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Posted on 04/04/2006 6:34:13 AM PDT by petkus
Spanish-language media played key roles in the hot debate over immigration legislation
As the immigration debate heats up across the country, Spanish-language media and some of their key players are being both applauded and chastised for their roles in the process.
Last week, many people nationwide were surprised at the speed with which hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in what seemed a coordinated effort to protest what they called punitive proposed House legislation. That legislation seeks stiffer penalties for people who are in the country illegally and for those helping them.
Protesters, including students who walked out of school, claimed partial victory as a Senate committee approved a bill without those provisions.
So how did these demonstrations get mobilized?
Organizers used Spanish-language media, including television, radio, newspapers and Web sites, to keep people informed about events and marches. They are continuing to do so as the debate winds through the Senate and as organizers in North Texas are planning a march Sunday in downtown Dallas.
Even while the war on terror and in Iraq have taken center stage in the mainstream news media during the last three years, immigration reform has remained a hot topic among the Spanish-language media and their audiences.
Across the country last week, Spanish-language newspapers, from large dailies to small weeklies, have written editorials on the apparent awakening of the "sleeping giant" and have called on Congress to craft a humane immigration bill. Television programs have replayed the mass demonstrations, and talk-show callers have debated the use of the Mexican flag in the protests.
Some of the Spanish-language media's most prominent names have found themselves in the forefront of the debate.
Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas, co-anchors of powerhouse Univision, dropped their usually objective delivery of the news on .
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Your question extends to why tolerate the Islamists, Nazies and communists. Do you blame all misfortune leveled on people on Catholicism?
#2 Because it made the most sense. It's missionaries built Churches to preach love, schools to teach free will, and hospitals to heal.
#2 Because it made the most sense. It's missionaries built Churches to preach love, schools to teach free will, and hospitals to heal.
The 'founding fathers' were not a miracle. Also, they weren't predominantly catholic -- the ff were trying to get away from catholicism for many reasons, the primary one being catholics killed those who disagreed with them.
People good? Good people don't enslave other people. Good people don't traffic in drugs. Good people don't advocate mass migration of their disenchanted, discarded ones to another nation to infect it with their "goodness". Churches that preach love? You're kidding. All I've seen from history are churches in that region that preached war for their own purposes -- in El Salvador the church got involved and a lot of priests got killed. Free will? What? Mexico doesn't operate on free will. Venezuela sure doesn't. Cuba doesn't. Peru doesn't. Guatemala probably doesn't have that word in their vocabulary.
Hospitals to heal the poor? In Mexico, I don't know of a hospital (unless recent changes have been made) which will allow someone in the front door for treatment without some kind of payment up front first. That is a well-known fact.
None of your premises will hold water. You and your friends scream about MY credibility? Your arguments are false, they're deceitful and are deliberate disinformation directed toward a generally ignorant public. You're dangerous.
You mean the gym? Yeah, I've seen it. Did the real cathedral actually get torn down, or is it still there waiting for the next bishop to re-consecrate it and turn the gym into the great school it deserves to be?
You should have been listening. Or just what 'incredible things' did he teach you. Keep 'seeking', you're not even close, and on the 'knowledge' part get some balance.
You asked two false premised hate filled questions, and I gave you, free, true answers. It seems to have riled you up, which is good. Must have been the dose and truth of reality that sent you into a tissy frit rant.
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Yup. Give it about 100 years. 30 years for California and Texas.
THEY ALREADY DO!
The Founding Fathers were rather a long way from being menaced by Catholics in their homeland. By the late 18th Century, Britain was 200 years into Anglicanism. At the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 17th century, the Puritans were trying to escape the Anglicans, whom they did consider overly "papist." Read what they did to Quakers, Anglicans, and Catholics, not to mention good Protestant folk like Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams.
In regard to Catholics killed those who disagreed with them., the number of Catholic martyrs in England is probably equal to those punished by the Catholics. Killing each other was merely the way our ancestors settled religious differences. Surely you know that the Protestants burned Catholics at the stake and vice-versa? Protestants also burned Protestants at the stake. Catholics certainly burned Catholics at the stake. Whole lot of burning going on in those days.
Most unsporting and inaccurate of you to pin it all on the Catholics. Gives your remarks a kind of uniquely American "Know-Nothing" flavor.
Autre temps, autres moeurs.
Two valid questions, no hissy fit whatever that was and the truth is the truth whether YOU like it or not. Case closed.
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