“Cuba Si!—Arizona No! “ Says Mexican President Felipe Calderon

“Cuba Si!—Arizona No! “ Says Mexican President Felipe Calderon (Among Many Others)
Humberto Fontova
Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Mexican President Felipe Calderon can hardly contain his revulsion and rage against Arizona’s SB 1070. He’s "deeply troubled" reports the Associated Press over a law he denounces as "discriminatory and racist," not to mention “a dire threat to the whole Hispanic-American population."

This new Arizona law "opens the door to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement," sputters the Mexican President.

Indeed, this “threat to Hispanics” and these “abuses in law enforcement," have been ongoing for years. The Associated Press carried a story where a Maria Elena Gonzalez, reported how female migrants were “forced to strip by abusive police officers, supposedly to search them, but the purpose is to sexually abuse them."

Jose Ramos, 18, reported “that extortion by border police occurs at every stop on their migratory route. Until migrants are left penniless and begging for food.”

According to this Associated Press story: “Others said they had seen migrants beaten to death by police, their bodies left near the railway tracks to make it look as if they had fallen from a train. "If you're carrying any money, they take it from you," said Carlos Lopez. "Federal, state, local police--all of them shake you down. If you're on a bus, they pull you off and search your pockets, and if you have any money, they keep it all and say, get out of here.”

All of the above “hate” and “abuses in law enforcement” as reported by the Associated Press, befell Central American migrants who enter Mexico. So perhaps Mexican President Calderon knows what he’s talking about?

But what he’s also talking lately--rather than getting his own house in order--is an economic boycott of Arizona.

“Commercial ties between Mexico and Arizona will be affected by this law,” vowed President Calderon in a speech last week to the Institute for Mexicans Abroad. “We are going to act.”

The hear-hears, toasts and tinkling wineglasses after Calderon’s pronouncement have been many. Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva, for instance, took a few minutes off from denouncing American economic sanctions against Stalinist Cuba to champion American economic sanctions against his state.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, hails Fidel Castro as, "one of the three most impressive people I have ever met" and deplores his “demonizing” in the U.S. After all, while Fidel Castro’s guest in 2000, Mr. Sharpton saw “absolutely no human rights violations in Cuba.” So impressed was Mr. Sharpton by Fidel’s fiefdom that he even tried organizing a Hip-Hop concert in Havana to “bring down the embargo (of Cuba)!” Now he plans a “freedom-walk” to help erect one against Arizona.

South African Bishop Desmond Tutu also advocates unfettered commerce with the regime that jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin's and executed more people (out of a population of 6.5 million) in its first three years in power than Hitler's executed (out of a population of 65 million) in its first six. These Cuban political prisoners, by the way, included the longest suffering black political prisoner of the 20th century, Eusebio Penalver. As I write, Oscar Elias Biscet, another black Cuban, suffers a sentence of 25 years in Castro's torture chambers. His crimes consist essentially of quoting the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights and the Works of Martin Luther King in a Cuban public square.

“Viva Fidel!” bellowed embargo-opponent Rev. Jesse Jackson during a speech at the University of Havana in June 1984, while trailing a 300 person entourage that included Rev. Jeremiah Wright. “Viva Che Guevara!” he yelled again with fists raised high. "Long live our cry of freedom!"

"He (Jesse Jackson) is a great personality," reciprocated a beaming Fidel Castro, whose regime ranks among the U.S. State departments, State Sponsors of Terrorism. "Jackson is a brilliant man,” continued Castro, “his main characteristic is honesty. He is sincere and there is no hint of demagoguery in his speech" (italics mine).

While calling for an embargo against Arizona last week, Jesse Jackson denounced SB 1070 as “terrorism for the innocent.”

At a European summit last year Mexican president Calderon explained his fastidious “no sanctions” policy towards Stalinist, Cuba. “Respect for the decisions of the Cuban people should mark the political future of the Caribbean nation,” he declared to loud applause.

Yes, Senor Calderon but as you undoubtedly realize, the “decisions of the Cuban people” are not precisely those of the Stalinist regime that enslaves them and prevents them under penalty of firing squad and/or torture from expressing their decisions in a manner Arizonans recently decided by a margin of almost 70% with SB 1070.

(P.S. I’ve used the incorrect term “embargo” for simplicities sake. Despite what you constantly read and hear from his agents (on the payroll and off) the U.S. has been Castro’s main food supplier and 4th biggest trading partner for close to a decade now).
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Majority Of Americans Agree With AZ's Immigration Laws
Posted by: Jillian Bandes at 4:45 PM Tuesday, May 04, 2010

A poll conducted by the New York Times and CBS found that 51 percent of Americans supported Arizona's immigration law. Thirty-six percent said the law went too far and 9 percent said it did not go far enough.

According to the same poll, 78 percent of Americans thought that the federal government should be doing more to protect our borders.

Naturally, the New York TImes advertised the "slim margin" by which Americans favor the law. Check out their lede:

The overwhelming majority of Americans think the country’s immigration policies need to be seriously overhauled. And despite protests against Arizona’s stringent new immigration enforcement law, a majority of Americans support it, even though they say it may lead to racial profiling.