tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post2147510567019300083..comments2023-12-31T13:11:40.044-05:00Comments on Newscat: Fear Of Mongol HordesNewsCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05049304894327723728noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post-3928980046235903702008-01-31T21:39:00.000-05:002008-01-31T21:39:00.000-05:00Ridiculous! Your point is irrelevant and obnoxious...Ridiculous! Your point is irrelevant and obnoxious. Taneytown is a town that is changing and improving but not by backing down to these groups who are demanding things that they don't deserve. I received an email that explained it in terms that maybe someone simple minded may understand. If a woman breaks into your house, but does your laundry and cleans your kitchen...are you required to let her stay, along with her children? Do you have to pay for their health care and education just because they are already there? What if you were then required to give her husband a job doing your landscaping? So what if it needs done, or they do it better or cheaper, THEY BROKE IN. It's against the law and it is not impossible to enter this country legally. We, as a country, must stop overlooking wrong doings and putting human rights names on them. We have become a country of cowards and idiots.J.K.Archiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07816497477417486560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post-8674536972421020242008-01-18T11:14:00.000-05:002008-01-18T11:14:00.000-05:00Jim,I'm not calling them rascist because they disa...Jim,<BR/><BR/>I'm not calling them rascist because they disagree with me. I'm saying they are fearing immigrants because they are fearing people who are different from them. (A small portion, who is quoted in the article). <BR/><BR/>I grant you, there are valid-non-rascist reasons to oppose immigration, but I don't think the people of Taneytown who supposed the city council's proclamation are making those reasons. I think, going from the article, that they pretty much want to keep out "brown people" who aren't like them. Are they STATING it that way. No, but you get the feeling behind their quotes. They are AFRAID of these people. They are afraid of them BUYING NEW CARS and bringing in their muslim religion. And "following them home." Tell me those are rational well-thought out fears?NewsCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05049304894327723728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post-11912512444976052812008-01-18T08:15:00.000-05:002008-01-18T08:15:00.000-05:00Immigration has proven not to be a strict party is...Immigration has proven not to be a strict party issue. But there is a difference between following your Christian values and supporting this or that law. Christ never lobbied for the Romans to help the poor--he called on the people to do that. As a Christian, I firmly believe in all three of the Bible quotes you lay out there. But what Newscat is talking about it calling people racist just because they hold different political views that she. <BR/><BR/>Jim in ClevelandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post-18916466917616035882008-01-17T15:05:00.000-05:002008-01-17T15:05:00.000-05:00alright...babies are sleeping...more time to argue...alright...babies are sleeping...more time to argue about illegal immigration<BR/><BR/>well...I don't really argue about it, because it's really not an issue for me, but there are something that people don't always bring up.<BR/><BR/>There may be a test case soon in Oklahoma.<BR/>http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/016593.php<BR/><BR/>A couple of interesting things about that story, the Republican that says the tough anti-illegal immigrant bill, was "worst thing since the Dust Bowl".<BR/><BR/>A pastor is suing to over-turn the bill.<BR/>http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-01-09-immigcover_N.htm<BR/><BR/>(See Newscat...sometimes Republicans and pastors agree with you politically.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post-79615869724767626032008-01-17T14:52:00.000-05:002008-01-17T14:52:00.000-05:00hmmm...what would Jesus do?"The City of Taneytown ...hmmm...what would Jesus do?<BR/><BR/>"The City of Taneytown is not a sanctuary city for illegal aliens." <BR/><BR/>That kind of legislation is about as useful as Seattle City council voting "we support our troops" a year after the war started. <BR/><BR/>This will get interesting when there are Church pastors arrested because they didn't check the immigration status of someone they were giving food to.<BR/><BR/><I><BR/>"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?....The King will reply, "I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me." Matthew 25:37-40<BR/><BR/>"Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have entertained angels without knowing it." Hebrews 13:2<BR/><BR/>"If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink." Proverbs 25:21<BR/></I>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post-27159536734158019342008-01-16T15:29:00.000-05:002008-01-16T15:29:00.000-05:00It seems you like the word "seems." Liberals like...It seems you like the word "seems." Liberals like to think of America, especially rural America, as a bunch of racist podunks. Further, you like to pretend that inviting a bunch of illegal aliens into your community will end up turning Bumfuck Pennsylvania into Shangri-La. Well, this ain't no Shangri-La, as the philosopher Don Henley once pointed out. <BR/><BR/>Immigration is as American as apple pie, apple strudel, and apple kugel. We are a nation of immigrants. But I don't care what the country of origin or ethnicity is, illegal immigration is another matter. <BR/><BR/>Also, small towns are affected more by groups of people coming in, no matter the ethnicity. Imagine 10,000 folks from Mt. Pilot pouring into Mayberry to work picking apples over on Johnson's farm for peanuts. That is going to affect guys like Otis Campbell who needs the money to buy hootch every Saturday night. <BR/><BR/>I am a born and raised suburbanite, but I am tired of seeing fly-over country get portrayed as a bunch of racists who hate blacks, Hispanics, gays, and women just because they don't conform to what the Left want.<BR/><BR/>Again, there are racists everywhere, but one bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch, girl.<BR/><BR/>Jim in ClevelandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post-18810393801088541122008-01-16T14:05:00.000-05:002008-01-16T14:05:00.000-05:00Walkersville might be a separate issue to immigrat...Walkersville might be a separate issue to immigration but the tenor of the quotes from the article seem to make it clear that a percentage of residents of Taneytown are afraid of "others" changing what they perceive as the quality of life. And it is the very "otherness" of the immigrants (not even illegal, just "foreign-born") seems to be freaking them out.<BR/><BR/>Being afraid of "hordes" of spanish-speaking poor people sucking up resources (which is what the quotes in the article discuss) is as much based on racism-based fear as it is some kind of logical reasoning about immigration policy. Rather than seeing immigration benefit their town a certain percentage can only see it as a negative based on the false assumption that illegal immigrates ruin life for everyone.NewsCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05049304894327723728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14913496.post-29015414844679262892008-01-16T07:50:00.000-05:002008-01-16T07:50:00.000-05:00Typical liberal bullshit.This is essentially what ...Typical liberal bullshit.<BR/><BR/>This is essentially what offends me about the Left. Rather than make arguments for or against allowing illegal immigrants to have amnesty or santuary, you argue it is all about racism. I am certain there are people who have strong feelings about illegal immigration that are racists. I also have personal knowledge that some of those that oppose illegal immigration most strongly are recent legal immigrants themselves. This particular situation sounds like it is driven by economics. And the whole Walkersville issue is a separate one, involving a Muslim group looking to buy farmland to use as a retreat center for Muslims. It is a red herring.<BR/><BR/>And if Taneytown is dying, the solution of allowing illegal aliens to work freely is no solution. <BR/><BR/>Newscat, people who oppose your views are not all racists, homophobes, and misogynists. <BR/><BR/>Jim in ClevelandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com