Even more outraged Americans: Response in today’s MDJ on the Nigut/ADL attacks

From Today’s Marietta Daily Journal:

Silvia Montoya/Letter to the Editor: ADL’s Nigut ignored essential facts

Published: 11/07/2007

Anti-Defamation League Southeastern Director Bill Nigut’s rambling, ambiguous, politically correct defense of illegal immigration and misleading personal attack on MJD guest columnist D.A. King (MDJ, Oct. 30), was heart-warming but ignored essential facts. Nigut defends open borders and once again brands supporters of border security, such as Mr. King and most Americans, as racially bigoted and prejudiced.

Mr. Nigut is offended by the use of “horde” and “mob” to describe the massive influx of illegal aliens from south of the border.

In the PC world such terms are not used. They’re not polite and might offend someone. Mr. Nigut characteristically does not use the term “illegal alien” but prefers the more liberal catch-word “undocumented immigrant.”

Semantics and clouding the real problem of illegal immigration (by his own estimate ranging up to 20 million illegals in this country as of last count) is of little use. Such numbers certainly qualifies as a “horde.” No racial stereotyping here, just 20 million people who are here in violation of U.S. law.

The first sentence of Nigut’s screed – i.e., that there is “no question that the issue of undocumented workers in this country needs to be debated openly” is manifestly arrogant. If there is a “legitimate debate” it is whether the U.S. border is sovereign and the U.S. is governed by the rule of law, or whether we have open borders and all that implies.

Only the most hard-hearted would advocate total deportation of all illegal aliens. Mr. King and law-abiding Americans simply want to see our immigration laws enforced. That’s neither hatred nor bigotry and leaves little room for “legitimate debate.”

The bottom line to the open-borders crowd is this: Allow the hordes to continue flowing illegally into the United States while citizens assume the growing associated cost of crime, medical care, social services and education. Or not.

Silvia Montoya

Marietta

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Robert Kramer/Letter to the Editor: Opposition to illegal immigration has nothing to do with bigotry

Published: 11/07/2007

What kind of double talk nonsense are the ADL’s Nigut and MDJ letter-writer Rich Pellegrino of the Cobb Cherokee Immigrant Alliance trying to feed the public?

Being illegal has absolutely nothing to do with humanization. Legality is defined by laws, and only laws. It is illegal to violate any law. If an individual breaks a law, he is not “dehumanized,” he is illegal, pure and simple.

This issue has nothing to do with prejudice, bigotry, hate or anything of that nature. The “do-good” liberals would have us believe otherwise. An undocumented foreign person in our country is an illegal trespasser who has violated our laws. So Mr. Nigut and Mr. Pellegrino should stop trying to whitewash this issue.

Is there no longer any common sense being applied in our daily lives? We have already gone beyond reason with this “political correctness” nonsense being thrust upon us daily. When will the time come when those among us, the majority, who are not so naive and gullible, say, “Enough is enough”? When will we begin to speak out against the likes of Nigut and Pellegrino, who want us to believe that they – and only they – are the ones who take public action to defend human freedom and rights? I say, now is the time.

Robert Kramer

Marietta

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Harry Hagan/Letter to the Editor: ADL’s attack on King was another reckless smear

Published: 11/07/2007

It has been very heartening to read all the letters resisting MDJ guest columnist D.A. King’s tarring by the odiferous Anti-Defamation League – the same folks who brought us all the vitriolic and hysterical warnings of rampant violence against Jews upon the release of the “Passion of the Christ” movie.

Everyone apart from the ADL knew then that that prediction rang hollow, as every person today who has followed Mr. King’s brave quest to halt the hordes of illegal invaders who are aided by the moneyed powers of commercial and governmental interests knows the mendacity of the charges leveled against him by the ADL.

After a long history of recklessly smearing people who are caught in its spotlights and with a $60 million-per-year budget, why should an intangible such as common decency get in the ADL’s way?

All it takes to counter and defeat brute-force tactics such as the near-complete wreckage of our culture and traditions, and the eradication of our borders, is a loud, massive, public, outcry of righteous indignation. They have more money; we have more voices. They use their money. Will we use our voices?

Harry Hagan

West Cobb