Navy christens cargo ship named for Cesar Chavez

AP via SFGate ^ | 5/6/12

[SmithL]

The military has christened its newest cargo-ammunition ship for civil rights leader and labor activist Cesar Chavez, who served in the Navy during World War II.

[Army Air Corps]

Naming a ship for a commie douchebag. Great.

[Dallas59]

In 1979 when Chavez and the United Farm Workers launched a campaign on the Arizona border to keep Mexican workers from entering America. There was a 100-mile long stretch of land called the “wet line” that turned into a dangerous place for undocumented immigrant workers.
They only searched for something humankind has been looking for since the beginning of time – a warm place to sleep, a meal, a job, a place to raise a family, a place that welcomes them with compassion, and not the gun-toting Minutemen of today or like the UFW in 1979 who beat them as they attempted to cross. (New York Times, February 7, 1979)

[SWAMPSNIPER]

They can call it the “wetback”.

[brivette]

I would have preferred “clutch”.

[elkfersupper]

One of the sickest things I ever saw or heard.

I wonder when we will have a USS Saddam Hussein?

[mylife]

Our Government is out of control.
What does a community organizer have to do with our military?

[Gay State Conservative]

Next will be the USS Richard Simmons.

[the invisib1e hand]

They can call it the “wetback”.

Now that's funny. Is it for service in the Rio Grande?

[mylife]

Our the USS Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers

[brivette]

now that is funny.

[BamaDi]

Or the “bean picker”!

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Next on this list, USS Jeremiah Wright.

[Doogle]

The ship’s sponsor is Chavez’s widow, Helen Fabela Chavez.

[skeeter]

The navy used to reserve the honor for those who were associated with the navy in some way - either a sailor who had distinguished himself or one of the navy's political benefactors. Chavez distinguished himself as a union leader.

The leftists corrupt everything they touch with their manic focus on the political.

[omega4179]

Romney will do nothing to reverse this.

[Slings and Arrows]

This is worse - whatever his proclivities, at least Richard Simmons is a successful businessman.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[mylife]

It’s only a matter of time ;)

[mylife]

USS Trayvon Martin

[coolbreeze]

Maybe the Navy needed a lettuce hauler

[mylife]

Lord knows we cant name a ship the USS "Whitey" Mack

[madison10]

Whose navy?! The article doesn’t say. Next it will be the USS Mao and the USS Lenin. Disgusting.

Is this satire?

[DrGunsforHands]

[madison10]

Yeah, I know the USS used to stand for United States Ship. Barbara Boxer is a moron for being happy about this.

[jmcenanly]

I was always under the impression that Naval vessels were named for people who were either in the armed services or had been commander in chief.Cesar Chavez has been neither. Also, where are we getting all these ships? This is the second time I've heard of liberals attempting to name a vessel after one of their icons, the first being Harvey Milk.
Personally, if this keeps up, I think we should go to non-personal names

[onedoug]

Wait for LPD 26 USS John Murtha.

A blight on the Gator Navy.

[Rome2000]

USS Karl Marx right around the corner.

Remember, the commies in DC aren't the problem, they are a symptom of the disease called Universal Suffrage.

A disease that doesn't get cured electorally.

[DrGunsforHands]

He was in the Navy for 2 years. Just putting that out there.

[Chode]

how does his wife get to be the sponsor???

[umgud]

What does a community organizer have to do with our military?

Do you really gotta ask?

[mylife]

I suppose not.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Later, Chavez described his experience in the military as “the two worst years of my life.”

In all fairness, while the left always tried to glom on to Chavez, he kept his focus, that being that farm workers were treated like dogs, frequently cheated, and forced to work in crippling (literally) jobs at reduced pay, even though they were American citizens. Their lives sucked, and nobody cared.

A lot of what his organization did was to try and force farmers to obey US labor laws, which they often ignored, to pay at least minimum wage, which they often didn’t, ended wage kickbacks from workers compelled to live in shacks and having to pay hefty rents, etc.

What made the Mexican-Americans so attractive politically back then still applies today. They are not a monolithic vote, so both parties have to contend for them. The Republicans were somewhat behind the power curve on that, and are still trying to catch up.

[Squantos]

Send it to the Yemeni port of Aden with an all gay crew flying a “Mohammad Sucks” flag for some Clintonista style nation building......

[Mr. Wright]

If you listen to the ad that the Selective Service has produced for radio to encourage 18 YO’s to register for the Selective Service, the ad refers to Cesar Chavez as a GREAT American.

This POS is disgusting . . .

[reg45]

It will probably wind up hauling foreign grown lettuce to the United States.

[tumblindice]

USS Cesar Chavez, cargo-ammunition ship. Motto: `We Would give Them a Whiff of the Grape, But We’re On Strike’.

[njslim]

Did n’t they have a garbage barge which could be named for this POS....

[njslim]

Did n’t they have a garbage barge which could be named for this POS....

[AlaskaErik]

Absolutely disgusting. He was in the Navy for two years and said they were the worst two years of his life. I imagine even he would be disgusted.

[GreenLanternCorps]

No, that hasn’t been the case since at least the 60’s. Several subs were named for congressmen back then.

Frankly I would support a law prohibiting naming any naval vessel or any other US government facility after an elected official until 50 years after their death. The only exceptions would be presidential libraries and national park facilities directly related to a president.

[CodeToad]

Propaganda for recruiting illegal aliens.

[Old Sarge]

Next up will be the USS Whitney Houston.

A new class of vessel called the Self-Destroyer.

[Kickass Conservative]

Working for the big CA Growers for many years, my F-I-L had to deal with Chavez on many occasions.

He told me that Chavez was a real SOB and they hated each others guts. Considering my F-I-L is a very nice, polite and even tempered individual, it must have taken a whole bunch of s*** coming for Chavez to get him so riled up.

My F-I-L is in his 80’s now and he still despises the SOB.
Being a Navy man, he will split a gut when I tell him about the USS Caeser Chavez.

[Jeff Gordon]

Can sailors refuse to serve on a particular ship?

I imagine that sailors serving on this ship are going to be ridiculed by regular Navy sailors.

[Jeff Gordon]

The first Captain of the (potential) USS Harvey Milk should have the patriotism and guts to scuttle the ship at the earliest possible moment. His career will be terminated but he will be the hero of the rest of the Navy.

[Jeff Gordon]

The first Captain of the (potential) USS Harvey Milk should have the patriotism and guts to scuttle the ship at the earliest possible moment. His career will be terminated but he will be the hero of the rest of the Navy.

[WKUHilltopper]

Maybe the sailors will all go strike—in the spirit of Cesar Chavez.

My gawd! The Navy really named a ship for this commie scum?? No wonder people are hoarding canned beans and ammo.

[napscoordinator]

Can sailors refuse to serve on a particular ship?

lol. Yeah right. They cannot refuse to serve on a particular ship. The only possibility they have is if given a choice between two ships, they can pick the other but often they are sent orders to go to their next orders especially junior Sailors.