Posted on 07/28/2005 6:42:07 PM PDT by Main Street
PHARR, July 28, 2005 — Once a powerful and militant organization in the Chicano Liberation Movement, the Brown Berets made it known Wednesday that they will oppose the Minutemen border watch group with physical force if necessary.
“We want to send the message, ‘Think twice before you come here,’” Pablo Delgado, a Brown Beret leader, said at a press confer-ence at the Hidalgo County Democratic Party headquarters.
The Minutemen have said they will come to Texas in October, although it is still unclear whether South Texas is in their plans.
Hidalgo County Democratic Party Chairman Juan Maldonado said the party does not condone the actions of the Brown Berets; however, because the group asked him for a platform, he agreed to let them speak at the press conference.
“We do not need the Brown Berets armed against the Minutemen,” Maldonado reiterated after Delgado spoke. He said the people of South Texas are more “evolved” and “civil” than that.
The Brown Berets, primarily active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, are likened to the Black Panthers.
Further fueling the Brown Berets’ anger was the news of Bill Parmley’s resignation from the leadership post of the Texas chap-ter of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Monday. Parmley claimed the Texas chapter lacked structure and members from his area near Goliad had “racist tendencies,” according to the Victoria Advocate.
News of possible racist tendencies couldn’t have come at a better time for the local opponents of the civilian border patrol.
The Minutemen “are nothing more than a group of zealous over-enthusiastic racists that want to promote these types of immi-grants as being terroristic,” Maldonado said.
Even before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Sept. 11, 2001, he said, there was an unfounded fear held by some in the United States that Mexicans were taking over the country.
“For all the strides that we have made toward equality, the Minutemen are the epitome of hate, fear and ignorance,” he said. “We are unified to stop this racist movement from entering our region.”
“When will they begin patrolling the Canadian border?” asked Juanita Valdez-Cox, state director of La Union del Pueblo Entero. According to the project’s official Web site, www.minutemanhq.com, the answer is soon. Volunteers to patrol the United State’s northern border with Canada are being recruited.
Cox claims southern border patrolling is a race issue. The “vigilantes of the Caucasian persuasion” don’t want legalization for immigrants. They want the Mexican workers to be at the mercy of employers, she said.
At the end of the press conference, Maldonado was the first to sign a petition denouncing the border watchers. The Democratic Party plans to send the petition to Gov. Rick Perry to get him to do the same.
The petition also points out the need for more money to hire Border Patrol agents, a point deputy Mexican consulate Ernesto Herrera touched on privately with reporters after the conference.
“It isn’t in the scope of the private citizen to do the job of the government,” Herrera said. “The Mexican government thinks the U.S. has the institution, the department in charge of protecting the border. … They (the Border Patrol) know the limits. They know that everybody, undocumented or not, has human rights. It’s not something you leave behind when you cross the border.”
Democrat goon squads in action.
For your list?
Next....coming to a border state near you:
THE PINK BERETS !!!
Fabulous.
What do you want to bet that one of these Brown Beret idiots will try to provoke something down there?
I, for one, wouldn't be surprised.
I forget ... how many illegal Canadians are demanding we speak french in our schools?
Keep your powder dry boys, the 2nd American Civil War is about to begin.
I'm sending the Brown Berets a message. No one is afraid of you thugs. Get the hell out of the country, if you don't like people exercising their freedom without violence and coercion.
So now we're going to have the Red Berets show up to oppose those opposing the Minutemen, and then the REAL Red Berets, who are going to oppose those who oppose those who are opposing illegal immigration in the name of the free flow of their socialist brothers north, and then there'll be so many people on the boarder that it will have the effect the Minutemen intended in the first place.
"the Brown Berets made it known Wednesday that they will oppose the Minutemen border watch group with physical force if necessary."
Texans urge brown berets to think twice before using physical force against them in texas.
I think "he needed shootin'" is still considered a valide defense.
Wow, I was optimistic when I thought it would turn out to be us vs the rest of the world. Turns out it is going to be two thirds of us vs the rest of the world.
Actually they just want someone to uphold the law.
Them Chicanos don't like people interfering with their jihad for special U.S. Govt. rights, including tax-free employment, food stamps (because they show no income when their salaries are cash under-the-table), and free healthcare. Their aim is to invade, infiltrate government, and set up apartheid. Guess who the whipping boy is?
He makes a threat on U.S. citizens from Democratic HQ? Are you freaking kidding me?
let's roll....
"Cox claims southern border patrolling is a race issue. The “vigilantes of the Caucasian persuasion” don’t want legalization for immigrants. They want the Mexican workers to be at the mercy of employers, she said."
Is it me or is that one twisted comment?
a couple of warning shots over the brown bandits' berets and maybe they will cease.
"Cox claims southern border patrolling is a race issue. The “vigilantes of the Caucasian persuasion” don’t want legalization for immigrants. They want the Mexican workers to be at the mercy of employers, she said."
Is it me or is that one twisted comment?
that was a moron talking. It sounds worse in Mexican.
Soon Juanita,it's in the works.
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