Posted on 03/24/2006 10:56:22 AM PST by JZelle
Maryland's largest immigrant advocacy group is training supporters to keep close watch on the members of an illegal-alien watchdog group as they monitor day laborers. CASA of Maryland and the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland have offered four training sessions for legal observers who would videotape and document interactions between the Maryland Minutemen and day laborers seeking work. About 70 people, many of them law students, have attended the training sessions, organizers say. "Both groups have the constitutional right to public right of ways and to free speech," CASA staff attorney Steve Smitson told about 20 people Wednesday at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Silver Spring. "But one group's rights cannot infringe upon one another, and that's what legal observers are there for." Groups of two or three legal observers per site will photograph and document in notebooks any confrontations, gestures, name-calling or incidents of harassment by the laborers or the Minutemen.
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THIS is what I was referring to...about how even the laws we have now aren't being utilized...too many groups to fight.
I predict this won't last long because these groups are going to be bored to death.
Hey... the Minutemen have arrived! The fact that the commie lawyers are going to "watch the watchers" is a sure sign that the Minutemen are doing a great job.
Time to reinstate the Sedition Act. Oh, nevermind, we don't enforce the laws we already have. What good's another one?
"I predict this won't last long because these groups are going to be bored to death."
Nah... it is like a treasure hunt for them... they are just hoping and waiting for a Minuteman slip-up.
And it's rather interesting that in response to the perception that the Minutemen are violating civil rights by observing day laborers, the lawyers are saying to observe the Minutemen.
Had one of the Minuteman women speak at one of our Freeper meetings. They had these type of "observers" with them during their vigil. She said they were basically uniformed and were rather surprised to find out how nice the Minuteman folks were. It becomes a real drag to these folks when they find out the "vigilantes" aren't the horrible people they have been made out to be.
Join Veterans for Secure Borders, The Minuteman Project, Latino Americans for Immigration Reform, Mothers Against Illegal Aliens, and other groups protesting amnesty for these criminals, and demanding the government protect our borders.
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Sorry Stevo....they don't have a right to break the law. Minuteman observation process is nothing more or less than a neighborhood watch program extended to the borders and in this case known havens of criminals.
The way things are going its becoming them against us, probably a civil war shortly, they are organizing now and are even teaching their kids who are getting an education for free that they wouldn't have in mexico, to walk out of school in California, holding mexico flags demonstrating. The socialists have been taught well to give us all the finger, ungrateful bunch.
"Both groups have the constitutional right"
Illegal aliens have constitutional rights? Huh?
Considering one of the groups is here illegally, I would dispute this particular claim.
Although since a good number of them are indulgent slobs I'm certain they wouldn't look as good in tar & feathers.
Did you mean uninformed or uniformed?
Or both?
OK, I'm officially confused.
Exactly what does "immigrant advocacy" have to do with illegal-aliens?
This is like having Audubon Society members "keeping close watch" on meter-maids. Total nonsequitor.
"Illegal aliens" are to "immigration" as "home invaders" are to "the hospitality industry."
I guess thry could try to claim that Audubon Society members are "attuned" to "meter-maid issues" because, well, because meter-maids deal with cars, and, um, OK, yeah, I got it -- and birds often crap on cars! See? It's a natural fit! It makes perfect sense!
That is, it makes as much sense as having an "immigrant advocacy group" sticking its nose into illegal alien matters. (What are they going to do? Claim that since illegal aliens come here "from other countries, just like 'immigrants'", there is some kind of logical connection?)
Well, I guess there is. Just like there's a "logical connection" between Audubon members and meter-maids!
I guess a "connection" subject to qualifiers like "tenuous" and "comical" is good enough for government work -- or, for "church" work too, these days. (Scare-quotes because as I understand it, that "church" believes in pretty much everything -- except for God.)
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