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Mexicans Uniquely Alarmed by Arizona Shooting Attack (You'll love this!)
World Meets US / Excelsior of Mexico ^ | January 10, 2010 | Ana Paula Ordorica, translated By Molly Smith

Posted on 01/17/2011 7:11:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The inflammatory language in U.S. politics has surpassed acceptable limits. The warning lights lit up this weekend with the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, at a community event at a supermarket in Tucson where an individual arrived, drew a gun, and opened fire.

He killed five people including a little girl, a federal judge and at the time of this writing, Giffords is in critical condition, struggling between life and death.

Giffords has been a lawmaker in the liberal-wing of the Democratic Party who has repudiated her state's controversial law SB 1070. She is an advocate of realistic immigration rules that would allow a path to legalization, with the goal of bringing some order to a broken immigration system.

And so the politicians of the Tea Party, led by Sarah Palin, have focused their attention on her and any politician that doesn't cling to their ideas and discourse of anger and violence.

As recently as last November’s elections, Palin posted a map of the United States showing states with congressmen who were targets of her attacks in the crosshairs of a rifle. Twenty lawmakers were on this list. Giffords was one of them.

What was a metaphor for Palin, was a reality for the individual who showed up Saturday at a Safeway supermarket. He arrived with his gun in hand and opened fire on Giffords and those around her.

The rhetoric of intolerance in the U.S. is worrying. That was the message we heard from Obama, Palin, as well as politicians on the left and right, all alarmed by what happened in Tucson.

In Mexico, this intolerance affects us directly, because unfortunately, the brunt of it is aimed at immigrants - and not only illegal ones. Even if the primary suspect in the Giffords shooting isn't of Hispanic origin.

Besides repudiating politicians who disagree with laws like SB 1070, almost anything having to do with Hispanics, Latinos or Mexico is rejected in Arizona.

The New York Times published an article this weekend that recounted the unhappy fate of Mexican-American studies programs in Arizona schools. They have been declared illegal.

Branded as a propagandistic subject that brainwashes students into believing that Latinos are an oppressed class in the U.S., prohibition of the subject has now been passed into law, and as a result, current school curricula must now be dismantled.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; arizona; giffords; illegalimmigration; immigration; palin; sarahpalin; tucson
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To: Question Liberal Authority

Colosio might say hey wit a minute!


41 posted on 01/17/2011 11:40:46 PM PST by Always Independent
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To: Question Liberal Authority

Colosio might say hey wait a minute!


42 posted on 01/17/2011 11:41:07 PM PST by Always Independent
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is like a bad movie plot.


43 posted on 01/17/2011 11:59:13 PM PST by TheThinker (Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenario at a time.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gee, with all the murders and drug cartels, I can see why this author chose to look like a hypocrite and blood libel Palin instead of reporting on the mess that is Mexico. She would be a ‘target’ for kidnapping, rape and beheading.

/more sarc-irony than I can stand.


44 posted on 01/18/2011 1:04:14 AM PST by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais is beatha do cheal deanaimh)
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To: Question Liberal Authority

Post of the day. You nailed it.


45 posted on 01/18/2011 3:07:01 AM PST by agere_contra (Historically every time the Left has 'expanded its moral imagination' the results have been horrific)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Mexico has always had an inferiority complex.

This is typical drivel from a chronic loser.

46 posted on 01/18/2011 3:24:00 AM PST by Allegra (You're a towel.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We have our slob “journalists” so I guess they’re entitled to theirs.

“Periodistas” de mierda.


47 posted on 01/18/2011 4:07:18 AM PST by Scanian
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Its all true. Nobody in Mehico should even think about coming to the U.S.A.
48 posted on 01/18/2011 4:38:38 AM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus - Domari Nolo)
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The NYT recounted the unhappy fate of Mexican-American studies in Arizona......now declared illegal.....branded as propaganda
that brainwashes students into believing Latinos are an oppressed class in the US. Current school curricula by law must now be dismantled.

HYPHENATION NATION Organized hyphenates, ethnics, tribalists, and amnesty peddlers are colluding----they finance misleading ad campaigns. The sense of entitlement and disregard for the US rule of law is nauseating. They are on their knees, all puckered up, sucking up to politicians for more and more freebies via the tax-sucking DREAM Act.

People suckered-in by the "here for a better life" scam should see this.

AUGUST 3, 2010 Illegal Arizona protesters desecrate
the American flag (rescue attempts blocked by DHS and L/E)

Photo from illegals' protest at the Arizona capitol Aug 3, 2010.
Capitol Police and DHS prevented US Veterans from intervening.

Defacment is a crime. Threatening to undermine the US govt is a crime.

WAITING TO GET THEIR ORDERS FROM MEXICO
Reconquista shock troops at Phoenix Capital protest, May 29, 2010.

Illegals----May Day Marchers----plot to takeover the USA, shooting cops in the process.
SIGN: "You owe us America. We will shoot more Arizona police until we get free."

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The Obama admin continues to tolerate this ntl-security nightmare for fear of offending the Mexican government, the National Council of La Raza, and other immigrant advocates....all of whom are providing Democrat voters to endangered Dems. This outrage is burdening taxpayers and corroding our sacrosanct system of laws.

49 posted on 01/18/2011 4:40:43 AM PST by Liz (There's a new definition of bipartisanship in Washington -- it's called "former member.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Europeans have a very long history of incredible violence. Mexicans understand this from their experience with the Spanish.


50 posted on 01/18/2011 6:11:11 AM PST by April Lexington (Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We need to deport or imprison ALL illegal aliens, including their anchor babies, seal/secure the border with troops, a fence and wall, and have a lethal response to anyone trying to re-enter illegally.


51 posted on 01/18/2011 6:45:10 AM PST by thethirddegree
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To: kcvl

Not Guilty But Insane.


52 posted on 01/18/2011 6:50:11 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
That's right, Paula, Arizona is bad for illegals, and California is broke and can't do the freebies anymore. But, I hear DC is very welcoming. Make sure you pass it on.
53 posted on 01/18/2011 7:21:41 AM PST by DejaJude
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I recommend that Ana Paula stays home in Mexico.


54 posted on 01/18/2011 8:25:59 AM PST by wjcsux ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mexico should change their name to Baghdad Bob , theys see nothing,they hear nothing, they say nothing, live in denial of there be any problems .When in doubt they blame America for whatever goes wrong. Drugs, leave the country without Mexico doing very much to halt it on their side of the border. Guns and cash flow in Mexico with few problems.Chances are corrupted officials will keep any money they happen upon and not turn it over. Mexico is in self destruction mode. Until they allow outside help, the more the country changes,the more it stays the same


55 posted on 01/18/2011 8:37:22 AM PST by moonshinner_09
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bunch of Caca!!!


56 posted on 01/18/2011 9:18:58 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus' sayin')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I love the leading 2 sentences that follow this logic pattern...A butterfly flapped it’s wings in Central Park, a cold wind blew in over the Pacific coast...butterflies cause high winds.


57 posted on 01/18/2011 9:19:52 AM PST by JrsyJack (a healthy dose of buckshot will probably get you the last word in any argument.)
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To: RoseyT

I call him a terrorist anyway, anytime a person goes out to randomly kill as many people as possible (which seems to be the case, he may have had a primary target but otherwise seemed to be shooting targets of convenience) that seems to me to fit the definition of terrorism as well as mass murder or you could call him a serial killer who simply has a very short interval time between killings. Of course terrorism is not necessarily Muslim terrorism or political terrorism it can simply be terrorism of the sort practiced by Ken Rex McElroy, does anyone remember him?


58 posted on 01/18/2011 9:31:47 AM PST by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a liberal is like teaching algebra to a tomcat.)
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To: ExcursionGuy84

Rifle Scopes have crosshairs but only those ignorant of what is seen looking through a telescopic sight would imagine that what Palin used represents a rifle scope. I don’t know about the map markers but they look EXACTLY like what are called register marks on offset printing plates. These marks are used to align images.

Only someone with zero knowledge of actual telescopic sights would imagine the crosshairs extending outside the circle or a frosted appearance inside the circle and crosshairs are not usually simple intersecting lines of the same exact size from one side of the circle to another.

On the other hand the bullseye figure used by the Democrats for the same purpose is well within the parameters of a normal bullseye target. Of course that is okay because they are Democrats, had they wished to use actual telescopic sight crosshair images that would have been okay because they are Democrats and their targets are Republicans.


59 posted on 01/18/2011 10:02:27 AM PST by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a liberal is like teaching algebra to a tomcat.)
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To: April Lexington

Huh. The Mexicans were carrying out blood sacrifices to the Gods when the ‘violent’ Europeans turned up.


60 posted on 01/18/2011 1:47:53 PM PST by agere_contra (Historically every time the Left has 'expanded its moral imagination' the results have been horrific)
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