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Anti-illegal immigration rally turns violent
By: The Lonewacko Blog · Section: Diaries

The Save Our State organization organized a rally yesterday at the monument in Baldwin Park CA discussed here.

A report is here, although I don't know whether it's exaggerated or not:

Everything that we argued the monument stood for was reinforced by the hundreds of activists who opposed our presence in Baldwin Park. Numerous times we were told that this land is Mexico and that they were taking it back. Numerous times racists epithets were hurled away. One person even hurled a full water bottle at our side and sent one of our activists to the hospital with bleeding in the brain. Unfortunately, she is now in the intensive care unit and we are all praying and hoping for the best.

What started as a rather peaceful and uneventful protest on our side ended in sheer hostility. The counter demonstrators were supposed to rally at the other end of the metrolink station, but proceeded to outflank the Baldwin Park Police Department and traveled through a local neighborhood so that they could formally confront us at the intersection allocated to us for our protest.

In waves they came. Soon outnumbered 500-50 in a community that is 85% Hispanic, crowd control soon became an issue. Rants, chants and Mexican flags filled the air. Their spit and a dragged and kicked American flag covered the ground. It is imperative to note that that was the only American flag displayed by our opponents...

Several links about this event, including pictures and video, are currently on the front page here. There are more pictures here. Pictures from someone on the other side are here.

Note that not all of those on the wrong side were Hispanic, and that reportedly 1/3 of those on the right side were Hispanic.

The AP report ("Baldwin Park public artwork angers group opposed to illegal immigration") incorrectly states that no one was injured, and it's probably not a complete picture of the event. I confirmed with the Baldwin Park P.D. that there was the one injury described above and that the victim is in the ICU. The Baldwin Park police are investigating this matter.

However, I'm not holding out much hope of local or national political leaders condemning this attack.

The AP report above appears to have been derived from the extraordinarily biased Los Angeles Times report "Protest Over Art Forces Police to Draw the Line" from David Pierson and Patricia Ward Biederman. The LAT report makes it sound like it was just one big party for peace and justice:

...Opponents of Save Our State consisted mainly of young adults who said they sent e-mails to Latino and immigrant worker advocacy groups. Many were politically active teenagers and college students who skateboarded to the scene...

They even describe A.N.S.W.E.R. L.A. as an "antiwar and anti-racism group" without any quotes or hedging. Apparently the L.A. Times didn't get the memo from committed lefties David Corn and Marc Cooper, neither of whom had good words for the parent organization.

There's more on the L.A. Times' report and on the groups involved here.

Other groups involved include the San Gabriel Valley Neighbors for Peace and Justice, and the International Socialist Organization. Other, even less reputable outfits may have been involved.

You can see a copy of the email that A.N.S.W.E.R. L.A. sent out at these google caches: that of polizeros.com and that of answerla.org .

Please contact readers.rep at latimes.com and feedback at ap.org with your thoughts on their coverage.
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the Left at its racist best By: Darleen
I looked at the pics being proudly displayed at the IdiotMedia site. I want to gag. They are actually proud of equating anyone ANYONE that makes one peep of criticism of illegal aliens as "Nazis" .... And the "logic" of saying since Euros were "wetbacks" in 1600's then we have NO RIGHT to call anyone crossing the Rio Grande in 2005 "illegal" is beyond parody.

Sick. And evil.

That's about the best I can use without resorting to profanity at this time...anger is topmost in my mind right now.

... we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. - JFK

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Yet we were all worried about some of the comments Patriotman made in an earlier thread when this is the kind of tactics the compassionate, loving and tolerant OBL loves to engage in?

Why are we surprised? They've done every violence to our nation since that came strolling, unopposed, across the Rio Grande. At this late date getting them out of here is going to cause bloodshed. Anyone with half an eye could see that. Mostly these johnny-come-latelys are violent, ignorant and desperate.

RR

Originally Posted by RoadRunner

Why are we surprised? They've done every violence to our nation since that came strolling, unopposed, across the Rio Grande. At this late date getting them out of here is going to cause bloodshed. Anyone with half an eye could see that. Mostly these johnny-come-latelys are violent, ignorant and desperate.

RR

Right on RR. It is going to get messy, monkey-butt ugly. Half an eye?
We have politicians that are blind men, in a dark room, looking for a black cat, that is not THERE.

Take a look at what ANSWER has to say about the rally. They admit being militant!

http://www.answerla.org/pic/05-05-14-antisos/index.htm


On Saturday, May 14, over 500 militant protesters counter-demonstrated against an assembly of 40 anti-Latino and anti-immigrant racists in Baldwin Park. Baldwin Park is overwhelmingly Latino.

Progressive people from all over LA joined outraged community members in denouncing bigotry and hate. Anti-racist protestors took over the street, completely blocking traffic and shutting down a large and busy intersection. Then protestors surrounded the racists and drowned them out with united chants of “Racists go home!� and “El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido!� The police declared an unlawful assembly three times, but the anti-racist protestors refused to leave before kicking the racists out. They were forced to disband in defeat.

The racist assembly was organized by the anti-immigrant group Save Our State. The SOS group--right-wingers linked directly to the Minutemen--were protesting a community monument honoring Mexico's proud history at the Baldwin Park Metrolink commuter rail station. The group seeks to criminalize our Latino sisters and brothers and dishonor their heritage.

No doubt, the Minutemen, Save Our State and others have been emboldened by the recent neo-fascist comments by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger encouraging people to "rise up" and take action against immigrants and undocumented workers.

Many immigrant rights and progressive organizations mobilized together for the very successful counter-demonstration.

The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition participated in the anti-racist counter-demonstration on Saturday and will continue to mobilize with our Latino and immigrant sisters and brothers to fight back against attacks on their communities. Racists and bigots have no right to voice their anti-people agenda. Let’s build on Saturday’s victory and continue to organize a united front to defeat the right-wing!

It's so brave of them to come out in full force when they outnumbered the protestors nearly 13 to 1.

Answer is another seditious group that is funded by radical leftwingers and hollywood idiots. Another group that needs to be investigated under RICO. All you idiots that fund these so called peace loving and tolerant groups, you sure must be so proud of yourselves.

The racist assembly was organized by the anti-immigrant group Save Our State. The SOS group--right-wingers linked directly to the Minutemen--were protesting a community monument honoring Mexico's proud history at the Baldwin Park Metrolink commuter rail station. The group seeks to criminalize our Latino sisters and brothers and dishonor their heritage.

Is that what you call a monument that stated LA is a Mexican city and that Mexico is going to take it back?

Racists and bigots have no right to voice their anti-people agenda. Let’s build on Saturday’s victory and continue to organize a united front to defeat the right-wing!

I guess freedom of speech only applies to their line of thinking. You people have won nothing. The only thing you criminals won is a yellow stripe on your backs because your nothing, but a bunch of treasonous, communistic, cowards. You pathetic waste of skin are cut from the same cloth as the bolsheviks back in the USSR. You all would make Joe Stalin and Vladamir Lenin very proud.

You people will come to find out that your not among the majority. In fact your among the vast minority and America is coming onto your games and we aren't very happy. When the day comes that your actions finally do wake up this once great nation, I can guarantee you that you pieces of crap will have started something that you can't finish. You pieces of crap are righting checks with your mouths that the rest of your bodies can't cash and we might be peaceful now, but sooner or later that aint going to be the case. America by far is the most tolerant and compassionate nation on earth, but even America's tolerance and compassionate has it's limits and I think we are getting to a boiling point in this country.

Notice that Jorge Bush is so silent on this. Not one word from the mouth of the so called compassionate conservative. What is wrong with this guy? Doesn't he realize that if he allows this garbage to continue that he's creating all of the combustable elements for a future civil war? I honestly can't see this situation being resolved without one unless the status quo is drastically changed.

I hope SOS sues them for liable and slander for calling them racists. Being anti-ILLEGAL-immigrant is not racist.

Originally Posted by jp_48504

I hope SOS sues them for liable and slander for calling them racists. Being anti-ILLEGAL-immigrant is not racist.

It's shaping up that way. They want to paint us as racist while they have blackface comedy and "negrito" candy. This is evolving into a monkey-butt ugly situation. I'm going to show them some Black Face that they won't be laughing at. This "Negrito" has had it. The way I see it, it's the Hate That Hate Created