…. “But I want to tell you, when you talk about what they’ve done – they’ve created an atmosphere and they’ve been unrelenting in their propaganda,” Dobbs said. “Three weeks ago this morning, a shot was fired at my house where I live. My wife was standing out and that followed weeks and weeks of threatening phone calls.”
“And, as I told the state patrol, and by the way, the New Jersey State Patrol is absolutely terrific – they responded instantly. But this shot was fired with my wife not, I don’t know, 15 feet away and we had threatening phone calls that I decided not to report because I get threatening phone calls,” Dobbs continued. “I now – it’s become a way of life – the anger, the hate, the vitriol, but it’s taken a different tone where they’ve threatened my wife. They’ve now fired a shot at my house while my wife was standing next to the car. It’s become something else.” [ READ MORE ]
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Lou, I hope you are shot — not dead, but in your fat “gangrened” buttocks with shot-gun pellets. Maybe then you will understand that your years of anti-immigrant LIES, Fear-Mongering and HATE spewing is really hurting someone, especially the Hispanic community — legal and “illegal.” You have been stirring a big pot of hate for years Mr. Dobbs — frightening helpless immigrant mothers and their children.
Now it is your turn to HIDE UNDER THE TABLE!!
I would pay top-dollar to hear what your MEXICAN wife has to say about this incident, if it really happened at all !
You and your right-wing followers assert that — because you are married to a Mexican you are not a Racist. LOL! Strom Thurmond, one of the biggest bigots from the Carolinas fathered a child with a black woman, and how about the numerous very light-skinned black people all over the United States? Somewhere in their lineage, a white man raped a black slave!! Did that make them liberal anti-slavey apologists. Nope, they remained bigots into their graves. Slave women were vulnerable to their masters — used and abused by their lustful “owners” — Like Lou Dobbs “owns” Debbie Segura.
The Hypocritical Bigot Lamenting About His MEXICAN Wife Being Shot At!
Mediamatters: Dobbs promotes website that hosts several pro-secession articles: On the September 17 broadcast of his radio show, Lou Dobbs hosted Tenth Amendment Center founder Michael Boldin and repeatedly “urge[d]” his listeners to visit the group’s “very interesting” website. The site, among other things, has published or reprinted several articles advocating secession from the United States. [ READ MORE ]
HUFFINGTONPOST: Faced with a growing movement of communities demanding that CNN drop his program, Lou Dobbs responded Friday with one of his favorite postures: the victimized defender of American virtue. “They ask CNN to fire me because I oppose illegal immigration” said Dobbs, who added, “”The last thing they want is a first amendment, where people can express themselves… These are the most un-American, frightened people in the world because they won’t compete in the marketplace of ideas and facts.” [ READ MORE ]
Dobbs on “ethno-centric interest groups” calling for him to be fired: “these are the most un-American, frightened people in the world“
Taking more cues from Beck, Dobbs advances attacks on White House, NEA, “left-wing propaganda” educational video
Dobbs attacks Presente.org founding member Roberto Lovato as “a typical left-wing activist coward propagandist” and “an outright fraud“ — NOTE: From Presente.org: We seeks to strengthen the political voice of Latino communities. Using the Internet, we give our members ongoing opportunities for action on the issues they care about. Our goal is to unite Latinos of all generations, nationalities, and regions, together with allies from other communities.
FEATURED CAMPAIGN: Tell CNN it’s time for Dobbs to go — CNN host Lou Dobbs has done more than anyone in the media to spread misinformation and hatred about Latinos. Yet CNN continues to broadcast his show, even as they are courting Latino viewers. It’s time for that to end. That’s why Presente.org is working with partner organizations across the country to launch BastaDobbs.com .
Anti-Immigrant and RACIST Xenophobe, Chris Simcox, who founded the border-patrolling Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, plans to challenge former Republican presidential nominee and current Arizona senator John McCain in the Republican primary in 2010.
On his website, the filthy BIGOT notes: Immigrants new to this country need to learn what freedom is and how you go about keeping it. They need to learn to speak our language to be a productive part of our work force. For American citizenship to have real, lasting meaning, we must reject the amnesty that causes even more to come here illegally, we must secure our borders and create a legal immigration system built on a rubric of national security and economics with the welfare and job security of the American citizen first and foremost in the design.
Everywhere This BIGOT Goes — He Is Met With Protests
Chris Simcox is a thief. He stole millions of dollars in donations that was to be used to build a barrier along the border with Mexico. He built and completed 10 miles of 5 strand barbed wire cow-fence and called it a success, then refused to show the public where the money went!
McCain, long known as a moderate on immigration, gave up on his immigration reform legislation during the Republican primary campaign.
“Every American I’ve talked to says: ‘Dude, it’s ridiculous that we’re not doing everything we can to keep you in the country. We need people like you!‘” he said. “The people of America get it,” he added. “And in a matter of time, I think current lawmakers are going to realize how dumb they’re being.” –Sanjay G. Mavinkurve, a key engineer with Google — “exiled” in Canada.
Technology executives say restrictive visa and immigration limits have imperiled their ability to hire more of the world’s best engineers.
Immigrants like Mr. Mavinkurve are the lifeblood of Google and Silicon Valley, where half the engineers were born overseas, up from 10 percent in 1970. Google and other big companies say the Chinese, Indian, Russian and other immigrant technologists have transformed the industry, creating wealth and jobs.
Just over half the companies founded in Silicon Valley from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s had founders born abroad, according to Vivek Wadhwa, an immigration scholar working at Duke and Harvard.
The foreign-born elite dating back even further includes Andrew S. Grove, the Hungarian-born co-founder of Intel; Jerry Yang, the Chinese-born co-founder of Yahoo; Vinod Khosla of India and Andreas von Bechtolsheim of Germany, the co-founders of Sun Microsystems; and Google’s Russian-born co-founder, Sergey Brin.
Mr. Mavinkurve, a 28-year-old Indian immigrant who helped lay the foundation for Facebook while a student at Harvard, instead works out of a Google sales office in Toronto, a lone engineer among marketers.
He has a visa to work in the United States, but his wife, Samvita Padukone, also born in India, does not. So he moved to Canada. [ READ MORE ]
Despite nation’s strides, hate groups grow in number. Fueled by non-white immigration, the economy and the rise to power of a black president, the number of hate groups rose to a record 926 in 2008. How can hate enjoy such phenomenal growth in a nation where a Jew serves as senator from Connecticut, a Muslim serves as representative from Minnesota, a Hispanic is governor of New Mexico and a black man is president?
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
There are now 926 hate groups in this country.
Take a second, and consider that number. It represents an increase of more than 50 percent since 2000. And by “hate groups,” I don’t mean guys in their bathrobes who go online and pretend their followers are legion. No, I mean actual Klan cells, Neo-Nazi sects, gay-bashing “churches,” cliques of black separatists, white nationalists, nativists, racist skinheads and other merchants of venom who meet, plot and recruit in all 48 contiguous states. (Alaska and Hawaii have no known hate groups.) Nine hundred twenty-six of them. The number is a record.
The National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi sect marches last fall in Jefferson City, Mo.
We learn all this from the Southern Poverty Law Center (www.splcenter.org) in Montgomery, Ala., which has, since its founding in 1971, become a leading authority on the business of hate. According to the latest issue of Intelligence Report, the center’s quarterly magazine, that business is booming.
And maybe you wonder how this can be. How can hate enjoy such phenomenal growth in a nation where a Jew serves as senator from Connecticut, a Muslim serves as representative from Minnesota, a Hispanic is governor of New Mexico and a black man is president? The answer is that we are a nation where a Jew serves as senator from Connecticut, a Muslim serves as representative from Minnesota, a Hispanic is governor of New Mexico and a black man is president. Because if those things strike you as signs of progress, well, they are signs of apocalypse to those who believe only white, male Christians are fit to lead.
But that’s not the only reason for the increase. The center also cites the debate over illegal immigration that has dominated much of this decade. Though former President George W. Bush offered thoughtful, moderate leadership on the issue, he was drowned out by demagogic extremists competing to see which could most effectively scapegoat undocumented workers. They, too, bear responsibility here.
Finally, there is the economy. When things get tough, people become more receptive to the idea that their miseries are all the fault of some alien other. So the stock market, too, is implicated. Hate rises when the Dow falls.
I imagine the center’s findings land like cold water in the faces of those who took Barack Obama’s ascension to the presidency as proof that the nation was finally cured of the sickness of hate. The truth, I’m afraid, is more nuanced than that.
FOX News – Merchants of Venom
Maybe it helps to think in terms of alcoholism, a disease that can, with treatment, be contained, controlled, put into remission ? but never cured. Even when you have years of sobriety under your belt, the germ of it lurks in your bloodstream. Which is why alcoholics do not call themselves cured. Rather, they say they are recovering.
Hate is something like that, a fact some of us have never quite understood. Such folks are convinced that there is a goal line out there somewhere, which, once crossed, will allow the nation to declare itself cured. And once cured, we’ll never have to grapple with hatred again.
But it doesn’t work that way.
In a nation so deeply riven by culture, race and religion, there is always a temptation to hate somebody, to blame some group of others for the job you lost, the crime committed against you, the fear and uncertainty you feel. There is a simplicity and a seductiveness to it that are all too easily mistaken for righteousness.
So there is no “cure” for a nation’s hate. There is only an ongoing process of getting better, not unlike the alcoholic who must daily earn his sobriety anew. This explosion of hate is a reminder of what happens when we forget that, when we are undeservedly sanguine about how enlightened we’ve become.
It is said that eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. Well, that’s the going rate for tolerance, too.
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[Enlarge] About The Author: Leonard Pitts, Jr. is a nationally-syndicated columnist and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
He was originally hired by the Miami Herald to critique music, but within a few years he received his own column in which he dealt extensively with race, politics, and culture. He lives in Bowie, Maryland.
He has won awards for his writing from the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and was first nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1993, eventually claiming the honor in 2004. He is also the author of the bestselling book Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood.
Pitts gained national recognition for his widely-circulated column of September 12, 2001, “We’ll Go Forward From This Moment,” in which he described the toughness of the American spirit even in the face of such a horrible attack.
In June 2007, Pitts was the subject of a campaign of death threats and harassment by neo-Nazis angry at a column he wrote about two whites raped and murdered in Knoxville, Tennessee. In his column addressing the murders, Pitts stated “for the crackpots, incendiaries and flat-out racists who have chosen this tragedy upon which to take an obscene and ludicrous stand. I have four words for them and any other white Americans who feel themselves similarly victimized. Cry me a river.”
