Latinos Plan Nationwide Worker Strike
Remember the 60's in California, the Watts Riots, the Civil Rights movement? How did they start? By marches, and protests. It all started out innocently, but quickly escalated into full blown rioting. Thousands were hurt, killed and jailed. Millions of dollars of damage was done when the protesters (marchers) clashed with the police and National Guard forces. Could this be the prelude to the 60's all over again?
According to Nativo Lopez, President of the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA), he is calling for a mass no work day on May 1st. He is asking that workers across the nation not go to work that day and is calling for students to stay out of school in an attempt to get his message across to Washington. To show unity if you would. In effect, trying to bring us to our knees and show how dependent we, as Americans, are on them. Is it true? To a certain extent, yes. But is this saying that America will be brought to its knees because of it? Only if we let it.
My personal counter to these actions are as follows. Now keep in mind I am from the old school, and my thoughts are not always in sync with the mainstream or the left. I propose that for every worker that fails to show up to support this activity, they be fired on the spot. After all, with all the other illegals out there, there will always be someone that wants to fill the slot. For the students that stay home from school in protest, suspend them for the rest of the school year. Make them repeat this year in school. Otherwise they don't graduate. If they are legal immigrants and hold true to their oath at citizenship they won't protest. After all they went through the process of making it in America.
This Saturday, protests are scheduled in Costa Mesa, Ca.. Costa Mesa has been a focus of anti-illegal immigrants for several months. The mayor of Costa Mesa has pushed a proposal through the city council to arrest and deport illegals who commit crimes. Lopez, stated: "We are going there to make a tough statement right in the bedrock of the anti-immigrant movement.” Now what does this sound like? How about a stepping stone for nation wide riots and trouble. Yet, I agree with the mayor. We have over the last two or three decades, turned a blind eye to illegal immigration. We have allowed these "peons" to come to America and take up roots. Employers are the worst among the supporters. They hire these individuals knowing that they are here against the law. Why, because they can pay them a third of what they would have to pay Americans, therefore making a bigger profit for themselves.
I am not against free enterprise and letting the little guy get ahead, but not at the expense of other fellow Americans. If an employer breaks the law, arrest him or her and have them pay a hefty fine. Maybe a little jail time and closing down their business for a couple of days would wake them up. Drastic measures, maybe, but it might wake them up. We are a nation built on laws. If we keep letting them (illegals and employers) violate the laws and let them go unpunished we might as well strike the laws from the books, throw out the border patrol, tear down the fences, and find somewhere else to live. Maybe Canada, ya think.
When is the main thrust or strike to take place? According to Lopez, MAY 1st. May 1 also know as "MAY DAY", which coincidently just happens to be the International Worker's Day, which is infamously celebrated in Moscow's Red Square, and by communists and socialists around the world. Making the connection yet?
POST UPDATE: If you want to see how outrageous this MAPA Organization really is go to their website at www.mapa.org for all the latest BS from those that don't want America to have control over immigration. Especially read their editorial on the Costa Mesa planned rally.
3 comments:
I don't know if you get 570Am KLIF up that way. If you do listen to Ankarlo in the Morning. He's trying to organize a counter march. He's livid about a foreign flag being flow over or in place of an American flag on U.S. soli and so am I. My mother was a first generation american. Her parents had small flags of their native country in their home. But, they were naturalized American citizens who loved their adopted country.
This is the United States of America. This country isn't for sale or available for hostile takeover.
I have learned to speak spanish. I feel that if you enjoy the priviledge of living in this country, that it would be as polite to learn english ad it has been for me to learn spanish.
But, what do I know. After all, I am a second generation American.
Hogwash Griz.
To me it doesn't matter if you are first, third, or fifth generation. To me after becoming legal everything after that is definitley AMERICAN. I have two nephews whose father is Iranian, but is legalized. Does that make the two nephews American or Iranian? Both were born in the US and are as American as Apple Pie.
Besides, if one is to go back in their family tree, they too would find that they came from another country.
Linda Bentley, reporter for the Sonoran News, Cave Creek, Arizona, wrote in interesting article in November 2005, Paving the way to Aztlán with propaganda, politics, racism. I ran it with her permission at The Bosun Locker:
http://thebosunlocker.blogspot.com/2006/03/paving-way-to-aztln-with-propaganda.html
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