All immigrants to this country took time to assimilate, the first generation faring much worse than the 2nd and 3rd. The kids all spoke English, because they went to public schools. VERY FEW of these families advocated for remaining separatist and radical elements in society, although many of them created most of the worst crime situations, declining communities, and the worst crime rings this country ever had to deal with. They created these crime rings because felt they could get away with it, did not care about the law because it wasn’t convenient to them, and because they cared only about their own ethnic group welfare, at the expense of all others who lived in the communities they invaded.
You support that this criminal activity should be encouraged and their is some sense of nobleness to it, especially if it involves racial group privileges and benefits of an ethic group you wish to advocate and identify with. You seem to defend this from an ethnic group perspective more than from a lawful, national sovereignty which is why I think your arguments, though well thought out are often inappropriately only part of the real issue (its like telling a partial truth because it benefits you in some way and not seeing the damaging impact of it).

Divisive and separatist behavior by ANY ethnic, racial, gender or religious group creates conflict and turmoil, and generally lawless decline and economic decline in any lawful society if you look at what is happening in other countries and what happened here in the US in past “illegal” immigrant out of control communities. This is why it must be dealt with now.

WHY you suddenly felt the need to get personal and attack me over an incredibly innocuous remark, in a comment which was not even in answer to a comment from you, still escapes me! I have nothing of consequence in my life for which I am ashamed and, indeed, much of which I am proud. If you are so insecure that feel the need to attack someone like me, then you’ve got a problem. Funny, I’ve helped lots of people solve their problems in my time, asking little if anything in return, but when I’m crossed I can be a very determined and merciless enemy.

By the way, I used “Uno en Uno” (one on one) because “Mano a Mano” (man to man) just didn’t seem appropriate between two women, and “frente an frente” (front to front) never occurred to me.

It’s rather perplexing that you say that you don’t “need” to hear my history, since your twisted version of it (which came right out of the blue, btw) is the only issue you have addressed to me since August 27. I’m only setting the record straight…but apparently truth flies very low on your radar. Insofar as me being nice to you before, I try to be nice to everybody…unless they give me reason not to be.

Would you like to know about me? Aside from the fact that I post under my own name and stand by each and every one of my commentary on the blogs, you can also look me up under my maiden name (Anke Wiechmann) in Who’s Who In American Politics (decade between 1975 or 76 and 1986), The International Who’s Who of Women (1986), International Register of Profiles (can’t remember the year…’85 or ‘86), maybe a few other piddling things that are equally irrelevant. I started raising my family late in life (age 35), and actually did a pretty good job of it. My daughter will be studying at the University of Reading and Oxford (both in England, of course) next year, my son is finishing up his technical studies to become a Certified Master Mechanic, and the oldest boy (who, as I told you several times before, I didn’t raise) is still in the military, in a manner of speaking, and hanging out with his mother (not me).

There’s a great deal more about me, but that is also irrelevant to anyone, except perhaps you because your elitism is showing. I come to the blogs to offer my opinion, trying very hard to stick to issues when I disagree with someone, rather than getting into personalities (or getting personal), and only wishing for the same in return (of course, when it’s not returned, that’s a different issue). I’m actually VERY angry that I am made to feel compelled to justify myself to someone such as yourself. I have only EVER used personal information as anecdotal (from experience) for purposes of illustrating a point…if anyone wants to know about me, my name is right there and there are plenty of people who know it, and know about me.

So TH, learn to read, to comprehend, and to respect others on this forum…or go somewhere else. Until you attacked me personally, I had valued your opinion. Unfortunately, that value has diminished immeasurably, but at least you are showing your true nature now.

“…go back inside the Wal*mart that hires you and continue to be underpaid, overworked, and then have all the people who complain so much at this website remind you to go back where you came from.”…was the quote from which I was working. The offending passage was: “Rush to judgment (how very appropriate), my eldest stepson spent some time working at Wal-Mart, where he was underpaid and overworked, most likely because there is an enormous illegal labor pool out there willing to work at slave wages as long as there are sufficient numbers of check-cashing stores around their neighborhoods so that they can continue to operate under the radar, collecting public assistance…unlike their legal resident/citizen co-workers. (As a sidebar, I should like to point out that it was not I who assumed that any of these employees are illegal.) There are many young people and retirees out there who were raised to believe in an old-fashioned work ethic, whose opportunities become very limited because of the new “slave culture” in this country that manages, however, to fare rather well financially thanks to the enablers of our “compassionate” government and society. Your comment was patently absurd in so many ways.”

YOUR reaction to this innocuous, oft repeated point that illegal aliens are being utilized as a modern “slave culture,” albeit a relatively comfortable one with their virtually tax-free status and feeding frenzy at the public welfare trough, was to castigate ME for the way I raised my stepson (who, by the way, I DID NOT raise…I raised his younger brother, which I pointed out later) as follows: We agree on a lot of things but on the issue of your stepson we have to disagree.
Just some questions. Nothing wrong with working at Walmart but why did he do to get there?
I mean you can get educated in this country if you want it. get financial aid go to a community college, etc. How come that your stepson is competing for a job with an illegal alien?
I mean he is not fighting for a job in Wall Street. I don’t want to sound arrogant but you have to see yourself and ask the real questions.

You then go on into a diatribe about slurpees and coffee, and the illegal aliens preventing my son from going to college and studying for the SATs…and YOU’RE SURPRISED THAT I GOT PISSED OFF?? I suggest, TH, that you hold on to your seat and, while you’re at it, brush up on your English grammar, spelling, and sentence construction…’cause YOU’RE in for a ride now! If you want to end this privately, and amicably, I suggest that you email Greg and have him forward it to me and I’ll respond…but I will have that apology, one way or the other. You want to do this in Spanish…I’m with that. How about German…that’s MY first language. I’ll even take a crack at Italian or French, if you prefer.

Now, I am going up into the more recent threads and respond to each and every one of your comments, regardless of to whom they are directed. The gauntlet is down. And Greg, if you have a problem with this post, you have my number…call me. I’ll be keeping it in a file to be re-posted if it gets deleted before she responds…if she has the guts. I know this is off-topic and has gotten personal, but I will not let it go until it’s resolved. The unfortunate thing about anonymous and pseudonymous posting is that they can perpetrate this manner of nonsense (which, with her continually bringing it up herself, she seems to insist upon perpetuating) and not be personally held accountable…so there’s only one place that it can be hashed out.