Marietta Daily Journal

The most recent example of Rich Pellegrino’s “love” HERE

Jim Wright/Letter to the Editor: Pellegrino should focus his efforts on Mexico 08/17/2008
Mr. Pellegrino is correct that everything is not “hunky dory” in Cobb.

Allen Brock/Letter to the Editor: Pellegrino’s saber-rattling liberalism at its finest 08/17/2008
I usually read the crud written by the liberals who want to make excuses for the lawbreakers and illegal residents in our County, get mad and move on, but I must take exception to being lectured by Mr. Pellegrino about loving my neighbor

Neil Axelrod Letter to editor: Tired of name-calling by immigration advocates 08/19/2008
DEAR EDITOR:

I AM PROUD TO ANNOUNCE ONE THE MAJOR PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT GEORGIA LEGISLATURE: MAKE ILLEGAL ANY OFFICIAL USE OR ACCEPTANCE OF THE MEXICAN MATRICULA CONSULAR ID IN GEORGIA.

WE APPRECIATE THE HELP FROM THE ILLEGAL ALIEN LOBBY!

So, for those of you who may not be sure exactly what the matricula consular ID is, please hit the links below for a short education.

Rich Pellegrino ( Cobb County Georgia’s village thinker and illegal alien lobbyist – we all love him) on my own matricula HERE.

National Review on the matricula HERE

Chattanooga Times Free Press on the Mexican government’s matricuala ( and passports!) mobile consulateHERE

Atlanta Latino on my take on matriculas HERE Note from D.A. – if you want to read the Atlanta Latino text, click HERE for Babelfish and use it to translate the Spanish into American.

We look forward to more and continuing media coverage of an issue that was far too unknown until very recently!

For your Sunday chuckle: Rich Pellegrino writes on Sam Zamarripa’s Website – faithfully tended by Jerry Gonzalez. They don’t seem to like my matricula consular prop!

For a good grin on my matricula from Mexico, click HERE

Found in Press ReleaseWritten by Rich Pellegrino
Posted on 2008-08-18

Mr. D. A. King, so-called anti-illegal-immigrant activist, and convicted ex-felon, campaigns and rails almost daily in GA against hard-working immigrants to this country who he claims have entered illegally and should be deported, under the guise of the equal application of “the rule of law”. This week he may have committed an illegal act at the Cobb Commission meeting on Tuesday, August 12, when he displayed publicly, in front of the County Commission, other officials, and citizens, including Mr. Richard Pellegrino, Director of the Cobb Immigrant Alliance, false Mexican I.D. cards containing his picture and name, which he had enlarged and laminated, and boasted that he fraudulently obtained, apparently through acts of forgery and false claims. Under GA State Code, Section 16-9-4, it is unlawful to knowingly acquire and display false identification, hence, Mr. Pellegrino filed a police report, as a witness to a possible crime, with the Cobb County Sheriff’s Department, which is charged with investigating allegations of forgery and fraud in relation to false I.D. Believing that both international and federal laws may have also been broken, Mr. Pellegrino has already filed a complaint with the Mexican Consulate and is in the process of doing the same with the Dept of Homeland Security.
Mr. Pellegrino stated . “If an individual is going to make a livelihood accusing others of committing illegal acts using outlandish and racist scare tactics to frighten the public into believing that undocumented immigrants are criminals, and claiming that the rule of law should be applied equally to all residents of this state and country, then he is not above the law and should provide an example for others to follow, lest he be labeled an ‘illegal’.”

If you want more information contact Rich Pellegrino, Cobb County resident, at 404-573-1199, or at pilgrim1@mindspring.com .

For pictures of Donald Arthur King committing the alleged illegal act, please follow this url address:

http://www.atlantalatino.com/detail.php?id=9355 ( Note from D.A. – if you want to read the Atlanta Latino words, click HERE for Babelfish and use it to translate the Spanish into American.

Rich Pellegrino/Letter to the Editor: Cobb officials pandering to ‘hate-mongers’
08/13/2008

Whoa, don’t start rejoicing and thinking everything is hunky dory in Cobb. Far from it! First of all, this issue is just a small symptom of what is boiling just below the surface, and is about to explode in everyone’s faces. It is not a done deal just because Cobb Commission Chairman Sam Olens, (immigration reformer) D.A. King, state Sen. Chip Rogers or anyone else says so.

Letter to the editor, published July 24, 2008, Marietta Daily Journal
‘Inalienable rights’ apply to immigrants, too

DEAR EDITOR:

During the six years of my residence in Cobb, I have seen an influx of residents from all over the world, from varied cultural and religious backgrounds, and have witnessed all of the bounties and challenges which this change and diversity brings.

I know that sometimes we might tend to view our immediate surroundings as “the world” and forget that there is an incredible universe of diversity and wonder outside our own neighborhood, county, state and country.

While the Internet and cable TV certainly bring some of this wonder into our homes the only way to really experience it is to travel, both in our country and others, and not only as a tourist to the usual attractions but to really meet other people where they live (to find out that not only are we all really the same, but each culture and each individual has special capacities and a distinct “flavor” to contribute to the whole-or to “the melting pot” of America and humanity).

I have taught my children that they can never really know and fully understand their own selves and their community without experiencing other people and communities, both here and overseas, because sometimes we are just “too close to the trees to see the forest” and we have to see it from another perspective and through the eyes of others.

While traveling with family on July Fourth weekend I had the privilege of visiting an area of the United States in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, which really cherishes and values its immigrants, not getting as caught up in the technical or legal issues of whether they are temporarily undocumented or not, and secure in their history and knowledge that every immigrant population which came to these shores were temporarily undocumented and had to withstand all types of persecution at the hands of a vocal and vociferous minority until the good people of America, which constitute the majority, caused its government to grant them legal and equal status.

And, as I paused to read over and reflect upon our great country’s Declaration of Independence and Constitution, I am secure in my history, as a third-generation descendant of Italian immigrants (who were once considered “illegal” and undocumented; who were blamed for not assimilating and learning English fast enough; who were attacked as taking the jobs of “true” Americans), that the good people of this country will once again welcome the present wave of undocumented immigrants from Latin American and other countries with a pathway to citizenship which they have earned through their blood, sweat and tears on behalf of this country-just as other immigrants did before them.

I am confident that, representing the good people of America, our next Congress and president will live up to the spirit of the stirring words from the “Declaration of Independence”: “We hold … that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

I am sure that they will see that these words and inalienable rights to apply to “all men” and not only to citizens and those with present “legal” status.

So I implore the good people of Cobb and Georgia to also join in with the majority of good Americans around this country, past and present, to welcome our newest immigrants, regardless of their present “legal” status (which will soon change anyway, as noted above), all of whom have worked and are working tirelessly to build and uplift our communities, as all immigrants-all of our ancestors – did before them.

Let us become independent of our irrational and unfounded fears, and help them to pursue happiness, life and liberty in our American tradition – which, in turn, will bring a richer happiness to all of our lives.

Rich Pellegrino

Executive director

Cobb Immigrant Alliance

Mableton

CLICK HERE for original letter and comments

HERE for BONUS info from “the thinker” Pellegrino

Scott ChadwickLetter to the Editor: Contrived terminology used to make fallacious argument 06/09/2008
Re: Rich Pellegrino guest column, “T-shirt coalition marks new day for Cobb,” Thursday’s MDJ …HERE
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Jim SmithLetter to the Editor: Word games won’t change end result 06/09/2008
So according to Mr. Pellegrino, an “illegal alien” is now an undocumented worker, so that means a short person is now “vertically impaired,” a deaf person could be classified as “sound impaired,” your local drug dealer now becomes an “unlicensed pharmacist,” your drug user is now “chemically dependent” and the whole world would be politically correct. .. HERE

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Raymond SpornbergerLetter to the Editor: Hope Pellegrino has free-speech advocate 06/09/2008
I sincerely hope that when the “Thought Police” arrive to collect Mr. Pellegrino and his fellow travelers that there will be someone there to speak up for his right to “free speech.” HERE

Rich Pellegrino: T-shirt coalition marks new day for Cobb County 06/05/2008

The editor who wrote the MDJ editorial entitled “Selective Outrage Undercuts T-Shirt Critics” on May 22, missed the point of the whole T-Shirt issue, and misses the point which has been made in polls year after year which universally indicate that most black-and brown-identified folks view issues of race and justice in America from very different perspectives than do most white-identified folks

. WAIT! MORE HERE!

Watch out for the re entry Rich!

Pellegrino has been the subject of several Marietta Daily Journal letters to the editor recently, I hope that I haven’t missed posting any below. I am personally sure that we here in Cobb County Georgia have the most useful village idiot in the state. We salute Rich Pelligrino for showing us all how mindless he truly is, while assisting Jerry Gonzalez and the open borders left.
Here are a link to some ( Click on “letter to the editor” to read entire letter)

James Stoll/Letter to the Editor: Spokesman for illegals promoting anarchy 12/12/2007
It would seem that Mr. Pellegrino has some difficulty with the English language. He does not seem to understand the meaning of the phrase “breaking the law.” I will try to explain what it means, in this country…

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Larry Ceminsky/Letter to the Editor: Don’t confuse compassion with the law 12/13/2007
Mr. Pellegrino stated that there is “extreme fear and paranoia … of a loud, fringe minority” in our community toward the undocumented immigrants. He further asks what logic is that?…

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Harry Hagan/Letter to the Editor: We’re on way to becoming ‘mongrel nation’ 12/13/2007
I’m sure it feels great to be such a caring and sensitive guy, but this invasion by millions of desperately poor, uneducated, unskilled (in most cases) people has abjectly dire consequences for all of us, including him. ..

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Dave Minner/Letter to the Editor: Sheriff, King fighting crime against Georgia 12/14/2007
Mr. Pellegrino is right in his observations that under the Gonzalez Justice Department millions of illegal immigrants were allowed entry into the United States…

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Pete Borden/Letter to the Editor: Cobb not ready to sacrifice rule of law just yet 12/14/2007
Mr. Pellegrino could write a book about “buzz words” and myths to use when speaking for the rights of lawbreakers…

And, here is one from the braintrust himself

Rich Pellegrino/Letter to the Editor: Latest sign of anti-illegals paranoia (1.00) 12/09/2007
It appears that some Cobb Commissioners, including the chairman, are being influenced by the anti-immigrant rhetoric, fear and paranoia of Dustin Inman Society head D.A. King, disguised in a cloak of reason and security, who requested that “legal residency” be required for Cobb Business Licenses.

Rich is a not too bright guy who is need of constant attention and who has adopted Jerry Gonzalez as a hero. Try to be as nice as possible to him…he has trouble thinking, or figuring out what and who really represents a “fringe minority”.

Yawn…warning, Rich’s little missive to the MDJ against my proposal to require ID and proof of legal immigration status for aliens to obtain a business license in Cobb is more than 440 words.
dak

Rich Pellegrino/Letter to the Editor: Latest sign of anti-illegals paranoia

Published: 12/09/2007

It appears that some Cobb Commissioners, including the chairman, are being influenced by the anti-immigrant rhetoric, fear and paranoia of Dustin Inman Society head D.A. King, disguised in a cloak of reason and security, who requested that “legal residency” be required for Cobb Business Licenses.

Commissioners, please beware and do not be fooled and follow this alleged “reasoning” down the thorny road of hate and fear, especially in this season of good will.

This is just another mean-spirited attempt to drive an entire community further underground – an already embattled community and people (due to the inaction of the federal government and unwise actions of the Cobb sheriff) – a people, like all immigrants before them, who are presently trying to comply with state and county laws and ordinances in order to help feed, shelter and clothe their own families, and to provide employment for others, while expanding the county tax base. What could be more American and Georgian than this?

Yet some would attempt to remove their means of livelihood and would place their families on welfare at the same time complaining about their drain on resources. What logic is this? It is the same twisted logic that prevents these temporarily undocumented good people from getting driver’s licenses in this state so that the law enforcement community’s goals of law and order are aided, traffic safety is really promoted, and space in the jail can be reserved for those who commit real crimes. That is why some local police officers with whom I’ve talked, as well as police departments around the country, are in favor of granting them driver’s licenses – which is completely logical – and why they are against sheriff’s departments acting as agents of immigration enforcement that destroys all efforts at community policing and trust building – completely illogical.

However when the public and elected officials are swayed by the extreme fear and paranoia generating tactics of a loud fringe minority, like King and his followers, this is what happens and all logic (as well has human empathy and compassion) is thrown out the window.

I know, some of you single-minded folks are going to say what you always say when this issue arises, “What don’t you understand about the word “illegal?” but I am sorry. The reason the good Lord gave us brains and minds is so that we can see all sides of an issue. Like a wise man once said: “There are at least three sides to every story” – so nothing is either “black or white” or “legal or illegal.” Another very wise Man said: “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.”

Rich Pellegrino

Mableton

More on Rich Pellegrino: Another letter in today’s Marietta Daily Journal

Larry Todd/Letter to the Editor: No ‘illegal aliens’?

Published: 11/08/2007

When one’s argument is lacking in substance, you can always resort to semantics.

By redefining “illegal,” the term no longer applies. Continuing with Mr. Pellegrino’s logic, a drug dealer would be reclassified as an “undocumented pharmacist.”

I don’t think the voting public will buy into that logic, as there still is pressure from 85 percent of the voting public to close the borders. It appears we need new legislators to enforce old laws instead of old legislators developing new laws promoting amnesty.

Don’t forget: We were attacked on 9/11 by “undocumented pilots” that killed 3,000 innocent civilians, destroyed two magnificent towers, four commercial aircraft and damaged our Pentagon. The closing of our borders is one small step in the right direction, regardless of your interpretations of “illegal.”

Larry Todd

Marietta