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I know you’ll be shocked to learn this, but there was a rape in Philadelphia.
According to the National Crime Victimization Survey by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 39,590 men and 164,240 women were victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault in 2008.
So why should you be shocked by one rape in Philadelphia? Because this one rape made headlines in the Washington Times.
Why?
Because the Washington Times is not a real newspaper. It is a bought and paid for (by Reverend Moon’s Unification Church) propaganda machine, the sole purpose of which is to foment anger at anything not adhering to the “religious” right-wing agenda.
Here is the “shocking news” about the accused rape:
Two-time illegal immigrant charged with rape
Milton Mateo Garcia, 28, was caught one year ago entering the U.S. illegally across the Mexican border and was deported back to his native Honduras.
Living and working in sanctuary, Mr. Garcia last month, according to police, approached a 26-year-old Philadelphia doctor. He is accused of forcing the woman into her apartment and raping her repeatedly.
It’s Philadelphia’s official policy (not) to deport illegal immigrants unless the person has been convicted of a violent felony.
Philadelphia thinks it’s stupid, a waste of human resources and inhumane to try to deport every single undocumented immigrant in America — especially considering there are estimated to be more than 12 million of them.
So Philadelphia limits its efforts to real criminals — those convicted of a violent felony. Mr. Garcia never even had been charged of anything, much less convicted.
Not good enough for “religious” right-wingers, who want to ship all 12 million souls out — men, women and children — no matter how many years they may have established a life here, and no matter whether or not they have been good, hard-working assets to America.
Just ship ’em out, like garbage, those men, women and children. Send them into drug war zones. Destroy their lives, just because they don’t have that piece of paper our government has made so difficult to obtain.
And here is the kicker from the Washington Times:
(Garcia) could become the Willie Horton of the immigration crisis.
As with the case in the 1980s of Horton, a convicted felon whose additional crimes while on prison furlough provoked a political furor, Mr. Garcia’s situation highlights many of the criticisms of the administration’s handling of immigration — from encouraging illegal immigrants to make the journey to the U.S. to failing to secure the border and allowing a patchwork of sanctuary cities and counties where immigrants need not fear deportation.
To add emotion to its nonsense, the Washington Times uses the false comparison with, “Willie Horton,” the notorious black (!) convicted felon, an American citizen, who though having already been convicted of murder, was given a weekend furlough program. He later he committed assault, armed robbery and rape.
By contrast, Mr. Garcia was convicted of nothing.
So why the comparison by the Washington Times? Two reasons:
1. Both men were not white, clearly a crime in of itself, in the eyes of the Washington Times.
2. The name “Willie Horton” as been used by the “religious right-wing, for the past 25 years, as a fear/hate word, to frighten the weak-minded about imminent danger from blacks and browns.
Mr. Garcia’s crime: He sneaked into the United States. Mr. Horton’s crime. He was a convicted murderer, robber and rapist. To the Washington Times, this is equivalence.
(As an aside, Willie Horton was captured by Corporal Yusuf Muhammad of the Prince George’s County Police Department.)
Yes, there remain some liberal media, though not as many as in the past. Even the formerly liberal Washington Post has moved way to the right. (The rich own the media and the rich place the advertising — and the rich tend to be conservative).
But I know of no liberal medium that slants the news and spreads vicious propaganda to the extent of the “religious” right media. I know of no “news” medium that will, shall I say, “muddies the facts” as do, for instance, the Washington Times or FOX News.
There is a reason why the most self-proclaimed “religious” speakers seem most likely to bend the truth, but that’s a story for another article.
The bottom line: One person in Philadelphia was physically raped, and subsequently, thousands of Washington Times readers were mentally raped.
But as “religious” right-wing, Texas, gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams said about rape, “If it’s inevitable, just relax and enjoy it”
To readers of the Washington Times: Don’t be so frightened by those fake “Willie Horton” stories. Just relax and enjoy your daily rape.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
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4. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone. Click here
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6. Eliminate corporate taxes (Click here)
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3. Cut federal employment in the military, post office, other federal agencies.
4. Broaden the income tax base so more lower income people will pay.
5. Cut financial assistance to the states.
6. Spread the myth federal taxes pay for federal spending.
7. Allow banks to trade for their own accounts; save them when their investments go sour.
8. Never prosecute any banker for criminal activity.
9. Nominate arch conservatives to the Supreme Court.
10. Reduce the federal deficit and debt
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A couple of comments about that “Washington Times” article…
[1] Rodger notes that the Washington Times is owned by Reverend Moon’s Unification Church (which is a “Christian” cult). The Times, like the Christian Science Monitor, is notoriously right-wing. The point: the more directly a “newspaper” is funded by some fundamentalist church, or by a Wall Street corporation, or by a rich conservative, the more that “newspaper” is right-wing.
[2] The Times article uses the term “sanctuary city” seven times. This is a right-wing colloquialism which refers to cities that (a) decline to waste their local taxpayer dollars, and (b) seek to enhance the effectiveness of their police departments.
Explanation…
As the federal government imposes ever-more austerity on cities, the federal government simultaneously demands that ever-more city funds be devoted to doing the feds’ dirty work.
For example, the federal government expects city police to hold people in the city jail who cannot prove that they are in the USA legally. Because the federal bureaucracy is so huge and slow, the cities must hold each migrant in jail for months or years until the lazy feds get around to addressing each case. This delay is a financial burden on local taxpayers. Cash-strapped cities that decline to submit to this financial burden are vilified by right-wingers as “sanctuary cities.” The Times, for example, claims that “sanctuary cities” intentionally “obstruct” the feds. This is a standard right-wing trick: equating passive non-cooperation with aggressive obstruction.
On 16 April 2014, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter signed an executive order saying that Philadelphia police will no longer hold a migrant for ICE officials — unless a migrant already has a first or second degree felony conviction, and ICE officials present a warrant from a judge. Only then will Philadelphia police hold a migrant for the (lazy) feds.
NUTTER’S ORDER WAS NOT “PRO-IMMIGRANT.” Instead, its purpose was (a) to use city funds more efficiently in the Age of Austerity, and (b) to enhance public safety by encouraging migrants to cooperate with police. If a city has a large migrant population, and if local cops can ask everyone for proof of his citizenship, then no one cooperates with police. Fear spreads from the migrant community to the mainstream community. Everyone clams up; migrants and citizens alike. (Philadelphia, for example, is 45% black.) As a result, crimes go unsolved, and criminals go free. The public and the police become enemies. Crime and arbitrary police brutality become rampant. The community becomes a City of Fear. This is what happens when the federal government demands that you do its dirty work without giving you the money to do it.
Right-wingers love this. They claim that a City of Fear (with its ever- increasing poverty and inequality) keeps everyone “secure.”
Some thirty-one city governments in the USA refuse to play this suicidal game. Police in these cities will jail a migrant for committing a local crime, but not for being a migrant.
Right-wingers condemn these cities as “sanctuary cities.” The truth is that local officials’ opinions about migrants (whether pro or con) are irrelevant. It’s a question of keeping cities together in the Age of Austerity.
Republican congressmen have attacked “sanctuary cities” with things like the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, which demands that cities jail migrants for the ICE. Cities retaliate by refusing to ask migrants about their citizenship status.
Meanwhile cities in right-wing states (“red states”) are happy to jail migrants for being migrants. They would make it a felony for you to not have papers proving you are legally in the USA, if cities could do so without having to grant you a right to trial.
“Red state” bigotry is very expensive, for reasons noted above. Therefore bigotry keeps local people in poverty. However in the “red states,” the pleasure of hate outweighs the pain of poverty. Therefore hate and poverty increase every day, as does the gap between the rich and the rest. Welcome to the Age of Austerity.
[3] The Times says, “More than 100 communities nationwide have enacted similar policies, with the tacit blessing of the Obama administration.”
Actually it is about thirty cities, whose most pressing problem is not migrants, but city finances. Doing the fed’s dirty work is simply too expensive, financially and socially.
Also, when you use phrases like “tacit approval,” you move from journalism to editorializing. The Washington Times is notorious for this. The current article mentions “Obama’s non-deportation policies,” even though Obama has deported far more migrants than any President before him.
[4] Milton Garcia, the Honduran migrant, is merely ACCUSED of rape. He may be totally innocent. But the Washington Times treats him as guilty.
The Times says…
“With Mr. Garcia now in prison facing trial on rape, kidnapping and robbery charges, ICE has lodged a detainer against him, requesting that local police notify federal immigration authorities before he would be released. But Philadelphia police won’t honor that request unless Mr. Garcia is convicted of a violent felony and a judicial warrant is issued.”
Explanation…
When one law enforcement authority puts you in prison, and a different authority wants you after you finish your sentence, the latter files a “detainer” against you while you are still serving the first sentence. When you finish your sentence, you are released to the “freedom” of a squad car, which takes you to a different prison system to begin an all-new sentence.
Mr. Garcia is now in jail. If convicted, he faces a potential life sentence. If innocent, he will not be held for simply being a migrant, since Philadelphia will not honor an ICE detainer against him. This infuriates the right-wingers and the Washington Times, for whom guilt or innocence is irrelevant.
[5] Right-wingers ignore the fact that the only US president to formally grant amnesty to migrants was St. Ronald Reagan.
About three million migrants were given legal status through the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which Reagan signed on 6 Nov 1986. The Act was co-sponsored in Congress by Alan K. Simpson, a right-wing senator from Wyoming. Once again we see that the most right-wing politicians of the past would be considered “far left extremists” today.
(Simpson was finally defeated in the Senate elections of 1996, but fourteen years later, when austerity mania broke out across the plant, Simpson arose from his grave to co-chair Obama’s “cat-food commission.” During that time, Simpson condemned senior citizens as “the greediest generation.” He also denounced Social Security as a “Milk cow with 310 million tits,” which the media cleaned up to read “teats.” Simpson is also fond of calling the “national debt” a “major crisis.” Simpson, now 83, calls Social security recipients “greedy geezers.” He does this in order to remain “publicly important,” just as “young Republicans” seek to escape their poverty by throwing their neighbors to the guillotine.)
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” . . . “Red state” bigotry is very expensive, for reasons noted above. “
These are the same fools who intentionally have forgone billions in “Obamacare” Medicaid payments.
I would laugh, except the ones who will suffer most are poorest. But where in the bible does it say a “religious” right winger should worry about the suffering of the poor?
After all, wasn’t it Christ who said, “To hell with the poor. They’re just takers. The rich are the makers.”
Oh, it wasn’t??? Hmmm . . .
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