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 20
th 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 the manner of Arizonans, who who freely decided upon SB 1070 by a margin of almost 70%."
(P.S. I've used the incorrect term "embargo" for simplicity's 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 4
th biggest trading partner
for close to a decade now)
