Tea party activists rally on Arizona-Mexico border

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Aug 15, 1:37 PM EDT
Tea party activists rally on Arizona-Mexico border

HEREFORD, Ariz. (AP) -- Tea party activists are gathering along a remote stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border about 70 miles west of Nogales.

They're rallying Sunday on a private ranch in support of Arizona's controversial immigration law. A judge has put much of the law on hold.

The rally is being held near a stretch of the wall made of 15-foot steel posts set closely together to prevent people from crossing the border. People have attached flags with messages about curbing illegal immigration to the posts.

A sound system had not yet been set up Sunday morning. U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Hayworth, who is challenging John McCain in the Republican primary, was scheduled to speak, along with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.




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[EFerrari]

1. LOL. Well, at least we know where they all are.

:)

[MisterP]

2. not the Arizona-NEW Mexico border, perhaps? nt

[TygrBright]

26. They wouldn't be welcome here in New Mexico. At least not on THAT side of the state.

Most of our derpulous wackjobs are in the southeast chunk of the state, near the oilfields and the TX border. Surprise, suprise, right?

informatively,
Bright

[blue sky at night]

3. I am wondering how people that are so opposite....

of what is good and just and right in the world don't simply melt into the earth...like in the Movie Ghost. They are evil in my mind and I am glad they are on the US side of the Border, I have friends in Mexico and I wouldn't wish those ass hats on anyone! Hope it is 120 degrees in the shade where they are, they may as well get used to it.

[ChazII]

36. You almost got your wish

as it was to reach 114 today.:evilgrin: :thumbsup:

[Journeyman]

4. Curious, no mention is made of turnout . . .

Can a few dozen people truly "rally"?

70 miles "west of Nogales"? That's some hard land, especially in Nogales. It's 97 degrees there and drier than dust.

[SteveM]

6. But they are in the streets (or desert), unlike the rest of us. nt

[EFerrari]

7. Don't be too sure. I'm on the SF Area Code Pink list

and they have actions every weekend, likely with the same or bigger attendance but it isn't covered. Who knows how many other groups are being blacked out, too.

[SteveM]

50. You may be right, there does appear to be shutdown by MSM. Except for Teabaggers.

[Botany]

14. That is 97 in the shade too.

:rofl:

[Morning Dew]

5. I hope they accidentally cross the border

and wind up in a Mexican prison.

[Earth_First]

8. Maybe they'll follow a "FREE TECHILLA" sign?

They aren't well-known for their intelligence...

[ixion]

9. Seems every time two or more tea baggers meet, the MSM flips out

but when protest after protest was staged against the illegal invasion of Iraq, you heard nary a peep.

[AlbertCat]

10. Seems every time two or more tea baggers meet, the MSM flips out

Really.

As someone above asks, can a few dozen people in the middle of nowhere be a "rally"? How many were white? How many were male? Did they show each other how big their guns were?

[purgetheGOPforever]

11. Illegal aliens

I would really like to know what the Navajo and Apache tribes think of all this. Imagine watching the people who stole your country telling other people they are not lawfully there?

[idrahaje]

15. Very true.

lemme know when Peltier gets out. so should those shirts read Illegal Americans? compared to Native Americans??

Oh I wish they'd get that Crazy Horse Memorial done. But they only take donations or free dynamite. :)

[petersjo02]

19. Crarzy Horse monument

is already very impressive, though it will be truly amazing beyond words once it's finished. We won't live that long, so we treasure our two trips to visit Crazy Horse and marvel at all the remarkable goods handmade by tribal members.

[cosmicone]

24. welcome to DU n/t

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[existentialist]

37. Governor Brewer specifically asked the Arizona tribes to get

behind the new law.

Most of them, perhaps all of them, and particularly the Navajo who are the largest federally recognized tribe with something over 250,000 members, pointedly and publicly refused.

In essence they stated that this law would result in racial profiling, and that native Americans looked like Hispanics. Therefore the law would in effect be used against them too.

The MSM seems not to have covered this detail.

[pinboy3niner]

40. I remember seeing stories on the tribes opposing the law

One tribal leader suggested that maybe they should stop white people traveling through the reservation and check THEIR papers.

Native American tribes continue to suffer from discrimination. They really GET what's going on, from their own experience.

[momrois]

12. It's a big one, too!

[Curmudgeoness]

17. Where are their signs? I always enjoy the signs. I mean

how do we even know this is a tea party?

[purgetheGOPforever]

27. signs

Ever notice how many words they misspell?

[Curmudgeoness]

29. Absolutely. That is the most entertaining part of the signs.

Welcome to DU. The other day, there was a thread with a photo of a huge banner in a parade---don't know if you saw that one.

"Tea Party Movment". :rofl:

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[Curmudgeoness]

33. Whoa, honey, calm down. Typing a quick message is not

quite the same as spending big bucks on a banner.

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[Botany]

35. Because the one packing heat.

Billy Bad Ass

[Atticus]

25. Looks like the "Democrats for a Public Option" rally I attended in DC last September. nt

[Botany]

13. A Rally on the Arizona Mexican Border in Mid August @ 2:00 PM?

:rofl: what id-jets!

Betya all of 15 people showed up.

[Journeyman]

16. Shows what you know. . .

The picture above in post #12 clearly shows 18 people in attendance.

[GoldenOldie]

21. Teabaggers lost in Arizona!!!!!!

Hereford is approximately 70-miles East of Nogales not West, a few miles from the Mexican Border with the nearest small border town being Naco. Even though the distance from Heredford to Naco is close, The Teabaggers would have to be really stupid to consider walking from Hereford to Naco during the summer temperatures and the monsoons. The idiot Phoenix Republican politicos couldn't find Hereford without their personal handlers and the only time we see them in Southern Arizona is during their campaign season.

[louis-t]

18. Sound system has not been set up because.....

they don't need one!

[Judi Lynn]

48. Don't even need to raise their voices. n/t

[classysassy]

20. Hereford,Az

is a lovely place , scenic but we have a few of the minute men and hag types that spoil the serene climate.

[tanyev]

22. Wait...they're not skeered that they're going to be beheaded?

[tomm2thumbs]

23. will they be serving kool-aid?

or have they drained the supply already...

[purgetheGOPforever]

28. New name for the Tea Party movement

The Dupe Coup. I like to call Glenn Beck Count Dupe Coup (star wars fans will get it).

[greiner3]

38. I lived in Sierra Vista for 5 years;

In the early 90s. At the time there was a huge barrage balloon circling above the god damn ranch. It was for the army base nearby. If the balloon is still there do you think some of these yahoos took pot shots at it?

[Judi Lynn]

39. Tea party activists rally on Arizona-Mexico border in support of state's immigration law

Tea party activists rally on Arizona-Mexico border in support of state's immigration law

http://snsimages.tribune.com.nyud.net:8090/media/photo/2010-08/55564262.jpg

A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent patrols along the Arizona-Mexico border wall
Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010 in Hereford, Ariz. as participants of the United Border Coalition
Tea Party Rally gather along a remote stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border about 70
miles (113 kilometers) west of Nogales.(AP Photo/Matt York) (Matt York, AP / August 15,
2010)

JONATHAN J. COOPER
Associated Press Writer
8:36 p.m. EDT, August 15, 2010

HEREFORD, Ariz. (AP) — Tea party groups converged on a remote section of the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday to show support for Arizona's controversial immigration law and hear from more than a dozen conservative speakers, many of them candidates running for office in crowded Republican primaries.

Several speaking to the crowd of more than 400 demanded Congress and President Barack Obama devote more resources to increase border security in remote areas like the site of Sunday's demonstration south of Tucson.

"We are going to force them to do it, because if they don't, we will not stop screaming," said former state Sen. Pam Gorman, one of 10 Republicans vying for an open congressional seat in north Phoenix. Gorman carried a handgun in a holster slung over her shoulder as she mingled with demonstrators.

~snip~
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, known for his tough enforcement of immigration laws in Arizona's most populous county, said more law enforcement officials should adopt his hard-line stance to prevent illegal immigrants from settling in after they've successfully crossed the border.

"Don't just say border enforcement, that's a cop-out," he said. "Let's say lock them up in the interior."

More:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-border-tea-party,0,5235284.story

[Kali]

41. idiots

it was freaking hot today and HUMID! wonder if any of them ever thought about how some poor person walking for 3 to 5 days in that area feels? yeah I know, I'm a sap, thinking there might be a touch of humanity in any of the dumb mofos

[TomCADem]

42. Tea party activists rally on Arizona-Mexico border

Source: Associated Press

HEREFORD, Ariz. — Tea party groups converged on a remote section of the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday to show support for Arizona's controversial immigration law and hear from more than a dozen conservative speakers, many of them candidates running for office in crowded Republican primaries.

Several speaking to the crowd of more than 400 demanded Congress and President Barack Obama devote more resources to increase border security in remote areas like the site of Sunday's demonstration southeast of Tucson.

"We are going to force them to do it, because if they don't, we will not stop screaming," said former state Sen. Pam Gorman, one of 10 Republicans vying for an open congressional seat in north Phoenix. Gorman carried a handgun in a holster slung over her shoulder as she mingled with demonstrators.

* * *

A federal judge last month delayed the most contentious provisions of Arizona's law, including a section that would require officers to check a person's immigration status while enforcing other laws if they have "reasonable suspicion" that the person is in the country illegally.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38713826/ns/us_news/

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Anti-gay, anti-hispanic, and anti-Muslim. Republicans love America! They just hate everyone in it.

[HEyHEY]

43. Where are the gun toting drug dealers when you need em?

It be nice to see the mexican army respond as this is kind of an act of aggresion.

[Duckhunter935]

44. must have missed it

did they go into Mexico? Why would the Mexican army have anything to do with a legal US demonstration?

[Dogtown]

45. You'll be gone soon.

It's a good thing.

[Duckhunter935]

46. Nope been here for 5 years, plan on a few more.

Did not say I agreed with the protest, just stated they had the right to protest. This is america. Again why would the Mexican military be involved on a US demonstration.

Have a great day

[Dogtown]

49. Careful, perhaps.

That is, if you've actually been posting for that long.
Neither your hidden profile nor your negligible post count support your claim.


No one has disputed that they have the right to display their racism. Certainly not the Canadian poster that you responded to.

Their racism is wrong. It has been suggested that the Cartels might not be as concerned over their rights as you are.

I suppose the poster might also have hope that they stray over the "line" into Mexican territory, and that the exercise of that American right might not be honored by the Mexican authorities, despite the insularity these wretched "citizens" think they're entitled to.


I don't believe that you're incapable of deciphering the poster's intent. Any more than I believe I'm wrong in deciphering yours.

Picking a nit to deflect criticism is, most often, the mark of an apologist.

[HEyHEY]

52. Because a group of people are massing on their border

Showing aggression towards their country, not unlike the Fennians. If I were a national security advisor in Mexico I would have to take this seriously.

[KurtNYC]

47. this thread is a dupe

[dorkulon]

51. "The crowd of more than 400"

I've never heard of such a "movement," whose events never break a thousand and yet they get more press than massive demonstrations that DON'T reinforce the corporate agenda.

The Tea Party "movement" is nothing but corporate PR. It doesn't actually exist.

[ProudDad]

53. Film from the "event"...

Crashing a Mad Tea Party...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUqWRqiVn3c

(From a friend)...

Bogus cop, Sheriff Joe the fascist, bat crap crazy J.D. Hayworth and other delights...

A small protest followed by "Get 'em off the ranch!"


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