June 25, 2009 NOTE: PLEASE say if you DON'T want your name and/or email address published when sending VDARE email. A California Reader Notes A Link Between Habitat For Humanity And Morris Dees
From: Wanda
Gomez-Berger (e-mail
her)
Re: Joe Guzzardi’s
Column:
Habitat For Humanity: Americans Must Come First
Guzzardi wrote
about Habitat for Humanity founder
Millard Fuller.
Reading Fuller’s
name brought to mind his reminiscences about his
colleague of the mail order days of his moneymaking
youth,
Morris Dees
of the
Southern Poverty Law Center
said:
"Morris and I ... shared the overriding purpose of making a pile of
money. We were not particular about how we did it; we
just wanted to be independently rich."
The question
Guzzardi raises about the morality of building homes for
illegal aliens and immigrants when so many Americans are
hurting extends to the same one
about
scholarships,
affirmative action,
etc.
Personally, I
cringe when I read my utility bill (bilingual) inviting
applications for discounts for the low income. I
hesitate about volunteering for school groups composed
of likely illegal alien children. There is a conflict
between seeing all people as equally needy and deserving
versus recognizing the harm implicit in such
helpfulness.
I am reminded of
Adam
Smith:
"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."
Gomez-Berger, who lives in California, is a
long-standing advocate of population stabilization and
describes herself as “a thorn in the side of those
who misapply
hagiography
to
illegal aliens.”
Her
previous letter about Michelle Malkin is
here. |
