Posted on 02/26/2011 11:15:32 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
PHOENIX -- A sometimes loud crowd reaction this past week to a legislative hearing has led to the banning of a Hispanic civil rights leader from the Senate -- and his arrest Thursday after he went to see his legislator.
Senate President Russell Pearce confirmed Friday he told the Senate sergeant at arms to bar the leader of a group that was being "rowdy' while watching a committee hearing on a TV monitor in an overflow room. But the Senate president said he did not learn until later that person he banned was Salvador Reza.
Reza was arrested Thursday when he went to meet with Sen. Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix. When Reza refused to leave -- even after Gallardo told police Reza was there to see him -- he was charged with trespass.
Attorney Stephen Montoya said he is weighing legal action against Pearce and the Senate. He said even assuming Reza was the leader of the group that cheered and clapped during Tuesday's hearing, there is no legal right to permanently bar him from the government building.
"You can't ban someone because he's allegedly the leader of a disruptive group,' Montoya said.
"People have a right to come in,' Pearce said.
"If they're respectful, they behave, we have no problem with that,' he continued. "But you can't disrupt the place.'
And if people are told they can't come back, "that's the way it is,' Pearce said. "We're not going to take it any more when it comes to that.'
Pearce also told Capitol Media Services he is weighing whether to ban bullhorns and other amplifiers that have become commonplace at rallies on the lawn.
"We're just going make it more respectful down there,' he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at verdenews.com ...
“Civil rights leaders?” That’s what they’re calling professional agitators these days? What an insult to the real civil rights leaders who gave their lives so that government would treat people equally.
“If Arizona State Rep. Russell Pearce has his way, citizenship would no longer be automatic for everyone born on U.S. soil. Pearce is the man behind some of the toughest state immigration laws in recent years. So far he’s pushed through a dozen or so pieces of legislation and he’s prepared to keep fighting.
“I will not back off until we solve the problem of this illegal invasion,” he says, from an office decorated with awards, keepsakes and photos of fellow fighters Ronald Reagan and John Wayne. “Invaders, that’s what they are. Invaders on the American sovereignty and it can’t be tolerated.”
Pearce, a Republican who represents the conservative city of Mesa, sees the law as his weapon.
“I believe in the rule of law … I’ve always believed in the rule of law. We’re a nation of laws,” he says.......”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88125098
If Reza is so concerned about civil rights, it is time for Reza to get his booty down to Mexico where Mexicans are treated like cockroaches...
Look at the photo of the author and you’ll understand why he was called a “Civil Rights Leader.”
“The Arizona police state rolls on. Today, outside the Arizona state Capitol, human rights activists Salvador Reza and Anayanse Garza of the group Puente held a press conference with their lawyers. This, following their arrests the day before in the state Senate building by plainclothes officers with the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
Both alleged abuse at the hands of DPS Officer J. Gentry Burton and DPS Sergeant Jeff Trap, who collared them after warning Reza to leave, supposedly because he had been “banned” on the orders of state Senate President Russell Pearce. Reza said he was thrown up against the glass window of the building’s lobby “like a common criminal.”
Garza claimed she was dragged by her hair during her arrests. Garza had not been “banned,” like Reza.
“They used violence against me,” stated the soft-spoken, 33 year-old woman.
Reza was charged with one misdemeanor count of trespassing. Garza was hit with two felony counts, aggravated assault on an officer and resisting arrest, as well as one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct.......”
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2011/02/salvador_reza_anayanse_garza_a.php
This is Reza's group.
Puente Movement "Puente Arizona is part of the global movement for migrant justice and human rights. As a grassroots community-based group Puente promotes justice, non-violence, interdependence and human dignity. Puente Arizona works to empower the community and build bridges by working collaboratively with various organizations and individuals."
"For over 2 years community members and advocates with the Puente Arizona movement have been demanding that Sheriff Arpaio be evicted from his opulent downtown Phoenix suites."
Yes, you can.
Illegals have not civil rights and if they do it is with their home country.
They just do what ever it takes and then have some excuse or think they should get a pass when they’re caught.
Case in point:
Feb 26, 2011 — Chicago —”Judy Erwin, a co-chair of Emanuel’s mayoral campaign, said late Friday night that she would resign her new post on his transition team after the Tribune contacted her and the campaign. She said she hadn’t informed Emanuel of the ethics violation.
Erwin, the former executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, admitted using her office e-mail and phone while working on a campaign committee for presidential candidate Barack Obama, using staff resources to plan her trip to the 2008 Democratic National Convention and engaging in campaign fundraising activity while on the job, the state’s Executive Ethics Commission ruled in a decision filed Feb. 16.
The ethics commission said she cooperated with the investigation by the executive inspector general, reimbursed the state, agreed to pay a $4,000 fine and promised to never work for the state again. She resigned Aug. 15.
.....”We had not seen the decision,” Emanuel spokesman Ben LaBolt told the Tribune late Friday. “Judy Erwin is a friend of Rahm’s with a wealth of experience and he’ll continue to consult her public policy knowledge.”
In an interview with the Tribune, Erwin said she got careless while she was very busy at work, cooperated with investigators and hoped her 30 years of history in state government would outweigh the ruling. She said neither Emanuel nor his campaign was aware of the issue before Friday.
“The bottom line is the mayor-elect has very important work to do and I certainly don’t want to have any distractions,” said Erwin, a former state representative who also co-chaired Emanuel’s congressional campaigns. “I will be stepping aside from the transition. I don’t want any distractions at all.”
The inspector general investigation found that Erwin repeatedly violated the state prohibition on political activity between July 2008 and February 2009 and “co-opted” her staff by involving them in her activities.
“The atmosphere for IBHE employees must have been heavily colored by Ms. Erwin’s political activity on the job,” the ethics board said. It found “particularly troubling” her explanation that she made a campaign contribution to a state representative who was the chairman of the higher education appropriations committee: “This suggests that she was responding to a real or imagined pay to play incentive within state government.”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/elections/ct-met-rahm-emanuel-transition-20110226,0,5545430.story
First, it's likely the courts won't help you. Second, there are literally centuries of law behind the idea of the legislators governing their own domain.
Now, back to an older issue. We had a number of Freepers who imagined the FBI was right in raiding a Congressional office (just because the guy kept some money in his freezer). Here's the exact same issue and I daresay those exact same Freepers probably think this Reza character was in the wrong, and the legislature was correct.
The answer is the FBI had no business raiding any Congressional office WITHOUT the approval of the Speaker of the House, and this rowdy Mexican had no business making noise in a hearing room in the state house.
And, again, it gets back to the principle that guides democratic forms of governance ~ the legislature has PRIVILEGES. A violation of those privileges IS TREASON.
The FBI agents, a federal judge who unconstitutionally wrote them a warrant, and this rabid Mexican could ALL be tried and executed for treason, and most likely that is totally within the power of the two legislative bodies ~ with no separate trial required in the courts.
I think Reza's acts could serve as the basis of a modern test case ~ just to make sure the legislature's rights are still recognized.
Bye-bye Reza!
This person refuses to obey the direct and lawful orders of a police officer, assaults said officer, and then whines about being arrested or beaten?
Even after the ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1868, simply being "born on U.S. soil" did not automatically grant you U.S. citizenship because the 14th Amendment specifically stated that such birthright citizenship applied to:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof...."
Since American Indians were "subject to the jurisdiction" of their own Tribal Governments, it was not until the passage of the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act that American Indians were automatically considered U.S. citizens by right of birth on U.S. soil:
BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all non citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States be, and they are hereby, declared to be citizens of the United States: Provided That the granting of such citizenship shall not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of any Indian to tribal or other property. (Approved June 2, 1924)"
Likewise, if a Mexican citizen illegally enters "the territorial limits of the United States", without the knowledge or permission of the U.S. Government and is hiding to avoid U.S. law, a child born under those circumstances cannot be considered, in any reasonable way, to have met the "under the jurisdiction thereof" clause of the 14th Amendment.
Simply ignoring the "under the jurisdiction thereof" clause of the 14th Amendment is nothing less than the practice of Nullification in regards to the U.S. Constitution.
They fight for the opposite of civil rights. I doubt if it has anything to do with civil rights.
I believe Russell Pearce was the original author of SB1070???
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