Attacks on illegal immigration protesters

Posted Thu, Oct 5, 2006 at 9:44 am

Here are just some:

* 10/4/06, downtown Denver: a group of Colorado Minutemen were videotaping day laborers when a group of the laborers got angry and one or more of them appear to have assaulted one or more of the cameramen. One of those involved is currently out on bond charged with trying to steal the camera. A video news report from Jeremy Hubbard of FOX31 is here. On that report he says: "Immigration rights advocate Polly Baca says the Minutemen share responsibility because they shouldn't have been taping the men in the first place", and she says on tape: "The minutemen are acting in a totally un-American fashion... it is not their place to enforce our laws, it is the place of our police officers, our safety officers to enforce our laws." Baca is linked to Western Union, a company that profits when illegal aliens send money home. And, of course, what's "un-American" is suggesting that it's acceptable for people who are lawfully videotaping on U.S. streets to be attacked. Perhaps Hubbard should have mentioned her affiliation in order to give his viewers a better idea of why she might say something like that.

* 10/4/06, NYC: Lefties from the International Socialist Organization, the Chicano Caucus, and other groups storm the stage in an auditorium at Columbia University shortly after invited guest Jim Gilchrist of the MMP begins speaking. They unfurl a couple banners, fights break out, and the speech is called off. They had disrupted an earlier speaker. Video here, more here, here, and here. The lightweights at Gawker respond with "Minuteman Event at Columbia Ruined by Brown People" (tinyurl.com/h2h7k); in their rush to be continually irrelevant, they missed the chant the protesters did outside: "Asian, Black, Brown and White, we smashed the Minutemen tonight!" An anonymous protester : "I don't feel like we need to apologize or anything. It was fundamentally a part of free speech. ... The Minutemen are not a legitimate part of the debate on immigration." They believe in free speech, just so long as those speaking are "legitimate parts of the debate".

* 7/8/06, Hollywood CA: at a MMP march in Hollywood, the protesters clashed with the LAPD. The AP's headline didn't make those involved clear, and may have given some the false impression that the MMP were involved in the melee.

* 5/25/05, Garden Grove CA: Violent lefties protest outside a speech by Jim Gilchrist. They swarm cars, and cans full of marbles are found.

* 5/14/05, Baldwin Park CA: Counter-protesters at the SOS protest of a public monument turned violent, including throwing a full bottle of water at someone in the SOS group. David Pierson and Patricia Ward Biederman of the Los Angeles Times covered up for the violent lefties.

(There are many more which will be added later.)

Finally, at the end of the post, I've provided the condemnation of these attacks from the ACLU and other anti-MMP organizations:

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Comments

Horace (not verified)

Mon, 10/09/2006 - 15:27

Yeah, del Norte, it's me, big brother, ghost of J. Edgar Hoover. Just how many recruits do you have in your revolutionary army, you and some other nut? Mother Jones sends her love, as does Polipundit, Parapundit, 2blowhards.com and Reason On-line. You've left quite a trail for us to follow.

perroazul del norte (not verified)

Sun, 10/08/2006 - 04:24

"Sweeping the White House clean of those currently in power and electing a good administration is all that is required."-horace

Who could possibly believe the above crap? I think the FBI Internet Monitoring Division is cynically fucking with Lonewacko's troops.

Horace (not verified)

Sat, 10/07/2006 - 08:28

While I agree with Mr. Del Norte that the current administration is the most corrupt since that of U.S. Grant's, I take issue with his call for an overthrow of the U.S. Government. As a civil servant myself, I find myself at odds with the political leaders who make policy and decide which laws they wish to enforce. Sweeping the White House clean of those currently in power and electing a good administration is all that is required.

perroazul del norte (not verified)

Fri, 10/06/2006 - 04:36

The recently-passed fence bill has loopholes that give the Bush administration discretion over how to spend the money and whether to spend it constructing a real fence, a "virtual" fence, or on something else entirely:
...shortly before recessing late last Friday, the House and Senate gave the Bush administration leeway to distribute the money to a combination of projects, not just the physical barrier along the southern border. The money may also be spent on roads, technology and "tactical infrastructure" to support the Homeland Security Department's preferred option of a "virtual fence."
What's more, in a late-night concession to win over wavering Republicans, GOP congressional leaders pledged in writing that Native American tribes, members of Congress, governors and local leaders would get a say in "the exact placement" of any structure and that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff would have the flexibility to use alternatives "when fencing is ineffective or impractical."

The loopholes leave the Bush administration with authority to decide where, when and how long a fence will be built, except for small stretches east of San Diego and in western Arizona. Homeland Security officials have proposed a fence half as long, lawmakers said...

...In this case, it also reflects the GOP's political calculations that voters do not mind the details, and that key players - including the administration, local leaders and the Mexican government - oppose a fence-only approach, analysts said...
The traitors in Congress have revived the once-discredited concept of States' Rights in order to promote the Reconquista of their Brown Racist allies. The Deep South segregationists of the Fifties must be cackling in their graves.

The US government has proven itself terminally corrupt and in need of forcible overthrow. The genuine American patriots in the national government are so laughably few that they simply provide a mildly diverting clown show for our masters. The loony Communist hysterics who went apeshit at Columbia University the other night are too stupid to realize that Bush, the Congress and the US Chamber of Commerce are doing the real work for them.

Jake Jacobsen (not verified)

Thu, 10/05/2006 - 19:12

"A legitimate part of the debate" as defined and decided by them LW. An important point, no?