THE OTHER SHOE DROPS: Updates To Previous Posts
† A Lie No One Should Be Repeating: While liberal columnists are fretting over a discredited report of threatened violence against Barack Obama at a McCain-Pailn rally, real violence is being done to the property and persons of Repub voters by supporters of the Dem presidential candidate.
After putting up two McCain yard signs, Rog Coverely, manager of Central Florida Republican headquarters, found several holes shot into the front windows of his home, reports WKMG-TV (Channel 6, Orlando, FL). Coverely, who says he and his neighbors get along just fine, has since gotten nearly 300 calls from people living in solidly Republican Seminole County who say their McCain signs have been stolen or vandalized. “It says this campaign is getting vicious,” says Coverely.
Meanwhile, in Clearwater, someone took exception to the McCain-Palin and “Nobama” bumper stickers on physician Frank Armstrong’s 2006 Lexus and keyed the initials “KKK” into the paint, burned the American flag on his hood and may have urinated on the vehicle reports The Tampa Tribune. Police estimated the damage at $4,500, and are calling it a politically/racially motivated hate crime.
The Stiletto knows of several people who are concerned enough that it’s going to be “open season on Whitey” if Obama loses the election that they are prepared to telecommute and to keep their kids out of school for several weeks – and yes, these folks are armed, and will not hesitate to stop anyone attempting a home invasion right in their tracks.
† Employers Hiring Forged Documented Aliens Are Lawbreakers In Other Ways, Too (second item): Both John McCain and Barack Obama laud small business owners, and promise programs to help them create jobs. The question neither candidate has left unanswered is: jobs for whom? For Americans, or illegal immigrants? Here are two articles about how small business owners in New York City cheated their illegal alien employees out of their wages.
A New York Times editorial details a string of civil settlements - and now, felony arrests – up and down Knickerbocker Avenue, in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn:
Two top executives at a local supermarket were arrested on felony charges that they had cheated their immigrant workers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary. …
[P]rosecutors allege that they forced grocery baggers to work 11-hour days for $20 or so in customer tips - and no wages. Other workers, they say, were paid nearly $3 per hour less than the state’s minimum wage for 70-hour weeks. …
The arrests followed a string of hard-nosed civil settlements at other businesses, according to Andrew Friedman, co-director at Make the Road, including “$28,000 in back salaries from a fruit stand, $70,000 from a 99-cent store, $45,000 from a pizza shop, $400,000 from a chain of sneaker stores.”
And The American Lawyer reports that U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Dolinger awarded $4.6 million for wage-and-hour violations to 36 illegal Chinese immigrants who delivered take-out meals for Manhattan restaurant Saigon Grill. They had been paid below minimum wage, denied overtime pay, “fined” if a customer complained of cold food and forced to reimburse the restaurant if they were mugged. Defendants’ counsel has already indicated that the business will declare bankruptcy to avoid paying the judgment. It is doubtful these abused workers will see a dime of the money they are owed.
† Updates To Previous Posts (third item, Guns Don’t Kill People; Illegal Immigrants With Guns Kill People): Those Newark college students who were executed by six illegal aliens who reputedly have ties to the Central American MS-13 gang are being memorialized by a community playground and learning center in the courtyard behind Mount Vernon School, where the brutal crimes took place. In an editorial, The New York Times characterizes the creation of this “living memorial” as “a sign, we hope, of the city’s recovery.” But, it’s really just window dressing. Newark is a sanctuary city and cannot recover until law enforcement gets serious about taking criminal illegal aliens off the streets.
Meanwhile, across the Hudson River, federal immigration officials are scratching their heads over when and how Raul Nunez, a 32-year old illegal alien from the Dominican Republic who had been deported in 1998 by an immigration judge after a drug arrest in NYC, got back into the country after he shot two plainclothes transit officers who tried to arrest him for using a student's fare payment card during rush hour Tuesday evening, reports The Associated Press. Both officers are expected to recover from their bullet wounds. Nunez faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted.
† Updates To Recent Posts (last item, Pearson's Knickers Still In A Knot Over His Pants): Oy. Again with the lost pants. Former administrative law judge Roy L. Pearson is having a tough time convincing the District of Columbia Court of Appeals that he is a fraud victim, reports The Associated Press:
“This is not a case about a pair of suit pants. Rather, it is about whether the owners of a neighborhood business misled consumers with a sign that claimed ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed.’ There is an unconditional guarantee,” he argued. …
Pearson said the sign was deceptive and that the burden was on owners Jin Nam Chung and Soo Chung to explain whether the promise came with restrictions.
When the three-judge appeals panel asked Pearson to cite other rulings in which a promise of “Satisfaction Guaranteed” meant that unsatisfied customers should be entitled to whatever damages they believe were appropriate, he could not
If the appellate panel rules against Pearson, he could petition the full court to hear his case or appeal to the Supreme Court.
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