Thread: This Reuben Guy Really Jerks My Chain!

This Reuben Navarrette, Jr lets not forget the Jr for sure, just makes me fume! I am responding with an email to him and hope others on here who might have an extra 5 min will write and let him know that it is people like him who are racist against the Minutemen, that have caused this violence against them! What a pompas idiot he is. I would have used a stronger word to describe him, I am trying to be good here.

U.S. News



Commentary: Minutemen have a right to be idiotic
POSTED: 8:43 p.m. EDT, October 12, 2006
By Ruben Navarrette Jr.
Special to CNN

SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- When Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist sent me an angry e-mail calling me a racist a while back, I shrugged it off as a pot-kettle thing.

I'm not the one who formed a gang of misfits who have been labeled "vigilantes" by President Bush and which includes members of hate groups, according to the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center. It's not my posse who has been known to hurl accusations of racism at one another whenever they have a spat and who prowl the U.S.-Mexico border chasing Mexicans -- admittedly, not an easy thing to do when you're carrying a lawn-chair and a cooler of beer.

If that sounds harsh, blame my upbringing. As the son of a retired law enforcement officer, I have little tolerance for wannabes who play cop and even less for those who play with fire by taking up a cause that appeals to nativists and hooligans.

Here you have grown men and women dressing up in fatigues, filling up pick-up trucks and driving to the U.S.-Mexico border from their homes in Iowa, Indiana or Idaho to hunt for illegal immigrants. As if there weren't illegal immigrants in those places, waiting in front of the big-box hardware store for folks to pull up and hire them. These yahoos could save the gas, and just crack down on their friends and neighbors back home.

It's not tough to win an argument with someone like Gilchrist. You just let him talk, and, before long, he'll say something inaccurate, intolerant, or idiotic.

Which is why it's so disappointing to read where protesters at Columbia University last week stormed the stage during a speech that Gilchrist was slated to give at the behest of a group of campus Republicans.

The incident, which was captured on tape and widely viewed on television and the Internet, has sparked a debate over free speech on the Ivy League campus and just how "free" it is.

The protesters admit that they planned to take the stage in a peaceful protest. But, they claim, things got out of hand when they were attacked by a pro-Minutemen contingent.

That's a lame excuse. What these protesters did was wrong, foolish and self-defeating. They could have helped inform the immigration dialogue on campus, but they chose intimidation over information and resorted to a heckler's veto to shut out speech that they found offensive. They forgot the first rule of free expression: that the answer to offensive speech is more speech, not less.

It is the same lesson we all learned in 1977 when a group of Nazis wanted to march in Skokie, Illinois, a mostly Jewish suburb of Chicago. The question of whether they should be allowed to march split the Jewish community, pitting civil libertarians against community activists. The Nazis won the right to march when the courts held they had a First Amendment right to express their views even if their message was vile and deliberately provocative.

That's a good standard. Good enough for the Nazis, good enough for the Minutemen.

Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a member of the editorial board of the San Diego Union-Tribune and a nationally syndicated columnist. Read his column at http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/op-e ... index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/12/navarrette/

Mexican Rueben is from the Central Valley of California and most likely the child of illegal aliens. There is no sense writing to this mexican ingrate, it is better to show your feelings by writing an e-mail to all the newspapers he writes for. Starting with the san diego mexican union-tribune. San diego is one of the gateways for the illegals, and fux is probably funding this newspaper.

CNN uses him to spread this anti-american propaganda. A never ending effort to control the minds of Americans and to create chaos. Any idiot with half a brain can see right through this.

I wrote and told him exactally what I thought of him and his racist slurs to the Minutemen, you are right, it probably was a waste of time writing him, yet it was the best therapy for me, I feel much better now.

Truth known that is probably his objective to yank all of our chains.

If you are going to write to him, yank his chain by telling him how illegal aliens especially from mexico are destroying our communities. Here's some facts:

They have or are:

- the highest percentage of pregnant teens (comes from illiterate upbringing)
- highest percentage to be involved in a meth drug bust
- highest percentage to drop out of high school
- program frauds and abusers
- the most in poverty

Send him this link, it is probably where he graduated from:

http://api.cde.ca.gov/APIBase2006/2006G ... 3641034990

I tried to write him a letter three times, but each time I just had two words on the page.

The first word had four letters and started with an F and the second word had three letters and started with a Y.

Each time I tried to write, the same thing came up. Imagine that!

I'll try later and see if I can expand the two letter message into something more proper and official sounding.

W

You could also tell him that he is no better than the sewage seeping across our border. He is actually the reason why there is ecoli in the vegetables, he's full of shit.