Posted on 11/23/2007 11:45:12 AM PST by Dubya
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A local TV crew was shooting a live morning report about Lisa Dupre's Sacramento preschool, where toddlers can learn yoga, etiquette and Spanish as a second language.
The phone rang -- the first response, Dupre thought, to an on-air invitation for parents to get more information. She let her answering machine pick up.
"I thought this was America, not Mexico. This is English only," a voice growled when she listened later. "That's why we've got a problem with illegal aliens -- because people like you are trying to change California into Mexico."
A stunned Dupre -- whose school also offers French -- said she remembers thinking, "This guy is not the sharpest tool in the shed."
Several more callers complained to her after the August TV report that she was catering to Mexicans, and a neighbor struck up a conversation with her to blame Mexicans, Dupre said, for everything wrong -- including grocery prices.Whether it's in conversation, on Web sites or flowing from cable TV and radio talk shows, the shrillness of the anti-illegal-immigration debate has become disturbing, say groups that monitor hate speech.
The Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center has produced reports on anti-Latino rhetoric, and the Anti-Defamation League, founded to expose anti-Semitism, issued a report in October called, Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves Into the Mainstream.
Their point is that rational debate over immigration has been drowned out by the noise of unfounded accusations that illegal immigrants are the driving force behind problems such as identity theft and rising health insurance costs.
Activists who oppose illegal immigration say they are just holding the line against opponents they accuse of wanting "open borders." And they believe they represent the will of the majority.
"There is no doubt that immigration is a necessary debate," said Deborah Lauter, the Anti-Defamation League's civil rights director. "But it must remain civil."
ADL researchers reviewed Web sites, news reports and activists' media appearances for the report.
CNN's Lou Dobbs comes under fire for what the group calls "false propaganda" about illegal immigrants and disease that he refused to recant. TV pundit Pat Buchanan is criticized for spreading xenophobia in his book, State of Siege, in which he describes Latino immigration as a mortal cultural threat.
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is cited by the ADL for calling illegal immigration a "slow-motion terrorist attack."
The ADL cites comments by D.A. King of Georgia, who founded an anti-illegal-immigrant group called the Dustin Inman Society. He has appeared on CNN and testified before a congressional committee.
In April, a newspaper report said, King told a gathering of Georgia Republican Party members that illegal immigrants are "not here to mow your lawn -- they're here to blow up your buildings and kill your children, and you and me."
Online: Southern Poverty Law Center, www.splcenter.org
Anti-Defamation League, www.adl.org
Dustin Inman Society, www.thedustininmansociety.org
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is cited by the ADL for calling illegal immigration a "slow-motion terrorist attack."
When you cannot prove what they are saying is not true, then all you have is your attack dogs. You would need to go a long way to find an organization that was a corrupt as the souther, scam little old ladies, law center.
Rhetoric is not text. Also, it is rarely aesthetic in either sense.
“There is no doubt that immigration is a necessary debate,” said Deborah Lauter, the Anti-Defamation League’s civil rights director. “But it must remain civil.”
It is much slower than 9/11.
A group of immigrants, including women and a young girl, crosses into the U.S. illegally near Nogales, Ariz.
A group of wet backs :^).
The Anti-truth Telling League will be out citing for telling the truth. The cry will be, There's too much Truth Telling goin' on out thar.
Maybe it would remain civil, if the GD, MF'n illegal-butt kissing Open Borders crowd in the government, who are charged with enforcing our laws, weren't doing everything in their (from the very top, down) power to thwart the laws and the will of the citizenry.
While the death toll grows, and grows, and grows.
Nearing, by estimates, 30,000 plus since 9/11.
Representative King's notation to the Congressional Record places our Nation's death toll much higher than the number of 30,000 Americans dead since 9/11, due to murder and other crimes.
I agree. This lady with her preschool is not the issue or the problem. Frankly I want my kids to learn a second language so they will have the opportunity to work and travel overseas.
I want a mile high fence on our borders, employer sanctions on those who hire illegals, and deportation of illegals. I also want to terminate the anchor baby farce. However, I see nothing wrong with school kids learniong Spanish.
On immigration, the liberals are now saying that, yes, we should debate the issue, but only if we exclude arguments that are "racist" or "xenophobic". So you're free to argue against illegal aliens and mass immigration, as long as you don't mention that they're changing our culture, replacing our language, driving wages down, committing huge numbers of crimes, killing people with drunk driving, soaking up welfare and entitlements, engaging in identity theft, using fake IDs, taking over our neighborhoods, engaging in gang violence, wrecking our school system, and so forth.
Of course, once you take those arguments out of the equation, there are no sound reasons left to oppose illegal immigration or mass legal immigration. By liberal definition, any effective or good argument against their position is "racist" or "xenophobic".
At the time of the assassination of JFK the NY Times had two above-the-fold items. One reporting on Oswald and his known Communist connections and the other a column by James Reston opining that America was steeped in hatred and violence. The assassination was a consequence of our sorry history.
Guess which prevailed in the mainstream media. Yes, the attempts to place the blame on America especially the emerging modern conservative movement.
Let the Deconstructing of America begin!
I remember it well. It continues 24/7.
The best and brightest Bee brains are no strangers to the Reston rhetoric having spun and spiked news for decades; they even partnered with CAIR, gay activists, and "undocumented" workers to help run a popular local conservative talk show host off the air.
The same Bee brains who blamed us for 9/11 (we shared the blame, we don't try to "understand" the rest of the world).
The same Bee brains who ran article after article about "Asian bashing" during the Wen Ho Lee mishandling of highly classified documents episode. Did Lee ever live up to his agreement with DoJ?
Who cares what Bee brains feeeeeeeeeeeeeel.
The name calling by radical socialists against the majority of Americans who simply want laws enforced is only effective as long as we care what they call us.
Mr. Dees wanted to do good and he's done very well indeed.
May I brag? Congressman King is MY congressman and a close personal friend.
“Whether it’s in conversation, on Web sites or flowing from cable TV and radio talk shows, the shrillness of the anti-illegal-immigration debate has become disturbing, say groups that monitor hate speech.”
This debate has been shrill and defamatory for years; shrill and defamatory almost exclusively from the open borders/pro illegal crowd. Any mention of enforcing our laws brought quick slurs of racist, xenophobe, you can’t built a wall around America and other nonsense.
But now that those who believe laws should be enforced have begun to raise their voices, the “Sacramento Bee” and other MSM hypocrites and liars are suddenly alarmed at the shrillness of the debate. Ignore these pathetic hypocrites.
Please forgive me for going on and on and on.....but there is a Nation at stake here (OURS) and I know your Congressman knows that too.....say Hello for me and ask him to continue the Good Fight, Representative King, has always fought.....(smile)
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