Thursday, November 02, 2006

Abusive Tenants Beware

Victor Caletre has been deported. That is hard to do in New York city where illegal aliens have as many or more rights than its legal citizens. Generally speaking, you have to commit a crime. Caletre, along with his partner in crime, Juan Haro, was a founder of the sham organization Movement For Justice in El Barrio. This organization’s claim to fame is its captive reporter, Albor Ruiz, who writes biased, distorted and untruthful stories for the Daily News under the guise of reporting the news. They are further supported by another sham organization, Housing Here and Now, which has its own gang of reporter lap dogs. They have tapped into an activist writer for El Diario whose daughter has written the same kind of rhetoric for the Village Voice. Shamefully, they also have a New York City Councilwoman in their pocket, East Harlem’s Melissa Mark Viverito, the wealthy German socialite, who lives in a $1,000,000 townhouse, masquerading as an Hispanic from the neighborhood, and whines about gentrification. In his article about alleged abusive landlords, Ruiz seeks to characterize the Movement’s fight against landlord Steven Kessner as a Samson versus Goliath type of battle. The reality is that the Movement for Justice in El Barrio is a gang of thugs who are victimizing their own people. Housing Here and Now is no more than an outlet for rants against landlords in general. What Caletre and Haro are doing is enabling illegal immigrants to be crowded into small apartments like herds of sheep. While Victor Caletre was falsely crusading against Steven Kessner, he was renting an apartment from him, in which he did not live. Instead he in turn rented his small two bedroom apartment to nine adults who paid him rent. In ranting and raving about abusive landlords, these organizations are seeking to divert attention from their shameful pursuit of the almighty dollar. Steven Kessner, who is one of the victims here, has only been attempting to clean up his building and reduce the unlawful overcrowding. Since that would have an adverse impact on the pocket books of the people who are preying on these unfortunate immigrants, they are desperately trying to stay in business, any way that they can. Victor Caletre is out of business. Hopefully, Haro will be soon, Steven Kessner will win his fight against illegal overcrowding and the media circus will end, or at least move on to villifying someone else.