Thread: ALIPAC, Anti-Latino Groups Share Egg on Their Faces

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
ALIPAC, Anti-Latino Groups Share Egg on Their Faces

Yesterday, a story made it into the national news causing a frenzy among anti-immigrant, anti-latino organizations and commentators. Not even 24hrs later, anti-immigrant organizations like ALIPAC (Americans For Legal Immigration) were sending out an emails.

The emails called for the heads of, what ALIPAC termed, the “mob of Latino students that either were illegal aliens, in illegal alien families, or supportive of illegal immigrationâ€

Who is this article from, who is attacking us?

MontereySherry wrote:

Who is this article from, who is attacking us?

According to the link provided: Oregon's Immigrant Rights Coalition

Originally Posted by MontereySherry

Who is this article from, who is attacking us?

Obviously someone who has access to email alerts....either because they are here as a mole, or have an associate(s) who are.

IT APPEARS THAT MELANIE BOWERS DID LIE...UNFORTUNATELY.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5688494.html


April 9, 2008, 8:36PM
School says girl lied about assault over immigration poster
By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press Writer
© 2008 The Associated Press
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DALLAS — School officials said Wednesday that an Athens eighth-grader lied when she claimed a mob of angry students assaulted her for making a poster that read, "If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration."

Surveillance cameras at Athens Middle School show Melanie Bowers, 13, purposefully making scratch marks on her face and arms in a hallway after a classmate took her poster in a "snatch-and-grab" style, Athens school Superintendent Fred Hayes said.

Bowers had told administrators she was clawed and hit after about 20 students, livid over the poster message she chose for a class project, swarmed around her and wrested the sign away.

What Hayes had earlier said was a scuffle partly borne from a heated national debate over immigration now appeared to be mostly horseplay, he said.

"The real error in this whole thing lies in the young lady telling lies," Hayes said.
Hayes said the school is pursuing misdemeanor criminal charges against the girl for making a false report.

The girl's parents apologized for their daughter in a written statement provided by school officials. They did not immediately return requests for comment.

The alleged scuffle led to the suspension of three Hispanic students. Hayes said on Tuesday that witnesses reported seeing the three make physical contact with their white classmate.

The students returned to class Wednesday, but Hayes said their punishment remained appropriate because they still were involved in taking the poster. Hayes said one snatched the sign and the others encouraged the plot, although Bowers was never hurt.
Hayes said he apologized to the parents of the suspended students.
"Those students were cast in a negative light," he said.

J.R. Bowers, the girl's father, wrote in the statement provided by school officials that he agreed with the charges expected to be filed against his daughter.

"I see that my daughter was not assaulted and put the marks on her body," Shera Bowers, the girl's mother, wrote.

News of the alleged attack over an anti-immigration poster — and the suspension of the three Hispanic students — touched off a flurry of comments on the Internet and to the Athens school district.

Hayes had said that the district received messages from people well outside Athens, a city of 12,000 about 70 miles south of Dallas. He had said that "some of these people are irrational in some of the e-mails that they've been sending me about these young people."

On Tuesday, Hayes said he was not surprised by the alleged scuffle because of the passions stirred by the immigration debate. He also critized the class project as being inappropriate for middle school students.

Hayes said the school district would consider placing Bowers in an alternative school.

J.R. Bowers, who had agreed that the class project was too advanced for eighth-graders, had said Tuesday that he was holding his daughter out of class for the rest of the week.

I question it because why would she lie if he knew there was a surveillance tape and continue on with the lie? And when the parents first met with school officials where was the tape showing she did this to herself?

o.k. the link didn't work, but you can get there at: http://causaoregon(dot)blogspot(dot)com/


Posted by Erik Sorensen, CAUSA Communications Department

I broke the links with (dot) so they wouldn't benefit and feed off our web traffic.

Originally Posted by MontereySherry

Who is this article from, who is attacking us?

It's a blogger in Oregon that doesn't have the guts to call up William Gheen (on a toll free number) for a quote or comment. Yawn... Bore me... Low quality opinion piece.

This blog article is an infantile attack at best. If the motive was to finger point, chastise or humiliate then it is misdirected. This blog should be calling attention to ALIPAC's source, which is the local press. Also, they didn't read the follow up e-mail alert, which stated why the links were removed. Spin!

Glad the bloggers in our movement have more guts and publish quality material on their blogs. Malkin, Digger, Frosty, Dolz...

Dixie

I had to post this article for contrast. Here is a man who made a false claim and no charges will be filed against him.

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pb.../NEWS/80409038

No charges in false Border Patrol claim
By Nicklaus Lovelady • nicklaus.lovelady@jackson.gannett.com • April 9, 2008


A Latino Jackson business owner who filed a complaint alleging U.S Border Patrol agents aimed guns at him and his customers has admitted he falsified his claim.

Hillario Bonilla, owner of La Cotorra, told local news outlets that on Jan. 25, two agents stormed his restaurant with guns drawn and without a search warrant. He claimed that customers were terrified.

Last week, an internal investigation and an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security concluded when Bonilla admitted he was not telling the truth, according to court records.

Bonilla signed an affidavit stating his claim was incorrect and that he wanted to dismiss his complaint, records show.

Bonilla will not face any criminal charges for making the false claim, Border Patrol Assistant Chief William Hitchcock said.

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PaulWBrown wrote:

Americathefree, I agree with you 100%. It was a very serious allegation that some people will tend to believe even with the recanting. It smeared agents' reputations. Charges are certainly appropriate and should be filed. At the very least a civil agreement to pay the cost of the investigation as suggested.
4/9/2008 8:50:13 PM
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BringingTheTruth wrote:

For someone that knows it all, you should know it's offensive to post in all caps.
4/9/2008 8:14:28 PM
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americathefree wrote:

Explain to me again why no charges are being filed!? Everytime someone makes a false claim it requires an investigation that requires spending more taxpayer money. At least make him pay for the cost of the investigation.
4/9/2008 7:59:03 PM
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shadowknowsitall wrote:

THIS STATE SPECIALIZES IN FALSE CLAIMS. SINCE ATTORNEYS FILE FALSE CLAIMS AND ARE NOT CRIMINALLY CHARGED WHY SHOULD ANYONE ELSE BE. WHEN THE REAL STORY OF WHAT IS GOING ON COMES OUT WELL ALL SEE JUST THE KINDA STUFF WE SUFFER FOR THAT THESE COURTS ARE ALLOWING BY THEIR ATTORNEY COUNTERPARTS. ITS' OUR PART TO KEEP THE HEAT ON THESE CROOKS FOR OUR OWN GOOD.

Originally Posted by miguelina

I had to post this article for contrast. Here is a man who made a false claim and no charges will be filed against him.

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pb.../NEWS/80409038

No charges in false Border Patrol claim
By Nicklaus Lovelady • nicklaus.lovelady@jackson.gannett.com • April 9, 2008


A Latino Jackson business owner who filed a complaint alleging U.S Border Patrol agents aimed guns at him and his customers has admitted he falsified his claim.



Hillario Bonilla, owner of La Cotorra, told local news outlets that on Jan. 25, two agents stormed his restaurant with guns drawn and without a search warrant. He claimed that customers were terrified.

Last week, an internal investigation and an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security concluded when Bonilla admitted he was not telling the truth, according to court records.

Bonilla signed an affidavit stating his claim was incorrect and that he wanted to dismiss his complaint, records show.

Bonilla will not face any criminal charges for making the false claim, Border Patrol Assistant Chief William Hitchcock said.

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PaulWBrown wrote:

Americathefree, I agree with you 100%. It was a very serious allegation that some people will tend to believe even with the recanting. It smeared agents' reputations. Charges are certainly appropriate and should be filed. At the very least a civil agreement to pay the cost of the investigation as suggested.
4/9/2008 8:50:13 PM
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BringingTheTruth wrote:

For someone that knows it all, you should know it's offensive to post in all caps.
4/9/2008 8:14:28 PM
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americathefree wrote:

Explain to me again why no charges are being filed!? Everytime someone makes a false claim it requires an investigation that requires spending more taxpayer money. At least make him pay for the cost of the investigation.
4/9/2008 7:59:03 PM
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shadowknowsitall wrote:

THIS STATE SPECIALIZES IN FALSE CLAIMS. SINCE ATTORNEYS FILE FALSE CLAIMS AND ARE NOT CRIMINALLY CHARGED WHY SHOULD ANYONE ELSE BE. WHEN THE REAL STORY OF WHAT IS GOING ON COMES OUT WELL ALL SEE JUST THE KINDA STUFF WE SUFFER FOR THAT THESE COURTS ARE ALLOWING BY THEIR ATTORNEY COUNTERPARTS. ITS' OUR PART TO KEEP THE HEAT ON THESE CROOKS FOR OUR OWN GOOD.

See that's the thing, even if the assault was not falsified I highly doubt the accused would have faced any criminal charges at all and the suspension they received would have been the end of it. But had it beena "white" mob they'd of been compared to the KKK and they'd be charged as adults.