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Dear Sir:
As a descendant of original settlers of the Charlotte area and one who loves your State, I was appalled to read Mary Schulken's column calling William Gheen a murderous racist and comparing him to that Daniel Day-Lewis character in "Gangs of New York". My husband, a legal immigrant from the U. K., and I are currently residents of California and have seen what uncontrolled immigration has done to this State. I highly doubt that Mr. Gheen is like this and further, I greatly dislike the face that Ms. Schulken, and by extension, the Observer, would print such calumny. We plan to move to NC in the very near future and hope the climate is more civil than this indicates. Ms. Schulken should really unload her rage, founded on whatever reasons, in a more constructive manner. And I would hope that such opinions are tempered in the future.
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Ms. Schulken,
You are indeed the race-baiter. As such, your "column" (promo-piece) is typically ..."all conversation; no substantiation"...just another "peon-pimper" doing it for the money. Were you a real "writer", you would not have the typical difficulty with English comprehension.
What do you not understand in "ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL".
Your personal opinion does not change that which even you admit, when you say:
" It's true they broke the law to come here. It's true they put pressure on our publicly funded law enforcement, public schools and health care resources. ".
Ignoring, ergo, "1 + 1 = 2", you neglect to add, "So it's also true that the illegals deserve nothing here and the American people should not be coerced to pay for that which is not their responsibility".
Further, you say, "But they also perform jobs that are.....hard, dirty, repetitive and dangerous. That's why most of us don't want to do them".
Speak for yourself, Ms. soft, lily-white, hands. How wrong you are. You omit, "for slave wages".
In other words, it isn't the work; it's the UNfair wages. When I was in college, I had a summer job working in construction and to stay in shape for football. The work was hard, physical, demanding, etc....and I loved it. AND, the money was fair for the work..
Today, college students don't get those jobs, they go to illegals at 1/3 the wage...which you promote.
Shame on you.
You also try "The Tokyo Rose Approach" with.... "This change in our demographics is here, whether we want it or not. We need to take a deep breath and stop letting fear lead the way we respond politically and culturally."
Well, you clearly want it. That's one.
Take a REALLY DEEP BREATH yourself and accept that 80+% of American voters do not want anything of the kind. Patriots never do; anarchistic, sell-outs like you always follow the money..
Also, about half of those in our families are Latino; and they are vehemently against what you promote.
So, look around you, the walls are closing in.
Fences and walls do work (as in border); or would you want them all removed from your state prisons?
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Shame on you Mary and your paper for practicing the most heinous yellow journalism I have seen in 40 years of teaching media in universities and colleges.
Your dripping liberal agenda and obvious personal animosity for Mr. Gheen blatantly overwhelms your commitment to truth while espousing the "open borders" bastardization of language,i.e.illegal aliens becomes undocumented workers and being against breaking and entering becomes anti-immigration.
Mr.Gheen did not invent the word "invasion" in referring to 12-20 million illegals. It was used in 1998 by one of the most prominent non-partisan scholar/journalist in the country,Samuel T. Francis, himself a legal immigrant and expert on American immigration.
"There is no guarantee that populist activism for immigration reform will be successful, but it is the only means of resisting what is now transparently the invasion - more accurately, in the case of Mexican illegals, the colonization - of our country."
While many times writing articles on the plight of the poor Hispanic illegal for the explicit purpose of eliciting sympathy, you conveniently ignore the basic truth 12-20 million people have broken our laws, 49% possess two or more forged Federal documents,48-61% pay no income tax and 62% receive two or more publicly funded welfare payments. Not once have I seen your paper defend the legal taxpayers of your state who are forced to contribute 350 billion dollars of their hard earned money to people who break into our home and then hand us the bill for their criminality.
(If I missed those articles, I would be very appreciative if you would point them out)
Simply,Mary, your ranting is a disgrace to your profession not because of any faulty style but for a total lack of substance on the crusade you choose to mount in print.
Be a professional, resign and carry your absurd notions of reality into a partisan arena where basic facts, history and a constitutional definition of sovereignty have no relevance.
" Immigration will be either the joy or the bane of our new country... We are first and foremost a nation of laws and those who would come to our shores must do so according to those laws or be sent back."
- John Adams
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