WorldNetDaily columnist: "If you are a Nazi sympathizer ... a Middle Eastern country may be more to your liking"
February 02, 2010 9:04 am ET by Media Matters staff
From a February 2 WorldNetDaily column by Marylou Barry, headlined "Rules for living in my country":
So, then, let's go over some of the principles our first two centuries of immigrants intuitively understood and that many of today's immigrants, for some reason, apparently do not. I don't mean to insult you by belaboring the obvious, but better too much clarity now than a big surprise for both of us down the road.
You cannot own people here. This includes domestic servants and family members. You cannot beat or mutilate your children. You cannot force, threaten, or sell them into arranged marriages. You cannot keep adult relatives from marrying the people they choose, getting jobs, or moving out of your house. You cannot hold your employees captive, beat or rape them, or refuse to pay agreed-upon wages. It took us 200 years to get rid of institutionalized slavery, and we are not about to reinstate it because one of your holy men thinks it's acceptable behavior.
You cannot kill people here. Not your wife. Not your children. Not your grandchildren. Not people who question your honor or hurt your feelings. Not people who quit your religion. Not people of other faiths or ethnicities whom you regard as apes, pigs, monkeys, or dogs.
You cannot take over our lawful institutions and subvert them to you own purposes. If you are a communist and want to overthrow our government, we don't want you. We have enough of our own, so try Cuba or China. If you are a Nazi sympathizer we don't want you either; a Middle Eastern country may be more to your liking anyway. If you are coming here to convert us to any ideology that abrogates our dignity or freedom, don't even get off the plane. We don't care what it says in your holy book; we are not here for you to colonize.
You need to ask questions before you accept employment. If your belief system requires a special place to bathe your feet or time off to pray at work, tell your employer before you hire on. If you are going to refuse to work next to a person of the opposite sex or refuse to perform some required function of the job, your interview is the time to make this plain. Come to think of it, before you leave your country of origin would be even better. It would also give you more time to find an employer willing to make special accommodations, not an easy sell in these times of strong competition and 10 percent unemployment. Just remember that U.S. companies are under no obligation to adapt to your newfound needs after hiring has taken place.
You get only one wife. If that's not enough, it's called bigamy -- and you would be subject to state laws regarding that particular felony. Some states also have laws against cohabitation, which is the legal definition of what you would be doing. Also, please note that the rest of us do not intend to support any surplus "spouses" with our tax money through entitlement programs.
Does that also apply to Evangelical Nutbags who refuse to sell contraceptives at a pharmacy?
Is this an endorsement of same sex marriage by World Nut Daily?
That's a strange article. The target demographic is immigrants? It's been awhile since I've heard a story about a slave-owning, polygamist immigrant. Are they speaking about the last big story about polygamy sect in America, in Texas? I think those were white Christian guys.
No, I think what they're doing is a strawman argument. Accusing immigrants of misdeeds by telling them to knock it off, and, more accurately, misinforming your REAL demographic- readers who might now think that there's enough of an epidemic of these accusations to warrant an entire article.
1. World Net Daily, Do not haze your new employees by locking them in a closet filled with tear gas. This is illegal and possibly lethal.
2. Do not step on kittens. Animals are our friends. We do not step on them.
Have they done these things? My guess is no. But by setting up a column to tell them not to do it, some readers are going to think that it's something that's commonplace, or at least, exclusive to World Net Daily, while I, the writer, get to use the excuse of "I never actually ACCUSED them. I'm just saying "don't."
You cannot continue to make ridiculous claims that the President of the United States was born in a foreign country particularly after you've displayed his birth certificate online and verified its authenticity. That makes people think you're a bunch of hypocritical fools and hypocritical fools should never be taken seriously.
Some of the principles aren't bad, but it's a shame they're stated in such a xenophobic manner. And MMFA is right, the title phrase is simply bizarre.
See: Wal-Mart and Migrant Workers....