Wednesday, March 03, 2010

SLA in the US (part II): Mr. X

In response to part I, M. sent me this: "Thanks for posting those comments on the SLA in Dearborn- and thank you even more for making it clear that these thugs don't exactly have our communities welcome! I remember when I first learned of "Mr. X"'s move to Dearborn- I would ask my family members- "why Dearborn?- These people have the finances and connections to live anywhere in the USA, why must they come to the very city that they are most hated in?" The answer has tended to be that these thugs want to prove to everyone that they really don't care what we think of them. I am sure that they like the access to Arabic food and products-- but these people tend to be recognized and unwelcome when they enter local business. More on "Mr. X" - he not only has state of the art surveillance tecnology-- his house has a huge 25 ft flag pole on its front lawn with the American flag and the Marines flag up. (I believe that his son is in the Marines- but I don't know for sure- it could be delusions of self grandeur.) His house looks like a fortress, on a major corner in east Dearborn- with flood lights on at all times of the night. (Personally, all you need to see are the gaudy animal statues on his front lawn to know where his tastes lie.) He also openly has two wives (clearly violating American polygamy laws) with no hassle from the authorities in this regard. (His wives spent much of last summer in Lebanon- fore their home is near my grandparents home in Bint Jbeil. In 1999 when my grandfather traveled back to Lebanon to see the status of our family home, this "Mr. X" made sure to send someone to knock on our family home's door. They passed the message that "Mr.X" was going to have a road built from his home (on a hill) directly to one of the village's main roads and that to do so he would have taken chunks of my grandparents' land. Alas, he decided not to do so and he wanted to matter-of-factly send the message that my grandfather "should be happy". Thanks for the favor you bloody murderer!)"