Oh, Friday was just a banner anti-immigration day on local television. The usual cast of characters did their usual spewing of their biased, out-of-touch, closed-minded, uninformed, radical rhetoric down people's throats but last night, they threw out a extra heaping of red meat for their audience.
I could go on forever documenting each homophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, anti-etc. remark from several of these hosts but there's only so much time in a day and there's only so much crap one can watch. That being said, I must say that Lynn Waller's show "In Our Opinion" was of particular delight for the level of "spin" I once thought only Karl Rove could achieve.
I won't bring up most of the outrageous remarks that flowed from her mouth, such as her statements about the number of murders caused by illegal immigrants (based on a statistic she read from the MAJOR misleading right-winged "scare the living crap out of everyone" group Family Research Matters). I'll save those lies remarks for another time (again, there's only so much time in the day). Instead, lets examine for a moment one gem of a "comment" she made about our favorite ANTI-IMMIGRATION group, the U.S. Citizens for Immigration Law Enforcement (formerly known as the Danbury chapter of the Connecticut Citizens for Immigration Control).
WALLER: I dropped into the group that uses to meet at the Concordia Club...they're meeting now at the American Legion on Triangle Street.
So I went just to see what they’re up to, what was going on, is there a bunch of radicals, or are they nice people you know, what’s happening. To be honest, they were very nice folks. There was no gun tokin' wild folks, which made me feel comfortable.
-In Our Opinion: 03.02.07
Hmm, is she seeing the same thing I'm seeing or is she just seeing what she wants to see? You be the judge.
Roll the video and pay particular attention to the language USED BY THE ANTI-IMMIGRANT MORONS WHO SCREAMED AT THE MARCHERS WHICH INCLUDED CHILDREN. I guess John "Uncle Sam" McGowan's flag ripping moment would make Lynn feel nice and cozy also. • I'd could post more outrageous video and audio clips (laced with profanity), or
• talk about the "very nice folks" from the group who's exterme behavior against two Hispanics/Latinos resulted in them getting banned from Pippa's, or
• talk about the "very nice folks" from the group who harrassed an LEGAL IMMIGRANT at TKs, going as far as to videotape her and the other hispanic/latino employees while they worked.
No...I think you get the point.
Yeah Lynn, they're ALL really nice folks...
whatever.
(NOTE: Let me state for the 1,000,000,000 time. SOME of the people in the group are pretty cool and I know them pretty well. BUT many of them are closed-minded racist radicals who are simply f*cking nuts).
04.25.22 (RADIO): WSHU Latino group call on Connecticut lawmakers to open a Danbury charter school
06.03.22 (OP-ED): KUSHNER: "Career Academy ‘a great deal for Danbury"
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
