Hunger Strike against the Minutemen

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | April 21, 2005

[Boston Blackie]

Diana Ponce talks on a phone in the yard of her San Pablo home Wednesday, the fifth day of a hunger strike to protest the gathering of armed volunteers, the Minuteman Project, at the Arizona-Mexico border to keep illegal immigrants from entering the United States. Chronicle photo by John O'Hara

[Brad’s Gramma]

Why is she in the yard?

Duh! Wasn't it just Earth Day??????

[Americanexpat]

My God, she could last 45 days and be better off for it.

[crazyhorse691]

That picture is is just so wrong on so many levels. Lets start with the four bent stool legs.....and end up with the butt crack.

[F.J. Mitchell]

She is violating the law- only a judge can authorize starvation. She must be force fed if neccessary-we cannot have people taking the law into their own hands.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Did everyone notice the flag in her lovely bouquet of flowers??

[Criminal Number 18F]

I got a question for anybody.

How do people this size, er... wipe?

Looks to me like those suet-laden Tyrannosaurus arms wouldn't reach. I have often wondered this while looking at the 400 lb. club. They usually have a distinctive aroma and I wonder if being unable to do the normal personal hygiene, as done by a non-morbidly-obese person is a factor.

You haven't lived till you've seen an air ambulance crew trying to stuff one of these 400 lb behemoths through the airstair door of a Lear 31. It's like trying to cram a marshmallow through a straw. Of course, your tax dollars are paying for the $3-4K an hour jet and crew, and the illness is usually diabetes, congestive heart failure, or something caused by the person's own poor character.

Somehow this lady seems to think her countrymen's unwillingness to obey the law should be our problem, and her way of proving it is to make her health our concern. Well, it ain't working at this address. Who cares if she dies? Not I, not a bit.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Spruce]

<whistle>

We got 2 minutes for roughing on #25.

[smoothsailing]

LOL!

That proves it.A lib

[muawiyah]

That's not fair. That ol'gal has a headstart on the rest of us.

[blogbat]

"Hey, any excuse to go on a diet."

She looks pretty plump (she must have already had her anchor-babies and doesn't need to look so svelte anymore) - this may take awhile. Hey, any word on whether Michael Schiavo will be flying to Arizona to assist this woman with her sincere wish?

[smoothsailing]

Yikes.

[EagleUSA]

Oh My God --- it went all over my keyboard, what a mess!! OK, you owe me a new keyboard!!!! :-) AAAAAHhhhhhuuujggh!!

[JennysCool]

The completely non-biased Chronicle headline accompanying the photo:

Hunger strike protests anti-immigrant vigilantes

[Uncle Vlad]

Yes, help me everyone--I'm trying to find a downside to this story...

[Enterprise]

There was another one I was looking at but the mods would have skinned me alive if I had posted it.

[blogbat]

If he hears about this headline, it goes up on O'Reilly's show.

[Txsleuth]

Aw,jeez, please tell me this isn't a real picture....

No girl in their right minds would do that!!!

[Enterprise]

It's real - honest!

[HighWheeler]

Looks like she is hiding 3 or 4 illegals under her shirt already.

[EagleUSA]

There was another one I was looking at but the mods would have skinned me alive if I had posted it.
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This one was bad enough --- but there is a positive side here .. George Lucas would use her as a girl friend for Jabba the Hut in his new Star Wars movies!!!! (where is the bucket?)