Immigrants also arrive fully informed of their rights to be free from discrimination too. It seems as if there are those charming, thoughtful public spirited lawyers who travel to Guantanamo and elsewhere preparing immigrants to know their rights. But poor white Americans, persons with disabilities remain free from any exercising of their basic rights and from access to attorneys. It just makes your heart grow warm. Ahem!
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On my walk to the park this morning, I came upon a huge mess on and around two picnic tables: paper, food, cans, bottles, and (the worst) a broken whisky bottle on the concrete beneath a table. Not just a few pieces, but a million pieces. Shattered.
Something glittered amid the trash: a new Apple iPhone. I brought it home, turned it on, and waited. A few hours later, it rang. A woman said that it was her little brother's phone, and she wanted it back.
I: "Yes, I have no problem with that, but first he needs to go to the park with a dust pan and broom, sweep up the glass, and pick up all the trash."
She: "I don't know where he is. His phone is on my account, so it's my property."
[. . .]
Since the woman had an unusual name, I looked her upon Facebook. She's from Khartoum, Sudan. A refugee? Christian or Muslim? With friends named Ali, Mohamed, Hassan, and Ibrahim, I'm just guessing she's not Christian. But I could be wrong.
Curious, isn't it, how soon they learn to assert their property rights, but cleaning up a mess is someone else's problem? In Sudan, the way to dispose of trash is to pitch it out the window. If you're feeling extra energetic, you loft the bag into someone else's yard. Or am I thinking of some other country?
These are the people who come here as "an act of love" (Jeb Bush), who will revitalize the German workforce and offset Germans' low birth rate (Angela Merkel).
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/meditation_on_a_lost_iphone.html
January 17, 2016
Meditation on a lost iPhone
By Henry Percy
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