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ACLU of Arizona to Provide Legal Observers During Controversial “Minuteman” Border Watch P

by ACLU
The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, in its traditional role as a guardian of civil liberties, announced today that it will be providing legal observers throughout the month of April at the site of the Minuteman Project at the Arizona-Mexico Border.
March 30, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: media [at] aclu.org

ACLU, Advocacy Groups Fear Anti-Immigrant Violence

PHOENIX -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, in its traditional role as a guardian of civil liberties, announced today that it will be providing legal observers throughout the month of April at the site of the Minuteman Project at the Arizona-Mexico Border.

The Minuteman Project, a widely publicized event planned for the month of April, has the potential to bring more than a thousand critics of U.S. immigration policy to Arizona for the stated purpose of protesting the alleged lack of enforcement at the U.S.- Mexico Border.

"We recognize the right of a country to defend its borders," said Eleanor Eisenberg, Executive Director of the ACLU of Arizona, "but it must be done by the proper authorities and in a humane way. Too many migrants, coming to this country for the jobs we offer, have died in the desert from heat, dehydration and exhaustion. It would be even more tragic to have migrants die as a result of violence."

In the past, the Minuteman sponsoring organization is alleged to have engaged in activities that go beyond First Amendment-protected activity and that is intended to intimidate, harass or otherwise interfere with the rights of others. Many immigrant advocacy groups, including the ACLU, have expressed concern that members of white supremacist and other hate organizations will be participating and may trigger violence.

The anticipated mix beginning on April 1 will include Minutemen, counter-protesters, demonstrators in support of the human rights of migrants, Border Patrol and FBI agents, and possibly local authorities. The ACLU of Arizona will provide legal observers as it has for other events. The observers are neutral observers and recorders and not participants, noted ACLU of Arizona Board President Stan Furman, a former Arizona State Senator.

"The First Amendment protects the rights of all to speak, gather and protest," said Furman, emphasizing that the ACLU has often represented the interests of those with whom it strongly disagrees. "We have no intention of preventing the Minutemen or other protesters from engaging in constitutionally-protected first amendment activity. However, we are also concerned that protesters not engage in activity that violates the civil rights of others."

Toward this end, the ACLU has urged the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to take an active role in preventing such abuses. At the same time, Furman said that the legal observers will monitor Minuteman activity and note any abuses of migrants to determine if legal action is warranted to protect against civil rights abuses and other possible criminal violations.

Ray Ybarra, an ACLU Racial Justice Fellow working on border and migrant issues in Douglas, Arizona, added, "Our concerns are based on the past history of abusive behavior by those who believe that the migrants are coming to ‘destroy our way of life.’ We must emphasize that these individuals are not to be dismissed as evil racists. Rather, they are symbolic of the fear and misunderstanding that exists in our society."

Observers will also monitor law enforcement activity and note any infringements on the First Amendment-protected activities of all of the groups.


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by hummmmm
but we now call it anarcstom that we embrace. we are children of a norhtern god and we are on the rise with the sun. as we are the rightful ares to the earth

President Bush recently referred to America as a “nation of immigrants” as he proposed opening the floodgates to even more Mexican coolies in his recent attempt to bolster support amongst 'Hispanic' voters. The "nation of immigrants" catchphrase is as misleading as the related slogan “America was founded on diversity.” Until 1965, American immigration laws explicitly protected America from diversity. And that was when the U.S. really was great.

Three elements comprise ethnic identity: race, language and religion. Language and religion are fickle, as anyone can learn a new language or change religions—although belief systems and methods of communications may be genetically (racially) predisposed to a large extent. Which brings us back to the true measure of ethnic identity—race.

According to the writings of Benjamin Franklin, the British-American colonies were comprised of three ethnic groups of approximately equal size: English, German, and Irish. Let’s take a close look at these “ethnic groups” and measure their diversity.

In early European history southern Germany was inhabited by Celts with German tribes in the north. The Germans migrated south and dominated southern Germany. They intermarried.

Britain was originally inhabited by a Mediterranean-derived White people who had adopted Celtic culture and assimilated with Celts. Two German tribes, the Angles and Saxons, migrated to and then dominated Britain. They assimilated with the Celts. The Romans also left their mark. Later, another Teutonic group, the Normans, moved into the British Isles, passing through and ruling Normandy along the way. They also assimilated with resident Aryan groups.

At the time of the revolution, English and Germans were Germanic-Celtic people, speaking Germanic languages and practicing Christianity, which had been developed -- with the addition of many pagan customs -- into uniquely White religion in its European territories, despite its ancient Semitic origins.

The Irish were Celts. A tribe of Gaelic Celts had migrated to and dominated Ireland as German tribes had dominated Southern Germany and England. For 500 years Vikings -- Germanic (Teutonic) groups -- held coastal cities, where they assimilated with native Celts. Later, the Normans invaded Ireland, dominated her, and assimilated with the Irish. At the time of the American Revolution, the Irish were Celtic-Teutonic peoples who spoke the Germanic language English.

The American colonists were, culturally and genetically, virtually clones of these groups. A group of northwestern Aryan peoples, quite isolated from other racial groups for many centuries. They had been spared the invasion of the Ottoman Turks, the North African Moors, and conquest by the Aryan-Asian groups like the Huns, Mongols and Tartars. And although the vast majority of Europeans retained their racial integrity, the American colonists came largely from the unusually isolated northwestern sector of Europe which gave them unique genetic qualities -- largely praiseworthy ones, but with, unfortunately little inborn or acquired talent for dealing with aliens, particularly shrewd and clever aliens. And now -- unlike in Old Europe -- they were not isolated from other racial groups.

A large percentage of the Amerinidian population had already died from diseases involuntarily introduced by Europeans, but a significant population remained and competed for territory. The percentage of Whites willing to mate with the natives was small but still created a genetically dangerous class of half-breeds who were less 'different' and hence more likely to find White mates or 'pass' as White, further diluting the gene pool.

African slaves had been imported to work as neggers (tillsman—old Germanic). Though segregated, miscegenation from slave masters breeding with Negro women, and in rare cases free Blacks hiring and marrying poor White indentured servants, threatened racial purity.

President Theodore Roosevelt blamed the importation of Negro slaves on the greed of the English aristocracy, who, like President Bush, were more interested in profits gained from cheap labor than the long-term stability of our civilization. Roosevelt claimed that under self-rule the American colonists would never have permitted the importation of Negro slaves. His argument is endorsed by the behavior of the colonists after the revolution.

After the American Revolution, northern states, which were not heavily influenced by the lobby of industrial planters (the aristocracy of the South), immediately began outlawing the slave trade. In the main, prior to the ascent of religious 'equality' maniacs, they did not outlaw ownership of slaves. They did not vote to free the slaves. They simply outlawed the importation of Negro slaves into their states. So, where’s the "diversity"?

Then, the European-Americans pushed the Amerindians from areas of White settlement. By 1825 the Creek Indians had been removed from Georgia. In 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. In 1838 the U.S. Army conquered the Cherokees in Georgia and literally marched tens of thousands of them along “The Trail of Tears” from the Eastern seaboard to detainment camps (reservations) in Oklahoma. By the late 1800s a “mop up” effort known as the Indian Wars completed the segregation of Indian tribes from European American communities. See any "diversity" yet?

The next racial threat was the migration of Chinese coolies, who were invited by greedy industrialists to build railroads. At first, the Chinese were not visible to the general population of White Americans, but when they formed communities and began claiming land, jobs and resources, the European-Americans elected officials who enacted laws that sent most of them back to Asia and prohibited their immigration to the U.S.

The very first Congress passed the Naturalization Act of 1790, which employed explicitly racial criteria limiting citizenship to Whites only. This was effectively challenged on behalf of Blacks after the Civil War, but continued to be applied in all other cases until 1952. The Asian Exclusion Acts included a sequence of laws from 1882 to 1934, denying citizenship and immigration rights to non-Whites, and specifically targeted Chinese, Japanese, Indians, and Filipinos. In the 1920s, the immigration laws were tightened with the "National Origins" quota requirements, limiting the percentage of immigrants from any one country to the percentage of the U.S. population in 1920 already in the U.S. -- ensuring thereby that the racial character of the U.S. would not change due to immigration. (This law was in force until the Jews and 'liberals' repealed it in 1965.) See any laws promoting "diversity" yet?

Irish refugees from the potato famine flooded into America during the mid 1800s. Because of their desperate condition and their (then slightly unusual) religion, they were not welcomed at first. However, having a common racial identity with other Americans, they quickly assimilated and were recognized as fellow White Americans.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s civil wars and natural disaster sent a flood of immigrants from southern Italy and Sicily to the U.S. Some were farmers who returned to Italy after earning enough money to buy property in the “old country,” but many stayed. Like the Irish, immigration laws did not bar them from migrating and becoming citizens because they were White. The language barrier and their Catholic religion inspired some cultural opposition, but soon Italian craftsmen were building new monuments in neo-classical Washington, DC and Italians were taking their place in the cultural panoply of White America.

Anyone spot that nurturing American "diversity" yet? Here ya go.

The Fall from Grace

In 1965, at the urging of Jewish groups and led by Jewish Congressman Emanuel Celler and his Gentile partner Edward Kennedy, Congress passed the Immigration Act, which eliminated quotas based on “national origin.” Immigration laws have gone downhill since then.

This opened the floodgates that have turned much of America into a province of the Third World. Readers over 40 probably remember living in an America that was over 90 per cent. White -- but younger readers may have a hard time even imagining it. By the 1970s, the dark stain was really starting to show.

And this has had economic consequences, too. By 1972 the per-capita income of working Americans began to fall consistently when adjusted for inflation. From 1972 to 1992 it had fallen by 20 percent.

Where will it end? Look at Mexico City or Port-au-Prince or Bombay for the multiracialists' answer. Look at the Old America -- look at the unspoiled White communities that still exist in a few places here and in Europe -- and look at yourself in the mirror -- for our answer.
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by Nora Robles (Robless_N2 [at] hotmail.com)
The Minuteman is a discriminating act apond those who belive that justice is served trough looking Illegal Immigrants out of U.S. territory. But what they dont want to acknowledge is thatt immigrnats make up our country and states because if it wanst for them what would U.S. territory be. I really dont see the use of those courds who want to shoot humans that look and breath just like them. That just symbolises that their pigs. How can you kill inocent people who don't do nothing to us. The only thing Immigrants want to do is take the positioned jobs most of our homless and lazy people dont wnat to do. What do they know about hard work and trying to race a family to survive. They Live out here to find betterness for their family and an education not racist animals. I wish te U.S. was a free country but I guess It is not. Why have the statue of liberty if freedom is not part of this country.

Nora Robles, 17, Grossmont College
by Anti-ILLEGAL Immigrant
I understand the responses regarding the fact that historically, US were founded by the arrival of immigrants. However, if you really understand history, these were people who immigrated LEGALLY.

Today, we are facing with people sneaking across the border and circumvent our written law. Do you think that by allowing these people to come in with impunity, they would all of the sudden turn and respect the law of our country??? They are flaunting at our legal system. Most of them don't even learn how to speak English! Are we a nation or simply an open door to the world? How much tax payer money will have to go support healthcare for these illegals? Have you noticed how many criminals in our prison cells are illegal immigrants? Police officers have their hands tied with regard to arresting them and government wants to give them amnesty and driver license? Do we need another 9/11 for the misguided sympathizers to understand that we now live in a dangerous world of terrorism?

Wake up! Rise up! We are an American nation. We need to close our border. Good job, Minute Men Project.. God Bless for your work. I pray to God that Bush, whom I voted for, would realize that he's making a huge mistake and undermining our country domestically. God Bless America!
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