Posted on 05/04/2006 5:17:36 AM PDT by conservativecorner
MONDAY'S "Great American Boycott," which was timed to coincide with the traditional May Day communist celebration of the worker, has been compared to the nonviolent 1965 march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. Organizers even passed out copies of "We Shall Overcome" in Spanish.
Don't buy it.
ADVERTISEMENT The Selma-to-Montgomery march was about voting rights afforded to citizens under the Constitution; the May Day boycott was a demand for entitlements grounded only in the imaginations of the organizers. What happened at the Edmund Pettus Bridge outside Selma was a nonviolent demonstration to build sympathetic political support for legislation to guarantee long-delayed voting rights; this was a boycott whose explicit purpose was to inflict economic pain. The fact that it did not succeed doesn't change that.
Monday's rallies also had little in common with the peaceful protests in L.A. and other cities in late March and early April. Those were homegrown, "organic" demonstrations that sprang up, without much formal organization, in response to onerous provisions in a House-passed immigration bill. They had their genesis in Spanish-language radio, the Internet, even text messaging among teenagers and young adults.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Their "goals" are unacceptable, period.
Taco Bell, I believe, is owned by Pepsi, not Mexico.
i had to look twice
this was in the la times??????
While Cardinal Mahony may have opposed this boycott in words.
In action, Cardinal Mahony was on the streets demanding that the Congress meet his demands "NOW".
Boycott? More like bullying
By Leslie Sanchez, LESLIE SANCHEZ, owner of a communications research firm, served from 2001 to 2003 as executive director of the White House Initiative on Hispanic Education.
May 4, 2006
Ms Sanchez, thank you for an insightful true accounting of the illegal aliens agenda.
Finally a reporter who gets it and is a credit to her race a true American who's opinion we can respect.
Taco Bell?
Taco Bell is Mexican in name only.
I 'hope' he was [just] joking ....
In spite of the puffery given Monday's events by the MSM and the organizers, their economic impact was ZERO, and their political impact was very, very negative.
It's all about FREE STUFF from the government.
If you think Taco Bell is Mexican food, you don't know anything about Mexican food. Besides, Taco Bell is part of the PepsiCo-KFC-Pizza Hut empire. It has nothing to do with Mexico.
"I suggest that we boycott Taco Bell..."
Not a good idea; they're American owned.
Better idea -
If you're retired, buy an old truck, paint "Immigrant Patrol" on the side and park in front of Home Depot from 7am to 9am. Then ride around to various construction sites and neighborhoods the remainder of the day.
Yes I know that Taco Bell is a franchise and not have anything to do with Mexico. It was a joke. Hell the Taco Bell's I have been to, don't have any Mexicans working for them.
now, that sounds like a ball.............
Boycott Corona and drink a cold Coors.
In the L.A. Times no less! LOL
We're "boycotting" Cinco de Mayo(no Mexican restaurants/bars), Tyson chicken and of course Corona beer...
Tommorrow is Cinco de Mayo.
No Corona
No Taco Bell
No Mexican Restaurants
Love the idea about the truck, you can also drive by any nursery and also chase away a few.
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