Another E-mail Forward

I received this e-mail forward recently, and wanted to address it.

One thing to bear in mind as you're reading this is that the person who forwarded it to me once referred to middle easterners as “sand niggers” in conversation with me, so I think that I see the general drift here... white people okay, non-white people not okay.

So i'll start with the text of the e-mail:

A Real Eye Opener

WHY is the USA BANKRUPT?

Informative, and mind boggling!

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this:

Boy, was I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.

I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.

I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I also have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts...

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.

Verify at: http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.HTML

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.

Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.

Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML

9. $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSC%20RI%20PTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US .

Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt..01.HTML

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the US from the Southern border.

Verify at: Homeland Security Report: (actual link is http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt..01.HTML%3E)

12. The National policy Institute, estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'

Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/PDF/deportation.PDF

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries of origin.

Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14.. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States .'

Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articles.html

The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS $338,300,000,000.00 WHICH WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.

Are we THAT stupid? YES, FOR LETTING THOSE IN THE U.S.CONGRESS GET AWAY WITH LETTING THIS HAPPEN YEAR AFTER YEAR!!!!!

If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message. If, on the other hand, it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you forward it to every legal resident in the United States AND PLEASE REMEMBER IT AT THE NEXT ELECTIONS!!!

End of e-mail.

Okay, let me start with the verification links. Most of them do not work. I have discovered several formatting errors with them (extra spaces, too many dots, etc.,) and have tried to fix them as much as possible. But I STILL cannot get most of them to work, and I received the e-mail a week ago.

So let's look at the links that DO work. The first one is from an outfit called FAIR (The Federation for American Immigration Reform), which states in its "about us" section " FAIR advocates a temporary moratorium on all immigration except spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens and a limited number of refugees." Yeah. I wish that my mom's native ancestors had put a "temporary moratorium" on immigrants - we wouldn't be having this conversation now. Not really, but you get my point. Anyone living here who doesn’t have some Mexican or native blood in them is here, one way or the other, through the result of illegal possession of land because the all land in America was taken BY FORCE from the Mexicans or the native people. At any rate, this is clearly a website biased against immigrants.

The next two links are to the Center for Immigration studies, whose website maintains " The data collected by the Center during the past quarter-century has led many of our researchers to conclude that current, high levels of immigration are making it harder to achieve such important national objectives as better public schools, a cleaner environment, homeland security, and a living wage for every native-born and immigrant worker." Right. What else can we blame on immigrants? I'm sure that American corporations have had no hand in the destruction of our environment and low wages. So, again, clearly a biased website.

The next nine links do not work. And the ninth one, to the National Policy Institute, has to be kind of a joke anyway. The NPI's line seems to be "We're not anti anyone else, we're just pro-white". The Klan uses the same line. Any "data" coming from this place would be highly questionable.

The idea of the next link being used as actual informative data would be funny if it weren't so scary. It comes from www.rense.com, the website of general nutball Jeff Rense. This is a guy who celebrates the release of holocaust-deniers from prison and says things like the Chilean and Japanese earthquakes recently were caused by a US "earthquake weapon". The specific blog entry cited here contains lines like these: "Those who follow the Koran expect to kill Jewish and Christian nations. The Koran states it emphatically." and " If all 535 candidates for Congress were Muslims, and became U.S. senators and House members-- they would dismantle our Constitution in a heartbeat and install Sharia Law." It also refers to a "movie" written by Rod Serling called "To Serve Man" with Lloyd Bochner. This "movie" is actually a classic Twilight Zone episode.

The last link not only WORKS, but I would recommend a review of the articles on that page. They are thought-provoking and interesting, and include articles about sex crimes committed AGAINST illegal immigrants and many articles on the dangers of radical Islamic beliefs. Personally, I think that ANY radical religious beliefs, including radical Christianity are bad. Any time someone takes a religious text and says "Oh, that means it's okay to kill", it's a problem.

Is illegal immigration a problem in the US? Of course it is. But you must bear in mind that most of these "statistics" are citing ABUSES of programs that were set up to benefit Americans. No one intends for illegal immigrants to take advantage of our welfare systems. And as far as the sex crimes stats go, I wonder how many sex crimes are committed each year by American citizens and legal immigrants? Or by America's co-owner (with China), Saudi Arabia, which sends rape VICTIMS to jail and allows girls to burn to death in a school because they couldn't get their coverings on quickly enough?

But let's pretend, just for a second, that we fix these problems tomorrow. Fine. Done. Does that make the money that we're pissing away in Iraq okay? As near as I can tell, the Iraq war was instigated the benefit the rich, and for no other reason. And this, unlike the billions being wasted for illegal immigration CAN be controlled.

As far as the question of our elected officials wasting money goes, that IS something that every American should consider on EVERY election day. I spend some time every day pondering the question of how we can keep our elected officials from wasting money, and can't see an easy answer.

Just like with all e-mail forwards, all that I ask is that you consider the source and consider the larger problems that the "information" in this e-mail addresses.

Peace.

Rev. Randal