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Article #209Re: White victim of discrimination fired for calling Mexican a Mexican,
From: Ted
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:00
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:00
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On Apr 28, 10:18 am, GeorgeWashingtonAdmirer <guybanniste...@aol.com>
wrote:
> If only George Orwell were alive today!
> ------------------------------------------
>
> In alt.politics.imigration johnny wrote:
>
> Law allows Iowa employers wide latitude to terminate work.
>
> By NICHOLAS BERGIN
>
> nber...@thehawkeye.com
>
> German, Spaniard, Canadian, Chilean.
>
> Do those words offend you? Are they words that identify a group of people?
>
> How about a generalization involving such groups, such as: all Canadians
> eat fish. Does this offend?
>
> Let's say, you are offended. What consequences should follow? Is a stern
> warning deserved? Sensitivity training? How about a job?
>
> Pipe welder Bill Hendeley Jr. said he was fired from his job Wednesday
> for using the word "Mexican" in describing a person from Mexico at a
> group safety meeting.
>
> Hendeley said he has worked for Fagen Inc., an engineering and
> construction company based in Granite Falls, Minn., off and on for the
> past 10 years. The company is building an addition to the Big River
> Resources ethanol production plant in West Burlington.
>
> Hendeley, who recently moved to Burlington, said he has never been
> fired, has never even been reprimanded for making inappropriate
> comments, and co-workers describe him as a model employee.
>
> At a group safety meeting Wednesday, however, Hendeley singled out
> supervisors and a Hispanic worker for smoking in inappropriate places.
> Smoking is only allowed in a designated area across the road from the
> plant.
>
> "I guess if you're a supervisor or a Mexican, you can smoke anywhere you
> like," Hendeley reportedly told an Hispanic safety supervisor.
>
> Several days earlier, a Caucasian worker was suspended by a Hispanic
> supervisor for smoking in the parking lot of the plant, said Jeff
> Kokemiller, a Fagen employee.
>
> Following the suspension, Hendeley and his co-workers said they observed
> supervisors and a Hispanic woman smoking in trailers near the plant.
>
> Hendeley said he simply was pointing out discrepancies in policy
> enforcement.
>
> After the safety meeting, Hendeley was called to a private meeting with
> the safety supervisor and two other managers to discuss his comments,
> and was fired shortly after, he said.
>
> "We don't support discrimination on our job site," said Chad Warner,
> Fagen project supervisor. Warner declined to comment on the case further.
>
> Hendeley asked the safety supervisor if calling someone from Mexico a
> Mexican offends him. The supervisor answered "yes," according to Hendeley.
>
> The rest of the story:http://www.thehawkeye.com/daily/stories/ln4_0422.html
> --
> Tom Tancredo for President in 2008
> For a Secure Americahttp://www.teamtancredo.org/http://tancredo.house.gov/
>
> *************************************************************************
> PLEASE EMAIL THESE LINKS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW:
>
> "The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave" by Heather MacDonaldwww.City-Journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
>
> www.PredatoryAliens.comwww.ImmigrationsHumanCost.orgwww.DayLaborers.orgwww.Alipac.uswww.ImmigrationWatchdog.comwww.AmericanPatrol.comwww.SaveOurState.orgwww.EscapingJustice.comwww.MothersAgainstIllegalAliens.org
> See the COLOSSAL costs of illegal aliens to the American taxpayer:www.ImmigrationCounters.com
> ---------------------------------------------
> "Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada"
> ("For The Race everything, for those outside The Race nothing")
>
> -- Motto of MEChA, one of the nation's largest publically-funded
> organizations with cells on high school and college campuses across the USA
> (Note: Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez says he "used to be" a member)
> ---------------------------------------------
> "How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico"
> By John Dillinhttp://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html
>
> Excerpt:
>
> "General Eisenhower ... quoted a report in The New York Times,
> highlighting one paragraph that said: 'The rise in illegal border-crossing
> by Mexican 'wetbacks' to a current rate of more than
> 1,000,000 cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation
> in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters
> of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the Federal
> Government ..."
>
> "Herbert Brownell Jr., Eisenhower's first attorney general, said the
> president had a sense of urgency about illegal immigration when he took
> office.
>
> "America 'was faced with a breakdown in law enforcement on a very large
> scale,' Mr. Brownell said. 'When I say large scale, I mean hundreds of
> thousands were coming in from Mexico [every year] without restraint.'"
> --------------------------------------------------
> Just two of MANY American cops murdered by illegals:www.DeputyDavidMarch.comwww.KrisEggle.org
>
> "Unfortunately, the majority of illegal aliens who are here are engaged in
> criminal activity. Identity theft, use of fraudulent Social Security
> numbers and green cards, tax evasion, driving without licenses represent
> some of the crimes that are engaged in by the majority of illegal aliens on
> a daily basis merely to maintain and hide their illegal status. In
> addition, violent crime and drug distribution and possession is also
> prevalent among illegal aliens. Over 25% of today's federal prison
> population are illegal aliens. In some areas of the country, 12% of
> felonies, 25% of burglaries and 34% of thefts are committed by illegal
> aliens."
>
> -- Testimony of District Attorney John M. Morganelli before the House
> Subcommittee on Immigration, Border, Security and Claims [Note: 99% of
> warrants for murder in Los Angeles, California -- the USA's 2nd
> most-populous city -- are for illegal aliens]
>
> "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
> tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of
> men."
> -- Samuel Adams
>
> ""All great truths begin as heresies."
>
> -- Former Democrat Governor of Colorado Richard Lamm, official of
> Defend Colorado Now, a movement opposed to illegal immigration
> and public services for illegal aliens
The employer is just another mush-mouthed piece of PC crap.
ted
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