Thread: Ipetition exists to take Homeland Security off the air...

Looks like there is an ipetition against the wonderful Homeland Security Show. Does anyone know how to start a counter petition or of an existing one we can sign?
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Hey Everyone,

The Southern California Immigration Coalition put out this petition to let
people know why we're taking a stand against ABC and are asking people to
join us in going against this show. Please forward this link and ask people
to sign on...

http://www.ipetitions(dot)com/petition/Homeland_Security_off_the_air/

Victor

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Shaun

http://groups.google(dot)com/group/10demarzo/browse_thread/thread/1de5470ca3c87fff
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The petition

On January 6, 2009, ABC Television premiered a reality show called HOMELAND SECURITY USA – a racist program that demeans the Latino, Middle Eastern and other communities of color and vilifies the immigrant community by glorifying a government agency that terrorizes and denigrates it.

Since 2002, when the Bush Administration created the Department of Homeland Security, all living beings living in this country have been subjected to live in a climate of terror and fear. Many, however, have been the victims of hate crimes while others have been imprisoned wrongfully and without legal representation simply because they looked too ‘ethnic’. These government-sanctioned crimes have worsened over the years and there is no end in sight.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, created and charged with the specific task of handling immigration enforcement, has been the biggest perpetrator of human and civil rights violations against the immigrant community. With growing pressure put on Border Patrol agents to meet new quotas, the number of workplace and neighborhood raids will increase and the number of innocent, hard-working people held in any one of the over 250 detention centers across the country will have to sit around and wait for weeks or months to hear from or be reunited with their loved ones. The Southern California Immigrant Coalition – an organization comprised of activist groups, community leaders, student organizations and individuals who support human rights – condemns these inhumane crimes by the Department of Homeland Security and accuses The Walt Disney Studio and its ABC Television Group of contributing to this climate of fear and racism by broadcasting a show that masquerades itself as a show about ‘American Heroes’ when it in fact portrays the Latino, Muslim and other communities of color as criminals, drug traffickers and terrorists.

Looking back at the history of ABC Television, specifically during its first major broadcast produced by and starring Walt Disney himself over 55 years ago, ABC has had very few programs that have included actors, directors, writers or producers from the Latino or Muslim communities that did not have characters that were depicted in a stereotypical and demeaning manner or dealt with themes that did not create a sense of panic and fear. Instead, ABC and Disney have promoted themselves as companies committed to making ‘family-oriented’ programming but have exhibited an “anything goesâ€

Petition sponsor
The Southern California Immigration Coalition (SCIC) is comprised of many activist groups, community leaders, student organizations and individuals who support human rights for immigrants. We are committed to three common causes:
1. An end to the raids
2. Full legalization for all
3. No to a guest worker program

We welcome and invite organizations and individuals to join our struggle.

http://www.ipetitions.com/


Here is the homepage if anyone is interested.

Originally Posted by fedupinwaukegan

http://www.ipetitions.com/


Here is the homepage if anyone is interested.

I wrote ABC a nice email last week. I'll email them again but to many different upper people.

Contact Info: Let's email him on his webpage and tell him not to let the illegal groups get to him.
http://www.arnoldshapiroproductions.com/

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/394835 ... and06.html

It's 'Homeland Security USA' -- and entertainment -- in new ABC show
By LYNN ELBER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES -- Ratings champion "American Idol" will face serious competition when it returns this month: the Department of Homeland Security.

HOMELAND SECURITY USA

8 p.m. Tuesday, KOMO/4
"Homeland Security USA," an ABC reality series debuting Tuesday, tracks the daily efforts of the federal workers responsible for safeguarding the nation's airports, borders, waters and anyplace else threats might arise.

While viewers see the mechanics of agencies including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Transportation Security Administration, absent is discussion of such hot-button issues as post-Sept. 11 security programs or immigration policies. That's by design, said series executive producer Arnold Shapiro, whose credits include "Rescue 911" and "Big Brother."

"It doesn't have a political point of view," Shapiro said. "It's not meant to show the (department) higher-ups ... just the average men and women on the front lines protecting our country from various things illegal and dangerous."

"Homeland Security USA" has a week to win viewers before it has to face Fox's hit singing contest, back Jan. 13.

The ABC series, filmed with the department's cooperation, is a virtual travelogue in the first episode as it skips from border crossings at Blaine, Wash., and San Ysidro, Calif., to Los Angeles International Airport to a mail-processing plant.

Turns out even mail has dramatic possibilities, as sharp-eyed officers pry open toys containing black-market prescription drugs and uncover an exotic and illicit food item: barbecued bats from Thailand.

The show mixes the offbeat and the serious, including drug smugglers, people trying to enter the country with doctored papers and a woman who has been shoved under a car seat in a painful, failed effort to slip into the country.

Not all goes the department's way in the 13 episodes. In one scene, guns are drawn against a man trying to drive across the U.S.-Mexico border with his family, terrifying his wife and young children, until agents discover it's a case of mistaken identity.

Shapiro says he retained control over the show's creative content. The department prescreened episodes and could ask for deletion of elements that would have revealed law-enforcement strategies, infringed on personal rights or jeopardized pending legal cases.

The series is based on Australia's popular "Border Security," which was optioned by ABC. "Homeland Security USA" is intended as entertainment without a political point of view, said Vicki Dummer, ABC's executive in charge of alternative series.

The department saw the show "as a great opportunity to help the American public understand what their government does and what the Department of Homeland Security, the youngest department, does," said department spokesman Ed Fox.

But "Homeland Security USA" has provoked debate sight unseen. A Facebook page opposing the series drew more than 500 postings within its first few days. Many were negative, including denunciations of the show as government propaganda.

The page was created by Tina Shull, a graduate student in history at the University of California, Irvine, whose critical view of Homeland Security was shaped in part by the detention and deportation of her Albanian husband after he was refused political asylum.

"My biggest fear about the show is it's simplifying a very complex range of duties that DHS takes on. ... It's making light of a very serious, very controversial issue in our society today," said Shull. She wants ABC to reconsider airing it.

Shapiro is adamant in his defense of "Homeland Security USA."

"I don't see how actually and factually documenting something that happens before our eyes, and editing it in a factual way -- in other words, not manipulatively, can be considered propaganda," he said.

I was going to sign it and leave a nasty message but they would probably just use my signature

condemns these inhumane crimes by the Department of Homeland Security and accuses The Walt Disney Studio and its ABC Television Group of contributing to this climate of fear and racism by broadcasting a show that masquerades itself as a show about ‘American Heroes’ when it in fact portrays the Latino, Muslim and other communities of color as criminals, drug traffickers and terrorists.

These people have it so wrong! EVERYTHING TO THEM IS RACIST! DAMN! Would someone out there,please show them that the ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACTUALLY HAS a huge VOCABULARY besides this groups use of their limited English language!

English is also very ready to accommodate foreign words, and as it has become an international language, it has absorbed vocabulary from a large number of other sources. This does, of course, assume that you ignore 'agglutinative' languages such as Finnish, in which words can be stuck together in long strings of indefinite length, and which therefore have an almost infinite number of 'words'.

I liked the show and thought it was interesting!

I also wrote to ABC tonight in support of their new show"Homeland Security"

I emailed them and told them I loved the program and it's the only reality show I watch. Hopefully, they'll get enough emails from people like us. It doesn't take any longer to shoot them a short email than it does to sign a petition. We can't let these open borders idiots control our nation.

I hope not . I was only able to catch a few episodes and liked it very much.

Yeah right, considering a large percentage of the agents are Latino, their whining doesn't fly. I think they want it off the air because they don't want people being scared to cross the border.

I did e-mail them and got their response tonight as well.

Dear Mr. ______,

From all of us here at Nate & Lil Productions, thank you for your
support of our show. We are very glad to hear you are enjoying it and
hope you continue to in the weeks to come.

Out of curiosity, how did you find our email address? We have
received several letters of support in the last hour and we're
wondering if it is a coincidence or if someone posted our information
on a blog.

Again, thank you for your support of the show.

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Coordinating Producer
Homeland Security USA
Nate and Lil Productions
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I did remove their name from the end but I d did reply and told them the show is being talked about