Brown Berets, eh? And they're threatening Texans? Is this some kind of bad reset from 150 years ago? What's wrong with these guys, don't they watch the History Channel?
(Thanks, Carlos Mencia)
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.”
Ouch...nose...beer...<snort>...ouch.
Take a look at the legal immigration statistics for the last 15 years, and you will find far more immigrants have come from Mexico than all of Europe combined.
Doesn't surprise me at all.
Hmmmmm.... Pablo, what you gonna do when they come for you? Go ahead, make my day. Do something. Please do something. It's all taking too long.
Brown Berets, eh? And they're threatening Texans? Is this some kind of bad reset from 150 years ago? What's wrong with these guys, don't they watch the History Channel?
(Thanks, Carlos Mencia)
Ah, so you believe that law abiding citizens should not engage in lawful activities because goons might set upon them?
When that happens, the goons get to rule.
Can anyone point me in the direction of Northern Border Recruitment?
Well, her's is the most racist spew! The idiot mouths it and can't recognize her own participation in racism.
I have never supported the MM simply because this was bound to happen.This was bound to happen because nothing is being done from the very top level of government to stop it...
We expect inaction from Democrats so this will come back to haunt a lot of do nothing Republicans... AND without a doubt it will be "Bush's fault".
Got any further info on this?
Where are the OBL-Quisling bunch?
Keep it up, Raza Nazis. The more you spew your racist bile, the angrier Americans will get. When they finally wake up, and start fighting back, you will rue the day.
Okay, thought about it twice.... Where will this blowhard be? I'll be there.
Mike
So if the local Republicans didn't condone the actions of the KKK but agreed to let them speak at one of their press conferences, that'd be ok too?
In TEXAS of all places! I fear for the future of this nation...
What's his freeper name?
Excuse me? "Think twice before you come here"? This is just completely out of control. Just who the hell do they think they are, and is our government going to do anything about these brownshirts?
Mr. Chuch is going to have to answer for his speeches inciting violence, while wearing an image of the Blessed Virgin on his shirt.
It would have been nice if a Latina matriarch had come up, and smacked him upside the head with her purse.
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