Posted on 07/28/2005 6:42:07 PM PDT by Main Street
PHARR, July 28, 2005 — Once a powerful and militant organization in the Chicano Liberation Movement, the Brown Berets made it known Wednesday that they will oppose the Minutemen border watch group with physical force if necessary.
“We want to send the message, ‘Think twice before you come here,’” Pablo Delgado, a Brown Beret leader, said at a press confer-ence at the Hidalgo County Democratic Party headquarters.
The Minutemen have said they will come to Texas in October, although it is still unclear whether South Texas is in their plans.
Hidalgo County Democratic Party Chairman Juan Maldonado said the party does not condone the actions of the Brown Berets; however, because the group asked him for a platform, he agreed to let them speak at the press conference.
“We do not need the Brown Berets armed against the Minutemen,” Maldonado reiterated after Delgado spoke. He said the people of South Texas are more “evolved” and “civil” than that.
The Brown Berets, primarily active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, are likened to the Black Panthers.
Further fueling the Brown Berets’ anger was the news of Bill Parmley’s resignation from the leadership post of the Texas chap-ter of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Monday. Parmley claimed the Texas chapter lacked structure and members from his area near Goliad had “racist tendencies,” according to the Victoria Advocate.
News of possible racist tendencies couldn’t have come at a better time for the local opponents of the civilian border patrol.
The Minutemen “are nothing more than a group of zealous over-enthusiastic racists that want to promote these types of immi-grants as being terroristic,” Maldonado said.
Even before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Sept. 11, 2001, he said, there was an unfounded fear held by some in the United States that Mexicans were taking over the country.
“For all the strides that we have made toward equality, the Minutemen are the epitome of hate, fear and ignorance,” he said. “We are unified to stop this racist movement from entering our region.”
“When will they begin patrolling the Canadian border?” asked Juanita Valdez-Cox, state director of La Union del Pueblo Entero. According to the project’s official Web site, www.minutemanhq.com, the answer is soon. Volunteers to patrol the United State’s northern border with Canada are being recruited.
Cox claims southern border patrolling is a race issue. The “vigilantes of the Caucasian persuasion” don’t want legalization for immigrants. They want the Mexican workers to be at the mercy of employers, she said.
At the end of the press conference, Maldonado was the first to sign a petition denouncing the border watchers. The Democratic Party plans to send the petition to Gov. Rick Perry to get him to do the same.
The petition also points out the need for more money to hire Border Patrol agents, a point deputy Mexican consulate Ernesto Herrera touched on privately with reporters after the conference.
“It isn’t in the scope of the private citizen to do the job of the government,” Herrera said. “The Mexican government thinks the U.S. has the institution, the department in charge of protecting the border. … They (the Border Patrol) know the limits. They know that everybody, undocumented or not, has human rights. It’s not something you leave behind when you cross the border.”
Send in our GREEN berets. Now they know how to fight. Those brown berets will be running for their lives and all their brown will be running down thems little legs.
LMAO!!! I could name a few ;-)
I don't know of a single person anywhere that claims Mexican immigrants are themselves a terrorist threat. They are often a burden on our welfare state, but the porous, unregulated border is what brings terrorism to the table.
And the ones who came from Europe got JOBS and contributed to our society. Early on they also had to have sponsors. That's how my folks got here. M
Why must the left continue to call the Minutemen "racist?" The goal is twofold and has absolutely nothing to do with racism:
-- STOP foreigners of any and all colors, shapes, and sizes from circumventing the American legal process of immigration and stepping foot on American soil undetected and without permission.
-- STOP our federal government from ignoring the millions of lawbreaking foreigners who are walking around in our country, as well as others trying to sneak in. We have laws in a civil society, and they need to be followed and not ignored.
If I ignored the bad things that my children would do, what deterrent is there for them to follow our household rules? And if I also waved a goody bag full of freebies, they'd invite their friends over to partake in the events at the house with no rules.
This isn't rocket science.
[[The Brown Berets, primarily active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, are likened to the Black Panthers.]]
And dont forget the KKK. These MF'ers are a hate group that despises America and white European Americans, just look at their history and the things that they have said in the past. The democratic party better be very careful who it hops in bed with.
Ya and we know whose side the US Justice System will be on when the dust clears!
And it won't be the MinuteMen
Can you supply a link for the "alignment" ? It sounds like you are making a claim that there are persons actually working together. I would like you to at least name a person from each group from memory if you can't supply a link. thanks
ok, thanks. I am not familiar with this stuff at all.
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