Thread: Minutemen hold demonstration outside of Del Mar County Fair

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Friday, June 30, 2006

Minutemen hold demonstration outside of County Fair

By: North County Times

DEL MAR ---- About 50 demonstrators gathered at various entrances to the San Diego County Fair in Del Mar Friday to protest the flying of the Mexican flag at the fair's gates.

The largest group ---- about 20 protesters ---- demonstrated outside the fair's main gate earlier this morning, where the Mexican flag is displayed alongside California's state flag and below the U.S. flag.

The demonstrations were publicized by the same people who have publicized rallies for the San Diego Minutemen, an anti-illegal immigration group that protested earlier this week in Vista. The Minuteman group says it opposes illegal immigration. Critics have called the group racist and inflammatory.

A written statement issued by organizers of the protest said the demonstration was designed to "alert fairgoers to this insult to Americans" and to push fair management to replace the Mexican flag with a San Diego County Flag.

Word of the protest spread via the conservative radio talk show host Rick Roberts, who publicized the event on his broadcast Friday.

For more on this story and for fair managers' response to the protests, check back with nctimes.com and see Saturday's North County Times.

Glad they were there. Went to that sight and really ticked me off. Comparing them to the KKK and natzi's. That's when you'd like to give the morons a taste of them so they can learn the vast difference.

"Just a piece of cloth"? Then take your rag down! Go south and do not stop at the border.

The Minutemen are SUCH a blessing to us and to our country.

I'm FURIOUS at this insinuation. We cannot tolerate this and it needs to stop.

About 50 demonstrators gathered at various entrances to the San Diego County Fair in Del Mar Friday to protest the flying of the Mexican flag at the fair's gates.

Would someone please tell me what law would have been broken if someone protesting that ugly flag had just walked up and ripped it down? The news would have painted them as racists, but what else is new. Defedning our soverignty is racisism..what else is new?

The federal law states that a flag of any nation can be flown in the US as long as it is accompanied by the American flag and it is flown lower than the American flag. It's the law--that Bush ignores--Impeach the idiot boy.

Good for the Minutemen, true patriots doing what most Americans won't do, stand up for what is right.
If the fair officials are going to issue a statement in tomorrow's paper that will probably be a bunch of pr junk.
If any Minutemen read this (and I'm sure some will) a big THANK YOU!

Good job, Minutemen. If any of you are reading this, please PM me on any other upcoming events--especially in connection with the field hearing next week.

Also, the North County Times has a poll on the site now. Thanks again for publicizing the issue gang!
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Do you object to the Mexican flag being flown at the main gates of the San Diego County Fair?
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Yes
81.0%
No
19.0%

Don't know
0.0%

Total Votes: 100
Your Vote: Yes

Do you object to the Mexican flag being flown at the main gates of the San Diego County Fair?

Yes
81.6%

No
18.4%

Don't know
0.0%

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Update on poll:
Do you object to the Mexican flag being flown at the main gates of the San Diego County Fair?

80.4% yes

19.6% no

Here's a few pictures of the flag.





Do you object to the Mexican flag being flown at the main gates of the San Diego County Fair?

Yes
83.2%
No
16.8%

Don't know
0.0%

Total Votes: 161
Your Vote: Yes