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May 02, 2006

May Day

Pro illegal immigration protests occured across the country yesterday on May Day, the international holiday for communism. I did not see any protests from my vantage point in downtown San Antonio, but I did see about a dozen kids from Fox Tech high school goofing off in the morning who should have been in school.

Lou Dobbs has a good article on the influence of radical groups like the Stalinist front group international ANSWER in organizing these protests:

But only one newspaper, to its credit, reported that illegal aliens and their supporters' boycott of the national economy on the First of May is clear evidence that radical elements have seized control of the movement. The Washington Post, alone among national papers, reported that ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) has become an active promoter of the national boycott.

Some illegal immigration and open borders activists in the Hispanic community are deeply concerned about the involvement of the left-wing radical group. But others, like Juan Jose Gutierrez, whom I've interviewed a number of times over the past several months, manages to be both director of Latino Movement USA and a representative of ANSWER.

As Gutierrez told us on my show, 'The time has come...where we need to stand up and make a statement. We need to do what the American people did when they pulled away from the British crown. And I am sure that back in those days many people were concerned that was radical action.'

Glenn Reynolds makes a good point I had not of thought before. International ANSWER actually wants to create strife between illegals and American citizens to further its own agenda:

People are talking about backlash, and how these rallies are counterproductive. That's probably right, but I think that's what the A.N.S.W.E.R. folks are hoping for. Right now you have lots of immigrants who want to be part of America. The A.N.S.W.E.R. people have been stoking these demonstrations not because they want to help illegal immigrants, but because they hope to provoke a backlash that will make them angry at America instead. They don't have short-term ameliorative political goals -- they want shock troops for the revolution.

Some of the protesters turned violent by attacking police officers. The Orange County Reegister reports:

Police asked other law enforcement agencies for help this afternoon after a group of 1,500 protesters jammed traffic on Bristol Street near 1st Street and Edinger Avenue and some started to hurls rocks, plastic bottles and marbles at officers.

'It's starting to take a turn for the worse,' Santa Ana police Sgt. Lorenzo Carrillo said.

Posted by Pete at May 2, 2006 07:59 AM

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There is violence on both sides of this issue really. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has received death threats over his support of the immigrants. Aren't there always people on both sides of every issue that just take things too far?

Posted by: Jeff at May 2, 2006 11:58 PM

"Aren't there always people on both sides of every issue that just take things too far?"

Yes there are nuts everywhere, but the level of violence and law breaking is not equal in proportion. In this case one of the groups is invading another country and advocates ignoring large chunks of US law it finds inconvenient. One of the groups has large sections of it that advocate the genocide of asians, blacks, and whites that reside in any territory that used to be part of Mexico. And to top it off the organizers of the march advocate the violent overthrow of the US government and want to replace it with a communist dictatorship. That is a bit different than one or two lone nutcases making a threatening phone call.

Posted by: Pete at May 3, 2006 08:10 AM

So the people in Santa Ana are advocating genocide by throwing rocks at police? Not every protesor was affiliated with ANSWER.

Invading? That's a bit much.

Posted by: Jeff at May 5, 2006 01:33 PM

I do not know enough about the indivuals throwing rocks to make that detemrination. They very well could have been advovcating genocide. I will be posting some more pitures and videos of the protestors when I get the chance in the next few days.

The reconquista movement (also known as the Aztlan movement) is very much about invading. Their goal is to refight the Mexican -American war and retake the seven states that used to be part of Mexico (aka Aztlan) and either kill or expell all non-chicanos. For instance here is a quote from MEChA's Constitution "Chicana/Chicano students of California must take upon themselves the responsibilities to promote Chicanismo within the community; as well as politicize our Raza (Race) and continue the struggle for self-determination of the Chicana/Chicano people and the liberation of Aztlan"

While individual protestors might not be in favor of invasion (and the resulting genocide), the people organizing the march were and the protestors willingly marched under their direction.

Posted by: Pete at May 5, 2006 04:30 PM