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The publisher of our local rag, Tom Johnson, is a sensible guy, and he wrote a thoughtful editorial on Friday. He
rightly points out that one of the city's parks has been designated a "passive park," which is an entirely new concept, exactly to keep Mexican-Americans and other soccer fans from playing in the park.
This is of course the work of Costa Mesa's racist-majority city council, which includes now internationally known Mexican-baiter Mayor Allan Mansour. But Johnson moves past Mansour to the real force behind the local spiral into race war.
The editorial called out our local white supremacist bile factory, Mr. Martin H. Millard. Millard straddles the border between mainstream politics and skinhead neo-Nazism adroitly. He delivered support and votes for Mansour while keeping his scarier buddies out of the picture. He's slime. And Johnson points him out very accurately as one of Costa Mesa's biggest problems.
The response from Millard at CMPress would be funny if he wasn't so powerful.
Tip of the hat to Geoff West at A Bubbling Cauldron for this story.
rightly points out that one of the city's parks has been designated a "passive park," which is an entirely new concept, exactly to keep Mexican-Americans and other soccer fans from playing in the park.
This is of course the work of Costa Mesa's racist-majority city council, which includes now internationally known Mexican-baiter Mayor Allan Mansour. But Johnson moves past Mansour to the real force behind the local spiral into race war.
The editorial called out our local white supremacist bile factory, Mr. Martin H. Millard. Millard straddles the border between mainstream politics and skinhead neo-Nazism adroitly. He delivered support and votes for Mansour while keeping his scarier buddies out of the picture. He's slime. And Johnson points him out very accurately as one of Costa Mesa's biggest problems.
The response from Millard at CMPress would be funny if he wasn't so powerful.
Tip of the hat to Geoff West at A Bubbling Cauldron for this story.
this was my favorite comment
Date: 2007-07-21 08:49 pm (UTC)MEXICANS KILL!!!!!!
Re: this was my favorite comment
Date: 2007-07-21 09:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-21 10:09 pm (UTC)As things wound down and we were leaving, we passed by the bouncy castle and one of the shifty thugs from the adjacent basketball court had cornered some freaked out mom and was -begging- to be allowed to get in and jump. He was really pouring as much emotion as he could muster into it, given how high as he seemed to be.
I didn't detect any kind of ironic flavor to it at all, he really really just wanted to get in the bouncy castle and jump jump jump! Like it was the one most awesome thing he never got to do as a kid and he never got over it.. He was already politely taking his shoes off while pressing his case (though also staring directly at her boobs the entire time.)
Wish I could have hidden in the bushes and taped it all. Weird.
sticker for bounce houses
Date: 2007-07-21 10:39 pm (UTC)Passive Park
Date: 2007-07-22 03:24 am (UTC)Re: Passive Park
Date: 2007-07-22 05:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-23 04:23 pm (UTC)Sigh. It's getting way too easy to shock me.