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.”
Closer ever closer comes the Social War!
Hey Doug, down here in San Diego there is a first
group of Min. Men and the Mexicans have left the
welfare line long enough to do their thing at the
border. There have also been gun shots.
These wanabes don't know what they're getting into with the Minutemen. Most of them are either Ex or retired military, and if these swimmers want to try force with them, they're in for miles and miles of bad road.
It also may be a little dangerous (for some of them) to be hanging around the border where your green card maybe requested. lol
The Minutemen are not doing the governments job. They are peacefully assembling and reporting crime to the proper authorities when they witnessed.
They know that everybody, undocumented or not, has human rights. It’s not something you leave behind when you cross the border.”
Just what human rights are the Minutemen denying the illegal aliens? The right to unlawfully enter the United States and apply for welfare? Or maybe the right to illegally enter the United States and have your baby at the expense of the tax paying citizens of California or Arizona.
I haven’t read the Constitution for a year or so but I can’t for the life of me remember these rights enumerate in this remarkable document.
I haven’t read Mexico’s Constitution, it must be in there.
Half a million more…just sneaked in today
I called INS…to see what they’d say
They said they're not worried…it will all be okay
California’s screamin’…why aren’t they sent away
I went to a store…I go to everyday
And I couldn’t understand…a word the clerks would say
Please tell me what is going on…do it without delay
California’s screamin’…why aren’t they sent away
(musical interlude)
Gangs are in the streets…everywhere I go
While La Raza screams…”This is Mexico!”
I am really startled…I am in dismay
California’s screamin’…why aren’t they sent away
Why aren't they sent away…why aren't the sent away
Sadly, there are people in Texas stupid enough to believe this.
"They want the Mexican workers to be at the mercy of employers, she said."
Actually, we want to control who comes across our borders, just like most other countries in the World. But unlike other countries, when we do this, we are accused of being racist. No one has any problem with Mexicans coming into the country legally, and if they did so, they wouldn't be exploited by employers.
It's on. Far more damage is being done through politics than by violence, though if you need a model for what's to come, the LA riots are a perfect example.
This whole conversation would go a little better without the racist remarks. We should hold to a higher standard and try not to act like the racists we are fighting against.
"When will they begin patrolling the Canadian border?”
Well, the Canadians won't do it.
Dude!!!
For some nice black beans and rice, followed by tequila,,,I'D STOP and partake!
“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."
Don't come up here during the Elk rutting season. If you do you will get a serious ass kicking.
Hidalgo County Democratic Party
105 E. Expressway 83 Suite F
Pharr , Texas 78577
Phone: 956-787-8082
Fax: 956-781-0496
Hidalgo County Democratic Party:
Name: Juan J Maldonado
Title: Democratic Chariman
E-Mail: juanjmaldonado@hidalgocountydemocrat.org
Name: Esmeralda Zuniga
Title: Executive Director
E-Mail: Emidemocrat@aol.com
Name: Alan Fiszman
Title: Assistant Director/ Media Director
E-Mail: iitbcitw@aol.com
Wake up Freepers, Wake UP America!!!
We're awake. As The Democratic Crime Syndicate is voted down election after election, they will become more violent. That's not a bad thing. Extinction becomes them. Freedom lovers will still enjoy life, and people will thank us for it.
He is sooooo cute!!!!
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