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27 de Octubre, 2007
NY Times Insinuates SD Fires Are Migrant Ploy for More Work
Categorized under Hipnotismo , Medios , Planeta | Tags: Format, hype, Mexicans, Wildfires
THREE QUOTES from a nytimes.com article on the Califas Wildfires. They occur in this order, not right next to one another:
Some people have speculated, including on the Web, that immigrants might have set some of the fires, as has occurred with campfires lighted in fields.
Yes. And Some People are reputable. And exist. And thus we quote them. Others, however, do not. For even on The Web, it is too far to link from here. And anyway, Some Straw People might catch a spark and burn down in a hot wind, were we to expose them to the heat of public scrutiny.
Two men, one in San Diego County and the other in Los Angeles, who were arrested on arson charges, accused of setting small fires this week, are believed to be deportable, a federal immigration official said.
Two men believed by Some People (who love commas and run-on sentences) to be "deportable" have been accused by Some (Other) People of setting fires this very week. Says a "federal immigration official" who also shall remain nameless. Oh, and by the way, guess what other huge, devastating fires happened this week? Coincidence?
'It is a shame what happened,' said a man who gave just his first name, Miguelito. 'But we think there will be jobs to clean or build.'
It's a shame, says "Dried Grass Hombre" Miguelito freshly plucked from Contextville and placed lonely but purposeful, at the end of the last graf—but who cares. I'll have work, and lives lost and horizon-to-horizon char are worth my Illegal Job. That's just the way of us ILLEGULZ. See what we do to your country?
Oh, come on. You didn't think there was a way to spin a hardworking people who just want to make a living into dangerous demons? You (to borrow a word from History's Worst President) "misunderestimate" today's Press.
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Comentarios (8)
Rafael dijo:
The War, she springs eternal....
Palabras por Rafael spat forth on el 27 de Octubre, 2007 at 11:42 AM
M dijo:
Disgusting. I didn't know that while helping human beings out of harm's way we had to make considerations about whether they're "deportable."
Palabras por M spat forth on el 27 de Octubre, 2007 at 12:13 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez
dijo:
Like "snackable." You just can't resist deporting them! Mmmm!
I think it might tell us they can't print that they were "Illegal Aliens," (which clearly the "immigration official" would have said if they were, and which the article writer(s) would have been happy to quote) but hell, who isn't "deportable," in this day and age, where not even Habeas Corpus can stand between a midnight snatching and a bonafide U.S. Citizen? Really, we're all "deportable," and it reads like "ILLEGAL ALIEN" so it's just the perfect little word. Like a caramel nougat.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez
spat forth on el 27 de Octubre, 2007 at 01:23 PM
Tom dijo:
Jesus. The Newspaper of Record again, eh? Still fanning the flames. All the bile that's fit to print.
Palabras por Tom spat forth on el 27 de Octubre, 2007 at 02:01 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez
dijo:
nice fire metaphor. sneaky, bro.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez
spat forth on el 27 de Octubre, 2007 at 03:16 PM
anacopper dijo:
this is terribly despicable. this combined with the lack of sufficient help for ALL people affected by these fires is revolting.
i feel horribly speechless while at the same time seething with anger.
cuidense todos.
Palabras por anacopper spat forth on el 27 de Octubre, 2007 at 07:25 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez
dijo:
i know. sometimes i can't believe i'm awake. it's not that i dont understand impulses to Other people. but when people are lost, and hungry, and scared, and in need of real help...how could you?
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez
spat forth on el 27 de Octubre, 2007 at 07:30 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez
dijo:
you said it, rafa. the Long War.
VENCEREMOS.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez
spat forth on el 27 de Octubre, 2007 at 07:31 PM