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 ...
Excellent (and correct) article.
More like extortion with a clear threat of violence backed by "numbers".
They still haven't figured out that
The are still criminals.
They are not respected.
With "attitude", they are not welcome.
They are a clear liability.
And they are vastly outnumbered.
Come an join us on our terms, or fuggedabouddit!
Pepsi supported the boycott. The president of Mexico was the president of Pepsi.
You got that a little bit wrong. Wrong company and wrong position. This is from BBC at the time of his election:
"Vicente Fox, winner of Mexico's presidential election on Sunday, is a former Coca Cola manager and state governor, known for his cowboy image and brash style."
ping
LOL
I heard it was "Cinco de Pinko." ;)
amen.
send them back home
Guess who used to be CEO of Pepsi????
tin foil time...
My guess is Joan Crawford....old timey movie actress.
The Great Illegal Immigrant Threat Day
My second guess was going to be Zorro.
Not anymore - those were sold off a while ago. Your point about having nothing to do with Mexico is of course correct but I think the OP was just joking.
Bttt
As usual you get it.
Extortion is the fundamental underlying principal of Mexican society. All of the interactions there can be understood in that context.
American society in large doesn't understand this at all. It's the way the world used to work - the mediaeval world. The happy little sheep of America have no idea of what is coming at them.
I am going to buy an old 4x4 pickup tomorrow, not paint anything on it, and go to the Border with it, as often as possible.
Re:Boycott? More like bullying
They gave 1 day. If we legals boycotted the companies that are on this list for 1 week it would have a huge impact.
Company search results page http://www.wehirealiens.com/resultsall.asp
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=14312
American Citizens Know How To Protest Too!
If you count yourself as a loyal citizen of the United States, and you're as outraged by the recent activities of illegal aliens as so many of your fellow countrymen are, join them in what is being termed the 'Great American Boycott' of 2006. Find out which companies support illegal immigration (see wehirealiens.com below) and let them know that you will no longer purchase their goods or services as long as they continue down their current path.
Furthermore, be sure to inform your elected representatives that you will not be supporting their reelection campaigns if they fail in their responsibility to strictly enforce our immigration laws. The time has come to stand up and be counted, ladies and gentlemen. Don't sit idle while millions of illegal aliens and thousands of U.S. businesses brazenly flaunt their contempt for the legitimate authority that we, the American citizenry, have bestowed upon our government. Get involved... fight back!
Resources:
The 'We Hire Aliens' website has created a list of companies that hire illegal workers, or in some other way support the newly imagined rights of illegals.
http://www.wehirealiens.com
The law concerning the hiring and harboring of illegal aliens
http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecentersbcdd
FIRE Coalition firecoalition.com, Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC) www.alipac.us, and Latino Americans for Immigration Reform (LAIR) www.latinoamericans.org have joined together to distribute the following flyer to encourage citizens and non-citizens alike to report employers of illegal aliens.
http://www.firecoalition.com/docs/employer2.pdf
Support the Citizens Reform Act, and the Border Fence Project.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR00698:@@@P
http://borderfenceproject.com
Other anti-illegal immigration websites
http://www.operationshameonyou.org
http://www.americanpatrol.com
http://www.minutemanproject.com
http://www.desertinvasion.us
http://www.americanborderpatrol.com
http://www.cis.org
http://www.noillegals.com
http://www.deportaliens.com
http://www.saveourstate.org/forums
By Edward L. Daley
Owner of the Daley Times-Post
http://www.times-post.com
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