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Racism Organized in the Latino Community Begs Review

April 4, 2009 By 32 Comments

4/4/09
by Gayle Plato. M. Ed.

A number of Main Stream Media (MSM) agencies are reporting and commenting on the racist attitudes of Arizona law enforcement, with our own Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas getting the brunt of the attack. The claim is that actively observing, or arresting any Latino is a racist act taken on by bigoted white men. Even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insinuated racial discord in her comments back home in San Francisco area at a local town hall meeting. We do not want to break up families said Ms. Pelosi. Implying that criminals are parents first and murdering felons last All of the Anglo authorities feel pressure to tip toe and arrest only under politically correct standards. Yet, is it not racist to IGNORE the crime of the Latino community so rampant now?

Phoenix is the leading city of kidnapping. This is not kidnapping of white children outside of a Target store; it is drug trafficking crime foisted by Latinos on themselves. This is the worst kind of racial profiling possible and the seed of much historical riot and revolution of racial tension.

On this day, 41 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King was gunned down. While his importance risks being lost as something more of legend, I see his vision as of commonality as brothers with a desire for nonviolence in society.

Dr. King understood that racial upheaval and crime in communities hurt the locals first and foremost. So today, we see Latino activists angry that peers are being profiled, labeled, and targeted as felons. But in reality, it would be immoral and evil for the elected officials to ignore the crime and just write it off as a Hispanic problem. Dr. King fought and gave his life to see just that level of racism abolished.

I put forth that the community organizing activity is nothing but bigotry on one’s own. Like abortion touted to women of color, the population is being conned into feeling like second class citizens. No Latino man or woman should be afraid to go out in public, nor worry about getting caught in the crossfire of local drug war and human smuggling. No Latino should feel like a victim just because of his race and the impotent community activists stirring up controversy. The Posse and the prosecutors are not the ones killing innocents. They are doggedly trying to cut the crime in this town.

Imagine if hundreds of Anglo families in Scottsdale or Cave Creek were being stalked, taken, held hostage, and some killed. Imagine if all of the upper middle class moms driving kids to school and soccer risked a significant chance of being injured in gang violence. See the white boys and girls afraid that their fathers might be picked up by beheading gangs. The citizens would be raging against the system for NOT going after the criminals with a vengeance. Even if the criminals were white guys killing white citizens, we would stop at NOTHING to capture the violent perpetrators and prosecute with ultimate haste. The rest of you, well, you are being conned into submission.

Do Latinos really believe the steaming piles of discontent droppings plopped? All citizens of any race should be furious with the crime, yet not buying into being the victims. We all must start working together to stop the bloodshed and absolute terrorism leaching up from Mexico. We need to start applauding the hero enforcers who are underpaid, at highest risk, and completely vilified for doing nothing more than aggressively saving the citizens and the aliens from themselves.

“In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can be done only by projecting the ethics of love to the center of our lives.” – Dr. Martin Luther King

Filed Under: County Government, Crime and Punishment, Illegal Immigration, Race Relations

Napolitano’s embarassing remarks to the Brookings Institute

April 4, 2009 By 6 Comments

explaining the border

“One of the things that we need to be sensitive to is the very real feelings among southern border states and in Mexico that if things are being done on the Mexican border, they should also be done on the Canadian border.”

In other words, conditions on the Canadian border are just like those on the Mexican border.

Of course due to Mexico’s destabilization, Phoenix is now the kidnapping capitol of the world.  In 2008 there were a total of 7,000 civilian deaths in Iraq and the number is declining while in Mexico last year there were 6,000 deaths and the number is skyrocketing.

But in the mind of Janet, we must respect the feelings of Mexico and treat Canada as if it too were in the grips of a lawless civil war.

Napolitano,  former governor spent her life in New Mexico and Arizona, and acknowledges she’s “never actually spent much time on the Canadian border,” but sure hopes to visit. Until then, she’s commissioned a study.

How much will that cost?  I’ll tell you what, I’ll save the taxpayer the expense and tell you what Janet’s “study” will find:  Canada ships food, technology and finished lumber products; Mexico ships, well, impoverished labor, crime, and oh yeah, drugs.

Canada hunts down terrorists and, Mexico provides refuge to, well, everyone.  Canada wants freer trade with the U.S. and, well, Mexico is engaging in an escalating tariff war with the U.S.  [The country has raised tariffs on over 90 products because we won't let their crappy trucks free access on US interstates.  Not to mention that Mexico prohibits US truckers from anywhere in Mexico other than the Border Zone.]

So just exactly what is it that convinces Ms. Napolitano the two borders deserve equal treatment?

Filed Under: Border

Were You Invited?

April 4, 2009 By 13 Comments

Jack Brown

What Republican members of the legislature showed up?  Make your phone calls … and let us know!  Jack was known as one of the Tres Amigos from LD-5.

Filed Under: Special Event

Health Plan Threatens to Feed Your Gun-related Data into a National Database

April 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment

… the gun control provisions in the stimulus bill that President Obama signed in February.  Our government will now spend between $12 and $20 BILLION to require the medical community to retroactively put our most confidential medical records into a government database … A budget resolution — to be voted on this Friday in the Senate — will be the first domino in a process that could FORCE you to buy government-approved insurance, thus making it impossible to avoid the medical database.

So… remember when your pediatrician asked your kid if you have a firearm in the home? Or when your dad was given a prescription for Zoloft because of his Alzheimer’s? Or when your wife mentioned to her gynecologist that she had regularly smoked marijuana ten years ago?

All of this would be in a centralized database.

Last week my cardiologist’s office asked me to “update” my medical records so they could be digitized and entered into a medical database.  How about you?

Should the government have this information at its fingertips available to qualify you for, or dis-qualify you from?  For example, will a conversation you had with your doctor eventually place you on the No-Fly List or worse?

http://capwiz.com/gunowners/issues/alert/?alertid=13066811&PROCESS=Take+Action

Filed Under: 2nd Amendment, Family, Human Condition, Privacy, Uncategorized

Idealist?

April 4, 2009 By 21 Comments

Did you ever wonder?

Where all those “Community Organizers” came from?  Especially during the last Presidential campaign when Obama’s employment prior to his two-year stint in the Illinois state senate was as a “Community Organizer”?

Did you know that right now in Phoenix you can “enlist” for a year long PAID training program with the “Green Corp”? (Want to guess what they’re all about?)

Did you know the size and scope – not to mention paid jobs – of the William J. Clinton Foundation?

I am wondering now, how much state funding finds its way into Teach America?  And exactly what do they mean by “progressive education” and “progressive change” anyway?  While our side is squabbling among ourselves, the opposition is playing offense.

In looking at the state education budget and programs, and thinking about the piece here showing the “Chicano Community Activist”, I began to do some research.  Below is a quote from the Idealist website from the listing of M.E.Ch.A. Mesa Arizona.  And I hate to disappoint you, but they don’t have any job openings today.  [But this website is chock full of job listings - paid, job listings]

“M.E.Ch.A. is a first step to tying the students groups throughout the Southwest into a vibrant and responsive network of activists who will respond as a unit to oppression and racism and will work in harmony when initiating and carrying put campaigns of liberation for our people.
M.E.Ch.A. must bring to the mind of every young Chicano that the liberations of this people from prejudice and oppression is in his hands and this responsibility is greater than personal achievement and more meaningful that degrees, especially if they are earned at the expense of his identity and cultural integrity.
M.E.Ch.A., then, is more than a name; it is a spirit of unity, of brotherhood, and a resolve to undertake a struggle for liberation in society where justice is but a word. M.E.Ch.A. is a means to an end.”
www.idealist.org
Note: you’ll have to register to see the good stuff.  But hey, why not?  Aren’t you interested in a progressive future too?  And members of the House and Senate, please visit this site.  You may be surprised at the linkages between public education in Arizona and some of these “teaching” groups.
Now you know why they seem to win, take a hint.  Does our side have these opportunites and shock troops for the values we ascribe to?  Yes, you too can apply for the open position with Planned Parenthood of Arizona, or register “new” voters.
What are we doing about it?  How much public funding do these groups receive?  Can they be cut from the public budget?  Are we funding progressive change?  “Yes we can!”
Filed Under: Culture, Education, Environment, Human Condition, Illegal Aliens, Political Parties, Race Relations, Sanctity of Life, State Government, Voter Registration

Who paid for Mesa Police Chief George Gascon’s trip to D.C. to testify against Arpaio on immigration?

April 4, 2009 By 9 Comments

Congressman Ted Poe of Texas asked Mesa Police Chief George Gascon during a Congressional hearing investigating Arpaio’s immigration procedures who paid for his trip. Gascon refused to say who, saying only “A group of nonprofit organizations that are seeking immigration reform.” Somehow we don’t think he was referring to the Center for Immigration Studies or the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Considering the radical agendas some of these groups have, at a minimum, Gascon should reveal who they are. Were they buying his testimony by paying for his trip? Were they groups like La Raza, ACORN and MEChA? Some of the more radical groups want to give parts of Texas, California and Arizona to Mexico. Why didn’t Gascon reveal who they were, was he hiding something? Here is something from MEChA speaker Augustin Cebada -
Augustin Cebada

Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, pilgrims! Get out! We are the future! You are old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die…Through love of having children, we are going to take over.

This kind of hate speech does nothing to resolve immigration issues. Gascon needs to identify which groups paid for his trip and clarify they are not any of the radical organizations listed above.

Filed Under: Border, Crime and Punishment, Illegal Aliens, Illegal Immigration

Do You Dance with the One Who Brung You?

April 4, 2009 By 5 Comments

Mesa Police Chief George Gascon spent Thursday testifying before a congressional committee purportedly investigating the 287(g) program, but seen by many as conducting a show hearing on Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Now it’s no secret that Gascon is no big fan of Arpaio.  Prior to the hearings and today’s article in the East Valley Tribune, I was willing to accept Gascon’s dislike of Arpaio at face value.  Perhaps he did have real objections with Arpaio’s decision to conduct raids in Mesa without what Gascon felt was proper notification.  I may not have agreed with it, but it was a fair contention.

However, today’s article should be cause for concern for any Mesa resident – of which I am not – who is concerned about the illegal immigration that has gripped many parts of their city.

In the article, Gascon is asked by Congressman Ted Poe who paid for Gascon’s trip to DC.  Now for those of you unfamiliar with Poe, he was a no nonsense judge in Harris County Texas prior to being elected to Congress.  He had a reputation for not suffering fools lightly.  And he lived up to that reputation with Gascon.

Who paid your way to get here today?” Poe asked. Gascón replied by repeating the question.

“You heard me,” Poe said. “Who paid your way?”

“A group of nonprofit organizations that are seeking immigration reform,” Gascón answered.

“Would you agree with the statement that we dance with the one who brung us?” Poe said, suggesting that Gascón was essentially paid for his testimony.

The police chief bristled at Poe’s comment, reciting his military service and long law enforcement career.

“I don’t dance with anyone,” Gascón replied.

Really George?  Now maybe your motives are pure.  But letting a bunch of immigration reform groups pay your way out here to participate in a show hearing attacking the Sheriff of the County you live in strikes me as perhaps not the smartest thing to do.  Should a municipal employee charged with enforcing the law really be seen as being in the bag with groups that have made it clear they aren’t real high on the idea of enforcing certain laws?

Now George’s motive may in fact be pure.  But why bring them into question when you are the Chief of Police of a city that has suffered more from the problems of illegal immigration than probably almost any other city in the Valley?

Heaven help the citizens of Mesa if Gascon really is more of an apologist for illegal immigration than a Chief of Police committed to enforcing immigration laws.  I believe the jury is out on that right now, if only because of Gascon’s inexplicable decision to apparently dance with the ones who brought him.

Filed Under: Illegal Aliens, Illegal Employment, Illegal Immigration