Posted on 05/26/2005 3:01:03 AM PDT by calcowgirl
GARDEN GROVE — An event honoring an anti-illegal immigrant leader tonight was marred by altercations between anti-immigration activists and protesters, resulting in an arrest when two demonstrators were hit by a slow-moving van.
The driver was Hal Netkin of Van Nuys, said Barbara Coe, chairwoman of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform.
Protesters were blocking a driveway when Netkin tried to drive through and knocked two demonstrators to the ground, Deputy Police Chief K.J. Raney said.
Netkin was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. At least one of the protesters was hospitalized.
"Knowing (Netkin), he panicked," Coe said.
Billy Hall, a member of Coe’s group, said shortly afterward that his car window was broken by a protester. Hall said he filed a police report.
The event sponsored by Coe’s group honored Aliso Viejo resident Jim Gilchrist. Gilchrist’s Minuteman Project last month attracted nearly 900 people to patrol a stretch of Arizona border in an effort to stop entry by illegal immigrants. The effort was praised by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger but condemned by President George W. Bush, who called the volunteers "vigilantes."
"I’m damned proud to be a vigilante," Gilchrist told the 150 people assembled at the Garden Grove Women’s Club. "How about you?"
He received a rousing ovation. He also said that deporting the millions of people in the country illegally would lower home prices, reduce traffic congestion and lower taxes.
Nearly 100 protesters picketed and chanted on the sidewalk. One sign read, "Beat Back the Racist Attack."
"Their racist acts are being masked by patriotism," said Obed Sanchez of Garden Grove. "To say illegal immigrants are coming over here and ruining our lives is ridiculous. We need immigrants like a tree needs water. Even President Bush recognizes that."
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They aren't protestors. They're terrorists. Plain and simple, they are Mexican separatist terrorists, foreigners who will use force and violence to occupy and control the people and land mass of the United States in loyalty to another country and another people. Period.
Where are the troops, required by our Constitution, to "suppress insurrection and rebellion"?
We should all have a lot of respect and praise for people like Glenn Spencer, Barb Coe, Gilchrist, etc. because these brave people have risked a lot to stand up to sound the warning as to what's been happening with illegal imm. over the last decade while most of us have been sound asleep or toally distracted. The American public which has so dumbed down by the MSM created stupor over MJ, Martha, Scott, etc. that it needs a swift kick in the ass to wake up. Also, we're starting to see the mask slowly coming off these anti-American, Aztlan loving groups who's cover story was always 'they were created to protect the human rights of the poor, scared, looking for work illegal immigrants' when nothing could be further from the truth.
As Glenn Spencer has pointed out repeatedly.....the Ford Foundation, MECHA, La Raza, etc. are subcomponents of a nation wrecking machine that's been operating at full throttle for many years now.
Thanks for posting this calcowgirl.
A friend of mine said they had backpacks full of unopened soda, ready to do just what they did.
I heard that the police were'nt doing anything to stop the protesters, so I can imagine what it was like for Hal.
When the MinuteMen restart their border patrols again in June, people plan to physically interfere with their operations. They will go to wherever the MinuteMen are in their area and stop them from operating. More info will be passed on later of their locations. Until then, people are anonymously and autonomously acting against the MinuteMen using electronic disturbance.
Well... As Tom McClintock just said a few minutes ago on KSFO... "If you will not control your borders, you don't even have a country! The most basic function of our Federal Government is shamefully being shirked!"
Mrs. Wasp has often said that she'd love to see the Good Sam Club organize a bumper-to-bumper blockade for a thousand miles of diesel pushers with America's Greatest Generation manning and womaning machine guns mounted atop this "Chinese Wall" of car-barns!!!
Sounds even better than a danged tea party, to me!!!
Hell, they have more rights than anyone else......
Exactly. I'm sick of the story that "the only crime they have committed is by coming to America in search of a better life." BS. Entering America is not the only crime they commit. They are not paying taxes, which is against the law too. They don't buy insurance for their cars, which is against the law. IF we didn't pay taxes or buy car insurance we could be put in jail. That's just a couple more laws they have broken, but I bet if we sat down and put a pencil to paper we could come up with a lot more broken laws.
I would bet my bank account that this American who was arrested at the very least has car insurance.
And I am sure the police asked to see it as well as his driver's license. If he didn't have either, they would have enforced the law with him.
The problem is, the MECHA's, AZTLAN's, and their ilk could care less what Americans want or think. You're right about "reality" but their reality is we are trespassing on their land, period. Nothing, short of violence (and we're seeing that)...let alone war...will change that.
They are taking over. It's like a frog in a slow boil. But too many people are still in denial over it.
The southwest has always had a Mexican-hispanic influence. That's great, and it is part of "the culture" if you live out here. But these folks are violent, and mean business. It's not about "living together in peace and harmony" (cough cough), it's about "Whitey, GO HOME!"
How many demonstrations or "Baldwin Parks" or "Garden Groves" will it take, before someone realizes that we will lose part of our country due to this "revolution?" This might sound corn-ball, forgive me, but it will be the Americans who will be discriminated against in "their own country", if they are in the AZTLAN territory. These people are dead serious, and will stop at nothing to "have things their way."
Think about this: Much (illegal) immigration, and amnesty programs have been going beginning with the Carter years Amnesty during the Reagan years was then a huge mistake. This snowballed, as many watched the metamorphosis of deterioration take place in California.
Now, it's not a "California" problem anymore. It's nationwide. Canada, watch out. Fox is already demanding "immigrant rights" there too.
California has sufficient Hispanic sympathizers/Marxist in strategic political offices. And L.A. now has a mayor who is ex- MENCHA. They have "anchored" power and influence there now.
(With all due respect, I say it that way, not meaning all Hispanics are sympathizers or Marxists)
Many of us here on FR have been watching it over the years, yet we are being called racists by the left. The money illegals send back to Mexico ranks as their 2nd most source of income fueling their (lame) economy. Fox doesn't give a rat's patuti, because those "who will do the jobs that even African-Americans" won't do" is pouring $$ into his country. He will do everything to keep that money train going, include sacrifice those "he cares about" to our 110+ degree deserts to die for it.
Good grief, how did I get off on this rant? Too much expresso in the coffee...
They already are!
They're just breaking the laws Americans don't want to break...
Well, although I wasn't there, my impression is that the Minuteman Project in Arizona did not encounter violence, although there were threats from the gang members across the border. But here in California, that SWARM web site makes it sound like they will physically do something when the Minutemen arrive.
Violence is what the Illegals and their allies want. They will want a hotter war to get the police and the NG to protect the lawbreakers!
I'm afraid that the Left wants this war as a guise for the real civil war; Blue vs. Red. The Left realizes that they can't fraudulently win through ballots.
Please, PLEASE tell her to cover her rear by having people stationed in different areas recording EVERYTHING!
Otherwise, it turns into a he-said, she-said between the Americans and the illegals......and you KNOW who's side the judge would take!
BUMP!
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