Because if you didn't scare people you won't round up enough pants pissers to do what you want them to do.  This is called "sheepherding".  You scare sheep, and once you get a few moving one way, the rest follow. 

Greg Letiecq, sheepherder.

Just more of his brand of racist hyperbole from the man of God.

Nice statement of principle by the Catholic Church, but hypocrisy in practice. The Vatican City State does not admit immigrants, refugees or those fleeing persecution. It has no due process for applying for a visa, and provides no services for immigrants, migrants or refugees.

Illegal immigrants are criminals
Child molesters are criminals

The good Samaritan had compassion (=love for) the victim of crime found on the road, not for the ones who committed the crime  (=criminals).

Dragging religion into politics is base and disgusting, but I'd appreciate you, Cominius, not distorting the beliefs and practices of my (and a billion other people's) Church.

The Catholic Church is comprised of hundreds of thousands of Clergy, only 800 of which are citizens of the Vatican City, the purpose of which is to provide sovereignty to the bureaucracy of the world's largest organized religion.

Many if not most of those hundreds of thousands of clergy, along with millions and millions of lay Catholics devote their lives to helping the less fortunate, in the underdeveloped and advanced worlds alike.  These are not people following the example of greedy politicians or even common citizens like you or me.  They are following the example of Jesus Christ, who blessed the lepers and dined with prostitutes and tax collectors.

You speak of no need for compassion for criminals.  This is no Christianity of mine.

Would a good Christian forgive a child molestor?
No question, yes!

Would a good Christian tolerate child molestation?
Of course not.

This lack of toleration for sin and, yes, crime, does not need to translate into hatred and shunning.  Rather it should translate into compassion and caring for criminals.  We fortunate should love those who do wrong, including the tens of millions of foreigners who, in utmost desperation, came to our country ignoring civil laws.  I'm no Saint, but I pledge that I will try to love these millions whom our nation has branded criminals, not just in the name of my own views on immigration, but also in the name of my Lord.

Prince William County does not have an immigration problem.

Prince William County has a racism problem.
We also have an affordable housing problem and a crime problem.  The racism, lack of affordable housing, and crime are related; and related to the traffic problem (which prevents families from being together after work every day).

None of these problems has anything to do with the immigration of foreign nationals (wether legal or not).  The foreign nationals who immigrate to PW County carpool, and they share housing (heck, so does my niece who is not an immigrant).  They do jobs Greg and his hate-mongering FUD spreaders would never touch.

We need to embarrass these jackals and run them out of town and make room for fellow human beings who can help us fix our county's problems if we only talk to them a little and try to teach them what we know about living here and learn from them what they know about living together in denser population areas and with more diverse cultures.

Population counts in the county will go up.  Nothing will stop that.  This so called immigration "problem" is not going away.  The scale of human migration happening this century is an order of magnitude greater than was experienced in the 4th century in Europe.  We cannot stand in it's way.

Embrace the newcomers and learn to live together, and stop living in fear.

They've proven they can't run the government, obviously.  They've proven that they're a bunch of hypocrites on morality and family values.  They've proven that their supporters will say and do ANYTHING, including insulting the heroes of Virginia Tech and joking about pissing on the Koran.  They've proven that they are all about dividing people, not bringing them together or moving Virginia forward together.  They've proven that they are the geniuses behind the abusive abuser fees.  They've proven that they care far more about the super-rich than about everyone else -- you, me, all our friends and families. 

So, what do they have left?  Well, they can't use anti-black racism anymore (the old Nixon/Atwater/Reagan "Southern Strategy").  They can't use anti-Semitism, at least not overtly (except for accusing Jews of "Jew baiting").  What they CAN use is anti-immigrant...sorry, anti-"ILLEGAL" immigrant (I'm sure that they are totally clear in their minds about the difference between the two) fearmongering and gay bashing.  That's it: 100 years after Teddy Roosevelt, 140 years after Abraham Lincoln, the formerly great Grand Old Party is reduced to immigrant bashing and homophobia. 

My only question is this: when will sane Republicans, people of conscience and pride in their conservative beliefs of small but effective government, etc., seize back their party from the hatemongers, bigots and wackos before it destroys itself once and for all in a Götterdämmerung worthy of Wagner?

I just see it clear as day... this 2007 election is going to be determined for all PWC races and all races where a portion of the district is in PWC on this one bull-shit issue.

The racists have already stirred up rational minds to be afraid on this one and they already have the media pinging their choice buzzwords.  This is NOT an issue that state or county officials can do anything about, yet it is what the voters are going to be programmed to vote on...

sigh...

Don't let them get away with this.