campaign.
Levy, his supporters say, is far better poised to capture the zeitgeist, to run against corrupt insiders in Albany and Washington and to beat Democratic state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in November.
"My skill set lines up perfectly with what the mood of the public is," Levy told POLITICO, promising to "take a sledgehammer to Albany and knock it to pieces and then rebuild it from scratch."
But the choice between the two has brought back bad memories of the GOP’s spectacular failure last year in another prominent New York election — the special House election upstate that ignited an uncontrollable grass-roots wildfire.
The nascent primary for governor has already become less about the two Long Islanders, Levy and Lazio, than about the path forward for the Republican Party, in New York and nationally. Levy’s Republican supporters and operatives are drawn from the maverick world of John McCain’s first bid for president and, harking back further, from the cadre of Republicans still bound to President Richard Nixon’s calculating, moderate political legacy. Lazio has the support of former Gov. George Pataki’s regular Republican circle and national connections to Mitt Romney’s inner circle.
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Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, a Democrat, has switched parties to run on the Republican line, which had been widely assumed to be the property of Rick Lazio, a former congressman best known for stepping in when Rudy Giuliani dropped out of the 2000 Senate race against Hillary Clinton. Lazio, a bank lobbyist in the interim, is a well-liked local figure, a reliable Republican and a patient and deferential man who has waited his turn but has run what many believe is an uninspired campaign.
Levy, his supporters say, is far better poised to capture the zeitgeist, to run against corrupt insiders in Albany and Washington and to beat Democratic state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in November.
"My skill set lines up perfectly with what the mood of the public is," Levy told POLITICO, promising to "take a sledgehammer to Albany and knock it to pieces and then rebuild it from scratch."
But the choice between the two has brought back bad memories of the GOP’s spectacular failure last year in another prominent New York election — the special House election upstate that ignited an uncontrollable grass-roots wildfire.
The nascent primary for governor has already become less about the two Long Islanders, Levy and Lazio, than about the path forward for the Republican Party, in New York and nationally. Levy’s Republican supporters and operatives are drawn from the maverick world of John McCain’s first bid for president and, harking back further, from the cadre of Republicans still bound to President Richard Nixon’s calculating, moderate political legacy. Lazio has the support of former Gov. George Pataki’s regular Republican circle and national connections to Mitt Romney’s inner circle.
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Who knows the Will of God ??? - Nobody, assuming that God exists - "Those that know the Will of the People"
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Who knows the Will of God ??? - Nobody, assuming that God exists - "Those that know the Will of the People"
I don't believe in those that say that they know what God wants or thinks .... This is so absurd as the crusades that used the motto : "God wants it"
I don't believe in representatives of God : Priests, Pastors, Preachers, Gurus, Ashrams of India, etc ... I don't believe in seers, Nostradamus or the Mayan Prophecies.
Super God, creator of the Universe is going to communicate His Super Powerful Will to a cockroach of planet Earth ??? - No way !
I love the movie "Elmer Gantry" ( Sinclair Lewis wrote this novel in 1926 ) because of the innocence and naivete of the people, that believe to be "saved", "chosen" or "elected" and the rascal that Elmer Gantry is, a lovely and friendly rascal and shameless con man.
Contrast "Elmer Gantry" with the "Great Gatsby" of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, written in 1924, people are more sophisticated and less naive in this novel. And you never guess if Scott Fitzgerald in anti-Racist or Racist, but he is so very smart and clever that he makes you laugh with the topic of Racism.
And enter those that know perfectly well with a precision of 100% what People want ( The Will of the People ), they seem to me very despicable.
And now with the Health Care Reform many fools pretend that they know perfectly well that Will.
The problem is that the thoughts of people change at a very fast pace.
We were told one day that John McCain was the sure president of the United States, and one week later many polls changed.
So even pollsters may be wrong ... Worse, even Gamblers, Bettors and Bookies make mistakes and bet on the wrong horse.
Vicente Duque
Who knows the Will of God ??? - Nobody, assuming that God exists - "Those that know the Will of the People"
I don't believe in those that say that they know what God wants or thinks .... This is so absurd as the crusades that used the motto : "God wants it"
I don't believe in representatives of God : Priests, Pastors, Preachers, Gurus, Ashrams of India, etc ... I don't believe in seers, Nostradamus or the Mayan Prophecies.
Super God, creator of the Universe is going to communicate His Super Powerful Will to a cockroach of planet Earth ??? - No way !
I love the movie "Elmer Gantry" ( Sinclair Lewis wrote this novel in 1926 ) because of the innocence and naivete of the people, that believe to be "saved", "chosen" or "elected" and the rascal that Elmer Gantry is, a lovely and friendly rascal and shameless con man.
Contrast "Elmer Gantry" with the "Great Gatsby" of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, written in 1924, people are more sophisticated and less naive in this novel. And you never guess if Scott Fitzgerald in anti-Racist or Racist, but he is so very smart and clever that he makes you laugh with the topic of Racism.
And enter those that know perfectly well with a precision of 100% what People want ( The Will of the People ), they seem to me very despicable.
And now with the Health Care Reform many fools pretend that they know perfectly well that Will.
The problem is that the thoughts of people change at a very fast pace.
We were told one day that John McCain was the sure president of the United States, and one week later many polls changed.
So even pollsters may be wrong ... Worse, even Gamblers, Bettors and Bookies make mistakes and bet on the wrong horse.
Vicente Duque
Why Some Black, Dark or Brown People participate in Tea Parties ?? - Explanation and History of Great Philosophers of Freedom
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Why Some Black, Dark or Brown People participate in Tea Parties ?? - Explanation and History of Great Philosophers of Freedom
That some Black, Dark or Brown people participate is not a good excuse for Tea Party Bigotry, Aggression and Bad Behaviour.
Philosophers have studied for 500 years why people subject themselves to despots and tyrants. And to ideas that diminish the dignity of human beings. Like going with enthusiasm into the Nazi Party of Hitler's Germany, and subjecting the will to Mussolini or Stalin.
History is good to understand why some people are companions and subjects to those that despise them. Think of Lou Dobss asking the votes of Latinos for next November's election in New Jersey.
Think of Henry VIII surrounded by sycophant courtesans. Henry VIII, Great Tyrant ruled England from 1509 until 1547 and could have been the inspiration for the writings of a Great French Philosopher of the earliest Illustration : Étienne de La Boétie (1530 – 1563)
From Wikipedia :
Étienne de La Boétie (1530 – 1563) :
La Boétie was a French judge, writer, political philosopher and friend of Montaigne, author of the Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (Discours de la servitude volontaire)
He served with Montaigne in the Bordeaux parlement and is immortalized in Montaigne's essay on friendship. La Boétie’s writings include a few sonnets, translations from the classics, and an essay attacking absolute monarchy and tyranny in general, Discours de la servitude volontaire ou le Contr'un (Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, or the Anti-Dictator).
The essay asserts that tyrants have power because the people give it to them. Liberty has been abandoned once by society, which afterward stayed corrupted and prefers the slavery of the courtesan to the freedom of one who refuses to dominate as he refuses to obey. Thus, La Boétie linked together obedience and domination, a relationship which would be later theorised by latter anarchist thinkers. By advocating a solution of simply refusing to support the tyrant, he became one of the earliest advocates of civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance.
It was once thought, following Montaigne's claims, that La Boétie wrote the essay in 1549 at the age of eighteen but recent authorities argue that it is "likely that the Discourse was written in 1552 or 1553, at the age of twenty-two, while La Boétie was at the university."[2] The essay was circulated privately and not published until 1576 after La Boétie's death.
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Why Some Black, Dark or Brown People participate in Tea Parties ?? - Explanation and History of Great Philosophers of Freedom
That some Black, Dark or Brown people participate is not a good excuse for Tea Party Bigotry, Aggression and Bad Behaviour.
Philosophers have studied for 500 years why people subject themselves to despots and tyrants. And to ideas that diminish the dignity of human beings. Like going with enthusiasm into the Nazi Party of Hitler's Germany, and subjecting the will to Mussolini or Stalin.
History is good to understand why some people are companions and subjects to those that despise them. Think of Lou Dobss asking the votes of Latinos for next November's election in New Jersey.
Think of Henry VIII surrounded by sycophant courtesans. Henry VIII, Great Tyrant ruled England from 1509 until 1547 and could have been the inspiration for the writings of a Great French Philosopher of the earliest Illustration : Étienne de La Boétie (1530 – 1563)
From Wikipedia :
Étienne de La Boétie (1530 – 1563) :
La Boétie was a French judge, writer, political philosopher and friend of Montaigne, author of the Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (Discours de la servitude volontaire)
He served with Montaigne in the Bordeaux parlement and is immortalized in Montaigne's essay on friendship. La Boétie’s writings include a few sonnets, translations from the classics, and an essay attacking absolute monarchy and tyranny in general, Discours de la servitude volontaire ou le Contr'un (Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, or the Anti-Dictator).
The essay asserts that tyrants have power because the people give it to them. Liberty has been abandoned once by society, which afterward stayed corrupted and prefers the slavery of the courtesan to the freedom of one who refuses to dominate as he refuses to obey. Thus, La Boétie linked together obedience and domination, a relationship which would be later theorised by latter anarchist thinkers. By advocating a solution of simply refusing to support the tyrant, he became one of the earliest advocates of civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance.
It was once thought, following Montaigne's claims, that La Boétie wrote the essay in 1549 at the age of eighteen but recent authorities argue that it is "likely that the Discourse was written in 1552 or 1553, at the age of twenty-two, while La Boétie was at the university."[2] The essay was circulated privately and not published until 1576 after La Boétie's death.
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Monday, March 22, 2010
"Racists have been losing, are losing and will be losing in next years." I have been reflecting a lot on this and each day I become more persuaded ..
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"Racists have been losing, are losing and will be losing in next years." I have been reflecting a lot on this and each day I become more persuaded that it is a true sentence and contains a lot of wisdom.
I don't like to offend people but I am a buff of History, I feel a lot of pleasure reading History Books, or watching History Movies, documentaries, etc ... and thinking of Historical Matters ....
All those studies show me some light and I put some conclusions of my mind in a very strong, harsh and rude form :
The World is in a process of DeWesternization and DeWhitenization - The Old Colonialism and Imperialism is losing ground each day.
The Myths of Aryanism, AngloSaxonism, etc .... are losing steam and become more and more ridiculous each day !
Why ??? .....
Because of the sciences of Archaeology, Linguistics, Genetics and ArchaeoGenetics. And because the day to day events show an arrow of History, an arrow or direction of History, not exactly "The End of History".. not exactly a culmination in perfection of a nation, culture or empire.
If you make a list of Great Historical Events of the last 112 years ( to include the Boer War and some parades of Queen Victoria in Diamond Jubilee ) then you see how Empires collapse and how things accelerate.
Also the ideas of Great Economists about the early Industrialization and Developing of the advanced Economies persuade me that things are not eternal in the Economic Domain, and that we can see many abrupt and sudden changes.
I love movies and fantasies, I don't believe in the Mayan Prophecies or Nostradamus, I don't believe in Conspiracies, but I am afraid that the Sudden Climate Changes may be not a foolishness.
Conclusion, Empires and Nations can change very fast and even collapse very fast as we saw the British Empire and the Soviet Empire.
Vicente Duque
"Racists have been losing, are losing and will be losing in next years." I have been reflecting a lot on this and each day I become more persuaded that it is a true sentence and contains a lot of wisdom.
I don't like to offend people but I am a buff of History, I feel a lot of pleasure reading History Books, or watching History Movies, documentaries, etc ... and thinking of Historical Matters ....
All those studies show me some light and I put some conclusions of my mind in a very strong, harsh and rude form :
The World is in a process of DeWesternization and DeWhitenization - The Old Colonialism and Imperialism is losing ground each day.
The Myths of Aryanism, AngloSaxonism, etc .... are losing steam and become more and more ridiculous each day !
Why ??? .....
Because of the sciences of Archaeology, Linguistics, Genetics and ArchaeoGenetics. And because the day to day events show an arrow of History, an arrow or direction of History, not exactly "The End of History".. not exactly a culmination in perfection of a nation, culture or empire.
If you make a list of Great Historical Events of the last 112 years ( to include the Boer War and some parades of Queen Victoria in Diamond Jubilee ) then you see how Empires collapse and how things accelerate.
Also the ideas of Great Economists about the early Industrialization and Developing of the advanced Economies persuade me that things are not eternal in the Economic Domain, and that we can see many abrupt and sudden changes.
I love movies and fantasies, I don't believe in the Mayan Prophecies or Nostradamus, I don't believe in Conspiracies, but I am afraid that the Sudden Climate Changes may be not a foolishness.
Conclusion, Empires and Nations can change very fast and even collapse very fast as we saw the British Empire and the Soviet Empire.
Vicente Duque
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Oprah Winfrey : "You become what you believe - not what you wish for, not what you want, but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at
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Oprah Winfrey : "You become what you believe - not what you wish for, not what you want, but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there."
A beautiful and inspirational article. Also Great Writing !
Marketing Momentum from Linda Claire Puig
I'll See It When I Believe It
By Denise Hedgesby, Denise Hedges
Business Breakthrough Institute
I'll See It When I Believe It
Some excerpts :
Oprah Winfrey : "You become what you believe - not what you wish for, not what you want, but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there."
A beautiful and inspirational article. Also Great Writing !
Marketing Momentum from Linda Claire Puig
I'll See It When I Believe It
By Denise Hedgesby, Denise Hedges
Business Breakthrough Institute
I'll See It When I Believe It
Some excerpts :
When I speak to groups, I often quote Oprah Winfrey:
"You become what you believe - not what you wish for, not what you want, but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there."
Her phenomenal success was so improbable.
Unlike most of her peers, she never believed that growing up poor, black, and female in Mississippi made her less than worthy or sealed her fate in any way. Neither did being sexually abused at the age of nine, or delivering a stillborn child after becoming pregnant at 14...the event that turned her life around.
In her words, "I believed I belonged to someone or something bigger than myself, my family, or even Mississippi. I believed I was God's child. Therefore, I could do anything."
I've been thinking about what she said a lot lately, those words becoming even more meaningful to me in the context of recent experiences.
Whereas most of us, including myself, often see the world in terms of opposing forces battling it out, we have it wrong. There is nothing to overcome. There is nothing in the past to deal with before you can have what you want, nothing to push against in order to prevail, no bogeyman to defeat, nothing to rise above.
All there is is you and what comes next. And when what comes next is an act of creation rather than a reaction, you are free, you are focused, and you are powerful.
Is Oprah free, and focused, and powerful? YES! But imagine if you'd been asked, back in the 60's, to rate the odds of her achieving what she has, given her early life story and where she came from. Honestly, would you have rated it much higher than zero? You'd probably have said, "Too much to overcome. No chance."
Say it again to yourself. It isn't about overcoming.
Against all odds I've come to realize, at a deeper, more visceral level than ever before...
Where I came from...doesn't really matter.
What's happened in the past...doesn't really matter.
Where I am in my life right now...doesn't really matter.
What's going on in the world...what others think and say and do...doesn't really matter.
What the voice of doubt says when it speaks to me...doesn't really matter.
The fear I feel...doesn't really matter.
WHAT I BELIEVE!...that's what really matters! What I conceive and believe and intend. That's where the power is. The rest of that stuff...the drama around family, the struggles growing up, the hard knocks, the twists of fate, the "unfavorable" circumstances, the anxiety and self-doubt...sure, it makes for quite a story, but it just isn't relevant to where I'm going.
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"You become what you believe - not what you wish for, not what you want, but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there."
Her phenomenal success was so improbable.
Unlike most of her peers, she never believed that growing up poor, black, and female in Mississippi made her less than worthy or sealed her fate in any way. Neither did being sexually abused at the age of nine, or delivering a stillborn child after becoming pregnant at 14...the event that turned her life around.
In her words, "I believed I belonged to someone or something bigger than myself, my family, or even Mississippi. I believed I was God's child. Therefore, I could do anything."
I've been thinking about what she said a lot lately, those words becoming even more meaningful to me in the context of recent experiences.
Whereas most of us, including myself, often see the world in terms of opposing forces battling it out, we have it wrong. There is nothing to overcome. There is nothing in the past to deal with before you can have what you want, nothing to push against in order to prevail, no bogeyman to defeat, nothing to rise above.
All there is is you and what comes next. And when what comes next is an act of creation rather than a reaction, you are free, you are focused, and you are powerful.
Is Oprah free, and focused, and powerful? YES! But imagine if you'd been asked, back in the 60's, to rate the odds of her achieving what she has, given her early life story and where she came from. Honestly, would you have rated it much higher than zero? You'd probably have said, "Too much to overcome. No chance."
Say it again to yourself. It isn't about overcoming.
Against all odds I've come to realize, at a deeper, more visceral level than ever before...
Where I came from...doesn't really matter.
What's happened in the past...doesn't really matter.
Where I am in my life right now...doesn't really matter.
What's going on in the world...what others think and say and do...doesn't really matter.
What the voice of doubt says when it speaks to me...doesn't really matter.
The fear I feel...doesn't really matter.
WHAT I BELIEVE!...that's what really matters! What I conceive and believe and intend. That's where the power is. The rest of that stuff...the drama around family, the struggles growing up, the hard knocks, the twists of fate, the "unfavorable" circumstances, the anxiety and self-doubt...sure, it makes for quite a story, but it just isn't relevant to where I'm going.
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
Cogito, ergo sum - I Tea Party, therefore I exist ..... Poetry and Cogitations on Obama turned into a Murderous Hitler - How Hitler killed Blacks
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Cogito, ergo sum - I Tea Party, therefore I exist ..... Poetry and Cogitations on Obama turned into a Murderous Hitler - How Hitler killed Black Fellows ...
I like Poetry and Poetic Images but I can not produce the poems. Like the Tea Party being a ship losing wind on its sails. Like America being a patient recovering and becoming stronger with the new Health Care Legislation.
The Biggest Cost is doing nothing - That is what Republicans never calculate in their "cogitations".
Perhaps the Teabaggers ( many of them poor, old and unemployed ) will have a better "elderly" existence thanks to Democrats.
I dislike the imagery of Mr Obama turned into a Hitler --- Hitler killed all the Black French Soldiers. Those were Colonial French soldiers that fought against the German Invasion in early 1940 and when they surrendered they were mass murdered as inferior animals.
The Nazi Cameramen took pictures of the ugliest black soldiers in order to present the Black Race as very degenerate to the German Public.
They did the same trick with the Jews in the Polish Ghettos, they filmed only the ugliest and sickest Jews.
Today there are spectacular Jewish Super Models and Divine Girls, the same for Black Girls in Bikinis, but Hitler and the Nazis were looking for racist propaganda and extermination, selecting the ugliest or sickest specimens.
Vicente
Cogito, ergo sum - I Tea Party, therefore I exist ..... Poetry and Cogitations on Obama turned into a Murderous Hitler - How Hitler killed Black Fellows ...
I like Poetry and Poetic Images but I can not produce the poems. Like the Tea Party being a ship losing wind on its sails. Like America being a patient recovering and becoming stronger with the new Health Care Legislation.
The Biggest Cost is doing nothing - That is what Republicans never calculate in their "cogitations".
Perhaps the Teabaggers ( many of them poor, old and unemployed ) will have a better "elderly" existence thanks to Democrats.
I dislike the imagery of Mr Obama turned into a Hitler --- Hitler killed all the Black French Soldiers. Those were Colonial French soldiers that fought against the German Invasion in early 1940 and when they surrendered they were mass murdered as inferior animals.
The Nazi Cameramen took pictures of the ugliest black soldiers in order to present the Black Race as very degenerate to the German Public.
They did the same trick with the Jews in the Polish Ghettos, they filmed only the ugliest and sickest Jews.
Today there are spectacular Jewish Super Models and Divine Girls, the same for Black Girls in Bikinis, but Hitler and the Nazis were looking for racist propaganda and extermination, selecting the ugliest or sickest specimens.
Vicente
Thursday, March 18, 2010
"My kid is a good kid" - "My grandson is a little angel from Heaven" says grandma - The families of Perpetrators after the most brutal Racial Murders
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"My kid is a good kid" - "My grandson is a little angel from Heaven" says grandma - The families of Perpetrators after the most Brutal Sadistic Racial Murders - Patchogue, Long Island, New York
Here you find a link to the trials of Racist Murderers, those of Patchogue, Long Island, New York and others :
Immigration Talk with a Mexican American
By Dee from Texas
Caucasion Crew Trial - Day 1: Family Friends of Conroy Incredulous over Brutality of the Murder saying "Jeff is Not a Racist!"
Cowards attack in Big Numbers to feel safe
Gruesome and Heinous Crimes :
We are becoming accustomed to the ridiculous show of the families of Brutal and Sadistic Murderers protesting that their kid is a "honors student", "very much loved in school", "a wonderful athlete", "all his friends love him"
Here is information on the Coward Terrorists that killed Marcelo Lucero on November 2008, after the election of Barack Obama, Marcelo was a legal resident of the United States and a hard working man in a bakery.
His crime : "to be a spic", "a beaner" and a target for the sport of "Beaner Jumping" or "Beaner Hopping" that some scoundrels and cowards practiced once or twice a week, going in a car looking for beaners or spics to beat and stab them.
The police did not pay attention to the complaints because they were under Executive of Suffolk County Steve Levy, a Great Racist and Propagandist of Hate, that tried to establish the Minutemen in Long Island.
The same Minutemen that killed a nine year old Girl Brisenia Flores and her father Raul in Arizona in May of 2008. The killers were Shawna Forde and her Minutemen, Executive director of MAD American Minuteman Defense.
In another case, the murder of Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah Pennsylvania, July of 2008, the perpetrators were identified and confessed but a great part of the town has sided with the Racist Coward Murderers and the families protest that the kids are "little angels from Heaven", "Honor Students" and all that blather, and that town becomes more racist and violent after the Coward Criminal Act.
It is a fact that the family of a perpetrator has no Penal Responsibility, perhaps a Civil Responsibility and may be sued for this crime.But the family has no moral and ethical responsibility ?? - They become the best of Kindness and Humanity, but only after the son has been the most violent and sadistic scoundrel ??? - after a coward murder ??
Vicente Duque
"My kid is a good kid" - "My grandson is a little angel from Heaven" says grandma - The families of Perpetrators after the most Brutal Sadistic Racial Murders - Patchogue, Long Island, New York
Here you find a link to the trials of Racist Murderers, those of Patchogue, Long Island, New York and others :
Immigration Talk with a Mexican American
By Dee from Texas
Caucasion Crew Trial - Day 1: Family Friends of Conroy Incredulous over Brutality of the Murder saying "Jeff is Not a Racist!"
Cowards attack in Big Numbers to feel safe
Gruesome and Heinous Crimes :
We are becoming accustomed to the ridiculous show of the families of Brutal and Sadistic Murderers protesting that their kid is a "honors student", "very much loved in school", "a wonderful athlete", "all his friends love him"
Here is information on the Coward Terrorists that killed Marcelo Lucero on November 2008, after the election of Barack Obama, Marcelo was a legal resident of the United States and a hard working man in a bakery.
His crime : "to be a spic", "a beaner" and a target for the sport of "Beaner Jumping" or "Beaner Hopping" that some scoundrels and cowards practiced once or twice a week, going in a car looking for beaners or spics to beat and stab them.
The police did not pay attention to the complaints because they were under Executive of Suffolk County Steve Levy, a Great Racist and Propagandist of Hate, that tried to establish the Minutemen in Long Island.
The same Minutemen that killed a nine year old Girl Brisenia Flores and her father Raul in Arizona in May of 2008. The killers were Shawna Forde and her Minutemen, Executive director of MAD American Minuteman Defense.
In another case, the murder of Luis Ramirez in Shenandoah Pennsylvania, July of 2008, the perpetrators were identified and confessed but a great part of the town has sided with the Racist Coward Murderers and the families protest that the kids are "little angels from Heaven", "Honor Students" and all that blather, and that town becomes more racist and violent after the Coward Criminal Act.
It is a fact that the family of a perpetrator has no Penal Responsibility, perhaps a Civil Responsibility and may be sued for this crime.But the family has no moral and ethical responsibility ?? - They become the best of Kindness and Humanity, but only after the son has been the most violent and sadistic scoundrel ??? - after a coward murder ??
Vicente Duque
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Racist Murderer and Raper Keith Luke Attacks his Defense Psychiatrist in Prison for being Jewish - Killing the non-Whites to save the White Race
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Racist Murderer and Raper Keith Luke Attacks his Defense Psychiatrist in Prison for being Jewish - Killing the non-Whites to save the White Race from extinction.
The tale of a Nazi Madman, he killed two "non-White" people and raped a woman. He wants "to save the White Race from extinction" ... He has a big Nazi Swastika carved on his forehead.
Immigration Talk with a Mexican American
By Dee from Texas
March 17, 2010
Racist, Murderer Keith Luke Attacks Psychiatrist in Prison. Now in Solitary Confinement and held on $1M Bond
Some excerpts :
Racist Murderer and Raper Keith Luke Attacks his Defense Psychiatrist in Prison for being Jewish - Killing the non-Whites to save the White Race from extinction.
The tale of a Nazi Madman, he killed two "non-White" people and raped a woman. He wants "to save the White Race from extinction" ... He has a big Nazi Swastika carved on his forehead.
Immigration Talk with a Mexican American
By Dee from Texas
March 17, 2010
Racist, Murderer Keith Luke Attacks Psychiatrist in Prison. Now in Solitary Confinement and held on $1M Bond
Some excerpts :
Keith Luke hates minorities. Luke was arrested Jan. 21, 2009, on the murder, rape and other charges of Cape Verdean Immigrants. Prosecutors say he forced his way into a Brockton apartment where he brutally raped and shot a Cape Verdean woman who survived, then fatally shot two other immigrants from Cape Verdean before leading police on a chase through the city. He told police he shot the three victims as part of a plot to kill as many “non-whites” and Jews as possible and planned that night to open fire on bingo players at a local synagogue, according to prosecutors and paperwork filed in court.
Luke is being held in the Plymouth County jail’s Unit G, the section where some of the most dangerous prisoners are held. He is locked in his cell 23 hours a day. When he is let out to shower or go to an enclosed exercise area, he is shackled and under guard. There are no weights in the exercise area and he does not mingle with other prisoners. Since his arrest, Luke has shaved his head, grown a beard and etched a swastika on his forehead.
Security for the 23-year-old Luke is now tighter than ever after his jailhouse attack on a defense psychiatrist hired to examine the murder suspect. Seven court officers and deputy sheriffs flanked Luke when he was arraigned Thursday at Brockton Superior Court on charges stemming from the Jan. 7 attack on Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist and television personality who was at the jail to begin a mental evaluation of the murder suspect. He was hired to help with Luke's insanity defense. Luke said he attacked him because he didn't agree with his religion. Dr. Ablow is Jewish.
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Luke is being held in the Plymouth County jail’s Unit G, the section where some of the most dangerous prisoners are held. He is locked in his cell 23 hours a day. When he is let out to shower or go to an enclosed exercise area, he is shackled and under guard. There are no weights in the exercise area and he does not mingle with other prisoners. Since his arrest, Luke has shaved his head, grown a beard and etched a swastika on his forehead.
Security for the 23-year-old Luke is now tighter than ever after his jailhouse attack on a defense psychiatrist hired to examine the murder suspect. Seven court officers and deputy sheriffs flanked Luke when he was arraigned Thursday at Brockton Superior Court on charges stemming from the Jan. 7 attack on Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist and television personality who was at the jail to begin a mental evaluation of the murder suspect. He was hired to help with Luke's insanity defense. Luke said he attacked him because he didn't agree with his religion. Dr. Ablow is Jewish.
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Saturday, March 13, 2010
Video : Why am I an Immigration Attorney? - This guy tells an amazing, inspiring story - It is also funny
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Video : Why am I an Immigration Attorney? - This guy tells an amazing, inspiring story - It is also funny
March 12, 2010
Immigration law is quickly emerging as the civil rights of the 21st century. As the global economy brings countries closer together, our ability to understand people from different cultures, different religions, and different ways of life is more important than ever.
Why am I an Immigration Attorney?
Video : Why am I an Immigration Attorney? - This guy tells an amazing, inspiring story - It is also funny
March 12, 2010
Immigration law is quickly emerging as the civil rights of the 21st century. As the global economy brings countries closer together, our ability to understand people from different cultures, different religions, and different ways of life is more important than ever.
Why am I an Immigration Attorney?
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
260 people screened and nobody wants to be a juror in Horrible Racist Murder by Several Coward Terrorist in Patchogue, Long Island, New York
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New York Times : 260 people screened and nobody wants to be a juror in Horrible Racist Murder by Several Coward Terrorists in Patchogue, Long Island, New York
The Murder of a Legal Immigrant and Hard Working Man that had stayed for 16 years in the USA
New York Times
In Jury Selection for Hate Crime, a Struggle to Find Tolerance
By MANNY FERNANDEZ
March 8, 2010
In Jury Selection for Hate Crime, a Struggle to Find Tolerance
Some excerpts :
New York Times : 260 people screened and nobody wants to be a juror in Horrible Racist Murder by Several Coward Terrorists in Patchogue, Long Island, New York
The Murder of a Legal Immigrant and Hard Working Man that had stayed for 16 years in the USA
New York Times
In Jury Selection for Hate Crime, a Struggle to Find Tolerance
By MANNY FERNANDEZ
March 8, 2010
In Jury Selection for Hate Crime, a Struggle to Find Tolerance
Some excerpts :
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — Over the last several days, Justice Robert W. Doyle has heard the typical excuses from potential jurors. One woman mentioned her husband’s medical problems. Another woman complained about her back.
Marcelo Lucero died in 2008.
But other prospective jurors, seeking to be excused, have brought up larger issues in the judge’s Long Island courtroom.
A young woman said that her father, a mechanic, has a “huge opinion about illegal immigration,” and that his views on the subject have “become my opinions as well.” A man told Justice Doyle that his house was broken into by illegal immigrants while he was sleeping, a fact that he said would affect his ability to be fair and impartial.
And there were those who took a different view, like the bank worker who said that because her husband is of Mexican and Italian descent, she might have difficulty being fair. And the woman who explained that most of the clients in her job are illegal Latino immigrants.
“I don’t think that because of that they should be killed,” she told Justice Doyle.
The prospective jurors were being asked to sit in judgment in the case involving the killing of Marcelo Lucero, a 37-year-old Ecuadorean immigrant stabbed to death in November 2008 in Patchogue, more than an hour’s drive from Manhattan.
Mr. Lucero was attacked by seven teenagers who, the police said, had made a sport out of assaulting Hispanic men, calling it “beaner hopping.” Mr. Lucero’s death prompted widespread outrage and exposed racial tensions in Patchogue, where a number of Latinos came forward after the attack to describe muggings and assaults that had them living in fear.
Now, as Jeffrey Conroy, 19, becomes the first defendant to go on trial in the case, jury selection has proven difficult, in part because of the views on Latino immigration held by some prospective jurors in Suffolk County.
Last week, after three days of jury selection, about 130 men and women were questioned by the judge, the prosecutor and Mr. Conroy’s defense lawyer here in State Supreme Court. Only five were selected; the rest were excused. On Monday, jury selection continued as another roughly 130 were brought in, and more than a dozen were excused by the end of the day.
Once the jury is seated, Mr. Conroy’s defense may be complicated by the fact that four of the seven teenagers have pleaded guilty and may testify against him. But something larger may be at play: the treatment of immigrants in Suffolk County and the allegations that have been raised that some residents there are biased against them.
At times, the jury selection had the feel of a call-in show on talk radio, as men and women sounded off on illegal immigration, hate crimes, their ethnic background and the American dream. Most of the comments made by potential jurors came in response to questions asked by Justice Doyle in a third-floor courtroom of the criminal courthouse in Riverhead, as Mr. Conroy sat motionless in a dark suit at a table next to his lawyer.
Mr. Conroy is accused of second-degree murder as a hate crime, among other charges, in Mr. Lucero’s death, as well as attempted assault as a hate crime in episodes involving other Hispanic men. He has pleaded not guilty. The other two defendants have pleaded not guilty to a hate crime and other charges and are awaiting trial.
Justice Doyle has said that some of the witnesses who will testify in the trial are illegal immigrants, and the potential witnesses he has named in court include three Hispanic men whom prosecutors say some or all of the young men also attempted to attack. Mr. Lucero, who worked at a dry cleaning store, had lived in the United States for 16 years at the time he was stabbed.
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Marcelo Lucero died in 2008.
But other prospective jurors, seeking to be excused, have brought up larger issues in the judge’s Long Island courtroom.
A young woman said that her father, a mechanic, has a “huge opinion about illegal immigration,” and that his views on the subject have “become my opinions as well.” A man told Justice Doyle that his house was broken into by illegal immigrants while he was sleeping, a fact that he said would affect his ability to be fair and impartial.
And there were those who took a different view, like the bank worker who said that because her husband is of Mexican and Italian descent, she might have difficulty being fair. And the woman who explained that most of the clients in her job are illegal Latino immigrants.
“I don’t think that because of that they should be killed,” she told Justice Doyle.
The prospective jurors were being asked to sit in judgment in the case involving the killing of Marcelo Lucero, a 37-year-old Ecuadorean immigrant stabbed to death in November 2008 in Patchogue, more than an hour’s drive from Manhattan.
Mr. Lucero was attacked by seven teenagers who, the police said, had made a sport out of assaulting Hispanic men, calling it “beaner hopping.” Mr. Lucero’s death prompted widespread outrage and exposed racial tensions in Patchogue, where a number of Latinos came forward after the attack to describe muggings and assaults that had them living in fear.
Now, as Jeffrey Conroy, 19, becomes the first defendant to go on trial in the case, jury selection has proven difficult, in part because of the views on Latino immigration held by some prospective jurors in Suffolk County.
Last week, after three days of jury selection, about 130 men and women were questioned by the judge, the prosecutor and Mr. Conroy’s defense lawyer here in State Supreme Court. Only five were selected; the rest were excused. On Monday, jury selection continued as another roughly 130 were brought in, and more than a dozen were excused by the end of the day.
Once the jury is seated, Mr. Conroy’s defense may be complicated by the fact that four of the seven teenagers have pleaded guilty and may testify against him. But something larger may be at play: the treatment of immigrants in Suffolk County and the allegations that have been raised that some residents there are biased against them.
At times, the jury selection had the feel of a call-in show on talk radio, as men and women sounded off on illegal immigration, hate crimes, their ethnic background and the American dream. Most of the comments made by potential jurors came in response to questions asked by Justice Doyle in a third-floor courtroom of the criminal courthouse in Riverhead, as Mr. Conroy sat motionless in a dark suit at a table next to his lawyer.
Mr. Conroy is accused of second-degree murder as a hate crime, among other charges, in Mr. Lucero’s death, as well as attempted assault as a hate crime in episodes involving other Hispanic men. He has pleaded not guilty. The other two defendants have pleaded not guilty to a hate crime and other charges and are awaiting trial.
Justice Doyle has said that some of the witnesses who will testify in the trial are illegal immigrants, and the potential witnesses he has named in court include three Hispanic men whom prosecutors say some or all of the young men also attempted to attack. Mr. Lucero, who worked at a dry cleaning store, had lived in the United States for 16 years at the time he was stabbed.
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My Friend Xicano : Salt Lake Tribune ( Utah ) promotes hate against Latinos, and allows death threats in pages
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My Friend Xicano : Salt Lake Tribune ( Utah ) promotes hate against Latinos, and allows death threats in pages
This is the Blog of a Great Friend of Mine, always fighting for Humanity and Kindness and against Racism, Segregation, Racial Profiling, Racial Hatred, etc ...
I visit this blog every day and find always surprising information. These guys of the Salt Lake Tribune in Utah are specially Despicable and Racist.
Xicano Blog
March 9, 2010
Manny Mellor On-Line Salt Lake Tribune Editor Inciting Hate Against the Mexicans?
The Article of Xicano :
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My Friend Xicano : Salt Lake Tribune ( Utah ) promotes hate against Latinos, and allows death threats in pages
This is the Blog of a Great Friend of Mine, always fighting for Humanity and Kindness and against Racism, Segregation, Racial Profiling, Racial Hatred, etc ...
I visit this blog every day and find always surprising information. These guys of the Salt Lake Tribune in Utah are specially Despicable and Racist.
Xicano Blog
March 9, 2010
Manny Mellor On-Line Salt Lake Tribune Editor Inciting Hate Against the Mexicans?
The Article of Xicano :
Like most newspapers that allow comments on their stories, the Salt Lake Tribune comment section gets inundated with hateful comments against Mexicans, Latinos, and Hispanics on any story about immigration or crime committed by a perp with a Spanish surname. It is amazing how every Gomez and Gonzalez becomes a filthy illegal animal to these readers commenting across the nation.
But the SL Trib instituted guidelines against such behavior with a list of "participation rules" of what is and is not acceptable.
4. Be nice. No racism, sexism or any other -ism that degrades another person.
But the SL Trib has had a problem deleting hateful speech against Mexicans. Over a year ago I complained about a post advocating the murder of Mexicans who illegally crossed the border. To my dismay the post was not deleted. When I strongly complained, and suggested that the SL Trib deliberately left these inflammatory posts to increase readers, some of my posting privileges were taken away.
Rather than deleting the hate, they deleted the person pointing out the hate speech.
The hateful post remained in direct violation of their own guidelines. The SL Trib's on-line editor, Manny Mellor, was enabling the dissemination of hate speech to a large captured audience in a manner that would make any leader of a White supremacist group envious.Maybe Mellor was unaware of the post, but he is responsible for his staff. If he has bigots on his staff who refuse to delete posts that advocate the murder of Mexicans, that he ultimately is responsible for the Trib allowing this hate speech to remain on their comments section.
Hate speech against Mexicans and other Latinos still run rampant on the SL Trib boards. Recently, a serial violator of the Trib's guidelines wrote in hateful, disparaging terms about ALL the Latino immigrants from the past 50 years. For this hateful man, he is not just against illegal immigration-he is against anything Latino
I complained in strong terms and accused the on-line editor, Manny Mellor, of being the biggest racist in Utah. To my pleasant surprise, the post was deleted. But someone from the Trib banned me from commenting on any post. The racist poster I complained about is still allowed to spew his hate in other posts.
So the real rules of the Trib are:
Posting hate speech against Mexicans is allowed. Criticizing the on-line editor will get you banned.
Heil, Mellor.
I guess Manny Mellor, due to his inability to train his staff, becomes not only the biggest racist in Utah, he is also the biggest vindictive little man in the state as well by banning those who complain about the hateful, racist comments, while allowing those who violate the Trib's guidelines to continually post racist hate speech against Latinos.
After all, we are only Mexicans.
Copied from friend XicanoBut the SL Trib instituted guidelines against such behavior with a list of "participation rules" of what is and is not acceptable.
4. Be nice. No racism, sexism or any other -ism that degrades another person.
But the SL Trib has had a problem deleting hateful speech against Mexicans. Over a year ago I complained about a post advocating the murder of Mexicans who illegally crossed the border. To my dismay the post was not deleted. When I strongly complained, and suggested that the SL Trib deliberately left these inflammatory posts to increase readers, some of my posting privileges were taken away.
Rather than deleting the hate, they deleted the person pointing out the hate speech.
The hateful post remained in direct violation of their own guidelines. The SL Trib's on-line editor, Manny Mellor, was enabling the dissemination of hate speech to a large captured audience in a manner that would make any leader of a White supremacist group envious.Maybe Mellor was unaware of the post, but he is responsible for his staff. If he has bigots on his staff who refuse to delete posts that advocate the murder of Mexicans, that he ultimately is responsible for the Trib allowing this hate speech to remain on their comments section.
Hate speech against Mexicans and other Latinos still run rampant on the SL Trib boards. Recently, a serial violator of the Trib's guidelines wrote in hateful, disparaging terms about ALL the Latino immigrants from the past 50 years. For this hateful man, he is not just against illegal immigration-he is against anything Latino
I complained in strong terms and accused the on-line editor, Manny Mellor, of being the biggest racist in Utah. To my pleasant surprise, the post was deleted. But someone from the Trib banned me from commenting on any post. The racist poster I complained about is still allowed to spew his hate in other posts.
So the real rules of the Trib are:
Posting hate speech against Mexicans is allowed. Criticizing the on-line editor will get you banned.
Heil, Mellor.
I guess Manny Mellor, due to his inability to train his staff, becomes not only the biggest racist in Utah, he is also the biggest vindictive little man in the state as well by banning those who complain about the hateful, racist comments, while allowing those who violate the Trib's guidelines to continually post racist hate speech against Latinos.
After all, we are only Mexicans.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
History of the Dog Whistle in Politics and Racism : Invented by Howard in Australia, later applied by George W. Bush and John McCain
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History of the Dog Whistle in Politics and Racism : Invented by Howard in Australia, later applied by George W. Bush and John McCain
Dog-whistle politics in Wikipedia
Some excerpts :
History of the Dog Whistle in Politics and Racism : Invented by Howard in Australia, later applied by George W. Bush and John McCain
Dog-whistle politics in Wikipedia
Some excerpts :
This article is specifically about the use of "code words" in politics, for the concept generally, see Code word (figure of speech)
Dog-whistle politics, also known as the use of code words, is a term for a type of political campaigning or speechmaking which employs coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has a different or more specific meaning for a targeted subgroup of the audience. The term is invariably pejorative, and is used to refer both to messages with an intentional subtext, and those where the existence or intent of a secondary meaning is disputed. According to blogger Ian Welsh,
When you speak in code(...), most of the time the only people who hear and understand what you just said are the intended group, who have an understanding of the world and a use of words that is not shared by the majority of the population.[1]
The term is an analogy to dog whistles, which are built in such a way that the high-frequency whistle is heard by dogs, but appears silent to human hearing.
This article is specifically about the use of "code words" in politics, for the concept generally, see Code word (figure of speech)
Dog-whistle politics, also known as the use of code words, is a term for a type of political campaigning or speechmaking which employs coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has a different or more specific meaning for a targeted subgroup of the audience. The term is invariably pejorative, and is used to refer both to messages with an intentional subtext, and those where the existence or intent of a secondary meaning is disputed. According to blogger Ian Welsh,
When you speak in code(...), most of the time the only people who hear and understand what you just said are the intended group, who have an understanding of the world and a use of words that is not shared by the majority of the population.[1]
The term is an analogy to dog whistles, which are built in such a way that the high-frequency whistle is heard by dogs, but appears silent to human hearing.
Origin in Australia
The term originated in Australian politics in the mid 1990s. One notable example was its use to describe the Howard Government's policy to crack down on illegal immigration. The Australian Government took a strong stand against illegal immigration, which was highly popular among a segment of voters on both sides of the usual political divide, and which contributed to the winning of the 2001 Australian Federal Election.
In response to this political success, some commentators have argued that the stand was playing to racist segments of the community, despite the Government's avoidance of overtly racist terminology. The Howard Government is accused of having used dog whistling as a technique to send a message of support to voters with racist leanings while avoiding criticism from those opposed to prejudice. The key to its use is to maintain the option of "plausible deniability".[2] An example is the publicity of the citizenship test in 2007[citation needed]. It has been argued that the test may appear reasonable at face value, but is really intended to appeal to those opposing immigration from some regions.[3]
United States
One group of alleged code words in the United States is claimed to appeal to racism of the intended audience. The phrase "states' rights", although literally referring to powers of individual state governments in the United States, has been described as a code word for institutionalized segregation and racism.[6] Other terms that some people say are used to indicate alleged veiled racism are "crime in the streets" and "welfare queens".[7]
Former president George W. Bush is alleged to have used coded language in his speeches to send messages to his supporters among the religious right that will be ignored by other parts of the U.S. population. Examples include his frequent use of biblical phrases and the veiled mention of the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision in the 2004 Presidential debates. The latter refers to overturning Roe v. Wade, which is likened to the Dred Scott case by some of its critics.[8]
David Gergen claimed that John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign against Barack Obama used dog whistle tactics targeting racists, while retaining plausible deniability though only cited one example in which a McCain ad featured Obama as "The One". David Gergen said that it was implying Obama was "uppity" and that was code for "he should stay in his place". The McCain campaign made it clear it was in reference to Obama's popularity as a god-like figure.[9]
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Dog-whistle politics, also known as the use of code words, is a term for a type of political campaigning or speechmaking which employs coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has a different or more specific meaning for a targeted subgroup of the audience. The term is invariably pejorative, and is used to refer both to messages with an intentional subtext, and those where the existence or intent of a secondary meaning is disputed. According to blogger Ian Welsh,
When you speak in code(...), most of the time the only people who hear and understand what you just said are the intended group, who have an understanding of the world and a use of words that is not shared by the majority of the population.[1]
The term is an analogy to dog whistles, which are built in such a way that the high-frequency whistle is heard by dogs, but appears silent to human hearing.
This article is specifically about the use of "code words" in politics, for the concept generally, see Code word (figure of speech)
Dog-whistle politics, also known as the use of code words, is a term for a type of political campaigning or speechmaking which employs coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has a different or more specific meaning for a targeted subgroup of the audience. The term is invariably pejorative, and is used to refer both to messages with an intentional subtext, and those where the existence or intent of a secondary meaning is disputed. According to blogger Ian Welsh,
When you speak in code(...), most of the time the only people who hear and understand what you just said are the intended group, who have an understanding of the world and a use of words that is not shared by the majority of the population.[1]
The term is an analogy to dog whistles, which are built in such a way that the high-frequency whistle is heard by dogs, but appears silent to human hearing.
Origin in Australia
The term originated in Australian politics in the mid 1990s. One notable example was its use to describe the Howard Government's policy to crack down on illegal immigration. The Australian Government took a strong stand against illegal immigration, which was highly popular among a segment of voters on both sides of the usual political divide, and which contributed to the winning of the 2001 Australian Federal Election.
In response to this political success, some commentators have argued that the stand was playing to racist segments of the community, despite the Government's avoidance of overtly racist terminology. The Howard Government is accused of having used dog whistling as a technique to send a message of support to voters with racist leanings while avoiding criticism from those opposed to prejudice. The key to its use is to maintain the option of "plausible deniability".[2] An example is the publicity of the citizenship test in 2007[citation needed]. It has been argued that the test may appear reasonable at face value, but is really intended to appeal to those opposing immigration from some regions.[3]
United States
One group of alleged code words in the United States is claimed to appeal to racism of the intended audience. The phrase "states' rights", although literally referring to powers of individual state governments in the United States, has been described as a code word for institutionalized segregation and racism.[6] Other terms that some people say are used to indicate alleged veiled racism are "crime in the streets" and "welfare queens".[7]
Former president George W. Bush is alleged to have used coded language in his speeches to send messages to his supporters among the religious right that will be ignored by other parts of the U.S. population. Examples include his frequent use of biblical phrases and the veiled mention of the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision in the 2004 Presidential debates. The latter refers to overturning Roe v. Wade, which is likened to the Dred Scott case by some of its critics.[8]
David Gergen claimed that John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign against Barack Obama used dog whistle tactics targeting racists, while retaining plausible deniability though only cited one example in which a McCain ad featured Obama as "The One". David Gergen said that it was implying Obama was "uppity" and that was code for "he should stay in his place". The McCain campaign made it clear it was in reference to Obama's popularity as a god-like figure.[9]
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Sunday, March 7, 2010
Huffington Post : "Mexicans Are Filthy Stinking Animals"- Teabaggers: That's Really Not Racism
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Huffington Post : "Mexicans Are Filthy Stinking Animals"- Teabaggers: That's Really Not Racism
PostRacism and PostRaciality :
We are living in the fabulous wonderful times of PostRacism and PostRaciality, when thers is no more Racism, but only virtuous patriots and lovers of the nation.
When Hypocrisy reigns supreme. Hypocrisy is the practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
Hypocrisy is also the practice of professing standards, beliefs, etc., contrary to one's real character or actual behavior, esp the pretense of virtue and piety.
Haven't you ever had a friend that turns out to be a Hypocrite at the end of the game ?? -- How Despicable !!
Huffington Post :
"Mexicans Are Filthy Stinking Animals"- Teabaggers: That's Really Not Racism
By Axel Woolfolk
Axel Woolfolk is in Brave New Films team, Cuentame, runs the Spanish language blog Metaforapolitica.com
March 5, 2010
"Mexicans Are Filthy Stinking Animals"- Teabaggers: That's Really Not Racism
Some excerpts :
Huffington Post : "Mexicans Are Filthy Stinking Animals"- Teabaggers: That's Really Not Racism
PostRacism and PostRaciality :
We are living in the fabulous wonderful times of PostRacism and PostRaciality, when thers is no more Racism, but only virtuous patriots and lovers of the nation.
When Hypocrisy reigns supreme. Hypocrisy is the practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
Hypocrisy is also the practice of professing standards, beliefs, etc., contrary to one's real character or actual behavior, esp the pretense of virtue and piety.
Haven't you ever had a friend that turns out to be a Hypocrite at the end of the game ?? -- How Despicable !!
Huffington Post :
"Mexicans Are Filthy Stinking Animals"- Teabaggers: That's Really Not Racism
By Axel Woolfolk
Axel Woolfolk is in Brave New Films team, Cuentame, runs the Spanish language blog Metaforapolitica.com
March 5, 2010
"Mexicans Are Filthy Stinking Animals"- Teabaggers: That's Really Not Racism
Some excerpts :
Mainstream media has time and again given the Tea Party and teabaggers a free pass and the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their use of racism to recruit and engage followers.
If they use bigoted, discriminatory language, it's really purely as a matter of argument. If they spew spiteful rhetoric at their rallies, it's really only one portion of the group - not everyone. If Tom Tancredo advocates for a literacy test to be eligible to vote, it's really just a way of saying that we must all come together under one nation. If they call us - Mexicans - filthy stinking animals, well they were only referring to the illegal ones anyhow.
Enough. Racism is racism, there is no excuse for it and has no place in America's public discourse. Their attempt to use racism as a legitimate tool to further a political, economic and anti-immigration agenda is tantamount to the propagandizing of fear as a tool to incite to action. It is using violent words for violent action.
Tea Party members argue that to brand the use of racism in Tea Baggers' rhetoric is to miss the point of their overall argument. Going to the extent of pushing to the frontlines minority members who allegedly admit that as minorities they were part of a "cradle-to-grave government dependency." In the meantime in the backlines they push to isolate minorities as the cause for all the national ills.
What is becoming quite evident is that Tea Party/Tea Baggers are not even aware of their harmful rhetoric. They seemingly cannot disassociate the economic argument from a racial perspective. There is a link, they argue - and that link is valid to present. Their reluctance to admit that this is the essence of their argument is a sign that they are oblivious to the harm their words are having on communities, like the Latino community, as a whole.
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If they use bigoted, discriminatory language, it's really purely as a matter of argument. If they spew spiteful rhetoric at their rallies, it's really only one portion of the group - not everyone. If Tom Tancredo advocates for a literacy test to be eligible to vote, it's really just a way of saying that we must all come together under one nation. If they call us - Mexicans - filthy stinking animals, well they were only referring to the illegal ones anyhow.
Enough. Racism is racism, there is no excuse for it and has no place in America's public discourse. Their attempt to use racism as a legitimate tool to further a political, economic and anti-immigration agenda is tantamount to the propagandizing of fear as a tool to incite to action. It is using violent words for violent action.
Tea Party members argue that to brand the use of racism in Tea Baggers' rhetoric is to miss the point of their overall argument. Going to the extent of pushing to the frontlines minority members who allegedly admit that as minorities they were part of a "cradle-to-grave government dependency." In the meantime in the backlines they push to isolate minorities as the cause for all the national ills.
What is becoming quite evident is that Tea Party/Tea Baggers are not even aware of their harmful rhetoric. They seemingly cannot disassociate the economic argument from a racial perspective. There is a link, they argue - and that link is valid to present. Their reluctance to admit that this is the essence of their argument is a sign that they are oblivious to the harm their words are having on communities, like the Latino community, as a whole.
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I am not a criminal, delinquent, mafioso, narco, drug dealer, but I have been involved in defensive violent action against some thugs in streets
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I am not a criminal, delinquent, mafioso, narco, drug dealer, but I have been involved in defensive violent action against some thugs in streets
There are some INAMORATOS that want to kill me and have threatened me. I may perish by bullets or stabbed. There is a high probability of that.
By a whim of Fate, God or the Guardian Angels I have beeen very lucky in those confrontations and my enemies have suffered Great Humiliation and even damages that put them in Great Ridicule. I am a friend of Police and the Authorities.
I am not brave, courageous or valiant. I am just Crazy, Imprudent, Lucky ..... a daredevil and Total Fool in Warfare.
God favors and laughs at the actions of the LOQUITOS, those are the little crazy guys that do not think, but just act automatically during violent confrontations and are guided by the Guardian Angel or the Guardian Devil in Dangerous Actions.
I may have a short life for me in the Future.
Can you imagine the contempt that I feel for Internet Trolls, those that use Insults, Personal Attacks and a lot of Abusive Excess of Argumentative Hate, and derisive behavior, trying to show the other guys as a liar, idiot, etc ...
Or playing games of assumption.
Due to hard and painful factors I have to keep a lot of secretive life around me.
But I feel the topmost contempt for Criminals, Delinquents, Violent Lawbreakers, for those that are thugs, and that start as bullies in schoolyards and want to be bullies for the rest of their lives.
And the Internet Bully is a poor guy, a failed life, a loser, one that is a box filled with inferiority complexes. Inside their hearts they are GREAT COWARDS.
Vicente
I am not a criminal, delinquent, mafioso, narco, drug dealer, but I have been involved in defensive violent action against some thugs in streets
There are some INAMORATOS that want to kill me and have threatened me. I may perish by bullets or stabbed. There is a high probability of that.
By a whim of Fate, God or the Guardian Angels I have beeen very lucky in those confrontations and my enemies have suffered Great Humiliation and even damages that put them in Great Ridicule. I am a friend of Police and the Authorities.
I am not brave, courageous or valiant. I am just Crazy, Imprudent, Lucky ..... a daredevil and Total Fool in Warfare.
God favors and laughs at the actions of the LOQUITOS, those are the little crazy guys that do not think, but just act automatically during violent confrontations and are guided by the Guardian Angel or the Guardian Devil in Dangerous Actions.
I may have a short life for me in the Future.
Can you imagine the contempt that I feel for Internet Trolls, those that use Insults, Personal Attacks and a lot of Abusive Excess of Argumentative Hate, and derisive behavior, trying to show the other guys as a liar, idiot, etc ...
Or playing games of assumption.
Due to hard and painful factors I have to keep a lot of secretive life around me.
But I feel the topmost contempt for Criminals, Delinquents, Violent Lawbreakers, for those that are thugs, and that start as bullies in schoolyards and want to be bullies for the rest of their lives.
And the Internet Bully is a poor guy, a failed life, a loser, one that is a box filled with inferiority complexes. Inside their hearts they are GREAT COWARDS.
Vicente
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Huffington Post : The Tea Party Is All About Race - How Tea Party is a mask and disguise for Ugly Racism, they can not hide their Hatred of Obama
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Huffington Post : The Tea Party Is All About Race - How Tea Party is a mask and disguise for Ugly Racism, they can not hide their Hatred of Obama for being "Black"
The Tea Party movement is filled with "PostRacism", that is with Hypocrisy !
Huffington Post
The Tea Party Is All About Race
Bob Cesca
Political Writer, Blogger, and New Media Producer
March 3, 2010
The Tea Party Is All About Race
Some excerpts :
Huffington Post : The Tea Party Is All About Race - How Tea Party is a mask and disguise for Ugly Racism, they can not hide their Hatred of Obama for being "Black"
The Tea Party movement is filled with "PostRacism", that is with Hypocrisy !
Huffington Post
The Tea Party Is All About Race
Bob Cesca
Political Writer, Blogger, and New Media Producer
March 3, 2010
The Tea Party Is All About Race
Some excerpts :
Because when you strip away all of the rage, all of the nonsensical loud noises and all of the contradictions, all that's left is race. The tea party is almost entirely about race, and there's no comparative group on the left that's similarly motivated by bigotry, ignorance and racial hatred.
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This isn't an epiphany by any stretch. From the beginning, with their witch doctor imagery, watermelon agitprop and Curious George effigies, the wingnut right has been dying to blurt out, as Lee Atwater famously said, "nigger, nigger, nigger!"
But they can't.
Strike that. Correction. TeaParty.org founder Dale Robertson brandished a sign with the (misspelled) word "niggar." So they're not even as restrained as the generally unstrung Atwater anymore.
Most of the time, they merely imply the use of the word. Rush Limbaugh referring to the president as a "black man-child," for example. Every week, a new example pops up on the radio and somehow the offenders are able to keep their job while Howard Stern is fined for saying the comparatively innocuous word "blumpkin." Limbaugh, on the other hand, can stoke racial animosity on his show by suggesting that health care reform is a civil rights bill -- reparations -- and no one seems to mind. And no, the impotence isn't an adequate Karmic punishment for Limbaugh's roster of trespasses.
The tea party is an extension of talk radio. It's an extension of Fox News Channel. It's an extension of the southern faction of the Republican Party -- the faction that gave us the Southern Strategy, the Willie Horton ad, the White Hands ad and the racially divisive politics of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove. It's an extension of the race-baiting and, often, the outright racism evident in all of those conservative spheres.
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From the outset, the tea party was based on a contradictory premise (the original tea party was a protest against a corporate tax cut). And when you throw out all of the nonsense and contradictions, there's nothing left except race. There's no other way to explain why these people were silent and compliant for so long, and only decided to collectively freak out when this "foreign" and "exotic" president came along and, right out of the chute, passed the largest middle class tax cut in American history -- something they would otherwise support, for goodness sake, it was $288 billion in tax cuts! -- we're left to deduce no other motive but the ugly one that lurks just beneath the pale flesh, the tri-corner hats and the dangly tea bag ornamentation.
Irrespective of whether the president passed a huge tax cut or went out of his way to bring Republicans into the health care process, the seeds of racial animosity from the far-right were sown during the campaign. In those lines waiting for then-vice presidential candidate and current tea party heroine Sarah Palin, their loud noises spread the pre-scripted lies, lies that entirely hinged on the president's African heritage. A white candidate would never be accused of being a secret Muslim. A white candidate would never be accused of being a foreign usurper. Only a black candidate with a foreign name would be accused of "palling around with domestic terrorists."
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By way of a postscript, one of the many faceless radio talk show wingnuts, Jim Quinn, this week called President Obama a "Kenyan wuss" who should be "slapped silly." The Kenyan lie and the "slap silly" insult aside, this president is no wuss. You know how I know? He's a black man who ran for president and won despite the growing mob of gun-toting militant white bigots like Jim Quinn who are sucking air in America. President Obama achieving this despite the hatred and threats against him takes serious guts. Guts that Jim Quinn and the tea party movement will never understand.
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....................
This isn't an epiphany by any stretch. From the beginning, with their witch doctor imagery, watermelon agitprop and Curious George effigies, the wingnut right has been dying to blurt out, as Lee Atwater famously said, "nigger, nigger, nigger!"
But they can't.
Strike that. Correction. TeaParty.org founder Dale Robertson brandished a sign with the (misspelled) word "niggar." So they're not even as restrained as the generally unstrung Atwater anymore.
Most of the time, they merely imply the use of the word. Rush Limbaugh referring to the president as a "black man-child," for example. Every week, a new example pops up on the radio and somehow the offenders are able to keep their job while Howard Stern is fined for saying the comparatively innocuous word "blumpkin." Limbaugh, on the other hand, can stoke racial animosity on his show by suggesting that health care reform is a civil rights bill -- reparations -- and no one seems to mind. And no, the impotence isn't an adequate Karmic punishment for Limbaugh's roster of trespasses.
The tea party is an extension of talk radio. It's an extension of Fox News Channel. It's an extension of the southern faction of the Republican Party -- the faction that gave us the Southern Strategy, the Willie Horton ad, the White Hands ad and the racially divisive politics of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove. It's an extension of the race-baiting and, often, the outright racism evident in all of those conservative spheres.
.......................
From the outset, the tea party was based on a contradictory premise (the original tea party was a protest against a corporate tax cut). And when you throw out all of the nonsense and contradictions, there's nothing left except race. There's no other way to explain why these people were silent and compliant for so long, and only decided to collectively freak out when this "foreign" and "exotic" president came along and, right out of the chute, passed the largest middle class tax cut in American history -- something they would otherwise support, for goodness sake, it was $288 billion in tax cuts! -- we're left to deduce no other motive but the ugly one that lurks just beneath the pale flesh, the tri-corner hats and the dangly tea bag ornamentation.
Irrespective of whether the president passed a huge tax cut or went out of his way to bring Republicans into the health care process, the seeds of racial animosity from the far-right were sown during the campaign. In those lines waiting for then-vice presidential candidate and current tea party heroine Sarah Palin, their loud noises spread the pre-scripted lies, lies that entirely hinged on the president's African heritage. A white candidate would never be accused of being a secret Muslim. A white candidate would never be accused of being a foreign usurper. Only a black candidate with a foreign name would be accused of "palling around with domestic terrorists."
.............
By way of a postscript, one of the many faceless radio talk show wingnuts, Jim Quinn, this week called President Obama a "Kenyan wuss" who should be "slapped silly." The Kenyan lie and the "slap silly" insult aside, this president is no wuss. You know how I know? He's a black man who ran for president and won despite the growing mob of gun-toting militant white bigots like Jim Quinn who are sucking air in America. President Obama achieving this despite the hatred and threats against him takes serious guts. Guts that Jim Quinn and the tea party movement will never understand.
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Monday, March 1, 2010
The failure of the Racial Myths : The Aryans, the Nazi Ahnerbe, Hitler complaining of failure and the failure of the Anglo-Saxon Myth
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The failure of the Racial Myths : The Aryans, the Nazi Ahnerbe, Hitler complaining of failure of Nazi Archaeology - The failure of the Anglo-Saxon Myth
American Imperialists from 1830 to 1930 approximately talked about America being a "Greater England with a nobler destiny" and exalted the properties and advantages of the "Anglo Saxon Race" ...... They believed that America was very "Anglo-Saxon".
But it is estimated that most "White" Americans have some non White ancestors, many of them Black, Native American Indians, from Southern Europe, or from some location in the Middle East. Many "White" Americans have confessed to me ( as if I were a priest and if this was a grave sin ) of not being 100% pure and having some stain in a Great Grandfather or something earlier, some of them confess in low voice and whispers.
As far as I know nobody is perfectly White or Black :
There are many sites in the Internet that show the foolishness about the Aryans, and English Investigators ( like Stephen Oppenheimer ) tell us that the Anglo-Saxon tribes may have been a Great Mixture of Peoples that slowly migrated to Britain in many waves. Famous ArchaeoGenetic Investigators have concluded that the Population of England and larger Britain is mostly paleolithic and more related to the Iberians and Basques of the Post Ice Age, than to other Europeans.
So to trace the Anglo-Saxons in British Genes has been very frustrating for researchers and a small percentage of these "genes" are present only in the East of England, but not in Wales, Scotland or Ireland. The Anglo-Saxon alleged genes are absent or very scarce in Southern and West England.
The topic is very nebulous and controversial, but linguists, archaeologists and other scientists have great doubts about the Anglo-Saxons and consider their influence not so strong as previously believed.
And the Myths of the Nazis about the Aryans can not be more Crazy and are shown by science as false. .... Even Hitler complained that Himmler and the Ahnenerbe or Nazi Archaeology cost a lot of money and found absolutely nothing of a Great German Past before Christ or Julius Caesar. Hitler was very sour and angry at the failure of Nazi Science to support Nazi Racism.
If you study the mind of Himmler you only find a Great Freak and believer in the most Absurd Myths and Crazy Foolishness.
So the Ahnerbe was a failure showing that there was no Great Germanic Aryans in the past. Today the Aryans of 5,000 years ago are considered to be more like the Iranians, Afghans and Iraqis of today.
And with respect to color, it has been shown that it can change very fast by evolutive forces and that there are thousands of other different characteristics that are not studied or known by the Racists.
Vicente Duque
The failure of the Racial Myths : The Aryans, the Nazi Ahnerbe, Hitler complaining of failure of Nazi Archaeology - The failure of the Anglo-Saxon Myth
American Imperialists from 1830 to 1930 approximately talked about America being a "Greater England with a nobler destiny" and exalted the properties and advantages of the "Anglo Saxon Race" ...... They believed that America was very "Anglo-Saxon".
But it is estimated that most "White" Americans have some non White ancestors, many of them Black, Native American Indians, from Southern Europe, or from some location in the Middle East. Many "White" Americans have confessed to me ( as if I were a priest and if this was a grave sin ) of not being 100% pure and having some stain in a Great Grandfather or something earlier, some of them confess in low voice and whispers.
As far as I know nobody is perfectly White or Black :
There are many sites in the Internet that show the foolishness about the Aryans, and English Investigators ( like Stephen Oppenheimer ) tell us that the Anglo-Saxon tribes may have been a Great Mixture of Peoples that slowly migrated to Britain in many waves. Famous ArchaeoGenetic Investigators have concluded that the Population of England and larger Britain is mostly paleolithic and more related to the Iberians and Basques of the Post Ice Age, than to other Europeans.
So to trace the Anglo-Saxons in British Genes has been very frustrating for researchers and a small percentage of these "genes" are present only in the East of England, but not in Wales, Scotland or Ireland. The Anglo-Saxon alleged genes are absent or very scarce in Southern and West England.
The topic is very nebulous and controversial, but linguists, archaeologists and other scientists have great doubts about the Anglo-Saxons and consider their influence not so strong as previously believed.
And the Myths of the Nazis about the Aryans can not be more Crazy and are shown by science as false. .... Even Hitler complained that Himmler and the Ahnenerbe or Nazi Archaeology cost a lot of money and found absolutely nothing of a Great German Past before Christ or Julius Caesar. Hitler was very sour and angry at the failure of Nazi Science to support Nazi Racism.
If you study the mind of Himmler you only find a Great Freak and believer in the most Absurd Myths and Crazy Foolishness.
So the Ahnerbe was a failure showing that there was no Great Germanic Aryans in the past. Today the Aryans of 5,000 years ago are considered to be more like the Iranians, Afghans and Iraqis of today.
And with respect to color, it has been shown that it can change very fast by evolutive forces and that there are thousands of other different characteristics that are not studied or known by the Racists.
Vicente Duque
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