Posted by
J. A. Colon on Saturday, November 15, 2008 12:46:29 AM
Two pieces in the news within the same week have made me angry. The first one, describers how an irresponsible individual created a fictional character, created a blog under the name of the fictional character, called it a McCain campaign insider, and spread rumors about Sara Palin, thus slandering the Governor, and feeding irresponsible wannabe journalists with regular bits of information about the McCain campaign that probably cost it some votes. The irresponsible wannabe journalists belong to MSNBC, as reported by AP.
What false bits are they responsible for? At the least the one about her not knowing that Africa was a continent, and who knows how many others. MSNBC acknowledged not vetting the information before running with it.
The second bit of information that made me angry was the one about the Dallas Independent School District providing false social security cards to immigrants in order to expedite their employment process, while they got a real social security number.
Lets see. First of all, if you do not have a social security number (SSN), or a tax payer identification number (TPIN), you are not allow to work, and if you hire someone without a TPIN, you are violating Federal Laws. Second, by providing an immigrant a false SSN or TPIN, you are contributing to fraud and misrepresentation at the least, and identity theft at the most.
This went on for several years, even after they were caught, and supposedly, was brought to an end this summer.
In another example of blatant stupidity, the Texas Education Agency director of investigations and fingerprinting, Mr. Doug Phillips, stated that he didn’t know what laws forbid the issuing of fake social security numbers.
How many laws were violated? Federal employment laws, immigration laws, fraud laws, … How many more?
Tell me what you think…