ED NOTE: Another San Fran nutberger Rep reveals his insecurity and insanity in this crazed rant as a certified Bush Hater in this unbelieveable but true foaming-at-the-mouth tirade…

SEE THE VIDEO HERE

I’d like to think that Representative Fortney “Pete” Stark (D-California) was drunk, trashed out of his little gourd. He accused the White House of lying and of not finding enough money to spend on “children,” re: the Dem SCHIP scheme. But he sees Republicans finding the money to spend in Iraq, and he spits that the war’s supporters have a purpose:

Sez Fortney:

“You’re going to spend it [SCHIP money] to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President’s amusement.”

Fortney “Pete” Stark is a sick man. Is that the kind of gutter cynicism which appeals to his owners on the fringe left, no doubt, but it sounds more like the depraved rant of a dime store mullah discussing a “Zionist entity.”

Pathetic.

One hopes he was drunk and had no clue what he was saying. Or maybe that his staffers had been working on legislation having to do with hemp for making ropes and fueling automobiles. This sort of jihadist talk should not come from a sand and sober representative in the United States government. STORY LINK

Technorati tags: PETE STARK, STARK, CALIFORNIA, DEMOCRAT, MORONS, IMEBECILES, TRAITOR

A Canadian schoolteacher who is the subject of a global Interpol manhunt for alleged sexual abuse of at least a dozen young Asian boys may be avoiding arrest with the help of friends, Thai police said Thursday.

Thai authorities issued an arrest warrant Thursday for Christopher Paul Neil after determining he may have sexually abused boys in the kingdom, in addition to the dozen Cambodian and Vietnamese boys, some as young as 6, Interpol suspects he has abused.

Neil was identified by Thai police earlier this week after digitally scrambled images of him with victims were unscrambled and released by Interpol in an international manhunt.

Three Thai youths came forward Wednesday to tell police that Neil allegedly paid them to perform oral sex on him in 2003, Wimol said, adding that the Canadian also had sex with at least one other underaged male.

The boys said the suspect showed them pornographic images on his computer at his apartment in Bangkok, and paid them each $16 to $32 for sexual relations, Wimol said.

The boys got in touch with police after spotting Neil’s photograph on television when his identity was revealed Tuesday by Thai authorities.

The suspect was identified with the help of hundreds of tips from people who responded to an appeal by Interpol for public assistance.

More clues about the suspect’s background emerged with the discovery of a page on the social networking Web site MySpace that Interpol officials believe was kept by Neil.

“Been kicking around Asia for the past five years, teaching mainly and finding other forms of mischief,” reads the profile, which describes him as “5 feet, 11 inches tall, slim and slender.”

“I love teaching, can’t get enough of it really,” the entry says, going on to describe his passion for drama, musicals and karaoke.

Fiends have described Neil as outgoing and fun to be around. Co-workers at international schools gave mixed reviews of his teaching skills, but all described a man they believed to be harmless.

Before teaching in Asia, Neil had worked as a chaplain in Canada, counseling teens. STORY LINK

Technorati tags: PEDOPHILE, SEX OFFENDER, NEIL, THAILAND, RON PAUL, HILLARY

ED: What? The Religion of Peace harboring terrorists in Joisey? Gimme a break, Guido.

FBI Monitoring al-Qaida Activity in North Jersey

NEWARK, N.J. (NorthJersey.com)  — Members of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force are monitoring a number of north Jersey residents with ties to al-Qaida.
The agents have disrupted their activities and deported several.
Task force director Kevin Cruise tells The Record of Bergen County there are facilitators in the state.
Cruise would not describe any case in detail. However, efforts to disrupt Osama bin Laden’s network range from deportation to telling the suspects that they’re being watched.
Cruise tells the newspaper his agents have no information about an imminent attack here.
The task force is conducting more than 400 counterterror investigations.
Information from: The Record of Bergen County, http://www.northjersey.co

ED NOTES: The sooner this criminal mutha is gone, the better.

Chris Wallace brings out the real Bill and Hillary each time he interviews one of them.

For those who have ever visited Clintonland, it?s sometimes hard to recognize the slickly-scripted, post-White House media personalities of the Clintons: the affable, smiling Hillary seen on the campaign trial or the laid back, take-it-as-it-comes Bill who periodically surfaces for softball interviews.

But every once in a while, there?s a rare moment of clarity. That happened last year when Wallace interviewed the former president. At the end of the interview, Bill lost it. Suddenly the veneer was off, exposing the enraged, snarling, lunging Bill accusing Wallace of ?do[ing] his nice little right wing hit job? when he forced Clinton to address his inability to capture or kill bin Laden.

Not a pretty sight.

And Wallace did it again in his recent interview of Hillary. Asked about the extreme partisan politics espoused by her and her husband, the real Hillary challenged Wallace. ?Well, Chris, if you’d walked even a day in our shoes over the last 15 years I’m sure you’d understand.”

Hillary preceded her passing moment of reality by a loud, inappropriate and mirthless laugh ? a scary sound that was somewhere between a cackle and a screech. She was quick to follow it with a scripted recitation about how she wants to rise above partisanship. (Of course) But, in between, we saw a fleeting glimpse of the pervasive sense of victimization and self-righteousness that even now underscores the vicious partisanship with which both Clintons play the game of politics.

Amazingly, they seem to genuinely believe that they are still the targets of a ?vast right-wing conspiracy? and that they are alone and under attack despite their manifest virtue and singular desire to do good.

You don?t see this authenticity very often. Hillary?s handlers have taken great pains to teach her the art of concealment, hiding her raw partisanship behind a smile and, when necessary, even a forced laugh. A laugh that?s often too long and too loud.

And so, at the beginning and the end of the Wallace interview, Hillary sounded just like a laughing hyena. Watch the video on FOX News or YouTube. You won?t laugh. STORY LINK

Technorati tags: HILLARY, ELECTION, DEMOCRAT, HYENA, MORONS, RON PAUL

ED NOTES: We can trust Hillary to put the best people on her staff, right? A convicted felon, a top secret document thief, a disbarred disgraced ex-lawyer, now a senior member of the Hillary campaign staff. Nothing speaks more of Hillary’s character than this fauxpas.  Imagine if a Republican candidate hired Scooter Libby to be a campaign manager. Say ‘bye Hillary.

BREAKING NEWS FROM FOX

 

Technorati tags: HILLARY, SANDY BURGER, NATIONAL SECURITY, ELECTION, DEMOCRAT, MORONS

As a reporter/journalist I do a lot of listening to scanners. In fact, as I type, there are four of them in operation. For those technically interested, there are 2 Bearcat 800 XLT’s, one Realistic 2020C, a Radio Shack portable, and a Kenwood scanning the aircraft frequencies. Standing by for big emergencies is the trusty Hallicrafters SX100 receiver from l955, a 40 channel CB radio, and the usual cellphones.

It was through one of these information channels that I learned of the License Plate Recognition capabilities of Delaware County Sheriff cars this morning.

It seems that using today’s modern technology, a dash camera (or even one hidden by the roadside sending wirelessly to the cop cruiser) can scan license plate numbers from passing cars, automatically check in an onboard laptop computer, and alert police to lack of insurance, license revocations, and other violations. The LEO* in the cruiser then either pursues or radios ahead for a traffic stop.

Ain’t technology wonderful?  A friend has an extensive camera system (he’s a retired LEO* from NYC) which can recognize faces of his family, then verify their face with a voiceprint, and unlock the door for them (or set off an alarm if it’s not a friend).

What this means is: just because you pass a cop on the road , and aren’t stopped, doesn’t mean you’re out of the wood.  If you’re illegal, he may radio ahead and get you anyway for those 7 unpaid traffic tickets.

Now, if only BOSE can come up with a way to silence the barking German Shepherd so often heard at top volume in the background of LEO* radio transmissions….

–Al Czervic for The Catskill Commentator

*-Law Enforcement Officer

Easy to use. Just place nut between stainless steel thighs and squeeze…

THE EDITORS:  Hehhehe.. what’s next? The Bill Clinton ‘I did not inhale” inhaler? The Monica Lewinsky Ballbuster?

ED NOTES: Right on!  Apply the trigger as many times as is necessary to defend your life and property. Roger That, and Amen, Bro.

After three break-ins in the three months, a Sacramento man had had enough. When a burglar showed up at his Sacramento home last night he pulled out a gun and started firing shots.

“I’m always packing a gun, it’s crazy,” said Rob, victim of home break-in.
Always carrying a gun because this is the third time in three months, Rob’s home has been broken into. One window is still boarded up from the last time it happened.

“Why me? I don’t know,” said Rob. “There are no street lights out here; it’s pretty desolate.”
And it was pretty quiet early this morning until around 3:15 a.m. when a burglar broke his living room window and climbed in. Little did he know Rob heard the noise and was inside waiting.

“So I step out from behind the wall and say ‘you’re a dead man.’ He screams as loud as he can, drives through the window and takes off running,” said Rob.
He ran so fast he left his car in the driveway, the engine still running.

“Yeah he was in a rush for some reason,” said Rob.
Rob shot the burglar’s car a couple times but the burglar got away untouched.
Luck ran out for the suspect a couple of hours later when deputies caught Matthew Villapando only a short distance away.

“It’s better he got caught because he would be in a grave,” said Rob.
Instead he’s in jail. Despite that, rob, will continue to keep his weapons close, just in case.

“I think that people just know that they have the right to protect themselves, and they’re exercising that right,” said Sgt. Tim Curran, Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office. STORY LINK

Technorati tags: SECOND AMENDMENT, FIREARMS, GUNS, RBKA, CRIME, CITIZEN, NRA

ED NOTE: Ah his true colors are showing.  You won’t get votes this way, loser Barack HUSSEIN Obama.  Color his azz GONE!

Democratic presidential candidate Barack  HUSSEIN-Obama says he doesn’t wear an American flag lapel pin because it has become a substitute for “true patriotism” since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Asked about it Wednesday in an interview with KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the Illinois senator said he stopped wearing the pin shortly after the attacks and instead hoped to show his patriotism by explaining his ideas to citizens.

“The truth is that right after 9/11 I had a pin,”  HUSSEIN-Obama said. “Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security.

“I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest,” he said in the interview. “Instead, I’m going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testament to my patriotism.” STORY LINK

Technorati tags: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, OBAMA, DEMOCRAT, LOSERS, MORONS, ELECTION, RON PAUL, MCCAIN

FIND OUT MORE…CLICK THE PIC FOR THE STORY… Al Czervic

ED NOTES: As originally published in April of this year, Harry Reid hereby wins the coveted Red-Faced Douchebag Award again. This time for his attack on American Patriot Rush Limbaugh. Bend over, Harry — this tube’s for you.– Al Czervic

 

 “…yeah and i got a quote for that douche harry reid. these families need us here. obviously he has never been in iraq. or atleast the area worth seeing. the parts where insurgency is rampant and the buildings are blown to pieces. we need to stay here and help rebuild. if iraq didnt want us here then why do we have IP’s voluntering everyday to rebuild their cities. and working directly with us too. same with the IA’s. it sucks that iraqi’s have more patriotism for a country that has turned to complete shit more than the people in america who drink starbucks everyday. we could leave this place and say we are sorry to the terrorists. and then we could wait for 3,000 more american civilians to die before we say “hey thats not nice” again. and the sad thing is after we WIN this war. people like him will say he was there for us the whole time.”

–Corporal Tyler Rock, 1/6 Charlie Company, Ramadi, Iraq

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Technorati tags: LIMBAUGH, REID, HILLARY, DEMOCRAT, MORONS, ELECTION, RON PAUL, IRAQ, MARINES, ARMY

ED NOTES: The average life expectancy of the jobs in the US is 6 years. Isn’t it time you quit yours? Today? And give some ‘undocumented worker’ a chance at the Big Bucks?

1. You don’t fit in. Your values don’t match the company’s. If your colleagues are “dishonest and focused on getting ahead regardless of legal or moral barriers,” Bayer says, it’s time to quit before an Enron-style scandal sinks the ship.

2. Your boss doesn’t like you and you don’t like him or her. If your boss never asks your opinion, and never wants to chat or have lunch with you, and if you disagree with her agenda and dislike her style, your days are numbered. Adds Bayer: “If you’ve ever done something that undermined your boss, you might as well get out now.”

3. Your peers don’t like you. Feeling isolated, gossiped about, and excluded from the inner workings of the organization is a very bad sign, as is feeling that you’re not part of the team and wouldn’t socialize with your colleagues even if they asked you.

4. You don’t get assignments that demonstrate the full range of your abilities. “Watching all the good assignments go to others, while you’re given the ones that play to your weaknesses or are beneath your professional level, should tell you something,” says Bayer. Likewise, if it seems the boss doesn’t trust your judgment, you’re in trouble.

5. You always get called upon to do the “grunt work.” Everybody has to take on a dull or routine task now and then, but if you are constantly being singled out to do the work no one else wants, alarm bells should ring.

6. You are excluded from meetings your peers are invited to. Sound familiar? If it’s painfully clear that your ideas aren’t valued, why stick around?

7. Everyone on your level has an office. You have a cubicle in the hallway. Bayer notes that, whatever your title, your digs can speak volumes about your real status in the organization. If your peers have offices with windows and you’re asked to move into a broom closet - no matter what the official explanation - start cleaning out your desk.

8. You dread going to work and feel like you’re developing an ulcer. Ah, here’s yet another of your symptoms, and a particularly nasty one at that.

“If the idea of going to the office makes you anxious or physically sick, and you’re counting the hours from the time you arrive until the second you can leave, it’s time to move on,” says Bayer. Do it before you do serious damage to your health, or get so demoralized that you can’t be upbeat in job interviews, or both. Once things have deteriorated to this point, being perceived as a job hopper should be the least of your worries. Get out while you still can. STORY LINK

Technorati tags: JOBS, WORK, QUIT JOB, EMPLOYMENT

ED. NOTE: Yesterday, if anyone cared, was declared World Farm Animals Day by the notorious criminal organization, PETA.  In Kiamesha Lake, ONE protestor showed up at a KFC, and she admitted that she herself sometimes eats chicken!  Can you say “hypocrite” kiddies? –Roger Thornhill

Kiamesha Lake — A lone protestor stood in front of the KFC restaurant on Route 42 in Kiamesha Lake yesterday.

Caitilin Rabbitt wore yellow felt chicken feet over her shoes, a red felt comb in her hair and a yellow and red felt tail. She held a sign: “Scalded Alive.”

Rabbitt was one grass-roots protester. Around the country, under the guidance of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, others were also protesting the treatment of animals on large farms that provide chickens, cows, pigs and other livestock to fast-food restaurants.

Oct. 2 has been designated as World Farm Animals Day by animal rights groups, in honor of Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday.

Rabbitt said some people in passing cars looked at her sign, then looked quickly away.

“I think it’s uncomfortable to think about the meat we eat,” she said.

One wag in a passing truck yelled, “I love chicken! I love chicken!”

Rabbitt, of Liberty, is primarily a vegetarian, but once in a while she will eat humanely-raised chicken. She’s weaning herself off chicken, though. STORY LINK

Technorati tags: PETA, FARM ANIMALS, VEGAN, MORONS

ED NOTES: Good! Enough of this Luddite-NIMBY crap from Green Weenies. Build the damn powerline and lets get NY back into the 21st Century. Consider this: The Greater NYC area chronically runs short of power during the heatwaves of the summer, causing brownouts and in cases, blackouts. The problem is becoming more acute, and short of building new nuke plants, a power line must be built. The greenies cannot have it both ways. It’s either the power line or –gasp–nukes!  And when the city goes dark, who do you think will be shut down so that NYC can get it’s power back? Right, pilgrims. The rest of the state will go dark so that NYC will stay online. This is a national security issue that trumps any BS concerns the local simpering Greenies and  State politicos may have.

In a huge blow to opponents of a massive power line that could slice through our region, the federal government ruled yesterday that energy projects in two national corridors could bypass state approval to get built.

This means that if the proposed power line — New York Regional Interconnect — does not receive state approval within a year, the Department of Energy could OK it because it would serve an area that needs energy.

The feds yesterday designated two National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors, one in the Southwest and the other in the Mid-Atlantic region. The department said “significant” power transmission problems exist in these areas. STORY LINK

Technorati tags: NYRI, POWERLINE, OTSEGO, ORANGE COUNTY, DELAWARE COUNTY, ELECTRIC

ED NOTES:  From that killer website, Fark.com. Now the Recordonline.com server will be overloaded with hits from all over the known galactic universe.–Roger Thornhill

Today’s city where people have nothing better to do than bean seven-year-old kids with apples is Middletown, New York. Police seek suspect for questioning. Mets hope to find him first so they can replace Tom Glavine (FARK.com)

Middletown — A little boy suffered a bump on the side of his head after a person in a passing car fired an apple at him, witnesses said.

Tania Santana said her 7-year-old son, Isaac, had walked toward Monhagen Avenue on West Main Street about 6:15 p.m. with a baby sitter while she went to the store. When Santana returned his ear was red, the area behind his ear was swollen and he was sticky with juice from an apple. Isaac said he never saw the people in the car.

“I was looking over there, and it hit right here,” he said, touching a bump behind his ear. Police said they looked for the suspects but haven’t found them.

Benny Madden said he was standing a few feet away when it happened. Isaac had stopped to play a hand-held video game with Madden’s son. Three people in a white Maxima slowed, pulled alongside the sidewalk, and one hurled the apple, Madden said.

“It looked like a little cluster bomb went off,” he said.

He chased the car to the corner but never got a good look at the people. Police said to call the station at 343-3151 to report any information about the incident. STORY LINK

Technorati tags: MIDDLETOWN TIMES-HERALD-RECORD, MIDDLETOWN NEW YORK, SIR ISAAC NEWTON

ED NOTES: This Macbeth imposter is the same type of scum found in bed with the Cindy Sheehans and Rosie O’Donnells of the world.  He got off light. I’d have sentenced his ass to 20 years at hard labor at Leavenworth.–Roger Thornhill, First Marine Division, Vietnam, l969-70

Former Pima resident Jesse Macbeth, 23, who sought fame and notoriety by claiming to be a veteran of the Iraq war, was sentenced by a federal judge to five months in prison on one felony count of making a false statement.
The sentence, handed down by Chief Judge Robert S. Lasnik of the United States District Court, Western District of Washington, on Sept. 21, includes three months custody in a halfway house, three years of supervised release and participation in mental health counseling.

Macbeth began his nearly four-year string of lies and misrepresentations in 2003 when he began telling his story to a variety of online news outlets and the mainstream press. In November 2003, while living in Pima, Macbeth interviewed with a Courier reporter and fabricated stories of combat injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder and watching fellow soldiers die.

Subsequent to his interview with the Courier, Macbeth’s stories included tales of war crimes and a variety of atrocities.

According to a plea agreement filed with the federal court, Macbeth’s stories began to unravel on or about Sept. 19, 2005, when he submitted altered documents to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in an effort to qualify for military compensation. STORY LINK

Technorati tags: SCUMBAG, CRIMINAL, LIAR, PEACENIK, HIPPY, DEMOCRAT, MORONS, RON PAUL, MACBETH, LIMBAUGH

We might as well continue with the lib’s favorite [NOT] actor, John Wayne, who continues to annoy them even from the grave. Play it loudly from your Cowboy Caddylac as you drive past the Gangstas and the chooka-boom rapp crap they play. (And then upraise the central finger of either hand to them in a gesture of scorn, derision, and contempt.)

DOWNLOAD WAYNE’S ‘WHY I LOVE AMERICA’

You ask me why I love her? Well, give me time, and I’ll explain…
Have you seen a Kansas sunset or an Arizona rain?
Have you drifted on a bayou down Louisiana way?
Have you watched the cold fog drifting over San Francisco Bay?

Have you heard a Bobwhite calling in the Carolina pines?
Or heard the bellow of a diesel in the Appalachia mines?
Does the call of Niagara thrill you when you hear her waters roar?
Do you look with awe and wonder at a Massachusetts shore…
Where men who braved a hard new world, first stepped on Plymouth Rock?
And do you think of them when you stroll along a New York City dock ?

Have you seen a snowflake drifting in the Rockies…way up high?
Have you seen the sun come blazing down from a bright Nevada sky?
Do you hail to the Columbia as she rushes to the sea…
Or bow your head at Gettysburg…in our struggle to be free?

Have you seen the mighty Tetons? …Have you watched an eagle soar?
Have you seen the Mississippi roll along Missouri’s shore?
Have you felt a chill at Michigan, when on a winters day,
Her waters rage along the shore in a thunderous display?
Does the word “Aloha”… make you warm?
Do you stare in disbelief When you see the surf come roaring in at Waimea reef?

From Alaska’s gold to the Everglades…from the Rio Grande to Maine…
My heart cries out… my pulse runs fast at the might of her domain.
You ask me why I love her?… I’ve a million reasons why.
My beautiful America… beneath Gods’ wide, wide sky.

ED NOTES: Due to unprecedented email regarding the following, we offer the lyrics to you. The site for the whole song is: http://www.cowboylyrics.com/tabs/drake-guy/welfare-cadillac-6468.html

Artist: Drake Guy
Song: Welfare Cadillac

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WELFARE CADILLAC
Recorded by Guy Drake
Words and music by Guy Drake

[C] I've never worked much, In [C7] fact
[F] I've been poor [Dm] all my life
I [G7] guess all I really own
Is [C] ten kids and a wife
This house I live in is [C7] mine
But [F] it's really a [Dm] shack
But [G7] I've always managed to somehow
[C] drive me a brand new Cadillac.

[C] The back door steps [C7] ...
[F] They done fell [Dm] plumb down
The [G7] front screen door is off and
Laying [C] somewhere out there on the ground
The wind just now [C7] whooped
Up [F] another piece of that [Dm] tar
Roofing [G7] off the back; I sure hope it don't
[C] skin up that new Cadillac.

[C] The front porch post [C7] fell
[F] loose at the [Dm] bottom
It [G7] don't make no sense to fix 'em
'Cause that [C] floor's just too darn rotten
In Winter time we sometimes have [C7] some snow
That [F] blows in through the [Dm] cracks
If it [G7] gets too bad we all just pile up
And [C] sleep out there in that new Cadillac.

I know the place ain't much
But I sure don't pay no rent
I get a check the first of every month
>From this here Federal Goverment
Every Wednesday I get commodities
Sometimes four or five sacks
Pick 'em up down at the Welfare Office
Driving that new Cadillac.

Some folks say I'm crazy
And I've even been called a fool
But my kids get free books and
All them there free lunches at school
We get peanut butter and cheese
And man, they give us flour by the sack
'Course them Welfare Checks
They meet the payments on this new Cadillac.

Now the way that I see it
These other folk are the fools
They're working and paying taxes
Just to send my young'uns through school
The Salvation Army cuts their hair and
Gives them clothes to wear on their backs
So we can dress up and ride around
And show off this new Cadillac.

But things are still gonna get better yet
At least that's what I understand
They tell me this new President
Has put in a whole new poverty plan
She's gonna send us poor folks money
They say we're gonna get it out here in sacks
In fact, my wife's already shopping around
For her new Cadillac.

Technorati tags: WELFARE, CADILLAC, PUBLIC HOUSING, CHEATS, COUNTRY MUSIC

Hundreds of families living in housing subsidized by Fairfax County taxpayers exceed income caps designed to ensure that only the neediest receive assistance, a review of county records shows.

In the most extreme cases, Fairfax is underwriting rents for families making well into six figures: One household getting help makes more than $216,000 a year; another, $184,000. Dozens of others — making $60,000, $70,000, $90,000 — exceed eligibility caps. And they do so with the tacit approval of county housing administrators, who do little to encourage occupants to move on when their fortunes improve.

These tenants live in housing intended for families at the bottom of the county’s economic spectrum. They are in the federally subsidized public housing program, the Fairfax rental program and the county’s senior housing program. The county’s Department of Housing and Community Development will spend about $4.5 million this year running these programs. STORY LINK

ED NOTES: Remeber that great country song “Welfare Cadillac” ? I’ll bet there’s a few of those parked outside the ‘projects’.  We better raise taxes in a hurry to help these poor disadvantaged victims of society.