Huge Brawls between Somali students and Lewiston, Maine high schoolers

Lewiston Sun Journal ^ | September 12, 2002 | Lindsay Tice

[andy_card]

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

Immigrants usually stick together. 100 years ago, you had towns comprised solely of Lithuanians, Germans, Poles, Italians, etc. The residents of Middletown, CT, or 85% of them, are descended from Italian immigrants, all of whom came from one village in Sicily. This is really nothing new. I can't comment on the specifics of the Lewiston-Auburn situation, since I really don't know anything about what's going on.

[andy_card]

There is no evidence that mixing the races in the schools confers a positive benefit.

So you're advocating resegregation?

[ArcLight]

There is no evidence that mixing the races in the schools confers a positive benefit. There is serious evidence that it undermines the positive motivators in each race involved.

Wonder what I mean when I complain about Freeper racism?

Well, here ya go...

[hellinahandcart]

100 years ago, you had towns comprised solely of Lithuanians, Germans, Poles, Italians, etc.

One hundred years ago, we weren't paying for the rent and food and medical care and education of Lithuanians, Germans, Poles, Italians, etc. That's the difference. If they pulled their own weight, nobody would give a damn where they moved.

Check out my link above. They picked Lewiston, Maine because that's where they could get the most "free stuff".

[FreedomPoster]

Do you know anything about #8?

[PLK]

Yep, a friend of mine's son was jumped by a kid while at school. He fought the kid off and then took him down. His punishment was identical to the kid who attacked him! I don't think he even threw a punch and they still suspended him!

School discipline was a topic on a thread a few days ago and the issue of "punish everyone equally" came up. An astute Freeper pointed out how the left has done essentially the same to Israel in the world community. Homicide bombers kill Jews - Israel defends itself - world condemns Israel equally with Palestinian whackos. It's a leftist thing, I don't understand it either.

[FreedomPoster]

Oops - we appear to some of the answer in #'s 28-30. Any idea what station was really doing this, as opposed to Neal reporting it?

[mhking]

WRFG (89.3/Radio Free Georgia) is the local Pacifica affiliate. They've got a number of hard left-wing programs on, and they've had several folks on in the past encouraging Somalis and other native Africans to move to Lewiston, presumably due to the lax welfare rules and guidelines there.

WRFG's listenership for any program outside of their morning drive blues show (and even those ratings are sinking below their already dismal levels) could probably fit inside a broom closet. It's not enough of an issue to make hay on...

[mhking]

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[Black Agnes]

OOO, I listen to WBAI, the NYC affiliate. I call it '1-800-commies', 'all commies, all the time!'.

[PLK]

Levesque said the high school has worked hard to combat rumors and to ease racial tensions there since Somali immigrants began moving into the city a year-and-a-half ago

I would assert that careful investigation would reveal that this is not so much a "racial" problem as a problem related to the lack of assimilation by Muslims into American culture. They do not like us and are here only to reap the benefits of a society that they hate. Until I hear otherwise, I refuse to believe that modern American teens are engaging in racial hatred, it's just very unlikely, especially in Maine for cryin' out loud. The whole story is simply not being reported for fear of backlash against the Muslims, which is myth to start with.

[mhking]

Oops - we appear to some of the answer in #'s 28-30. Any idea what station was really doing this, as opposed to Neal reporting it?

Boortz mentioned it several months ago - it truly didn't even rate a blip locally. The group doing the advertising would have gotten better listenership if they had announced it on a bus during rush hour. The idea is actually being passed around word-of-mouth, primarily in their churches and communities directly.

[monday]

"Some good-hearted people in Lewiston were even giving these people "care packages" thinking they had just come from Somolia"

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! SAPS!

[ArcLight]

By the by, what has any of this got to do with welfare?

[Black Agnes]

Hey you, ever listen to WBAI? The Commie Station?

[claptrap]

Completely consumed their day? You mean they werent able to hype the virtues of gayness? They werent able to re-write history, condemn whitey ,and promote the socialist agenda?
Oh well there is always Friday! Has anyone got any idea why a Somali is in Maine, and if hes moved there why is he still
calling himself a "Somali" is he sad that he left his great
and awesome Somali culture behind? If hes moved here then hes
just another American right?

[mhking]

OOO, I listen to WBAI, the NYC affiliate. I call it '1-800-commies', 'all commies, all the time!'.

Pretty dismal at best. Overall (outside of the blues show), the station sounds like crap. The blues show actually plays a pretty good selection of more obscure and hard-to-find selections. I'm guessing the host of that show is more of a conniseuer, as opposed to the Socialists who inhabit the rest of the programming day...

[andy_card]

The idea is actually being passed around word-of-mouth, primarily in their churches and communities directly.

Announcements in churches would tend not to have much influence, given that the Somali population is overwhelmingly Muslim.

[AppyPappy]

Many foriegners live for Welfare. Every international child is on the free lunch program here, even the children of the Saudis and Kuwaitis. Which is odd considering they sometimes serve pork in the cafeteria. But it's free!

[mhking]

By the by, what has any of this got to do with welfare?

Supposedly, the rules governing welfare in Lewiston are among the most loosely regulated (i.e., liberal) in the nation. Someone among the local African immigrant population here in Atlanta got wind of this and began spreading the word.