Speech Police

Casper Star-Tribune | November 19, 200w | Paul E. Puebla

[The Irishman]

Editor:

What does immigration cost us? Several weeks ago I wrote about the monetary costs in letters in Wyoming's two major newspapers. The cost last year was $40 billion and will grow this year. However cost is not evenly distributed. Some communities in California, Texas and Arizona, are heavily impacted by swollen welfare budgets, stretched infrastructure and hospitals on the brink of bankruptcy. Immigration is estimated to cost Californians $1300 per household annually in additional taxes. California spent 1.3 billion educating illegal immigrant children.

A strong case can be shown that the real price of immigration is freedom. In Manistee, Michigan, Janice Barton, passing a group of Hispanics speaking in their native tongue, said to her mother that she wished these "spics would learn to speak English." An off-duty Hispanic deputy sheriff overheard, noted her car license and Barton was arrested and convicted for committing a "hate crime". It is possible to empathize with Barton without being racist. Many Americans feel their communities, which give them identity, are being overrun by people from different cultures speaking alien languages.

Something is terribly wrong when native-born citizens cannot express private thoughts to their own family without being jailed. In no previous wave of immigration have immigrants had such power over the native-born population, the very people who permit immigrants to come to their country. Today, it is native-born citizens who receive hostile treatment.

Nov. 1, a Michigan appeals court reversed Barton's conviction. The reversal, said Barton was convicted for "conduct she could not reasonably have known was criminal." The court did not say the Constitution guarantees free speech and that no American under any circumstances can ever be arrested, charged and convicted for expressing thoughts and feelings. This fundamental right seems to be vanishing, especially in our universities.

On Nov. 4, Linda Alberti, a supervisor of a government agency in Nassau County, NY., was fired for using racial slurs in a private telephone conversation which was secretly recorded. These episodes could easily come out of George Orwell's "1984." Why don't our local newspapers carry these stories? There are many.

[The Irishman]

Another politically incorrect of Latino background speaks out about the problems associated with illegal immigration. His point about, "communities, which give them identity" is well taken and a clear conservative principle backed by the majority of the population if we can believe polls. Yet few politians, even on our side, have the courage to support it. Go figure.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

ping the list...this is so right, I am sickened by this.

[The Irishman]

Thought this may be of interest to you.

Regards.

[Sparta]

If the damn immigrants won't speak English and assimiliate into our culture, they can exerise the right to get the hell out of my country.

[Sabertooth]

Not to mention the cost in radio stations. Spanish stations are approaching 50% in some places in California. That doesn't seem to bode well for the goal of rapid assimilation. Nothing divides people like language can.

How are Spanish stations a responsible use of the airwaves, which are a public resource?

[BlackElk]

Aren't you the same guy who posted the artcle from some Marxist rag posing as a poetry journal which spewed the straight communist line against Francisco Franco and lovingly recounted the "farewell" of the red poster girl Dolores Iaburri aka La Passionara to communists from all over the world who arrived as "International Brigades" to help kill priests, burn churches and rape and murder nuns? That Sparta? I take it you are being sarcastic on this thread?

[Sparta]

Sorry to disappoint you, I'm not a Communist. Any way, what does that have to do with this thread.

[The Irishman]

This letter shows how "the little guy", as my Dad used to refer to his type of American, views what is happening to the "native-born" in our country. It just so happens that this man is of apparant Hispanic extraction, but has elected to go down with the ship with the rest of us "native-borns" standing on the deck of the USS Titanic. In another post on another article you pose the question, who is the "we" many refer to when they talk about present actions of America. I, for one, am proud to include myself with Mr. Puebla as a "we." I supect you would too.

Regards.

[The Irishman]

This is a "letter to the editor". I presume that Mr. Puebla got wind of this from some published source. By the way, some of this has been on FR if I am not mistaken.

At least as interesting as the cases recounted is that Mr. Puebla finds these acts injurious to him as a "native-born" American and that he decrys the absence for reports about it in the mainstream media.

Regards.

[neutrino]

An off-duty Hispanic deputy sheriff overheard, noted her car license and Barton was arrested and convicted for committing a "hate crime".

Once upon a time, there was a country named the USSR. We all felt sorry for the inhabitants, because they didn't have freedom of speech. They looked over their shoulders before they spoke, and even then they kept it to a low whisper.

Isn't it great that we have our freedoms?(/bitter sarcasm)

[The Irishman]

If the damn immigrants won't speak English and assimiliate into our culture, they can exerise the right to get the hell out of my country.

There are some elements of our "culture" that I would hope they would not adopt, but what you have posted is generally thought to be the duty of an immigrant to any nation. Thanks for the reply.

Regards.

[varon]

BTTT

[The Irishman]

Thanks for the bump.

Regards.

[The Irishman]

Thanks for the reply.

Regards.

[ladylib]

That's why this woman's particular case has to go all the way up to the US Supreme Court. Another thing, I didn't think ignorance was a defense for "breaking the law." As far as I'm concerned, there was no "law" broken.

This has to get straightened out.

[Bullish]

Borders, language and culture. Uphold them or America is doomed.