Thread: OK...Some Things Are Getting Out of Control

I just found this article, and it suggest things are starting to get at least a bit out of control where the students are concerned. The LA police have gone on tactical alert, and there were some arrests today.

Monday's protests draw tens of thousands
Associated Press
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_3644577

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Tens of thousands of students walked out of schools Monday in California and other states, waving flags and wearing white shirts in a second week of protests against legislation that would make it a felony to be an illegal immigrant.
On California's Cesar Chavez Day, at least 14,315 students walked out of at least 16 Los Angeles-area schools from the San Fernando Valley to the wealthy coastal enclave of Pacific Palisades, said Monica Carazo, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Several hundred people marched along a downtown freeway. More than 1,000 circled the downtown City Hall and some met with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in his office.

"Of course there should be amnesty (for illegal immigrants). We've been here for many years. We work hard. We contribute to the economy of the U.S.," said Belmont High School student Fermin Vasquez, 18.

About 300 students and adult supporters walked onto the Harbor Freeway in downtown Los Angeles, forcing Highway Patrol officers to briefly close the northbound lanes.

The demonstrators walked about a mile before they were escorted off, CHP Officer Joe Zizi said. Some could be cited.

"They were in the middle. They were in all lanes," he said.

In Santa Ana, police cars were sporadically pelted with rocks and bottles by knots of protesters, Santa Ana police Lt. Baltazar De La Riva said.

"They've damaged a few units," he said. Nobody was hurt and only one arrest was immediately reported, he said.

Other arrests and possible injuries were reported as students marched at a mall in Riverside.
"It's resulting in bottles and rocks being thrown," police Lt. Bob Meier said. He did not have further details but said the department had put "everybody we've got" at the scene.

The Riverside County Sheriff's Department reported two student protests, one in Moreno Valley and the other in downtown Riverside. Both were peaceful, according to Cpl. Dennis Gutierrez, a department spokesman.

Four hundred students walked out of Moreno Valley High school and marched a few miles, to a park and to City Hall, Gutierrez said.

In downtown Riverside, 400 students marched to the county courthouse and stood there for an hour, then walked to the federal courthouse and demonstrated there, Gutierrez said.

Gutierrez said the students are well organized because they are communicating through the myspace.com Web site.

"They are all chatting through that Web site," he said.

More than a dozen arrests were made in Escondito in San Diego County, the North County

Police said some students threw rocks and bottles and damaged police cars. Police pepper-sprayed one teen demonstrator, who was treated at a hospital.
In Washington, where lawmakers were haggling over immigration reform involving the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants, advocates rallied supporters at the Capitol. They are demanding Congress abandon House-passed measures that would make being an illegal immigrant a felony and would erect a 700-mile fence along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.

Protests drew more than 500,000 people in Los Angeles on Saturday and tens of thousands in Phoenix and Milwaukee last week.

Hundreds of high school students from the San Francisco Bay area joined 20 hunger strikers who concluded a weeklong fast to protest the immigration reform bill by leading a march to the San Francisco office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. Feinstein sits on a Senate committee debating the bill.

In Los Angeles, police went on a citywide tactical alert, but no arrests were made and no major confrontations were reported.

Word of the student-organized boycott spread through heavily Hispanic downtown schools, where word was passed through hall posters and public address systems.

At Huntington Park High School south of downtown, officials locked the gates after classes started but students climbed over a chain-link fence to join marchers.

There was a brief tug-of-war at South Gate High School as administrators struggled to close a main door while protesters from Huntington Park High tried to keep it open so students could dart out.

Protests also were reported in other cities. About 200 students marched to the Capitol in Arizona, waving Mexican flags and chanting slogans in Spanish.

In Detroit, students wearing white T-shirts as a sign of peace marched toward the federal building downtown. Dallas saw hundreds of students ditching class.

Several hundred students also marched Yakima, Wash., an agricultural center surrounded by cherry and apple orchards.

This is starting to sound like pre-riot.

If they riot, it's all over for them and their cause.

W

I think with the tensions and issues, it's inevitable.

I guess our only HOPE is that they WILL RALLY. Aside from that, I think they appear to have won the battle. What is needed is for them to show their true colors--lawless savages who DEMAND that America bow to their wishes. It sure didn't seem like they lost the battle by gathering in huge numbers to protest. Based on what I heard coming out of the Judiciary Committee, it seems to me that they are the ones who were heard and not those of use who have tried to do it the RIGHT and PROPER way and behave like Americans should behave.

Anything that passes the Senate must also pass the House. We've got a real American there who's looking out for US instead of BIG BUSINESS........

TOM TANCREDO

Give 'em hell, Tom!

If they riot, it's all over for them and their cause.

The problem William, is that I have no faith in our authorities, to do what is right. Our government would rather reward criminal aliens, than respect the wishes of American citizens. Arlen Specter was calling them "undocumented" immigrants yesterday. They are all so dishonest in their arguements, that it makes we want to puch. I think we are on a slippery slope that leads to anarchy.

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

This is starting to sound like pre-riot.

If they riot, it's all over for them and their cause.

W

I don't buy it. Why? Because we have too many criminals in Congress who are all too willing to bow down to the illegal criminals and reward them with whatever they want. It doesn't matter what the illegals do, our government will either bow down or do nothing. It's rich criminals (government elites) helping criminals (illegal aliens and their supporters). Our voices are being ignored. The only voices that are being heard are the illegal criminal voices. I swear if I see one more of these illegal scum wave around a Mexican flag in public I'm going to scream. THIS ISN'T MEXICO DAMN IT. GO BACK TO MEXICO IF YOU THINK IT'S SO GREAT.

If I hear the other term I've heard all weekend about how we are not terrorists from the illegals one more time I'm going to scream. It doesn't matter whether or not your a terrorist, you are still a criminal and you have no right to be in our country. THIS COUNTRY DOES NOT BELONG TO ILLEGAL ALIENS, THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT MADE ON THE BACKS OF ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINALS. YOU GOT THAT JORGE BUSH, YOU GOT THAT ARLEN SPECTER/JOHN MCCAIN/TED KENNEDY? I'M SICK OF THE BIG LIE. GO BACK TO MEXICO AND WORK FOR YOUR OWN COUNTRY, STOP STEALING OUR JOBS AND RUINING OUR COUNTRY. I'M TIRED OF MY TAXES PAYING FOR THIS CRAP.

So no we can't assume that the illegals are going to kill their movement because our government is beyond inept. We have to keep the pressure on and step it up now more than ever. I will vote against every Republican and Democrat who supports this travesty, no exceptions. We have to make it known to them that their is a price to pay for their treason and they will be finished in November if they vote for this.

Just part of a much larger panorama I refer to as class warfare.

The elite class can see how much easier it is for the elites in 2nd-world countries.

Deluge this country with a culture that is inherently 2nd-world in nature and the elite class will gain wealth and power.

O yeah....they WILL riot if these 'demonstrations' keep up...

But...they will be forgiven their 'frustrations' due to the terrible treatment they've been forced to endure from this terrorist country.

I still advocate a tax revolt.

RR

Interesting. I just went to add this to the homepage and I noticed the LA times source link copy is already down. That was fast!

on the homepage now

http://www.alipac.us/article-1124-thread-1-0.html