NYT: "Broken in U.S.A."
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Subject: NYT: "Broken in U.S.A."
Date: Oct 1, 2009 4:46 AM
NYT EDITORIAL, BELOW
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I realize this is far-fetched, but
couldn't cops go after criminals?
You know, the harmers of the innocent?
http://www.actionlyme.org/LYME_CORRUPTICUT.htm
I know no one has heard about it before,
but on my homepage about a third of the
way down is a list of people - very well
known people, BTW, like Paul Duray:
http://www.ascp.org/FunctionalNavigation/members.aspx
who say things like, "Arthur Weinstein is
a liar- Lyme is not a late, autoimmune
arthritis in a knee."
http://www.actionlyme.org/index.htm
People like Lou Magnarelli:
http://www.ct.gov/caes/cwp/view.asp?a=2812&q=345048
who says things like, "We should be
using the Yale/Fikrig Patented Flagellin
method, because, here, we perfected it:"
http://www.actionlyme.org/index.htm
21) Magnarelli and Fikrig Spiking with "G" section of Fikrig's
flagellin patent to pick up extra cases:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=1280650
"Recombinant flagellar proteins of B. burgdorferi, such as the p41-G
antigen, can be used in an ELISA and may help confirm Lyme borreliosis
during early stages of infection and improve specificity."
Just thinkin out loud...
(TOL)
Kathleen M. Dickson
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/opinion/01thu2.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
October 1, 2009
Editorial
Broken in U.S.A.
An immigration crackdown by the Obama administration has led to the
imminent firing of about 1,800 workers at American Apparel, the trendy
clothing company whose downtown factory is one of the largest still
left in Los Angeles.
This time the feds came with payroll audits rather than the guns and
dogs of the Bush years. The director of Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, John Morton, called it a milestone in the fight against
illegal immigration: “Now all manner of companies face the very real
possibility that the government, using our basic civil powers, is
going to come knocking on the door.”
The government has to enforce the law. But one has to ask who benefits
from a crackdown like this.
Mr. Morton’s own boss, the homeland security secretary, Janet
Napolitano, used to argue that crackdowns made no sense when workers
had no shot at legalization. “To look ‘tough,’ what little enforcement
we have ends up being arbitrary and unfair,” she wrote in a 2007 op-ed
article in The Washington Post when she was still the governor of
Arizona.
American Apparel wouldn’t be our first target in the notoriously shady
garment industry. The government has not charged it with knowingly
hiring or exploiting illegal labor. By most accounts it has tried to
maintain a legal work force given how hard it is for employers to weed
out applicants whose fake documents look authentic.
Unlike companies that routinely seek out illegal immigrants (the
better to exploit them), American Apparel pays $10 to $12 an hour,
well above the minimum wage and industry standards, plus health
benefits. It hires locally, cultivates a trained work force and is
seen as a valued corporate citizen in Los Angeles. The city’s mayor
called the firings “devastating.”
President Obama and Ms. Napolitano inherited a failed immigration
policy. They have promised do better in setting priorities, hunting
down abusive employers and pressing for comprehensive immigration
reform that will give workers hope and a path to legalization.
A crackdown that forces 1,800 taxpaying would-be Americans into
joblessness in a dismal economy is a law-enforcement victory only in
the bitterest, narrowest sense. As a solution to the problem of
unauthorized workers — 1,800 down, millions to go — it’s ludicrous.
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