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UTUSN

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15. I have learned his officeholder resume since this story broke, don't know his personal
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 01:29 PM
Jul 2012

characteristics, but there *are* members of minority groups (Hispanic, Black, Gay, women) who side with the oppressor side, like Beto GONZALEZ, Clarence THOMAS, Condo RICE, Mee-gwell ESTRADA (to use Orrin HATCH's pronunciation of "Miguel&quot , that some of us call Uncle Toms or houseboys or TOOLS. I do not know whether he leans that way given his Democratic background, but the highlights in my link show that he gave away the perfect complaints against the detention (if not the AZ State law).

If not an overt TOOL, he might be, at his 96 years, a remnant of the "genteel" generation of co-existence with the oppressors.

You've got a good point that the enforcing agents were Feds, not AZ officials acting on the AZ law. But his traveling companion said she was not questioned at all. Certainly he was the one with the radiation but she might have been an accomplice if his potential nefariousness were being checked out. And the the issue whether profiling based on appearance is potentially open. Even if the AZ law was not the controlling authority here, a finding against the Feds here might impact the AZ law, no?



ON EDIT: I stopped myself from saying that I was glad this important thread topic wasn't trivialized by idiotic references to the Fidel/Raul CASTROs of Cuba, or even, in the GD thread, references to hair coloring in males, somehow tied in with RAYGUN. But I see that there *are* such references, so I'll add this here.

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A very nice gentleman. Fridays Child Jul 2012 #1
Cool story! 3 blocks from where I lived there! CreekDog Jul 2012 #2
Really? That's cool. Fridays Child Jul 2012 #3
I thought this news was already posted in LBN a week or two ago. Tx4obama Jul 2012 #4
AH. The Latest-Breaking-News Police panzerfaust Jul 2012 #7
The ACLU of Arizona was kind of stupid Confusious Jul 2012 #5
I hear you. Eugenian Jul 2012 #6
people don't realize that Arizona had some good politicians CreekDog Jul 2012 #10
#1 JonLP24 Jul 2012 #28
If a radiation alarm goes off because someone recently had contrast dyes, it's too sensitive. (nt) Posteritatis Jul 2012 #13
Depends on how you look at it Confusious Jul 2012 #17
Exactly how paranoid are you willing to get about stuff like this? Posteritatis Jul 2012 #22
The question is moot Confusious Jul 2012 #23
where does the constitution enter into things? you said border patrol could do whatever they liked" CreekDog Jul 2012 #27
Try reading. It helps. Confusious Jul 2012 #29
Here in Fargo there is a car dealership owned by a Lyndon Johnson. Odin2005 Jul 2012 #8
He could be the Rosa PARKS against the AZ law, but he doesn't complain: UTUSN Jul 2012 #9
His detention had nothinmg to do with the Arizona law. totodeinhere Jul 2012 #11
but he was stopped even though he never LEFT THE USA CreekDog Jul 2012 #12
Yes, but that still doesn't mean that it had anything to do with the law passed totodeinhere Jul 2012 #16
Arizona and new Mexico have stops Confusious Jul 2012 #18
Oh yes, I lived in Arizona, I know...my friend with darker skin CreekDog Jul 2012 #20
If we lived in a perfect world Confusious Jul 2012 #25
I have learned his officeholder resume since this story broke, don't know his personal UTUSN Jul 2012 #15
He has no case against the state law Confusious Jul 2012 #19
border officers cannot "do what they like" --what a ridiculous post CreekDog Jul 2012 #21
They have more discretion in what they can do Confusious Jul 2012 #24
I am sure that Raul Castro, roody Jul 2012 #14
my mom has been detained like that d_r Jul 2012 #26
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