December 01, 2007
Saturday Forum
A North Carolina Reader Demands Respect For The South From Presidential Candidates Romney And Thompson; etc.
From:
Mike Scruggs (e-mail
him)
I am disgusted with the disrespect for the
Confederate Battle Flag recently expressed by
Presidential candidates
Mitt Romney and
Fred Thompson (from
Tennessee!), and
in the past by another candidate,
Sen. John McCain.
Romney: “That’s not a flag that I recognize.”
Thompson: “…for a great many Americans, it's a
symbol of racism."
[Confederate
Flag Supporters Upset By Romney, Thompson,
Associated Press, November 30, 2007]
We ought not to let them get away with their ignorant
and slanderous disdain for the
Confederate Battle Flag, Southern
Heritage, Southerners, and the South.
If they won't respect us, we’ll give them the
political bayonet.
Scruggs is a real estate
broker living in
Hendersonville. He holds a BS from the University
of Georgia and an MBA from Stanford University and is a
decorated U.S. Air Force
combat veteran of the Vietnam
War. Scruggs is a member of the
Sons of Confederate Veterans
and authored
The
Un-Civil War: Truths Your Teacher Never Told You.
In addition, Scruggs writes
a weekly commentary for the Asheville Tribune and the
Hendersonville Tribune in Western North Carolina.
Previous VDARE.COM contributions from Scruggs, wishing
Robert E. Lee a Happy Birthday and taking note of the
role played by Southerners during the ultimately
defeated Kennedy-Bush amnesty, are
here and
here
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A Teacher, Retired U.S. Air Force, Says English as a Second Language [ESL] Is “Designed For Failure”
From:
Clyde Dilg (e-mail
him)
I’m working on a special education endorsement and a
Masters in Education with one year remaining.
Right now I’m student teaching in a school which is
65 percent Hispanic. They will not
allow us to know if they are legal. But by talking
to—not asking—my students, I can tell that they are
mostly here illegally.
There are many things that bother me about our
education system:
1) Government has no
business meddling in education. All it knows how to do
is
collect taxes. Then, it uses those proceeds to
indoctrinate with its leftist ideals the population of
fertile young minds. The Department of Education should
more correctly be called the
Department of Indoctrination.
2) Whether in the classroom
as a
teacher or a
student, one cannot openly speak one’s mind. To get
through school with a good academic score, I have to
play by their rules.
Diversity only applies when you agree with those who
are in power.
3) The strategy for teaching
English (ESL) in our schools is designed for
failure— on purpose, I believe. There exists no better
greater strategy to ensure teachers undying support than
to
feed its union an endless supply of work
(non-English speaking students) with a limitless
budget. What company in the private sector could afford
to stay in business with such a plan?
When my student teaching ends, I vow never to teach
in a public school.
Too many public venues, such as the
Department of Motor Vehicles, are like
Mexico City where
Americans are treated like second-class citizens.
Well hey, I've got to get back to my homework and
make up some more lies—this time the
benefits of teaching Non-Standard
Black English.
Now there is a strategy for continued poverty!
Dilg, who lives in Oregon, is
retired from the Air Force with a rank of Senior Master
Sergeant after a career of 25 years as a combat
engineer. He also taught in the Air Force’s and
technical schools and at local community colleges.
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An Illinois Reader Has Good News For Those Who Favor EPL—English As A Primary Language
From: Walter
Tappe
For generations politics in the state of
Illinois has been regarded as the epitome of
corruption, graft and nepotism.
However, one glimmer of hope shines through, which
was not mentioned in the major newspapers but received
ample coverage in local journals.
The
State Board of Education recently decided they would
no longer make special accommodations for
ESL students on their statewide tests.
This means that in Illinois,
someone who does not (or will not) become proficient in
English will still take the same tests as those who have
been speaking our country’s language all along.
Of course, the
education lobby is up in arms over this policy,
calling it every name in the book.
But it comes as good news to those of us who believe
that
ESL programs should be replaced with EPL
programs—"English as the Primary Language." [Ruling
Could Jeopardize Schools With ESL Students, By
Karen Berkowitz, Norridge Harwood Heights-News,
November 29, 2007]
Send Tappe mail c/o
witan@vdare.com
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A Reader in “Tejas” Warns To Get Out Of The Way Of Mexican Drivers—Because They Won’t Get Out Of Yours!
From: Suzan Donoghue [e-mail
her]
My husband, who
retired as a sergeant at the Bexar County Sheriff's
Office in
San Antonio, Texas,
now works as a police officer in
Sabinal, a small town
with a huge Hispanic population.
While he was on
duty, an 18-wheeler blew by my husband going 30 miles
over the speed limit. When he stopped the truck, it had
an American trailer with California plates attached to a
Mexican truck with Mexican plates.
The driver
spoke no English and had a Mexican driver’s license
that my husband could not understand.
The seals on the
trailer were broken and the load was so small a van
could have transported it.
How many
American truckers will lose their jobs because of
these leeches that don’t even know how to drive?
By the way, it’s not
just the
Mexican truckers who are a menace. The
tour bus drivers
from Turimex are
bad, too.
I want to give your
readers a heads up to get out of their way—because they
won’t get out of yours!
Things are bad down
here in Tejas—-sorry, I mean Texas. I get
confused sometimes.
Donoghue works in San Antonio law enforcement. Her
previous letters are
here,
here
and
here.
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An Arizona Reader Says PC Blasphemy Will Cause You Trouble Wherever You Live
From: Thomas Quigley
Has anybody picked
up on the irony of the British teacher
Gillian Gibbons busted in
Sudan?
[Teacher
Hidden As Sudan Mob Urges Death, Mohamed Osam,
Associated Press, November 30, 2007]
It struck me how the
new
PC blasphemy can get you the
same treatment—for speaking out against
gays,
racial speech, or other "inciting hatred"
vagueness in today’s so-called
advanced and civilized Britain.
We in
America and the
U.K. have fallen to the level of the primitive
superstitious nonsense that is found in the Third World.
Quigley is of
Scottish descent and follows events in the UK via
the Internet. Send him mail c/o
witan@vdare.com
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A Los Angeles Reader Says Public Transportation Is MC—-“Mexicanically Correct”
From: Fred Haney
Re: Clair Winston’s Letter:
A California Reader Reports The
LA Metro System Caters To Aliens
And: Ray Rogers Letter:
A California Reader Sees A
Pro-Hispanic Non-Enforcement Plan on the MTA
As a
long-time
LA resident economically condemned to
public transportation, I can affirm every word.
Two more
examples to add to those mentioned by Winston and
Rogers:
- Visit the
Universal City Red Line
subway station just to see the passenger platform.
Notice the elaborate MC mosaic—MC = "Mexicanically
Correct" — telling what it claims is the real
history of California that the gringo is afraid to
admit.
- One series of features shown on bus TV screens
is called
"Raza De Campeones"—the “race of
champions.”
And no,
there is no "De Campeones" series for
whites or blacks, although Asian-Pacific Islanders
may occasionally get a little face time.
Conclusion? It is impossible for an insightful
person not to grasp two things:
(a) The extent to which government and non-profit
corruption has created this takeover; and,
(b) How much these traitors enjoy rubbing it in the
faces of undefended Americans.
In the
name of
LAPD officer David March, gunned down by
an illegal aliens during a traffic violation, damn
them all.
Send Haney mail c/o
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Sir, I am glad that Mexico
has given Wall a legal recourse to live in that country.
It is a sorry reality that the
U.S. does not give such
an easy entrance to the brown people of the world.
A good friend of mine who overstayed his student
visa, since 1992, was given a swift legal residency
after breaking the law for 15 years.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, did I forget to tell you that Patrick,
my friend, is from
Sweden,
blonde and
blue-eyed.
I am sure that a short, dark skinned Guatemalan would
be given a fast entry into citizenship, after being
illegally in the U.S. if
he also played and taught tennis.
Wall knows darn well that the time to migrate legally
is up to 20 years…yet he wants the brown people to do it
legally?
To encourage legal migration, I say don’t
discriminate selectively, as the immigration service
does.
There is so much shame in our American history, after
we took all the land illegally from the Indians, etc.
Hypocrisy is the main banner of the anti-immigrant
bigots like Wall.
