THE REAL TERROR IN COSTA MESA IS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND IT'S PROGENY
The article in the OC REGISTER that I said was coming in CM PRESS # 149 appeared in today's paper. LINK
Below is a slightly edited version of my reply to the REGISTER.
By the way, the REGISTER apparently has some big circulation problems and is trying to reduce staff. Yvette Cabrera's husband, Daniel Anderson, who is a photographer, is reportedly leaving the paper.
Things are tough in the print media all over the country, but maybe if the REGISTER started offering a newspaper that has good writing that is accurate and is about things that people want to read and which isn't so illegal alien friendly, things would be better over there on Grand Avenue.
At any rate, because I linked to Cabrera's lousy article above, the REGISTER will probably have a bump in hits to its on-line version.
Dear OC REGISTER:
Yvette Cabrera in her column Thursday seems to be acting as a PR shill for a guy named Humberto Caspa who has apparently written a book titled "Terror in the Latino Barrio."
I haven't seen the book, but Cabrera contacted me and sent me excerpts to comment on. I found most of those excerpts to be either biased or downright false or misleading and I let Cabrera know that. The excerpts sent to me show conclusionary thinking and various logical fallacies such as false cause.
Anyone who wants to see my full responses to Cabrera can go to my blog: http://cmpress.blogspot.com. Issue # 349 has Cabrera's questions to me and excerpts from the book and my answers.
Here, for example, is one thing that Caspa apparently wrote in his book and which Cabrera dutifully put in her column today:
"Costa Mesa's intention was to implement ordinances to drive away Latinos, and that's what they did."They're trying to institute discrimination through the government, like prohibiting soccer at Paularino Park - that's a disgrace."
Notice the unsupported conclusions. They're just false assertions of fact with nothing to back them up. This guy might as well have written: "NASA's intention was to go to the moon to get some green cheese," and Cabrea probably would have repeated it in her column as gospel.
It's just a bunch of crap. Again, see CM PRESS # 349 about Paularino Park.
Here's the truth about the real terror in Costa Mesa and why the city can't improve.
There is an "establishment" that has developed in Costa Mesa that is basically a mix of industrial interests, slum lords, charity bosses and illegal alien advocates who have a symbiotic relationship partly based on and fueled by illegal immigration. This establishment has a stranglehold on the city.
Specifically:
--The Westside of the city has 60 acres of industrial buildings on the Westside Bluffs--the best land in the city--and most of the homes in the city are downwind of those Bluffs and get constant pollution blown over them via the ocean breezes that first travel over the industrial Bluffs. Most of these industrial buildings are owned by people who don't live in Costa Mesa and who can't vote here but who donate to politicians who keep the Bluffs full of industrial buildings instead of allowing upscale homes to be built there that will have cool ocean breezes on the hottest of days and some ocean views. Such homes in such a location would attract upscale buyers. And, we need some of those.
--Many illegal aliens live on the Westside in cheap barracks style apartment buildings that are breeding grounds for crime and gangs. These illegal aliens supply cheap labor for the industrialists and people from Newport Beach, which is just down the hill.
--Helping keep the Westside fully industrialized and a ghetto are many charities that supply illegal aliens with free dental and medical care, free bags of groceries, free rent payments, free utility bill payments, free clothes and much more so that they can make up the gap between what they make under the table from the industrialists and others and what it takes to have some quality of life in the city. These charities are magnets and they're making money for the charity bosses so long as the bosses can keep growing their charities by attracting more illegal alien clients. The out of town industrialists also love the charities, because they're able to pay their illegal alien workers less.
--The HUD reports filed by some of these charities show that almost every client they serve is Latino in a city that is only about 30 to 35 per cent Latino.
--One charity actually told a white girl that she was the wrong color to use their after school homework help service and that they only wanted to serve Latinas (including, presumably, illegal alien Latinas). This charity was investigated by the feds and was found to discriminate based on race/ethnicity. The charity was forced to sign a federal consent decree and send all its employees to special training about discrimination. I have a copy of that consent decree. Other charities are more clever in how they discriminate, and seem to be using tactics and explanations similar to what one might have seen in the Deep South in the '60's. "Oh, yes, we serve everyone, but only whites apply," they said in the Deep South. In Costa Mesa they say, "Oh, yes, we serve everyone, but only Latinos apply." Right.
--Citizen activists called Improvers have been trying to make Costa Mesa a nicer place by, among other things, reducing the pollution and encouraging home building on the Bluffs in order to attract upwardly mobile people back to the area instead of losing them to South County. But, the establishment doesn't want change on the Westside and constantly fights it.
And, here's something else, Cabrera calls me a "well-known gadfly." Nonsense. The correct appellation, Ms. Cabrera, is activist, or writer, or author, or concerned citizen, or even blogger. If I'm a well known gadfly, Ms. Cabrera, then you're a well known dimwit.
Ever the good shill, Cabrera also tells readers that Caspa is a college professor. In logic, we call that an appeal to prestige.
As far as I can tell, Caspa is a part time teacher at UCI and the only thing he teaches is a one hour class from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m on Tuesday and Thursday that focuses on Costa Mesa politics--something this guy doesn't seem to know very much about. This professor isn't even listed in UCI's faculty directory.
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--The HUD reports filed by some of these charities show that almost every client they serve is Latino in a city that is only about 30 to 35 per cent Latino.
--One charity actually told a white girl that she was the wrong color to use their after school homework help service and that they only wanted to serve Latinas (including, presumably, illegal alien Latinas). This charity was investigated by the feds and was found to discriminate based on race/ethnicity. The charity was forced to sign a federal consent decree and send all its employees to special training about discrimination. I have a copy of that consent decree. Other charities are more clever in how they discriminate, and seem to be using tactics and explanations similar to what one might have seen in the Deep South in the '60's. "Oh, yes, we serve everyone, but only whites apply," they said in the Deep South. In Costa Mesa they say, "Oh, yes, we serve everyone, but only Latinos apply." Right.
--Citizen activists called Improvers have been trying to make Costa Mesa a nicer place by, among other things, reducing the pollution and encouraging home building on the Bluffs in order to attract upwardly mobile people back to the area instead of losing them to South County. But, the establishment doesn't want change on the Westside and constantly fights it.
And, here's something else, Cabrera calls me a "well-known gadfly." Nonsense. The correct appellation, Ms. Cabrera, is activist, or writer, or author, or concerned citizen, or even blogger. If I'm a well known gadfly, Ms. Cabrera, then you're a well known dimwit.
Ever the good shill, Cabrera also tells readers that Caspa is a college professor. In logic, we call that an appeal to prestige.
As far as I can tell, Caspa is a part time teacher at UCI and the only thing he teaches is a one hour class from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m on Tuesday and Thursday that focuses on Costa Mesa politics--something this guy doesn't seem to know very much about. This professor isn't even listed in UCI's faculty directory.
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Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.
