Jean Pfaelzer is what's scary about the immigration debate

Posted Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 9:08 pm

Jean Pfaelzer - professor of English and American Studies at the University of Delaware - offers "What's Scary About the Anti-Immigration Debate" [1]. It's so over-the-top and full of lies that I'm trying to debate whether it's a parody. It doesn't even deserve much of a discussion, since it reads like the rantings of a Hollywood street person, albeit one who's a pathological liar:

...Hazleton's mayor told Sixty Minutes about a 70% rise in violent crime since Latinos came to town in 2001 (the correct number is 20 of 8,500 crimes). Farmers Branch, Texas said that the code would prevent terrorist attacks by purging its Latinos. One third of towns that passed the code are in unemployed areas of Pennsylvania--railroad towns that once sold anthracite coal, steel tubes, and carpets. Now they export Latinos... These gentlemen prefer blondes. The mayor wants Hazleton to remain 94.7% white. Last week in front of a burning cross the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party, recently defunct, announced to ABC Evening News that since they began assaulting, torching, and "bleaching" Latinos, membership has risen 40%...

The "bleaching" part refers to one incident from May. Somehow I doubt that even those groups admitted on camera that they systematically engaged in those practices. And, I'm pretty sure she's mischaracterizing the comments of Hazleton's mayor, Lou Barletta, as well as the comments from those in Farmers Branch. Shouldn't George Mason University's History News Network consider its credibility and at least verify a few of the things they publish?

Please send them an email and suggest they print a retraction of the various lies and mischaracterizations in her article: editor *at* historynewsnetwork.org

[1] hnn.us/articles/40316.html

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Comments

Tom Shuford (not verified)

Tue, 07/17/2007 - 11:56

Historical curiosity: A Tale of Two Pfaelzers Jean Pfaelzer, professor of English and American Studies at the University of Delaware, is the author of the smear on Hazleton and Mayor Lou Barletta for defending their town and the rule of law. Mariana Pfaelzer, a Jimmy-Carter appointed federal judge, was the judge that thwarted the will of 59% of California's voters, when she struck down Proposition 187 as unconstitutional. (To be sure, to finally nullify Prop 187 required the help of the newly elected Democratic Governor Gray Davis, who derailed a winnable appeal of the ruling, by submitting Prop. 187 to "mediation," i.e., in Davis' domain, oblivion). See a piece I did for EducationNews.org: "Proposition 187: 'Last Gasp of White America in California'": http://www.ednews.org/articles/86/1/Proposition-187-quotLast-Gasp-of-White-America-in-Californiaquot/Page1.html

Smitty (not verified)

Tue, 07/17/2007 - 20:14

Mariana Pfaelzer- ya she tossed prop 187, I wonder if they're related? Whenever I see a really bad decision from the 9th circuit it usually has her name it. I bet they're in the same clan.

Smitty (not verified)

Tue, 07/17/2007 - 20:18

In any case she seems to have an anti-American "immigrant chip" on her shoulder.

Fred Dawes (not verified)

Tue, 07/17/2007 - 23:11

Ok and may God help you all, here is some news that may open your eyes before the rats behead you, the border patrol Academy had a trainee that is one of the top MS-13 BOSS'S, He was only find out by some other guy who is also a trainee, a report is now being done. Other other areas it is known that al Qaeda boys working inside our city police and inside government in all levels, i know for a fact that O'side cops have been part of Al-raza-al- Qaeda for years now and know one cares, Mexican and south america gangs are helping, Al- Qaeda and the third world Rulers, the shadow Government will soon be running you into a camp system.