Reply #63: I didn't expect to see so many hoods come off right here.

[Senior citizen]

Recently there was some sort of protest against the Minute-Men in Orange County, southern California. Some people got hit by a car. The police did grab the driver (on edit: the driver was a guy who has several racist web sites) when the people there insisted, but immediately let him go. Meanwhile, they got a warrant and raided the home of one of the people who got hit by the car, supposedly looking for a stolen police flashlight.

It sure looks to me like the brownshirts are targeting "illegal immigrants" and their supporters for the first street violence and law enforcement is backing it up. Nobody said it would be Jews again, but it is always easy to find some unpopular group that is politically powerless, and arouse hatred and jealousy to the point where violence becomes acceptable.

Illegal immigrants do not own big corporations, therefore they did not outsource our jobs. If you can't get a high-paying job like the one you used to have, it isn't because some illegal immigrant took it, but because your company decided to give it to some citizen of India or China. If Mexicans wanted your job, they'd have to stay in Mexico and work at the maquilladora where your job was outsourced.

We're one of the most violent countries in the world. Illegal immigrants who come here are more likely to be the victims of violence than to perpetrate violence themselves. For one thing, they're too tired after 12 hours stooped over picking fruit and veggies. And they're too weak because they've been sprayed with pesticides too many times.

There are no aliens among us, unless you're referring to the reptiles in Washington. And nobody is illegal--there are illegal acts, but not illegal people. So keep removing those hoods--and don't worry. The intolerance your're stirring up isn't going to be directed at you yet. But sure as night follows day, your turn will come. It might be when you can no longer afford to keep your land and you try to organize to stop foreclosures, it might be when you can no longer feed your family and you protest low prices for farm products due to international trade agreements, it might be anything, but if you don't heed the words of Pastor Niehmuller, it will happen. First they came for others, and you did nothing because it didn't effect you, so when they come for you, there will be nobody left to help.