San Diego Union-Tribune Smears Chula Vista Residents as a "Hate Group"

David Hernandez Smears
Chula Vista Residents as "Hate Group"

Mr. Hernandez (Email --- david.hernandez@utsandiego.com)

                          (Twitter: @D4VIDHernandez)

My name is Arthur Schaper, and I am the Organization Director for MassResistance.

We are the international pro-family group that makes the difference. We set up the press conference at the Chula Vista Main Library on Thursday, August 29, 2019.

We had men and women of all backgrounds, and they were all Chula Vista residents aside from myself.

I read this part of your commentary in one of the articles you wrote about our press conference:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/south-county/story/2019-08-30/drag-queen-storytime-moved-to-larger-space-to-accommodate-expected-attendance

As with other similar events across the country, the storytime caught the attention of MassResistance, an anti-LGBTQ organization. The Southern Poverty Law Center has described MassResistance as a hate group.

Are you not aware that the Southern Poverty Law Center is a discredited hate group in and of itself and has been thoroughly discredited?

1. Its co-founder, Morris Dees, was fired for fostering a workplace filled with racism and sexism. He engaged in frequent acts of sexual misconduct against female employees, too.

2. The president of the Organization, Richard Cohen, was forced to resign as well for overlooking and enabling the workplace culture which shut out minorities and women. So did the SPLC legal director Rhonda Brownstein.

3. Former employee Bob Moser (himself politically liberal and openly gay) denounced the culture of hatred and dishonor within the organization, and patently admitted in his article in the New Yorker that the SPLC is not really interested in fighting so-called "hate groups", as much as merely engaging in smears against any group whose views they simply do not like. That is not a digilent organization of any measure, and therefore should not be quoted or referenced.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-morris-dees-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center

Brian Camenker

 4. Regarding MassResistance specifically, it is quite offensive for you to refer to this organization as a "hate group." Our founder, President Brian Camenker, is an orthodox Jew who suffered discrimination himself as a youth in Duluth, Minnesota. We have Orthodox Jewish communities in New Jersey and New York, as well as communities of many ethnic backgrounds who work with us. How can you possibly reference such individuals as "a hate group"?

Maajid Nawaz

5. For the record, the SPLC is facing at least six lawsuits for libel, and they were forced to pay a $3.8 million settlement to reformist Muslim Maajid Nawaz for smearing him as an "anti-Muslim" extremist. The SPLC had to issue an official apology, as well. That you would reference an organization which has such anti-Muslim and even anti-Semitic leanings is quite disturbing,

6. Marc Potok, another former employee of the SPLC, openly admitted that their express interest is to smear conservative groups, nothing more. They have no interest in stopping hate, but rather perpetuating it.

7. The SPLC has applied the "hate group" label to every pro-family organization they can. It's a joke. Here is a list of other groups and organizations which have been labeled "hate groups" by the SPLC:

The Family Research Council

The Alliance Defending Freedom

The American Family Association

The American Freedom Alliance

Family Watch International

World Congress of Families

It's completely meaningless and nonsensical.

In short, Mr. Hernandez, your remarks and references to the SPLC that MassResistance is a hate group are libelous. To call a group of committed Chula Vista residents "a hate group" is striking in its lack of professionalism. Mothers and fathers who care about children and their communities does not constitute "hate".

The San Diego Union-Tribue
Thinks These Loving people are "a hate group". Really?!

Furthermore, are you even daring to allege that a black pastor, himself a pillar in the community, Pastor Dennis Hodges, is a hater too? Such writing is completely uncalled for.

That reference to the Southern Poverty Law Center must be removed. It is libelous, inflammatory, devoid of any fact or basis in truth, and completely unprofessional.

Readers in the San Diego area deserve better than this kind of shoddy journalism.

I expect to hear back from you that this matter has been resolved.

My email is arthur@massresistance.org

Sincerely,

Arthur Schaper, Organization Director

Website: MassResistance.org

Email: arthur@massresistance.org

(781) 890-6001

@MassResistance

@CAMassResistanc

Schwilk Reports: Congressman Demands Full Pardon for Border Agents

Thank you, Duncan Hunter!   It is long past time to right this wrong that occurred 11 years ago under the open border Bush Regime. 

I have personally met Nacho Ramos and Jose Compean and they are great American Patriots who were just trying to keep us all safe under a hostile Bush Administration that wanted to keep our southern border wide open to and for all his amigos south of the border, namely Mexican Presidente Vicente Fox.  The vicious prosecution and persecution by George Bush hack Johnny Sutton, U.S. Attorney assigned to the case, was a national disgrace and fueled a huge backlash which finally resulted in Bush commuting parts of their sentences, but only after they had spent much time in prison and even enduring beatings from Mexican gang members there.

We all need to push President Trump grant these Pardons to Ramos and Compean and do it soon!

Attached is a photo I took of Duncan Hunter with the Ramos family at our large Patriot Picnic on Independence Day 2008 in Boulevard, CA near the border.  Nacho was still in prison at the time. 

 The following year Nacho had just been released from prison and attended our 2^nd Annual Patriot Fest on Independence day 2009 along with his beautiful family.  That was a patriot celebration that we will never forget!  Congressman Tom Tancredo and many other border and law enforcement dignitaries attended that event along with hundreds of patriots and border watchers from all over SoCal that welcomed Nacho back to freedom.  Many tears were shed that day…

Here's a report from the San Diego Union-Tribune about this pardon effort:

Rep. Duncan Hunter has asked President Donald Trump to pardon two former border patrol agents who were convicted in the shooting an unarmed marijuana smuggler as he tried to run from Texas and into Mexico, a case that fanned an international debate about security at the border.

“In the course of a struggle, and in what appeared to be the suspect brandishing a weapon, these agents fired their guns and hit him in the backside as he escaped back into Mexico,” Hunter, R-Alpine said in a statement.

“Rather than reward these agents for their $1 million seizure, a U.S. Attorney offered the drug smuggler immunity in exchange for testimony to prosecute and convict them.”

Isn't that outrageous? Since when did we prosecute police officers and border patrol agents for doing their jobs?

This is wrong! Please contact Duncan Hunter's office and thank him for stepping up to push for a full pardon for those two border control agents!

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Washington, DC 20515
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Jorge Ramirez Should Be Deported (And Why Are We Reading About Him?)

Here's the latest sob story pushed by the liberal media and the amnesty lobby.

Pastor Jorge Ramirez from Oceanside has been arrested and is currently under detention in the Otay Mesa Detention Center.

The media narrative ran something like this:

Jorge came (rather, entered illegally) into the United States when he was 11 years old.

He had worked odd jobs, then became a music minister at a local church.

He's a grand, upstanding resident of California, and the United States, even though he resides in the country illegally.

Of course, the reported account pushes the same grotesque narrative that he is an upstanding person. He's in the country illegally. He resided in the country illegally for 30 years. He took no steps to become a legal resident. He did nothing.

Still ...

He encouraged his children, all legal residents, to support and vote for Donald Trump. Throughout the article, he mentions his misplaced belief that Trump was going after the violent illegals, the ones who have an established, outstanding criminal record besides entering into the country legally and engaging in an unlawful presence in the country.

Since when did Trump ever say that he would ignore the non-violent illegal aliens? Never. Attorney General Jeff Sessions clearly announced that all illegal aliens in the United States are subject to deportation.

This is another sob story, nothing more, to induce the reading public to be angry with Donald Trump and to oppose the enforcement of our immigration laws, as well as the deportation of illegal aliens. The intent of the article was clearly to make Trump supporters feel bad about supporting Trump, especially Latinos for Trump, since the President is not making exceptions for "good illegals" in the country. Oh, and as expected, Ramirez begins to second-guess his support for the President, then offer a sense of betrayal.

Really?! How about the rest of us? Our rights as citizens to live in an integrated, sovereign country have been routinely undermined. Enough!

After reading about this short-lived account in the paper, I received the following message from a friend:

The real problem here is really the Pastor who are not teaching their members to follow the law. The guy who will be deported is not a minister. That's how I understood. If you are going to call the Pastor we need to be loving.

Let's expand on this probing inquiry.

Why should we fell any more compassion for a ministry in an apostolic church? Everyone is held accountable to the laws of the land. All authority comes from God. Just because Ramirez is a pastor does not excuse his crime.

In fact, he was busted by ICE following his attempt to apply for a permit. He had worked in the Camp Pendleton base for years and he had gotten away with it! More to the point, he was a cable installer, which means that he entered the facility, specifically individual homes on the military base!

The time of his arrest? Late December 2016, nearly two months after Trump's historic, unexpected, and unprecedented victory, but Barack Obama was still President. So, the lax non-enforcement of our immigration laws was still in effect, and Ramirez was released after one day.



Then comes May 30, 2017, and border agents came to his home and detained him. This is pretty stunning story, but it's obvious that the writers putting it all together are determined to push a narrative, a sympathy sob-story.

I contacted the initial reporter at the San Diego Union-Tribune, which is now part of the liberal Los Angeles Time corporate co-op, and I received the following answer:

I cover immigration full time in San Diego. I have sources for things like this. I’m not quite sure what you’re wanting me to tell you?

She did not get back to me.

I left a phone number at the church office and with the pastor who worked with Jorge.

The pastor told me that Ramirez had been a family friend for decades, ever since he was a kid. He also added that he never asked the immigration status of anyone attending or working in his church--that only is highly suspect, since churches hire staffers and ministers.


He also informed me that there are plenty of immigration attorneys in and around the Oceanside area. That factor leads me to have less compassion for Jorge. There is no excuse for a grown man, who ended up marrying and having children of his own, not to become a legal resident at some point. It is unconscionable.

Furthermore, this story is no the first immigration, border security, sympathy rant in the press taking place in Congressman Darrell Issa's district. As most California Republicans are aware, Issa is probably the most vulnerable Republican incumbent in the country. He barely won his re-election bid last year, by nearly 1,000 votes, despite having carried the same district by double-digits in years past.

Do we see another media-driven conspiracy, this time targeting a Republican over a controversial issue destined to split his base and his support?

Check out the report here:

Another report mentioned Congressman Issa and his efforts to help the abused boy.

Regardless of the content of these reports, the facts remain evident: Jorge Ramirez is an illegal alien. and he should be deported, especially after living in the United States for 30 years. Add to that the argument from his attorney that he paid taxes, and the alarm bells should be ringing even louder--how can an illegal alien pay taxes if he does not have a Social Security card in the first place?!

Let's cut through the political correctness crap. The liberal media in California is dedicated at all costs to make readers feel guilty or compassionate about sympathetic illegal aliens. But illegal is illegal, and the brazen disregard for our nation's immigration laws, regardless of his good works, means nothing.