Posted:
Friday, July 16, 2010
by Unknown in
Labels:
illegal immigration,
Utah
A list of personal information that included the names and addresses of children and pregnant women was sent to news media and law enforcement agencies throughout the state of Utah this week. Two state workers have been identified as being responsible for this horrendous breach of privacy.
Utah officials have identified at least two state workers who apparently breached a state database to create a list of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants. Gov. Gary Herbert's office said Friday that the employees work for the Department of Workforce Services, which administers food stamp programs and other public benefits.
News media, law enforcement and other government officials started receiving the list of names and personal information this week, creating widespread fear in the Hispanic community. The anonymous mailing demands that those on the list be deported, although some named have said they are in the country legally.
The list contains Social Security numbers, birth dates, workplaces, addresses and phone numbers. Names of children are included, along with due dates of pregnant women.
The governor's office has said it will give information about the breach to the state attorney general's office by Monday so it can decide whether to file charges. [here]
Now this is just frightening, especially if you are one of the individuals that has had their personal and private information reviewed by a couple of loons. Is this what the immigration scare has done to our country? Are there no limits to this illegal immigration madness?
Since these two workers accessed this information illegally, who else now has this information?
It seems as if though a rash of racist rhetoric and actions are sweeping the country. With the election of America's first bi-racial President, it would seem to be totally the opposite. Or would it?
While watching the results of the election on that night of November 2008, I was fully aware of how far the country has come since the era of slavery. I thought of all those that had given their lives during the Civil Rights movement. I thought of how proud Martin Luther King Jr. would have been and how proud the majority of us were as Americans.
I was, however, fully aware that a small fringe of individuals still had deep rooted racist sentiments. But I thought, "Now, at last, these racist people will no longer have a voice." Alas, I was wrong.
A little over a year after the inauguration of Obama, I have seen a rash of racism that I have never seen before in my life. I have lived through six U.S. presidents so far and have seen negative reactions on both sides, but none as bitter as this.
- There have been cartoons depicting the President and First Lady as a gorilla.
- There has been a congressman calling the President a liar on national television, in the middle of the Presidential Address.
- There has been a massive uprising of a "Tea Party Movement", in which signs have been seen which depict the President as a white faced clown.
- There have been rallies that protested whatever the President stood for, in which many members in attendance had guns.
- There has been a "news" commentator on a certain television network that said, "This President is a racist."
- There has been a "birther" group that has stated the President was not born in this country, and have gone as far to call the President a Muslim.
- There has been a black member of Congress that has been called a nigger, and another black man spit upon, all done by the "Tea Party" group.
- There have been two laws passed in the state of Arizona; one law which states that the President must verify his place of birth before running for reelection in 2012, the other law allows unlimited racial profiling of citizens.
- Just to name a few instances...there are plenty more but I believe my point is well made
And yet, I feel as if we are at a place in history where we have never made it so far as a nation. Why? Well, it is obvious. Never before has there been a self proclaimed African American President in the White House.
Of course this is why we are witnessing such a violent upstart from some of our citizens. It as if the racists are making one last ditch effort, taking one last gasp of breath.
We have come so far, but we still have a ways to go. But we are so close. Oh, so close.
