Civ Comp Issues Du Jour

Immigration

Though immigration is deeply seeded in the American system, when the illegal immigration problem is allowed to continue and a new economic stimulus pkg planned by our federal government will include a check for those illegals who've paid into the system...this should show us there's a serious problem. The fact that on the border, in 2008, at this late hour, we've begun to finally require actual documents of some kind before entering the United States...should show us there's a serious problem!

Newsflash: No documents required till now. Pictures at 11.

"When remarking on John Edwards' proposed health plan, our buddy Griff exclaimed,

"Oh, Somebody's goin' to the doctor!"

Should Media Matter?

The Media would like us to forget certain things. It has an agenda alongside the Dems and liberals which is to downplay the vital role the US plays to fight human rights abuses while they ignore reports of human rights abuses. The Media's agenda is at odds with the notion that the US needs to take a lead role in this kind of thing. But the media also perpetuates the racial strife that goes on all the time.

Case in point, the Jena 6 which caused such a stir in that small town and across the US on every television. If you believe what you heard from the Media, you were probably of the same mind as the protesters who took a day off from their lives to drive to Jena and fill the streets. It appeared, according to media reports, that 6 black youths were being unfairly prosecuted, and unjustly tried for harsher crimes than they should have. All by a racist white prosecutor, the Media continued, in a racist white town for an incident of a noose having been hung from a local tree.

The fight, inwhich the 6 black youths were charged with assault on a single white youth, was a reprisal, the Media explained, for the noose being hung from the tree: the message of the noose being explicitly to any black who viewed it: "Remember the past" the Media said, "Remember the past" was that message and the media stories flowed like water, there were testimonials of the angry white stain which was still spread over our southern states. A story crafted in the war room of the liberal bastions of the Media machine went onto the wire that six innocent black teenagers were being tried for attempted murder for beating up a lone white youth. But it was really these six youngsters who were treated unfairly, because, after all, it was an inherently racist system, right?

Now Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and local activist Quaanelle X made media condemnations on the steps of Jena Courthouse and City Hall, and the local whites ducked for cover. Thankfully, all the marchers, given their numbers, were completely peaceful.

I knew right away that where there's smoke, there's fire. Those guys weren't still in jail for being mama's boys. At sixteen years old, three had repeat offenses of delinquent behaviour, skipping school, fighting, some larceny, but one, was a violent offender who was being considered for adult court for this violation of a current probation. No mention of that in the Media. I would think it was a fact of the case and they should have considered it when reporting it. But, I guess, it was a story that grew on it's own.

The six on one fight had nothing to do with the noose incident several months earlier. Word was a black kid wondered aloud why he couldn't sit under the big tree out in front of the school if it was a hot day and he needed to rest. The Media told us the "white tree" was a longtime tradition of this small town and its white supremacist history. As if by script, a noose was tied to a low branch and student violence grew into this most recent fight where the victim was seen 'attending a party later that same night'. At every turn, the evidence was damming. The Media had made an airtight case, and Sharptounge, Luscious Jackson and Q'uran-elle X puncuated the flowing scrip.

And then we have the Superdome. Hurricane Katrina plowed into New Orleans and emergency shelters were set up in the Superdome. Wild media accounts of post-storm looting, shootings and lawlessness came out. An established, well-ingrained entitlement-driven economy halted, and revolted. I've seen it before, it's an attitude that comes out in riots where people shed their law-abiding tendencies and participate full-out in looting and vandalism. In a kind of thug-reckoning day, thousands pour into the streets to fight, loot and run rampant for a few fleeting hours until the authorities begin to gain control. In the the Rodney King verdict, white officers were taped beating the black defendant but were found not-guilty of "excessive violence".

What a great opportunity for a riot, what do you say, fellah's?

But the media reported that the local thuggery had actually taken over at the Superdome site, as staff and supplies were in short order.

The unlivable Superdome where toilets were overflowing because there was no water, where women were raped and men were shot execution style.

But none of this happened.

Where shots were reported at individual police patrols soon after the storm passed, and helicopters were shot at to keep them away from the local New Orleans' diamond exchange.

But none of it was true.

But it is the black mentality to buy into this defeatism. Clearly, the word reparations is the culmination of the black need for healing. Problem is, that reparation will probably go the same place the government checks from Katrina's FEMA went: titty bars, big screen t.v.'s and maybe a grill of gold and diamonds to show what a player you are.

But if I believed this is how all blacks feel, I'd be no better than

Michelle Obama says it's the first time she's been proud of her country; I think it's a selfish remark, first of all, but it is the institutionalised soft bigotry perpetuated by the blacks. It's black on black racism, even if it's unstated. A black child is taught from an early age to expect this racism.

They'll treat you different and they'll talk behind your back. Don't trust them.

Then the child grows up and goes to school and guess what, there it is! Just like they said. Well, that does that. Open and shut case: the child's mind is made up.

Yes, this is a racist country.

But hold on.

What if they didn't teach that to that kid. What if instead they told him or her, as many do, but also so crushingly few, that yes, there is racism, but it comes from small minded people, people you don't want anything to do with anyway. Anytime you hear that, you know that's a shallow person perpetuating a stupid mentality. You, child, are better than that and for those people we feel pity as Christ says we should, but not hate.

Clearly this wound is still open, though the healing will come if it is given stiff medicine.