Straight from the Arizona Gulag: Linda Ronstadt in SA
By Enrique Lopetegui
elopetegui at (no spam) sacurrent.com
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Have you encountered any Minutemen in your visits to the border?
Oh, my God…! There’s so many Minutemen! My father was a rancher and my
grandfather was a rancher. We used to go to areas where we would hunt,
and fish, and have picnics and pachangas, and it was empty. And now it’s
so crowded in the desert. You see groups of Minutemen, Border Patrols,
border-crossers, and other groups of Samaritans like us trying to help.
It’s just unbelievable out there. But the Minutemen are just disgusting.
They’re smug, they’re generally not from that area, they generally moved
from the East or from the South, and they’re just angry people who are
looking for a cover for their anger and their cruelty. They’re looking
for ways to act on their anger and cruelty and make it look like they’re
doing something righteous.
If the immigrants were Canadian, do you think there’d be so many
Minutemen out there?
No! There wouldn’t be any! There wouldn’t be one. If those were
blue-eyed blonds coming across the border, no one would even raise an
eyebrow. Of course, they’re doing this as a justification of the
Homeland Security Act, but the people who came and attacked the World
Trade Center came across the Canadian border. They didn’t come through
Mexico. It’s just a cover for blatant racism and nothing else. It’s
racism. And somehow the hate mongers like Rush Limbaugh and, who is that
guy…?
Lou Dobbs?
Lou Dobbs… They’re getting people killed. They’re the real terrorists,
because they’re inciting anger by spreading lies and distortions.
They’re spreading all this wrong information and they’re causing school
children to be attacked on their way to school. It’s a terrible thing.
We need to organize a boycott of the sponsors of the Lou Dobbs show,
because he’s making things unsafe for our communities. He’s doing a
terrible disservice that’s un-American, uncharitable, ignorant, and
racially prejudiced. We don’t have to put up with that.
Well, they’re already organizing boycotts…
The Bastadobbs.com thing? Yeah… We Mexican Americans have great buying
power in this country that really could influence the government. I saw
a documentary of César Chávez recently, where he says he had a dream,
and the dream was that the farm workers weren’t being treated so badly
because the bosses were so powerful, it was because [the workers] were
weak. So we’ve being pushed around because we’re weak, not because they
have such power. We have more power than they do; we’re just acting weak.
But I’ve seen too many Mexican Americans blaming the Mexicans for a lot
of things.
They’ve probably been here for a couple of generations and are
prejudiced against the newcomers.
Yeah, probably…
That’s very widespread, and that’s something that needs to be addressed.
We all got here the same way, and we all need to help each other.
Anything else?
Come to the show, get informed about what’s going on in the border,
let’s flex our vote and pocketbook, and let’s do some progress and laws
made.
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