Comments on: Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit Against Herndon, Virginia

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:49:33 +0000

So Judicial Watch is back to being an evil conservative advocacy group? When they sued Cheney over his evergy meetings, they were simply a “government watchdog” group.

Welcome back, JW!

By: Juliette

Juliette — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 03:05:33 +0000

What charming fellows!

/sarc

By: NIF

NIF — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 23:56:05 +0000

Just another today

Today’s dose of NIF – News, Interesting & Funny … It’s Kerry-180 Tuesday (but it feels like Monday)

By: Paula

Paula — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:57:26 +0000

Perhaps they should build the day laborer site, have “bosses” pull up in droves, “hire” these guys and drive them straight to the feds. It wouldn’t eliminate the problem, but it would eliminate a bunch in one whack.

By: basil's blog

basil's blog — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:33:09 +0000

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By: HCS’s and Gen’s Place

HCS’s and Gen’s Place — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 20:38:24 +0000

La Shawn Barberâ€™s Corner: Good Deal! Of course it also takes businesses to stop hiring illegal aliens as well. The rules are already in place for this to be tackled on the busniess side as well.

By: Renee

Renee — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 19:22:56 +0000

I agree with you 1000% mj…

as long as it’s not in “their” backyard, they really don’t care about it

By: mj

mj — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:30:01 +0000

Readers should check out the photos on the Help Save Herndon site. I don’t know about other cities, but there are quite a few of these types of places in Chicago, but nobody says anything about it. And there’s more garbage, catcalls to women, overcrowding than in Herndon. This is what I’ve been talking about: once people live around it, they get a different perspective. If the leaders of our nation and cities lived right around it, they’d be more concerned. Especially if their daughters had to pass by these places every day and endure harassment.

By: David

David — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:25:16 +0000

I’d like to see someone make a gesture like that to a 5 ton truck full of Marines!

By: nyblues

nyblues — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:24:26 +0000

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By: Tom Bosee

Tom Bosee — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 15:48:51 +0000

La Shawn, your picture tells a thousand words! We already have enough obscene-gesturing home-grown louts in this country, we don’t need any more! Notice how well-fed they look, to the point where could stand to lose a few pounds!

By: steve sturm

steve sturm — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 15:28:30 +0000

Heliotrope: Wow, I’m a bleeding heart? That would be news to just about everybody who knows me.

You’ve got to be kidding if you think illegals will flock to Herndon because of this center. They go where the work is (that’s why they’re in the US in the first place). Herndon doesn’t have enough work for the day laborers (legal and illegal varieties) for all the day laborers who already hang out at the 7-11, why in the world would an illegal from Arlington or Silver Spring or Vienna (all DC suburbs) give up the work they have near where they live to show up in Herndon? Why would a contractor drive to Herndon to pick up an illegal day laborer when they can merely drive to the 7-11 in their suburb to find more than enough willing day laborers already there?

And, while I disagree your premise that a more logical syllogism would be to build a fire house near a bed of arsonists, do you propose not having a firehouse near where fires are likely to be set? Do you not put police stations near where crimes are likely to be committed (I’m sorry innocent victim-to-be, we can’t put a police station near your house because there are too many criminals near by)? Do you not put Red Cross shelters near where victims of natural disasters are likely to be found?

By: Renee

Renee — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 15:27:08 +0000

It’s the “since everyone else is doing wrong, I may as well do wrong also)…

go figure

By: Heliotrope

Heliotrope — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 13:45:20 +0000

The Washington Post article on August 18 reported the following:

“But council members said they were helpless in the face of what they called a federal failure to police U.S. borders. They said it was their responsibility to bring order to a neighborhood nuisance that had become the town’s most divisive issue in recent history.

“Here we sit, expecting this local government to resolve a national immigration problem that is out of our control,” council member Harlon Reece said before the vote.”

Thus, Herndon wants to organize their pick up sites for day laborers and Herndon openly admits it will turn a blind eye to whether they are serving “illegal aliens” or not.

Well, “build it and they will come.” This Field of Dreams enterprise, if successful, would attract droves of “illegals” the same way any unregulated welfare program overwhelms itself.

As to the worn out logic above (#3) about the consequential accident of a fire station benefiting an illegal alien: The more logical syllogism is building a fire station near a bed of arsonists.

Why is it that bleeding hearts always resort to the logic of false cause based always on the premise of victim-hood?

By: Fredlb

Fredlb — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 13:37:29 +0000

I would wager that the “day labor” center is not being built in the mayor’s neighborhood. If it were, he would be against it.