Lightning strikes illegal immigration foe

Orange County Register ^ | Sept. 1, 2007 | GORDON DILLOW

[AuntB]

Former Anaheim school board member Harald Martin puts it this way: "I've been out there pushing for a long time. When you do that, eventually they're going to get you.

"And I got got."

As you may have heard, Martin resigned from the Anaheim Union High School District board of trustees last week in the face of a recall effort. The recall was largely driven by community activists who have long hated Martin – "hate" is not too strong a word – for his stands against illegal immigration.

And in some people's minds, to be against illegal immigration is to be, by definition, a "racist."

Martin is a 52-year-old retired Anaheim cop who spent years working in some of that city's toughest gang areas. As a community-based officer charged with helping to clean up crime-ridden neighborhoods, he once led a citizens group in dumping steer manure and grass seed in a city park to drive away drug dealers – sort of a "stink 'em out of the park" strategy.

Still, it's discouraging that a politician who is willing to speak out on a critical national and local issue is so quickly – and permanently – branded a "racist." It makes me wonder if other local politicians will hesitate to speak out about illegal immigration.

Because they've seen what happened to Harald Martin.

And they may be afraid of the lightning.

[television is just wrong]

they are not very bright. they are bull dogs that have grabbed onto an idea and will not letgo of it.

[TLI]

Mexican, likewise, is frequently used as a racial descriptor by...

Wow. That's pretty good. Can I use it?

Thanks, TLI.

[TLI]

Well for starters, they might just feel guilty about sucking up our resources.

No they won't. They are La Raza, "The Race." They are superior. Plus, we owe them. Just visit some of their websites and you can see it for yourself.

[janetgreen]

If anyone has been to Anaheim lately they will see that many parts of that large town and other nearby areas of Orange County now look like Tijuana, Mexico, just like the illegal aliens and their supporters like it.

Several years ago the Anaheim school district sent a bill to Vicente Fox of Mexico for the huge amount of money it was costing them to try to educate the children of illegals. They never got a reply, of course.

Here in Mexifornia, illgal aliens are the "gift" that keeps on taking...and taking...and taking.