Posted on 05/01/2010 1:01:21 PM PDT by SandRat
Some 3,000 marchers made their way from South Tucson to downtown's Armory Park this morning for a May First rally.
The crowd filled the width of South Sixth Avenue and the procession stretched several blocks. Dozens of other people were waiting along the sidewalks waiting to join the march.
Several carried signs critical of Arizona's new immigration law and many shouted, "Sí se puede," a familiar chant among immigrant rights supporters which loosely translates to "It can be done."
Many of the signs targeted Gov. Jan Brewer, one reading "Stop the furor." One person dressed like Brewer was surrounded by dancers wearing shirts that read ICE, a reference to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They danced to the 1990 Vanilla Ice rap song, "Ice Ice Baby," and occasionally ran into the crowd asking for ID while the Brewer character pulled her pants down to show pink underwear with the name of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on them.
Some signs supported a boycott of Arizona and replaced the letter z with the Nazi swastika.
The linking of Brewer to a Nazi was also seen in a march in Dallas. There, about a dozen people were carrying signs depicting Brewer as a Nazi and Arpaio as a Klansman.
The Texas signs showed Brewer in a Nazi uniform with her arm extended in a Nazi salute. Arpaio, who has developed a national reputation for his tough illegal immigration stance, was depicted wearing a white hood and holding a noose.
Organizers of the Dallas march, which was expected to draw up to 100,000 people, were asking sign holders to discard the placards.
Meanwhile, about 30 people from the group Arizonans For Immigration Control stood in the street near the Tucson Children's Museum to show their support of new law and Brewer. There were half as many there for the counter protest by the time the marchers arrived at the park shortly after 11 a.m.
Several police officers were visible along the march as well as around Armory Park.
The May First Coalition march and rally is one of several similar events planned across the country. Organizers said this week the hoped the national attention focused on Arizona's passage of a tough immigration law swelled the number of participants.
Bring on the union double dippers, as usual, the libs have to pay to get a turnout.
I agree, maybe they are keeping a low profile, more then likely that all the legal ones in town, lol
Many of the signs targeted Gov. Jan Brewer, one reading “Stop the furor.”
I am assuming that they possibly meant..”Stop the Fuhrer”???
I suspect the Arizona RED STAR will have some photos tomorrow.
Darn, beat me to it.
lol. Could be.
Does Homeland security consider them to be a national threat ?
Where was the SWAT team?
3000? That’s all?
Only 3,000? That’s the best they can do?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
bump
2,000 media and 1,000 miscreants.
Oh no.. Nappy likes them.
These people are so effin' ignorant of history. If we were Nazis, as they claim, right now they'd be on cattle cars heading for permanent underground homes in the desert. Some one ought to publicly ask one if they know what the Nazis did to the gypsies. These scum have no clue what real inhumanity and racism is.
Every damn lib that uses the term Nazi ought to get popped in the nose, right in front of the camera. I'm including every single one of them in congress, even if they are on the House or Senate floor. Time for the ButtBoyTM Republicans to hit back on this. They won't.
Only 3,000 in Tucson? WOW. I just saw a picture of the Phoenix demonstration and it’s pathetic.
3,000? We get more than that at a Tea Party. SEIU run out of busses?
I bet obama told them to cool it since Americans do not respond well to a bunch of people waving mexican flags and telling us not to enforce U.S. laws as vigorously as mexico does.
Isn’t it interesting to observe how much disdain the MSM shows for their own grandchilderns’ future as well as their neighbors kids, grand kids, great grand kids, etc. After it’s all said and done, it is they who will have to live the lies. If this country falls, these useful idiots’’ will be needed no longer and will be taken out and shoot.
Its like the spending. Spend it all today and not think about the grandkids who will find themselves impoverished.
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