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Huge Brawls between Somali students and Lewiston, Maine high schoolers
Lewiston Sun Journal ^ | September 12, 2002 | Lindsay Tice

Posted on 09/12/2002 8:28:18 AM PDT by gulfwarvet

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To: Black Agnes
If I happen to be in a car and someone else puts that station on, that's the only time.

And I can "tune out" pretty easily by cranking up my own thoughts.

61 posted on 09/12/2002 9:53:34 AM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: cicero's_son; All
Lewiston is the arm pit of Maine. Lot of Oxy use, and a major way-point in the North-South narcotics- and prostitution-trafficking corrider. Many of the folks there have nothing to look forward to but Allen's coffee flavored brandy (Mainers drug of choice.) I'd rather live in Jersey.
62 posted on 09/12/2002 9:53:37 AM PDT by GOV'T MULE
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To: gulfwarvet
They offer a new auto-shop class at the highschool, its called:

General maintenance and repair of Technicals
63 posted on 09/12/2002 9:53:40 AM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: andy_card
Announcements in churches would tend not to have much influence, given that the Somali population is overwhelmingly Muslim.

Touché -- churches mosques

64 posted on 09/12/2002 9:54:31 AM PDT by mhking
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To: mhking
But you don't know if this Somali kid is on welfare. So why bring it up?
65 posted on 09/12/2002 10:00:09 AM PDT by ArcLight
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To: scouse
Most of these Somali immigrants are emigrating to Maine from Atlanta, Georgia

Winter is coming. heh heh heh

66 posted on 09/12/2002 10:00:27 AM PDT by evolved_rage
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To: hellinahandcart; mhking
Hey, they're pretty entertaining. Especially when they get on a good rant. They're good for getting the 'talking points' of the lefties.

Listen to WBAI

67 posted on 09/12/2002 10:03:15 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: AppyPappy
I think it's lack of assimilation and immigrants living mostly off welfare which puts their kids in rougher housing projects, lack of common language so the kids can't know each other. Here we had a huge riot of immigrant kids from Mexico against black kids from military families stationed here, the immigrants didn't think the black kids belonged here (ironically even though they were military). It ended up involving over 400 kids and took every police car in town to quiet down.
68 posted on 09/12/2002 10:05:08 AM PDT by FITZ
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To: ArcLight; andy_card
Somalis in Lewiston

Still, city officials estimate that only about 40 of the 400 to 500 Somali adults living in Lewiston are working. The local labor market offers little for unskilled workers who don't speak English well or lack high school diplomas. At the same time, the annual welfare budget for this financially strapped city has doubled to $200,000 because many Somalis are seeking rental and food assistance.

69 posted on 09/12/2002 10:07:03 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: FITZ
Of course they don't think the black kids belonged there. Black people were *not* a part of Aztlan.
70 posted on 09/12/2002 10:07:52 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: ArcLight
But you don't know if this Somali kid is on welfare. So why bring it up?

Somebody asked. See Post 9

I just want to know WHY thousands of Somali Muslims (unemployed for the most part, collecting 'benefits') have invaded one small town in Maine?

71 posted on 09/12/2002 10:08:23 AM PDT by Oschisms
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To: Hildy
It looks like it's all part of the plan. Millions of third world, non-assimilatable, legal and illegal, immigrants are brought into America, meanwhile, "Free Trade" is pushed, our jobs are exported, the same time the borders are wide-open and multiculturalism is pushed.

Welcome to the Globalist era.

72 posted on 09/12/2002 10:09:09 AM PDT by FreedomFriend
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To: Oschisms
FREE GOVERNMENT MONEY!!!!
73 posted on 09/12/2002 10:09:50 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: hellinahandcart
There is a LOT we are not hearing in this story. I read about the Somali invasion of Lewiston a few days ago.

Awww you mean the most white state and the most socialist state has bigger race problems then most schools in the country. What a big suprise.
74 posted on 09/12/2002 10:10:20 AM PDT by Brush_Your_Teeth
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To: cicero's_son
Yes, the media is propaganda tool, and they're all about lying to the masses. Look at how they tried to gloss over Clinton's charades during those dismal eight years.
75 posted on 09/12/2002 10:10:34 AM PDT by FreedomFriend
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To: hellinahandcart; mhking
bump to 69
76 posted on 09/12/2002 10:11:25 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: scouse
Really? I haven't seen any Somalis. Where are they living in Georgia? I've seen the Mexican invasion, as well as continued numbers of south-central Asians. Yet, I wouldn't doubt anything. Every area of the country, it appears, has to be subjected to the new multiculturalism, as that is most likely the goal.
77 posted on 09/12/2002 10:12:25 AM PDT by FreedomFriend
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To: gulfwarvet
I blame the UN!
78 posted on 09/12/2002 10:13:00 AM PDT by rockfish59
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To: hellinahandcart; Constitution Day
ask if her local taxes have gone up significantly, or are about too

I'd say Lewiston is feeling overwhelmed, for good reason:

...city officials estimate that only about 40 of the 400 to 500 Somali adults living in Lewiston are working. The local labor market offers little for unskilled workers who don't speak English well or lack high school diplomas. At the same time, the annual welfare budget for this financially strapped city has doubled to $200,000 because many Somalis are seeking rental and food assistance....The Somalis' arrival has strained Lewiston's limited resources and rattled city and school officials who are trying to hold down taxes.

Source: Lewiston's Somali surge

The movement of Somalis from Atlanta to Lewiston is being subsidized by the Federal government, as this article (part of a series on Portland immigration)points out.

One also has to wonder about Mohammed Atta's trip to Portland on 9/10...

79 posted on 09/12/2002 10:13:29 AM PDT by browardchad
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To: taxcontrol
Actually there is quite a bit the parents can do. The first thing is for the parents to be willing to call in the police. And this threat must be vocalized to the administration. Usually, the school will bend over backwards to keep the police out of these incidents. However, in this case, press charges against the Somali. Then the parents need to be willing to sue the school, not only for not allowing self defense, but also for putting the student in a dangerous situation. The school did not provide for the safety of the student.
80 posted on 09/12/2002 10:13:44 AM PDT by myrabach
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