Friday, November 17, 2006

CM PRESS # 5




WE TRY TO STRAIGHTEN OUT THE DAILY PILOT...FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME

Editor DAILY PILOT:

Your question in the Pilot today about an ICE agent in the local jail misses the real point of much that has been happening in Costa Mesa over the past several years.

Call what's been happening, "the larger issue."

The larger issue is that we've seen our city slide ever downwards to Third World status. Schools that were once on a par with Newport Beach are now failing. Gangs rule the streets. Slums are growing. Charities are expanding. Second hand stores are opening. People are soliciting work from street corners. People are living in garages. Multiple families are moving into single family homes in traditional neighborhoods. Group homes are destroying neighborhoods. There are almost nightly shootings or stabbings. We now have no-go neighborhoods.

Our guess is that most citizens don't want downscale conditions and want a Costa Mesa that is as nice as our coastal neighbors.

Enter illegal immigration. To become like our coastal neighbors means that Costa Mesa has to stop being an illegal alien sanctuary.

Thus do we come to all the talk about illegal immigration as though that's the real issue in Costa Mesa. It's not; except as it drives down the quality of life of our citizens. The Daily Pilot does a disservice to its readers by atomizing the larger issue and by making it appear that illegal immigration is the focus of most of those who want a nicer Costa Mesa.

Put this in other terms and it may become clearer. Say you're sick and you go to the hospital. All you want is to be well again. The doctors find out that you're sick because of your heart. Naturally,you want a healthy heart. Being a moderately intelligent and engaged person you might then do your own research on hearts and start talking it up about hearts. Does this make you a healthy heart advocate? Well, yes, but the larger issue is that you are a healthy person advocate. The heart is just what is making you sick right now. Had you been sick because of your liver or kidneys or for any other reason, you probably would have been talking up those organs.

To put a point on this: Illegal immigration has come to the fore because it is a large part of the reason for our crime and for our downscale conditions. It cannot be viewed as though it exists in a vacuum. Most of those who are called anti-illegal immigration advocates would actually be better characterized as nicer city advocates.

It seems to us that the citizens of Costa Mesa want a better quality of life, in a safe city, with good schools, and they want Costa Mesa to be as nice as our surrounding coastal cities.

/s/

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