Saturday Forum


A New York Reader Learns The
True Story Behind A Killing In A Massachusetts Public
Housing Complex; etc.

From:

 Matthew
Richer [e-mail
him
]

A Boston police officer I went to high school with told
me that the murder victim in a public housing shooting,
Alberto Duarte, was an illegal alien—something the

local media
omitted, as you will see in this story.
[Dad
Slain Trying To Save `Sis`,
by Jessica
Fargen (e-mail
her
) and Michelle McPhee, Boston Herald, July
28, 2006.]

Indeed, the

Boston Herald
story does not mention that many
illegals in Massachusetts live in public housing.  Since
the Boston area is one of the most

expensive housing
markets in the country, citizens
apparently

must therefore subsidize
the illegal population. 

Moreover, Duarte leaves three young

anchor babies
that will no doubt be further
dependent on state government.  

Boston has traditionally had a small, almost
non-existent Hispanic population.  Growing up there
during the 1980s and 1990s, I saw zero Hispanics

on the MTA.
 

Now you see them huddled together on the subway speaking
Spanish to each other and wearing their "
colors
."  

Predictably, Boston`s

crime rate
has skyrocketed in recent years.  But no
one ever mentions the most obvious factor:  Hispanic
immigration—publicly

subsidized
, of course.


Richer`s previous
letter about illegal aliens on Cape Cod is


here
.
And read "Sarah`s" letter about aliens in California
public housing


here
.

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A Washington State Reader Goes
Home To Iowa; Finds Mexico

From:  Carrie Miller

A few
weeks ago I went back to my hometown of

Denison, Iowa
to visit relatives.  I dropped by
Wal-Mart, saw an

Iowa State flag
hanging on the wall opposite the
registers and wanted to buy one.  

What I
found was not Iowa or American flags even though it was
around

Independence Day
but Mexican flags…piles and piles
of

Mexican flags

Taquerias
have

replaced
local restaurants.  Signs of the

invasion
were

everywhere
: Spanish signs in store fronts and
Spanish speakers on all corners.

We
dropped by

KFC
—the cashier barely spoke English.  Can you
believe it? In small town

Iowa
, the birthplace of one of our American icons,

Donna Reed
!

I was mortified to see that, in
less than a decade, illegal immigrants had overrun the
county that my grandfather settled more than 150 years
ago.

My family came from

Scandinavian
and English stock; my earliest
ancestors arrived here in 1628, and none arrived later
than 1880.  

And
it`s not the

farmers
bringing illegal aliens in. Corn and
soybeans don`t need migrant farmers – it`s almost all
done by machine.  It`s the

meat packing plants
and other big business luring
Mexicans to places they didn`t even know existed. 


Locals
used to

work those plants
; it`s not their fault that the
owners don`t want to pay them a fair wage.  Denison was
a good town with good people.  By bringing in illegal
aliens, big business is pounding the final nail in the

Midwest farmer`s
coffin.

All
assimilated quickly because, as my grandmother told me,
"We`re in America."


Miller, recalling the
six years she lived in


Russia
,
said, "I

learned the language,
assimilated to the culture, and absolutely abided by the
law since the Russian police can stop you in the street
and


ask for your visa
.
If they hear you speaking a different language and they
get the notion, they`ll


demand to see your papers
."

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A Washington State Reader and
Former Marine Says Gen. Peter Pace Would Make A Good
Joan Crawford

From:
Robin Corkery: [e-mail
him
]

Re: Joe Guzzardi`s Column

Italian-American, Marine Readers Give Gen. Peter Pace A
Piece Of Their Mind

Those who saw

Gen. Pace
at his confirmation hearing for Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs will remember that he also had to
choke back tears on that occasion too. He reminded me of

Joan Crawford.

Nowadays all generals and admirals who get a third star
or higher are merely

politicians in uniform.

The danger is that the military may wind up elevating
officers who are more attuned to gratifying the
demagoguery of Senators than they are at military
strategizing. 

As a

Marine
(1960-1963), my fear is that this could lead
to a situation in which a shrewd general might maneuver
the military into a position from which they would be an
effective

Praetorian guard
but a indifferent defender of
America.


Corkery`s previous
letters to VDARE.COM are


here
.

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A New Jersey Democrat Reader
Says Hispanic Noise Pollution Is Ruining Her
Neighborhood

From: 

 Danusha Goska [e-mail
her
]


Paterson, New Jersey
is struggling. Its textile jobs
left decades ago.


Artists` Housing
is part of generous and ethical
government attempts to revive Paterson. Two apartment
buildings offer affordable housing to low-income
writers, photographers, painters, singers, and
musicians. Residents are diverse: black, white,
Hispanic, etc.

In an otherwise tough city, Artists` Housing is part of
a

National Historic Landmark District
. This district
includes two senior citizen residences, a museum, a
grade school, and the

Great Falls Park
, site of the second highest
waterfalls east of the Mississippi.

Two Hispanic-owned businesses have, for years, broadcast
without a license very loud music in defiance of civil
law and neighborliness. "Music" is a euphemism.

The noise pollution, directly related to illness and
crime, coming from these businesses is offensive and
deafening.

As a teacher, I worry about my Hispanic and Black
students who

lag
other ethnic groups academically. How can
minority schoolchildren living within earshot of this
racket study?

Also, the noisy businesses attract

crime
. There have been public urination contests,
drug deals and fistfights in a neighborhood that is
otherwise quiet and law-abiding.

Artists` Housing residents have contacted the

local police
and gone to city hall. Organized
efforts to fight these businesses have had limited
effectiveness.

I contacted the proprietor of Cianci Street Mini-Mart,
one of the two offending businesses, directly to ask him
to reduce the noise.

The Cianci Street Mini-Mart owner insists that his gang
of loiterers represent Hispanic culture and is,
therefore, above criticism.

He wasted no time in cursing me out. He called me an
expletive-deleted "gringa" and shouted
that if I wanted to live like a "white person," I
should "go live in Wayne," a nearby town.

After that, I called the

Paterson`s mayor
, Jose Torres. Mayor Torres` office
would not take my call. [Vdare.com
note:
and they don`t seen to do email, either. You
can


ask them why here.
]

At a loss, I wrote to

New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez
because he
recently made history by becoming New Jersey`s first
Hispanic Senator and because we are both

Democrats
.

I do not believe in the stereotypical worldview
expressed by the Cianci Street Mini-Mart proprietor. Nor
do I believe that Hispanics are, by nature, producers of
noise pollution or that "gringas"
need to put up with the clamor or

go live with "white people."

This is why I contacted Senator Menendez. As a
Hispanic-American and a role model for my students,
Menendez is uniquely situated to address a problem that
Mayor Torres won`t even hear.

I will keep VDARE.COM posted on my efforts.

Goska`s previous letter about her experience with
National Public Radio can be read

here
.

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A Garden State Reader Solves The
Energy Crisis

From: Living In New Jersey


Energy crisis?
No way!  Put

twenty million illegals
on treadmills or hamster
wheels and let`s generate some electricity.


Read previous letters
from "Living in New Jersey" about Lewis, the
attack cat confined to house arrest, and about how to
keep deported aliens from re-entering the U.S.


here

and


here
.

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A New York Reader Says
"Workforce Housing" Not Intended For Americans

From: [Name
Withheld]

A while ago, I wrote to VDARE.COM about the push for
so-called "workforce housing" on Long Island.

My suspicions about the link
to affordable housing and immigration, in this case

nurses
from abroad, were confirmed when I
read that the
South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside (contact
them
) is building 22 brand-new 2-bedroom apartments
and doling them out to nursing recruits for a year at
below market price. [Housing
Deal Attracts Nurses From Abroad
, Newsday,
July 16, 2006]

May I ask why workforce
housing/affordable housing is not available to American
citizens?


The writer lives in
Mineola, Long Island and is a healthcare technology
consultant.

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An
Arkansas Reader Is Caught Between Tyson Chicken and
WalMart

From: [Name
Withheld]

I look forward to
the great columns on VDARE.COM. You`re

all
fighting the good fight.

Just a thought on "Italian-American,"
"Greek-American,"
or any other hyphenated Americans.

It`s my feeling
that we are all Americans and that years ago the media
tried to force differences on us.

Here in Springdale,
the northwest corner of Arkansas, we are literally being
overrun by aliens.

Springdale, of
course, is the home of

Tyson Foods
, fifteen miles away from Bentonville,

WalMart`s home
.

Incidentally,
WalMart does its in-store commercials in Spanish in my
neck of the woods and had some stores decorated with

Mexican flags
.

I suggested that
was a terrible affront to our American service people
fighting and dying to protect our country and

Old Glory
.

They removed the

Mexican flags
… for now.

Keep up the
terrific work.

The writer was born in Philadelphia, graduated from

Temple University

and lived in California, New Mexico and Arizona before
moving to Arkansas.

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