San Diego Congressional Candidate Intimidated by Sheriff’s Dept.
On June 26 a sheriff’s deputy walked into a democratic fundraiser in a private home and pepper sprayed the attendees, most of whom were over 50 years old.
Francine Busby is a Democratic candidate running in 2010 for congress in California’s 50th District (including San Diego). In 2006 she lost the same seat in a controversial race against Republican Brian Bilbray. The Republican National Convention put 5 million dollars behind Bilbray’s campaign because of Busby’s growing popularity. Brian Bilbray is the chairman of the anti-immigrant House Immigration Reform Caucus and a staunch advocate of John Tanton’s anti-immigrant movement. The local minutemen chapter often praises him on their website.
Last Friday, one of Francine Busby’s supporters hosted a fundraiser in her home for the campaign. Ms. Busby made a brief speech in the host’s backyard, which ended at around 8:45 pm. The noise caught the attention of a neighbor who was so angered by their gathering, that he felt it necessary to shout derogatory comments about the candidate and homosexuals. Read more
Anti-Immigrant to Blacks: Go back to Africa
While separated by a span of two hundred years, Dan Stein the president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and the American Colonization Society (ACS) founded in 1816 have something in common. They both want blacks to go back to Africa.
Most of Liberia’s political struggles today are the result of ACS, a U.S. organization that finally shut its doors in 1964. Last Friday the Associated Press reported that Liberia’s democratically elected president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told a Minnesota audience that “. . . the country is making great progress on rebuilding infrastructure, debt relief and education after a 14-year civil war.”
The United States should celebrate this progress, not by turning our backs on a country we helped to create, but by supporting Liberia’s move towards a multi-ethnic democratic society. We accomplish this by supporting those black refugees among us, not forcing them out of the United States into a country that is not yet completely stable. Read more
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