Arnold Schwarzenegger gives power to far-left (immigration letter)

Posted Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 9:49 am

Shortly after the now-infamous Tan Nguyen letter warning "immigrants" against voting surfaced, our Rove-influenced governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, completely capitulated to demands that had not yet been made:

[Arnie] called the letters "racist" and "despicable," and argued the perpetrators should be tried for a hate crime.

Now, he's had his words regurgitated by those who don't have the U.S.'s best interests at heart:

State Democratic Chairman Art Torres said party leaders were planning a rally for Orange County on Tuesday. "It's a hate crime as far as we are concerned," Torres said.

(If the letter is a "hate crime", I wonder what we should call Torres' decade-old quote that "[Proposition 187] is the last gasp of white America in California.")

This incident shows the folly of the GOP trying to be like or giving in to or trying to play the same game as those on the far-left. If Arnold had issued a more moderate statement that included all possibilities and had not included the "hate crime" bit, racists like Torres might still say the same things, but Arnold would not have preemptively given their statements legitimacy and might have even been able to appear as the voice of reason.

Now, he appears to be the same as the racial demagogues on the far-left. And, this will make legitimate attempts to point out that non-citizens can't vote even more difficult and tarnish attempts to investigate possible cases of non-citizens voting. And, it will make the GOP even more beholden to far-left, self-appointed Hispanic "leaders".

For more on the far-left feeding frenzy, see "Many parties pitch tents in Nguyen opposition camp" or "Governor may try to mend fences after G-O-P letter scandal".

The Torres quote is from yet another biased AP article by Peter Prengaman, and its biases might be featured here later. So too with "Nguyen's campaign office raided" by Norberto Santana Jr. and the LAT's "Raids Widen 'Immigrant' Letter Probe" by Jennifer Delson, Christopher Goffard and Mai Tran. The latter contains this intriguing bit:

According to a source close to the investigation, the attorney general's office has determined that an LAPD officer, who is a friend of a worker in Nguyen's office, paid $4,000 on a credit card for the bulk mailing of the letter and used an alias.

Related: Arnold Schwarzenegger distance self from Bush. Or does he?

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Comments

Fred Dawes (not verified)

Mon, 10/23/2006 - 11:15

Read Perroazul del norte he has it right.

but still buy guns lots of guns

perroazul del norte (not verified)

Mon, 10/23/2006 - 05:53

Sometimes it's helpful to lay out the obvious facts that our rulers keep trying to hide from us:
The third-world country we treat as an equal partner
The Security and Prosperity Partnership for North America (here is a story on the original agreement last March) is based on the premise that Mexico is on the same economic level and has the same business, legal, and moral standards as the U.S. and Canada.
In reality Mexico is a country rife with barbaric lawlessness. In the state of Michoacan in central Mexico, drug criminals have beheaded 17 people and left the heads in public places in order to terrorize the citizenry, and it

perroazul del norte (not verified)

Mon, 10/23/2006 - 05:40

Politically, he can't really afford to do anything else, because, being an immigrant himself, he's very open to being called a hypocrite if he fails to speak up.

Maybe he could discuss the campaign of coerced assimilation that the German-spesking population of the US was subject to during and following World War One. Then he could be a "victim" too. :)

eh (not verified)

Mon, 10/23/2006 - 01:32

For a politician, Schwarzenegger seems rather ham-handed, to say the least. And quite conventional, in the sense of political correctness. Meaning he seems eager to kiss 'ethnic' ass whenever it appears even remotely called for. Politically, he can't really afford to do anything else, because, being an immigrant himself, he's very open to being called a hypocrite if he fails to speak up. More politics as scripted soap opera.

Fred Dawes (not verified)

Sat, 10/21/2006 - 21:35

no crime here to tell some illegal he or she can't vote, but say you let all of the people in all third world so called counties vote what would happen? do you think that the vote would be fair? but it must be that someone wants other's to vote here and not in third world counties? ask why? this thing is a setup by la raza and the hate race people in MEchA.

buy guns buy lots of guns you may need one to save your life someday soon. listen to savage nation.

perroazul del norte (not verified)

Sat, 10/21/2006 - 13:23

State Democratic Chairman Art Torres said party leaders were planning a rally for Orange County on Tuesday. "It's a hate crime as far as we are concerned," Torres said.
Advising potential voters to observe the law is a hate crime. Of course.