Whittier-
25-12-2004, 16:08
Well not all at once. But I am going to gradually reduce my posting on the site. Though I will continue reading since I like to read what you guys have posted. And I will continue to post occasionally (only a couple times a month) until November 25, 2005. At that time, my posts will become even rarer.
In the last couple of weeks I have gained some real world information that have caused to me to make this decision. In less that ten months, my contract with the US military will expire and I have decided that I will not reenlist. For the reason that I believe I can best help my fellow men and women in the US armed forces from the United States Senate.
Let me tell you something about my home town. I was born in Whittier. Grew up around Whittier in Los Angeles County. My dad was a truck driver who went all over the country and once, when I was young, made a delivery to British Columbia. It would take him only 3 days to drive a load of cargo from Los Angeles California to Richmond Virginia. (Two men driving in 9 hour shifts.)
Whittier is located in on the eastern border of Los Angeles county in the Whittier Hills.
From the Whittier Hills, on a clear day, you can see the buildings of Los Angeles, more than 20 miles away.
http://www.hillsforeveryone.org/images/jill/Whittier_Downtown.jpg
The people of Whittier have done much, in cooperation with surrounding communities to block all development in these hills. And one councilmember, Bob Henderson, got with officials from all over Southern California to create one of the nation's first wildlife corridors, which now include the Whittier Hills.
For perspective, the other half of the Whittier Hills, are called the La Puente Hills.
For the past ten years, Robert Klep, the owner of Scotty's Restaurant, has given free Chrismas dinners to anyone who goes into his restaurant on Christmas eve. Mostly needy families, but Mr. Klep is not known for biasing on the basis of class. I would like for you to read his story. The Whittier Daily News does an article on him, every Christmas. This one is taken from the December 25th edition of the Whittier Daily News:
"Keeping his word
Given aid as a boy, man now helps feed others
By Tracy Garcia , Staff Writer
WHITTIER -- As a child, Robert Klep once received the Christmas of a lifetime at the hands of kind strangers, who read a letter he wrote to Santa and took it upon themselves to help his less-fortunate family through the holidays.
When he was older, he always told his wife that if they could ever afford it, he would do the same for others and so far, he's doing a bang-up job of keeping his word.
On Friday, Klep owner of Scotty's Family Restaurant welcomed hundreds of needy families to his business for a free Christmas Eve dinner with all the trimmings, topped off by a visit with Santa and gifts for children and adults alike.
"Without this meal, I think a lot of people wouldn't be eating today,' said Reyleen Araujo, 33, who enjoyed the meal with her five children, who ranged in age from 4 to 11.
"Not a lot of people care enough to do something like this.'
Klep began the Christmas Eve dinner tradition eight years ago, and has since developed a steady stream of holiday supporters who have absorbed the cost of feeding these families through donations.
The first few years, Klep and his employees and relatives served between 300 and 500 people. Last year, about 1,700 people were fed.
"I always actually hope to get fewer people every year because it would mean that people are doing better,' Klep said. "But it keeps going up every year.'
The restaurant served the meals either turkey or ham, with mashed potatoes, stuffing, yams and pumpkin pie for dessert from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. While families took numbers and waited in line outside, face- painting was available for children.
"I just want to thank, thank, thank all the people who help us do this every year, because we couldn't do this ourselves,' Klep said. "Tonight, we'll all go home and be so tired, but we'll feel so good inside for all that we've done.' "
I don't know about you, but I think we need many more people like Mr. Klep.
As late as 4 years ago, Whittier had no gang related violence. That was before Arnold Swarcheneggar became governor and before Linda Sanchez was elected to Congress. Since their elections, gang violence in Whittier has increased from zero in 2002, to 234 today. This epidemic is not confined just to Whittier. But is now common throughout the entire United States where gang violence has increased 2,340% nationwide.
The FBI recently reported to the President Bush that gangs now present just as great a threat to the national security of the United States as Al Qaeda.
As America's armed forces battle terrorism abroad, the American people are forced to fight their own battle against terrorists at home.
Having read the report, and having recently talked to my brother and some friends back home, it is with regret that I inform you that these are not the gangs of yesteryear. Indeed, these new gangs have taken pages out of the books of Al Qaeda.
I have been told of the MSX gang's torturing young underage girls to coerce them into exposing themselves or engaging illicit sexual acts. Of criminal thugs forcing a couple to pull over, where they then killed the husband execution style, and raped and tortured the wife. Do you what they did when they were done? They took the couples 9 month old baby, and tossed it off cliff after which they gave each other high fives.
These same gang members have been engaging in human trafficking where young women and girls under the age of 18 are forced into prostitution on US territory. Usually they are threatened at gunpoint or their families are threatened with death if they don't comply.
The police are so helpless against these terrorists that the FBI is having to step in with tough tactics to combat the gangs who seek to bring terror and fear to the streets of America, from Los Angeles Californian to Tampa Florida.
Some of you may know of gang violence increases in your own towns and cities.
When Arnold became Governor, he said he was going to make California a better place. He said, "California has a serious problem and I can fix it."
Well, California does have a serious problem but Arnold doesn't seem to be doing anything about it. Nor do either of California's two US Senator's. In fact I don't see anyone in the US Senate doing anything about the problem.
One Congressional Democrat, stated a while back, that the gang members had more rights than law abiding citizens on the grounds that the gang members were Mexican nationals. Excuse me, but when you elected to any office in the US, you are elected to serve and protect the people of the United States, not the people of Mexico or any other foriegners that happen to reside on US lands.
While the US economy is getting stronger, the California economy continues to lag behind. The Democrats, who control California, say they refuse to do anything until Bush diverts money from the war on terror to their pet projects that have nothing to do with helping California recover economically. In fact it is because of these pet projects that California continues to verge on bankruptcy. Now I won't say that this is Arnold's fault. In fact, the governator has been tackling the economic issue, only to be railroaded but powerhungry democrats in the state house.
People like Nancy Pelosi, Linda Sanchez, Diane Fienstein, and Barbara Boxer, continue to do everthing they can to foil America's attempts to defend itself against terrorists both at home and abroad. At the same time, they continue their attempts to give away billions of tax payer dollars to illegal immigrants.
Millions of Californians are out of work, but instead of helping their constituents get jobs, these officeholders are too busy trying to keep theirs.
California's schools continue to lag behind America and the world. Four years ago, before NCLB was implemented, California implemented reforms that were ahead of the times. But because the funds necessary for the program to work were diverted to pork barrel spending and the pockets of teachers' unions, California today, is still ranked 44th in the US when it comes to education.
The drop out rate in California's high schools, particularly among minorities, has increased 34% in the last 2 years.
Californians continue to go without healthcare, because they can't afford it. Senator Barbara Boxer and Diane Fienstein and their friends in the state legislature say that California has no healthcare crises. Thousands are dying because of corporate greed and California's representatives in government are saying there is no crises?
Seems to me that the real crises is a crises of leadership. When you are elected to the Congress, you are not elected to serve forign nationals or wealth multinational corporations. You are elected to serve the American people.
When you are elected to the California State Senate or State Assembly, you are not elected to serve the people of Mexico. You are not elected to serve the people at Microsoft, Walmart, or Exxon. You are elected to serve the people of California and their interests even if those interests conflict with the interests of Walmart, the interests of the people always take precedence over the interests of wealthy greedy businesses.
California's current slate of representatives in government doesn't seem to care about California's problems. They say there is no problem. I say there is a problem, a mammoth problem. They say we should give all our money to illegals cause we owe them. I say that's our money and we owe shit to the illegals who have been going around breaking our nation's laws.
My idea for rewarding the illegals for breaking our laws is to point a gun in their faces and tell them to turn their asses around and walk back across the border. Especially since the illegals have been providing the manpower for the gangs who have been terrorizing America on the homefront.
California's federal representatives have been ignoring to gang crises. With one claiming that the reason for the increase is that we stopped giving welfare to lazy people. But I have a better idea: If you want you to join a group whose goals are to behave just like the terrorists abroad, I will treat you like the terrorists abroad and ship your sorry ass to Guantanamo where you can join the terrorists we have been fighting against. Let me tell, I am not above stripping violent gang members of their US citizenship. There will be no place for you to go. Gangmembers might say, "we'll just leave the US so we can continue our thing". You could do that, but I doubt any other nation would give you as much leeway as the US has. Just ask Hector Rivera, an LA gang member who down to Hundoras and continued doing the same gang stuff he was doing in Los Angeles. You see Hector went down with some of his posse. They engaged in a ruthless driveby shooting and gang raped a 12 year girl in small village in Honduras. They thought they would get away with it just like they did back home. But they weren't back home. Today, Hector and his friends are serving a life sentence in a Honduran jail where they are tortured by state officials daily. And many of them are awaiting death sentences in connection with the drive by shooting and the rape. In Honduras, rape carries the death penalty. The only thing that saved Hector was that he was a US citizen and that they was getting help from the US consulate. The ones who weren't US citizens were the ones who got the death penalty. Except for the one American idiot who refused to cooperate cause he thought was bad ass. He may be, but he is also the only US citizen in Honduras awaiting his own execution.
I have begun talks with officials and people back home. This January, I will decide whether I will seek a seat in the US House or the US Senate. Today, it looks like I will be seeking a seat in the US Senate because I believe that its time for California to have new Senate representative for the first time in 15 years.
Therefore, most of the free time I have, will be focused on these discussions.
My goals are simple goals and attainable:
I will increase Californian's education rankings.
I will bring jobs to California and raise Californian's standard of living.
I will deal harshly with criminal terrorist gangs who have been forcing Americans to live in fear and terror for their lives and those of their own children.
I will crack down on pharmaceutical companies who have been price gouging the middle class American family.
And because we will need them in the very near future, I will insist that our nation start building desalinization plants on the West Coast.
I will insist that any soldiers who violate the Geneva Conventions and any of their supervisors who stand by while they do it, get dishonorably discharged from the US military and I will make sure they serve life sentence at maximum security prisons where they belong. We are Americans, we don't condone or engage in torture of any one. If you want to copy the terrorists by engaging in torture, we will treat you like the terrorists. To those who participated in incidents like those at Abu Ghraib and who think they are going to continue to get away with their illegal actions, I have just four words: "Your days are numbered."
I will seek to see that we deal with the Israelis and Palestinians on an equal basis. What we do to help Israel economically, we should also do for Palestine. I will seek to introduce legislation unilaterally recogizing the existence and soverignty of an independent Palestinian state, if the Palestinians renounce all forms of terrorism. I will also insist in the same bill, that Israel halt its own terrorism.
I will also insist that we eliminate all pork barrel spending. And that we stop using Social Security to fund non Social Security and non national Security items, such as a 20 foot swimming pool in Congresswoman Linda Sanchez's neighbors backyard.
I will insist that if the FCC enforces regulations, that those regulations are based on health and safety issues and not on regulations from the Bible. In fact, I will insist on a total reform of the FCC altogether.
I will insist on equal quality education for all American children regardless of race or gender or religion, or nationality.
I will insist that we crack down on all forms of human trafficking in America and that we work with the world community to deal harshly with Human Traffickers where ever in the world they happen to pop up. Because forced sexual slavery is a form of terrorism and we must combat it as such. To those who think its not really their problem, I say this, "It could be your daughter, your cousin, or even your sister who becomes the next victim of these evil thugs."
The days of California's current Congressional representatives are numbered, and in 1996, at least one of them will be sent to the unemployment lines.
In the last couple of weeks I have gained some real world information that have caused to me to make this decision. In less that ten months, my contract with the US military will expire and I have decided that I will not reenlist. For the reason that I believe I can best help my fellow men and women in the US armed forces from the United States Senate.
Let me tell you something about my home town. I was born in Whittier. Grew up around Whittier in Los Angeles County. My dad was a truck driver who went all over the country and once, when I was young, made a delivery to British Columbia. It would take him only 3 days to drive a load of cargo from Los Angeles California to Richmond Virginia. (Two men driving in 9 hour shifts.)
Whittier is located in on the eastern border of Los Angeles county in the Whittier Hills.
From the Whittier Hills, on a clear day, you can see the buildings of Los Angeles, more than 20 miles away.
http://www.hillsforeveryone.org/images/jill/Whittier_Downtown.jpg
The people of Whittier have done much, in cooperation with surrounding communities to block all development in these hills. And one councilmember, Bob Henderson, got with officials from all over Southern California to create one of the nation's first wildlife corridors, which now include the Whittier Hills.
For perspective, the other half of the Whittier Hills, are called the La Puente Hills.
For the past ten years, Robert Klep, the owner of Scotty's Restaurant, has given free Chrismas dinners to anyone who goes into his restaurant on Christmas eve. Mostly needy families, but Mr. Klep is not known for biasing on the basis of class. I would like for you to read his story. The Whittier Daily News does an article on him, every Christmas. This one is taken from the December 25th edition of the Whittier Daily News:
"Keeping his word
Given aid as a boy, man now helps feed others
By Tracy Garcia , Staff Writer
WHITTIER -- As a child, Robert Klep once received the Christmas of a lifetime at the hands of kind strangers, who read a letter he wrote to Santa and took it upon themselves to help his less-fortunate family through the holidays.
When he was older, he always told his wife that if they could ever afford it, he would do the same for others and so far, he's doing a bang-up job of keeping his word.
On Friday, Klep owner of Scotty's Family Restaurant welcomed hundreds of needy families to his business for a free Christmas Eve dinner with all the trimmings, topped off by a visit with Santa and gifts for children and adults alike.
"Without this meal, I think a lot of people wouldn't be eating today,' said Reyleen Araujo, 33, who enjoyed the meal with her five children, who ranged in age from 4 to 11.
"Not a lot of people care enough to do something like this.'
Klep began the Christmas Eve dinner tradition eight years ago, and has since developed a steady stream of holiday supporters who have absorbed the cost of feeding these families through donations.
The first few years, Klep and his employees and relatives served between 300 and 500 people. Last year, about 1,700 people were fed.
"I always actually hope to get fewer people every year because it would mean that people are doing better,' Klep said. "But it keeps going up every year.'
The restaurant served the meals either turkey or ham, with mashed potatoes, stuffing, yams and pumpkin pie for dessert from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. While families took numbers and waited in line outside, face- painting was available for children.
"I just want to thank, thank, thank all the people who help us do this every year, because we couldn't do this ourselves,' Klep said. "Tonight, we'll all go home and be so tired, but we'll feel so good inside for all that we've done.' "
I don't know about you, but I think we need many more people like Mr. Klep.
As late as 4 years ago, Whittier had no gang related violence. That was before Arnold Swarcheneggar became governor and before Linda Sanchez was elected to Congress. Since their elections, gang violence in Whittier has increased from zero in 2002, to 234 today. This epidemic is not confined just to Whittier. But is now common throughout the entire United States where gang violence has increased 2,340% nationwide.
The FBI recently reported to the President Bush that gangs now present just as great a threat to the national security of the United States as Al Qaeda.
As America's armed forces battle terrorism abroad, the American people are forced to fight their own battle against terrorists at home.
Having read the report, and having recently talked to my brother and some friends back home, it is with regret that I inform you that these are not the gangs of yesteryear. Indeed, these new gangs have taken pages out of the books of Al Qaeda.
I have been told of the MSX gang's torturing young underage girls to coerce them into exposing themselves or engaging illicit sexual acts. Of criminal thugs forcing a couple to pull over, where they then killed the husband execution style, and raped and tortured the wife. Do you what they did when they were done? They took the couples 9 month old baby, and tossed it off cliff after which they gave each other high fives.
These same gang members have been engaging in human trafficking where young women and girls under the age of 18 are forced into prostitution on US territory. Usually they are threatened at gunpoint or their families are threatened with death if they don't comply.
The police are so helpless against these terrorists that the FBI is having to step in with tough tactics to combat the gangs who seek to bring terror and fear to the streets of America, from Los Angeles Californian to Tampa Florida.
Some of you may know of gang violence increases in your own towns and cities.
When Arnold became Governor, he said he was going to make California a better place. He said, "California has a serious problem and I can fix it."
Well, California does have a serious problem but Arnold doesn't seem to be doing anything about it. Nor do either of California's two US Senator's. In fact I don't see anyone in the US Senate doing anything about the problem.
One Congressional Democrat, stated a while back, that the gang members had more rights than law abiding citizens on the grounds that the gang members were Mexican nationals. Excuse me, but when you elected to any office in the US, you are elected to serve and protect the people of the United States, not the people of Mexico or any other foriegners that happen to reside on US lands.
While the US economy is getting stronger, the California economy continues to lag behind. The Democrats, who control California, say they refuse to do anything until Bush diverts money from the war on terror to their pet projects that have nothing to do with helping California recover economically. In fact it is because of these pet projects that California continues to verge on bankruptcy. Now I won't say that this is Arnold's fault. In fact, the governator has been tackling the economic issue, only to be railroaded but powerhungry democrats in the state house.
People like Nancy Pelosi, Linda Sanchez, Diane Fienstein, and Barbara Boxer, continue to do everthing they can to foil America's attempts to defend itself against terrorists both at home and abroad. At the same time, they continue their attempts to give away billions of tax payer dollars to illegal immigrants.
Millions of Californians are out of work, but instead of helping their constituents get jobs, these officeholders are too busy trying to keep theirs.
California's schools continue to lag behind America and the world. Four years ago, before NCLB was implemented, California implemented reforms that were ahead of the times. But because the funds necessary for the program to work were diverted to pork barrel spending and the pockets of teachers' unions, California today, is still ranked 44th in the US when it comes to education.
The drop out rate in California's high schools, particularly among minorities, has increased 34% in the last 2 years.
Californians continue to go without healthcare, because they can't afford it. Senator Barbara Boxer and Diane Fienstein and their friends in the state legislature say that California has no healthcare crises. Thousands are dying because of corporate greed and California's representatives in government are saying there is no crises?
Seems to me that the real crises is a crises of leadership. When you are elected to the Congress, you are not elected to serve forign nationals or wealth multinational corporations. You are elected to serve the American people.
When you are elected to the California State Senate or State Assembly, you are not elected to serve the people of Mexico. You are not elected to serve the people at Microsoft, Walmart, or Exxon. You are elected to serve the people of California and their interests even if those interests conflict with the interests of Walmart, the interests of the people always take precedence over the interests of wealthy greedy businesses.
California's current slate of representatives in government doesn't seem to care about California's problems. They say there is no problem. I say there is a problem, a mammoth problem. They say we should give all our money to illegals cause we owe them. I say that's our money and we owe shit to the illegals who have been going around breaking our nation's laws.
My idea for rewarding the illegals for breaking our laws is to point a gun in their faces and tell them to turn their asses around and walk back across the border. Especially since the illegals have been providing the manpower for the gangs who have been terrorizing America on the homefront.
California's federal representatives have been ignoring to gang crises. With one claiming that the reason for the increase is that we stopped giving welfare to lazy people. But I have a better idea: If you want you to join a group whose goals are to behave just like the terrorists abroad, I will treat you like the terrorists abroad and ship your sorry ass to Guantanamo where you can join the terrorists we have been fighting against. Let me tell, I am not above stripping violent gang members of their US citizenship. There will be no place for you to go. Gangmembers might say, "we'll just leave the US so we can continue our thing". You could do that, but I doubt any other nation would give you as much leeway as the US has. Just ask Hector Rivera, an LA gang member who down to Hundoras and continued doing the same gang stuff he was doing in Los Angeles. You see Hector went down with some of his posse. They engaged in a ruthless driveby shooting and gang raped a 12 year girl in small village in Honduras. They thought they would get away with it just like they did back home. But they weren't back home. Today, Hector and his friends are serving a life sentence in a Honduran jail where they are tortured by state officials daily. And many of them are awaiting death sentences in connection with the drive by shooting and the rape. In Honduras, rape carries the death penalty. The only thing that saved Hector was that he was a US citizen and that they was getting help from the US consulate. The ones who weren't US citizens were the ones who got the death penalty. Except for the one American idiot who refused to cooperate cause he thought was bad ass. He may be, but he is also the only US citizen in Honduras awaiting his own execution.
I have begun talks with officials and people back home. This January, I will decide whether I will seek a seat in the US House or the US Senate. Today, it looks like I will be seeking a seat in the US Senate because I believe that its time for California to have new Senate representative for the first time in 15 years.
Therefore, most of the free time I have, will be focused on these discussions.
My goals are simple goals and attainable:
I will increase Californian's education rankings.
I will bring jobs to California and raise Californian's standard of living.
I will deal harshly with criminal terrorist gangs who have been forcing Americans to live in fear and terror for their lives and those of their own children.
I will crack down on pharmaceutical companies who have been price gouging the middle class American family.
And because we will need them in the very near future, I will insist that our nation start building desalinization plants on the West Coast.
I will insist that any soldiers who violate the Geneva Conventions and any of their supervisors who stand by while they do it, get dishonorably discharged from the US military and I will make sure they serve life sentence at maximum security prisons where they belong. We are Americans, we don't condone or engage in torture of any one. If you want to copy the terrorists by engaging in torture, we will treat you like the terrorists. To those who participated in incidents like those at Abu Ghraib and who think they are going to continue to get away with their illegal actions, I have just four words: "Your days are numbered."
I will seek to see that we deal with the Israelis and Palestinians on an equal basis. What we do to help Israel economically, we should also do for Palestine. I will seek to introduce legislation unilaterally recogizing the existence and soverignty of an independent Palestinian state, if the Palestinians renounce all forms of terrorism. I will also insist in the same bill, that Israel halt its own terrorism.
I will also insist that we eliminate all pork barrel spending. And that we stop using Social Security to fund non Social Security and non national Security items, such as a 20 foot swimming pool in Congresswoman Linda Sanchez's neighbors backyard.
I will insist that if the FCC enforces regulations, that those regulations are based on health and safety issues and not on regulations from the Bible. In fact, I will insist on a total reform of the FCC altogether.
I will insist on equal quality education for all American children regardless of race or gender or religion, or nationality.
I will insist that we crack down on all forms of human trafficking in America and that we work with the world community to deal harshly with Human Traffickers where ever in the world they happen to pop up. Because forced sexual slavery is a form of terrorism and we must combat it as such. To those who think its not really their problem, I say this, "It could be your daughter, your cousin, or even your sister who becomes the next victim of these evil thugs."
The days of California's current Congressional representatives are numbered, and in 1996, at least one of them will be sent to the unemployment lines.