More of, The Worm is Turning!
Again today in the StatesmanJournal reporter Dan de Carbonel tells us of two "Salem Men" that were given long sentences for selling Meth in the Medford area.
At first glance there doesn't seem to be much of a change, however a closer look will reveal that Dan didn't call them "Salem Residents" (which is their way to imply the people mentioned are legal citizens of Oregon) and only spoke of them as "Salem men." My guess is that because Salem was given as an address on their worthless Oregon Drivers License and/or ID.
Later in the story we find where Dan speaks of Gonzolo Hernandez-Vega, an "illegal resident" and that Hernandez-Vega was also found guilty by a jury last year of "illegal re-entry" after an earlier deportation.
Imagine, use of the word "Illegal" twice in one story and that about two Hispanics.
Please note that for Dan, Gabriela and other reporters with the S/J, using the words "illegal resident" in place of "Undocumented Immigrant" gives them great pain as that detracts from their long term goal and that for us to accept Criminal Illegal Aliens as normal in our society.
Perhaps things have changed at the S/J and that driven I suppose by a loss of advertising income resulting from the decline of our business base and the local society.
That and I suspect Tomian Tito's Taco Truck declined buying a 1/2 page, full color spread in the Sunday paper.
http://159.54.226.83/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060217/NEWS/602170330/1001
At first glance there doesn't seem to be much of a change, however a closer look will reveal that Dan didn't call them "Salem Residents" (which is their way to imply the people mentioned are legal citizens of Oregon) and only spoke of them as "Salem men." My guess is that because Salem was given as an address on their worthless Oregon Drivers License and/or ID.
Later in the story we find where Dan speaks of Gonzolo Hernandez-Vega, an "illegal resident" and that Hernandez-Vega was also found guilty by a jury last year of "illegal re-entry" after an earlier deportation.
Imagine, use of the word "Illegal" twice in one story and that about two Hispanics.
Please note that for Dan, Gabriela and other reporters with the S/J, using the words "illegal resident" in place of "Undocumented Immigrant" gives them great pain as that detracts from their long term goal and that for us to accept Criminal Illegal Aliens as normal in our society.
Perhaps things have changed at the S/J and that driven I suppose by a loss of advertising income resulting from the decline of our business base and the local society.
That and I suspect Tomian Tito's Taco Truck declined buying a 1/2 page, full color spread in the Sunday paper.
http://159.54.226.83/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060217/NEWS/602170330/1001
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