Thread: Comment from Joseph Turner

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Article Launched:10/27/2006 12:00:00 AM PDT
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My opponents are using lies, distortions and innuendo in a concentrated smear campaign to fool and deceive voters. One shouldn't be surprised - it is October. Besides, would you really want to talk about a 42 percent graduation rate or the fact that 75 percent of our children test below the proficiency level, if you were an incumbent?
I am disgusted that The Sun would enable these smears by running letters to the editor that state that I am a terrorist, a racist and a member of a white supremacist group. They have no basis in fact or reality.

Let me set the record straight.

I have been arrested twice for battery at political rallies in which I defended my person and the sovereignty of this great nation. I have been spat upon, kicked, shoved and punched by those espousing tolerance while engaging in violence. I have never been convicted of these charges nor have I ever been fined, given probation or parole. In America, a person is innocent until proven guilty.

I am a longstanding member of this community, spending more than eight years of my life in this town. I went to school here. My son attends school here.

I have been active with my neighborhood association.

I enjoy the support


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of numerous Hispanics, blacks and Asians in my organization, Save Our State, and I have been endorsed by groups like Latino Americans for Immigration Reform and Vietnamese for Fair Immigration.
My opponents are resorting to despicable smears to distract voters from the real issues confronting our school district, because they are afraid of my message of reform and accountability. Instead of coming up with real solutions for our children, Teresa Parra and Elsa Valdez would rather promote a racialist agenda centered around Hispanics and illegal immigrants.

Valdez and Parra both support giving illegal immigrants the right to vote and have approved resolutions calling for amnesty and in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. They both support the bilingual/biliterate program, which calls for 50 percent of district employees to speak Spanish by 2020, so as to deal with the suffocating effects of rampant illegal immigration in our district that has resulted in nearly one-third of our student population being English learners.

Unless you speak Spanish, blacks and whites need not apply for jobs in the San Bernardino City Unified School District.

Supposedly, I am a racist hate-monger. Yet Parra and Valdez belong to groups and associations like the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, Mexican-American Political Association, Association of Mexican-American Educators and MEChA.

I do not believe in advocating for one particular group of people. I have but one constituency - those who believe American schools should be for American children. I'll let the readers decide who is looking through the prism of race and ethnicity.

JOSEPH TURNER
San Bernardino

Turner, Gheen, Tancredo, Barletta, Dobbs, Minutemen to mention but some all names that will be listed as leaders when history looks back.

After seeing video's and listening to what these people sound like and the things they say, it doesn't even sound human to me. How could human beings enter a country and scream racist at all of it's citizens, fly a foreign flag in the streets, demand that the nation learn their language, say that this is their land and demand we give it to them, threaten to take over the country, etc. In the streets saying things such as you are old and tired, you need to die, you are taking up too much air breathing, go on...get out, go back to the plymouth rock. It is not humane, it doesn't sound humane, it doesn't look humane, it is demonic behavior. What do Americans think of all of this, I know what I think and I wonder what kind of people has our government allowed to come into this country. You see and hear all this and how can you not think that satan is at work in the streets of America. It is scary!

Altura,

That's a good start to an awesome newly formed government.

We could call it the "Take America Back" campaign. I'd certainly vote for all on that list!