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More than 300,000 rally for immigrant rights (in Chicago)
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 5/1/6

Posted on 05/01/2006 11:58:45 AM PDT by Crackingham

More than 300,000 people have turned out, stretching from Union Park to Grant Park, said Chicago police spokeswoman Monique Bond.

Volunteers handed out paper cups of water outside Old St. Patrick?s Church, 700 W. Adams, as country star Lee Greenwood's "Proud To Be An American" blared from speakers.

"Isn't it magnificent?" asked Bill Fraher, the church's music director. "It's pretty powerful. Just the sea of humanity and people just asking for what is rightfully theirs."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; borderlist; boycott; chicago; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; illinois; immigrantlist; immigration; unodemayo
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To: Crackingham
Very big crowd on Market Street in San Francisco right now - much larger than any of the anti-Bush/anti-war protests of recent years. Plenty of union involvement - I saw SEIU and ILWU banners. The union bosses love the prospect of more dues-paying members, but I wonder how the rank-and-file feels about being sold out? Probably a lot like the way Republican voters feel today...
21 posted on 05/01/2006 12:17:49 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: piceapungens

"And the day after that we demand reparations, and the day after that we take your farms at gunpoint. The future of this mess has been written, its name is Zimbabwe"

Exactly. Today we march, tomorrow we vote, the day after the country is wrecked.

Look at South Africa. They had a large number of Africans who were long term guest workers. They started demanding the right to vote and obtained international support. When they finally won the country was ruined by incompetant government and the native SA left in droves.


22 posted on 05/01/2006 12:20:22 PM PDT by BadAndy ("Loud mouth internet Rambo")
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To: piceapungens

"And the day after that we demand reparations, and the day after that we take your farms at gunpoint. The future of this mess has been written, its name is Zimbabwe"

Exactly. Today we march, tomorrow we vote, the day after the country is wrecked.

Look at South Africa. They had a large number of Africans who were long term guest workers. They started demanding the right to vote and obtained international support. When they finally won the country was ruined by incompetant government and the native SA left in droves.


23 posted on 05/01/2006 12:20:38 PM PDT by BadAndy ("Loud mouth internet Rambo")
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To: socialismisinsidious
"Soon the minority will be paying all the taxes and the majority will be getting all the handouts and then it will be too late."

I fear this day more than anything in the world, because it will probably be the end of American democracy. The rich and powerful sit idly buy as socialist and communists use them, however in the end after the majority wants socialism, the powerful will not accept it. They'll turn on the people, who couldn't fight back because they are hopelessly dependent on the government. It'll be the end of the American Republic and the beginning of the American Empire. I just hope we get an Augustus instead of a Hitler.
24 posted on 05/01/2006 12:22:06 PM PDT by RHINO369
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To: Crackingham

Can anyone explain to me why the INS is not planning raids on all these protests?

Our government has abdicated it's responsibility.


25 posted on 05/01/2006 12:25:52 PM PDT by conservative physics
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To: RHINO369
I just hope we get an Augustus instead of a Hitler.

I think it's more likely we'll get a Hillary or a Chavez.

26 posted on 05/01/2006 12:26:09 PM PDT by Orbiting_Rosie's_Head (13EAEE4)
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To: BadAndy

Yep South Africa and Zimbabwe are America in 15 years, sooner in the southwest. I suspect the demands for redistribution of land and other reparations are coming even sooner. Where to flee? Europe is in even worse shape.


27 posted on 05/01/2006 12:26:16 PM PDT by piceapungens
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To: MarkeyD
"I've got a right for them. It starts with "You have the right to remain silent...""

Best Line of the Month!!!! Can I steal it for a tagline for a couple days?

28 posted on 05/01/2006 12:27:33 PM PDT by Eastbound ("I've got a right for them. It starts with "You have a right to remain silent . . " -- MarkyD)
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To: memorandum1

Gutierrez, one of the Democratic Socialists in the US Congress:

59 Socialists in Congress – 2002

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/746222/posts


29 posted on 05/01/2006 12:28:03 PM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: conservative physics

"Can anyone explain to me why the INS is not planning raids on all these protests?
"

First off, the INS no longer exists. It is now the ICE.

Second, with groups this large, it is not possible to arrest all the illegals in the group, and there is the potential for the crowd to react violently. There are not enough police, ICE, and other law enforcement people there to handle a crowd this large in that way.

Third, the number of vehicles required to transport arrestees and the facilities to house them make it impossible to enforce immigration laws at such gatherings.

It's all common sense.


30 posted on 05/01/2006 12:31:11 PM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: piceapungens
The future of this mess has been written, its name is Zimbabwe

Absolutely positively dead on correct. I still refuse to use the "Z" word. I will forever refer to it as

Rhodesia


31 posted on 05/01/2006 12:31:41 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA, Minuteman Project AZ 2005, Texas Minutemen El Paso, Oct and April 2006)
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To: Crackingham
Just the sea of humanity and people just asking for what is rightfully theirs.

And I want to go to a bank and demand all their money which is rightfully mine.

As they say, a bank robber is just an undocumented loan applicant.

32 posted on 05/01/2006 12:31:55 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: bpjam
Believe it or not, the first wave of flag holders had a bunch of flags, including 1 Japanese flag.

All those poor, undocumented Nisei /sarcasm.

33 posted on 05/01/2006 12:34:14 PM PDT by pierrem15
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I work right off of Randolph...it packed for 4 hours.

300,000 I'd bet closer to 700,000.

The St. Pats parade gets kicked from March 17nth to the closest Saturday so as not to tie up the loop but the pro-illegals get to march on workday.

Pathetic.
34 posted on 05/01/2006 12:34:40 PM PDT by Blackirish (Hillary is angry AND brittle.)
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To: Crackingham

The "Immigrants" are not immigrants; they are INVADERS! If the nationality of the "immigrants" were, for example, Chinese Communists flooding over our southern border would we be so politically correctly calling them "immigrants"?


35 posted on 05/01/2006 12:34:44 PM PDT by Starfisher
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To: Eastbound

No problem, glad you enjoyed it!


36 posted on 05/01/2006 12:35:43 PM PDT by MarkeyD (Make Love, Not Cartoons. I really, really loathe liberals.)
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To: conservative physics

"Our government has abdicated it's responsibility."

Bingo! Abdication at a minimum. Anyone with half a brain can look down the road to see that this will lead to the end of the US as we know it. The Repubs are too gutless to do anything and the Rat party want it to happen because they think they can govern the rabble.

Unfortunatley real Americans are even more responsible because we are not in the streets by the millions, demanding an end to this madness.


37 posted on 05/01/2006 12:37:22 PM PDT by BadAndy ("Loud mouth internet Rambo")
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To: Eastbound

Wait a minute, the month so far, is only 13 hours long :(


38 posted on 05/01/2006 12:37:28 PM PDT by MarkeyD (Make Love, Not Cartoons. I really, really loathe liberals.)
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To: Crackingham
The commies were out: UAW t-shirt wearer had a sign that read "si se puede" on one side and "No War But The Class War" on the other.

Some sleazebags were trying to furl their red-with-Azteca-crow flags discretely before getting close to the TV cameras.

It's obvious to me that a lot of poor, ignorant Mexicans are being recruited and manipulated by the communist fronts who want them to act as a 5th column.

But this is going to backfire in a big way: lots of people I know who never mention politics are really, really, really ticked.

39 posted on 05/01/2006 12:39:23 PM PDT by pierrem15
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To: Crackingham

Immigrants' Rights, aka Open Borders.


40 posted on 05/01/2006 12:39:57 PM PDT by pabianice
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