World Refugee Day cancelled in Lewiston, Maine, by Ann Corcoran 6/19/18.
Here is the story on the “postponement” of World Refugee Day festivities there. They say it is about grieving….I don’t know if the postponement is so much about giving people time to grieve as it is fear that the event would have been a target for protests and possibly more violence. Lewiston Sun Journal (Hat tip: Joanne):
Tomorrow, June 20th, is World Refugee Day created by the United Nations in
the year 2000.
Each
year since, it has served as a media hook for reports and glowing stories about
refugee contributions to America. (The Left is so good at creating propaganda
opportunities!) But, for Lewiston, Maine this week, the word ‘refugee’ is not a happy
word.
First,
as we reported over the weekend,
a Maine man has been killed by a gang of children and teens (of various ethnicities they say!) a murder investigation
is underway and no arrests have been made. He died when one of the
‘youths’ smashed his head with a brick in an escalation of tensions between
local citizens and the growing “ethnic” ‘community’ there.
Donald Giusti died from a blow to the
head. Days before that deadly incident, a Lewiston Somali teen died in an
accidental drowning on a school field trip. (Incidentally, this is not a new
phenomenon. We have had several cases over the years of refugee children/teens
drowning because of their inability to swim.) By the way, in the Sun Journal’s several stories on the drowning, the
word ‘refugee’ and the word ‘Somali’ were absent (as they were in the story
about the murder). Makes me wonder, if they have a policy to NOT use
those words when certain members of their growing “ethnic” population make the
news (in a negative way).
LEWISTON — Organizers of Lewiston/Auburn’s World Refugee Day have
postponed the celebration scheduled for Wednesday in Lewiston.
A post on the event’s Facebook page said the decision was made “in
light of recent events in Lewiston and in order to allow the community time to
grieve the loss of these two community members, Rayan Issa and Donald Giusti.”
Rayan,
a 13-year-old Lewiston Middle School student, drowned last week during a school
field trip to Range Pond in Poland Spring. Giusti, 38, died Friday after being
beaten during a fight near Kennedy Park in Lewiston.
“This
week it is important to stand united as one Lewiston community by prioritizing
time for all people within our city to grieve and to heal. We believe that the
relationships built in our community are resilient and that we can rely on each
other to heal and move forward together,” the Facebook post read. No new date
was given for the event. More here. Secret decoder ring needed!
If
you were living under a rock and saw the above story, you would have no idea
how those two tragic and horrible events relate to World Refugee Day. My huge
and ever-growing Lewiston archive is here.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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