August 17, 2005

The New "Tolerance" Code

Horse carving at the Mall of the Woodlands, Texas

I saw this one one of my favorite Political Blogs, La Shawn Barber's Corner And thought that I would repost it here.

I have been a victim of the "tolerance" crowd. The loony lefty fringe groups in Hilo that said I was wrong to not want druged out Mahu's (cross dressing prostitutes) and homeless dudes sleeping in front of my jewelry store or using the vestibule as a toileting area called me all sorts of names. The wacky people that lived next door to us and wanted to reherse their garage band all day and night, used the "intolerant" lable on us and accused us of causing every bad thing that went on on the block...

Let someone find out you are a Republican, a Born Again Christian, or feel that babies deserve a chance to live and not die as they are being ripped out of the womb...(I refuse to call the women who choose to have a convienece abortions "mothers"...that is being tolerant, dont you think? after all they dont want to be mothers, they would rather be murderers, but that is for another post.)

However "tolerant" I am called upon to be, I have all sorts of intolerance forced upon me. I have to endure things like 19 inch wide airline seats, Boombox cars with their hideous degrading to my gender rap "music" disrupting my sleep at 2 am. My international mail opened by Homeland Security yes, I am currently subject to being screened via the mail... You think its bad at the airport. I wouldnt be surprised if I wasnt on a no fly list now...

Talk about intolerant, its only a pen pal for Pete's Sake...

But I digress, back to the subject at hand... Illegals loitering and toileting on private property...


Tolerance now means embracing public urination

by TOM KNOTT (Metro) Washington Times

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You just want a cup of coffee and a doughnut from the 7-Eleven in Herndon, and the Hispanic gentlemen hanging out in the parking lot there ask whether you want a gardener, painter or a handyman of varying quality as well.
This is the daily drill that challenges the incredibly enlightened who believe in the worthiness of virtually unfettered immigration, legal or otherwise. They believe in it until one of the new arrivals is hooting at a babe or addressing a bladder issue on the side of the building. They believe in it until one of them separates you from your wallet.
We all can agree that these faux way stations are a problem, unfair to the communities and the small-business owners who did not sign up to be a loitering ground. Back in the day, it would have been so simple to address. Someone would have posted a no loitering sign, the police would have enforced it, and that would have been the end of it.
But it is not so simple today, because we have been ordered to try to understand another people's culture, and respect it as well, and maybe relieving yourself in public is part of the culture, and we need to understand that, we need to respect that and maybe we even need to have a Public Urination Pride Day.
Of course, Fairfax County officials are looking to resolve the issue with your money. They have stumbled on the notion of having formal centers for day laborers, because it has been done in other communities, and it allows everyone to have it both ways. You cannot be accused of being a heartless bigot if you erect a Day Laborer Center and stock it with Spanish-language reading materials, if not a pool table, a flat-screen television and, most important, a bathroom.
If a percentage of the day laborers are illegal aliens, what does it matter? That is a federal issue, not a state one, and our borders come with a big, fat welcome mat.
We are not serious people along our borders. We round up a few illegal aliens and send them back, only to have them cross again and again until they have reached the famous 7-Eleven in Herndon.
For all we know, Osama bin Laden is not hiding in the no man's land along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. He is hanging out at the 7-Eleven in Herndon sipping on a Big Gulp, while sending cryptic messages to his lieutenants on his BlackBerry.
No, the feds are not serious, and Fairfax County officials are not serious either.
We do not want to offend anyone, excluding the blue-haired grandmother from Minnesota. The blue-haired grandmother is forever being stopped in airports, and now the subways, and forever being told to remove this or that item until she becomes an R-rated blue-haired grandmother.
We stop her each time. If we go down, it won't be because of the blue-haired grandmother from Minnesota. If we go down, it will be because of the next Richard Reid, who looked as nutty as a $3 bill -- but the BBC-inspired mushheads of Great Britain did not want to offend the wannabe shoe bomber.
The same thinking persists with the day laborers. We do not intend to offend. Besides, the laborers do the jobs that Americans do not want to do, and even if it is our country, we would not be so primitive as to require them to follow our rules.
Instead, we can grant them a center and never, ever ask if they are here legally.
That is just not nice, and we must be nice to all types, even to those who like to chop off our heads as sport.
"We are burdened with managing a very complex and very difficult problem," a Fairfax County official said.
No, it is not complex. It is not difficult.
It is called having a spine, which increasingly is not part of the American political body.



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