May 1 - Illegal Immigrant Protest

[Prof. A. Wickwire]

To celebrate protesting illegal immigrants I decided to do some shopping today. I bought a birthday present for my beloved and picked up a Porter-Cable Router that I had ordered. Imagine my shock and chagrin when I got the router home and saw "Made in Mexico" on the label.

And to think, I thought Porter-Cable tools were made in the US.

Sincerely,

Prof. A. Wickwire

 

[Tom Servo]

Naturalized immigrant and a proud American. Hang in there, Sharizad; it's worth it.

Yes, the system is broken, and it makes things unfairly difficult for those who want to become bonafide citizens. My sister's husband is stuck on the wheel at the moment as well--I know your anguish, and I thank you for serving the country. Most folks born here never even "get around" to voting.

If you were born here, say a prayer of thanks. To those who've lived without it, it has an almost tangible taste. The American flag flies proudly in front of my house, and yeah, I'm corny enough to take it down when it rains

I don't drink, but I've got to get a bottle of rubbing alcohol for cleaning the old glasses.

I'll be buying a pack of smokes...my one remaining stupid habit.

And yeah, I'll be buying some ammo. I might also pick up that Smith 642 I've been eyeing for a few days...

 

[sm]

Dunhill's & Zippos

I bought my Zippo fluid wicks and flints...Marlboro Red, short, in the box...
There is a distinguished looking gentleman in the store, immigrated here from the UK some years ago.

His grandson does not understand today's events.

Like our own P95Carry, this gentleman chose to come to the US, left some his possessions , including firearms in the UK. He and his wife went thru all the legal channels, hoops, headaches, and paperdrill. They did it for themselves, and for their kids they intended,
and grandkids hoped for...

He knows too many like himself, from other countries that went the route he and his wife did - he / they are not real happy with illegal attitudes.

"Would you care for a Dunhill?"
"Would you care for a Marlboro?"

He used my Zippo to light a Marlboro Red - I use his Dunhill to light up a Dunhill.

Smoke rings blown by Americans wafting in the air - one by birth, one by legal processes .

 

[Art Eatman]

I celebrated. Three Mexican guys and I went down in my southeast pasture and they cut mesquite from along the road and I poisoned the stumps to prevent regrowth. Got done around 2PM, which was good, 'cause it was bumping past 100F. Quatro braceros en la brasada.

Art

 

[Lone_Gunman]

Were the Mexican guys legal or illegal?

 

[Art Eatman]

Probably.

 

[Tom Servo]

"Would you care for a Dunhill?"
"Would you care for a Marlboro?"
He used my Zippo to light a Marlboro Red - I use his Dunhill to light up a Dunhill.

I can imagine Churchill and Truman doing much the same

My sister's husband just arrived back from Tajikistan, and the first thing we did was eat a traditional Persian lunch with his family (if you've never had it, you're missing out), followed by a round of Mystery Science Theater. Talk about bridging the divide

 

[Camp David]

So I assume all who marched today in illegal alien protests will naturally register to become citizens soon and register to fight in our Armed Forces and head to Iraq and Afghanistan to defend this nation from terrorists??????

:banghead:

...Wait...

They just want money correct?

 

[Lone_Gunman]

That's great Art.

If one had gotten injured doing your day labor, would you have paid his medical bills, or let the county pick up the tab like everyone else?

 

[KaceCoyote]

Anyone carrying a gun must be a criminal
Anyone Mexican must be an illegal


Art hired some gentlemen who helped him to work on his plot of god's green, and sun scorched earth. Its racist, impolite and idiotic to expect him to exclude every Mexican looking fellow just because they "might" be an illegal. Innocent until proven guilty.

 

[Lone_Gunman]

No, its not racist. It would be racist to assume they like tacos better than hot dogs. Its a matter of compliance with the law. Now, if you don't want to comply thats up to the individual, of course. But, before you get all high and mighty, understand that Art himself seems to think there was a good chance they were illegals, from his intentionally enigmatic answer of "probably".

Does TX issue driver licenses to illegals? If not, would that be easy enough to check?

 

[Hyunchback]

The meat in this taco

Camp David wrote:

So I assume all who marched today in illegal alien protests will naturally register to become citizens soon and register to fight in our Armed Forces and head to Iraq and Afghanistan to defend this nation from terrorists??????

That's the real meat of this argument, isn't it? They are here against the law while our men and women are off fighting and dying. For the war or against the war it doesn't matter. Those men and women are OURS! Quite a number wear that same anagram I wore on my chest. US ARMY.

If the supposed millions who marched today were to be in uniform the insurgency in Iraq would be limited to groups no larger than 2 at a time because we'd outnumber them.

You volunteer to serve my country and by whatever you hold holy I'll fight and die to make you a citizen afterwards.

AFTERWARDS. Not first. I'll support a plan whereby men and women from Mexico who can qualify can serve in our military in exchange for citizenship after successful service.

I put in time in uniform and have the honorable discharge to prove it. My father and brother put in time in uniform. Not one of us wore that uniform so someone could come along and claim citizenship because they avoided being caught for a few years.

 

[CAnnoneer]

I bought a gun today - Ruger MkIII BBL 5.5 STS. I wanted one for awhile, and also it is nice to help the anti-boycott

 

[sm]

>Thread Drift<

Art's Got Mesquite To Burn - That is Texan for BBQ!!


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[ken grant]

Boycott

Did my bit for the cause today
1000 rds. 45 ACP
980 rds. 7.62x51
$100.00 worth of M-14 parts

Wife and I went to Wally World and she spent about $150.00

 

[Art Eatman]

Down here in this little isolated pocket, we have a bunch of folks who are dual citizenship. Born here, raised in or live in Mexico, a lot of them. I've seen guys around here who have been here since before I got here. I've no doubt that some of them aren't US citizens; they've just never bothered. You drink beer with a guy for a few years, some questions just don't come to mind.

Back before all this border insecurity stuff, a fair number of gringos lived across the River at Paso Lajitas. No longer. Folks been backing-and-forthing since they ran the Comanches out. Now, though, it's just a few drug smugglers coming over, and not many of those.

Lone_gunman, I probably had the dangerous job. I was spraying with a mix of diesel and Remedy. Herbicides can be bad juju. Hard to hurt yourself with long-handled lopping shears. I mean, these guys aren't office workers from a city.

We have a few folks here who support the California Screaming. The funny thing is that they really don't have a clue about what's going on out there. Or, you ask about the problems at Laredo and they say, "Huh?" As usual, the less folks know, the stronger the opinion.

Hmmm...

Anyhow, if there's a point to all this, our local folks of Mexican descent went to work, today.

, Art

 

[DRZinn]

Got no big purchases to make, but I went out and had a nice Italian dinner in a little hole-in-the-wall in Little Italy.

The waiter's last name was Flores and the couple at the next table were speaking Spanish. Good to know not all Hispanics have bought into the left's rhetoric that tries to lump all Hispanics in with the illegals.

Then I went out and did the grocery shopping for the week. Two stores, both cashiers were Hispanic, and so were a lot of other customers.

 

[cpileri]

lights

I bought a new maglight and the LED bulb upgrades for it.
I hope the economy gets a nice bump in sales for today!
C-

 

[drclark]

How about a tax payer boycott

After today's so-called boycott, I was wondering what those who oppose illegal immigration could do in response. Unfortunately, a letter writing campaign probably would not garner the media coverage that a bunch of flag-waving illegals marching in the street do. Also, I am starting to lose faith that letters maybe don't send enough of a signal to our elected officials anyways.

So here is an idea. What if, in addition to a letter writing campaign, all hard working tax paying Americans who oppose illegal immigration simply changed their income tax exemptions on their W4 so that the federal and state governments receive no tax revenue for the month of July. If enough people do the same, could we effect a significant enough interruption in the .gov's cash flow that they might sit up and listen to the will of the people? If our elected officials continue to ignore the will of the people, continue the tax boycott for another month. In addition, maybe we could then donate some of the $$ normally withheld to the minuteman border fence project or some other anti-illegal immigration movement.

The advantages of this is it would allow us to send a strong signal well before the upcomming congressional elections. Second, it is a relatively easy thing to do for those who cannot take of a day to attend a protest or a march and lastly would hopefully send a signal that would last an entire month rather than a single day.

Of course we would end up owing a significant amount come next Apr 15 along with potential tax penalties, but that is something I would be willing to incur.

Any thoughts if this might be a worthy method of protest? If so, how could we get something like this co-ordinated on a large enough scale by July to be effective?

drc

 

[Cosmoline]

Probably.

I'm getting my scalping knife out!

Seriously, you do realize YOU are the problem when you do this, don't you? YOU. Not the border police, not walmart, not the migrant leaders. YOU are the one putting an American out of work. YOU are the one feeding the demon.

Art hired some gentlemen who helped him to work on his plot of god's green, and sun scorched earth. Its racist, impolite and idiotic to expect him to exclude every Mexican looking fellow just because they "might" be an illegal. Innocent until proven guilty.

Yeah, and the guy sucking on the tiny glass pipe MIGHT be smoking pipe tobacco out of it. But it ain't likely! Though I have heard that sucking on such a pipe might help you conclude that you have broken no laws hiring Mexican guys off the street corner and reporting nothing to state of federal authorites about the wages paid or taxes withheld.

The choice is pretty clear. Either we have a border and we enforce the immigration laws, which means NO MORE STREETCORNER HIRES FOR LAWN WORK! Or we continue to ignore the border and disregard the consequences. There was a time when the folks in Mexico City thought it was fine and dandy to let all the eager Texicans come in and settle their isolate northern region. They worked hard and who was getting hurt? We all know how that ended. Now the tables have turned. Maybe we've become weak, and if we have we deserve to have our land taken. It's the natural punishment for arrogance.

Hope you've brushed up on your Spanish, Art! Including that new anthem

 

[Sindawe]

Tax Payer Boycott

So here is an idea. What if, in addition to a letter writing campaign, all hard working tax paying Americans who oppose illegal immigration simply changed their income tax exemptions on their W4 so that the federal and state governments receive no tax revenue for the month of July. If enough people do the same, could we effect a significant enough interruption in the .gov's cash flow that they might sit up and listen to the will of the people? If our elected officials continue to ignore the will of the people, continue the tax boycott for another month. In addition, maybe we could then donate some of the $$ normally withheld to the minuteman border fence project or some other anti-illegal immigration movement.

The advantages of this is it would allow us to send a strong signal well before the upcomming congressional elections. Second, it is a relatively easy thing to do for those who cannot take of a day to attend a protest or a march and lastly would hopefully send a signal that would last an entire month rather than a single day.

I've done the that very thing several times in the past when I knew I would be toiling many hours of OT, the better to keep more of my earnings right now. Using it as a form of political protest never occured to me. :banghead: I think its a GREAT idea.

Of course we would end up owing a significant amount come next Apr 15 along with potential tax penalties, but that is something I would be willing to incur.

I have no problem with this. I can incur some financial pain in addition to what the illegal aliens are already inflicting apon me and my nation.

 

[Thin Black Line]

Seriously, you do realize YOU are the problem when you do this, don't you? YOU. Not the border police, not walmart, not the migrant leaders. YOU are the one putting an American out of work. YOU are the one feeding the demon.

Same thing happens everytime we fill up our gas tanks, whine about higher
prices, and then send soldiers overseas to secure out supply. Yes, we
ARE polysubstance abusing addicts. We worship mammon and want her
at the lowest price possible.

Best cure for all of it is by going cold turkey and on a national level that
is done through a dollar collapse.

 

[rayra]

A repost, since the moderator saw fit to kill my other topic -

Illegal Immigracion / Hispanic Supremacist march in Los Angeles

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I've been arguing international politics online for quite some time. I've also been attending / covering / photo-documenting the seditionist marches put together by the stalinist org International ANSWER for several years, and posting about them at Little Green Footballs (a non-Idiotarian blog whose focus became Islamic terrorism, after 9/11)
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

Last Fall, I covered some particularly vile bile in Santa Monica on Veterans Day, their 'Iraq War Dead' crosses in the (beach) sand and some Green party Santa Monica officials and Ron Kovik to boot.

When I did that, I finally got on the ball and established rayra.net to host my photojournals of the LLLeft's actions in and around Los Angeles.

Today, I went downtown and covered the May Day ('Pinko de Mayo') march in support of Illegal Immigrants and Amnesty.

My preliminary report is posted here - http://www.rayra.net/Political_Coverage/Uno_de_Mayo/uno_de_mayo.html

A more extensive report, with categorical sub-pages and scores more photographs and some audio recordings will follow over the next couple days.

My previous Protester Coverage works are also elsewhere under that domain.

I won't say 'Enjoy', exactly, but there's my work. Link it / spread it. Anyone wanting higher-resolution images for similar work is welcome to ask, I'll do what I can.

rayra.net is fairly new. I'll be adding a wide variety of materials to it over the next few months.

And my thanks to the folks who viewed or participated in the other topic - the reason I posted it seperately was because I was broaching rayra.net en toto, not just talking about Pinko de Mayo events.

 

[dmallind]

So I assume all who marched today in illegal alien protests will naturally register to become citizens soon and register to fight in our Armed Forces and head to Iraq and Afghanistan to defend this nation from terrorists??????

Well nobody specifically mentioned the last part (although for the first guy at his age he is already registered for the draft - it's part of the process of getting a I-551) but seems like quite a few are definitely getting inspired to go for the first part of it yes.

Quotes for those who will ignore or dismiss anything not fitting their preconceived notions include:

Such influential figures as Spanish-language radio DJ Eddie "El Piolin" Sotelo urged crowds to become U.S. citizens — a suggestion greeted with roars of approval.

On the streets, many immigrants said the marches and rallies have inspired them to seek naturalization and register to vote for the first time in their lives. "I never thought I would say it or even think it, but this whole thing makes me want to vote in this country and I'm seriously thinking of becoming a U.S. citizen now," said Juan Almendares, a 31-year-old Garden Grove legal resident who runs a gardening firm with his brother.

Mexican immigrant Ofelia Luna, 42, has been a green card holder for almost two decades but didn't become a U.S. citizen until about five years ago. She is still not a registered voter, but said she is now inspired to become one. She plans to register in time to vote for the next president, she said. "I am part of this," she said, pointing to the crowd around City Hall. "I want my voice to be heard."


http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/14477355.htm

 

[Third_Rail]

Hey Art, if you paid each of them less than $400 for that job, they were contractors, no tax need be paid nor reported. That's right from my mother's mouth, who works for the Department of the Treasury - the IRS.


That kind of work doesn't bother me, I've done it a handful of times myself. Being a private contractor for a day is fun and a good day's work.

Since we're lumping things together, maybe I'm an illegal too? And my father, since he does the same thing now and then?