Posted on 10/13/2002 6:34:43 PM PDT by ozone1
What gives? Maine is the 2nd highest taxed state in the union, and one of the poorest. We have the best welfare??? Give me a break. We have homeless living under the Caribou bridge who would LOVE to have the break the influx are receiving. What about our own kind? How about them?
If Maine has the best welfare program..........where is this money coming from? Oh yes, I forgot......we are the 2nd highest taxed state in the Union..........
`sigh.....
If this is how the Maine DemocRATS figure on getting elected into office, we all are in a world of hurt.
KENNEBUNKPORT? LOL! NO WAY!
And why did they????
Yeah, right...and I'm the Queen of England.
Pure Heaven! And our farmers up here work from 5am until 9 - 10pm at night harvesting.
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) Hundreds of people joined a peaceful march Sunday to show support for Somalian immigrants in Maine's second-largest city, whose mayor has raised concerns that local services will be strained if many more Somalis arrive.
Police said about 250 people, most of them longer-term residents of the city, participated in a five-block walk from the Calvary United Methodist Church to a mosque where Lewiston's Somalis worship. Some of the participants gave speeches expressing solidarity with the new arrivals at the mosque.
One of two protesters who identified themselves as pro-white held a sign along the march route that said, ''How long will it take before Lewiston is like Somalia?''
Mohammed Abdi, a Somali elder who participated the march, said one of the main messages expressed was that Lewiston will benefit from new diversity in its population with the arrival of the Somalis.
''We are one people, we are one community,'' said Abdi, adding that the United States ''is a country made up of immigrants, and one immigrant group came before another. And the Somalis just happened to come ... now.''
Abdi said the Somalis were outnumbered about 3-1 by longer-term residents of Lewiston in the march.
''I think it will strengthen the community more. It will bring the people closer together. It was a matter of solidarity and a show of unity,'' Abdi said. ''I think it's positive.''
Abdi was one of the local Somali leaders who met with Mayor Larry Raymond on Friday to ease strained feelings following the mayor's released of an open letter in which he warned of a strain on resources if more Somalis move to the city of 36,000.
The letter said Lewiston, which has absorbed more than 1,000 Somalis in 18 months, cannot continue absorbing newcomers ''without negative results for all.''
Somali elders responded by lashing out at Raymond as an ''ill-informed leader'' who should have sought a private meeting with them instead.
Abdi said after Sunday's march that the march, envisioned earlier as ''a get-together with the local people,'' became more urgent after the mayor released his letter.
''We had a little walk planned before the present controversy,'' Mark Schlotterbeck, city missionary for the Calvary United Methodist Church, told the Lewiston Sun Journal before Sunday's event.
''Now lots of people are going to walk: Christians, Muslims, Jews, Unitarians and civil rights teams from local schools.''
What so you mean WHEN? Except for the name change to Aztlan, it's already happened.....Houston and Dallas have already been Balkanized.
And we wonder how they can come in and take over? Is there any doubt? Death threats? Lawmakers in their pockets? No, there is no wonder. Not in my mind anymore.
This is bigger then we are. ozone, I give up. The Mainer has no voice in this. They laugh at us, and suck our blood.
A little different than previous immigrant groups. I know my Irish ancestors had to take hard jobs to come here ---I'm glad they didn't have welfare then. This group is another group destined to failure because they'll get used to project living and welfare, and watching Jerry Springer all day for something to do.
JOHN BALDACCI AND ALLEN. BALDACCI IS RUNNING FOR OUR NEXT GOVERNOR! HE AND ALLEN ARE WORKING WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TO BRING THE IMMIGRANTS IN!
Both Democrats.
BALDACCI AND ALLEN SEEK FEDERAL ASSISTANCE TO ADDRESS INFLUX OF SOMALI IMMIGRANTS
Oh, that gives me the warm fuzzies. /sarcasm
ozone, I am worn out on this issue. It just gets worse. And the Mayor apologized to them. I still say he received death threats. Why else would he make an about face?
The Mayor hit the nail on the head: We can't AFFORD anymore immigrants! :(
It's like everyone voting and passing BOND issues. They think the Government is paying for the BOND issues. Well, let me tell them: "we" are paying for the bond issues.
When I lived in Minneapolis (AKA the top destination for Somalian immigrants), I had to walk past a group of these guys every time I walked to the grocery store. They were extremely threatening and intimidating to the folks who passed them by.
I always carried pepper spray with me just in case.
SEND'EM DIRECTLY TO LEWISTON, ME. it's time to test mass acculturation of the librals' 'children' in a 'liberal college town'.
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