Mark’s Soap Box

It’s amazing how the courts in this country bend over backwards to reward those who break the law. Once again the courts have decided that we the people have no right to govern ourselves, and that only they can decide what we can and can not do. It’s un-friggin-real.

For two decades, Anaheim businessman Erkan Aydin has taken on a task unimaginable for most immigrants like himself: trying to convince the U.S. government that he was here illegally.

This shows the stupidity of Amnesty.

Aydin, 50, arrived in the United States from his native Turkey with a valid student visa in 1981, but fell out of legal status when he failed to enroll in school, he said.

The customer service representative has a powerful reason why he wants to be considered an illegal immigrant. It would make him eligible for the amnesty offered to 2.7 million illegal immigrants under the 1986 immigration reform law.

So what did he do, he broke the law and did not enroll in school as was required by his Visa. Now he wants to be rewarded.

The landmark reform law offered a one-time amnesty to immigrants who were in the United States unlawfully from before 1982 to about 1988.

But Congress was concerned that those who entered the country with a valid visa would argue that they fell out of legal status during that time simply to qualify for amnesty. As a result, Schley said, Congress created a rule requiring immigrants to show that their shift from legal to illegal status was “known to the government.”

That rule, however, created a new problem: How to prove that the government knew about their violations?

Is anyone stupid enough to think that these same clown Judges won’t eviscerate the next Amnesty, and open up to the entire world? I am not. Is anyone stupid enough to think that the 20 million plus criminals err Illegal Aliens won’t connive and con their way into an Amnesty they don’t deserve? I don’t.

One of these days the courts are going to be filled with people who actually follow the law. The liberals will howl that the courts have over stepped their boundaries. That is, if the country lasts that long. I seriously doubt our country will be around for much longer if we don’t reign in the liberals and the courts.

Thomas Mundy — the new breed of fascist

Thomas Mundy is one of many, without jobs I presume, who spend hours attacking businesses because they won’t cow-tow to an aggrieved few. [I do find it a bit ironic that this is happening in Venice California, a noted left wing nutter city]

This new army of Fascists are going to make sure you go out of business, or obey them. Your rights be damned.

Mundy is trolling for barriers to his patronage — a threshold too high for his wheelchair, a parking lot with blue-striped access lanes narrower than eight feet, a public restroom where the coat hook on the back of the door, if there is one, is above his reach.

They troll for businesses to attack for no other reason than they are not in compliance with a law that may or may not apply to that business. Never mind, they are full of rage and hate and demand that you bow down and do as they say.

Sounds a lot like the run up to kristallnacht.

They launch lawsuits as a way to shake down companies. That all this is, nothing more. Couching the “crusade” in “rights” does not change the fact that they are using the courts as a club to assuage their own personal feelings of inadequacy and put money in their pockets.

They secure piecemeal correction of offending premises and often enrich themselves and their lawyers in the process.

Can you imagine if a Conservative, or Christian did this? The liberal media would be outraged, calling them all manner of vile names.

“I don’t go looking for problems. I just notice them as I go around,” said Mundy, who moved to Los Angeles last year from Hawaii. It was in Honolulu that he learned the intricacies of the ADA as a building department employee, a de facto apprenticeship for his new career as a serial litigant.

Gee what a shock, a Government employee destroying jobs.

“He might as well have had a gun and asked me for $1,000 when he came in,” Paul Venetos, owner of Anaheim’s Varsity Burgers, said of an April visit by Mundy that led to a lawsuit over a condiments counter that was half an inch too high.

The burger joint’s security camera recorded Mundy wheeling in, looking around for a few minutes then leaving without perusing a menu or attempting to order, Venetos said. He believes Mundy came in only to look for a chink in his ADA armor.

You know why he moved to California? Simple, California is the easiest play to sue for all manner of stupid things .

California is one of the few states to put teeth into the disabilities law by mandating penalties from businesses or government entities whose premises impede the disabled.

“Confined to a wheelchair in California?” Mehrban asks potential clients on his website, www.mehrban.com. “You may be entitled to $1,000 each time you can’t use something at a business because of your disability.”

Won’t be long until he can afford to live in Hawaii, again.

Mundy, a beefy ex-contractor with longish brown hair and a daily routine of dining out and enjoying the ocean, spies an 8-inch concrete platform on which a woman in a dark-green sari has set up a table of sunglasses under an awning.

“There’s nothing in there that I’d want to buy but this might be of interest to a judge,” 50-year-old Mundy, a paraplegic since a 1988 motorcycle accident in Maryland, observed with a knowing air.

This is more proof that the ADA, like all laws favoring groups, is a joke.

“This hurts their cause,” Venetos said of the disabled suing proprietors who are making good-faith efforts to meet ADA standards. “It’s a bad thing to say, but you feel wary when you see someone come in who is handicapped, someone you’ve never seen before. You wonder if they are going to try to do something that is basically extortion.”

There are now “disabled” people roaming the streets with nothing better to do than file lawsuits to destroy businesses.

Long Beach attorney Ted Batsakis has had four clients sued for ADA infractions over the past few months. He calls the litigation “an old Chicago-style shakedown.” Like his clients, Batsakis said the law would be more just if it gave businesses 30 or 60 days to fix the problems.

Gee what a shock, a “Chicago style shakedown.” Guess we can look forward to more of this in the next 4 years.

How about getting a job?

Divorced and jobless except for the self-assigned ADA work, Mundy won’t say how much he has earned by filing lawsuits demanding five-figure sums then settling out of court with business owners keen to escape a costlier defense.

No doubt they will blame “access” as the reason they can’t get a job. It could be that they are putting people out of business who would hire them if they took the time to apply.

Sadly many in California have been doing backflips to justify the destruction of rights of property owners. You don’t have the right to come into my business. Disgusting and Pathetic.

note the camera, and the lack of video coming out
from this dingbat boat, hysterically called “Dignity”

Disgraced former U.S. Rep Cynthia McKinney, ever the publicity hound, received a taste of the real world while attempting to re-supply terrorist positions in Gaza. She is upset, boo-hoo.

“Our mission was a peaceful mission, but our mission was thwarted by the Israelis, the aggressiveness of the Israeli military.”

CNN is of course doing it’s best to portray this as an aggressive move by Israel, instead of a stupid stunt by dumbasses who still think Jimmy Carter was a great President.

CNN Correspondent Karl Penhaul was aboard the 60-foot, Gibraltar-registered pleasure boat Dignity when the contact occurred. When the boat later docked in the Lebanese port city of Tyre, severe damage was visible to the forward port side of the boat, and the front left window and part of the roof had collapsed.

You have no one to blame but yourself. You were stupid to go there, and they warned you to turn around.

The captain of the Dignity said the Israelis broadcast a radio message accusing the vessel of being involved in terrorist activity. But Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor denied that and said the radio message simply warned the vessel not to proceed to Gaza because it is a closed military area.

Palmor said there was no response to the radio message, and the vessel then tried to out-maneuver the Israeli patrol boat, leading to the collision.

So far there is no confirmation of what happened from the on-board CNN “reporter.”

Penhaul said at least two Israeli patrol boats had shadowed the Dignity for about half an hour before the collision, moving around the vessel on all sides. One of the patrol boats then shined its spotlight on the Dignity while the other, with its lights off, “very severely rammed” the boat.

The captain of the Dignity told Penhaul he received no prior warning. Only after the collision did the Israelis come on the radio to say they struck the boat because they believed it was involved in terrorist activities

Of course he said that, oh wait, he said they broadcast a message to turn back. Hmm.

Even if they did not call them on the radio, they would have used a loudspeaker to make sure the crew heard the warning. Seems to me like another cover up by the CNN pro-terrorist network.

The incident occurred in international waters about 90 miles off Gaza. Israel controls the waters off Gaza’s coast and routinely blocks ships from coming into the Palestinian territory as part of an ongoing blockade that also applies to the Israel-Gaza border. Human rights [Mark: that means pro-terrorist and anti-West] groups have expressed concern about the blockade on Gaza, which has restricted the delivery of emergency aid and fuel supplies.

Yet, these band of loonies were surprised by the actions taken. More proof they are idiots. I will give them credit for their publicity efforts. Seemed they have learned much from CNN and the Sea Shepherd Society about how to lie err promote your views.

Mychal Bell — “Jena 6″ member and thug.

Mychal Bell was cleaning his gun, they say, and it went off “accidentally.” This of course is the same “they” that said he should not be charged as an adult after he and 5 others tried to kill a white student.

Firstly, as someone who knows how to handle, shoot, and clean a ‘gun,’ I don’t buy this for one second. Secondly, this is just more proof that this racist thug should have been in prison. Thirdly, this is the type of bigoted thug that “civil rights” leaders support — “civil rights” leaders engaged in a conspiracy to destroy the town that had rightfully charged the racial motivated haters known as the “Jena 6″ with appropriate charges — while ignoring the White victim.

These racially motivated haters should have been charged with “hate crimes,” but instead were given a pass because of their race. Disgusting. Now he has a gun, which liberals say is the root of all evil; where are the howls of protest now? Don’t worry there won’t be any; Blacks can do anything they want these days except be responsible.