Seattle will boycott Arizona. Monday Seattle's City Council voted to boycott Arizona in protest over Arizona's new immoral, unconstitutional and un-American immigration policy. Seattle joins a growing number of cities choosing to boycott Arizona.
The boycott Arizona movement is growing strong throughout the nation, as good and caring Americans become informed about Arizona's new draconian immigration law that has been compared with the worst tactics of fascist and totalitarian police states.
Seattle's City Council unanimously passed the Boycott Arizona Resolution, directing departments not to send employees to the Grand Canyon State and to refrain from doing new business with firms in Arizona in protest of the tragic new law.
Other cities that have passed resolutions or urged boycotts to protest the law include Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Austin, Texas. Los Angeles' resolution last week said the Arizona law encourages racial profiling and is unconstitutional.
Here in Oregon, Portland Mayor Sam Adams is also looking into a boycott of Arizona to protest the immoral and un-American "papers please" anti-immigration law.
Even the GOP is quietly boycotting Arizona. The 2012 Republican National Convention will be held in Tampa, Florida, rather than Phoenix, Arizona, because Republicans at the national level recognize the long-term damage their party will suffer from catering to the racist, xenophobic anti-immigration faction within their ranks.
Racial profiling of Arizona's Hispanic community, which makes up 30 per cent of its 6.5 million population, will begin in July. At that time Arizona police will be compelled to harass citizens who look or sound like they might come from south of the border.
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Seriously, if all you fu*kers actually knew the first thing about the law instead of listening to all your liberal biased crap who just are using it for their own selfish reasons, you would realize that cops cannot just openly arrest mexicans. I am a white conservative and I have about twenty friends who are Mexicans. Where are yOur brains @$$ HOLES???? And FYI I did not get that from Fox News or Rusch r Glenn Bzeck.
Foul language, the last refuge of the ignorant. Police officers will decide who to arrest and went; they have been given the power to do as they please, when they please, and we all know that not everybody knows how to appropriately control that power; hence, the high likelihood for racial profiling - I guess now the BMW acronym will change from Black Men at the Wheel to Brown Men at the Wheel.
Wow Jack, you sound so very educated and enlightened with your verbal hemorrhaging. Think about this, forcing local police to do a job that is meant to be handled by the military will require much more training, open them up to a ridiculous number of lawsuits AND divert their attention from actual crimes in progress. It's a losing proposition logically, philosophically and realistically.
Jack, Have you even read a IMMIGRATION LAW BOOK??
What are your Qualifications in IMMIGRATION LAWS?? Stop showing us your Enhanced Vocabulary. Its all Politics, why didn't the Republicans close the borders they had 8 years?
Now before Elections they make this stupid law,
I am not saying dot close the borders, I am saying STOP YOUR HATE & IGNORANCE> ALL ARE GODS CHILDREN.
As a former 45 year Arizona resident, all I can say is hooray on these boycotts. Since it is clear by what is occuring it is the outside agitators and those living in relatively safe areas that are boycotting, including Seattle. I wonder how many auto thieves and drug cartel members live in their state? Not half as many as who live and cross borders at will in Arizona. These City Council members are becoming a joke, and their true colors apparent for the political tool they are using this issue apparent. And those that support the "rights" of foreigners over their fellow Americans not Americans at all, since literally thoussands of Arizonans have lost their homes and jobs due to federal and state negligence on this issue. "National origin" profiling has always been done there since Arizona does border a foreign country, who has a corrupted government and has for decades.
Liberals willing to throw their felling citizens under the bus are not Americans at all.
And since "national origin" profiling has been done and what was kept those numbers down pre-Reagan, it is ludicrous the ignorance of those living outside Arizona on this issue. Since it is the drug cartel members and auto thieves who have the money who now get access to the lawyers, so they are the ones who will be "legalized" if they haven't already been afforded that privilege after beating their raps with their "counsel," American criminal and immigration lawyers, the ones who were behind the laws giving "foreigners" now even protection under America's Bill of Rights which was actually meant to protect Americans from the actions of most of those foreigners.
Since those businesses unpay them, they steal from the public routinely - and this situation has put many an Arizonan on the bankruptcy line, so thus is costing the nation literally billions.
What a bunch of greedy politicians, and uninformed public that suan article such as this even gets any circulation at all, it is so
High 5 to Cov. Brewer !!! God Bless Arizona.
Have you noticed that there is NEVER any solution from the Liberals ?? You don't like the Bill ??? FINE. Tell us what you WOULD do to combat the problem ???
Nothing right.? That's the Key they don't want ANYTHING done. And THAT is un-American.
Josh,
Liberals, progressives and all good and decent Americans advocate strong enforcement and punishment regarding the employment of illegal aliens. However, Republicans do not have the stomach to punish those responsible for the illegal aliens: dirty Republican businessmen who are hiring illegals and paying unfair wages.
I'm sure Arizona is terrified.
SO I'M BOYCOTTING SEATTLE AND ANYONE ELSE WHO BOYCOTTS ARIZONA.
So I'm confused, are we boycotting az because the law is TOO harsh on latinos, or because it's not harsh enough? After all, up here our police dept. throws latinos to the ground, handcuffs them, kicks them, and calls them "mexican pi$$" for doing nothing. I think all az wants to do is deport the people who are in the country illegally. Who are the righteous ones here again? I think perhaps az should boycott seattle.
Wow Jack, you sound so very educated and enlightened with your verbal hemorrhaging. Think about this, forcing local police to do a job that is meant to be handled by the military will require much more training, open them up to a ridiculous number of lawsuits AND divert their attention from actual crimes in progress. It's a losing proposition logically, philosophically and realistically.
"Have you noticed that there is NEVER any solution from the Liberals ?? You don't like the Bill ??? FINE. Tell us what you WOULD do to combat the problem ???"
Well Josh, here's an idea... How about as a state, AZ formally requests federal action regarding their border and work on a system that would train & employ AZ residents specifically to be federal border authority guards? Then build manned stations that operate 24/7 every 1/2 mile across the border so that there is still visual contact between them and have the federal government work with the Mexican government to enhance the conditions in Mexico so they don't have to flee in the first place? By setting up a joint system between our governments, we could have Mexico make illegal crossing a punishable crime and have them deal with those who get caught from the border patrol. 100 million $ would easily take care of the stations needed and annually it would probably cost around 1 million to operate.
I bet Stoner is just like Holder, Napolitano and now the State Department Deputy Secretary! Talk all day about the law AND HAVE NOT READ THE 17 PAGE BILL.
AHOLES ALL!
J242 says: forcing local police to do a job that is meant to be handled by the military
MOST LEO's in Arizona WANTED this law.
What if it works?
Greg, you say: "So I'm confused, are we boycotting az because the law is TOO harsh on latinos, or because it's not harsh enough? After all, up here our police dept. throws latinos to the ground, handcuffs them, kicks them, and calls them "mexican pi$$" for doing nothing."
Boycotting because the new law in AZ enforces racial profiling, forces the police force to be retrained to handle federal matters and opens them up to a MASSIVE set of potential lawsuits they don't have the budget to possibly handle. Beyond that, forcing an ethnic group to carry papers even if they are officially citizens is morally wrong as we decided in the 40's. WW2 Germany made the jews do this as well, how's that for a startling vision? As for the SPD officers, they are having criminal charges brought upon them for their actions, it's not just being swept under the table like AZ does regularly. This comes down to simple human rights regardless of nationality.
"J242 says: forcing local police to do a job that is meant to be handled by the military
MOST LEO's in Arizona WANTED this law.
What if it works?"
That's a mighty big "What if" but IF it somehow miraculously works then all the naysayers (myself included) will be proven wrong and it might prove to be a tool that other border states can adopt and use. As for suggesting most Law Enforcement Officers "wanted" this law I'd have to ask you for your sources on that. The chief of police and others have come out against this for the reasons I mentioned before: Extra duties placed on an already small police force, extra financial costs placed on an already weak budgeted set of departments, legal jeopardy from civilian lawsuits for constitutional violations against legal citizens unfairly searched, questioned, detained, etc... All in all it's not a good idea for an already broke state as it's going to open them up to millions of $'s in potential lawsuit losses.
"J242 says: forcing local police to do a job that is meant to be handled by the military
MOST LEO's in Arizona WANTED this law.
What if it works?"
That's a mighty big "What if" but IF it somehow miraculously works then all the naysayers (myself included) will be proven wrong and it might prove to be a tool that other border states can adopt and use. As for suggesting most Law Enforcement Officers "wanted" this law I'd have to ask you for your sources on that. The chief of police and others have come out against this for the reasons I mentioned before: Extra duties placed on an already small police force, extra financial costs placed on an already weak budgeted set of departments, legal jeopardy from civilian lawsuits for constitutional violations against legal citizens unfairly searched, questioned, detained, etc... All in all it's not a good idea for an already broke state as it's going to open them up to millions of $'s in potential lawsuit losses.
What's with all of my double-posts? I've only posted each message once but they keep getting doubled. Strange. C'mon examiner, get a proper comment system in place. Even Joomla! can do better with their free comment plugins. Sheesh.
Well here we go a city that has just come out of the spotlight for racial abuse is boycotting a State for doing what a actual border state needs to do. Washington doesnt need a fence for B.C. is much nicer than the State of Washington. It has an opposite flow. do a little research on seattle police apologizes, he then does not apologize to the victim he apologizes to his partners which 3 or 4 were involved watch the video listen to the audio and research for videos of Phx Police doing that and I say good luck.
As of May 18, at approximately 7:42 EST Mikey has typed the word "racist" 712 times in 2010 and the word "xenophobic" 311 times in 2010.
What's with all of my double-posts? I've only posted each message once but they keep getting doubled. Strange. C'mon examiner, get a proper comment system in place. Even Joomla! can do better with their free comment plugins. Sheesh.
Hey Redneck Racist: "As of May 18, at approximately 7:42 EST Mikey has typed the word "racist" 712 times in 2010 and the word "xenophobic" 311 times in 2010."
Who's Mikey?
Greg, you say: "So I'm confused, are we boycotting az because the law is TOO harsh on latinos, or because it's not harsh enough? After all, up here our police dept. throws latinos to the ground, handcuffs them, kicks them, and calls them "mexican pi$$" for doing nothing."
Boycotting because the new law in AZ enforces racial profiling, forces the police force to be retrained to handle federal matters and opens them up to a MASSIVE set of potential lawsuits they don't have the budget to possibly handle. Beyond that, forcing an ethnic group to carry papers even if they are officially citizens is morally wrong as we decided in the 40's. WW2 Germany made the jews do this as well, how's that for a startling vision? As for the SPD officers, they are having criminal charges brought upon them for their actions, it's not just being swept under the table like AZ does regularly. This comes down to simple human rights regardless of nationality.
"Mikey" is the man, the myth, the legend Michael Stone aka The Gypsy Scholar.
Oh look, another fricken moron that has not read ONE SINGLE WORD of the law, yet feels the need to spout off. Obviously, the City of Seattle can't read either. When you start with your racist crap, you are showing your complete and utter ignorance of the situation and the law.
BTW, looking at your picture, it looks like you need to mix in a salad or 3 in between the Biggie Fries and Pizza. Make sure you use lettuce only picked by LEGAL Americans.
Greg, you say: "So I'm confused, are we boycotting az because the law is TOO harsh on latinos, or because it's not harsh enough? After all, up here our police dept. throws latinos to the ground, handcuffs them, kicks them, and calls them "mexican pi$$" for doing nothing."
Boycotting because the new law in AZ enforces racial profiling, forces the police force to be retrained to handle federal matters and opens them up to a MASSIVE set of potential lawsuits they don't have the budget to possibly handle. Beyond that, forcing an ethnic group to carry papers even if they are officially citizens is morally wrong as we decided in the 40's. WW2 Germany made the jews do this as well, how's that for a startling vision? As for the SPD officers, they are having criminal charges brought upon them for their actions, it's not just being swept under the table like AZ does regularly. This comes down to simple human rights regardless of nationality.
Wow "Jeff", you just completely made any point you might have had entirely irrelevant with your personal attack upon the author of this article. Kudos to you... Perhaps I can give a small suggestion? If you want anyone to give two flying $#!ts about what you have to say perhaps you shouldn't be attacking people and stick to the actual point of the discussion. Seriously now...
Michael Stone's portrayal of the Arizona immigration enforcement law reveals one of these two statements to be true: either he is stupid, or he is a liar.
If he has read the law (which, as far as laws go, is relatively short and has incredibly clear language) and simply does not or cannot understand it, then he is stupid.
If he has read and understood the law, or if he has declined to read the law and is simply taking his "facts" from biased reports and parroting them as his own, he is a liar. No one who understands the law could truthfully write what Mr. Stone has written, and someone who remains willfully ignorant of simple facts has no business lecturing the rest of us on the morality that those facts imply.
Case in point: Mr. Stone characterizes the law as "racial profiling", when the text of the law clearly prohibits such activities. Mr. Stone is either stupid (cannot understand the simply-written bill) or is lying. Well, what is it? Stupid or liar?
Have any of these protesters actually read the law? I mean actually the law instead of little snippets that the liberal blockheads wrote? The democrats are more racsist than anyone because they use Mexicans, Blacks, and pretty much any other race for their own selfish purposes. I am friends with many Mexicans and everyone of them thinks this protesting is the biggest crock of nil on this planet!
I am a Mexican and never listen or watch Fox or Limbaugh and I am a liberal, but even then I can still see that this law is not what my fellow countrymen say it is. It does not state that police can simply pull a Mexican over and arrest them. It only says that if a cop pulls over a Mexican or a WHITE who lived in Mexico. They then can ask to see their papers and if they are not in order or something is wrong then they can take them for questioning and then they must go on trial and if they are found guilty, then and only then can thy be hauled off.
Look up racist in the dictionary fools.
Did you know that Seattle gave an exemption to the Seattle-based company that provides the equipment and support to the Arizona photo enforced traffic program? Obviously this is a boycott of convenience and Seattle made sure it wouldn't have to suffer in their little show of compassion for our little brown brothers.
J242, really? $100 million to build these stations every half mile? And $1M to operate? You really live on Fantasy Island Buddy! And where will this sudden cash flow come from? AZ is BROKE. So are the Feds. Finally, why should our government work to make things better in Mexico? Maybe the MEXICANS should work on that.
you give the rest of us stoners a bad name. That being said guess it's time to boycott Seattle,
really? so every other country in the world can make it the law for forigners to have papers on them at all times, but america does it and its the end of the world. no it is exactly what is needed in these harsh times.
"Boycott"? That's discrimination. Shouldn't you say, "Personcott Arizona"?
I think all the liberals and conservatives ought to meet in a mosh pit or an mma cage and fight it out while the mexicans watch. I'd be in there smashing faces and yelling Viva la Raza Dittoheads!!! HAHAHAHA
Remember that the mushbrained idiots on Seattle's city council have been badly affected by a northern flow of illegal liberal immigrants from Marin County and other parts of California, like Santa Mira, where the pod people snatched all the bodies of the regular thinking people. An example, Seattle's former mayor recently passed several anti-gun laws even after his own city attorneys told him they could not be enforced because they conflicted with the state and the U.S.Constitutions. I doubt if Arizona really needs or cares about Seattle very much.
The Boycott Seattle Movement has begun as a result of the boycott arizona, pretty soon america will be boycotted by all europe. and the civil wars between drug dealers in mexico and their donkeys in america will continue to rage...search google:
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OMG Did you know, what human does mean? well, if you don't know you must to get a dictionary!! so, I just wonder if the human Race must to appears between "Species in Extreme Danger of Extinction" well I mean " next century " THE HUMANS TERM will be REMOVED BY SOULLESS SELFISH. JUST LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING: YOU ARE UNHAPPY WITH THOSE IMMIGRANTS, ILEGALS, LITTLE BROWNS, SO WHATEVER YOU WANNA CALL THEM, HOWEVER YOU WILL HAVE THE SAME UNHAPPY PATHETIC LIFE EVEN THEY GONE, BECAUSE YOU MUST TO FIX YOUR LIFE BEFORE TRY TO "FIX" THE NATION, COME ON GIVE IT A TRY!!!! RECOVERING YOUR HUMAN SIDE!!!!! GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!
The person who wrote this 'article' should be terribly ashamed of himself. Where is the 3rd person objective reporting? this is tragically tainted with the writers opinion. This man should be fired from his job for this horrendous piece of supposed journalism.
I applaud Arizona for their fortitude
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