U.S. soccer team hears Osama chants in Mexico

Arizona Republic ^ | Feb. 6, 2004 12:30 PM | Associated Press

[TonyM]

I have a great idea. Lets prove that the liberal democrats can’t govern by letting them take complete control of a state and see how long it takes them to go bankrupt and need the rest of the states to bail them out…..Oh wait a minute….I guess my experiment has already been done. How could I have forgotten about California?

[Rytwyng]

border ping

[Ohioan from Florida]

A corrolary to that has been the fact that, dating back to the NASL, most of the star players were foreigners with unpronounceable names who spoke limited English. It's still that way to an extent. It may not be entirely fair, but that's the perception.

The unpronounceable names is easily fixed. Give them a nickname. The limited English speaking is another difficulty, but that can also be overcome. Most of the foreigners that we have here that don't speak English are Spanish-speaking. Enough people are learning that to be able to converse with them.

I hope the NHL isn't doomed. Now those guys come from all over the world. Better learn Czech or Russian for those guys.(OK, I know I'm just generalizing there, but you get my drift).

[Dane]

It is NOT uncommon to find tee shirts of Osama Bin Laden, and pictures of George W. Bush, dressed in an Arabic Head piece with the title WORLDS NUMBER ONE TERROIST here in Mexico.

It is probably not uncommon to see those type of t-shirts on the corner of Berkley, CA, either.

Does Berkley represent America, IMO, no.

[Axenolith]

No, invade and subjugate. At least they'll have a reason for their spew afterwards...

[Axenolith]

ARF! They want to be the Pakistan of the Western Hemisphere...

[bereanway]

The republican congressmen told Rove and Bush the calls they were getting were running at least 2 to 1 against the amnesty for illegals plan. I'm surprised it wasn't higher.

[looscnnn]

"What would you call them, if not criminals?"

Hero?

[Axenolith]

Hell yes, and it'll never change because they get to use us as a pressure relief valve. If you kept new ones out, and shipped all the illegal ones here back, you'd see a revolution in Mexico in less than 5 years.

[Dane]

"What would you call them, if not criminals?"

Hero?

Hard working people trying to get ahead and I am not lumping in the violent criminals or welfare cheats as some are wont to do on FR.

[Axenolith]

Dude, get off the soccer fan rant. The incident just polarized some discontent. It's not like there are 12 million illegal Englishmen here, and I don't see any Englishmen drive around here with little stickers on their cars with a figure taking a piss on America (Which I do see Mexicans do)...

[bereanway]

OK, OK, you win.

Since we've figured out Berkley doesn't represent America let's just give Berkley to the Mexicans. But I'm still trying to figure out what to do with those low-life Bostonians.

[PRND21]

Oops.

Police searching for a suspect have not ruled out the possibility that the killings were a hate crime because the attacker was described as white and the victims were from Mexico.

[humboldtconservative]

Hard working people trying to get ahead

So crime to you is only VIOLENT CRIME? White-collar criminals, tax cheats, drug dealers....are they criminals or just "Hard working people trying to get ahead"?

[citizen]

Good to hear from a family of legal immigrants. It's so tiresome to be branded a racist/bigot by a few of the FR posters. Legal immigration YES illegal aliens NO.

I've read that those in your position as legal immigrants hate the border crashing perhaps more than the rest of us. Your comment seems to confirm that sentiment.

***an ex-Republican base voter***

[Joe Hadenuf]

It's bravo sierra. He's only attempting to distract from these millions of illegals here and others in Mexico that hate American's. Plain and simple. These thousands of SOBs that were chanting Osama Osama Osama in Mexico are our enemy, plain and simple.

[Dane]

Dude, get off the soccer fan rant. The incident just polarized some discontent. It's not like there are 12 million illegal Englishmen here, and I don't see any Englishmen drive around here with little stickers on their cars with a figure taking a piss on America (Which I do see Mexicans do)..

As you urinate in the toilet that could be cleaned later by someone from Mexico and is proud to have a job.

[humboldtconservative]

As you urinate in the toilet that could be cleaned later by someone from Mexico and is proud to have a job.

Try proud to steal a job!

[Joe Hadenuf]

The Mexican crowd chanted "Osama! Osama! Osama!" as U.S. players left the field with a 2-0 victory.

[petercooper]

F these bastard Mexicans!