Thread: Americans Attacked at Maywood Protest

http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=1796


Americans Attacked at Maywood Protest
By Watchdog 8/26/06

I hate Maywood.

I attended Save Our State’s protest of the illegal alien sanctuary city of Maywood today. I had to leave early because of work but I’ll post some video in a few days.

At least two female Patriots were roughed up pretty good and many other Americans were spit on.

Four cars driven to the protest by SOS members were vandalized. They were keyed, their tires were slashed, their windows smashed in, and they were spray painted with the words F*** YOU.

Illegal aliens jumped the fence surrounding the post office and took down the American flag and hoisted up the buzzard rag of Mexico.

The local media reported that there were “no incidents.”

For first hand accounts, photos and video check out these SOS threads.

http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/inde ... 807&st=240

http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/inde ... =15542&hl=

Has anyone seen this on any national news like CNN or MSNBC? This is outrageous that they put a Mexican flag over the post office and vandalized cars! Where are the rights of these US citizens forming a peaceful protest?

Illegal aliens jumped the fence surrounding the post office and took down the American flag and hoisted up the buzzard rag of Mexico.

Buzzard Rag. Great description.

Funny the only protests showing up on Google are a Nazi rally in Wisconsin, and a protest in Farmers Branch against a proposed illegal immigration ordinance.

I saw some pictures and there were some media covering the Maywood event but so far no news articles. I may try going directly to some news sites to see if there is anything posted.

Must not be PC to have the truth be told.

And who says the media is biased

Videos are posted on youtube. Here's a link to the first one and I'm sure you'll see the links to the rest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPI2so6KIxI

Infuriating. And ABC7 right there.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... 1117.story

Protest Targets Maywood's Stance
Both sides shout it out in the tiny city that is known as a 'sanctuary' for illegal immigrants.
By Ted Rohrlich
Times Staff Writer

August 27, 2006

For a couple of hours Saturday, a small group of demonstrators made Slauson Avenue in the tiny city of Maywood feel like the red-hot center of the national debate over immigrant rights.

A few dozen people from Save Our State and like-minded groups lined up behind police barricades, shouted into bullhorns and waved American flags to protest characterizations of the heavily Latino, square-mile city by some elected officials as a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.

Separated from the Save Our State contingent by other barricades and a line of riot-ready police a block away, about 200 counter-demonstrators shouted into their own bullhorns that it was time for amnesty and for the "racists" to go home.

Joseph Turner of San Bernardino, founder of Save Our State, said his group staged the protest in Maywood "to punish the city … for their transgressions" by disrupting traffic and commerce and making the city pay for extra police.

Protester Roger Young, an aerospace engineer from Lake Forest, said he had been involved in two traffic accidents with illegal immigrants who had no driver's licenses or insurance and tried to walk away, even though they were at fault. He said he was upset about people breaking laws, adding that it is difficult to get his point of view heard. "To voice a different opinion in this city," he said, "it takes 100 policemen for an escort."

Maywood's police force, which has about 40 officers, was heavily mobilized Saturday, supplemented by officers from nearby cities, including South Gate, Whittier and Huntington Park, and by Los Angeles school police.

Maywood Mayor Thomas Martin estimated that the city would pay $20,000 to $30,000 for police overtime.

No arrests were made as police turned back attempts by counter-demonstrators to take side streets around the barricades and confront the Save Our State group.

Pedro Olguin, a union organizer from Maywood, stood with the counter-protesters, many of whom were from groups that drew from outside the city. Among them were Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, and the Mexica Movement, which proclaims that peoples indigenous to the Americas "are not the illegals. Europeans are the illegals."

Olguin said he is part of a coalition that prevailed upon the Maywood City Council to oppose legislation that passed the House of Representatives in December calling for tougher enforcement measures against illegal immigrants.

Opponents of the legislation believe it would require cities such as Maywood, which is 96% Latino, to aggressively enforce immigration laws.

The city's resolution opposing the federal legislation was designed to say, "We won't use city funds to enforce immigration laws," Olguin said.

Martin, who supported the measure and well-publicized statements by a colleague that Maywood is a "sanctuary city," was promoting an event at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church three blocks away, where a couple of hundred people were treated to free lunch and Mariachi music while they were urged to become citizens and register to vote.

Martin said immigration enforcement by local authorities would promote unfair ethnic profiling.

In going on record against the federal legislation, he said, "We wanted to send a clear message to all departments of the community that we don't want you to be" immigration agents, he said.

Maywood has an official population of 28,000. But local officeholders say that about 45,000 people live there when illegal immigrants are fully counted.

There is a video on the web site.

http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_237190130.html

Aug 26, 2006 11:55 pm US/Pacific

Illegal Immigration Protesters Rally In Maywood
(CBS) MAYWOOD Several hundred protestors rallied Saturday in front of Maywood City Hall to protest illegal immigration, along with counter-demonstrators.

Representatives from Save Our State and the Minutemen demonstrated in front of Maywood City Hall Saturday morning.

"Our department has taken appropriate measures to prevent these demonstrators from crossing paths, while allowing them to express their First Amendment rights," according to a Maywood police officer.

"Precautionary measures and logistical plans have been put in place to ensure a peaceful demonstration," he said. "In preparedness for the gathering, a command post with a sufficient number of officers has also been established."

Maywood has declared itself as a sanctuary for illegal aliens. Various news accounts have said its official population of approximately 28,000 swells to 45,000 when illegal immigrants are counted.

Garcia said that the SOS and Minutemen representatives insisted on their plan for a peaceful demonstration.