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Allan Mansoor is Costa Mesa's David Duke, their Jorg Haider. He's a smooth, well-groomed, and unctuously multisyllabic racist. He presents his anti-Mexican program as a combination of respect for law and preservation of the city's prosperity.

Behind every smiling frontman like Mansoor, though, there's an oaf with a club. In this case it's Martin H. Millard, a Neo-Nazi white supremacist of the familiar type: paranoid, ignorant, obsessed with racial purity, and self-published. He's a nut, and a dangerous one.

And behind Millard is an even scarier group: violent white supremacist gangs, who mix racial violence in with their drug deals and auto theft. Guys like the one who beat up a black guy in a wheelchair outside a Circle K last month for no particular reason.

Millard and Allan are good buddies, and the same goes for Minuteman Jim Gilchrist. Mansoor turns a blind eye to Millard's race-mix paranoia and Gilchrist's illegal vigilantes, and they all pretend to be law-abiding citizens and deplore street crime, which is of course an "immigrant" problem.

Costa Mesans, do not be fooled. Mansoor's buddies aren't just making you cringe with their crackpot racist screeds. They're also hotwiring your car, selling speed to your kid, and doing drive-by shootings. Costa Mesa is a practical capitalist town for small businessmen. Whatever else you guys need from your city government, you need the rule of law, not a lawless ideology.

Dump your mayor. He's no friend to anyone but pathetic Nazi losers and their thug crew.
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Someone decided to get really, really high and shoot at people in an alley over off Baker & Fairview in Costa Mesa the other day. Killed one guy, hurt a few others. The victims appear to be nice local boys without any known criminal connections. Everyone involved was of Mexican ancestry. Everyone who knew the victims is shocked and saddened; there are little memorials on the street and the people at the surf shop where the dead guy worked are really down. It's a bad day for the city and for my city, too; we're so close. But here's what Costa Mesa's crypto-Nazi Mayor had to say:

"When you have job centers, soup kitchens and a high concentration of downscale rental units, it drives the city down," Mayor Allan Mansoor said. "I favor a multi-faceted approach including stronger gang enforcement and overlay zone revitalization, and I also think a social worker holding the hand of a hardened gang member has not worked in other cities."

Allan, it's time to go. Maybe rural Arizona would be good for you, or that Pennsylvania town that just passed the "no Mexicans allowed" law. Running the Mexicans and the poor out of town is a solution to a problem no one has but you. What we wanted to hear was "Murder is the most serious of crimes and we're lucky it's rare here in Costa Mesa. We will bring these guys to justice and we will all work together for a safer city." Just in case you have a pen handy, you might want to write that down.

And while we're at it, I've been looking over the manifest for the Mayflower here and I see Smith and Standish and Johnson and Grey... Mansoor? No, no Mansoor. How odd. I was just reading the other day about how people with names like "Mansoor" are involved in all sorts of terroristical activities. Maybe we need to overlay zone revitalize about that.

http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2006/08/04/publicsafety/dpt-shooting04.txt

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1233749.php
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Go ahead and celebrate St. Patrick's day. Even if you're not in any way Irish. Even if you don't understand a thing about the politics of the celebration and its slogans and songs. Have corned beef and Guinness and try not to drive drunk, it's all good. Hell, the Japanese seem to enjoy Christmas, too. Holidays are fun.

But if you call it or spell it "St. Patty's Day" I'm going to come over to your house and beat you about the head and neck with "The Copy Editor's Shillelagh", otherwise known as a 1913 Webster's English Dictionary with cast iron covers and spikes, on the end of a chain.

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