Posted on 01/11/2003 12:55:10 PM PST by hoosierskypilot
LEWISTON, Maine (Reuters) -- A white supremacist group whose leader is accused of trying to have a federal judge murdered said on Thursday it will proceed with plans to protest an "invasion" of this New England college community by Somali immigrants.
A spokesman for the World Church of the Creator said the group, which preaches hatred of Jews and blacks on its Web site, would stage a two-hour rally on Saturday in Lewiston, where it says the local white population is fed up with the influx of immigrants from the war-torn East African nation.
The spokesman, the Rev. John King of Newport News, Virginia, said the Lewiston protest would go ahead despite the arrest on Wednesday in Chicago of the Rev. Matt Hale on charges he tried to solicit the murder of U.S. District Court Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow.
Hale, 31, was arrested as he arrived at Chicago's federal courthouse to face a possible contempt charge for refusing to obey Lefkow's November ruling in a trademark case.
Hale told Reuters before his arrest that the Somalis were "invading" Lewiston, and that the residents of Maine's second-biggest city had welcomed his church's planned rally with open arms.
"The people of Lewiston want us there," said Hale, who claims he receives as many as five positive e-mails a day from local residents. "We've never received the groundswell of support we've gotten from the people of Lewiston."
But Phil Nadeau, Lewiston's assistant city administrator, said he doubted Hale's claims.
"He could say that aliens from Mars want him here, but can he prove it?" Nadeau said. "My impression is there's a significant number of people in this community who don't support him and a handful who do."
He noted that while only 40 or 50 people were expected to turn up for the white supremacists' rally, hundreds -- maybe thousands -- may attend a planned counter-demonstration the same day that will focus on diversity and attempt to show that Lewiston is embracing its newest residents.
For years, the former mill town was simply known as the place where Muhammad Ali flattened Sonny Liston in 1965.
But its booming Somali immigrant community has thrust Lewiston into the spotlight. More than 1,100 Somalis, seeking affordable housing, have moved to the city of 36,000 people in the past year.
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Isn't it better to ignore the likes of Hale, and consider each issue on its own merits? I did exactly that with this one, and concluded that America needs less, not more, immigration from Somalia. I didn't need Hale's help in arriving at such a conclusion, and I am not going to throw my own conclusion away just because Matt Hale might happen to take a similar view.
What thread are you reading, anyway?
You can have the opinion that immigration from ANYWHERE is bad (although many here would have no issue with a sudden surge in blonde haired/blue eyed immigrants). Supporting Hale's rally is another thing completely.
Like I said, I don't know anything about them. I do, however, remember reading in the news about the abominable antics of these Somalis in Lewiston. (It must have been a conservative paper, though.)
The truth be known, I don't like any immigrants who come to America to get all they can from us through welfare.
I don't like immigrants who sneak into America and rob, murder and steal.
I don't like immigrants who are openly anti American, yet use our generosity for their own ends.
Matter of fact, I don't like anybody who does these things: white, yellow, black or green, native born or foreign born.
I say, let's deport everybody who is pathologically antisocial, criminal, slothful, unpatriotic, etc.
Otherwise, our future generations are going to pay for our naivete. And pay, dearly.
Male or female?
There are plenty of 4th and 5th generation Americans who fit this. Are you going to get rid of them too?
One job was at the Clarksdale Housing Project in Louisville. My job was to inspect electrical work done by our subcontractors, which meant I had to go into the projects.
You've never seen such filth. (I won't bore you with the details of race, however.) Infants were walking, in their homes, on, literally, hundreds of dead cockroaches. The infant's mothers never bothered to clean.
Crack and heroin addicts were everywhere.
There were active houses of prostitution.
Children were selling drugs and turning over the profits to dealers.
12 year old girls were advised by their mothers and grandmothers to "have a baby cause no one will take care of them, otherwise."
Residents bragged of being third and fourth generation welfare recipients.
Yea, I'd say deport them all, if such a thing were possible. But it isn't possible.
But what is possible is to stop anymore people from coming in who will require public assistance.
I would not oppose immigrants who are here legally, love America and have something to contribute. One of my best friends is from the Portugal, loves America, and hates liberals. I like that guy!
The rest, well, it reminds me of a Henny Youngman joke: "A guy is visiting DC and says, 'Y Y You kn kn know, you c c can t t take all th th these p p politicians and sh sh shoot 'em in th th the head.' The guy he's talking to says, 'That's easy for you to say!'"
A municipal ticket, given after an ordinance violation. And I'm from Wisconsin. Unless they made Wisconsin part of Canada without letting me know, I'm from the United States.
Since the Samolis are on welfare, how can they possibly benefit our country? So far no one has given a good reason why we should import Somalis. And it is a great way for terrorists to sneak into this contry.
I do believe we have a couple of Somalis lurking on this thread. I recommend watching "Blackhawk down" even though it partially whitewashed what was done to our servicemen in Somali.
Shhhh.....don't let people know you have figured out that most of them are hypocrites.
I remember when this incident happened. I think the surviving relatives of our soldiers who died should have filed the messiest class-action lawsuit against that piece of human waste, Clinton, ever.
Unfortunately, we have laws that protect stupid politicians from their stupid/cowardly decisions.
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