Protest calls for boycott of businesses ("immigrant rights" group)

The Daily Pilot ^ | February 2, 2006 | Alicia Robinson

[clawrence3]

Since the 1st of the year, my wife and I (okay, mainly my wife) have spent THOUSANDS at South Coast Plaza and Crystal Court. We did most of our Christmas shopping there too. Are you 2 planning to spend more than that?

[clawrence3]

That may make more "sense" to you, but how exactly are YOU going to verify which businesses employ illegals? Part of this boycott is to protest the harassment of AMERICAN-BORN, United State Citizens who happen to be the wrong color . . .

[ncountylee]

I'll switch from Newport Plaza to South Coast Plaza and Crystal Court.

[ncountylee]

Correction - Fashion Island - it's my wife too. LOL

[clawrence3]

You do realize, from this very same article, there are those who oppose Costa Mesa's plan who are NOT Communists, correct?

"Costa Mesa Chamber of Commerce President Ed Fawcett . . . does not support the city's immigration enforcement proposal . . ."

"To Councilwoman Katrina Foley, an open and honest debate is exactly what's been missing since the council voted to pursue the immigration plan in December. Foley was one of two council members who voted against the plan. 'It's a political stunt that the mayor has pulled, and we're all suffering the consequences of it,' she said."

Councilwoman Linda Dixon also voted against the plan. We are ALL Communists?!

[clawrence3]

We live in Irvine (my wife is going to Crystal Court tonight BTW). How often do you shop there?

[ncountylee]

A couple of times a month but the wife probably weekly. I'm in Newport Beach.

[VeniVidiVici]

Mexicans organize boycott against American business = activism

Americans organize boycott against Mexican business = racism

[clawrence3]

Yeah - ain't that the way it is with women - I don't prefer Fashion Island as much as Crystal Cove, down PCH from you, which has plenty of the shops we like too.

[clawrence3]

Who said "Americans organizing a boycott against Mexican business = racism"? I said "good for you" and good luck matching our boycott of Costa Mesa.

[kcvl]

Nativo Lopez, formerly of the Corrupt 'Hermandad Mexicana Nacional' Now Head of MAPA

Lopez plays a prominent dual role as a local school board member and as national co-director of Hermandad Mexicana Nacional -- the Mexican National Brotherhood -- a sizable non-profit community service organization for immigrant families.

Lopez is no stranger to controversy. The voter-registration efforts of HMN were at the heart of the lengthy but inconclusive Congressional investigation into the results of the 1996 House election in which Loretta Sanchez narrowly defeated incumbent Bob Dornan.

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LOPEZ IS PRESIDENT of the Mexican American Political Association and a leading force behind Hermandad Mexicana Nacional (Mexican National Brotherhood), a tax-exempt non-profit formed to aid undocumented workers which nevertheless dabbles in partisan affairs--so much so that it's been the subject of an election-fraud investigation.

Until last year, "Nativo" (his real first name is Larry) was a Democrat. Then he switched to the Green party to join the Nader-Camejo presidential juggernaut. Lopez's own brush with elected office was even more calamitous. Elected a decade ago to a seat on the Santa Ana school board of trustees, Lopez was recalled by residents of Orange County (just months before Gray Davis met the same fate) for his refusal to comply with California's Proposition 227, which ended bilingual education in public schools. The recall vote wasn't close: Lopez lost by a 40-point margin. He said he wanted to make Spanish California's primary language; he was rejected in every precinct of the most Spanish-speaking city in America.

http://tinyurl.com/9m72v

[kcvl]

* President of the Mexican American Political Association

* Routinely hurls charges of "racism" at his political adversaries

* Supports the granting of drivers' licenses to illegal aliens

* When asked about an alternative that would place a special mark on California drivers' licenses to distinguish between legal residents and illegal aliens, Lopez declared that the latter "do not want to be the Jews of Nazi Germany in California" and "will not be the new black slaves of the sureños states of the United States in this state."

* Participated in voter fraud


During his 2000 reelection bid, Lopez was accused of raising nearly $150,000 from architects with business before the school board. Two years later, an Orange County Register exposé alleged that Lopez received $100,000 in contributions to his nonprofit group, Citizens in Action, from Del Terra Real Estate Services--before that company received a no-bid contract to build schools in Santa Ana. That same year, the Register also reported that "a Santa Ana nonprofit has agreed to pay more than $600,000 to the U.S. Government to settle a case in which prosecutors alleged that Hermandad Mexicana Nacional leader Nativo Lopez wrongly diverted grant money meant for English classes for immigrants."


Lopez is wont to hurl accusations of "racism" at those who disagree with him politically. Over the past two decades, he has used "racism" or "racist" to describe INS drug raids, rental standards, and the state positions of local candidates and ballot measures. Small wonder the Wall Street Journal once labeled him "the Al Sharpton of Southern California for his ethnic demagogy."

[kcvl]

Sep 2005 11:14 PM PDT

As a result of publicity about the advocacy of cock-fighting that Nativo Lopez has pushed through his organization, the Mexican American Political Association, Lopez appears to be drawing back somewhat from his whole-hearted embrace of this repulsive back-alley entertainment.

[kcvl]

Police sweeps are nothing new, Lopez said, but now police and politicians are using fears brought on by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to justify a public policy that they say will help cut crime.

“The fallacy of these arguments about crime and security is that they have been tried before, but previously the anti-immigrant crowd did not have the Twin Towers as their big fig leaf,” Lopez said.

[NewRomeTacitus]

We are ALL Communists?!

If your allies are ANSWER and the ACLU you can't help people mistaking you for one. "Lie down with dogs..."

[ozarkgirl]

Since the 1st of the year, my wife and I (okay, mainly my wife) have spent THOUSANDS at South Coast Plaza and Crystal Court. -snip- Are you 2 planning to spend more than that?

I've been reading your posts and trying to figure you out. Obviously OBL's are business driven by cheap labor. So here's my take, you are wealthy, you love your possessions, you will do whatever it takes to acquire more wealth and more possessions trying to boost your own sense of worth (i.e. the boastful remark "are you planning to spend more than that?"). Keeping up with the Joneses is not an option, you ARE the Joneses.

You will do whatever it takes to increase your possessions even if it means selling out your country.

These patriots who are standing up for America may not be rich, but they have morals and character. I admire them greatly. You may not be a Bible believing man but it was written "For the love of money is the root of all evil", then there's "You can't take it with you" and of course "The one who dies with the most toys...Wins!".

I'm curious, what are you trying to achieve in your lifetime?

[clawrence3]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

[spectre]

"I said "good for you" and good luck matching our boycott of Costa Mesa."

You said "our"? Care to elaborate?

sw

[spectre]

Girl..I've been around FR for a long time, and the one thing I've learned is there are people who come here and claim all sorts of things that aren't necessarily so.

Most of us can see right thru BS..and you know what I mean :)...sw

[ozarkgirl]

Girl..I've been around FR for a long time, and the one thing I've learned is there are people who come here and claim all sorts of things that aren't necessarily so.

Oh I see. I guess I've been fortunate in my life, I grew up in an area where we can still take a person for their word. On a forum like Free Republic, anyone could say anything. I like my world better.