Thread: 'Anchor babies' is hate speech????

'Anchor babies' is hate speech

By: RAOUL LOWERY CONTRERAS - Commentary

Today's North County Times readers can't find an article that uses the infamous N-word, the Q-word (queer) or words like "homo" for homosexual.

What they find is the use of the words "anchor babies" in letters or Opinion pieces.

"Anchor babies" are words used by extremists to define babies born of illegal alien parents in the United States.

Most of these children are born to Mexican parents illegally in the United States. Shamefully, the anti-illegal alien cohort also applies the term to any Mexican-American regardless of the legality of one or both parents, grandparents or great-grandparents.

Example: Janet Osborn's letter (Aug. 23). She labels all with Spanish surnames "anchor babies." "(Raoul) doesn't say how many (Latinos in prison who are not illegals) are anchor babies, grown up and taught to break our laws by their illegal parents ... after all, they broke our law coming here illegally and snub their noses at it."

Talk about a broad brush. Most such children have no idea their parents are illegally present. The law parents broke is a misdemeanor administrative law, as is talking on a cell phone in court.

Why should natural-born United States citizens be insulted with "anchor babies"?

These children are natural-born United States citizens. They are because the Constitution of the United States says so, and says so unequivocally. Those who use "anchor babies" are ignorant of the Constitution or can't read and understand it or reject it for specious reasons.

The 14th Amendment states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."

Critics maintain the 14th Amendment (186 applied only to Negro slaves (the last of whom learned of their emancipation in 1865) and their descendants. The Supreme Court took a different view in the 1870s "Slaughterhouse" cases, in which it declared that laws apply to all ---- not just special people. "All persons" means just that, all persons.

Critics also maintain that natural-born automatic citizenship is nothing but a "current" interpretation, a George W. Bush interpretation. That is wildly untrue.

Even before the amendment, the "common law" (which was the law during Colonial times) of the United States when the Constitution was adopted in 1789 mandated all children born in the United States as "natural-born" citizens, except for children born to foreign diplomats, Indians and children of invading soldiers. The original Constitution even used the words "natural born" in qualifying presidential candidates. It used the "common law" definition as its basis, i.e., someone born here or present when the Constitution took effect.

These people claim that illegals aren't under the "jurisdiction" of the United States. Try that argument on behalf of an illegal alien charged with murder in Los Angeles, Vista or Newark and see how far you get.

The media should voluntarily ban today's hate speech ("anchor babies") against Mexicans, Mexican-Americans and anyone with a Spanish surname, the fastest growing community in North County, just as it bans the N-word.

Del Mar Heights resident Raoul Lowery Contreras is a former columnist for the North County Times.

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/08 ... _23_07.txt

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http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... ic&t=79293

Yes they do know their parents are illegal.
They are taught to be secretive and pretend they
don't understand English. Don't even compare ANCHOR
babies to the N word. Get real. I'm so sick of them.

Originally Posted by sunsetincali

Yes they do know their parents are illegal.
They are taught to be secretive and pretend they
don't understand English. Don't even compare ANCHOR
babies to the N word. Get real. I'm so sick of them.

Totally agree with you on this. I saw a video a few months ago were there these Mexican kids who were born in the U.S. but said they would support Mexico because their parents were from there.

The 14th Amendment states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."

...and not allowed to burn our flag while waving and praising Mexican flags and shouting "viva mehico!" MORE BS we are sick of this charade!

Originally Posted by IndianaJones

The 14th Amendment states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."

...and not allowed to burn our flag while waving and praising Mexican flags and shouting "viva mehico!" MORE BS we are sick of this charade!

United States and Flag Burning and Defacement. Wiki-source!

The Flag of the United States has sometimes been used in symbolic defacement, often in protest of the policies of the American government, both within the country and abroad.

In 1862, during the Union army's occupation of New Orleans in the American Civil War, the military governor, Benjamin Franklin Butler, sentenced William B. Mumford to death for removing an American flag. Today, defacing a flag is an act of protected speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, as established in Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), and reaffirmed in U.S. v. Eichman, 496 U.S. 310 (1990).

After these decisions, several "flag burning" amendments to the Constitution have been proposed. Any amendment to the US Constitution must first be passed by a two-thirds majority in Congress and then be ratified by 38 of the 50 U.S. states (a three-fourths majority). On June 22, 2005, a flag burning amendment was passed by the House with the needed two thirds majority. On June 27, 2006, the most recent attempt to pass a ban on flag burning was rejected by the Senate in a close vote of 66 in favor, 34 opposed, one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to send the amendment to be voted on by the states.[2]

The United States Flag Code lists many guidelines for the use and display of the flag, many of which are largely ignored. For example :

* "No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform"
* The flag "should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper".

American sports teams often wear an American flag on their uniforms.[3] This would appear to be in clear violation of the Flag Code. Flags are even used sometimes as carpeting[citation needed], violating such guidelines as not allowing the flag to touch the ground, not displaying it in a horizontal position, and not displaying it in a manner which is likely to allow it to get soiled.

The ritualized burning of the American flag is considered an appropriate way to dispose of a damaged or soiled flag. Flags are burned in retirement ceremonies by the American Legion, Boy Scouts,[4] The Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Sons of the American Legion.[5]

Flying an American flag upside down is not necessarily meant as political protest. The practice has its origin in a military distress signal; displaying a flag in this manner is "a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property"[14]; it has been used by extension to make a statement about distress in civic, political, or other areas.

While desecration of the American flag is legal in the United States, it is illegal to "deface, defile or contemptuously abuse" the Confederate flag in the state of Florida. Three men were arrested for burning the flag at Yale University, though this arrest had little to do with flag desecration laws, as the students were burning a flag that they did not own. They were arrested for destroying private property and endangering the lives and property of nearby residents.[6]

If the term 'anchor babies' is hate speech, then I want anyone that utters the word 'gringo' to serve automatic jail time.

Originally Posted by PhredE

If the term 'anchor babies' is hate speech, then I want anyone that utters the word 'gringo' to serve automatic jail time.

VERY good point!

Originally Posted by cvangel

'Anchor babies' is hate speech

By: RAOUL LOWERY CONTRERAS - Commentary

Today's North County Times readers can't find an article that uses the infamous N-word, the Q-word (queer) or words like "homo" for homosexual.

What they find is the use of the words "anchor babies" in letters or Opinion pieces.

"Anchor babies" are words used by extremists to define babies born of illegal alien parents in the United States.

Most of these children are born to Mexican parents illegally in the United States. Shamefully, the anti-illegal alien cohort also applies the term to any Mexican-American regardless of the legality of one or both parents, grandparents or great-grandparents.

Example: Janet Osborn's letter (Aug. 23). She labels all with Spanish surnames "anchor babies." "(Raoul) doesn't say how many (Latinos in prison who are not illegals) are anchor babies, grown up and taught to break our laws by their illegal parents ... after all, they broke our law coming here illegally and snub their noses at it."

Talk about a broad brush. Most such children have no idea their parents are illegally present. The law parents broke is a misdemeanor administrative law, as is talking on a cell phone in court.

Why should natural-born United States citizens be insulted with "anchor babies"?

These children are natural-born United States citizens. They are because the Constitution of the United States says so, and says so unequivocally. Those who use "anchor babies" are ignorant of the Constitution or can't read and understand it or reject it for specious reasons.

The 14th Amendment states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."

Critics maintain the 14th Amendment (186 applied only to Negro slaves (the last of whom learned of their emancipation in 1865) and their descendants. The Supreme Court took a different view in the 1870s "Slaughterhouse" cases, in which it declared that laws apply to all ---- not just special people. "All persons" means just that, all persons.

Critics also maintain that natural-born automatic citizenship is nothing but a "current" interpretation, a George W. Bush interpretation. That is wildly untrue.

Even before the amendment, the "common law" (which was the law during Colonial times) of the United States when the Constitution was adopted in 1789 mandated all children born in the United States as "natural-born" citizens, except for children born to foreign diplomats, Indians and children of invading soldiers. The original Constitution even used the words "natural born" in qualifying presidential candidates. It used the "common law" definition as its basis, i.e., someone born here or present when the Constitution took effect.

These people claim that illegals aren't under the "jurisdiction" of the United States. Try that argument on behalf of an illegal alien charged with murder in Los Angeles, Vista or Newark and see how far you get.

The media should voluntarily ban today's hate speech ("anchor babies") against Mexicans, Mexican-Americans and anyone with a Spanish surname, the fastest growing community in North County, just as it bans the N-word.

Del Mar Heights resident Raoul Lowery Contreras is a former columnist for the North County Times.

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/08 ... _23_07.txt

Well, To use the term "anchor baby" as being an extremist is the authors opinion...I dont agree with that statement at all...But if you want to term me or anyone else as an extremist because we use that term, so be it...let me tell you though what I find to be extreme...

A) 300,000 Anchor babies being born in California ALONE in the last year...this doesnt count the other 49 states...
B) Medicaid and other means tested funding being given to support those anchor babbies...
C) Those anchor babies then over crowding our schools and helping to dilute the education that Americans have paid taxes for...
D) Anchor babies then grow up to facilitate migration to the US for other family members...hence the "term" anchor baby..
E) In 2003, 70 percent of the 2,300 babies born in San Joaquin General maternity ward were from illegal aliens. That number has exploded today with over three million illegal aliens residing in California. That’s why 77 hospitals in border states were going bankrupt in 2003, but Senator John McCain wrote a rider into the Medicaid Bill for $1.4 billion of OUR tax dollars

If anyone here doesnt find these facts extreme...then your head is stuck in the sand....I for one have had enough....the 14th Amendment needs to be repealed...To say that the term "Anchor Baby" is hate speech is just another slant the morons use to try to make others look like racists...and I will admit to being bigoted...I hate stupid people..

Obviously the piece of $hit that wrote that article is an OBL and an illegal alien supporter. They will try to use anything to to trick people into letting the illegals come in here illegaly. Sorry jerk, the ALIPAC members are to smart for that!