It seems a whole bunch of VDARE.com readers also listen to KFI’s the John and Ken Show…including me, of course!

I just wanted to say thanks to all the readers who wrote to me (especially you, Steve) to tell me that John and Ken referenced my VDARE.com column about the city of Maywood, California.

[Report From Occupied America: Maywood, CA—Small Town USA To Illegal Sanctuary City…In Just Three Decades! By Bryanna Bevens]

The Los Angeles Times recently wrote a column about Maywood being named a “sanctuary city” and John and Ken obviously wanted a slightly different take on the situation...”different” meaning not the opinion of the liberal mercenaries at the Times.[See Welcome to Maywood, Where Roads Open Up for Immigrants, Los Angeles Times, March 20, 2006]

Yeah…and nobody would ever confuse me with one of those…I hope!

Lonewacko Blog says that whenever he hears President Bush speak about immigration policy, it reminds him of this scene in Woody Allen’s 1971 movie, Bananas:

President of the imaginary Republic of San Marco:From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. Silence! In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now… 16 years old!

Woody Allen:What’s the Spanish word for straitjacket?

Not only that, but as Woody Allen says in the same movie, the President’s immigration policy is not only a travesty, “A travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. “

In Steve Sailer’s February 12 column, the Larger Lessons Of The Danish Cartoon Crisis, he wrote:

[L]ast week the Swedish government shut down a private website for posting a mild drawing chiding Muslims for lack of introspection.

[Vdare.com note: This article about the censorship says that the website belongs to the Swedish Democrats, considered by Sweden's media to be a "far-right" party. The Swedish Democrat website sverigedemokraterna.se seems to be down, and so is sd-kuriren.info, which in English would be "Swedish Democrat-Courier" but sverigedemokraterna.net  is still up, and here's their political program in English. Not "far-right"  by American standards—the Swedes would consider many centrist Democrats "far-right."]

Yesterday, it was reported by Reuters that Laila Freivalds, the Swedish Foreign Minister responsible for the shutdown, has resigned. Apparently, not only did she pressure the private company that hosted the Swedish Democrat website to close it down, she lied about having done so. [Swedish foreign minister resigns over cartoons, By Stephen Brown and Johan Sennero, March 21, 2006 ]