Posted on 04/28/2006 7:40:42 AM PDT by pwking
On May 1st, the activists who brought you thousands of Mexican flags flying in marches down the streets of our cities are now bringing you "Nothing Gringo Day". With help from the Mexican government, Mexican unions, Mexican political groups, and through the Spanish language radio and newspapers, the call has gone out to make America experience a total boycott, both here and in Mexico. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
Just the word "boycott" sparks the image of noble dissent in the face of economic or social oppression. I think of American colonials bucking British economic interests in retaliation to the Stamp Act. Or perhaps the ostracizing of Irish landlord Charles Boycott, the namesake of the verb for all tyrannized people. If not tyrannized, at least disgruntled. If not disgruntled, maybe just bored.
Yet, isn't the key to a successful boycott an economic or social upper-hand? The cost must be felt if the offending party be forced to reform. For example, how does boycotting a movie you had no intention of going to affect the box office? More people probably see a boycotted movie due to the attention than if it had simply been ignored.
President Carter thought he was on to something when he kept American athletes out of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. That showed 'em. That particular boycott neither got the USSR out of Afghanistan nor brought down the Berlin Wall. It just caused our own athletes to suffer.
The May 1st anti-Gringo-fest is also being billed as "A Day Without Immigrants" which is a misnomer on a couple of counts. First, the threatened boycott fails to conjure the image of a Norwegian refusing to buy his May 1 lutefisk at the corner Fareway. Second, the pro-amnesty groups are insistent on confusing legal and illegal immigration. Let's not start mixing our apples and oranges. The issue before Congress is illegal immigration. Perhaps the May 1st boycott should give America a glimpse into "A Day Without ILLEGAL Immigration."
What would that May 1st look like without illegal immigration? There would be no one to smuggle across our southern border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines that plague the United States, reducing the U.S. supply of meth that day by 80%. The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day. Another 13 Americans would survive who are otherwise killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals. Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded with everything from gunshot wounds, to anchor babies, to imported diseases to hangnails, giving American citizens the day off from standing in line behind illegals. Eight American children would not suffer the horror as a victim of a sex crime.
On the negative side, the price of a pound of tomatoes might go up from $0.79 to $0.80. That is unless you have a garden. But I'm guessing that the Mexican drug lords are not taking May 1st off. Neither will the 11,000 illegal invaders that pour over our border every other day of the year. It is a safe bet that the U.S. Border Patrol will have a very busy "Nothing Gringo Day."
Since September 11th, it remains true that OBL is the greatest threat to America. I will leave it to the reader to decide if the greatest threat is Osama bin Laden or the Open Borders Lobby. The emerging cheap labor "ruling class" in America is the strongest supporter of amnesty for illegals. Their anti-American "new servant class" has chosen to boycott them; the very definition of irony. On May 1st, Primero de Mayo, Americans will observe, as illegal immigrants celebrate, "Bite the Hand That Feeds You Day."
This May 1st thing about not going to work and or school is nothing new. This is what they do on the 1st of every month, not just May 1st. Think about it....businesses and schools always have the highest number of absentees on the 1st of every month. These people will be too busy driving from post office to post office and will not have time to demonstrate in the numbers seen several weeks ago. Besides, these demonstrations are hurting them more then they realize, with ICE raids becoming more and more common after the last demonstration. That and the fact that we can boycott forever is going to take a toll on this nonsense.
My ancestors came here legally, learned the language and assimilated into society. These immigrants, especially the illegal immigrants, rarely do any of the three.
Amazing they didn't show all the jail guards who were put out of work that day because 3/4's of the prisoners were gone.
Not worth the price. You should have paid us to take them.
"Now for some history... Unless you're a Native American, YOUR ancestors were once just like these Hispanic immigrants."
The historical fact is that humans did not originate in the Americas. Native Americans were immigrants also.
You replied to the wrong poster, I think
Your are right. However, I am on your side.
Hold up! Is that true? If I'm a tourist in Mexico on May 1st, I'm not going to get my chilled Corona?
No they don't. The media just doesn't cover them.
Because you have class and they don't.
I like that you sign up today just to post this piece of idiocy. Welcome to FR.
How quaint. A racist troll.
"Illegal Wetback" isn't racist either.
My ancestors immigrated LEGALLY, and they NEVER marched in the streets, demanding "rights" and threatening American citizens.
Slow motion terrorism. The invaders are not only marching in our streets waving their nation's flag and demanding things from us, they are literally KILLING Americans in larger numbers than the terrorists of 9/11 or the terrorist insurgents in Iraq. When will America wake up to this?
I hope this backfires big time. Do they realize that their message is that, basically, they're foreigners who can attack our economy at will? It's even MORE of a reason to deport these crim-aliens.
Signed up 4-28-06. I'm getting a visual, Captain.
Good grief, dude. Where do you live???? You better go back to class.
Bravo to Congressman Steve King!
He always hits the nail on the head. I saw him on CSPAN the other night talking about real solutions to the oil crisis.
This current situation is like all my friends and relatives coming to my place and we break into my neighbor's house and DEMAND that my neighbor provide for us. If he doesn't choose to do it, we'll make his life miserable.
Just remember the May Day event scheduling came first. Ask most Hispanic or latino workers if they are taking the day off and most simply chuckle and respond they have to earn their wages. The vast majority of the movement came out immediately after the Showtime show "Walkout" and has been well orchestrated. Whoever is behind it has enough stroke to control cable TV programming, news reporting focus, and has had sufficient time to make a teledocumentary promoting its cause prior to it being aired.
This is all well organized propoganda. A bigger concern is wondering why the US Government doesn't simply fight back in the propoganda war by stating these obvious factors as well as publicizing some intelligence of which the common man may not be aware.
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