Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (15 page)

That’s crazy enough. But America didn’t have any colonies. It
was
a colony. Our racial guilt is over slavery and Jim Crow (by Democrats). Nixon didn’t impose racial quotas on trade unions because he thought it would be culturally enriching for white members to work side by side with black people. He was enraged at the unions for refusing to hire blacks. The country, he said, owed African Americans a “dividend.” What do we owe the Third World?

Did we all agree to turn our country into a gigantic battered women’s shelter required to take in every oppressed person of the world? Why would any country do that? We’re not obliged to take the world’s hardest cases. In fact, I’m sure most Americans would think that’s a bad idea.

What did we do to the Somalis? The only American intervention there was purely humanitarian. In the middle of a mass starvation, America leapt in to send food to this primitive warlord society. Unfortunately, the warlords intercepted our grain shipments, so the first President Bush sent troops to ensure our aid would get to the people. The Clinton administration came in and decided America was going to “embark on an unprecedented enterprise aimed at nothing less than the restoration of an entire country as a proud, functioning and viable member of the community of nations.”
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In short order, the brutalized corpses of American troops were being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu.

In other words, the Somalis owe us. But U.S. immigration officials decided:
Let’s ratchet up the degree of difficulty in our immigrants. Not only will we let in the poorest, most backward people of the world, but let’s not even take African Christians. Let’s take the African Muslims!

WE NEED SOME PIZZAZZ—HOW ABOUT 100,000 SOMALIS?

The reason Scandinavian Minnesota ended up with more than one hundred thousand Somalis is that liberals thought the state was too
white-bread and not at all diverse. In the 1990s, the head of the Minneapolis Foundation, Emmett Carson, complained that California and New York were much more “multicultural” than Minnesota. Wouldn’t Minnesota be a much cooler state with a hundred thousand Somalis? The foundation ran a public information campaign, showing a photo of three smiling Somali women in their native garb over the caption: “Maybe you’re just not sure what to make of all these new Minnesotans bringing in all these strange new cultures and customs. But hey, have you ever really thought about lutefisk?” Pleased by the success of his campaign, Carson exulted: “Minnesota is changing.”
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Yes, Minnesota used to be very boring. Now it’s exciting!

          
Indictment: Somali Gangs Trafficked Girls for Sex

              
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Twenty-nine people have been indicted in a sex trafficking ring in which Somali gangs in Minneapolis and St. Paul allegedly forced girls under age 14 into prostitution in Minnesota, Tennessee and Ohio, according to an indictment unsealed Monday.

              
The 24-count indictment, unsealed in U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Tennessee, said one of the gangs’ goals was recruiting females under age 18, including some under age 14, and forcing them into prostitution so the defendants could get money, marijuana or liquor.

              
The indictment details several instances in which young Somali or African American girls were taken from place to place and forced to engage in sex acts with multiple people. One girl was under 13 when she was first prostituted.
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In just a few decades, Minnesota has gone from being approximately 99 percent German, Dutch, Finnish, Danish, and Polish to 20 percent African immigrant,
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including at least one hundred thousand Somalis.
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And that’s not counting the Somalis who have recently left the country to
fight with al Qaeda and ISIS. One hundred thousand is just an estimate. We don’t know precisely how many Somalis the federal government has brought in as “refugees” because the government won’t tell us.
The public can’t be trusted with the truth.

Since becoming more multicultural, Minnesota has turned into a hotbed of credit card skimming, human trafficking, and smash-and-grab robberies.
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Mosques have popped up all over the state—as have child prostitutes and machete attacks.

Welfare consumption in Minnesota has more than doubled on account of the newcomers—only half of whom have jobs. Those Somalis who do have jobs earn an average of $21,000 a year, compared with $46,000 for the average Minnesotan. (Consider yourself lucky, Minnesota: In Sweden, only 20 percent of Somalis have jobs.) Eighty percent of Somalis in Minnesota live at or below the poverty line. Nearly 70 percent have not graduated from high school, compared with only 8.4 percent of non-Somali Minnesotans.
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But no Democrat will cross them, and no Republican will mention them: Somalis have leapfrogged past native blacks to become a major political force in Minnesota. For every white Minnesotan who becomes a Republican each year, two Somalis turn eighteen and start bloc-voting for the Democrats.

Everyone seems to agree that it is Minnesotans’ responsibility to assimilate to Somali culture, not the other way around.
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The Catholic University of St. Thomas has installed Islamic prayer rooms and footbaths in order to demonstrate, according to Dean of Students Karen Lange, that the school is “diverse.” Minneapolis’s mayor, Betsy Hodges, has shown up wearing a full hijab to meetings with Somalis. (In fairness, it was “Forbid Your Daughter to Work Outside the Home” Day.) A suburban Minnesota high school has “Welcome” signs written in Somali, a Somali student group, and articles in the school newspaper about how unhappy the Somalis are.

Kate Towle, the parent leader of a high school group called “Students Together as Allies for Racial Trust” explained that diversity skills “have to be developed like math, history.”
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Maybe it would be better for students
to be learning math and history, rather than the important skill of: Getting Along with Somalis. It doesn’t seem to be working, anyway: There are still violent ethnic brawls that send students to the hospital.

What did we do to Somalis? What did we do to Cameroonians or Senegalese? Absolutely nothing. But now these immigrants, who arrived yesterday, will get affirmative action over white Americans. Do the media really not know how the Ghanaian immigrant got accepted to ALL EIGHT Ivy League schools? According to
New York
magazine, it’s because he’s “better than you.”
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“THANK YOU” WOULD BE NICE

We can’t assimilate immigrants to Western ideas about pedophilia, human trafficking, and credit card fraud, but they take like fish to water to America’s victim culture. People adapt amazingly quickly to a sense of entitlement. In about ten seconds, impoverished immigrants go from
Wait—I can have this?
to
Where’s my money?
As a white female Sears employee told the
New York Times
, Somalis “think this is a great opportunity for them, this prejudice thing. If you look at them the wrong way or they don’t have enough money, they say it’s prejudice.”
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Newcomers hear American paeans to tolerance, respect, and inclusion and think:
Great! That means tolerance of ME, respect for ME, and inclusion for ME.

In 2002, Minneapolis police shot a Somali man, Abu Kassim Jeilani, who was walking down the middle of a busy street waving a machete. While this may be common behavior in Mogadishu, it’s generally frowned upon in Minneapolis. Even after being tasered a half dozen times, Jeilani continued to menace cops with his machete, charging the officers and smashing it on their squad cars. Eventually, Jeilani rushed an officer and ended up dead.
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Luckily, every Somali in Minnesota who has a job works for an ethnic grievance outfit—for example, the Somali Justice Advocacy Center, the Somali Resources Aid Associates, the African Development Center, and the Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota. (And those are just some of the jobs being created by immigrants!)

This allowed the Somali community to erupt in rage, claiming Jeilani’s “civil rights” had been violated. Omar Jamal, of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center, denounced the shooting, claiming, unironically: “We are taxpayers. We pay these people to serve and protect us. We pay taxes and they pay taxes.”
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With half of Somalis in Minnesota unemployed and 80 percent living at or below the poverty level, one thing they are definitely not doing is “paying taxes.” I think the phrase he’s looking for is “accepting welfare.” The Somalis’ civil rights lawsuit on behalf of a man who ran at cops with a machete was unsuccessful. It was very successful, however, in wasting the resources of U.S. federal courts for five years.
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About a decade ago, thousands of Somalis moved to the small working-class town of Lewiston, Maine. Within the first year of their arrival, the town’s welfare caseload doubled. Before the town was bankrupted, Mayor Laurier T. Raymond Jr. wrote a letter to Somali elders asking them to discourage their fellow countrymen from continuing to move to Lewiston. He respectfully explained: “We have been overwhelmed and have responded valiantly. Now we need breathing room. Our city is maxed-out financially, physically and emotionally.”

In response, the Somali elders accused him of racism. Calling the mayor an “ill-informed leader who is bent towards bigotry,” they said he was trying to incite “violence against our people physically, verbally and emotionally.” The governor and attorney general were forced to defend the mayor from charges of racism. But the Somalis pushed on, demanding that everyone acknowledge how peachy they are. “We hope that others appreciate,” they said, “the potential richness and opportunity newcomers bring to the city.”
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At least Lewiston has shed its boring whiteness! Today, Somali boys roam the streets physically assaulting the locals. Within a few days in the summer of 2009, three separate residents were mugged, including one woman in her sixties and one man who had to be hospitalized. Another time, a gang of Somali boys attacked a woman walking her dog, beating the dog with a stick. Muggings by Somalis are so common that some Lewiston residents have been victimized more than once.

Even Somalia doesn’t want Somalis. Convicted rapist Mohammed Mukhtar avoided probation by agreeing to be deported after completing his sentence.
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Somalia, however, is unlikely to take Mukhtar back. We want him to go, he claims he wants to go, but Somalia can say,
We’re leaving the rapist with you.
Our immigration laws are working fantastically well for every country in the world except our own.

THEY MOVED HERE

It’s not just Somalis bringing heinous cultural behaviors here and then claiming victimhood. After an illegal alien from Mexico snatched a nine-year-old American girl off her bicycle in Ohio, dragged her to his house, and repeatedly raped her, the reaction from the Mexican community was to complain about the “negative picture of Hispanics in the minds of some,” as Jason Riveiro with the League of United Latin American Citizens said.
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In a case the
New York Times
described as a “family drama involving clashes of cultures,” a Brazilian woman and Palestinian man in St. Louis murdered their own daughter because she was a “whore” for “going out with a black boy.”
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By lucky coincidence the girl’s father, Zein Isa, was a suspected terrorist, so the FBI captured the entire murder on a surveillance tape in their home—in subsidized housing, naturally. (Zein could be heard on the tape boasting about how much he loved the United States because there were so many different welfare programs to game.)

On the tape, played for the jury, the girl can be heard shrieking as her father coldly says, “Do you know that you are going to die tonight?” then stabs her to death, as Mommy Dearest holds her down.
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One of the prosecutors described the tape as “worse than any movie, any film, anything I thought that I would ever hear in my life.” Jurors, who voted for the death penalty, said they would never get it out of their minds.
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But the Muslim community in St. Louis complained that the verdict did not respect Islamic culture. “I feel it’s not right,” a Muslim neighbor told the
New York Times
. “We follow our religion.” The parents, she said,
would “be embarrassed in front of everybody in the country like somebody when they go without their clothes outside.”
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An anthropology professor at the State University of New York, Nicolas Gavrielides, testified for the defense, saying, “Everyone growing up in the Middle East knows being killed is a possible consequence of dishonoring the family.”
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In another one of those madcap “clash of cultures” episodes, Salem Al-Saidy, an Iraqi immigrant living in Nebraska, forced his thirteen- and fourteen-year-old daughters into arranged marriages with Iraqi men aged thirty-four and twenty-eight, then took them to be raped by the men. When the father and “husbands” were arrested, they expressed indignation—through interpreters—that anyone thought they had done anything wrong.
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“Nobody ever told my client,” the father’s lawyer said, “what the criminal laws were here in the United States, much less the state of Nebraska, much less the city of Lincoln.”

A Chinese immigrant in New York, Dong Lu Chen, bludgeoned his wife to death with a claw hammer because she was having an affair. He was unashamed, greeting his teenaged son at the door in bloody clothes, telling the boy he had just killed Mom. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Edward Pincus let Chen off with probation—for
murder
—after an anthropologist testified that, in Chinese culture, the shame of a man being cuckolded justified murder. Judge Pincus admitted that if the exact same crime had been committed by an American, “the Court would have been constrained to find the defendant guilty of manslaughter in the first degree.” But in Chen’s case, the murder flowed from “traditional Chinese values about adultery and loss of manhood.’’
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Why do “traditional American values” about
not
murdering your wife lose out to “traditional Chinese values” about murdering her?