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Here it is folks, the most recent Washington Post article that a couple of posters have been clamoring about!

What struck me about this article was that it sounds like a small group of citizens actively dealt with neighborhood issues.  What I am wondering is this….was it the resolution or their dedicated committment to their neighborhood that fixed the most egregious problems?  Is it a success that now many hispanics have left, were they “illegal” or simply too scared to stay in PWC?  Could these neighborhood issues have been dealt with through better means than HSM?  Could we have formed a community/government task force to promote positive solutions instead of the immigration resolution which has proved to be so divisive?  It sounds like there was an opportunity that was missed, and instead we have the serious repercussions of double the foreclosure rate of surrounding counties and businesses, once thriving,  now struggling under the threat of bankruptcy.

‘Help Save Manassas’ has destroyed the real estate market causing many homes to go into foreclosure.  This has caused the whole market to go into a ‘free fall’.  According to the County’s budget report homes have lost on average 16% of their market value.  Unfortunately, this trend doesn’t appear to be rectifying itself anytime soon.  And if that wasn’t enough to cause a budget crunch the County now wants to spend double what they anticipated the cost to be.  All of this when they have only identified an ‘insignificant’ cost attributable to the undocumented population.  They identified approximately 3 million per year but to ‘fix’ the problem will end up costing more than 5 million a year.  And even at that price they haven’t allotted any funds for defending against lawsuits that are sure to arise from the Immigration Resolution.  Ironically it took the board years to research and investigate Parks and Open Spaces but yet only 3 months to enact legislation that appears to be very costly.  More information on the County’s 2009 Budget Proposal can be viewed at http://www.pwcgov.org/docLibrary/PDF/007738.pdf

First of all, the name of the organization ‘Help Save Manassas’ along with ‘Help Save Virginia’ names & mission are extremely similar to ‘Save Our State’, a California organization which has ‘white nationalist’ ties.  More information found here.  Ironically, he’s no longer on the payroll for Federation for American Immigration Reform presumably because of his associations to neo-Nazi groups.  Ironically, they have yet to distance themselves from founder and current board member John Tanton who has equally disturbing ties.