This morning, CNN is running a story (h/t: Drudge) about a protest over “Illegal Alien” costumes sold by Target, Walgreens and many other stores, organized by Los Angeles based radical immigrant group CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles). The group is protesting the costumes and pressuring stores to stop selling them because they might “offend illegal immigrants.” Yes, you read that correctly. A pressure group that apparently helps to support illegal immigration into the United States is successfully getting ink from CNN by protesting American companies and retailers selling a Halloween costume that offends their sensibilities.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you need any more evidence that our government has failed us, look no further.
The costume depicts an extraterrestrial in an orange prison jumpsuit holding a “green card”. CHIRLA latched onto the “green card” and took umbrage, deciding that it might offend actual illegal aliens, and so the stores should be pressured to stop selling them.
The rationale, as stated by one of the “wounded”, is this:
Guillermo Iglesias said both of his parents were illegal immigrants in the United States. He felt the costumes were offensive because they depicted illegal immigrants as “not one of us.”
“I have a lot of illegal immigrant friends,” said Iglesias. “If I showed them that costume, it would really hurt them.”
Let’s leave aside questions of taste: personally, I think Halloween costumes depicting extraterrestrials are cliché. Whitley Streiber fans and Raelians and helium balloon hoaxers in Colorado are free to differ. Regardless, Halloween costumes are regularly used in the United States by people across the political spectrum to poke fun at political figures or to highlight politically sensitive subjects. Sarah Palin costumes were big in Greenwich Village recently, and nobody (to my knowledge) tried to stop anyone from buying or wearing them. The only people this costume should offend are extraterrestrials — and to the best of my knowledge, imaginary beings from other planets outside our solar system are not yet members of any mainstream “social justice” constituency.
An even better question is this: why haven’t Mr. Iglesias’ parents and his friends been deported yet? If they’re here illegally, and Mr. Iglesias is bold enough to say so in a CNN interview, why isn’t the INS knocking on his door right now? Isn’t he admitting in print that his parents and his friends are in violation of Federal law?
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Daniel Horowitz
Jake Walker
Victoria Coates
Why haven't they been deported? ACORN needs illegals to
Achance (Diary) Sunday, October 18th at 11:15AM EST (link)meet its fraudulent vote quotas.
In Vino Veritas
If we deport them all, there would not
redneck_hippie (Diary) Sunday, October 18th at 11:25AM EST (link)be any call to put the costume out for sale and outrage illegals so the race pimps could cry racism and perpetuate the myth that pays their salaries.
Here look at this story....
DavidS1787 (Diary) Monday, October 19th at 10:07PM EST (link)Maybe this is why the illegal aliens haven’t been deported!
Barack Obama’s Aunt Zeituni Onyango
This is just the invaders' polite reminder of your status in this brave new world
CodeRedinPA (Diary) Sunday, October 18th at 11:32AM EST (link)There is no single issue facing the Nation 9if we are one anymore) today where we are collectively being twisted into a pretzel and having our heads forced up our a**es than this one.
Of all the d-baggery that our Dear-Leader and his Democrat/SEIU/ACORN band of thugs are visiting upon the country, I believe that Illegal Immigration is the specter that looms large at the dead end that awaits the U.S. A.
The issue can’t even be discussed rationally between people that have divergent viewpoints without the conversation degenerating into a race-baiting crapfest inside of the first 30 seconds.
I struggle to fathom how we can continue to exist as a nation-state when we are forced to suffer a legally sanctioned invasion of inderminant duration.
The bottom line, at this point, we can’t say anything about it off the cuff without being shouted down with all the current negative labels one slaps on another to shut the person up. (see your entry, Kowalski)
You can’t petition the courts to protect your rights against them without going up against the invaders’ alphabet soup of support groups and the legal apparatchik of their sympathizers — who really are not even necessary when judges freely legislate from the bench per their own political whims.
And we certainly can’t DO anything about it either. I live in Hazleton, PA. Between the PRLDEF, MALDEF, and The ACLU, and Judge Munley, Mayor Barletta and the town were unceremoniously steamrolled in court when trying to enact an ordinance that might have cut the number of illegal aliens that are coming to live here.
Your rights are diminished. Your voice is gone. Your power to determine the future of this Nation has been sold to Latin-America by the most bipartisan movement that existed in Washington D.C. since the prosecution of WW2 — between the Industro-crat wing of the GOP (all of them)and the socio-ethnic griefer wing of the Democrat party (all of them).
What does it mean to be an American Citizen when the only 2 differences between you and every person on Earth with a pulse is:
1) your Right to Vote for someone that will only act to see the invasion continue and
2) the ease with which those same despots can collect taxes from you???
….WE ARE OCCUPIED!
It disgusts me that there aren’t more people who aren’t disgusted by this!!!! It disgusts me that our only recourse is a ballot that is only full with names of other enablers
Where is the outrage among those who followed the rules to come to and live in the U.S. legally?!
Where is the outrage among other minorities who are cut even deeper by the sell-out of this society?
The only justice there will be is that one day, it will be our occupiers that find a new nation(s) on this soil.
….and B Hussein Obama is the nice little ‘harmless’ democratically elected staste of the tyrant that will one day govern when the tipping point passes.
START PAYING ATTENTION!
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sorry for hijacking your diary entry with one of my own
CodeRedinPA (Diary) Sunday, October 18th at 11:34AM EST (link)I got typing, couldn’t stop and clicked “post reply” before minding my ettiquette.
please accept my apologies for that, Kowalski