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AUGUST 1998

Socialistas again out in force

OPINION

SUNNYSIDE (Tuesday, Aug. 4, 1998)---The socialistas are again out in force, and they're trying to shut the mouths of everyone who disagrees with them.

 

Our view is simple: to hell with socialists. Think what you want and say what you want. Do it today. And don't let the SOBs get you down.

 

What is a socialist? They tend to be the arrogant boys and girls who draw salaries and fringe benefits provided at taxpayer expense, enjoy it all via affirmative action programs, and whose activities are protected by the state from public scrutiny. Read private, nonprofit corporations.

 

When it comes to the National Council of La Raza "leaders", for example, every one of them works for some public or private outfit funded by you and me via the IRS. There's not a carpenter or a pipefitter or a shopkeeper in the whole bunch.

 

The socialistas are the ones who use their considerable free time to organize political protest groups against anyone who doesn't believe as they do.

 

They're often fairly decent folks, until you disagree with them. Then goofy ideas flutter out of their socialist noggins like bats at dusk. That brings us to our little berg.

 

Check this Yakima Herald Republic headline: Werkhoven refuses to apologize. Councilman maintains he's done nothing wrong. Well--he hasn't! What sort of lame brain would infer that he has?

 

Werkhoven said celebration of Fiestas Patrias--one of several Mexican Independence Days--in the streets of Sunnyside would be divisive and would increase racial tensions. Maybe he's right! It hasn't done otherwise so far as we can see.

 

We were at the council meeting that has socialistas so shook up. Werkhoven said he didn't approve of Fiestas Patrias being celebrated locally. But he also said "I believe in the Constitution, so I won't stand in your way." And he voted to let Fiestas Patrias organizers do their thing.

 

But the socialistas weren't happy with that, which is suspicious in itself. They want either to gag Werkhoven or do all they can to get him out of office.

 

Paul Mendez, who works for the publicly funded but privately operated OIC (unless he got another job), reportedly said "Everyone is entitled to their opinions. However, when you're an elected official, it makes a big difference. We put you here to do a job for the entire community."

 

We would be surprised if it were true that Mendez and company put Werkhoven in office. The young councilman is honest, he takes a stand, and there's not a wishy-washy bone in his body. Those who organize against his reelection will surely polarize this town as it never before has been.

 

And Beto Espindola, who works for another publicly-funded private outfit paid for by you and me, and sits on the town's Planning Commission, told folks it's "impossible" to assimilate Hispanics into the American community.

 

"I don't want to hear any more about assimilation because that's not what America is about anymore," Espindola said at Monday's council meeting.

 

Really?

 

Got news for you, Beto. America is still about assimilation, despite the damnable socialists who now control the U.S. administration, and the miscreants who controlled Congress for 40 years before 1994.

 

The pendulum is swinging back. There's not a thing you can do about it. Let it happen. Ride it out. That would be better than a second civil war, and we know of folks who are chomping at the bit for just that.