THIS MESSAGE COMES FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, SO YOU CAN RELAX, IT DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU. YET?
As you all listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration there are some things that you should be aware of.
As most of you know my wife is in charge of the English-as-a-second-language (ESL) department at large southern California high school, which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socio economic and income levels. Most of the schools you are hearing about--South Gate High, Bell Gardens, Huntington Park, etc.--where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.
My wife tells me that 100% of the students in her school and other Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast, free lunch program. When I say free breakfast I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll...but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten.
She estimates that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones.
The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids.
She was ordered to spend $700,000 on her department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; her budget was already substantial. She ended up buying new computers for their computer learning center; half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America.
She has had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less then 3 months who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them "Putas"--whores--and throwing things that the teachers were in tears.
Free medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc., etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?
To my conservative friends: I hope you're really proud of how George W. Bush has helped to sell-out this country with his pro-illegal policy. I voted for him too, but on this issue he is a disaster.
To my bleeding-heart liberal friends who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs. Higher insurance, Medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc., etc.. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.
We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won't have the guts to enforce it. Does anyone in their right mind really think they will leave and return voluntarily?
There are many hardworking Hispanic/American citizens that contribute to our country and many that I consider my true friends. We should encourage and accept those Hispanics who have done it the right and legal way.
It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate... and an American culture that has become so weak and politically correct that we don't have the will to do anything about it.
Thank heaven for the massive marches across the country by those favoring illegal immigrants. These marches revealed the ugly truth behind the fog of pious words and clever political spin from the media and from both Democrats and Republicans in Washington.
"Guest workers"? Did any of the strident speakers, with their in-your-face bombast in Spanish, sound like guests? Did they sound like people who wanted to become Americans? Were they even asking for amnesty? They didn't sound like they were asking for anything. They sounded like they were telling. Demanding. Threatening. (THOMAS LOWELL)
ON LEAKS
In previous wars, traitors were shot or served lengthy prison terms. Now they get fired and the reporter who prints the secrets, possibly damaging her nation, wins prestigious journalism awards. Morality and patriotism appear to have been turned upside down. ( Cal Thomas)
ON THE WAR
We can delude ourselves that we aren't at war, that nothing changed on Sept. 11, and we're not as vulnerable as innocent Israelis who know that every bus they get on or pizza place they grab a slice at could be a suicide bomber's next target. (Kathryn Lopez)
ON DUKE
When a prosecutor acts like he has made up his mind and doesn't want to be confused by the facts, that is when the spirit of the lynch mob has entered the legal system. When this happens on the eve of an election for the prosecutor, it looks even uglier.( Thomas Lowell)
THE ATTRACTION OF ISLAM?
Due to the lack of civilized restraints prevalent in Judeo-Christian societies it appears that Islam assumes that all men are rapists (so do many feminists) and women need to be protected at all times from them. Even a strand of hair or glimpse of an ankle can send a Muslim man into sexual frenzy. They can not wait until a girl matures, they must possess them at the earliest possible age before they could get involved in sexual activity. In some regions they will remove with crude surgery the clitoris of a woman so that she does not enjoy and thus desire sex. The other side of this coin is the furious defense of women from other Muslim men. Here is a letter I received from a friend of mine. Read it and think hard. How do young women look at this protective defense of women?
"The situation I am commenting on will not surprise you but shocked me (& I'm in Norway at least every other year).
Apparently Norwegian young girls in Oslo, which has a heavy immigrant presence now, are gradually falling under the sway of Islamic boys to the degree that
Norwegian young men are not date-worthy. (considered soft, will not FIGHT for their "honor'', do not care if they are virgins or not! etc.) The number and
influence of the muslim men is so great that if they learn a popular young woman is sexually experienced (not unusual in Norway) she can be the victim of
mobbing at school, hate mail, physical threats or more mildly, public name calling: whore, slut etc. The article I was commenting on actually interviewed
many young girls who lamented that they were no longer virgins and that muslim young girls were more respected, their brothers "defended'' them more and that
they did not think the fact that the muslim young girls in Oslo (with a Taliban-like lifestyle) were missing out on anything.
That these are probably ignorant and easily impressed young women with oblivious parents-MAY account for some of this but I think it's similar to what
accounted for all those Black/Swedish marriages back in hippie days. These muslim young men seem passionately more exotic than their blue-eyed locals and many
of the more attractive are probably quick to take advantage of their temporary charm. It just breaks my heart to see such naivete in a sophisticated
country but I blame parents for being too permissive, too misguidedly accepting andperhaps--just too absent.
I'm all for more modesty in females and detest the prostitute-style clothing they've been wearing since Madonna-but most all of my close friends in the
states are Norwegian and I have many friends in Norway. Most of the young women may have what seems to be a more permissive attitude toward sexuality but they
grow up to be solid adults and good parents. It frightens me to see the changes islamic immigrants are making in Oslo.l I was there last July and at night
I hardly saw a Norwegian on the streets. My same experience in Paris. Since I'm a product of immigrantion from Eastern Europe I can't expect the US to
close the doors to other immigrants. I do feel that we, Scandinavia and western Europe--better find a way FAST to monitor who stays and who doesn't and have
the guts to put in measures to ensure WE decide who makes the cut. It's probably too late already."
