Churchill High School’s team leading Gordon Bell High School 2-1 toward the end of the playoff semifinal, the game at Tec Voc High School’s field ended abruptly when players on the losing squad became angry at penalty calls and allegedly attacked the lone teenage referee.
Police in several cars rushed to the field shortly before 6 p.m. when they were called after the referee ran from virtually the entire Gordon Bell team, witnesses said.
A female Churchill teacher was elbowed in the face by a Gordon Bell player while trying to stop the fracas.
Churchill players alleged they were threatened with violence and even death by members of Gordon Bell.
“As soon as the game ended, the craziness ensued,” Graham Blicq, a player for Churchill, said as officers took statements from the official.
Diogo Costa, a referee for an adjacent match on the Wall Street field, said some players appeared to have unspecified “weapons” — one possibly carrying a pool ball — as they pursued the official, who was struck a few times and ran to seek protection behind spectators in the bleachers.
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Several Churchill players, whose team won by default, were frightened.
“They were threatening my life so I’m not giving my name out,” said one.
I’m familiar with all of the schools in the incident and can tell you for certain that the gangs are there and that they are aligned down racial lines.
All of the tongue clucking-fingerwagging-scolds who want to cry about racism should have your chance to go hang with the “communities” involved!
Liz J: thank you for your 2 cents you must have majored in debating at Oxford.
Penny: If you want to chime in and call me on something I’ve said I have no problem with that, but the fact I was discussing something with “B” who posted that this was exactly what was wrong with Multi-culturism is why I ask you the question. I said that this was incident that is happened in other sports such as (my beloved) hockey so what makes this different? You chimed in about how this doesn’t happen in hockey, and asked that I provide examples, although evidence is given you seem to deem it unworthy. Which is a nice way to argue by the way. So then I expand my argument to include that violence against officials occurs in all sports in all nations (as per the link I provided previously). Yet you seem fixated on me proving that an incident exactly like this happens in hockey because you interpret me to say “happens all the time” as opposed to what I actually said which was “all over Canada”; in other words violence against officials happens throughout the land, call it aggressive human nature an inability to control oneself, why else do you have kids in Winnipeg attacking a ref and some middle class dads on the east coast attacking an official, or a coach or another dad??? You seem so concerned about me proving by links, which I’ve done, that middle class people can’t do incredibly stupid acts that you fail to see the issue. No matter of posts or links will ever satisfy you. I’ve answered your question you still refuse to answer mine, do you agree with “B” that this article illustrates the problems of Multi-culturalism? IF so what does one have to do with the other?
This is a nation where you can share your views, if this is the way you feel then say it.
OMMAG: I don’t doubt what you’re saying at all, sounds more like a prison mentality than one of a school. Sad, very sad.
Thanks for the link A’dam.
robotchicken: “Tieing [sic] this in with PET and multi-culturism is pathetic.”
What rock did you just crawl out from under?
Since Trudopey-an multiculturalism descended like a cloud upon Canada, this kind of incident has been increasing. We never saw it before. I went to high school in the ’60s and it was unheard of for players to attack a referee or for the police to be called to our high school games.
I’m disheartened by guns and violence in our schools, guns and violence in our streets, violence on our sports fields, and young people being murdered, it seems, in cold blood. These things just didn’t happen before the l/Liberal dispensation: opening our society to any and all beliefs, because they’re all “equal,” while dissing and denigrating the Judeo-Christian values upon which Canada was founded and, until multiculturalism reared its ugly head, our institutions operated under.
Connect the dots, robotchicken, and stop being a robot. Wake up, smell the coffee, and do your homework.
robotchicken, welcome to the other side of the SDA aisle, where not toeing the line automatically means being labelled as a “leftie” (you’re libertarian, no?) and targeted by ad hominem attacks from people you weren’t even addressing in the first place.
A’dam (that apostrophe really bugs me!, ‘guess that’ll make you happy…):
I didn’t call anyone a leftie.
And, BTW, aren’t you?
And, BTW, robotchicken hasn’t answered my response to his question. You can just stay out of it. OK?
Actually been around the block, I took my son to the park to enjoy the beautiful weather, I can’t debate you folks all day.
I’m sure you also walked 10 miles to school, uphill both ways in the snow with no shoes on…. The fact that you have selected memory and tend to forget the school shootings in the sixties isn’t an argument. Remember Charles Whitman? Nice white kid from Texas shot a bunch of people from a school tower. Yes things have changed and I’d love to have a Utopian society where we treat one another with respect. But arguing that the reason why these things happen and using different cultures as the scape goat is unjust. There are socio-economic factors, the break down of traditional values, breakdown of family, marriage etc,…. while I don’t disagree with you concerning the failure of multi-culturalism (yes A’dam, I’m libertarian and therefore I believe it is up to the individual to continue with custom and culture not society)your rationale I have a problem with.
A’dam I’ve had it happen a couple of times previously, when I try to defend sites like these for my ideological left leaning friends yet become less enamoured with the idea when I get messages from Penny et al.
I think, as Kate has already stated that a lot of people are missing the premeditated violence in the form of the billiards ball that was brought to the game. (For what purpose would you bring one to a soccer match?)
Violence of this sort in any sport is wrong, however, when players bring makeshift weapons to the game it kind of brings it to a whole new level (from the hockey violence previously described).
“robotchicken, welcome to the other side of the SDA aisle, where not toeing the line automatically means being labelled as a “leftie” (you’re libertarian, no?) and targeted by ad hominem attacks from people you weren’t even addressing in the first place.
Posted by: A’dam at May 29, 2007 7:04 PM ”
Don’t think you have to welcome him A&&dam. It sounds very familiar to Alby. You back,,,chickenshit???
I think, as Kate has already stated that a lot of people are missing the premeditated violence in the form of the billiards ball that was brought to the game. (For what purpose would you bring one to a soccer match?)
Violence of this sort in any sport is wrong, however, when players bring makeshift weapons to the game it kind of brings it to a whole new level (from the hockey violence previously described).
Excellent point, but I don’t think anyone disagrees with Kate that these are thugs, who at the slightest injustice feel they have to resort to violence. Me thinks they (or whomever brought them) bring pool balls wherever they go with the real possibility of using them at all times regardless.
“Don’t think you have to welcome him A&&dam. It sounds very familiar to Alby. You back,,,chickenshit???”
Sorry to disappoint you but I am not Alby and judging by your use of the words, you’renot a big fan of his/hers?
The fact I have spent over 9 hours discussing issues shows passionately shows that I am no chicken-sh*t.
It sounds very familiar to Alby. You back,,,chickenshit???
I’ve been thinking along those lines too.
Penny, you are wrong and it is not like you to attack someone personally for stating his opinion. Robotchicken has stated he doesn’t support multiculturalism as most of us don’t but the link to blaming it for the actions of a bunch of thugs is tenuous at best. Justhinkin takes the same position.
You both couldn’t support your retorts as you don’t have any facts to support your arguments so you resort to bullying, pretty feeble. Don’t lower the high standards of discussions on SDA we have Alby for that.
I think where the failings of multiculturalism may show up in the response to the situation. The powers that be may be very hesitant to discipline these fellas because they fear being called a racists. I do not care where immigrants come from as long as they follow the laws of Canada. The Canadian legal/education system must not be afraid to enforce a common code of conduct because of political correctness.
David Hand, I appreciate your comments and apologize to anyone I may have offended personally with my some times “flippant” remarks.
Good night to all.
“Is there anyone who believes that had a team attacked a ref using weapons in a hockey rink in SW Alberta and issued death threats towards competing players, that it wouldn’t have made national headlines?”
We’ll just have to read the Black Rod to find out the real story because the Winnipeg Free Press is sailing down the River DE-NIAL on this one.
robotchicken: “The fact that you have selected memory and tend to forget the school shootings in the sixties isn’t an argument. Remember Charles Whitman? Nice white kid from Texas shot a bunch of people from a school tower.”
I thought we were talking about Trudopey’s “multiculturalism” and “equality” schtick in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Texas, as you many recall (selective memory, anyone?) is in the United States of America, of which Pierre Elliott Trudeau was definitely not the Prime Minister.
I don’t think it’s coincidental that since PET repatriated our Constitution and stuck Canadians with his government’s abominable Charter of Rights and Freedoms (how about a Charter of Responsibilities and Obligations?) and then the Librano$ upped Canada’s immigration program, to offset all of the aborted Canadians that were never born and would never enter the workforce and pay taxes (again, thanks to the Charter and women’s so-called individual “right to choose”), we no longer share common values in Canada.
Since the 1970s, and the implementation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (sic), we are a fractured country, divided along ethnic and racial lines–thanks to PET’s vision of “multiculturalism,” which was that immigrants needn’t assimilate but could keep their customs and traditions, often funded by the taxpayer, which resulted in many immigrant groups maintaining centuries old animosities and grudges.
This is what I’m talking about, robotchicken. You might want to put your response in a Canadian context and then we’ll be getting somewhere.
“I think where the failings of multiculturalism may show up in the response to the situation. The powers that be may be very hesitant to discipline these fellas because they fear being called a racists. I do not care where immigrants come from as long as they follow the laws of Canada. The Canadian legal/education system must not be afraid to enforce a common code of conduct because of political correctness.”
AMEN to that!
THAT is precisely what the Trudeau-pian multiculturist leftliberal CRF mentality has wrought upon Canada.
Utter incompetence in aid of liberal vote getting.
DThomas we should be willing to let them be the majority and never question whether people comming here and making Canada as bad a place as those we don’t want to live in is a good thing.
Does our healthcare system give free lobotomies. If I get one it might make sense.
I’ll vote for cutting immigration. Now that looks like the libs.
🙁
‘been around the block: I fail to see how this attack on a referee has anything at all with multi-culturalism….please tell me how it applies. As stated by others, this was an act of thuggery, which I’ve made akin to those that are taking place in hockey arenas across Canada, by nice middle class people who get so angry and frustrated that they attack fellow parents, fans, coaches and officials. I’m sure you’ve seen the commercials targeted at parents asking them to refrain from that behaviour; or perhaps you’ve seen the codes of conduct parents are now signing in order to show that these acts don’t reoccur. No one would ever mention multi-culturalism in these circumstances why bring it here?
If there is a failure to respond to the actions of these individuals through the legal system that is a failure of the legal system and has nothing to do with multi-culturalism. I have no doubt that there are people who are afraid to act for fear of being labelled racist, but I’m sure this is in the minority. If you are afraid of upholding the values and laws of Canadian society then that is a weakness of the individual concerned not one based on a multi-culturalism. I have yet to read anythinig in the Criminal Code that states, assaults on property, person can not be commited unless you are minority. There are no exceptions based on colour of skin or racial background, we are to be treated equally under the law, if this isn’t happening it’s not a result of multi-culturalism.
As I’ve said before I don’t agree with multi-culturalism as I don’t think it should be there responsibility of the general population to pay for cultural events, if however a group of Canadians want to continue tradition and customs through festivals (i.e. highland games, Italian week, etc) as long as they pay for it who cares?
It seems to me that the underlying theme of the arguments provided to me is that Canada is under attack, and she may very well be, but this isn’t the example you should hold up. This if anything should be a scathing indictment of our legal system/school/low income housing system, etc., and human behaviour in a mob setting and nothing else.
robotchicken: I fail to see how this attack on a referee has anything at all with multi-culturalism….please tell me how it applies.
Oh, I know this one! I read about it in a Canadian history textbook back in grade school. See, before Pierre Trudeau, the Charter, and the Canadian Multiculturalism Act, there was only one set of common values in Canada: “Canadian values.” Those who ascribed to this moral compass were (and still are) incapable of violence, hence the zero incidence of fights among teenage boys in the 60s and prior. Then Pierre Antichrist (née Trudeau) was born and everything was lost. Soon, “Canadian” women were aborting fetuses left and right (mostly left), purely for the fun of it, now that it was legal. Visible minorities flooded in, and armed with the Multiculturalism Act, chose to preserve their own cultures and values rather than adopt Canadian ones. “Something” about these cultural values results in an increased propensity for violence. We can’t say what we think this “something” is, but we assure you, it has nothing to do with ethnicity or race per se. We speak here only of “values” and “culture”, and though we treat these constructs as ethno-specific, they’re sufficiently vague that we’re not racist. You’re racist. Shut up!
Nineteen years later, a bunch of teenage boys chased another teenage boy around a football pitch.
Seriously, robotchicken, you don’t see the connection? It’s obvious!
Thanks A’dam, I conceded everyone else is right.
I went to a Catholic school in the 80’s and we were only using text books from the 40’s hence my ignorance. Thanks for the clarification, now I can get back to my life.
That was hilarious.
BTW, A’dam, when abortion became legal in Canada, in 1969 under the Liberal Government whose leader was Pierre Elliott Trudeau, there were 11,000 abortions a year.
Then Justice Minister John Turner, answering critics who said that legalizing abortion (and having it covered by government-funded health care) would result in many more abortions and a full-scale attack on unborn Canadians, insisted that the number of abortions would not increase by much but that legalizing abortion would make it safe for Canadian women.
In very short order, Canada’s abortion rate became 100,000 a year, where it more or less remains. Since 1969, there have been close to 2,000,000 abortions. That’s a lot of Canadians not born–and a lot of females for whom abortion has not been “safe.”
Why is it we have massive immigration to Canada? Because we don’t have a birthrate that will provide adequate tax monies to keep our economy and our way of life viable.
Thanks again, PET. GOOD JOB!! (sarc/off) The Liberals had to institute a massive immigration policy to make up for the dearth of Canadians being born. And to add insult to injury, the Librano$ then made sure to buy the immigrant vote.
The Multiculturalism Industry has been a HUGE boon to the Liberal Party of Canada. They were able to “sell” their immigration policies to Canadians using multiculturalism as a “hook” and then the secular humanists among them used multiculturalism to all but wipe the Judeo-Christian faith out of the public square, the faith upon which our democratic freedoms in this country are based—and the reason why so many immigrants wanted to come here, because there were no democratic freedoms in their own, largely, non-Christian countries.
It’s all connected, robotchicken and A’dam, but I think you’re too young to understand, seeing as you’re part of the cohort of brainwashed school kids of the last 35 years–and don’t think the Catholic system doesn’t buy the multiculturalism schtick. It does.
To suggest, robotchicken, that although you “have no doubt that there are people who are afraid to act for fear of being labelled racist, [you’re] sure this…” doesn’t happen very often, you’re wrong.
Just look at the Asian and Jamaican gangs in Toronto who, literally, are getting away with murder. You don’t think law enforcers know who’s involved? They just know that the politically correct, small-l liberal dolts who run the so-called “justice system” will go easy on any culprit who isn’t Caucasian, in case they are labelled as racist. Look at all the people who have been and are being taken to quasi-legal Human Rights Commissions on racist allegations, when they’ve had a perfectly legitimate complaint, which is trumped up as “racist” because the person complained against is part of a visible minority.
Look at Caledonia and the way the Ontario government and law enforcement officers have turned a blind eye to a visible minority’s illegal occupations and illegal weaponry, for well over a year. This kind of thing never used to happen and, yes, multiculturalism is very much at the bottom of the new dispensation given “ethnic,” visible minority gangs, thugs, malcontents, criminals, and terrorists in our midst, all of whom can claim they are being discriminated against on the grounds of race.
As my moniker says, I’ve been around the block, and I have a habit of connecting dots. Connect the dots between the attack on a soccer referee, what’s happening in Caledonia, what’s happening on the streets of Toronto and on the streets of Winnipeg, in our schools, etc. and a pattern emerges: The consequences never fit the crime, just in case those who’ve brought a charge and/or who have enforced the law are accused of “racism.” The perpetrators of the crime are given light sentences or no sentences at all. Look at the two young men who were racing their Mercedes in Toronto a year ago resulting in the death of a taxi driver. They’ve been given a very light sentence, and yet they’ve carelessly and brazenly taken someone’s life. Both are from a visible minority.
The law is no longer blind in Canada. Do your homework, robotchicken and A’dam, and take the blinkers off. PET’s so-called multiculturalism has had the effect in our fair land of turning it into an unsafe haven for rogues, rascals, thugs, criminals, terrorists…and the list goes on. Canada used to be a lovely place to live. It no longer is.
“been around the block”
I hear you brother. Nice summation of the last 40 years or so living in leftliberal Trudeau-pia.
Yup these 2 pimply little liberal weenies (chicken…perfect LOL! and A’dam…yah I hate that preposterous and precious apostrophe too) and are just too young have the whole picture yet. I guess it’s our duty fill them in..until it becomes too tiresome I suppose.
They don’t know what they don’t know, they don’t know
Thanks, B. I’m “sister,” BTW!!
It gets extremely tiresome trying to explain to people who have either been brainwashed and haven’t been encouraged to think critically or who are merely willfully ignorant of what’s been going on in Canada for the past 45 years or so.
Given the fact that Canadians are woefully served by our media and our educational (sic) institutions, both of which have been invaded by propagandist Brain Snatchers, it’s a tough slog.
Since this contrived multi-culturalism was given centre stage in Canadian identity (or should I say, non-identity), I think it’s perfectly fair to blame it when things go wrong. It’s a citizen’s duty to look critically at government policies and their consequences, whether they be the decision to go to war or to allow millions of strangers into the country.
I’ve made akin to those that are taking place in hockey arenas across Canada, by nice middle class people who get so angry and frustrated that they attack fellow parents, fans, coaches and officials.
Hey, robotchicken, isn’t that the crap that you were called on before? Sorry, this isn’t a common event by “middle class people” all “across Canada”. You are a liar. Again. Add verifiable links to that ridiculous generalization or shut up.
So, your ignorance is the fault of dated Catholic textbooks, now that’s rich. Gratuitous. Innane. Stupid. Perhaps you are just a dumb Catholic. It happens.
I don’t agree with multi-culturalism as I don’t think it should be there responsibility of the general population to pay for cultural events, if however a group of Canadians want to continue tradition and customs through festivals (i.e. highland games, Italian week, etc) as long as they pay for it who cares?
Hey, sweetie, multiculturalism isn’t about food festivals. No offense, but, how superficial can you get.
You would be real wise to stop while you are ahead. You’ve got to be one of the gamiest idiots that has rambled through this site
I love how you all dress up your racism and xenophobia as some kind of political statement about multiculturalism, but really, what are you saying?
‘been around the block clearly believes that Canada would be a better place without all these coloured folks around, am I right?
wow, who are they going to let in next, atheists? damn… Canada’s screwed… bet you can’t wait for the rapture, right? when your god will come down and smite all these assholes who are screwing your shit up?
hey man, stop beating around the bush… your solution to the country’s problems is to just send everyone home right? oh, and to make everyone start going to church too I guess… cause nothing bad happens to those who pray right?
as long as they say your lord’s prayer. oh, and they can’t be immigrants. even though we’re all only a few generations away from immigrants, but whatever…
then we just gotta stop the abortions (and why not ban contraception for good measure) and everybody can just start screwing (as long as it’s not out of wedlock and only for procreative purposes!) and the world will be set right again…
Oh, one more thing. You may think that Canada is gone all to hell, but I personally live in the greatest country in the world. No matter how much you’d like to have me believe otherwise.
“Canada used to be a lovely place to live. It no longer is.” – all I can say is, wow. hate it so much? finish my thought.
antidentite (yeah, you would have to be anti): “‘been around the block clearly believes that Canada would be a better place without all these coloured folks around, am I right?”
Clearly? Did I say that? I don’t think so. I have many friends in the category you’re saying I don’t want around, so what do you know?
It’s the immigrants that abuse the hospitality of their new country, who use us like a never-run-out-of-the-product candy store–only they don’t pay for any of the candy. It’s the ethnic gangs that the government and law enforcement agencies are turning a blind eye to, because they know that our infantile justice system (white = bad and oppressive; black = dowtrodden victim) will just throw out the case after they’ve spent a lot of time and effort proving that the criminal did in fact commit a crime.
Look, anti-what’syourname: I’ve worked hard for everything I and my family have, which, BTW, isn’t a whole lot. We pay our own way, our own doctor’s and dentist’s bills, our kids’ college fees, paying back all of the loans we’ve ever taken out and on time, etc., etc.
Why wouldn’t I feel ripped off by immigrants who come to Canada, go on the dole right away (NOT ALL OF THEM DO: I KNOW THAT; I’M TALKING ABOUT THE MANY WHO DO…), have all of their bills paid by the hardworking taxpayer, their housing and their food, and then go on to join a gang or crime ring?
Why wouldn’t I resent government and law enforcement officials who, out of political correctness brought on by Trudopey’s wretched Charter of “Rights” and “Freedoms” (Responsibilities and Obligations, anyone) won’t prosecute these felons just because of the colour of their skin. It’s called reverse racism, and there’s plenty of it out there, and it’s wrecking the social fabric of our country.
We used to believe in “innocent until proven guilty.” Now, we believe in “innocent all the time; we have no intention of proving any of these criminals guilty, because we may be charged with racism.” This mindset and this practice is what I’m clearly against.
Can you read, antidentite? Can you think? If you can, mull over what I actually “clearly” believe…
backtrack all ya want, but your not-so-discreet brand of racism is on display for all to see in your posts above. Your words drip with it. what, you’re not a racist because you say you have some black friends?
you say judeo-christian morality and all I hear is WASP.
you cry that the country went all to hell when abortion was legalized and they had to let all the immigrants in to make up for all the dead babies. your extremism is creeping in there… sure, you don’t come right out and say it, but the implication is that you share some kind of moral high ground with all those WASPs who look and think like you.
hey, by the way, I figured I’d take a flip through the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Canadian Multiculturalism Act – you know, to see where they say that immigrants can get away with whatever they want and that whites should be targeted and oppressed and … well, I couldn’t find it. Actually, I found a lot of language like this:
“… every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and benefit of the law without discrimination and that everyone has the freedom of conscience, religion, thought, belief, opinion, expression, peaceful assembly and association and guarantees those rights and freedoms equally to male and female persons;”
and:
“15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.”
Individual rights and freedoms are the key component of any real democratic society. They protect us all. Your Responsibilities and Obligations sound an awful lot like some totalitarian regimes I know…
What the Charter SAYS and what our judicial system DOES are often two, or three or four, different things.
‘Guess you haven’t been keeping track, antidentite. Well, of course not. You probably get all of your information from the Canadian Mainstream Media, who are cheerleaders for the “new” dispensation in Canada: anything lib/left. You won’t hear about all the cases where individuals have not been treated as “equal before and under the law” and where “the right to the equal protection and benefit of the law without discrimination” has not been honoured.
Stick with SDA and you’ll soon be made aware of such cases. Stick with the CBC, the Toronto Star, and rabble.ca and you’ll never know about the many individuals whose “freedom of conscience, religion, thought[s], belief[s], opinion[s], expression[s], have been trashed by our secular humanist, lib-left Human Rights Commissions and the judiciary, the MSM, and academia.
Crawl out from under your rock, antidentite, into the light. You’ll find that Canada’s not all that great. You can’t trash the principles and values that a country’s democracy has been founded upon, principles and values which don’t exist in the countries from which many of our immigrants have come, without dire consequences. We’ve just about spent our moral, ethical, and charitable Capital, and I don’t see us replenishing the draining resources.
You sound like someone who is unacqainted with responsibilities and obligations, otherwise I think you might have understood the point I was making.
Yeah, yeah, yeah… you know everything because you read alternative media (which to you means this shitty blog… you’re so well read!), or is it because you’re an old fart and “been around the block” as you so proudly proclaim, or maybe it’s just because god handed you a note with some scribbles on it that tells you how to live… I might not be old, and I stopped believing in god when I stopped believing in the tooth fairy and santa clause, but I do read plenty and I’ve been around enough.
I should crawl out from under a rock? Who’s stuck in the 60’s man? You talk about those days like it was all sugarplums and lolipops. The worst thing is, you’re stuck in the 60’s but without all the free love and conciousness expansion. You just got the small-minded repression!
Whatever. Dress up your anger and bigotry and racism as if it were political discourse but at your core you are the same angry miserable racist that hates this country. Just to recap, in this one discussion you’ve said of Canada,
“we are a fractured country, divided along ethnic and racial lines”
“an unsafe haven for rogues, rascals, thugs, criminals, terrorists..”
“Canada used to be a lovely place to live. It no longer is.”
Last I checked, I live in Canada, the greatest country in the world. I can walk into the inner city in any major city in the country and feel safe. I have a job, I own a home, I have health care, I have clean air and fresh water and lots of greenspace, and the people are generally quite nice and polite. I LOVE this country, and that doesn’t mean I don’t think it has problems, but I just don’t think it’s constructive to run around blaming the immigrants and trying to turn the clocks back to a mythical time that was so perfect and care free.