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.”
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.
It sounds like Juan Maldonado and Juanita Valdez-Cox are a couple of very ignorant racists. I wonder what they would have to say about the 47% of Hispanic voters who voted in favor of the anti-illegal alien measure Prop 200 in Arizona.
I have never supported the MM simply because this was bound to happen."
You should be peoud.
I remember the brown berets coming to my high school in 1974. They pulled a teacher out of class and beat him up in the hall. Nice people.
Unbelieveable.
No... Mr Beret wants to exploit the immigrants. By keeping them illegal he has sway - control - over them. Mr. Beret is not in the least bit interested in people coming through the front door of this country.
Mr. Beret should recieve a visit from Mr. .308 if any harm is even attempted at the legal citizens of this country from excerising their rights.
Their right to do what government SHOULD be doing.
Augustine Cebeda of the Brown Berets de Aztlan as he spoke on Channel 2 News: "Mexicans have every right to be here. This land was stolen from us." (KCBS TV) Cebeda said this in 1996 at a demonstration at the Federal Building in West Los Angeles.
http://www.sierratimes.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=23&topic=433
Isn't it curious how all Democrat/Union groups have a streak of violence attached to their causes? A thug is a thug is a thug...
Wow, I didn't know it was "racist" to say give them some food and drink that they like so they can relax. Would it make you feel better if I would have said give them some beer and some barbecue chicken?
Chuch is that you? (Thanks, Iowahawk)
So...if the Minutemen respond with force to these Leftist bully tactics, will that action magically become a "hate crime"?
Inquiring minds just gotta know!
"Chicano"...hadn't heard that term in a while.
Not since that TV show "Chico and the Man", I guess.
bump
"Turns out it is going to be two thirds of us vs the rest of the world."
You forgot to include that our government is on their side!
Brown berets now on my Stomp-A-Mud-Hole list....!
If that is all you intended, then I apologize. I took it much as I would a fried chicken and watermelon remark in reference to a black man.
why do these people always have to play the race card??
how many of these brown berets are legally here??
how much more of this do we have to take??
us texans call these people "HATERS".
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