posted August 27, 2007
Tennesseans, indeed all U.S. citizens, should stand up and applaud General Sessions Court Judge Bob Moon. I believe he spoke for all red-blooded Americans when he recently told illegal alien Bario Gomez that “Undesirables like you are not welcome in this country. You are a Latino terrorist who entered this country illegally and soon plotted significant personal injury and damage to the people and businesses in our community."
Gomez is the man charged with setting a fire in a downtown hotel and causing hundreds of people to be evacuated, including children. Following his arrest, Judge Moon justifiably raised his bail from the absurdly low $30,000 to $1 million.
Anyone who has read the news, both locally and nationally in recent months, is aware of not only the criminal but the social, economic and medical problems illegal aliens from Latin America have brought to this nation.
In nearby Dalton, Ga., and surrounding areas, according to the New York Times, “Arrests have steadily risen since the late 1990s, police officials say. Gang-related violence has become common’ in an area that last saw major violence around the time of Sherman's march to Atlanta. ‘We keep arresting people and seizing drugs, but they just keep coming,’ the local police chief moans. ‘We're in a boat with a big hole. We can keep bailing, but the hole's still there.’
”According to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, that hole is getting bigger nationwide, with more than eight million illegal aliens currently in the United States. That’s 160,000 per state. And that number during the 90s alone grew at the rate of 400,000 to 500,000 per year.
While we sit and play with our computers, iPods and Black Berries and watch news videos of the war on Al Quada in the Middle East, thousands of illegal aliens are crossing over the Mexican border into our country. If this isn’t an invasion, what is (http://www.fulldisclosure.net/flash/VideoBlogs/VideoBlog28.php)?
FreeRepublic.com gives the following warning: “The book "Barbarians At The Gates" tells the story very well.
Rome eventually allowed many of the barbarians to become citizens, and even to become members of their military. This was the real reason for the decline and fall of Rome. Sound familiar with our own nation? Open borders, lax immigration laws, rewarding illegal aliens with licenses. The barbarians are at our own gates now.”
No, I would not call all illegal aliens “barbarians.” Neither would most Americans, including Judge Moon, who made our beliefs perfectly clear to Gomez, "It is undesirables like you who create many unjustifiable problems and prejudices upon the good people who enter this country legally in chasing a dream for a better life for themselves and their families.
"Mr. Gomez, you nor any other citizen from a foreign land has a right to enter this country; you simply have a privilege to enter this country through the proper legal channels."
That is the American way.
Jim Ashley
Jashley41@comcast.net
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I think the headline would have been better written “Illegal Aliens Create Host of Problems For “Redneck” Americans. Because most come here for the opportunity to work and get ahead, “pull themselves up” and they show up to work and work long and hard.
I certainly have found no reason at all to “stand up and applaud” Judge Moon. And his grandstanding on this issue is just that.
Of course, none of us want undesirable criminals of any kind, legal or illegal. Talk about stating the obvious. This is the same guy that didn’t know the law just a few weeks ago, perhaps less, and demonstrated the fact in a most embarrassing way.
I will say a loud “bravo” to both you, Mr. Ashley, and to Moon as well if you produce proof of your legal lineage, your family papers if you will. Certainly the experience of Ellis Island would be of such great importance that I would assume you would have the documents framed, in the family Bible or in a safety deposit box. I am quick to admit that I have never seen any such paperwork regarding my forefather and mothers. Nor have I ever seen such from those who speak the loudest on this issue. I find that highly hypocritical and downright arrogant.
It is most unfortunate that “our” country, in particular, has not used its mighty influence to change those countries south of our borders to distribute the wealth, create economic and educational opportunity for the masses of people that thirst and hunger for these basic privileges. I can hear it now, “Well they should change their countries legally”. That is absurd as saying the same for most of the “illegals” getting here “legally”, both virtually impossible.
I would certainly like to think that born into such conditions, I would be scratching and clawing my way to a better life for myself and my family crossing any borders that would allow me a better life. I suspect, Mr. Ashley, and those others of the same ilk, would do the same.
Michael Lawrence
ftdoc@joimail.com
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Mr. Lawrence, your opinion is a waste of bandwidth. It's absurd to think illegal aliens create problems for only - as you so humorously stated - rednecks. Illegal aliens create problems for all American citizens. From continually rising health care costs, fuel prices, grocery prices, housing costs, utility costs, right down to a bag of dog food. Our tax dollars are what's supporting these illegals whether you want to admit that or not. Plus, just because they "show up to work and work long and hard" doesn't mean that it's OK for them to be here. Sounds to me that you are utilizing the cheap labor. If they want to have the "American Dream", then come to our country the proper way. Don't sneak in under some barbed wire fence or through some makeshift tunnel.
I will applaud Judge Moon for raising the bond to $1 million. What this man did was criminal and he should be prosecuted for that. I can't understand why you are trying to justify Gomez' actions.
What guy are you talking about? Gomez? Are you trying to make us believe that he did not know that putting a toaster full of matches in a microwave oven for a "delayed burn" and clogging up the toilet with towels to retard access to water was a criminal act? Ummmm, OK perhaps in Latin America or wherever he's from maybe it's just considered a prank.
The only "proof" of legal lineage Mr. Ashley and Judge Moon would need is their birth certificate which will state they were born in the United States of America. Can Gomez make that claim? I think not.
Have you been living under a rock? Hundreds of businesses across this country have outsourced many, many of their products previously manufactured in America to Mexico and countries south of the border.
It is possible for anyone to enter into this country legally. The process takes time and clearly, these illegals don't have the patience to do it the right way.
Sure, I would be scratching and clawing my way to a better life, also, but there is a right way and a wrong way to do it. But, when I see how hard my husband and I have struggled over the past five or six years trying to buy a house, not qualifying, trying to save enough money for a decent down payment only to be turned down and then a friend of mine tells me about an illegal alien buying a $100k home and paying cash - well, I would hope where you could see why this makes me so very, very angry.
Kathy Burke
kabdata@comcast.net
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Mr. Michael Lawrence you must be an illegal alien yourself to write something like what you just posted. You didn't know that an American birth certificate is all we need for legal papers in this country? And you comment about they show up for work and work hard tells us all that you must be using illegal aliens at your job sites. Sounds like you are one of those contractors who build expensive homes for us but use cheap labor to do it. How about passing that discount on the home buyer when they buy that home?
Then there is the question of ownership of a home in this country. How in the world can anyone from another country pay cash for a home here? There is no way an American can go down to Mexico or most any other country in the world and buy property. Yes, you can lease it, but you can’t buy it.
Yes, it is true that Dalton is having a huge problem right now with Mexicans. But it is a making of their own. For years the local carpet mills and factories praised the Mexican for working in their shops at such a low wage. Now they are starting to see the other side of the coin. This generation of Mexican that we are now seeing is not the hard working Mexican of the past. We are now seeing gangs and roving thieves. It is going to get worse and we will see small communities around Dalton, Ringgold and yes Chattanooga turn into a small Mexican villages that even the police will be in fear of entering.
There is only one way to stop all this madness and that is for all law enforcement agencies to bind together and arrest anyone hiring illegal aliens and the illegals themselves. Stop letting their children use our schools and stop them from using our medical facilities. If they have no jobs and no medical treatment then they may return to their country.
Michael Mines
cppd1@aol.com
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