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Which would you find more desirable in your community: a group that advocates to abide by U.S. law, or one that advocates to break U.S. law?
Well, leave it to an American newspaper to present a story as if a member of a group that advocates for America is a less desirable person in the community than a member of a group that promotes ideas against America. In a story on the La Raza Council's threat to move their annual convention out of Kansas City, Missouri, the Kansas City Star has labeled the patriot group The Minutemen a "militant group" yet nowhere is there harsh labels in their story for La Raza, the Hispanic illegal immigrant advocates. In fact, La Raza is treated like a completely respectable organization throughout the story with the Minutemen treated as if they should be something to be ashamed of.


In June, Kansas City mayor Mark Funkhouser appointed Minuteman Civil Defense member Frances Semler to the Kansas City park board and this has caused the illegal immigrant advocates to threaten to take their convention business elsewhere.

The nation’s largest Hispanic rights group is warning it may cancel its 2009 convention here because of a controversial Kansas City park board member.
As it turns out, this park board member is "controversial" because she wants Federal immigration laws enforced.

The story goes on to call the patriot organization, The Minutemen, a "militant group opposing illegal immigration" and warns that the city would lose up to $15 million in business (coupled with the NAACP pulling their convention, as well) should the La Raza folks pull their convention out of Kansas City. The story gives the La Raza group quite a bit of space to act wounded and regretful that they have to leave the city... unless they are successful in forcing a Missourian legally appointed to a city board to resign.

“It is very troubling that we would be in a position to reconsider but in fact we are,” Murguía said during a trip to Kansas City. “I don’t know there is a way short of her stepping down that we could salvage this. This is offensive on many levels. We want the mayor to understand it is something that sends a very wrong signal to the Hispanic community about what the city represents.”
There is, indeed, something troubling here. That a group based outside of Kansas City should imagine they have the right and power to tell a city who they can and cannot appoint to their city parks board. Now THAT is "troubling," don't you think?

It is also troubling that Mrs. Semler is presented throughout the story as the problem and La Raza is constantly presented as the good guys. What is also troubling is that the story presents the politicians in Kansas City as bending over backwards for this La Raza organization. Rick Hughs, head of the Kansas City Convention and Visitors Association, for instance is doing his best to accommodate this La Raza group.

... a meeting Thursday with Murguía went well and he is hopeful that La Raza’s concerns about Kansas City can be addressed. He said he has not heard from anyone with the NAACP about its concerns.

“We still have it (La Raza convention) very much in our pocket and we all want to work toward a good, amicable solution,” he said. “These are two critically important groups and we want to keep them on the ground with us.”

Sadly, not a one of the Kansas City politicians quoted seem outraged that this outside group is making threats to the city over the make-up of a city board and trying to force their outsider's opinions on the operation of the city.

Still, is this reasonable behavior from La Raza? Is it reasonable that one person on a city park board is enough of an "outrage" to their sensibilities to force them to pull their business from the city?
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2007/08/31/kansas-city-star-la-raza-hispanic-activists-more-desirable-minut

2007-09-01 07:08:16 · 5 answers · asked by Untied States Of Latina 2 in Politics & Government Immigration

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of course the one that advocates US law, the La Raza group was started by a deranged and mentally deficient professor at one of our prestigous universities, who evidently did not study any thing worth while history wise for he has given them so many false ideals, but as long as our government bends to the will of the Mexican government and does nothing to secure our borders and allows such an influx of illegals to abide here and not send them back no matter what they say about you can not deport that many people they are being proven wrong every day by the iraq war any government that can spend that sort of money on a war can surely spend an equal amount to clean the country of illegal law breakers, it is time we put the illegals and all their organizations back where they belong send La Raza to Mexico and let them work through proper channels for the immigrants from the side that causes all the problems by not doing more for their people in their own country. That is the best solution for all send La Raza across the southern border and let them try the same tactics with the mexican government there they will find as they know not the same level co-operation as here from the government

2007-09-01 07:26:19 · answer #1 · answered by billc4u 7 · 3 1

HELL NO! Any one that needs to incriminate and prison a man or woman for without problems getting intoxicated is proper out stuffed with health problem and hate and the stinkers who make weed unlawful are those who must be JAILED! Damned oppressive TYRANNICAL legislators like that are meant to be HANGED! IT IS TIME TO DECRIMINALIZE WEED AND LET PEOPLE WHO ABIDE BY THE LAW BUT SMOKE WEED OFF THE HOOKS OTHERWISE THIS IS NOT A FREE COUNTRY AND IT IS TIME FOR A BLOODY WAR ! ! The executive HAS NO RIGHT TO TELL ME WHETHER I CAN GET HIGH OR NOT AND THEY ONLY USE THAT FOR LEVERAGE OVER THE PEOPLE AND THEY SHOULD BE PUBLICLY HANGED FOR IT!! Yes that is proper I stated so ! ! The time is ripe for the regulation abiding residents of America to RISE IN STRENGTH AND FLEX A LITTLE MUSCLE AND TAKE SOME RIGHTS FOR OUR OWN!! WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO TAKE BACK FROM THE BANKER DICTATORS. Making it unlawful simply to get top is not just fully without rationale, however is just a method of having legally spawned vigor and leverage over the individuals who use it. There is such a lot they may be able to use towards the ones individuals adding particularly whilst they're making use of for a task!! I consider we must harm folks that refuse to decriminalize it and we incriminate the incriminators and spot how they adore it! BLOOD FOR BLOOD! Then matters would possibly difference on the grounds that in Washington and in different higher workplaces MIGHT IS RIGHT.

2016-09-05 20:30:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

A sad sad comentary on morals and values to accept a radical racist group like La Raza over the legal, peace loving, non gun carrying Minutemen!

2007-09-01 18:24:44 · answer #3 · answered by Ms.L.A. 6 · 1 0

We do a lot of Convention business here in Myrtle Beach, SC and we don't want that la raza group here.

2007-09-01 08:04:56 · answer #4 · answered by tom p 3 · 2 1

The Minutmen are anti immigration, and possibly racist. Why would these groups not try to persuade the powers that be to end thier association with this group? It is thier perogative. The conventions bring a lot of business to the area, so they have financial clout, and are using it to thier advantage. It's the American way. Money talks, ******** walks.

2007-09-01 07:30:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 3

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