John Deady, the co-chairman for Rudy Giuliani's veterans' coalition in New Hampshire has resigned after putting his foot in his mouth. He told a British newspaper, the Guardian, that Muslims need to be chased "back to their caves." What planet are these "authorities" from? Don't these people know that disparaging comments will come back to haunt them? Giuliani, for what it is worth, had nothing to do with this bigotry, however, he has fostered an atmosphere conducive to such thinking. When he was mayor of New York City, he fanned the flames of racial tension by backing the police who mercilessly beat Haitian immigrant Abner Louima and lied about it, only for the city to end up having to pay the largest police brutality settlement to this man. Justin Volpe, the police who led the attack on Louima is sitting behind bars to this very day for the crime. So, racial intolerance is nothing new for the Giuliani camp.

“Mr. Deady offered his resignation from his volunteer position in the campaign and I accepted his resignation,” Giuliani New Hampshire Chairman Wayne Semprini said in a statement.
In the original Guardian interview, Deady said Giuliani is the best candidate to handle “one of the most difficult problems in current history” — “the rise of the Muslims.”He added: “We need to keep the feet to the fire and keep pressing these people until we defeat or chase them back to their caves or, in other words, get rid of them.”

Click here to see the video of Deady’s comments for the Guardian.

Deady continued to seal his own fate by stating in an interview with the Talking Points Memo Web site, by confirming that he had made the statements and said he was referring to all Muslims. “I don’t subscribe to the principle that there are good Muslims and bad Muslims,” Deady said in the article. “They’re all Muslims.” This way of thinking is quite serious because the feeling could be the same for other races, ethnicities and sexual orientation.

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