100 days of fasting marks objection to Minutemen [S. Texas]

MySA.com Rio Grande Valley Bureau ^ | 02/13/2006 | Jesse Bogan

[SwinneySwitch]

“They had dignity. They had honor,” he said. “Now they don't give a (expletive). Wherever they go, there is destruction.”

Rat's ass, Al?

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

The Minuteman group has raised eyebrows and generated international headlines by doing its own version of collective, nonviolent protesting.

Exactly.

Finally someone gets it.

[American Quilter]

...165 people participated in the 3-month-long protest by taking turns not eating for 24 hours at a time.

No, no, no, folks. If you want to impress us, you have to fast for the entire 3 months. Fasting for a day isn't even noteworthy, though apparently what's important to you is that you feel good about what you did.

Please start your 3-month fast today, all of you. I'll be cheering you on (and making sure you don't cheat--you want to be pure, right?).

[steel_resolve]

by taking turns not eating for 24 hours at a time

WOW, talk about putting yourself out there for your beliefs! What's next, not visiting the movies for a week at a time?

[LoudRepublicangirl]

The wetback, the undocumented, carries the weight that legal people will not.”


Self-martyrdom bullsh!t. Sorry if I don't get worked up over pro-illegals starving themselves to death. I'm still reeling from the mohammad cartoons.....

[Spok]

"165 people participated in the 3-month-long protest by taking turns not eating for 24 hours at a time."

This is a hunger strike not even Jenny Craig can take seriously.

[LIConFem]

Fasting is just so silly. Why don't they just hold their breath and make the point more quickly?

[Boston Blackie]

Diana Ponce...another successful minutemen hunger protest story.

[KarlInOhio]

This sounds like a Je$$e Jack$on style tag-team hunger strikes?

[GovernmentShrinker]

not eating for 24 hours at a time

In other words, they are not prepared to take anywhere near as much personal risk for their cause, as the Minutemen take for theirs.

[half-cajun]

Please tell me that's not really fasting protestor.

[Redbob]

"'The wetback is wet because of the tears that are born from his nostalgia,' he read in Spanish."

Oh, give me a (expletive deleted) break!

[snowman1]

She looks like she could do the whole nine yards by herself and still have plenty to go.

[snowman1]

She looks like she could do the whole nine yards by herself and still have plenty to go.

[Dudoight]

I would like to see the before and after photos of these fasters. Did they loose much weight? It might proove that eating less or eating nothing causes you to loose weight. It also might proove that they really didn't fast. What a bunch of hooey!

[EQAndyBuzz]

"From a 78 year-old woman to a 10-year-old boy whose grandmother drowned in the Rio Grande, 165 people participated in the 3-month-long protest by taking turns not eating for 24 hours at a time. "

So many jokes, so little time.

[Desron13]

"A human rights organization sympathetic to undocumented immigrants celebrated the end of 100 days of collective fasting Sunday in response to the “unwelcome presence of hatred on our border” by the Minutemen, a group that aims to stop illegal border crossings."

Come on guys! you can do better than that! You should be fasting for at least six months. Drop the water intake while your at it if you really want to make an impact.

[VRWCmember]

She should have volunteered to take a few extra days on behalf of the cause.

[MEGoody]

165 people participated in the 3-month-long protest by taking turns not eating for 24 hours at a time.

LOL How lame.

[ozzymandus]

24 hours? It's a fake!