Posted on 09/17/2006 7:27:43 PM PDT by Sharks
RIVERSIDE — An event billed as an educational forum about federal immigration law quickly became a rally against illegal immigration yesterday as speakers decried an “invasion” of illegal immigrants and warned a second Civil War is brewing.
Addressing a supportive crowd of about 30 at Spring Garden Park, speakers from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, Connecticut Citizens for Immigration Control and the Buchanan 2008 Campaign — a grassroots effort to convince political pundit Pat Buchanan, who famously called for a wall to be built along the U.S.-Mexico border, to run for president — blamed illegal immigrants for driving down wages and sucking up welfare.
The angriest rhetoric came from Miguel Cruz and Carmen Morales of You Don't Speak for Me, American Hispanic Voices Speaking Out Against Illegal Immigration, who condemned illegal immigrants for ineffectual schools, debasing U.S. culture and bastardizing the English language.
“Go back to where you came from,” Morales said. “You are not citizens. You don't belong here.”
Standing in a pavilion draped with American flags, Cruz was even more strident, calling illegal immigrants murderers, rapists, child molesters, gang members and illiterate carriers of disease.
To those who disagree, Cruz said, “You are racists; you are traitors because you hate America. To some of us, it smells like there is a civil war approaching and this American is ready.”
“I haven't seen such hate since the March on Selma,” said Dave Verduin, the president of a coalition of local business owners and landlords opposed to Riverside's recently enacted anti-illegal immigrant ordinance. “I came because they said it would be a non-partisan forum. This is misinformation; they said it would be educational.”
Congratulations, ladies, on really selling that "not-a-moderator" disinformation. I think they're actually believing it.
;OP
And we have posters on a conservative forum who deny their attacks on conservatives are attacks on conservatives by saying something like "nay nay, if I attacked them, they most certainly were not conservative, because I don't do that."
Laughable and ultimately ineffective.
I don't care what you were doing, that part of his post is what got him banned, all the rest of his post was Travis shooting off his mouth because he didn't have the brains to take a hint and step away from his computer to cool his jets, after the mod told him to. He banned himself. No one pushed him over the edge.
We've plowed this field one too many times today.
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WHATEVER...
Ping for later read...
Everytime I see someone promoting some "conservative" for a "conservative cause" it turns out to be some third party loser, or some fringe whacko John Birch Society member. No, I don't believe in losing to win like Ramesh Ponnuru does.
FOTFLOL! Right up there with hold yer horsies.
Have you heard that guys "chick voice" yet? Yowza.
Yikes too.
He sounds something like Carol Burnett.
Ya, cleanse the place of all the heretics. THAT will certainly make this a more interesting and rewarding forum, not. It is amazing how many want this forum to be little more than an echo chamber. Boo!
LOL! You think blame is being reassigned right about now?
Hey! What do have against echo chambers or choirs?
Truth be known, I am responsible for getting banned all the brilliant pebbles. My posts are are just a cover.
LOL. Absotively.
If you heard me singing in the shower, you'd be punching the "Abuse" button.
Good point. I love choirs, particularly church choirs, and sought them out when I was in London. I even sing along when allowed, if I can pick up the tune, and it does not require much of a note range, so I don't have much of a note range. Go figure!
Shush! You secret WAS safe with me!
If you don't sound good in the shower, you won't sound good anywhere. :)
Does he wiggle his ear on Washington Journal as a signal to The Corner? LOL
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