On March 10th, the Orange County Human Relations Commission had their monthly meeting and discussed the Yorba Linda protest of February 13th, which has aroused a barrage of complaints from the Council on American Islamic Relations. In actuality, the commission had planned to meet privately to discuss the matter based on the 5-minute edited video produced by CAIR then make a statement.
Who is the OC Human Relations Commission, you ask? You really don't want to know-but I'll tell you anyway.
This agency, which apparently reports to the OC Board of Supervisors, is one of the biggest white elephants in Orange County. Led by an empty suit political hack named Rusty Kennedy (pictured below), this politically-correct bunch sucks up hundreds of thousands of tax-payers dollars every year to do basically nothing except meet once a month, make statements, and produce an annual chart summarizing the (low) number of hate crimes in Orange County by group. It is a useless document with more filler than a bad sausage.
Rusty KennedyHere is a report on last year's controversy over whether this boondoggle agency should be funded or discontinued.
http://www.fullertonsfuture.org/2010/oc-human-relations-commission-working-hard-but-for-who/
Well, apparently they survived, so the beat goes on.
Before I continue the latest saga involving the OCHRC, here is an article I posted in 2008, when I got on the wrong side of Kennedy. On this occasion, I sent him a letter complaining about anti-Semitic hate speech on the UC-Irvine campus. See the response that I got.
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2008/05/and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy.html
So flash forward to this month's meeting. Fortunately, some of the people involved in the Yorba Linda protest got wind of the meeting and went to make their case. They each got 3 minutes to speak and were repeatedly cut off as they tried to explain that the people who were shouting at the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) dinner attendees were a split-off from the actual protest, and that they did not represent protest organizers or speakers. They did manage to ask the board members whether they had seen the one-hour video that contained the speakers at the Yorba Linda event before the Muslim attendees even arrived at the ICNA dinner event. None of them had. They had only seen the 5-minute edited CAIR video. One woman dressed in pink was ready to make her statement that evening based on the CAIR video only. In the end, a statement was put off pending "further consultations".
That statement came this past week, and, as expected, it came down against the Yorba Linda protest organizers.
http://egov.ocgov.com/vgnfiles/ocgov/Human%20Relations/Docs/OCHRC_Statement_Muslim_Protest_3-14-11.pdf
Note that the Commission listed eight points. I agree with points 1, 2 and 4. As to the rest, especially points 5 and 6, I would ask the board members who they are referring to. Those points should be directed to the ICNA and their two featured speakers. But, of course, there was no mention of the radical speakers, Siraj Wahhaj and Amir Abdel Malik Ali. That would not be pleasing to CAIR, who has tried to downplay the fact that those two gentlemen were speaking.
So this is what the tax-payers of Orange County are paying over $300,000 a year for.
-"What about anti-Semitic hate speech at UCI?"
-"Can't be bothered."
I agree on the substantial point, that such commissions are a waste of taxpayers' money, sound and fury signifying nothing, and should be abolished. The money saved should be invested in developing high speed urban and interurban rail systems.
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ReplyDeleteHiring elevator operators is a question of how many operators, if any, are needed. Once that question is settled, they should certainly be paid union scale, however man of them there are.
ReplyDeleteYou get what you pay for.