"It looks like to me that shooting these immigrating feral hogs works, maybe we have found a problem (I assume he meant to say "solution") to our illegal immigration problem."
This committee was not even discussing illegal immigration. His response to the recent outrage has been that his comment reflects his and his constituents frustration with the illegal immigrant problem. For the record, Mr. Peck hails from Montgomery County and here are a few demographics from the US Census:
White non-Hispanic population: 83.1% (Kansas 79.9%)
Persons of Hispanic or Latino Origin: 3.8% (Kansas 9.3%)
Median Household Income: $41,913 (Kansas: $50,174)
Persons below poverty level: 12.4% (Kansas 11.3%)
Language other than English Spoken at home: 3.7% (Kansas 8.7%)
Tyro city relative population change from 2000 to 2008: -2.65%.
My e-mail to State Representative Virgil Peck.
"Mr. Peck:
I am writing to inform you of my disgust with your recent comments during a House Appropriations Committee.
Firstly, making such a comment "out of the blue" at a meeting having nothing to do with illegal immigration does not reflect the sentiment of any of your voters, but rather your biased obsession with this issue. Do not pretend to represent good people who would rightly gag at the implication of your "joke."
Secondly, your comment was in session for the State government and extremely inappropriate. The people of Southeast Kansas deserve more professionalism, intelligence, and effectiveness from their representatives; three things that you are signaling you clearly do not have.
Third, from an immoral and practical standpoint, how do you propose to differentiate from a helicopter and sniper scope who is illegal and who is just "not white?" Or do you pretend like your colleague Mrs. O'Brien to have special vision in picking out illegal aliens?
Fourth, I assume from your website that your Pro-Life stance is grounded in your Christian and moral belief that abortion is wrong. I assume further that you also then believe that murder is not the appropriate solution to any problem ("Thou shalt not kill", "turn the other cheek"). Let me also point out that the Bible commands us to care for "the alien, the fatherless, and the widow" without specifying their legal status. As a Christian, you should be ashamed for even entertaining such a disgusting notion, especially in a professional, public, and respectable institution such as the State Legislature.
So I will ask you now, why you feel that you were justified in suggesting that illegal immigrants be hunted down using helicopters and sharp shooters like feral pigs? Why do you feel that was even remotely funny or appropriate in any way? It is immoral, offensive, and in extreme poor taste to even say something like that, and your lack of regret for making these comments betrays your shamefulness, indecency, and incompetence.
As a refresher, sir, I will end with Zechariah Chapter 7:
And the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart. But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts. Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts: But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
And Deuteronomy 10:
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment. Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
You have shown no compassion, and you have imagined evil against your brother. The people of Kansas deserve better than you."To contact Mr. Peck, here is his office information.
Virgil Peck Jr.
State Capitol
300 SW 10th St.
Topek, KS 66612-1504
785-296-7641
virgil@virgilpeck.com
UPDATE: Democratic Reps are calling for Peck's resignation. As much as I would love to see and hear no more of this clown, I would disagree (though I won't shed any tears if he does go). I want to know if this guy really represents South East KS as he states. I drive through District 11 (59 S goes through Coffeyville, KS) whenever I visit Tulsa, OK. In fact I have stopped there on several occasions for a lunch break and to refuel. I would like to know how the people of Montgomery County will be voting when this man is up for re-election. Until then I will go out of my way to drive around Montgomery, not gas up there, and in general avoid it. If he's re-elected (and I'm still in the area) I might reconsider my boycott.
He made some sick remarks that reveal the kind of person he is, but it is the responsibility of the voters of Montgomery County to decide if he does or does not represent them.
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