Posted on 05/05/2010 7:44:24 PM PDT by Abakumov
Imagine thousands of people were sneaking into Phoenix Suns games without tickets. The management would quickly crack down on the "undocumented spectators." Security personnel would engage in "profiling" - singling out younger male fans wandering around without obvious seats. They would want to see some "papers" - ticket stubs. Those lacking documentation would be deported out of the arena, or, in some cases, arrested....
So while millionaire athletes become walking billboards for a political cause, the state of Arizona might want to review the terms of its relationship with the Suns. If Mr. Sarver wants to use his team to push a political agenda, perhaps citizens can push back. Imagine Phoenix residents channeling the spirits of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. by turning up en masse to Suns games, sneaking in without tickets, demanding special services like free food and access to box seats, overtaxing arena security and ruining the game for the people with tickets. They can call it a celebration of diversity.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
There are empty seats during a PLAYOFF GAME.
I think a certain Washington Times editorial writer has been reading FR threads. :O)
BINGO!
The LOS SUNS are the LOS ERS tonight.
No doubt! :)
Thank you! This is wonderful.
Yeppir, that’s straight from FR.
Maybe their opponents could help out by having “La Migra” on their uniforms (H/t Laura Ingraham or Glen Beck, I can’t remember whom...)
just sayin’...
I even remember someone using the term “undocumented spectators”.
haha
We have a fan.
I think it’s a great idea, really. If I lived down there, I wouldn’t mind organizing a protest.
I think I’ll root for the Lakers now:
First Jackson, who has showed lefty leanings in the past, indicated he had no problem with the controversial state Senate Bill 1070.
“Am I crazy, or am I the only one that heard [the legislature] say ‘we just took the United States immigration law and adapted it to our state,’” Jackson said.
I told him they usurped the federal law.
“It’s not usurping, it’s just copying it is what they said they did, and then they gave it some teeth to be able to enforce it,” Jackson said.
Then he mildly scolded the Suns.
“I don’t think teams should get involved in the political stuff. And I think this one’s still kind of coming out to balance as to how it’s going to be favorably looked upon by our public. If I heard it right the American people are really for stronger immigration laws, if I’m not mistaken. Where we stand as basketball teams, we should let that kind of play out and let the political end of that go where it’s going to go.”
bump
FYI:
Phoenix Channel 3, local news, said that Rev. Al Sharpton got a turnout of 2-thousand in the downtown Phoenix march tonight.
Coach Jackson is a good friend of former NJ senator Bill Bradley...They were teammates...
I hope that Coach Jackson don’t have to deal with pro-illegal alien protesters about his thoughts...
I have not heard any comment from Jerry Buss, the Lakers’ owner, about the AZ law...Yet...
Imagine thousands of people were sneaking into Phoenix Suns games without tickets. The management would quickly crack down on the "undocumented spectators." Security personnel would engage in "profiling" - singling out younger male fans wandering around without obvious seats. They would want to see some "papers" - ticket stubs. Those lacking documentation would be deported out of the arena, or, in some cases, arrested....
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