The Fairfield Weekly documents the dolts on the News-Times board who work tirelessly to keep the image of Danbury being the "Armpit of Connecticut" fresh in everyone's minds.
We've always considered many posters on the Danbury News-Times's website xenophobic nutbags, or worse. Recently, their xenophobic nutbaggery was acknowledged in a court of law, and may have had an effect on the trial.
An attorney representing the daughters of Ivan Patricio Tenecela, an undocumented immigrant who was electrocuted to death in 2004 due to a faulty set-up at a Newtown historical house that his company was hired to repair, motioned for a change of venue because "many of the prospective jurors in the Danbury district were insensitive to this claim because of Mr. Tenecela's undocumented status," basing this statement directly on comments on the News-Times's site.
The defendants—the Town of Newtown, the Heritage Preservation Trust of Newtown and Tenecela's employer Campbell Quality Painting—settled out of court, paying $300,000 to Tenecela's two daughters, who live in Ecuador and were sent money from their father in the states until his death.
The responses on NewsTimes.com:
- "Rewarding criminals, I am sure the liberals will chime in and say how this was a good thing." The "criminals" being 8-year-old Digna and 10-year-old Jennifer?
- "I hope the family will be paying the standard 40% in taxes." The "family" being two fatherless children?
I am disgusted with The News-Times' agenda. You would think we were in the Netherlands with the radical Muslims gunning for their latest victims (Pauline Basso and Joel Urice) and The News-Times is right in front with the ammunition fueling the fire!
My God certainly isn't the same God that these liberal, support-those-illegal-alien-law-breaker clergy, is. What were Jesus' words? Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's. These misguided preachers are supporting people who are stealing from (Caesar) the United States of America.
I am sick of it. Let those "generous with other people's money" "preachers" support the lawbreakers who did not stand in line and wait their turn legally.
I got hit head-on by an illegal alien with no English, no license and no insurance, and she walked away with a ticket! I had to re-mortgage my house to replace my totaled car. Real fair, there.
Let's just bring in more illegals and continue to choke our streets, schools, social services and hospitals with "good, hard-working people who just want to support their families." Let's just take all the "little" jobs away so that high school kids, moms, some disabled and retired legal residents can't find living-wage-paying jobs, part or full time.
This is a witch hunt against the average American worker. All you do is pick on people who believe as I do. You don't know the difference between witch-hunting and news. The News-Times is nothing but a scandal rag that's got the credibility of the Enquirer.
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This "newspaper" sure is working overtime on this issue. I wouldn't be surprised if it backfired on you. The voters are smarter than you give them credit for. Shame on you.
Yes, the voters are smart...they gave Basso the boot.
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
The Fairfield Weekly documents the dolts on the News-Times board who work tirelessly to keep the image of Danbury being the "Armpit of Connecticut" fresh in everyone's minds.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
