This story warms my heart. These famous athletes, Humanitarians all, are speaking out AGAINST Arizona's racial profiling bill. Their humanitarian and realistic concerns remind me of something Chris Rock said a year or so ago. Chris Rock said, "I know they want me to go against the Mexicans but I'm not going to do it. Because I know once they get rid of them all, WE are next!"
Guest Voz C&L.com reports:
Right before game 2 between the Spurs and Suns began, TNT's pregame coverage did a segment on Arizona's misguided SB 1070 law because Steve Nash and the Phoenix Suns have voiced their opposition to it. Charles Barkley had already criticized the bill and John McCain before the game yesterday, but we didn't know how the rest of the TNT crew felt. As their reporter, Marty Snider on the ground finished, he made sure to say that the scheduled Al Sharpton protest was going to be peaceful. Kenny Smith thought that was ridiculous.
Snider: It's important to emphasize that this is to be a very peaceful protest. There's plenty of police around the arena...
EJ: What are you shaking your head about?
Smith: I'm not here to get on Marty, but why did he emphasize safe...What's going to happen...is the Mayor going to slap somebody?
Barkley: Al Sharpton's got a jerry curl. He's got a perm... The only people screwing it up are the politicians.
Smith: Without question.
Barkley: The governor, the interim governor I might add. JD Hayworth and John McCain. They're the ones screwing this thing up. I have to really take my hat off to Robert Sarver and his sons for taking a stand. Living in Arizona for a long time,
the Hispanic community are like the fabric of the cloth.
They're part of our community and anytime you try to do any type of racial profiling or racial
discrimination, this is a federal, Obama..we've got to do something because
these little light weight politicians in AZ don't know what they're doing.
Webber: ..they said it a long time ago. By the time I get to Arizona," I'm
not surprised. The didn't even want it to be a MLK day, when John McCain was
in, so, if you follow history you know that this is part of Arizona
politics.
I commend the Phoenix Suns organization and Steve Nash for speaking out and I
also was glad to see that TNT didn't bury it either.
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I saw Jay Leno at Correspondent Dinner his best line was; “That was my favorite story (this year) Republicans and a Lesbian bondage club. It’s ironic, Republicans don’t want lesbian getting married but they do like watching them “tie the knot”. So I thought that was interesting.”
You can say the same about Tea Party (they are haters not debaters or as others have dubbed them screamers not dreamers), they say they respect the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence but they do not mind passing laws, through weak Governors (no one voted for this crazy) who only care about getting reelected on the backs of undocumented workers, that will not pass Constitution muster, just like Arizona’s House Bill 2779 from two years ago and your MLK Day ban, keep passing them Arizona and the rest of us will continue to challenged them in a court of law and you will fail again (and yes we will Boycott Arizona). Their phony patriotism is sickening; they are just racists going by another name. We all know you are just itching to put a sheet on their head? Let’s face it the Republicans had eight years to deal with health care, immigration, climate change and financial oversight and governance and they failed. It appears that the Republican Party is only good at starting wars (two in eight years, with fat contracts to friends of Cheney/Bush) but not at winning wars as seen by the continuing line of body bags that keep coming home. The Republicans party will continue turned inward to their old fashion obstructionist party (and their Confederacy appreciation roots) because they continue to allow a small portions (but very loud portion) of their party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” to rule their party. I will admit that this fringe is very good at playing “Follow the Leader” by listening to their dullard leaders, Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush, Savage, Sarah Bailin, Orly Taitz, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and the rest of the Blowhards and acting as ill programmed robots (they have already acted against doctors that perform abortions). The Birthers and the Tea party crowd think they can scare, intimidate and force others to go along with them by comments like “This time we came unarmed”, let me tell you something not all ex-military join the fringe militia crazies who don’t pay taxes and run around with face paint in the parks playing commando, the majority are mature and understand that the world is more complicated and grey than the black and white that these simpleton make it out to be and that my friend is the point. The world is complicated and people like Hamilton, Lincoln, and Roosevelt believed that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now it’s about dancing around the claim of government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. For a party that gave us Abraham Lincoln, it is tragic that the ranks are filled with too many empty suits and the crazy Birthers who have not learned that the way our courts work is that you get a competent lawyer, verifiable facts and present them to a judge, if the facts are real and not half baked internet lies, then, and only then, do you proceed to trial. The Birthers seem to be having a problem with their so called “facts”. Let’s face it no one will take the Birthers seriously until they win a case, but until then, you will continue to appear dumb, crazy or racist, or maybe all three. I heard that Orly Taitz now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC), she wants to re-establish a family values party, that’s like saying that the Catholic Church cares about the welling being of children in their care, too late for that. Yee Haw!
Here's a bill that make it easier to
deport terrorist citizens. It should be extended to disloyal or treasonous citizens like those who defend and support illegal aliens.
Funny Sexy Videos : Boycott Budweiser Beer - Boycott Bad Cindy and bad John McCain - Sexy Mexicanas enjoy ripping off their Budweiser T-Shirts and showing their beauties
Destroy your cans of Bud and Bud Lite
Rip Off your Bud T-Shirts ( Specially Beautiful Girls wearing them ! )
Boycott Arizona and all Arizonan Things, Boycott
BOYCOTT ANHEUSER BUSCH (Cindy McCain's beer; number 1 business in AZ), especially Bud and Bud Light. For the duration of the Racist Law of Racial Profiling in Arizona, if you must drink beer, drink Dos Equis or Miller or some other beer or wine. BOYCOTT ARIZONA
Cindy and John are based on Arizona and they are great supporters of the Racist Law against Latinos. They use the Beer Fortune of Heiress Cindy to promote Bad Bad Bad things like tax breaks for their businesses and tax loopholes for themselves. John McCain abandoned his sick and crippled wife for Heiress Cindy and that lady was the Rocket Booster for his political career.
Any similarity to actual events and persons is only coincidental - Penelope ( first Wife ) and sorceress Circe ( for Cindy ) . Because John McCain lacks all the beautiful qualities of Ulysses Odysseus.
Boycott Bud by Ryan Mauro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRIFR43u70k
Mericana likes ripping off her Budweiser tee. Dont think this is a gratuitous exposure of this hotties terrific ta-tas. There are deep psychological and artistic reasons for this action,
Suds Symbol Rips Off Bud T-Shirt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX3I_VcsC6Q
Director Patton Lee Beaugus turns the Guru Jonz protest song into an hot-wired, outrageously unexpected tour de force. Features suds symbol and action figure Mericana ripping off her Bud t-shirt when she's not destroying Bud icons. With violent Crittermation by vidartist Joe Mauro, the man banned by MetaCafe. With cameos by America's most famous celebs speaking out for American Suds.
American Suds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqxQcuNnYnI
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Vicente Duque
New Mexico Business Weekly : Arizona Boycott : Inventory of lost Conventions, Travel, Tourism - Boycotts of Cities against Arizona - More Sport Boycotts :
Detailed, itemized list of Boycotts against Arizona because of the Ugly Racist Law of Racial Profiling against Latinos and suspected "Brownies" and all "Coloreds", this is the report and record of how the Boycotts against Arizona are being processed.
Please be aware of the Black Community Support in favor of Latinos and against the Racist Law : the Nation's Oldest Black Fraternity Joins Arizona Boycott to Support Latinos, and Mr Al Sharpton ( immensely important Black Figure of figthing for Human Rights ) is calling for the end of this harassment and stalking all non-White People.
And don't forget to Boycott the Arizona beers owned by Cindy and John McCain : Budweiser - BOYCOTT ANHEUSER BUSCH (Cindy McCain's beer; number 1 business in AZ), especially Bud and Bud Light.
New Mexico Business Weekly
Arizona boycotts or threatened boycotts
May 7, 2010
Arizona boycotts or threatened boycotts
http://albuquerque.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2010/05/10/story2.html?b=1273464000%5E3315041
Some excerpts :
At least 23 groups have canceled meetings in Arizona, according to the Arizona Hotel and Lodging Association. This is a partial list.
• American Immigration Lawyers Association’s 2010 conference
• National Urban League said it would suspend consideration of Phoenix’s bid to host its 2012 conference
• Alpha Phi Alpha to move its 104th anniversary convention, slated to take place in July and draw up to 10,000, from Phoenix to Las Vegas
• American Educational Research Association voted to no longer hold meetings or conferences in Arizona.
• Sociologists Without Borders will not hold meetings in Arizona or solicit the services of any entity in the state.
• The mayors of St. Paul, Minn., and San Francisco have banned official city travel to Arizona. City councilors in Los Angeles introduced legislation that calls for L.A. to refrain from conducting business with Arizona, including participating in any conventions there. City councils in Boston; Austin, Texas; Seattle and Washington, D.C., are considering economic boycotts.
• The Oakland City Council voted unanimously to boycott Arizona and Arizona-based businesses.
• El Paso city council bars city employees from traveling to Arizona for training or conferences.
Please click on the "New Mexico Business Weekly", the above link, to see more detailed items of the Boycott, specially sport Boycotts.
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Vicente Duque
Videos : Pool of the Most Prominent Civil Rights Organizations announce a Big Boycott - Boston's Council approves Arizona Boycott - Janet Murguía : "Many that look like us will be harassed"
May 06, 2010
See the series of videos that start with this one : the most important organizations of Civil Rights asking for a Big Boycott - Also some Labor and Sport Organizations are protesting the New Racist Law of Racial Profiling in Arizona.
Civil Rights and Labor Organizations Arizona Boycott Announcement Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G3kZB1sz1s
May 07, 2010
YouTube - Boston OKs Arizona Boycott.flv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X88A3UiswGA
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Vicente Duque
Uh, Vicente? Boycotting Budweiser means not drinking it first my friend.
Looking at Ultimas moronic comment, I imagine he also supports Duncan Hunters bill to strip citizenship from US citizens born to Mexican nationals in this country.
How pathetic is that?
Porter, I agree with you. I think it is despicable that Ultima suggested stripping PRO Immigration Reformers of their citizenship via Liebermann's ludicrous Joe McCarthy bill. He frequently refers to PRO CIR advocates as being disloyal. This too is ludicrous. We are using our 1st Ammendment rights of voicing our opposition to Racial Profiling and our support of Comprehensive Reform. We are very Patriotic and do not believe in violence (eg: peaceful Boycotts)
However, Ultima and the extreme far right have much more to fear with this bill than PRO CIR citizens. First, let me say I DO NOT AGREE with this bill. But it is more likely that if this bill passes, extremist right wing citizen groups like the militias who are threatening and committing acts of violence against the government and local police would be stripped of their citizenship and thrown into detention. eg: Militia groups that supported Timothy McVeigh and the Hutaree Militia in Michigan
Ultima,
I do not agree with the bill, but if the bill passes, the criteria should look something like this:
. Overthrowing our Government, Violence directed at the government or police.
Applied posthumously?
1. Timothy McVeigh
2. Terry Nichols
3. Hutaree Militia
4. Richard Poplawsi
5. Any militias that advocate government overthrow and violence
The punishment is rescinding citizenship; sent to detention center; no trial; no lawyer.
Is that what you recommend for those who try to overthrow our government and commit violence?
Ultima,
I looked up, on Lieberman's website, verbiage about the bill. It DOES include DOMESTIC Terrorists (like the right winger militias)! Read it:
"I looked up information on Lieberman's proposal on his website and it says: Under the Terrorist Expatriation Act, the State Department will now also be able to revoke the citizenship of an American citizen who affiliates with a Foreign Terrorist Organization OR WHO FIGHTS AGAINST OUR COUNTRY."
"OR" is the action word here! DOMESTIC Terrorist will ALSO have their citizenship STRIPPED and Sent to Gitmo IF this bill passes!
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