🚀 go-pugleaf

It appears now that The Dallas Morning News editorial board's Rod Dreher
fears his own ox might be gored by freely roaming illegal migrants with
unknown, potentially vicious criminal intent, the upstanding Mr. Dreher
proposes enlisting the powers both of The Dallas Morning News' editorial
pulpit and his local councilwoman (whose fortunes his editorial board is in
a position to influence) rather than insisting, as he would for the rest of
us, that only the federal government can properly deal with such an
immediate, local problem.


http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/

April 2, 2007
Angela Hunt, scourge of pit bulls

D Magazine's Eric Celeste, who is a friend, a neighbor (more or less), and
who shares my fear and loathing of pit bulls -- especially those who run
loose in East Dallas -- has enlisted Councilwoman Angela Hunt in an effort
to get Animal Control off its butt in dealing with dogs running wild. Not a
day goes by when I don't worry that the jerky couple on our block who
constantly let their pit bulls get out and roam the neighborhood are going
to be responsible for my wife and kids being attacked. One of these pit
bulls barked and charged my brother-in-law on Christmas Day, when he walked
out the door to get something from his car. The Animal Control guy is very
nice, but he says there's not a lot he can do unless we -- that is, we
neighbors -- are willing to enter into the city's system for filing a
grievance against the dog owners.

I can see his point, and so far, the neighbors I've talked to about this
menace, we have not been able to get our act together to enter the city
bureaucracy to take care of the problem. That's on us.

But here's what I don't get: the city knows that this couple is a problem.
They have on record that Animal Control has had to be called out several
times to deal with these same people and their same dogs. At what point can
the city charge them criminally? Does a kid have to be mauled by one of
these dogs before the city moves? Angela Hunt, I'd be mighty grateful if
you would get behind changing the city's leash laws to put the smackdown on
repeat offenders, and get their dogs taken away from them. In fact, I'm
going to propose that we write an editorial along these lines soon.

April 02, 2007 10:38 AM | Rod Dreher (More) | Respond | Permalink

Of course, Dreher's marauding migrants only have the brains of dogs,
incapable of stalking and murdering an immediately forgotten Karen Kristina
Lafon for her laptop 

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/dallas/stories/120706dnmetgreenvilleslaying.32acdde.html


or of mastering a career as a Zeta drug enforcer, wanted for murder, with
ties to the murderer of a local police officer

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/dallas/stories/033007dnmetzetita.3977ba0.html


For the four-legged illegal migrants that threaten HIM, the outraged Mr.
Dreher would immediately deploy every local resource he can muster to put a
stop to the threat. For the two-legged illegal migrants that threaten all
the rest of us,

http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html


Mr. Dreher is happy to recline and spread his legs with the rest of his
editorial board, dismissing and dispatching the problem to the Neverland of
Washington for solution.

Rod, we can only hope and pray that neither you nor your loved ones are
killed or maimed by illegal roaming migrants, four-legged or two-legged,
and that you receive all the protection from either threat you've earned
and deserve.

Gloria Compost

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