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Series of amateur videos taken of clashes between window smashing "peaceful protesters" and LAPD LAPD Metropolitan Division officers in riot gear race to quell disturbances in the MacArthur Park area. Protestor smashed bus advertising kiosk"Today We Marched, Tonight We Loot"

LOS ANGELES - Illegal immigrants and their supporters vowed to keep up the pressure on Congress for reforms after more than 1 million people stepped out of the shadows and poured into the streets in a nationwide show of economic clout. From Los Angeles to Chicago, Houston to Miami, a "Day Without Immigrants" Monday meant a day boycotting work and school in favor of rallies and marches with waves of red, white and blue filling streets for miles. "We have far exceeded our expectations," said Mahonrry Hidalgo, chairman of the Immigration Committee of the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey....

Which Americans Won’t Work? J. D. Pendry The yearly per capita income in Wyoming County, West Virginia, the place of my birth and much of my youth, is $19,110.00. In neighboring McDowell County, it’s $16,483.00. The state average per capita is $23,794.00. It costs more money to attend school for one year at the University of California, Santa Cruz than the per capita income of my state. It’s also interesting that West Virginia has the highest rate per capita of military veterans in the country. Seems people who work hard for what they have are willing to serve and defend...

Millions of illegal immigrants are marching in America's streets and boycotting jobs, schools and merchants. Their explicit purpose is to blackmail our government into granting rights to which they are not entitled. Good Here, Bad There These activities demonstrate two realities: First, life is good in this country and the opportunities for economic advancement are extraordinary for those willing to work hard. Second, life is typically not so good in Mexico and the other Latin American nations from which these illegal aliens principally come. Unfortunately, if present political, economic and social trends continue south of our border, there will likely...

The original star-spangled banner - the mammoth U.S. flag that flew over Baltimore's Fort McHenry - survived 25 hours of fierce British bombardment on Sept. 13-14, 1814. No doubt the national anthem which that event inspired will survive the latest assault on its standing. ........a Spanish-language version featuring pop singers and rappers..... But another remix is due out soon - a decidedly uglier version. It contains several lines in English that bitterly condemn U.S. immigration laws........lo and behold, the supposed ode to immigrants turns out to be little more than a propaganda anthem in the battle to legalize illegal immigrants....

Uno De Mayo has come and gone with none of the predicted effects – no drastic plunge in retail sales, no nationwide economic earthquake, the only businesses shut down the ones that agreed to do so beforehand.  But still we’re assured the marchers have “made their point”.     We can probably be excused for thinking that the point would have been made if only three marchers had bothered to show up. This is one of those issues where the media has made up its mind and is going to shove the correct interpretation down the throats of the booboisie no matter what...

It was billed as "A Day Without Immigrants." According to its propagandists, official and media, the purpose of the May Day walkout from schools and jobs and boycott of shops and stores was to show how much immigrants contribute and how they deserve appreciation and respect, and not to be treated like criminals. But if this was all it was about, there would have been no need to go on strike. Americans have always welcomed immigrants. They are better treated here than anywhere on earth. While most Americans believe we now need a timeout to assimilate the 36 million here...

Here are some proposed solutions to bring compassion into balance with justice. First, we should secure our borders. We do not lack the resources, the manpower, or the technology to do this. We lack only the will. Building a wall – whether the electronic kind or the brick and mortar kind - to protect our border is the polar opposite of the Berlin Wall. As Charles Krauthammer says, a wall built to keep people in is a prison; a wall to keep people out is an expression of national sovereignty. A mental hospital once devised a simple test to measure...

I've never posted a new thread before and was going to put this with Santa Ana but now there are details so I think it needs it's own thread. Reports for help from all police to respond to Vista, California for unrest related to the immigration protests. I'd been hearing sirens racing north on 15 for over the last 50 minutes and was trying to find out what was going on, as after hearing and seeing groups of 2-6 patrol cars racing up the freeway sirens wailing every 4-8 minutes made it apparent something was going on.

Mario Rodriguez, 30, of Denver kisses a dollar bill and yells, "This is my green card!" in front of a group opposing illegal immigration during the rally Monday at Civic Center. Construction, landscaping, dining and janitorial companies were hardest hit by the rallies.(Post / Hyoung Chang)

or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the free market May 1st, and the "No Gringo Day" boycott of America, has passed largely unnoticed -- except, of course, by the left-wing media. In a striking example of media-bias, the AP has published an article which is transparently sympathetic to the illegals: Immigrants Demonstrate Economic Clout. The very first line of this article? "Immigrants made their point Monday: A lot of work wouldn't get done without them." Wrong. False. No es la verdad. There is no job which cannot be performed by hard-working Americans -- for the right wage....

What would a day without illegal aliens really be like? Let’s try to imagine it. On May 1, millions of illegal aliens working in meat-processing plants, construction, restaurants, hotels, and other “jobs Americans won’t do” are supposed to stay home from work to show the importance of their labor to our nation’s economy. Doubtless, there will be some inconvenience if that happens, but there is another side to the story that is not being reported. We are talking about illegal aliens, not mere “immigrants.” If legal immigrants stopped working for a day, we would miss the services of physicians, nurses,...

Just got back from the San Francisco protest. Good turnout, and here are some pics: http://home.comcast.net/~webspace06/SF_5-1-06 I go to all of the big San Francisco marches, and I can't help noticing that no matter what the cause - whether it's immgration, or bringing the troops home, or impeaching the President, or stopping global warming - it always seems that Che Guevera gets top billing. Interesting.

Hundreds of police in riot gear guarded the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City Monday as thousands of protestors marched on the symbol of American power. "Gringos out of Mexico," chanted the crowd of transportation workers that hoisted signs, balloons and included an effigy of America defecating on Mexican President Vicente Fox and another of a nude George Bush. The marchers also held a minute of silence for would-be undocumented immigrants who died while sneaking into the United States, and then broke into the Mexican national anthem. Despite the sometimes heated emotions, the marchers were peaceful. It was the first of...

So... an agglomeration of immigrants right's groups (mostly well-meaning), Reconquista/racist groups like La Raza and MEChA (definitely not well-meaning), and Communist front groups like A.N.S.W.E.R. (seriously uncool) have arranged a large walkout/boycott for today. (That it falls on a Communist holiday is no accident, by the way.) At ModernConservative, we have strong feelings on this matter. We would like to see our borders enforced, we would like to see sensible laws passed to deal with enforcement and regularization, and we would to see those laws enforced. To those immigrants, legal or otherwise, who have come to America in search of...

May Day: El Gran Boicotposted at 1:58 am on May 1, 2006 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly It’s moonbat Christmas, the perfect day for millions of illegals to take to the streets, bring their best friend — American business — to its knees, and do their level best to alienate most of the rest of us. Unsurprisingly, the Times and WaPo both report a split among immigration advocates over the wisdom of staging a boycott while legislation is pending in Congress — not to mention doing it on May Day. WaPo: Carlos Castro, a leader in two...

<p>Police asked other law enforcement agencies for help this afternoon after a group of 1,500 protesters jammed traffic on Bristol Street near 1st Street and Edinger Avenue and some started to hurls rocks, plastic bottles and marbles at officers.</p> <p>“It’s starting to take a turn for the worse,” Santa Ana police Sgt. Lorenzo Carrillo said. Sixteen officers at the scene were not injured by the thrown objects.</p>

Monday, May 1, 2006 9:06 p.m. EDT Dobbs: Radicals Running Immigrant Movement A leftist anti-war group has seized control of the immigrant movement that staged mass protests across the U.S. on Monday, says CNN's Lou Dobbs. Praising the Washington Post for being the only newspaper that has reported that the radical leftist group ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) was an active promoter of Monday's national boycott, Dobbs noted that the movement chose May 1, the traditional International Worker's day sanctified by the Soviet Union and Marxist movements throughout the year to stage their protest. Speaking on...

Here's a few photos posted online by some supporters of the criminal invaders. They were taken at today's rally in Tucson.

Latino Movement USA Led By Marxist - Juan Jose Gutierrez - Key International ANSWER Member May 1, 2006 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Juan Jose Gutierrez is the director of Latino Movement USA and a member of the steering committee of the Los Angeles branch of International A.N.S.W.E.R, a hard core Marxist organization which was responsible for organizing the huge illegal alien protest in Los Angeles on March 25 and is intimately and inextricably involved in the planning and exectution of similar protests today, appropriately the traditional day to support the "International Workers of the World." Mr. Gutierrez...