Navy christens cargo ship named for Cesar Chavez

AP via SFGate ^ | 5/6/12

[SmithL]

The military has christened its newest cargo-ammunition ship for civil rights leader and labor activist Cesar Chavez, who served in the Navy during World War II.

[Army Air Corps]

Naming a ship for a commie douchebag. Great.

[Dallas59]

In 1979 when Chavez and the United Farm Workers launched a campaign on the Arizona border to keep Mexican workers from entering America. There was a 100-mile long stretch of land called the “wet line” that turned into a dangerous place for undocumented immigrant workers.
They only searched for something humankind has been looking for since the beginning of time – a warm place to sleep, a meal, a job, a place to raise a family, a place that welcomes them with compassion, and not the gun-toting Minutemen of today or like the UFW in 1979 who beat them as they attempted to cross. (New York Times, February 7, 1979)

[SWAMPSNIPER]

They can call it the “wetback”.

[brivette]

I would have preferred “clutch”.

[elkfersupper]

One of the sickest things I ever saw or heard.

I wonder when we will have a USS Saddam Hussein?

[mylife]

Our Government is out of control.
What does a community organizer have to do with our military?

[Gay State Conservative]

Next will be the USS Richard Simmons.

[the invisib1e hand]

They can call it the “wetback”.

Now that's funny. Is it for service in the Rio Grande?

[mylife]

Our the USS Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers

[brivette]

now that is funny.

[BamaDi]

Or the “bean picker”!

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Next on this list, USS Jeremiah Wright.

[Doogle]

The ship’s sponsor is Chavez’s widow, Helen Fabela Chavez.

[skeeter]

The navy used to reserve the honor for those who were associated with the navy in some way - either a sailor who had distinguished himself or one of the navy's political benefactors. Chavez distinguished himself as a union leader.

The leftists corrupt everything they touch with their manic focus on the political.

[omega4179]

Romney will do nothing to reverse this.

[Slings and Arrows]

This is worse - whatever his proclivities, at least Richard Simmons is a successful businessman.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[mylife]

It’s only a matter of time ;)

[mylife]

USS Trayvon Martin