Clearly the most dangerous government agency known to man is the one that can take your children on a whim. Obviously we have the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the government but now we must at the bureaucratic branch as well.
This branch of government has the power of deportation, legal kidnapping, garnishment, search and spying. All while operating under the cover of "privacy."
I am positive that DHS could, without evidence "beyond a reasonable doubt" that any crime has been committed, go to the government school and remove your children while you are at work. It would then be incumbent on you to prove that you are not a scumbag to get your children back.
This is a gross perversion of government power and this agency should be reined in or abolished.
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Daniel, you are so correct.
Last year, a friend of mine had her nine-year-old daughter taken away from her based solely on a unsubstantiated "hearsay" document.
What I had witnessed was truly an eye-opener.
DHS does not follow the normal rules and procedures that any other law enforcement agency must follow.
The "hearsay" document was taken as gospel and not challenged in court. The result, thousands of dollars in lawyer's fees to fight the case, and enormous stress placed on her child who still to this day is scared that somebody will come to their door and take her away again.
In a conversation that I had with the representing attorney regarding other cases was frightening of what DHS has done.
This is an agency whose power is definitely out of control with the excuse that "it's for the children".
The news media (with Lars Larson and Nigel Jaquiss the only likely exceptions) is terrified of DHS and won't touch them with a ten foot pole.
They are the Untouchables or have been until now. Lets see what comes of the US Citizen Child they exported to Mexico who was then later murdered.
What is your solution for the thousands of kids that are living in abusive conditions? What is your solution for the little brother and sister who are left to fend for themselves in an unheated, filthy hovel while their parents are on a 10 day meth binger? What is your solution for the child who is being sexually abused by her "father" AND her uncle? What is your solution for the little boy who has nothing to eat because his alcholic "mother" has spent all their money on booze and is out in the street at 3am prostituting herself so she can buy more? When you come up with a solution to these very real scenerios that have happened right here in Sherwood, OR (ask me, I can tell you hundreds more) then maybe you'll have a shot at "abolishing" DHS.
PS: I truly would love to hear your proposed alternatives Daniel.
WOW!!!! Way to change the topic so quickly, Daniel!!! Usually you take two or three days to file a new post! What's the hurry Daniel? Don't want to talk about Bruce the Barber anymore? ROTFLMAO!
maybe you'll have a shot at "abolishing" DHS.
It should go if they get kids killed...AND THEY HAVE!
It would then be incumbent on you to prove that you are not a scumbag ...
What's this? Guilty until proven innocent? What's the problem? That's right out of your playbook. That's Miglavian Law 101. Oh ... wait, sorry. That's just for Latinos. Never mind.
Of course there have been some cases where things have gone horribly wrong, where caseworkers and "the system" have made incorrect decisions. DHS is run by HUMAN BEINGS who are known to make mistakes. But for every horror story there are a thousand success stories that never make it into the paper. For every mistake there are a thousand positive outcomes. Do you know how many families and children DHS assists each year? And of those only a fraction of 1% are mishandled. Again, give us a better solution. Come on, smarty pants. Put your money where your mouth is -- where's your plan?
Oregon Anti-immigrant Activist Arrested for Child Sex Abuse
An Oregon anti-immigrant activist and blogger is being held on five counts of using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct, two counts of sex abuse and two counts of hindering prosecution.
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According to a news report appearing in the Salem Statesman Journal yesterday, Bruce Elliot Benkle, a barber at the Fairview Barbershop in Dalles, was arrested last month on a range of sex abuse charges he is suspected of committing on both male and female children. He is currently lodged in the Polk County Jail with bail set at $200,000. Bruce Benkle, a well known anti-immigrant activist frequently seen holding signs and taking photos for Oregonians for Immigration Reform at thier events, is a blogger well known among Oregon's top anti-immigrant weblogs. Benkle, who goes by "Bruce the Barber" among other pseudonyms, is often seen commenting on Daniel's Political Musings, one of Oregon's most active anti-immigrant blogs. He is also seen regularly posting comments on message boards of news sites in the Marion County area and elsewhere.
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Yesterday's story caught our attention as there were similarities between a mugshot of Benkle and a photo (on the left) of anti-immigrant blogger "Bruce the Barber". It wasn't until reviewing an entry appearing at Daniel's Political Musings from last March that the photo along with another were in fact that of Bruce Benkle and the Vice President of Oregonians for Immigration Reform and Vice Chairman of the Marion County Republican Party, Rick Hickey, at an OFIR-Oregon Minuteman rally. In the photos, the two are shown holding signs with other OFIR activists outside the office of the Service Employees International Union Local 503 during an anti-immigrant rally in downtown Portland. Benkle later commented on the entry identifying himself in the photo with Hickey. Benkle has a long history of threatening and intimidating behavior, and racist commentary. Among his racist commentary, one in particular shows him boasting on Daniel's Political Musings of a website he enjoys with cartoons he says are "a little racist". "If you want to e-mail me", Benkle said "I will show you a website with a lot of funny cartoons about Mexicans and others, and NO they are not racist....well maybe a little" Following the comment he left his signature "old time barber" email address that he often posts along with his full name on other internet sites. As a close ally of the leadership at Oregonians for Immigration Reform, the identification of Bruce Benkle's enjoyment of promoting racist material comes on the heals of a report released last week by the Southern Poverty Law Center showing among other things white supremacists among the ranks of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a group that is directly linked on OFIR's website. According to the Polk County Sheriff's office, they have concerns that there may be many more victims of Benkle, as he used the barber shop in Dalles to perpetrate many of the sex crimes. In a KATU News report, Polk county prosecutor Tim Park said that "every time we talk to one [victim], it turned up one or two more, and it's kind of in a domino effect". Police are asking parents whose children may have had any unsupervised contact with Benkle to contact them immediately.
so what exactly is the point of the above comment about binkle? yeah OBVIOUSLY Daniel is guilty by association right? yeah, right.
what you are implying is ridiculous..
THEY'RE RAPING OUR CHILDREN!
You know, no one is saying DHS doesn't have a hard job and that in the majority of cases they probably act properly. However, there really seem to be enough of these stories even pre Gabriel, to warrant some action.
I mean, give me a break, flying Granny up from Mexico at taxpayer expense? That's not even close. Last time I had to get a building permit I don't remember them sending a limo for me.
I am a product of a hellish childhood that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I was born to a mother and father who loved drugs more than me. I wish it would have just stopped there, but it gets worse. My father started to abuse me at age 7. If he got high enough, he liked to play with stuff. The kind of stuff RHuse sells. He forced me to pose for pictures. He forced me to have sex with his friends so he could get money to buy more drugs. When I was 11 I said "no more." I ran away with my brother. He was 9. He found us 4 hours later, my brother got away, but not me. Every morsel of food disappeared from the house. It was summer vacation, so I didn't even have a school lunch to eat. I lasted a week before I broke down. The food came back. My brother never did. My parents never even reported him missing and no one else cared enough to ask about him either. I don't know if he is dead or alive. When I was 14 I finally worked up the courage to tell someone Oregon DHS stepped in. I was in a clean, warm, loving home in 3 hours. I went to bed that night and didn't have to worry about what time my Dad would come in to strap some kind of strange device on me or in me. DHS provided for all my needs including the counseling I needed to become whole again. They supported me so that I could gather the strength I would need to finish high school, get my ass in college, and carve out a life for myself.
Now I counsel other children who have had experiences like mine. If I could have an hour or two of your time, I could tell you stories that would make you weep. I could make Daniel weep. Now wouldn't that be a sight.
Sure, DHS has dropped the ball, to disasterous results. Even one child who winds up suffering even more because of another human being's lack of skill or lack of knowledge is unacceptable. But it is also inevitable, particularly when you are trying to operate under an administration where your manpower is cut by a third but your caseload goes up by 47%. Of course, it is WAY more important to spend our money on bridges to nowhere and wars to nowhere. It's WAY more important to spend our money on corporate welfare and pork barrel extravaganzas. Hopefully, our new President will understand the desperate need to hire more DHS caseworkers so that
the needs of this nation's children can be met. And if you think that it's all the fault of the illegal alien, let me assure you, the overwhelming majority of the destruction DHS attempts to repair, the overwhelming majority of the children who are abused and neglected, exploited and forced to do things that even I can't wrap my mind around, the excrutiating majority of those families are white Americans.
Yeah, let's talk about the real "danger" to children. It is your fucking pedophile pal Bruce The Barber Benkle. Interesting that you change the subject so fast and interesting that you try to pin some crap about being a danger to kids on DHS. The word on the internet is that Rick Hicky and your pedophile friend Bruce Benkles were really really close. Good friends they were—seen many places. Such good friends that any good investigative reporter like Nigel Jacquiss could probably ferret out something that would reveal Oregonians for Immigration Reform as the racist hate filled cesspool that it is. I would bet that when it comes to child abuse and molestation, what they would find within the rank and file membership would be staggering.
The sad component to all this is how a disgusting little ex-con puke like you, Daniel, would let your kids hang with any scumbag racist that pledges hate for Mexicans. Sounds like it might be time for you and the rest of the racist clowns from your little group ask your kids the question. You know the one. The one that any parent dreads having to ask their child about another adult.
You mean: Did "Uncle Bruce" ever touch you? Yeah, Rickey Hickey and Daniel better be asking their kids about "Uncle Bruce." Sure hope not.
THEY'RE RAPING OUR CHILDREN!
Why are pedophiles always white?
Like I said yesterday: I would trust my Mexican friends with my children WAY, WAY more than any OAFer. There's just too many of them with, shall we say, "issues?"
I have a writer friend who knows a lot of shit about OAF-er's members. You don't even know the half of it, but maybe you will soon.
Anyone seen DeLucca lately?
Sure would be nice if the left had as much criticism whenever a total racist, like Bruce was, or pedophile, like Bruce is alleged to be whenever one pops up in their ranks.
Makes one wonder, I mean lets face it, they pretty much ran to deflect and defend against those same charges when brought against their own in recent days.
Oh well, just goes to further my theory, they don't really give a rats ass about minorities, or the children Bruce is alleged to have abused, They just get off on accusing others.
>Why are pedophiles always white?
You mean like Mel Reynolds - Democratic congressman? He sure didn't look white to me. Oh wait, that's right, he was a democrat so he can abuse kids any way he wants and it doesn't matter to you, sorry.
Daniel,
You so easily spout out stuff like this but when people challenge you, you disappear. Have you no spine?
Here's one LIBERAL who would like to say CASTRATE any and all pedophile freaks who abuse children. I dont care what side of the aisle they're from. That includes our former Governor Neil Goldshmidt and Mel Reynolds. And as long as I'm here, this LIBERAL wants all crooks to have their slimy asses thrown in the clink and that includes liberals who break the law. ALL OF THEM. It's just that these days, the crooks and the pedophiles seem to be coming from a certain side of the aisle. It's just a fact. It's not our fault they've been from the "right" side for a long while. It just seems to have worked out that way.
Well, guess that just blew your "always and never" rule all to hell Huse.
RHuse:
You said:
....Makes one wonder, I mean lets face it, they pretty much ran to deflect and defend against those same charges when brought against their own in recent days....
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Guess I missed this news. Who are you talking about?
Here's a frightening letter that Bruce the Barber apparently wrote to a website called the "Silenced Majority". Hey Daniel, here's an angle for your next blog post: If it wasn't for all those illegal immigrants stealing the jobs and destroying the culture, Bruce probably wouldn't have grown frustrated and molested all those kids. Once again, it's all the immigrants' fault!
Horrifying to think this guy had a daughter. What a sick fuck!
"Dear Dr. Nemko,
I am up here in the politically correct Northwest. I am a certified phlebotomist. I hold an Oregon pharmacy technician license and have 29 years of customer service background as a licensed Master Barber. The past five years I have been trying to get a job as phlebotomist but due to the fact I am not a one-legged transgender black woman who can speak Spanish, I can't even land even a fu*king interview. I have applied to Salem Hospital, Salem Clinic, Salud Medical Center, various State, County and City jobs. I never even get interviewed!
Remember, almost all applications up here come with a little attached form called a Federal Questionnaire for "diversity" (my favorite fu*king word) to find out if the employer is hiring the "proper" amount of the "right" kind of people, in other words ANYBODY but me or my kind
By the way, .the new and coming thing up here for state, city, county or almost any other big hiring entity is the switch from "preferring bilingual" to the words"require applicant be bilingual".
It pisses me off that to get a job with my city, my county, my state, my country’s government, I am required to speak the foreign language of a minority population that mainly got here illegally. If you want to come into my country legally and become a part of my country and still retain principles of your home culture, fine, but don't come into my country illegally and then proceed to tell me to change my language and culture to conform to the ways of the sh*thole country you came from. Nobody put a gun to your head and forced you to come here. If you like your country’s ways, language and customs keep your ass on your side of the border.
When I apply for those jobs, all I get is a form rejection letter. I don’t even get an interview. I have been collecting them all (21 from Salem Hospital alone!, signed, of course, by Andres Acosta and Jeannie Barnes) just to prove to my politically correct (thanks to the school system here) teenage daughter that her daddy is getting fu*ked big time, all the time. Maybe one day after I’m gone, she will realize what this country has gone through.
Bruce Benkle, Salem, Oregon"
Daniel, two points here:
First, and as another poster said, yes…DHS has made mistakes. Those mistakes should be examined, and fixed. But you focus on those mistakes at the expense of ignoring the large number of successful DHS interventions. The vast majority of work DHS does is good work, and it’s a shame (but not terribly surprising) that you would single out the small amount of mistakes, and use that as a prop to argue for abolishing DHS.
Second, if you abolished DHS, how would you go about helping the many innocent children who need their services? I suspect we won’t get that answer from you. Reactionaries like you are quick to call for drastic action in these circumstances, but short on substance when it comes to suggesting workable solutions or alternatives.
Third, it is just a tad funny hearing right-wingers whine about bloated, out-of-control government agencies these days. The current administration in D.C. has set new (and low) standards for government secrecy, intrusion into privacy, and bloated new government agencies and programs. And yet, the majority of Republicans still think George Bush is a great president doing a great job! In other words, right-wingers have little credibility these days when it comes to criticizing government. People like you will have to overcome that stigma before anyone takes your whining about government seriously. You right-wingers have really done a lot of damage to yourselves, and your credibility, over the last seven years of the Bush Administration.
Oh, and BTW, this story about “Bruce the Barber” is a great illustration of why the term “racist” is often thrown at anti-immigration forces. It amazes me that people like you, Daniel, still seem perplexed that charges of racism are thrown towards groups like OFIR. And if you don’t think the “Bruce the Barber” story hurts OFIR, you’re mistaken. Fair or not, most Americans do still believe in the concept of “You’re known by the company you keep”. Having a sexual predator as a vocal member of OFIR, certainly doesn’t help OFIR’s cause.
So, Daniel! When are you going to post a picture of Bruce? Or is the giddy thrill just not there when it's one of your own?
Where did tricky Rickey slither off too? He was making regular comments the past several days...now, suddenly, he's incognito.
I bet Bruce The Barber had no problem cutting illegal Mexican hair and taking their money when he was finished. Those poor pendehos sitting in his barber chair probably didn't even know who he was. Do you think he glared at them while he was cutting their hair or do you think had a sign in his window that said "No Illegals/Mexicans?" Probably not. I'd say in Dallas, they likely made up the bulk of his clientele. He made a living off of them, probably fondled their sons and daughters, and then, being the fat ass hypocrite that he is, spewed racist bullshit about them at every venue he could manage to slither his fat ass too.
Indeed...the company you keep.
OAF-ers with kids:
Police are asking parents whose children may have had any unsupervised contact with "Uncle Bruce" to contact them immediately.
What kind of asshole calls for the amelioration of an agency responsible for ensuring the health and saftey of children?
Christ, take a spin through their website. If they really are the KGB, as Daniel claims, they really do a good job of disguising it.
But, maybe the should be shut down because they didn't catch wind of Bruce the Barber while he was molesting kids.
Illegals have not done their time. They either go un-reported by lib traitors or just keep a low key profile. Untill an illegal is arrested and deported they havnt served for their crime. Oh yeah but the police in oregon CANT arrest someone based on their legal status. Thanks fo OFIR thats going to be changed.
Hey anon 1:35 PM
Why don't you ask Ted Kulongosky why he covered up a rape of a 14-yr old by his best friend Neil Goldschmidt?
You clowns are getting on OFIR because they didn't know some piece of garbage was a pedophile, yet you probably voted for Ted. You voted to put a criminal in power. Is Ted still covering up rapes by his and your friends or is he involved in the rapes with you? Tell us the truth you pedophile. Me, I like women, 21 or older. They have to go to the liquor store. Where do your women hang out at, play grounds?
Bring Bruce Benkle AND illegal aliens to justice. Not a problem for me!
But I'd like to know more about the case against Benkle. Is it a strong case? Then why are they asking the public to come forward and accuse Benkle? Don't they have enough to go to court on?
I can't find the report but I know the #1 crime of Illegal Aliens is Sex crimes as I read a report by Or. department of corrections that showed the ICE hold crime list and type of crime, Child molestation and Rape were the largest %! (Ask them)
And like their are no Liberals, Democrats, far left whatever that are in Jail for horrible sicko crimes?
If Bruce is guilty he will pay the price now & later, but him showing up at a couple of protests does not imply OFIR or any members knew of his crimes.
The legal problems of "Bruce the Barber" and the allegations made against him, if true, are sad and horrifying. By itself, the case is of no consequence and of no real importance to anyone other than the victims and their families, him and his family, and others who are somehow directly involved.
Miglavs' unwillingness to even acknowledge the case, however, is of consequence. It IS important. If you don't understand why, then please stop reading now because you are an idiot and will not understand.
It speaks to a twisted mix of hypocrisy and dishonesty on so many levels I don't even know where to begin. Add to that the bizarre fact that he followed up the post in which the news about Bruce was unveiled (not by Miglavs, of course) with one blasting an agency whose expressed purpose is to protect children!!!
Lacking further explanation from Miglavs, there is no other way to regard the timing of that than as an expression of TOTAL CONTEMPT AND DISREGARD for the alleged victims in this case and for the feelings of their families. TOTAL!!! Let's be clear: Daniel Miglavs does not give a flying goddamned fuck about ANY of it: Not about the case, certainly not about the victims, and probably not even about Bruce himself.
And if - IF - he does have, in his heart, some compassion for Bruce, then it would be very, very interesting to see how he reconciles that with his obvious inability to exhibit so much as a shred of compassion for any human being who commits the apparently unpardonably sin of walking from Point A in Mexico to Point B in the U.S. without the proper "papers." But you know what? I'm guessing he doesn't even really care about his former partner in bigotry. He doesn't care! Are we all clear? HE DOESN'T GIVE A SHIT!!!
To the list of things Daniel Miglavs doesn't give a shit about, add the following: He doesn't care about YOU. He doesn't care about your responses to his inane, blathering posts. He doesn't care about your comments (including this one) even though his interest is implied (sort of) by the fact that he offers the ability to leave comments in the first place. He doesn't care about discussion, or real, serious debate. As far as his ability to respond is concerned, he's too stupid. As far as his willingness to respond, he's too much of a pussy.
The only thing that Daniel Miglavs cares about is what Daniel Miglavs says and writes, and that is all. At the end of the day, as far as Daniel Miglavs is concerned, it's all about Daniel Miglavs sitting at his keyboard with an imbecilic grin, thinking of what Daniel Miglavs can come up with next.
Dave: Yes, they have to go to the liquor store so they can get good and drunk before they can bear the thought of having your body parts touch theirs.
bob randy, you have quite an imagination. Just look at all the stuff you made up!
Wasn't he good friends with Rick Hickey. It has been noted on this blog that Daniel, Rick and other members of OFIR spent the night at Bruce's house back when the scumbag racist bikers came to Salem for a anti-immigrant rally.
If DHS hadn't been so quick to exile this little girl to Mexico, it is very likely that she would be alive today. But, since DHS, in all their, wisdom(?) decided that she would be better off in Mexico with her "family", she is now dead at the hands of her aunt and uncle.
That should make all the anons who think that DHS is good very happy.
And if Rick Hickey, Daniel Miglavs and all the OFIR members had come forward about Bruce Benkles, the families of all the children that had been raped by Bruce the Barber wouldn't be suffering today.
Regarding the thing with Bruce the Barber, I wonder what Anthony "INS/FBI Statistical Report" DeLucca thinks about the situation.
It has been noted on this blog that Daniel, Rick and other members of OFIR spent the night at Bruce's house ...
Too Much Information.
Ah, the politics of personal destruction are alive and well.
Sorry, I meant "guilt by association."
To the post:
True, DHS has a hard job, but the seemingly systematic exiling of American citizens (children) with one dead -- apparently murdered -- is a chilling note.
The bureaucracy is subject to group think, they rarely challenge their own assumptions.
And, what are those assumptions in a case like baby Gabriel?
Apparently, culture follows DNA.
So, if you are Hispanic, you must be brought up in that culture, even if that means getting exiled to Mexico.
What garbage!
And an insult to Hispanic citizens who rightly see themselves as American. Period.
And what elected party leadership, which claims to be color blind, follows this assumption?
The Democratic Party.
What hypocrisy!
And yet the elected Democratic Party leadership promotes illegal aliens coming to Oregon.
Telling Oregon citizens, "illegal aliens will assimilate."
Yet, all their policies encourage illegal aliens not to assimilate and Hispanics in general (I want the law enforced and for illegal aliens to either self-deport or be forcibly deported.):
Sending American children of Hispanic decent to Mexico; coddling Hispanic children in bilingual education, instead of full immersion English; promoting "diversity," which leads to balkanization; ballots in Spanish; turning a blind eye to over crowded apartments (sometimes 10 or more people to one apartment); requiring bilingual ability to get a state job; driving manuels in Spanish at DMV; and encouraging race identity politics.
The hyprocrisy disgusts me.
Yet, the elected Democratic Party leadership is oblivious to the danger of an unassimilated group (20 to 30 million) coming into America illegally and demanding rights.
The American people think it's outrageous -- the polls reflect that.
Elected Democratic Leadership you are betraying the American People.
It's a "group think" just like the "bureaucratic think" that routinely exiled American children to a third world country, Mexico -- at least once to die.
The elected Democratic Party leadership has dangerous ideas about, ethnicity, assimilation, and illegal aliens.
My question: Do they respect the United States of America?
Or do they only care about power?
Scottieshill:
Don't you think that's a little bit of a stretch? I mean, really, a pedophile doesn't let a thing like "association" stop him.
I seriously doubt anybody at OAF-er knew about Bruce The Barber's other life.
Nor, do they seem to care.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Wasn't he good friends with Rick Hickey. It has been noted on this blog that Daniel, Rick and other members of OFIR spent the night at Bruce's house back when the scumbag racist bikers came to Salem for a anti-immigrant rally.
6:42 PM
How many nights did Ted K. spend at Neil Goldschmidt's house while Neil was raping that girl? How many nights was Ted involved in the rape or did he KNOW NOTHING WHILE SPENDING THE NIGHT?
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