Re: Immigration talks rouse hate

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> Immigration talks rouse hate
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> WA****NGTON (AP) - A national Hispanic advocacy organization said
Thursday 
> it is fighting back against what it considers to be "hate speech" that
has 
> emerged from the debate over immigration.
> National Council of La Raza President Janet Murguia announced plans to 
> pressure television network executives and candidates seeking their 
> parties' presidential nominations to clamp down on such remarks.
> The group launched a website to counter the speech, 
> www.wecanstopthehate.org, with clips of what it considers offensive 
> comments made on television, as well as a tracking of hate crimes.
> "Hate groups and extremists have taken over the immigration debate in an

> unprecedented wave of hate," Murguia said. Although some comments could
be 
> considered free speech, "there is a line that sometimes can be crossed 
> when it comes to free speech," she said.
> Some of the remarks the Hispanic group identified included referring to 
> immigrants as an "army of invaders" or an "invading force," associating 
> immigrants with animals, accusing immigrants of bringing crime and 
> diseases such as leprosy to the U.S., and purveying a conspiracy theory 
> that Hispanics are trying to take back parts of the United States once 
> ruled by Mexico.
> Murguia named as offenders Pat Buchanan, who appears on MSNBC as a 
> commentator, CNN's Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck of Headline News, a CNN 
> network.
> Beck once offered a joint solution for immigration and energy on his
radio 
> program, Murguia said. "He read a proposed ad for a giant refinery that 
> produces Mexinol, a fuel made from the bodies of illegal immigrants
coming 
> here from Mexico to find work," Murguia said.
> Murguia accused the television networks of cloaking members of hate
groups 
> as anti-immigrant experts on their programs. Among those she singled out

> was Jim Gilchrist, a co-founder of the Minuteman Project.
> In response, Gilchrist called the National Council of La Raza a racial 
> supremacist group that "dwarfs the combination of Black Panthers, KKK, 
> American Indian Movement and Asian gangs."
> "I'm exercising free speech and I'm giving my opinion," Gilchrist said. 
> "My son-in-law is Mexican and two of my three grandchildren are half 
> Mexican. The Minuteman Project is comprised of every race color and
creed. 
> ... She has a right to her opinion, but she's wrong."
> CNN Worldwide's CEO agreed to meet with the group, said Cecilia Munoz,
the 
> council's senior vice president. CNN spokeswoman Janine Iamunno said CNN

> had no comment.
> A message left on voicemail for an MSNBC spokeswoman was not immediately

> returned.
>

Immigrants, BULL****!
Illegal aliens are criminal slime.




            Jim E