Posted on 11/16/2005 5:09:34 PM PST by Jacob Kell
Is NBC accusing the Minutemen, the civilian border-patrol group, of murder?
That's the charge of the group's president, Chris Simcox, who points to a commercial for tonight's "Law and Order" episode dealing with illegal immigration. Simcox has sent a letter to NBC demanding the network "cease and desist" airing the promo.
According to Simcox's Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, the promo includes the following verbiage:
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I saw the promo last night and my head almost exploded.
I saw an episode of law and order in the 90's where the special prosecutor investigating the president was blocking an important murder case connected to the sitting president that in the end the detectives were powerless to continue. Obviously during the clinton years this episode was fun to watch. Let the media continue to lie, lie, and lie and become less, less, and less.
I used to really like Law & Order. Jerry Orbach was great.
That promo is a real pisser. I'm going to tape the show and watch it tomorrow sometime. I just know that it's going to tick me off!
Why would you want to do that?
The media has a long history of this kind of crap. Look at the way "militia types" have been treated in movies for the last decade and a half. They've always been portrayed as borderline retarded, alcoholic racists and it couldn't be further from the truth.
I was wrong. According to the site, the data is current through 10/31/05. It's even got a search feature on it so you can check out other folks' contributions.
I'm curious to see how they handle the subject matter and to see if the show will be as biased as their promos have been. (Then I'll tape over it.)
I posted the same thing earlier but it was removed almost immediately from the FreeRepublic site.
I would like to know why...
Maybe someone made a mistake?
Just out of curiosity, what show are you referring to?
CHARACTER: You classify that as something going down?
ANNOUNCER: Was it murder? Or Minutemen protecting our borders?
CHARACTER: Nathaniel shouldn't go to jail for protecting this country!
ANNOUNCER: The episode that will enrage America!
CHARACTER: You don't know nothing!
ANNOUNCER: New "Law and Order," Wednesday on NBC.
As the announcer delivers the Minutemen line, the word "Minutemen" is flashed on the screen.
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Subtle on NBC's part:
Know-Nothing party, byname of AMERICAN PARTY, U.S. political party that flourished in the 1850s. The Know-Nothing party was an outgrowth of the strong anti-immigrant and especially anti-Roman Catholic sentiment that started to manifest itself during the 1840s. A rising tide of immigrants, primarily Germans in the Midwest and Irish in the East, seemed to pose a threat to the economic and political security of native-born Protestant Americans. In 1849 the secret Order of the Star-Spangled Banner formed in New York City, and soon after lodges formed in nearly every other major American city.
Members, when asked about their nativist organizations, were supposed to reply that they knew nothing, hence the name. As its membership and importance grew in the 1850s, the group slowly shed its clandestine character and took the official name American Party. As a national political entity, it called for restrictions on immigration, the exclusion of the foreign-born from voting or holding public office in the United States, and for a 21-year residency requirement for citizenship.
By 1852 the Know-Nothing party was achieving phenomenal growth. It did very well that year in state and local elections, and with passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 it won additional adherents from the ranks of conservatives who could support neither the proslavery Democrats nor antislavery Republicans. When Congress assembled on Dec. 3, 1855, 43 representatives were avowed members of the Know-Nothing party.
That, however, was the peak of Know-Nothing power. At the American Party convention in Philadelphia the following year, the party split along sectional lines over the proslavery platform pushed through by Southern delegates. Party presidential candidate Millard Fillmore carried just one state (Maryland) in the 1856 election, and congressional strength dropped to 12 representatives.
Caught in the sectional strife disrupting all national institutions, the American Party fell apart after 1856. Antislavery Know-Nothings joined the Republican Party, while Southern members flocked to the proslavery banner still held aloft by the Democratic Party. By 1859 the American Party's strength was largely confined to the border states. In 1860 remnants of the Know-Nothings joined old-line Whigs to form the Constitutional Union Party and nominated John Bell of Tennessee for president. Bell finished fourth in popular votes in the four-man contest of that year, won by the Republican Abraham Lincoln.
Two other groups that took the name American Party appeared in the 1870s and '80s. One of these, organized in California in 1886, proposed a briefly popular platform calling mainly for the exclusion of Chinese and other Orientals from industrial employment.
Then why watch it? It's a SHOW. A circus show in fact. Not the real thing.
Post 10 redux -- I'm curious to see how they handle the subject matter and to see if the show will be as biased as their promos have been. (Then I'll tape over it.)
It's a SHOW. A circus show in fact.
It's propaganda bordering on slander (libel?), if it turns out to be like their promos. Besides, I like to write letters to the editor and to NBC and to the sponsors of the show. I got a lot of time on my hands. :)
Ohhhhh, OK. :)
They renamed minutemen to countrymen. It is clear who they are talking about.
Probably because they don't want to get their sorry asses sued.
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