UC Berkeley Student Activist Faces Fallout from Protest (MECHISTA/AztlaNazi Alert!)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 11/18/02 | Tanya Schevitz

[MikalM]

Roberto Hernandez remembers looking out the window of his San Ysidro elementary classroom and seeing the Border Patrol chasing people "who look like me" across the playground.

When he got older, he was often stopped by the Border Patrol near his San Diego County home, even though he had a green card.

[MikalM]

Even UC Berkeley has its limits...

[Guillermo]

The MEChA/Mohammedan 5th column is one in the same.

Both seek the destruction of America, and both are hailed by Leftists.

[EggsAckley]

Paging Mario Savio............

[lelio]

It sounds like this young man has a lot of fire in his belly. Why on earth he decides to use it by biting guards I don't know. He should put it to good use and go back down to Mexico and try and improve the lot of his fellow citizens down there instead of just being a gadfly up here.

[hispanarepublicana]

From one perspective, Roberto Hernandez personifies the traditional American success story.

< rant>What damn success story?!? I don't see one! I get SO TIRED of the "minorities" who define as "success stories" the act of having made a profession of being whatever the ethnic-flavor-of-the-month is. Of course, the media plays right into it. I call these "Professional Hispanics, etc. (i.e., Jesse Jackson has made a profession of being black) as opposed to those of us who respect our ancestry and heritage but have real American lives and therefore are just "Amateur Hispanics" with REAL achievements, interests, jobs and professional reputations that have nothing to do with our ethnicities.< /rant>

[OldFriend]

He knows he would get nowhere with his activism in Mexico. At least Berkeley is taking a stand but why on earth should he get a free education, grants, or anything else paid for by the taxpayers of the country he seems to hate so much.

[wideawake]

His mother was so proud of her Mexican heritage that when she went into labor with him, she traveled to a hospital across the border to retain the family's "Mexican nationality."

What a lie. As the son of two Mexican nationals he is automatically a Mexican citizen. No need for his mother to cross the border.

She was probably over there explaining to her pimp how she'd be back at work in a couple of weeks, and then she went into labor.

[Texas_Jarhead]

these race hustlers (found in most 'ethnic studies' departments) don't give a damn about America

[Digger]

From our oldest reporter here in So. Calif, here is a excerpt from one of his writings on News Max.
"Tom Tancredo laid the issue on the line when he told this reporter: "George, it's the Democratic and Republican parties who are the key obstacles to solving America's illegal immigration crisis. Democrats want their votes; Republicans want their cheap labor." Phyllis Schlafly echoed those thoughts, as do I.Simon, the Republican candidate, should have faced the issue. Simon should have known, as Tancredo does, that if you stand for something – if you stand for principles – there is nothing to fear.
Prediction: The illegal alien issue will be at the top of the list when the candidates line up for election in the year 2004. Remember, I said it."

[AppyPappy]

It's all fun and games until someone loses a diploma.

[TheAngryClam]

Berkeley insanity ping

[Cicero]

How many countries around the world could an American visit on a green card, and get a state-subsidized education all the way through to the doctoral level, actually paying less than most citizens (assuming he was not on full scholarship, which is very likely)?

How many countries would permit him to go out in the streets, stage political protests, and defy the police? Why should anyone but a citizen feel he had a right to protest the policies of a foreign country which offered him hospitality?

[Burkeman1]

"Success story" my ass! He is most likely barely literate and was admitted only because of race. "Ethnic" Studies is revealing as well as it is damn near impossible to fail in that area of "study." His real job at the university seems to be a professional protester and pain in the ass. I knew dozens just like this shrill little half educated moron. They were slathered in pure Left wing propaganda tailored to their race or gender or whatever and were totally incapable of debate and reacted with RAGE if you questioned any of their beliefs or attemtped to engage them in debate. I learned to stay away from such people in college. They self segregate anyway.

[cubreporter]

People who look like him?

Well, there are plenty of people in jail and out on the streets doing crimes that may look like me too but that doesn't mean I support them. We should be standing up for right and damming wrong. Just because we look like someone doesn't mean we are the same. What an idiot!

[usadave]

"To see this kid get trashed this way, I just can't see it," said UC Regent Alfredo Terrazas, who first met Hernandez in 1998 at a scholarship fund- raising event by the Chicano Latino Alumni Club. "For him, it is devastating for his career. For the university, it is a shame. And we lose an individual in the Latino community who I really believe is going to be a leader."

It would really be nice if these people would think about what's best for the United States and all Americans instead of just what's best for Latinos. I am so very tired of their blatant racism.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Cut up his green card and toss him out of the country.

[monday]

"Until that point, I was confused and full of rage,"

All you need to know about this guy. Angry stupid people are a danger to themselves and others.

[hispanarepublicana]

"Success story" my ass!

Er, you DO realize that I was quoting the "success story" label in the original SFC story, right? I usually put the quote in italics when I'm responding to a particular quote.

[usadave]

"Affirmative action only opens the door," he (Hernandez) said. "We have to work our a-- off and earn our degree".

The same goes with us white people, pal. We have to work our butts off to earn our degrees too.

[umgud]

Ah........ the future governor of California.