Rep. Lewis (D-GA) Hurts African Americans
John Lewis has neglected his district through his vigorous support of continuing, unchecked immigration. Americans for Better Immigration gives him a string of F-minuses for his relentless refusal to enforce the law. But his constituents pay the price.
African American Leaders Push Back on Illegal Immigration
From the Austin American-Statesman: Frank Morris, former director of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, says immigrants compete directly for jobs with African Americans, driving down wages and working conditions… Morris has been outraged as he has watched leaders in the African American community stand arm-in-arm with Latino groups in support of immigrant rights. “As long as there is an available labor supply, (immigrants) will be preferred to African Americans…because they can be exploited without any recourse.”
Robert Brown, an Emory University professor who studies African American politics, said many blacks are “less than sympathetic” to the plight of immigrants. Although many aren’t willing to speak publicly on the issue for fear of angering Latinos, a peek inside the editorial pages of African American newspapers, glimpses into town hall meetings and a look at national polls all indicate that many black Americans are uneasy about supporting immigrant rights.
Is Rep. Lewis Confusing Civil Rights with Economic Rights?
From the Chicago Tribune: Rev. Anthony Williams, pastor at St. Stephens Evangelical Lutheran Church in Englewood, said he resents immigrants comparing themselves to black civil rights activists. Black protesters in the 1960s “got water hoses and dogs” so that other downtrodden people…could march today. Although he praises their courage and activism, Williams said the rhetoric and proposals of immigrants are misguided.
It is jobs that troubles African-Americans most. “My thing is not to beat up on my Hispanic brothers and sisters. That’s not the issue. The issue is nobody is above the law. Our country has laws in how you enter this country.” Williams is so passionate that he is working informally with the Chicago Minuteman Project, an offshoot of a volunteer group that patrols the U.S.-Mexico border and advocates stricter immigration enforcement.
I Challenge Rep. Lewis to a Debate
I admire and respect Rep. Lewis’ achievements and sacrifices during the civil rights movement. I wish he would summon that same wisdom as his district, state, and country confronts illegal immigration.
I will meet Rep. Lewis anywhere, anytime, to debate his positions on illegal immigration and their effect on the average American family. Illegal immigrants aren’t taking jobs that Americans won’t do. They’re working for a wage that Americans can’t bear. And Rep. Lewis owes his constituents an explanation for his refusal to stand up for them.
November 28th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
So if it’s a matter of law enforcement, which party is more guilty of breaking the law, employers who exploit undocumented workers to provide unsafe working conditions and low wages, or undocumented workers who come here to take advantage of the job opportunities absent in their own country?
I can see Lewis’s point about forcing employers to raise wages and keep working conditions safe for employees, regardless of who the employees are. I can also see Williams’ point that if these workers weren’t here, employers would have no choice but to comply with minimum standards labor laws. That’s kinda like banning cigarettes so people won’t smoke: relying on the government to control your own behavior because you’re too weak to do it yourself.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
Chris
Both are guilty! Congress works for Lobbyist not Americans.
November 28th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
John
AMEN!
BOTH SIDES ARE GUILTY!
when will people begin to realize that it will not matter which “party” you are with- when America is no longer America?
People need to get over hating Bush- or defending him no matter what the hell he does…
both parties are destructing this country….
November 28th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
A letter about the post.
Where were you when John Lewis was getting beaten up for the right to vote, loser?
November 28th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
A letter about the post.
Stop it - John Lewis is doing a great job - leave him alone to
do his work - which is far more informed and correct than the
issues you raise.
November 28th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
John
LOL!
love the letter…is it from Lewis?
Or will he hide under a skirt (or a water hose- or made up booogey man) and not come out and debate you on the facts?
It is about time someone challenged people on the facts…
Sick of seeing people manipulated by race-baiting elitists out to scrore a buck or a vote on the backs of the people they CLAIM to helping…
November 28th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
oh– and I say that in love…
November 28th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
There is nothing I woudl like better than to see John Lewis defeated in a debate. His lengthy record on promoting homosexuality is well known. He shames all people.
November 28th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
James, are you in the “homosexuality is a choice” crowd?
November 28th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
James is overly obsessed with homosexuality. Was somebody in his family gay or something? What did homosexuality ever do to you James that you’ve practically made it your life’s mission?
November 28th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
JOHN, how are people communicating these letters to you? Email? Don’t tell me your “contact us” form works for everybody in the world except me.
November 28th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
It is my life’s mission. You guys talk about politics all the time but you don’t hear me saying “Crikey! you guys sure do talk about politics alot!!”
You underestimate the importance of the issue in context with national and international politics. The entire world is wrestling with this issue!
You could consider me a subject matter expert. I was at the gold dome the day of the vote in the general assembly. I’ve worked with Sadie Fields to network with voters on the issue. If this issue was the prey, I am the hunter.
November 28th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
James, but why? What did homosexuality ever do to you?
November 28th, 2006 at 5:54 pm
James
WHAT?
What did homosexuality do to any of us?
Do you have kids in school?
It is not the fact that people have the freedom to be with who they wish.. it is the INDOCTRINATION to our children that is HARMFUL…
I don’t give a rat’s ass what you do in your bedroom…but stop draggin bedrooms into the public square…
homo or hetero…
and the HOMOsexual activist community is OUT OF CONTROL with it.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
Somebody needs to check eeevil’s language.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:21 pm
Chris they hit reply on the e news letter. I wish I had time to post all of the letters. I answer most of the letters.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
Chris, I got your contact us form and replied. I gave you John’s email so you can contact him directly. Please let me know if you didn’t get my reply. Thanks.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
Nope, no email has been received from here yet. Send a personal email to the same address so we can verify you have the correct email address.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
but why? What did homosexuality ever do to you?
Lot’s of people ask this question and it always comes back to a variant on the victimless crimes argument. There really is no such thing as a victimless crime. The choices that people make ripple through their lives and the lives of people connected to them.
Homosexuality has broken families apart. Homosexuality has devastated marriages. Homosexual behavior produces risk for disease. Homosexuality provides no lifetime developmental framework (support for aging homosexuals is an issue in the community). Homosexuality has been found to be covariant with depression and elevated substance abuse. Polyamorous relationships do not create any lasting or meaningful bonds beyond physical sexual ties and create wide vector networks for the spread of STIs. Homosexuality kills youth (via suicide) that think there is no way out of same-sex attraction. Homosexuality flies in the face of religion’s attempt to structure sexuality or any framework that attempts to create rules for expression of human sexuality. Homosexuality creates public outrage and flies in the face of any form of community standards of decency at Pride parades featuring gross displays of public nudity. Homosexuality insults religion, mocking what some consider to be holy. Homosexuality cuts people off from the natural duality of human sexuality and therefore stunts complete sexual development.
Look guys, I could go on for pages and pages. I’ve been to the mountain! There are millions of people living for the flesh. There are others that are literally dying for the flesh. You guys won’t do anything because you don’t care about what goes on in other people’s bedrooms but that lack of caring is a death sentance! It’s time to care about this. It’s also time to get active and do something about it too.
When you stand in front of your maker to be judged (and you will, even if you don’t believe) and you are asked about what you did to save your brothers and sisters on earth from sexual immorality and it’s consequences, what will you say?
November 28th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
John Lewis
From time to time, America comes to a crossroads. With confusion and controversy, it’s hard to spot that moment. We need cool heads, warm hearts, and America’s core principles to cleanse away the distractions.
We are now at such a crossroads over same-sex couples’ freedom to marry. It is time to say forthrightly that the government’s exclusion of our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters from civil marriage officially degrades them and their families. It denies them the basic human right to marry the person they love. It denies them numerous legal protections for their families.
This discrimination is wrong. We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation. I’ve heard the reasons for opposing civil marriage for same-sex couples. Cut through the distractions, and they stink of the same fear, hatred, and intolerance I have known in racism and in bigotry.
Some say let’s choose another route and give gay folks some legal rights but call it something other than marriage. We have been down that road before in this country. Separate is not equal. The rights to liberty and happiness belong to each of us and on the same terms, without regard to either skin color or sexual orientation.
Some say they are uncomfortable with the thought of gays and lesbians marrying. But our rights as Americans do not depend on the approval of others. Our rights depend on us being Americans.
Sometimes it takes courts to remind us of these basic principles. In 1948, when I was 8 years old, 30 states had bans on interracial marriage, courts had upheld the bans many times, and 90 percent of the public disapproved of those marriages, saying they were against the definition of marriage, against God’s law. But that year, the California Supreme Court became the first court in America to strike down such a ban. Thank goodness some court finally had the courage to say that equal means equal, and others rightly followed, including the US Supreme Court 19 years later.
Some stand on the ground of religion, either demonizing gay people or suggesting that civil marriage is beyond the Constitution. But religious rites and civil rights are two separate entities. What’s at stake here is legal marriage, not the freedom of every religion to decide on its own religious views and ceremonies.
I remember the words of John Kennedy when his presidential candidacy was challenged because of his faith: “I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant, nor Jewish — where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source — where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials — and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.”
Those words ring particularly true today. We hurt our fellow citizens and our community when we deny gay people civil marriage and its protections and responsibilities. Rather than divide and discriminate, let us come together and create one nation. We are all one people. We all live in the American house. We are all the American family. Let us recognize that the gay people living in our house share the same hopes, troubles, and dreams. It’s time we treated them as equals, as family.
John Lewis was a young leader of the Civil Rights Movement. He was 23 years old when he spoke at the 1963 March on Washington.
Source: Boston Globe, October 25, 2003
November 28th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
That’s kind of like saying people don’t kill people, guns do.
Lame. I can see how people who are gay can affect many lives around them, and except for an upset father or mother in the mix somewhere, the other lives come across to me as pretty well adjusted and happy. As far as busting up marriages and destroying families, those gay people should never have gotten married in the first place. But I guess the pressures from family, friends, church and career to get married and start your own family are so great that gay people just do it “because they’re supposed to.”
November 28th, 2006 at 6:42 pm
Republicans brought this on themseleves years ago. After all, it was the great communicator that declared their amnesty.
Immigration reform just shows the Republicans have run out of ideas. They are a party bereft of any vision and clearly do not deserve to lead this country forward.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
Kevin
Are all the Blue Dog Democrats also wrong on immigration?
November 28th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
I am sorry but I cannot agree with af-am on most issues, they are never for another group unless it benefits them..Where are they on Native Amer. issues..Rangel was so outraged about the war BECAUSE he said blacks would suffer most, well, it is 72% white men and women over there…They have taken the jobs, college places from poor white men and women..who is there in the classroom helping poor white boys???NO ONE!
November 28th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
j obrein
Unless white people and African Americans come together on this issue, we will keep seeing real wages gowing down for 80% of Americans.
This issue is not about race, it is about being an American.
November 28th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
Rep. John Lewis comes from the south metro area of Atlanta where his constituants are mostly black. He has been riding on the coat-tails of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King for almost his entire life.
There have been disagreements within the King family over the question of whether MLK would have supported homosexual marriage or not. Coretta Scott King supports homosexual marriage efforts with the help of old guard people like Jessie Jackson and John Lewis. King’s daughter and many others in the King clan have been outspoken supporters of the federal marriage amendment.
The population of black voters consistantly supports bans on homosexual marriage while aging activists that have bought into the hyper-liberal machine in D.C. have sold their souls to continue to be front and center in the demoncratic party. If properly motivated to vote and become active, the black population would cast out these hollow shadows of formerly great men and elect new leaders that are in touch with their constituants and have not yet prostituted their positions of power out to the left.
November 28th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
A letter about the post
John Lewis is one of the few statesmen we
have, and one of the few politicians who doesn¹t deserve to be tarred and
feathered.
Stew in your own juice.
November 28th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
A letter about the post
Mr. Konop I live in the district that John Lewis repersents. It pains me to see what illegal immigrants have done to our community. I hope Lewis reads your e- mail.
God Bless
November 28th, 2006 at 7:49 pm
A letter about the post
What you wrote Mr. Konop many of my friends do talk about. It is time for John Lewis to stand up for us.
November 28th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
A letter about the post
I pray John Lewis will see the light. Thank you John Konop for shinning a light on this before it is to late.
November 28th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
The fact is that Rep John
Lewis is nothing more then
yet another political
panderer to both the cheap
labor US Chamber Of Commerce
& Big Business And The Illegal
Alien Lawbreakers & Their
Confused Supporters,by not
seeing to it that our US
Immigration Laws are strictly
enforced and therefor Lewis
is unfit to serve in the
US Congress and deserves to
be recalled and its time the
Black Community get rid of
this kind of crooks and the
one in Louisiana with the
$90K in cold cash in his
refrigerator,if they ever want
to be taken seriously by
anyone else,and its time
Congress as a Whole stop
Pandering To Illegal Alien
Lawbreakers & Their Cheap
Labor Employers And Enforce
Our Current Immigration Laws!
November 28th, 2006 at 10:46 pm
the other lives come across to me as pretty well adjusted and happy You’ve never met the straight spouse from one of the many divorces that are brought on by homosexual infidelity. Perhaps I could introduce you to the wife that contracted AIDS because her husband was cheating on her with another man.
Maybe I could also introduce you to the children from that marriage, or the children adopted into households run by homosexuals in the name of “family”. Possibly you might like this book titled, Like Mother, Like Daughter: The Effects of Growing Up in a Homosexual Home. I met Jakii and talked to her about her book detailing her experiences as an african american child dealing with the homosexual community from the perspective of a captive child.
You really need to begin to see all the facets of this issue because conveniently ignoring the wider effects for the sake of some exotic notion of family or sexual freedom/liberty will cost people their physical and mental well being.
Rep. John Lewis and his advocacy of the homosexual lifestyle is perpetuating a different kind of slavery in the african american communities today. Slavery to the flesh and slavery to hedonism serves to oppress the black community. AIDS infections in African Americans are growing at an alarming rate. By advocating homosexual behavior, Rep. John Lewis has sold out his brothers and sisters to a fate of infection, dependancy on extremely expensive medication and eventual death.
November 28th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
James did you even read what I said? Gays shouldn’t be getting married to straight people in the first place. Stop trying to make them fit into a straight world and they’ll stop tearing it up from the inside.
November 29th, 2006 at 3:24 am
Oh you’re right, how dense of me. While we’re at it why not do away with marriage to prevent divorces and adultery. Or perhaps we could legalize all drugs because, you know, people really like to use them. Why are we forcing anorexics to eat? I mean aren’t we forcing them into society’s overly strict ideal body images? You’re such a forward thinker!
November 29th, 2006 at 4:27 am
You make quite a compelling argument. Yes I think we actually do need to legalize drugs, not because the people like to use them but because we’re spending 1000x more to incarcerate people for victimless crimes while propping up a massive government entitlement program to the prison industrial complex than these people contribute on their own.
Likewise, government has absolutely no place being involved in marriage, nor in family structures. You want to live blissfully in a state of matrimony, run on down to your church and get your minister to bless your union and be done with it. How weakminded and soulless are you that your relationship isn’t complete until the mighty government stamps its seal of approval on your relationship? It’s nothing more than emotional welfare because God’s blessing alone isn’t good enough for you.
And about fixing society’s problems, how many marriages have been broken because of gays vs. how many because of issues unrelated to gays? How many straight parents raised children who turned out gay vs. how many gay parents raised children who turned out to be gay? (I’ll give you a hint: gays are born to straight parents 99.9% of the time, so turn your hostility on those parental failings). How many children are molested by their straight relatives vs. how many by any gays?
You want to look at real carnage perpetrated on our society, remove gays entirely from your microscope and look no further than the heterosexual element that is waging the most selfish and abusive and destructive war on your concept of the perfect nuclear family. With gays eliminated from the picture, divorce would still be prevalent, child molestation will still occur in huge numbers, and domestic abuse will continue unabated. Removing gays from society will have no affect on the selfish, destructive nature of straight people. But you’ve got to have somebody to blame for the problems in your own family, so if it makes you feel like more of man go on and live out your mission to drive gays to the outer edges of society so you can return to your same old stale state of matrimony as you always had.
November 29th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
A letter about the post
This man was on the front line before I was born. Now here you are telling me how I
should feel about him standing up for immigrants. “Injustice anywhere is a treat to
justice everywhere. But thanks for trying to divide us once again.
November 30th, 2006 at 2:28 am
Chris,
You raise some good questions and I think in fairness you have good intentions. I would like to direct you to a handful of studies by Cameron that show a disproportionate number of cases in which child molestation is perpetrated by homosexuals. I would also like to direct you to the brutal sexual assult and murder of jesse dirkhising that was suppressed in the media.
I would applaud all efforts in both homosexual and heterosexual populations to curb promiscuous behavior. I would also like to point out that domestic violence has been show in some studies to occur in greater frequency in homosexual relationships. I would also like to point out that feminist lesbians have several web resources on violent opposition to the patriarchy.
I’m not about to conviniently ignore an imminent threat to the well being of our nation or our communities. I resfuse to ignore the obvious facts of the matter.
If Rep John Lewis was on the front lines of the good fight at one point, he’s with the enemy now. I’m sorry the letter writer has been let down by Rep. Lewis. It’s Lewis that’s dividing the Black community.
November 30th, 2006 at 4:02 am
James, my understanding is that gays comprise less than 3% of the population. You have utterly failed to demonstrate an imminent threat to the wellbeing of our nation or our communities by this minute segment of our population. I know gays, plenty of them. The vast majority of them are fine, very well adjusted in their relationships and perfectly happy in their families and careers. No amount of your exaggerated threats based on a handful of isolated incidents is going to convince me that this group of Americans are the most dire threat of all others that are facing our nation. And quite frankly you look like a fool for even trying.
For every brutal slaying conducted at the hands of gays that you put up as a basis for your argument, I can put up 100 similarly brutal incidents perpetrated by heterosexuals against heterosexuals. If we are to accept your logical fallacies as our own guidance, then we must surely embark on a passionate mission to deny heterosexuals access to any rights and privileges that put them in situations that may threaten the well being of this nation.
November 30th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
Slain because he refused to call his mother’s lesbian lover `Daddy’
Ok now your turn. 100 please… that is, unless you’re exagerating your position.
November 30th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
At least Rep. Phil Gingrey is taking a tough stand on Immigration.
Gingrey emphasizes need for tougher border security after police break up fake ID ring in Cobb Co.
Earlier this month, Phil praised the work of the Marietta-Cobb-Smyrna Organized Crime and Intelligence Unit in arresting six illegal immigrants who were manufacturing fake identification cards. Phil called the arrests a clear example of why we need to get tough on border security.
November 30th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Oh my
James- that is a horrific story…
bottom line– violence exists in all “categories” of people..no “group” deserves more protection against violence than any other group– except children.
Nothing angers me more than violence against children…
November 30th, 2006 at 10:12 pm
I didn’t realize congressional representatives are responsible for (or, empowered to) enforce the law.
Live and learn? Nah.
December 1st, 2006 at 12:37 am
Here, James. There’s plenty more where these came from.
113 cases of brutal heterosexual violence:
1. Tommaso Onofri, Apr 06
2. Lucero Espinoza, Ricardo Espinoza, Alexis Espejo Quezada, May 04
3. Stephanie Faye Wagner, Nov 06
4. Maris Jo Miles, Jan 06
5. Margaret M. Meyer, Earl R. Meyer, Mar 06
6. 11-year-old boy, Nov 06
7. Mary Sadler, Aug 06
8. Jamie Bolin, Apr 06
9. Tunstall mother, children, Sept 06
10. Rachel Renae Kastner, Oct 06
11. Patricia Cantrell, Oct 06
12. Jerome Powers, Feb 06
13. Stan Kinards, Georgia Coker Hughes, Feb 06
14. Robert & Louise Martin, Sep 06
15. Rachel Rein, Douglas Windom, Oct 06
16. Linda Begay, Aug 06
17. Charla Mack, Jun 06
18. Crystal Brame, Apr 2003*
19. Evan Nash, 2003*
20. Delores MacLean, Sep 04
21. Bonnie Woodring, Sep 06
22. Reneé Urbina Hernandez, Arturo Fonseca, Nov 06
23. Velia Romero, Nov 06
24. Martha Wallace, 2006
25. Kaliah Harper, Nov 06
26. Gloria Cobos, Nov 06
27. Anthony Tucker, Nov 06
28. Ruth Boyd, Jan 06
29. Shannon Marie McGuire, Nov 06
30. Marcus Fiesel, Aug 06
31. Ashley Scott, Nov 06
32. Zarghona Rahim, Nov 06
33. Carmin Ross, Nov 03
34. Craig Mulvey’s unnamed girlfriend, Nov 06
35. Claire Carey, Paul Gray, Nov 06
36. Rebekah Grainger, Mar 06
37. Giuseppa Wallace, Nov 06
38. Jaime Lowery, Oct 05
39. Cynthia & John Klipstein, Oct 06
40. Teri Lee, Tim Hawkinson, Oct 06
41. Amanda Jane Falconer, Jul 04
42. Juanita & Stephen Bashaw, Nov 06
43. Vickie (survivor), Nov 06
44. William H. Olsen, Oct 06
45. Chanel Anderson, Nov 06
46. Jeffrey & Michelle Sinnett, Nov 06
47. Ronald & Margaret Magness, Apr 06
48. Charlene Octavia Yarbrough, Marcus Antonio Wilson, Marquis Mitchell, Nov 06
49. Detra Rainey Simmons & her 4 children, Oct 06
50. Patricia Thompson, Nov 06
51. Mary Lynch, Nov 06
52. LaToyia Figueroa & unborn child, 2005
53. Ricky Holland, Jul 05
54. Davion and Trevon Wilson, Oct 06
55. Nina Reiser, Sep 06
56. Leslie Lamb, Oct 06
57. Kathy Augustine, Sep 06
58. Wife & Toddler highway stabbing, Sep 06
59. Treyshun Harris, Taronta Greeley Jr., Joshoa Greeley, Oct 05
60. Luz Maria Franco-Fierros, Sep 06
61. Deepti Anurag, Nov 05
62. Jennifer Corbin, 2004
63. Alayiah Turman, Sep 06
64. Heather Kane, Sep 06
65. Mi Rae Bae, Sep 06
66. Mrs. Keown, Nov 05
67. Uzma Rahan and her 3 children, Aug 06
68. Esperance Labidou, Aug 05
69. Liam Hogan, Aug 06
70. Matthew Winkler, Mar 06
71. Laura Hauck, Aug 06
72. Sherman Sanders, Aug 06
73. Caged children case, 2005
74. Esat & Violsa Astafovic, Oct 06
75. Thomas, John, Kevin Frazza, Jul 06
76. Tommaso Onofri
77. Wendy, Scotty, Melanie McCarter, May 06
78. Emmanuel “Manny” Nikolidakis, Wanda Kocak, 37, Amanda Querns, Sep 03
79. Valerie, Rhiannon, Michael Soto, Steven Lee Wasserman, Jul 03
80. Bernadette Seajatan, Sharon Yassim, Marlyn Hassan, Jul 02
81. Brooklyn murder-suicide, Oct 06
82. Rachel, Lillian Entwistle, Feb 06
83. William West, Jul 06
84. Theresa Time, Jun 06
85. Quinn Witherspoon, Sep 05
86. Will Roberson, Jul 05
87. Charlotte Waites
88. John Coulson, Nov 06
89. Michael L. Severance, Jan 05
90. David Leath, Mar 03
91. Robert Bosley, Sep 06
92. Larry Gash, Mar 04
93. Karen Skellas, Oct 06
94. Henry Fierro, Jul 02
95. Lionel Johnson, Nov 06
96. Dennis Coats, 2004
97. Kenil Joseph, Nov 06
98. Elda Portela, Jun 03
99. Liana White, Jul 05
100. Inyang Haynes, Wayne Haughton, Nov 06
101. Tonya Goble, Vicki Dewey, Apr 06
102. Terrance Bork, Sep 05
103. Faye Johnson Vick & her 2 children, Nov 06
104. Jennifer Anderson, Feb 06
105. Jonathan Neabor, 2004
106. Eric Ulrich, Oct 06
107. William McGuire, May 04
108. Diane Crouse, Nov 06
109. Abundis foster child murder, Oct 05
110. Nancy Everson, Jan 06
111. Gerry Cranwell, Jun 06
112. Todd Sommer, Feb 02
113. Will Roberson, Jul 05
The violence above occured within heterosexual families where domestic disputes were the primary motivations. Not included are gang murders, drug murders, disgruntled rampage murders, random “dare” killings, retribution murders, serial murders, abduction murders, murders during the commission of other crimes, hate crimes.
December 1st, 2006 at 7:49 am
David O
Congress does have a vote on the laws.
December 1st, 2006 at 3:44 pm
A letter about the post
What have you ever been elected to? Student council? Neighborhood watch?
Dogcatcher?
You have a lot of nerve. Most people in this country have never heard of you and
you have the nerve to criticize John Lewis who fought and put his life on the line
so that blacks in this country could achieve the most basic of human rights?
This is transparent divide and conquer and conservatives would love for blacks and
browns to fight among each other so they won’t notice that the country is being
raped and robbed blind by white males. . I for one have no problem with
Mexicans and I only hope that their numbers increase 10 fold so that whites will
become the minority and see how it feels to have your rights trampled.
December 1st, 2006 at 4:42 pm
I can put up 100 similarly brutal incidents perpetrated by heterosexuals against heterosexuals. My bad, I thought you posted about hate crimes of hetero against homo. Good work though! I have to conceed to the fact that there is a lot of violence in the world and that is a very sad thing. It’s good that we have people who are sensitive to the issue of violence in society. However, I would point out though that your argument is a bit of a red herring. While true, general violence in society is really not what I’m adressing.
they won’t notice that the country is being
raped and robbed blind by white males.
This statement only serves to show how racist people like Rep. John Lewis are. It’s shameful that you would continue to divide this nation along divisions of white and black for political purposes.
Hitler was famous but it doesn’t change the fact that he was probably of the most egregious racists in the history of the world. (I’ve just invoked Godwin’s Law, I know) Until people like you stop trying to divide the nation along lines of white vs brown/black, we will continue to argue amongst ourselves while foreign interests eat at our dinner table without invitation.
You got to look hard at this and figure out who is your real enemy. Is it the white folk who live in your community, side by side with you? White folk that pay taxes to educate the community, just like you? Is is the white folk that worship the same loving Savior that are part of the problem? You need to trust in the fact that God has faithful followers of all colors. We need the black community to join conservatives of all colors in upholding Godly laws in this nation!
Illegal immigration is not about racism, it’s about upholding the law and the sovereignty of the United States of America.
December 1st, 2006 at 5:24 pm
There’s definitely an effort I think, to strike fear in the hearts of African Americans of the enforce the border crowd. But in reality the real division is Americans and non-Americans. Aren’t there some African American leaders who want to enforce the border?
December 1st, 2006 at 9:12 pm
Bill,
Nice question. I’m still impressed with Chris and his 113.
Nice job, Chris.
But, why is your divide between Americans and non-Americans? (I know you mean United States Citizens when you say ‘american.’ Remember, since we don’t occupy a continent, everyone born on this continent is an American.)
Have we declined so much from our past stature as “Leaders of the Free World” that we now can only try to be nationalists?
December 1st, 2006 at 10:03 pm
I’m still impressed with Chris and his 113.
You know that research must have taken some time. I was kind of shocked. Of course I never would have challenged him if I had read more carefully. Looks like he called my bluff!
December 2nd, 2006 at 12:43 am
James, it’s not a red herring. You are the one who made the statement that homosexuals are the single most important threat to our country, and it’s your entire life’s mission to fight them. I’m telling you that in light of all the problems facing our country today, you and your little anti-gay crusade makes you completely irrelevant, but sometimes amusing.
MD, are we not on a thread discussing the impact on our country about a specific group of Americans? Do you believe James’ contention that gays are more dangerous to our way of life than illegals?
December 2nd, 2006 at 12:57 am
Mad Dog
I got a big lesson in “ethnocentrism” in spanish class at UGA. Actually we don’t even have a good term to describe our country. “America” is used throughout the hemisphere more or less. And “United States”, I think is used by perhaps Brazil?? But when you say it in English people know what you’re talking about. Why don’t we lead the way by example with some Swiss Style nationalism? That means every country is sacrosanct. Including small poor countries in the face of corporations and bankers.
December 2nd, 2006 at 2:40 pm
Red Herring
I think you and I are talking about two different things. Violence in the community vs. sexual morality in the community. Violence is common sense for most people by the latter seems to be up for debate for many misguided people.
December 7th, 2006 at 11:41 pm
I was just watching Rep Lewis and Rep David Scott on C-Span. They were tag teaming with Rep. Bishop from Utah about mergers and federal aid for Delta. I think there was some sort of hostile takeover bid by another airline. They were trying to act in the after hours congress to raise awarness or something. This of course would affect Hartsfield airport in the southern part of the metro atlanta area. That would be in the jurisdiction of either Lewis or Scott. While I have to applaud them for trying to preserve jobs and finincial security for their constituants. I also understand that they are interfering with market forces. Kinda creepy. You never see these two guys doing anything with the north georgia or rural representatives. It sickens me that they are so raci… I mean partisan in their politics.