CO Republicans "Shocked at Anti-American" Demonstrations (immigrants)

[otohara]

Eight Republican state lawmakers sent President Bush a letter Tuesday to "strongly request" he declare a national state of emergency until illegal immigration can be brought under control.

The letter came a day after hundreds of thousands of people waved Mexican and American flags in rallies across the country. The demonstrations were designed to encourage what organizers call "comprehensive immigration reform," not solutions focused solely on enforcement, they said.

But the Republicans who signed the letter said they considered the nonviolent rallies threats to law and order.

"We have been shocked by the blatant, coordinated, and anti-American demonstrations on behalf of illegal aliens throughout the country ... with little or no serious action on the part of the Federal Government to address the growing negative impact of illegal aliens, on the American people, or to protect all states from invasion," the letter said.

Democratic Rep. Terrance Carroll of Denver said Tuesday's letter marked a new low for the debate over illegal immigration in Colorado.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3700605

[MadisonProgressive]

1. nutsoids

[EllieGreen]

2. So let me get this straight....

...people waving American flags, peacefully protesting, wanting to be part of American society and live the "dream," is Anti-American?

The Founding Fathers are now spinning so hard in their grave that they can create enough power for the entire eastern seaboard of the U.S.

[RufusEarl]

3. Well Halliburton hasn't been building,

containment camps for nothing. State of emergency will bring out the repub vote in November as well, hell come to think of it, it's a win win for the GOP.

I've been trying to figure out what the repubs have been up to, maybe this has been the plan all along. Use immigration as a wedge issue, then round up illegals hold them in containment camps until after the November election.

[AValdoux]

4. The Brown Menace

This is the wedge issue for 2006. The GOP House can run saying it was the evil "Harry Reid who single handedly brought down the sweeping bi-partisian immigration bill with procedural tricks" That's a quote from Puffy McMoonface's press briefing today. That is how this is being framed. The protest are just playing to racist red state fears.


Oh, Puffy McMoonface = Scott McClellan


AValdoux

[madmom]

6. The dems brought it down??? The only ones who voted for it

(with out all the repuke amendments)where dems. But of course the public won't here that part.

[bowens43]

5. unf*cking believable.

Why do conservatives despise our Constitution and the freedoms it strives to protect?

[Capn Sunshine]

10. It doesn't go far enough to protect white America

that pesky Constitution was only meant for property-owning white men, fer chrissakes. Jesus would be the first to tell you that.

[paulk]

7. I hope this is a wake up call to the Latino community

in Colorado to get off their asses and get involved in the political process.

And by that I mean voting, not just marching in the streets.

I've done a lot of canvassing in my 50% Hispanic neghborhood here in Denver and my biggest impression of that
community is apathy when it comes to politics.

They need to follow through on these protests by getting involved in November.

[gratuitous]

8. The demonstrations aren't "anti-American"

They're anti-GOP, and I hate to break it to the pants-wetting Republicans in Colorado, but there's a BIG difference.

[Rocknrule]

12. But but but I thought America was a Republican nation!

:sarcasm:

[izzybeans]

9. Is somebody spreading paranoia through the drinking water?

:shrug:

because that would make more sense. And it makes none at all.

[Writer]

11. What the lead should ACTUALLY say...

Eight Republican state lawmakers sent President Bush a letter Tuesday to "strongly request" he declare a national state of emergency until acts of free speech can be brought under control.

Perhaps it should continue...

The members of the Pasty White Minority of the Colorado State Legislature watched as their foreheads changed from tones of buff to slight salmon pink after discovering that the men and women cleaning their houses and mowing their lawns might actually have something political to say.

;)