Northwest Indiana Discussion

This used to be the international distress signal. Then it became the Commie parade day. Today it is the illegal occupiers' demands day.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 02437.html

Immigration rallies planned for May 1 across the country

Thousands of labor, civil rights and immigration activists plan to stage demonstrations nationwide Saturday, renewing their effort to pressure Congress into taking up comprehensive immigration reform.

The May 1 protests have been an annual ritual on behalf of immigration rights ever since 2006, when hundreds of thousands of people, in cities from coast to coast, turned out to urge Congress to grant legal status to illegal immigrants in the United States.

Immigration has gained renewed interest this month through the signing of a new law in Arizona. The measure allows local law enforcement officers to question people they suspect of being undocumented immigrants.

President Obama signaled Wednesday that a legislative overhaul of the nation's immigration laws may not be possible this year, telling reporters, "There may not be an appetite" for such legislation, but activists said the rallies are designed to demonstrate renewed political will.

The Service Employees International Union, one of the nation's most politically powerful labor organizations, is staging 16 demonstrations on Saturday, including one in the District.

"Immigrant and native-born workers are coming together to say, this is not an immigrant issue, this is an American issue," SEIU spokeswoman Ali Jost said. "And until we see a really smart fix, we're going to continue to see agony and economic suffering in our communities. Until we end illegal immigration and bring undocumented workers out of the shadows, we aren't going to have fairness in our labor market and we aren't going to be able to move forward."

The SEIU actions are part of a broader effort by faith, civil rights and immigration leaders to highlight immigration reform on May 1, which is National Workers Day. Reform Immigration for America is staging some 80 actions nationwide, which could draw tens of thousands to the streets, Jost said.

"People are responding to the enforcement-only mandates that we're seeing out of Arizona," Jost said. "We haven't had an immigration solution for decades, and people are calling for a real fix for these problems."

Jost said the SEIU protest in Washington will begin at 1 p.m. at Lafayette Square. Other rallies will be held in New York, Chicago, Houston, Minneapolis, Albuquerque, Seattle, Milwaukee, suburban Boston and in seven spots in California: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, Oakland, San Bernardino and Orange County.

I saw an article in the Times about an arrest made after a seatbelt check.

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake ... 9e9a2.html

Seat belt stop nabs felon
East Chicago man was wanted on stolen property warrant

HAMMOND | An armed and wanted felon was captured by patrol officers working a seat belt enforcement detail this week, police said.

The East Chicago man also received one of 1,061 tickets written for a variety of traffic violations during the coordinated monthlong crackdown.

Hammond police Lt. Patrick Vicari, traffic division supervisor, reported spotting a vehicle Tuesday on Calumet Avenue at Highland Street in which neither the driver nor front-seat passenger was wearing a seat belt.

The Toyota sped off as Vicari approached and the vehicle finally was pulled over in an alley in the 6200 block of Van Buren Avenue, where the driver fled on foot, according to police reports.

Darryl Johnson, 36, was arrested after a brief chase, and a .22-caliber pistol was found nearby, police said. Johnson, who was wanted on a warrant for receiving stolen property, received new charges of resisting law enforcement and being a felon in possession of a handgun.

All told, officers reported 665 tickets written for seat belt violations in April, as well 48 citations for child restraint infractions, 16 for speeding and 318 for other traffic charges. Ten drivers were cited for criminal misdemeanors and four for felonies.

Overtime funding for the seat belt action was provided through a grant from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, administered locally by the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute and the Governor's Council on Dangerous and Impaired Driving.


What the AZ law on illegal occupiers does (now amended to be clearly exactly this) is during such a legal stop allow police to check immigration status and if found in violation of immigration laws it dictates the procedures to be used. It's not a "breathing while Latino" law as some have portended.

But how fitting that May Day was chosen for a big protest with union in hand. The US is indeed in distress because of the problems experienced from widespread disregard of our immigration and entry laws. We should protest the protesters and boycott the boycotters!

I was reading this story from the Times http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/illi ... 89566.html and came upon the words immigrant rights. Rights? Illegal "immigrants" (except whether they are truly immigrants in any real sense of the phrase is debatable) are entitled to special rights? What about their responsibilities???

I wonder if you can actually possess a right without being responsible? or at least under the Marxist progressive socialism scheme. Some of us believe that actual RIGHTS are God given and inalienable, in other words not subject to forfeiture. So which inalienable rights have these illegal occupiers of this country been denied?

If they are not citizens and have not been properly approved for a path towards citizenship by following the laws then they are entitled to no more than guest status at best. And if their intention is to nab US citizenship and later head back to their true home country then they are not truly immigrants. Perhaps the new immigration law should revoke citizenship for those who repatriate since they never intended on truly immigrating here - they just wanted money. And let's end the practice of granting citizenship to the children of foreign nationals merely because they birthed a child on US soil. These issues MUST be addressed in any resolution to the problem of the illegals no matter how many union members they get to hold their hands while being obnoxious and making demands on their host at these public gatherings.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/01/im ... ationwide/

Immigrant Activists, Including Congressman, Arrested Outside White House

Immigrant advocates are being arrested in front of the White House fence, after sitting down and defying orders from police.

About three dozen protesters and U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois joined in the civil disobedience Saturday. They held a sign saying, "Obama, Stop deporting our Families." Some wore T-shirts that read "Arrest us, Not our Families."

Those chants don't make much sense to me but I guess they got their wish.

and it was a Celtic holiday long before any of that.

I'm really into my heritage.

So hopefully you had a wonderful Beltane.

Did you dance around the May Pole?

No, but from what I've read the Celtic celebration was a purification type deal for good harvest, and consisted of a bad ass bonfire. The Maypole was more or less Germanic paganism in origin.

I hear Obama is replacing the National Day of Prayer with a May Pole dance next year. Now I know why!

If it brings a bountiful harvest more power to him.

Though, I can't see it being any more effective than a prayer...

I think the distress call comes from a French word or phrase that translates roughly into "come and get me".

I hear Obama and some members of Congress talking like they want to see an easy path to citizenship for these illegals. I totally disagree. As I said in another post just look at the intended Times Square bomber. He got an easy path to citizenship by getting married. It's a pity we can't strip citizenship from naturalized persons who commit acts of violence against the US. It's violation of their oath of citizenship!

So I hear the SEIU is now boycotting Arizona over a perfectly valid law. Well I wanna boycott the SEIU.