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It’s Okay Because They Aren’t Tea Party Activists

A riot broke out in Arizona during a protest of Arizona’s new immigration law.

The rioters were against the immigration legislation. They began rioting when a single, solitary person showed up as a counter-protest in favor of the immigration legislation.

The counter-protestor had to be escorted away by police for his own protection.

I suspect were these tea party activists, the major networks would make this the top story of the night.

H/T to The College Politico.

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  • defendglenn

    On Facebook:

    http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona

  • constitutionalconservative

    The left wing-smear machine will be out in full force on this issue. We will see more violence in the streets against those who stand up for the enforcement of U.S. laws against illegals and their advocates who brazenly flout them. We will see the vilification of patriotic Americans in the so-called “mainstream” media.

    We need to fight them on this with everything we have. The 70% of Arizona’s voters who supported this measure need to know they are not alone in supporting the actual enforcement of American laws.

    Expect the left to continue to bluster and “stand in the schoolhouse door” against enforcing U.S. law. We need to stand with those who support the basic rule of law in this country. We need to send a clear message to the open borders community that their days of lawbreaking with impunity are over.

  • RJD

    nt

  • badabing

    This immigration debacle has come way to far too fast. We need to stand up for OUR Nation. The liberals in Washington want nothing more than to open the floodgates and let anyone in. America is for Americans and we need to shout it from the rooftops. If you don’t belong here, then you need to leave. If you don’t want to leave, then we will show your the door. There are true patriots out there whose jobs are being taken each day by illegal people.

  • blooch

    if it turns out that the interloper was wearing a Guy Fawkes mask.

  • teapartypatriot

    70% of Arizona citizens support this bill – according to a poll by the highly-accurate Rasmussen group.

    BUT, the socialist media focuses only on the tiny minority that coddles ILLEGALS!

    That disgusting behavior illustrates the total lack of journalistic ethics and standards in the lunatic-left media

  • http://khenzarovich.blogspot.com D.T. Dickinson

    Since this administration is adamantly against this state legislation, by progressive logic wouldn’t that mean it is stringently a proponent of the status quo–having no real border enforcement?

  • jerry39

    From what I hear most of these protestors were non-whites protesting against a bill signed by a White Governor. I think its safe to assume these are just a bunch of ignorant racists, who can’t stand the thought of being governed by a White woman and that this has nothing to do with immigration policy,

  • techsan

    Glenn Reynolds…and Moe…aren’t kidding. This guy could have been “the one” that Vassar talks about….. the right situation at the right time….ON TAPE! If you’re alone…and exceptionally brave…take two cameras in case one is riot-ed way from you.

    Imagine…dressing up in a football helmet and shoulder pads for protection…carrying a camera…and wearing a pro-immigration enforcement T-shirt. You’ve done nothing but exist and promote federal law and walk into a “peaceful” crowd of protestors. Would work best to tip a nearby camera crew what your plans are, but while likely fruitless, if you record that you talked to the MSM it would help…your own camera would do their job anyways.

  • GCBWI

    YET.

    i want to believe that if there had been more injuries, or more serious injuries, the MSM would have given it more coverage.

  • Flagstaff

    It would have been slanted to blame the law, not the rioters.

  • Flagstaff

    But don’t expect Mitch McConnell to think of it.

    There were a bunch of these boobs standing in front of our courthouse with their witless signs. I haven’t yet figured out why ordinary citizens would support the continuation of our country’s invasion by illegal border-crossers. Fact is, they don’t. Those aren’t ordinary citizens, they are children carrying signs and political astroturfers.

  • RJD

    rarely covers the G-8 riots/protests or other such incidents without blaming law enforcement (and the USA).

  • eastbaylarry

    that shows how camera shy these protesters were:

    http://www.thefoxnation.com/arizona-immigration-law/2010/04/26/aint-no-tea-party-small-riot-erupts-immigration-protest

    It’s the second video in the story.

  • http://www.libertytreehugger.com reverelth

    By the pro-illegal demonstrators, no less.

    Is this projecting, or what?

  • selenium

    And he thinks Obama is a Kenyan.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • Scope

    in the form of swastikas on the windows of AZ state capitol building. That’s actually funny, and, hopefully that as bad as it gets. I don’t think so though.

  • blooch
  • IJB
  • techsan

    thanks for the pointer. So…with all the MSM and Dem allegations, there must be dozens…or five….or even one similar video from a Tea Party event?!?! /snark

  • paulrph1

    This is the best thing that has happened to America in some time. Finally some are standing up for what is right. Hooray for Arizona, hooray for the Governor of Arizona. Forget California with all of their libtards. Even though California continues to get worse and worse they continue on the same downward spiral instead of looking at reality. At least Arizona is smart enough to figure it out.

  • davesinsanantonio

    The leftist media has given up all pretense to having any standards or ethics. They just have “ends” that justify any “means”, even lying (by omission or commission), smearing, or even violence.

  • davesinsanantonio

    they thought it was future conservatives coming across.

  • http://www.voteforteri2010.com teridavisnewman

    Here’s a link to a radio show I did last night with an Arizona resident who is a police wife. She has boots on the ground in Phoenix and knows the situation better than the pundits. I was flabbergasted to say the least about what is going on in Arizona and I am sure it’s the same all over in the border states. No wonder California is broke and the rest of the border states are screaming for help!

    http://tobtr.com/s/994171

  • KBDay

    Where are all the black people? I see only brown.

    If you apply a standard to the Tea Partiers, should you not apply it to other protest groups as well? Particularly if, unlike the Tea Partiers, these groups are hostile and capable of violence.

  • lynnbo

    In typical fashion, will the democrates demand minority ratios in their immigration bill? As the do with jobs and college entrances will ratios have to be met with amnesty and then make the rest of illegals leave the country?

    How do you think they will approach this and will latinos be happy if they have to stick to ratio entrance quotas? This is why Obama won’t do anything on immigration this year except to make it hard on Arizona to protect its citizens. And then he can say “the police acted stupidly”.

  • thefew

    Since the nutjob mayor of San Francisco is calling for a boycott of Arizona businesses, I called a Phoenix flower shop and am sending flowers to the governor of Arizona today. SUPPORT ARIZONA!

  • thefew

    PS I live in Connecticut

  • Achance

    is a perfect offset for the beanbagger epithet for immigration/lefty protesters and I think we should use it. As I said long ago, we’ve been called racists enough now that it shouldn’t bother us anymore, so what are they going to do, say “beanbagger” is racist? So what?

  • blooch

    And I don’t normally recommend Urban Dictionary because…well, just because…but let me just say that Tea Party subversion has even gotten in there:

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=beanbagger

  • janis

    has no meaning anymore. It devolved down into “someone on the other side who disagrees with Obama and the radicals.” Given that, the majority of the country would qualify as “racists.”

    Was listening to a local radio talk show while running errands yesterday morning and amused to hear a guy call in who said that he was Hispanic and had been hassled unfairly by the cops in Nashville just because he was a brown person. He was polite and well-spoken, made the points that he was born here, had attended school here, worked here, etc. As the conversation progressed, however, he let it slip that he didn’t agree with the talk show host’s positions most of the time and then the truth came out. His family had come here on a visa, but the visa expired and they just stayed. His explanation was “We came here as legals, but the government made us illegals when our visa expired. So we just stayed and now we are angry that we might have to go back to Mexico and get in line. We’d be happy to pay the few thousand that it would take to make us legal, but we aren’t going to go back to Mexico and just wait in line to do it.”

    So there you have it. “We want what we want and to hell with any laws that say we can’t have it.” That’s the kind of respectful, law-following citizen we want, isn’t it? So call me a racist and see if I do anything more emotional about it than to yawn.,

  • smbn

    This is a HUGE encroachment on personal liberty – I mean what, is America a police state, that we all have to be carrying our papers with us at all times? If I go to the store to buy a newspaper and don’t have my wallet on me, am I going to have to go down to the police station after a cop asks me for proof of citizenship?
    It’s a small step from there to being stopped on the street and asked for proof of health care, then given a ticket or taken to jail on the spot when I don’t have it.
    This is the GOVERNMENT now being authorized to intercede in your life anywhere they find you, simply for being alive. How can we stand for this?

  • conservativecounsel

    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/04/26/john-lott-arizona-immigration-law-fear-enforcement/

    Facts before Fear…. Unless you are an Obama supporter.

  • conservativecounsel

    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/04/26/john-lott-arizona-immigration-law-fear-enforcement/

    Facts before Fear…. Unless you are an Obama supporter.

  • janis

    and “we” are on the same side. And your rhetoric here is the typical lefty stuff. Or the Ron Paul stuff, which is often not much different.

  • smbn

    Which I assume you are.
    I’m for small government and that means across the board. I don’t see how this bill doesn’t come from the same place as HCR, ie: more government involvement in every aspect of our lives.
    I understand the argument that in practice it won’t be intrusive, but it’s always dangerous to excuse a law because of practice – it’s the principle itself that doesn’t work.

  • janis

    No, they don’t. The Arizona bill is in response to the increasingly violent both on and across the border with Mexico which the federal government won’t do anything about. The HCR bill is FROM the federal government to impose the fed’s will upon the states whether the states consent or not.

    You’re confusing apples with asses.

  • smbn

    I understand what you’re saying about state government as opposed to federal, I’m just saying they “come from the same place” in that it’s more governmental involvement in our personal lives – whether it’s state government or federal.

  • MF

    First the caller claimed he was born here, then the truth slips out and he admits that “we came here as legals…” So was he born here or not? Sounds like not. Then he’s an illegal.

    Let’s see if I can explain it to you, Mr. Caller. You were legally here *temporarily* on a visa. When that visa expired, you were no longer here legally. The responsibility was on YOU to either get an extension on your visa, apply for permanent residency, or go back home. You did none of those. You, sir, are here illegally!

  • blooch
  • janis
  • smbn

    If I was rude in anything I wrote. I believe in small government and personal liberty I thought maybe some people here would see some of the same trouble in this bill as I do.
    Or discuss reasons why not, which by the way Janis I thought you were doing.
    I don’t know, I guess if that makes me an ass or in danger of being flagged, so be it. Doesn’t discussing these things make our ideology and position stronger?

  • janis

    is not what I would call a threat to personal liberty. A threat to personal liberty would be citizens who cannot have a reasonable expectation to personal safety on the streets of their own towns because citizens of another country are allowed to spill across the national borders unchecked. And many of those same citizens of another country commit crimes here.

    Health Care Deform is another case entirely. The two have nothing in common. Your comparison of the two is idiotic. Just because conservatives hated one of the bills doesn’t mean that we would hate both of them. Arizona’s bill confirmed, for many of us, the rule of law. HCR, by contrast, puts the federal government in direct opposition to the safety and well-being of us, the electorate, by taking away our freedom and by contravening the Constitution. The Arizona law does neither. And, by the way, if you are not a citizen of Arizona, how exactly does this law affect you anyway?

  • rightwingmom52

    When my husband suggested a trip to the Grand Canyon this summer, I was initially reluctant to spend my vacation in Arizona because I don’t like McCain. However, I love Governor Brewer and spending a few dollars in AZ is one way to show my support.

  • winsomlosesome

    but it’s the constitutional duty of our government to protect our borders, which they haven’t done for decades. Arizona has begged the gov’t to do its job, to no avail, and now that illegals have started murdering Arizonans, it’s high time for the state to take the bull by the horns and do it, themselves. How that can be ruled unconstitutional is beyond me, but if it is, at least they have gotten national attention, whether spun by the MSM or not. Most Americans see through the spin now, anyhow.

    And have you heard about that Hispanic Arizona congressman who is calling for a boycott on Arizona? LOL!

  • winsomlosesome

    but it’s the constitutional duty of our government to protect our borders, which they haven’t done for decades. Arizona has begged the gov’t to do its job, to no avail, and now that illegals have started murdering Arizonans, it’s high time for the state to take the bull by the horns and do it, themselves. How that can be ruled unconstitutional is beyond me, but if it is, at least they have gotten national attention, whether spun by the MSM or not. Most Americans see through the spin now, anyhow.

    And have you heard about that Hispanic Arizona congressman who is calling for a boycott on Arizona? LOL!