When In Doubt, Blame Someone Else…
One of Lou Barletta’s favorite tactics is to blame everyone else for his mistakes. As a bumbling, incompetent, failure of a leader, Lou Barletta makes lots of mistakes. One of his biggest took place during the first few years of his first term as mayor of Hazleton. In an effort to save the city money, Barletta cut the Hazleton Police Force in half. As a result, crime began to rise.
Now, rather than be a man and stand up and say, “Perhaps cutting the police force in half wasn’t a brilliant idea. I’m sorry,” Barletta decided to take a different route. Blame illegal immigrants. He traveled far and wide, appearing on several national television programs, ranting and raving about how his city was suffering from an “illegal immigrant crime wave”.
However, when Barletta’s extremist immigration policies were challenged in court, Barletta was forced to admit that, essentially, he made the whole “immigrant crime wave” thing up. Oops. According to Barletta, over a five year time period, about 8,000 crimes were committed in Hazleton. Of those 8,000 crimes, about 20 were committed by illegal aliens. That means that .25%, less than one percent, of the crime in Hazleton is a result of illegal immigration. That has got to be the smallest crime wave in the history of the universe.
Lou Barletta is a failed leader. He has a record of cutting police protection for his own city, attempting to pass extremist legislation (which was later struck down as being unconstitutional), and refusing to take a stand on any other major issue facing this nation, even as he runs for Congress. This record of failed leadership is why Lou Barletta lost the last time he ran for Congress (in 2002) and it’s why he will loose this time around, as well. Lou Barletta does not deserve to be elected to the US Congress.
-Dan Cheek
www.StopLouBarletta.com
StopLouBarletta@gmail.com
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Listen up pin head Dan …one crime committed by an Illegal is ONE TOO MANY. YOU MAY WANT TO ASK THE FAMILY OF Derek Kichline WHO WAS MURDERED BY 2 ILLEGALS. These people break the law by coming here and then kill one of our citizens. Tell me why you think it’s OK that our federal government doesn’t enforce the laws on the books ? Tell me why you think it’s OK for Mexico to militarize their southern boarders but we can’t. Tell me why you are OK with all of the illegal drugs and gang activity, murders and kidnapings that happen on our southern boarder ? Tell me why you think it’s OK for an Illegal to be in our country and while seeking services WE NEED TO PROVIDE A TRANSLATOR AT THE EXPENSE OF THE TAX PAYER. You sir are an useful idiot. Lou Barletta can run on just that and that is good enough for me. Lastly, have you taken a ride through Hazleton lately ? Yeah I didn’t think so. I love your source…the Dominican American National Round table…they have NO agenda. You site is littered with disinformation and misspelled words. AGAIN ONE CRIME, ONE MURDER IS TOO MANY, SO DON’T TRY AND PUT A NUMBER ON THE AMOUNT OF CRIME.
April 24th, 2008 at 4:35 am
Is this blog open to all? Will posts that differ from your mission statement be deleted?
I would appreciate an honest answer. Thank you.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Ha ha, that guy called you Dan Butt Cheeks…how original!
April 25th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Original no, but very thoughtful. Could be much worse after reading Dan’s post about Barletta.
Barletta may have his faults, but at least he is trying to do someting to put an end to the illeagal problem. Barletta’s law would have went a long way in sending a message that illeagal immigrants are not welcome here. Search around, everywhere the laws on the books are enforced we see improvement. If there were a law in place like Lou’s, nationwide, we wouldn’t have to worry about rounding anyone up. We would just need to offer free bus rides home to these poor displaced persons.
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April 26th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
yo ne cons, what the fuck is the difference who commits the crime????
hazelton is in the dumps because lou cut the police force, dan is exactly right. the rise in crime can be directly attributed to the cut not only through commons sense but through data and stats. ya know those peskly little things a bigoted ahole like barletta ignores.
barletta is a race baiter. he picked a group of people that he encouraged to move to his city, but have little politcal clout at this time.
this asshole can not even write a constituional city ordiance how the fuck do you think he is gonna write federal law… o never mind he wont get the chance.
btw lou is a dem at heart, a bleeding heart liberal dem who changed parties not for ideology, but for opprotunism.
April 26th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
yo mloozer… What difference does it make who committed the crime ??? If it was one of your family members it would matter. And why do you think his ordinance wasn’t constitutional ? Could it have something to do with the federal government not doing their job ? Also the number of police officers has no effect on crime rates that’s just BS. If your crime rate goes up and you hire more cops…does your crime rate go up again ? Do you have a cop every 5 feet ? Does your theory hold true in big cities ? Detroit, D.C. ….. BS BS BS
Why am I here….never mind.
April 28th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
True NEPA. Mluz, where do you get all this racial nonsense? Race baiter? Bigot?
Just how were these poor unfortunate souls encouraged to come to Hazelton? Please qualify your statements. You are spouting BS….Dan, what is your opinion of Mluz’s post?
Also is there anyway to be notified of replies? Please advise. I will join if necessary.
Thank you.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Dan is 100% correct! If Lou didn’t cut thepolice force when he took office in 2000, the city wouldn’t be in this mess. Illegals or no, you cut cops, crime goes up.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Thanks for ignoring my post. I thought those general statements wouldn’t be supported byanything that resembled “fact”. Oh and BlueLou, nice parrot job.
This is such an interesting conversation………
April 30th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Dan here is the link to the forum i mentioned on the other post, your site won’t let me repost…….
http://nepalibwatch.com/phpbb/index.php