Thursday, January 1, 2009

What a Happy New Year Already!

Happy New Year!

Astute readers will recall my last letter to the editors of the Gazette, which sadly and indeed inexplicably went unpublished.

Today, the Washington Post prints welcome news indeed.

Considering that half of the suspects in murders of Montgomery County Citizens in 2008 were foreigners, according to this article in the Post, and all of them may have been of unlawful presence in the USA, if the new policies -- commonsense policies -- had been in place all along, the 2008 murder rate would have been cut in HALF.

Anyone defending the former policies is defending a doubled murder rate. That is all. Anyone of foreign birth who has somehow wormed their way into elected politics, who insists that members of their own national-origin/ethnicity should be given a free pass from inquiries, is insisting not merely on racism, but on institutionalized racism that doubles the murder rate. I'd call that suborning Violent Invasion. I'd call that Treason.

This is how the policy should be: "any person whatsoever arrested for crimes of violence, or on weapons charges, shall have their nationality and citizenship and immigration status researched, and if unlawfully present in the USA, shall be remanded to the US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement."

And at long last, we will be able to say to people who want to come to our country and try to intimidate us, "any violence or any threat of violence will bring you to the attention of La Migra". Pull a knife, and get deported. That's the way it should be... and at long last in Montgomery, shall be.

Politicians, take note: Fail to support these measures wholeheartedly, and we can say with truth and statistics, "a vote for this candidate is a vote for a doubled murder rate".

I assure you there will be lots of people saying that if you don't do the right thing.
Posted by Thomas Hardman at 7:44 AM

2 comments:

rtsind said...

What I do not understand -- the inconsideration and the stupidity of these people who go to malls,or areas where there are a lot of people minding their own business- and assume that they are safe- not knowing that there are sub-humans roaming the areas with deadly weapons and who have no consideration who might get injured or killed.

These gang members and criminals have no respect for the innocent shoppers- and they wonder why so many people are anti- immigration.
It just takes a few stupid people -with no brains to damage whatever good their nationality may have built up.

If CASA and other such groups do not get a handle on their members- they are going to find their support drying up.

January 3, 2009 5:17 AM
Thomas Hardman said...

As regards CASA de Maryland, all I can give you is a paraphrase from Mario Puzo's excellent novel the Godfather: "Michael, my son, you will go to college and study law. A good lawyer can steal a thousand times as much as a couple of wise guys".

As to the dangers of the malls and shopping centers, well, it's been clear to me for years that local culture promotes and rewards sociopaths.

The combination of a clear "concept of mind" and a total lack of empathy is a recipe for success, moderated only by an assurance that getting too far outside of the bounds will land in jail.

My objection is that the police department -- or perhaps it's the commissioners, or the State's Attorneys -- have an overly broad and fuzzy idea of where the bounds are set. It seems to me that if it doesn't involve open use of obvious deadly weapons, they only want to go after the "low hanging fruit" and the recurrent nuisance crimes like theft-from-auto or burglaries. Obviously, armed robbery or assault with a deadly weapon will get their attention. But for anything less than that, they're pretty liberal.

The other part of the problem is that probably the majority of the staffers at the majority of stores at malls and shopping centers are drawn from the exact same subcultural background as supplies the criminals. Where older adults might see "sketchy types", the young adults see "our homies" or "that guy/gal from my shop class". And to us, we older Marylanders are what they consider sketchy and objectionable, a vanishing breed that they see no reason to defend.

Trust me on this, probably eighty percent or more of the staffers at any given place know who's likely to cause trouble or be packing to deal with whatever trouble may arise. A lot of these stores think that because they hired from outside of the immediate neighborhood, that they avoided trouble by doing so. They don't realize that what they frequently have done is hire all of the eligible young adults from this-or-that sketchy apartment block from three neighborhoods down the bus lines, and those young adults now think of their place of employment as their home-away-from-home, and thus their posse's turf that they will defend as their own.

Of course, this could all be stopped if the employers paid a little more attention and fired anyone for anything that resembled favoritism or protectionism of people they know, in favor over the general public or repeat customers.

January 4, 2009 8:17 AM

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