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Designer Donates Sneakers for Border Run
AP ^ | 11/17/5 | Elliot Spagat

Posted on 11/17/2005 4:09:45 AM PST by Crackingham

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To: Crackingham; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; alisasny; ALlRightAllTheTime; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; ...
Their designer is Judi Werthein, an Argentine artist who moved to New York in 1997 - legally, she notes.

Somebody please tell me this woman can be deported.

21 posted on 11/17/2005 6:18:03 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! --kellynla)
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To: DustyMoment
San Diego - you know what you need to do.

I don't know if she is in San Diego or in New York, but she needs to be given the boot out of the U.S.

Their designer is Judi Werthein, an Argentine artist who moved to New York in 1997 - legally, she notes.

 

22 posted on 11/17/2005 6:20:59 AM PST by DumpsterDiver
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To: DumpsterDiver

As if we didn't already have enough far left-wing, deluded artists in the U.S....


23 posted on 11/17/2005 6:25:52 AM PST by Borax Queen
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To: Borax Queen
When did they invent this "patron saint of migrants"??

Well, I don't know when someone came up with this saint, but this website says the patron saint of migrants is Santo Toribio Romo, and this website says it is Juan Soldado. (Maybe Soldado and Romo are one and the same person?)

I know there have been illegal aliens "crossing" for dozens and dozens of years, but I can't believe they have a saint for breaking the law (and in 2005 it most certainly is breaking the law).

A corrupt country like Mexico needs all of the help it can get.

24 posted on 11/17/2005 6:36:13 AM PST by DumpsterDiver
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To: Crackingham

Why doesn't she use her money to sponsor these people legally? Oh, she doesn't really want to be involved?


25 posted on 11/17/2005 8:08:37 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: Crackingham
Make the invasion of the USA a felony then she is PTAC and a felony to boot...

Though I keep hearing we are at war so invasion of the USA during war time probably is a felony...

Though this is a little like hiring a security company to harden your house so they beef up the front door while leaving the back door open...kinda makes one wonder why?

26 posted on 11/17/2005 8:10:07 AM PST by joesnuffy
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To: Crackingham
"If people are going to cross anyway, at least this will make it safer."

Great argument! Can I play?

If people are going to smoke anyway, at least this will make it safer. Let's give 'em cigs.

If people are going to have sex anyway, at least this will make it safer. Let's give 'em condoms.

Who want's to play?

27 posted on 11/17/2005 8:21:48 AM PST by It's me
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; A CA Guy; ...

ping


28 posted on 11/17/2005 9:12:45 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: It's me

If people are going to steal your stuff, let's make it safer. Let's take away your guns and leave your house unlocked!

Hey, easy game!
susie


29 posted on 11/17/2005 9:19:18 AM PST by brytlea (I'm not a conspiracty theorist....really.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Maybe the daughter of a WWII German who escaped to Argentina before the end of the war?

How does she know she's not aiding and abetting Al Queda to enter the U.S.?

Idiot....


30 posted on 11/17/2005 9:22:25 AM PST by reagandemocrat
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To: gubamyster

Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!

Support our Minutemen Patriots!

Be Ever Vigilant ~ Bump!


31 posted on 11/17/2005 9:52:45 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: Crackingham

If she actually cared about Mexicans, she would have her shoes prodiuced in Mexico!


32 posted on 11/17/2005 9:56:10 AM PST by rmlew (Sedition and Treason are both crimes, not free speech.)
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To: nicmarlo
I read this stupid article in this morning's local paper. This woman is pictured as a hero, the illegal aliens are pictured as courageous fighters against the big bad, cruel USA who supposedly denies them "a better life".

Let her give these shoes away, I hope no one actually buys them. Her spirit of donating to lawbreakers might cool off when her profits decline. She sure got some publicity, probably her real reason for doing this.

33 posted on 11/17/2005 10:46:53 AM PST by janetgreen
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To: Dog

One of these days this polite, generous, stay at home mother is going to go ballistic and become the female version of Michael Douglas in "Falling Down." Tomorrow, will I hear on the news that some armored vehicle company will be parking transportation with keys in the ignition at the border so that those breaking and entering will have safer travels? Or better yet, maybe the illegal lovers can dig some tunnels and install people movers to get the "sneak-ins" here quicker?

This is so far out of hand.


34 posted on 11/17/2005 11:51:41 AM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (Undocumented border patrol agent.)
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To: janetgreen
Her spirit of donating to lawbreakers might cool off when her profits decline. She sure got some publicity, probably her real reason for doing this.

I hope her profits completely dry up, and I wouldn't doubt you're right about her motivation; I sure will remember her name; she's been added to my boycott list.

35 posted on 11/17/2005 12:09:34 PM PST by nicmarlo
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This is essentially conspiring to help another knowingly commit a crime. Is this not illegal?

Not that legality ever mattered much to these folks, of course...


36 posted on 11/17/2005 5:29:24 PM PST by AZ_Cowboy ("Be ever vigilant, for you know not when the master is coming")
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To: Crackingham
Only 1,000 pairs of the "Brinco" sneakers (it means "Jump" in Spanish) have been made - in China, for $17 each. The shoes were introduced in August at inSite, an art exhibition in San Diego and Tijuana whose sponsors include nonprofit foundations and private collectors. Benefactors put up $40,000 for the project; Werthein gets a $5,000 stipend, plus expenses.

Let me do the math here -- they used sweatshop labor in China, and even then, they still had $23,000 over, plus 1,000 shoes to sell? She must have a lot of "expenses"!

37 posted on 11/18/2005 12:50:08 AM PST by NYCVirago
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