Posted on 05/28/2005 2:39:36 PM PDT by TERMINATTOR
Excellent point DD.
This whole thing really makes the wheels start turning for me.
Yes.
And of course that's exactly what the so-called "reporter" wants. I've read a number of stories about this incident and every one has confused the issue so as to make most casual readers think the Minutemen caused the problems.
Leni
Exactly.
I'll have to do it on my good computer Tuesday, but I will, thanks.
GW is not really a conservative and because we have term limits on the office of president, he knows he can't get re-elected anyway. So, he's doing whatever he wants. Sometimes, I don't think term limits were such a good idea, because I think its made voters even more careless. Now we have presidents getting 2 terms all the time. Some of them shouldn't get 2 terms. Since Nixon resigned, I think Reagan is the only one who should have got 2 terms
GARDEN GROVE Five demonstrators were arrested on suspicion of throwing rocks and soda cans at Wednesday night's clash outside a hall where anti-illegal immigration leader Jim Gilchrist was being honored.
An anti-immigration supporter who'd been arrested after hitting two protesters with his van was released without being charged.
No one was seriously injured, Garden Grove police Lt. Mike Handfield said.
He said about 300 protesters showed up outside the Garden Grove Women's Club, where the California Coalition for Immigration Reform was meeting to honor Gilchrist. Gilchrist's Minuteman Project last month attracted nearly 900 people to patrol a stretch of Arizona border in an effort to stop illegal immigration.
Before the meeting, Harold Netkin, 69, of Van Nuys was surrounded by protesters as he tried to drive his van into the parking lot to attend the meeting. He hit two protesters and was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. He was later released.
"He said protesters had surrounded his car and that he was afraid," Handfield said.
Shortly afterward, another person attending the meeting had his car window broken by protesters. And later, some protesters began throwing rocks and soda cans at police and at people leaving the meeting.
Handfield said that while most of the protesters came to protest peacefully, "A small percentage came with the intent to do violence."
He said some had backpacks full of soda cans and that police found one soda can filled with marbles.
Arrests were made on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, disorderly conduct and possession of a deadly weapon, with the causes varying for each suspect. Protesters arrested were Hugo Valid Sarmiento, 25, of Los Angeles; Juan Obed Silva, 27, of Buena Park; Shane William Sparks, 22, of Altadena; Fernando Cortes Chirino, 23, of Irvine; and Kurt Takeshi Isobe, 19, of Laguna Beach.
Did you see my Post 33? If not, go read it. Notice the difference when it comes to the names and ages of those arrested between what NBC TV Channel 4 wrote and what the Register reported.
Leni
BS. They are interfering with the Border Patrol Agents and making their jobs harder than they already are. Picture yourself in a helicopter patrolling the border and having your co-pilot spot a bunch of people with rifles sitting on the border. These jerks are lucky they aren't dead.
[i]The police didn't do anything while this was happening. [/i]
Thats because it is considered "free speech" when leftist street fighters are assaulting conservatives.
Any jerks sitting on the border with rifles are likely Mexican federales, or their coyotee/drug running partners. Your post is BS! We worked very well with the BP. They would shake em out of the bushes, we would spot and report em, and then the BP would make the arrests.
LOL. Like Federales would get off their tails and out of TJ for anything other than a hooker and another cerveza.
I have friends who work Border Patrol and they hate interfering jerk-offs like the Minute-Men.
And don't give me any street cred BS. I lived in San Diego for more than 12 years and most of my life in California.
Not according to the Agents themselves, many of whom have expressed their appreciation personally to the Minutemen. BP managers, on the other hand, parrot the official anti-Minutemen line.
"...and having your co-pilot spot a bunch of people with rifles sitting on the border."
He might well spot such people but they would not have been the Minutemen--they had no rifles.
"These jerks are lucky they aren't dead."
Why? The Minutemen are loyal Americans trying to call attention to the fecklessness of a federal government which, from the top down, refuses to enforce our immigration laws or honor their oath of office. Many of these so called jerks (as you slander them), are in fact former military who have a high sense of loyalty to their country and are willing to do whatever it takes to stop the flood of illegal aliens into the United States. In other words, "duty, honor, country" means something to them. What does it mean to you?
You may want to study this issue a bit more before opening your mouth and demonstrating your abysmal lack of knowledge. If you are part of the small but noisy pro-illegal hyena pack around here, I wouldn't expect many kind comments.
Color me confused about what the heck the "journalist" who wrote this article is talking about.
I wouldn't argue with a Clown Posse anti-freeper lib.
It's a waste.
Just go over there and see how she talks about folks here.
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