Navy considers naming ship after Cesar Chavez

Associated Press ^ | May 16, 2011

[Free ThinkerNY]

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The Navy is considering naming a cargo ship that's being built after farmworker activist Cesar Chavez.

James Gill, a spokesman for General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego, said Monday the company suggested the name to honor its mostly Hispanic work force and the mostly Hispanic neighborhood, Barrio Logan, where the boat builder is located.

[FrdmLvr]

ijustthrewupinmymouthalittlebit

[tcrlaf]

The U.S.S. Insane, Mass-Murdering Communist?

[Pining_4_TX]

Now I have heard everything. Unbelievable.

[ColdOne]

Just awful

[max americana]

We have CC Blvd here in L.A. I spoke with some of the business owners and they still call it by it’s old Blvd name..the “Battery’.

If the Navy wants to honor the “hispanic” crowd, why not USS Speedy Gonzalez?

[Ranald S. MacKenzie]

Prediction: If Obama wins reelection he will push for a Cesar Chavez national holiday.

[Amagi]

Garbage scow, surely.

[ElkGroveDan]

The U.S.S. Insane, Mass-Murdering Communist?

Well I agree he was a communist, but Cesar himself never killed anyone that we know of.

[SanFranDan]

Transports exclusively from the ports of Tijuana to San Diego?

[FlingWingFlyer]

There are some sick, sick bass turds in the Navy these days. Geeesh. This is sick.

BTW: What ever happened to the USS Don't Ask Don't Tell?

[Terry Mross]

There’s no way I would servce in the PC military today.

[TsonicTsunami08]

If this is true, it is demented PC run amuck.

[ArmstedFragg]

They might want to do a little reading before they go too far down that road. The dude spent part of his early career trying to get Mexicans shipped back home because they were getting in the way of his attempts to organize Fillipino farm workers.

[verum ago]

The U.S.S. Insane, Mass-Murdering Communist?

I think you're thinking of Che Guevara. César Chávez was an American who pushed for unionization of Latinos and "Latino Rights," whatever that means.

[M-cubed]

Well I agree he was a communist, but Cesar himself never killed anyone that we know of. <<

unlike our long revered U.S. communist, Ted Kennedy..

[HereInTheHeartland]

Maybe Harvey Milk will ne next?

[NWFLConservative]

People who come up with epically stupid ideas like this seriously need to be institutionalized becuase they have completely lost their grip on reality.

[CAluvdubya]

ijustthrewupinmymouthalittlebit

ijustthrewupinmymouthalot!

I lived through the terror when the farm workers were forced to join Chavez after he'd threatened to rape their wives and daughters if they didn't join his "union"

[NWFLConservative]

That would be a perfect name for a Sub Tender! Bwahahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!!!!!