Hunger Strike against the Minutemen

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | April 21, 2005

[Boston Blackie]

Diana Ponce talks on a phone in the yard of her San Pablo home Wednesday, the fifth day of a hunger strike to protest the gathering of armed volunteers, the Minuteman Project, at the Arizona-Mexico border to keep illegal immigrants from entering the United States. Chronicle photo by John O'Hara

[Boston Blackie]

Speechless...

[Spktyr]

Good, more food for the rest of us. Gotta conserve resources, donchaknow...

[fieldmarshaldj]

Hey, any excuse to go on a diet.

[SouthTexas]

Okay....And?

[EagleUSA]

Well first, it is the SF Chronicle, what did you expect?

Hopefully the hunger strike will become widespread enough to drive them all back to Mexico, where they belong.

[bfree]

Looking at the photo, she won't be fading away to nothing very soon.

[spetznaz]

From the pic it seems as if she will be on strike for a couple of weeks at least.

[smoothsailing]

Hey, maybe she ran out of food stamps.

[Navy Patriot]

I don't know if any of the minute men are young enough to outlast HER.

[Mr. Mojo]

fifth day of a hunger strike

In another year or so of strict fasting she should look fine.

[fieldmarshaldj]

C'mon, everybunny... Let's all hoist a twinkie or two in her honor ! ;-)

[whereasandsoforth]

But starving feels GOOD!! So I take it this is her way of celebrating the Minutemen.

[holymoly]

the fifth day of a hunger strike

I'll bet she inhales twinkies by the carload when no one's looking.

[zoosha]

She aught to thank the Minutemen for helping her lose all that blubber she is carrying around her hips and big fat derrier/behind. Some people just don't recognize when someone is doing them a favor. Oh Well!

[conshack]

As it applies to her, I'd say a hunger strike is long overdue. If the MM stay down there about six months, maybe she'll see her toes once again.

[Criminal Number 18F]

No doubt that repulsive corpulence, the cell phone, and the gimme-gimme-gimme attitude were all paid for with working folks' tax dollars.

I haven't been so pleased by a hunger strike since Bobby Sands checked out.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[unkus]

A hunger strike, my butt. I bet she sneaks or is given all the food she wants. Just another propaganda play. Libs love this kind of BS.

[whereasandsoforth]

This has to be a joke, right? I mean, with that photo, its got to be a joke. It IS funny!

[Flyer]

On the fourth night of her front yard hunger strike, Diana Ponce lay delirious under the carport, fighting off the chill under a fuzzy blanket emblazoned with the Mexican flag.

Neighbors sat clustered around her on white plastic lawn chairs. Children smacked at a yellow volleyball in the street. Toddlers tricycled past fence-strung banners that read "Tenemos Que Unirnos" -- We have to unite.

More. . .

[rlmorel]

Hehe, after the pictures of their "international observers" smoking doobies while on duty, I think the hunger strike is going to be a bit tough!

[Founding Father]

Looks like the local grocery store will be going out of business. Think of all the illegals that will lose their jobs.

[doug from upland]

She ate the food stamps.

[CivilWarguy]

I wonder what would happen if somebody contacted the SF Chronicle and announced a hunger strike--protesting HER hunger strike? Any bets the newspaper wouldn't write it up?

[popdonnelly]

Like every other country in the World, the United States has a right to control its borders. Those that don't like it are violating the rights of every American citizen.

[Enterprise]

You GO girl!

[thoughtomator]

Holy humongo, Batman!

[Spktyr]

My eyes! My eyes! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

I call your Mahatma
and raise you one Useless Eater....

[television is just wrong]

OMG, she has at least a years supply of food in that bod.

[spectre]

"Diana Ponce talks on a phone in the yard of her San Pablo home ..."

Hmmmm..

Her "yard" looked like my dorm room at Animal House on a typical Sunday morning.

[abclily]

Why is she in the yard?

[TLI]

Looks like it may last a while. Too bad though, it ain't gonna change one thing. The MMP is moving forward with new and expanded Projects and Phases. It is occuring as we "speak."

[A CA Guy]

Poor Dear seems to be on the cell phone looking for help from Judge Greer!

[whereasandsoforth]

i just gotta get me some of that!! WoofWoof!

[A CA Guy]

Poor Dear seems to be on the cell phone looking for help from Judge Greer!

[Redleg Duke]

It's gonna take her months to die!

[A CA Guy]

Poor Dear seems to be on the cell phone looking for help from Judge Greer!

[Riley]

I can't remember where I read it, but I seem to recall some (law enforcement?) organization combatting hunger strikers with a barbecue kept constantly going upwind.

[Americanexpat]

I bet somebody is sneaking her burritos.

[Redleg Duke]

She's so fat, she's has her own personal zip code!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Why is she in the yard?

Duh! Wasn't it just Earth Day??????

[Americanexpat]

My God, she could last 45 days and be better off for it.

[crazyhorse691]

That picture is is just so wrong on so many levels. Lets start with the four bent stool legs.....and end up with the butt crack.

[F.J. Mitchell]

She is violating the law- only a judge can authorize starvation. She must be force fed if neccessary-we cannot have people taking the law into their own hands.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Did everyone notice the flag in her lovely bouquet of flowers??

[Criminal Number 18F]

I got a question for anybody.

How do people this size, er... wipe?

Looks to me like those suet-laden Tyrannosaurus arms wouldn't reach. I have often wondered this while looking at the 400 lb. club. They usually have a distinctive aroma and I wonder if being unable to do the normal personal hygiene, as done by a non-morbidly-obese person is a factor.

You haven't lived till you've seen an air ambulance crew trying to stuff one of these 400 lb behemoths through the airstair door of a Lear 31. It's like trying to cram a marshmallow through a straw. Of course, your tax dollars are paying for the $3-4K an hour jet and crew, and the illness is usually diabetes, congestive heart failure, or something caused by the person's own poor character.

Somehow this lady seems to think her countrymen's unwillingness to obey the law should be our problem, and her way of proving it is to make her health our concern. Well, it ain't working at this address. Who cares if she dies? Not I, not a bit.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Spruce]

<whistle>

We got 2 minutes for roughing on #25.

[smoothsailing]

LOL!

That proves it.A lib

[muawiyah]

That's not fair. That ol'gal has a headstart on the rest of us.

[blogbat]

"Hey, any excuse to go on a diet."

She looks pretty plump (she must have already had her anchor-babies and doesn't need to look so svelte anymore) - this may take awhile. Hey, any word on whether Michael Schiavo will be flying to Arizona to assist this woman with her sincere wish?