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| Quasimodo | Sep 7 2008, 12:38 PM Post #1 |
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[From a state which has already proven its gracious tolerance towards outsiders, and fair treatment for strangers, I await the first trial of Mexicans for gang-rape (will it matter if they weren't there?)] http://www.newsobserver.com/news/immigration/story/1209646.html Published: Sep 07, 2008 12:30 AM Modified: Sep 07, 2008 04:24 AM Tolerance wears thin Johnston's sheriff says Hispanics spread crime and dodge taxes. Yet he respects their hard work and expresses pity for their plight Kristin Collins, Staff Writer SMITHFIELD - Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell's territory is one of country stores and fading tobacco barns; but increasingly his work -- and his words -- reach far beyond his rural county. Advocates and politicians across the state have come to know him as the lawman with the deep country twang who makes incendiary comments about "drunk Mexicans." (snip) Bizzell's strident rhetoric -- his claims that illegal immigrants "rape, rob and murder" American citizens, fail to pay taxes and drain social services -- has had clear political benefits. (snip) Hispanics, a large share of whom are in the country illegally, have been responsible for more than a third of drunken-driving charges in Johnston County in the past five years. [Since the Duke case I am now a little more wary about statistics. Does this mean "all" Hispanics; just foreign born? Cubans or just Mexicans? Mexicans or just Central Americans? Puerto Ricans? Is there an income figure here? And finally, if we start playing the percentage game and applying it to ethnic minorities, what percentage of crime in NC is committed by another ethnic minority, relative to their percent of the population? Are we to apply the same rigorous condemnation to that minority also? And that minority has had many more advantages (among the simplest, they speak English), access to television since birth (a great educator), never known starvation, no civil wars or rebel takeovers of the government, etc. )] But overall, as Johnston's Hispanic population has grown, its crime rates have fallen. In the past decade, as illegal immigration has surged, Johnston County's rate of violent crime has dropped by almost half, according to the State Bureau of Investigation. Property crimes are also down. In private conversations, Bizzell reveals that his deeper concerns, and those of his constituents, are as much about changing demographics as about crime. "How long is it going to be until we're the minority?" he said one night in August, as he drove the darkened streets of Smithfield. [One can voice these concerns about one ethnic group, but not about another? That's fine by me, I believe in free speech; but I simply want to see the same standard applies to all. ] (snip) He will roll slowly through communities of single-wides that draw stark lines against a barren landscape of dirt and weeds, pointing out cars with no license plates and piles of garbage. "Mexicans are trashy,"he will remark. [And if he rolled through Durham, and made that kind of remark about a different ethnic minority, what would be the result?] He will count the children playing in each yard, talking alternately about his pity for their plight and the future tax burden they will pose to society. [See above.] One Saturday evening, Bizzell pulled into Bell Hope mobile home park, a collection of rusting trailers outside Smithfield. He pointed to a trash can overflowing with empty cans of Bud Light. He saw a group of men gathered around a pickup truck, and he guessed that they would soon be fighting or driving drunk. [See above.] He saw people dancing in the grass between two trailers, a gaggle of children playing nearby. "All they do is work and make love, I think," he said. "Look at all those kids right there." ["All they do is work"? Is that supposed to be a derogatory remark? "Look at all those kids right there". Are there too many of them? And if this were said about another minority?] Many of the Hispanic residents of Bell Hope are part of a community that stretches back to Veracruz, Mexico, where they lived before migrating for the promise of construction jobs. They settled together, forming a kind of extended family that shares meals and takes care of each other's children. [Obviously bad.] Many have been there more than a decade. [But it's nice to see that a county sheriff, and President of the NC county sheriffs association, has full freedom of expression and can stereotype "Mexicans" (read : "Hispanics") as breeding too fast and having too many children who will become a burden on society, and as drunks and innate criminals. And he won't have to contend with a peep out of all the civil rights organizations, or the churches, or the pious pastors, or those who are so obsessed with human dignity and equality. Great state.] Edited by Quasimodo, Sep 7 2008, 12:39 PM.
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| Baldo | Sep 7 2008, 12:51 PM Post #2 |
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Well, at least you can't accuse him of being political correct? Sometimes keeping your mouth shut is the best solution and this Sheriff needs to learn it. |
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| Jezebelle | Sep 8 2008, 04:57 PM Post #3 |
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There's some merit to what the good sheriff says. If all you want to do is condemn his statements and viewpoint, fine, but here in Mexifornia we know differently. It's estimated that about 1/3 of our prison population is illegal aliens, almost all Hispanic. I can guarantee you that if and when the Mexican gangs take control of the illegals in the sheriff's jurisdiction, the existing population that disagrees with him now will be calling him daily to handle the problem. Illegals are a huge financial drain on the taxpayers. |
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