Posted on 06/10/2007 1:00:19 PM PDT by Ladycalif
Minuteman Project Calls on All Americans: Stop the ACLU !
http://minutemanproject.com/mmp/?p=137
June 15th PROTEST - Please Join Us!
Jim Gilchrist, President of the Minuteman Project to Speak at Protest Event
Sponsored by:
The Citizens of Lake Forest The Minuteman Project The FIRE Coalition and ALL Activists
To peacefully assemble in protest of the ACLU !
Sign suggestions - a limited number of signs will be available:
– SAVE LAKE FOREST – STOP THE ACLU – ACLU: TERRORIZING LAKE FOREST – STOP THE ACLU IN LAKE FOREST – Freedom of speech for AMERICANS in Lake Forest
WHEN: Friday, June 15th 12 noon - 3 PM
LOCATION: In front of the ACLU office 2140 West Chapman Ave, Orange, CA
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By RITA FREEMAN The Orange County Register LAKE FOREST – The city is violating day workers' First Amendment rights by enforcing a law that prohibits them from soliciting work on the sidewalk, according to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU on Thursday.
The civil rights organization also requested a temporary restraining order this morning to ensure the city does not enforce the ordinance. City officials say it isn't enforced after a legal decision over a similar law.
The ACLU filed the federal lawsuit in Santa Ana on behalf of day workers groups, La Asociacion de Trabajadores de Lake Forest (Workers Association of Lake Forest), Colectivo Tonantzin and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
"They have the fundamental right to solicit work just like a business can advertise a sale … or a Girl Scout can sell cookies outside a market," said ACLU attorney Nora Preciado at a news conference today. "It's illegal and discriminatory. This country has been built on the hands of many immigrants."
The lawsuit alleges day workers who congregate around Jeronimo Road and Orange and Cherry avenues to look for work have been told by police officers they cannot stand on the sidewalk to solicit work. The officers also discourage contact between the day laborers and employers and others have been cited or arrested, the suit said.
According to the city law, passed in 1993, workers are prohibited from standing on the sidewalk or street to solicit work. It is also unlawful to stop or park a car in order to hire someone off the street.
Lake Forest City Attorney Scott Smith said the city does not enforce the ordinance. The city reviewed the law and decided not to enforce it after Glendale lost a case based on a similar ordinance about three years ago.
Smith said someone was cited erroneously in January and the case was dismissed.
"We're absolutely committed to not enforcing it," Scott said.
The city has until Monday to respond to the injunction request. No hearing has been set.
In addition to the city, the City Council and Lt. Jay LeFlore, chief of police services, were named as defendants.
Contact the writer: rfreeman@ocregister.com or 949-454-7360
I thought there was a shortage of day labor. Or are these men on a break ?
Stop the ACLU Ping
B T T T
They are professional loiterers.
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It would actually be quite easy to stop the ACLU. Enact legislation that prohibits the ACLU and it’s lawyers from collecting their fees from the American taxpayers!
yes— pahleeze...
let them fight for civil rights for Americans...in OTHER countries..not NON-Americans in THIS country....
Thank me very much!
At least Gilchrist hasn’t gotten in bed with a bunch of con men grifters.
ACLU is truly an evil organization, even fights for pedophiles.
Our future scientists and doctors. NOT!
Just say NO to Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!
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This country was built by the hands of many immigrants who came here through Ellis Island.
“This country was built by the hands of many immigrants who came here through Ellis Island.”
So, what’s your point?
I think the point of Ellis Island immigrants is......they were LEGAL.
AGREED! THANKS.
and a bump to the top.
“I think the point of Ellis Island immigrants is......they were LEGAL.”
I am hoping that was the point. I was a afraid that a connection was being made between legal immigrants and illegal aliens and an attempt to excuse the foreign invaders.
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