Most North Carolinians still have no idea how dire the situation has become due to the negligence of the gate keepers at the Associated Press (AP). For reasons unknown, AP has not told the whole state many important events and have certainly not connected the dots for our citizens.
Released 12/8/2005
by William Gheen
President, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC
We know that the AP is censoring critical information about illegal immigration, NC Licenses, and crimes committed by illegals for several reasons. One, our statewide volunteer groups monitor local press and two, we monitor how news does and does not travel on the Google news engine.
Citizens in the Charlotte area and western part of the state know about the Scott and Tina Gardner tragedy Scott and Tina Gardner tragedy and the Associated Press did pick up the story and tell the rest of the state. This probably happened for two reasons. One, Scott Gardner and his family were mauled in the Eastern part of the state and they lived in another area of the state. Two, Scott Gardner was well known in his community as a church leader, teacher, and coach.
The citizens of Charlotte also know about Amy Milligan. At last report, she was in a coma like Tina Gardner. Unfortunately, even though young Amy was hit by another illegal alien shortly after the Gardner tragedy, the Associated Press did not tell the rest of the state that another North Carolinian had been lost to a drunk driving illegal alien.
The people of Charlotte had yet another tragedy just before Thanksgiving when 18 year old Min Chang was killed by yet another drunk driving illegal alien plowing down the wrong side of Interstate 485 at a high rate of speed.
The illegal alien that killed Scott Gardner had already been convicted of DWI 5 times and was still in the country and still on our roads. The illegal alien that put Amy Milligan into a coma was drunk as a skunk too. And the illegal alien that killed Min Chang had been deported 17 times already.
If our borders were secured and state and local police enforced immigration law as 81% of Americans in a Zogby poll say they should, these North Carolinians would most likely be alive and well today!
The Associated Press has NOT told our state that the 24 year old twice-deported illegal alien they have charged with nine counts of home invasion and serial rape in Winston Salem had a fresh and valid NC license in his pocket thanks to the policies of Governor Mike Easley and the Democratic leadership in the NC House and Senate.
Associate Press? Can you hear me? The citizens of North Carolina would REALLY like to know this information since you so loudly proclaimed that Mike Easley had secured our licenses from illegal aliens during the elections of 2004. Don't you think you should announce that he deceived everyone and that illegal aliens are still getting licenses hand over fist? You have not told the state about officials in Florida and New Jersey telling us that busloads of illegal aliens come to NC for licenses and tags and that police in NJ are seizing licenses from illegals hand over fist! With all due professionalism I respectfully ask that you start doing your damn job and tell the people what they need to know!
This does not surprise us after the state media refused to tell the citizens that six illegal aliens charged with the gang rape of a 37 year old North Carolina woman in Huntersville all had valid NC licenses in their pockets almost a full year after Governor Mike Easley's big press announcement that he was fixing the problem at our DMV's. I truly believe that if every citizen in the state had heard that news in the proper context they would have thrown Easley out of office and rightfully so.
Many areas of the print media in North Carolina are consistently not printing information that would harm the public's opinion of Speaker of the NC House Jim Black, President of the NC Senate Marc Basnight, and Governor Mike Easley on immigration issues.
Now a young man named Robert Yates Dewey has been killed too, but only the people in Charlotte and Hickory NC are reading about it (See Google News Search Results). But even the residents of these areas don't know about the death of Dustin Inman. Dustin is Billy Inman's son. Dustin was killed and his mother paralyzed when a drunk driving illegal alien with a valid NC license in his pocket slammed into the family in their car in Georgia in 2004.
Thanks to more malfeasance at the Associated Press, nobody outside of Winston Salem is reading in their newspapers how Ignacio Benitez was deported before going to court on charges of killing his own daughter and now is a free man in Mexico. (Want Proof? See Google News Search Results)
What the Associated Press needs to realize is that this disgraceful disregard of their responsibility to accurately and fully inform the public about an issue they care a great deal about must end. More and more people realize that they have to rely on the Internet, talk radio shows, and the reporter here and there with enough integrity to tell people what in the hell is really going on for their news.
There is no true way we can judge why the Associated Press is blocking and censoring this information from reaching our citizens. What we do know is that there is blood on the hands of politicians and the people responsible for neglecting or suppressing this information.
How many dead North Carolinians will it take before you do what is right? How can any problem be addressed when people do not have the facts and are kept in the dark? How many more state politicians and members of the media will we watch say "Oh this is a federal problem, we wash our hands of it."
I'll tell you what you are trying to wash off your hands and it is the blood of our citizens that do not have to die. Again I say, most crimes committed by illegal aliens are preventable crimes. Yes, the Federal government and our state and local governments are failing the people on the most basic levels of protecting our citizens from crime and the deprivation of their lives and happiness.
The name of the game seems to be to assume that once someone breaks our laws and disrespects our citizens by illegally immigrating, engaging in identity theft or document fraud, taking a job that it is illegal for them to have, that they suddenly become model hard working law abiding wanna- be citizens. I wish there was a prescription drug I could take to enjoy such a cartoon view of the world as a place full of rainbows and puppies! I just can't drink that Kool Aid!
For those with integrity and a respect for full and accurate reporting in the press, we call on you to act and act now! For our friends on the Internet and in the talk radio studios, please pump up the volume and get the word out to the public regardless of the Associated Press decides they should not know.
For the families that are grieving, our hearts and prayers go out to you and please know we are fighting hard to prevent what has happened to you from happening to others. To the many families that will be suffering the ultimate losses in the near future before we can affect change in policies to rectify the growing lawlessness and anarchy on our roads and in our neighborhoods, we are here for you. Many of you will find us after the fact as so many have this past year.
We wish that the Associated Press and those in charge in Raleigh and Washington, DC cared as much as we do. That day is coming. We will fight. We will fight hard and we are fighting because we must.
Associated Press, we are reading you the riot act. You can bash us, ignore us, defame us or whatever you feel you need to do. But we are not going away and we will continue this quest to inform the public and we will remind the public of your failures in this arena until the situation is corrected.
Here is what we plan to do. You will receive a copy of this complaint and, if the NC Associated Press would like to respond, your reply will be printed in its entirety with this letter. We will also be making an inquiry to find out exactly who your "gate keepers" are and we will post the names and contact information for those responsible for these failures to report. That way, the existing grieving families that we know about and those that find us in the future can contact you directly to ask why they were not told. It is only fair that they know your names as they seek answers to why their loved ones are gone and why nobody told them that their state is awash with illegal aliens that are in and out of the hands of police yet going on to kill, rape, assault, and steal from us.
William Gheen
President, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC ALIPAC
WilliamG@alipac.us