To the list that includes Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King add one more important historical figure struck down by an assassin’s bullet: Manuel Jamines.
Never heard of him?
Jamines, a day laborer, came to this country illegally from Guatemala and settled in the Westlake area of Los Angeles. Westlake is one of the most densely populated places in the country, with a very poor, heavily illegal, highly transitory Central American population living in a community notorious for illegal vendors, gangs, rampant drug dealing and other crimes.
On Sept. 5, someone flagged down three Los Angeles police officers riding on bicycles. A man, the officers were told, was wielding a knife and threatening passers-by, including a pregnant woman.
The officers confronted Manuel Jamines. They ordered him, in both Spanish and English, to drop the knife. He refused. Instead he raised the switchblade, with its 3-inch serrated blade, and lunged at the officers. He was shot twice and killed.
In the real world, a lawman doesn’t aim at the suspect’s ring finger on the hand holding the weapon. The officers did what they are trained to do when an attack is in progress — shoot to stop. It turned out that Jamines was drunk — and here illegally, a fact that the Los Angeles Times has yet to print. A more justifiable shooting would be hard to find. And for what it’s worth, the three responding officers, including the one who fired the fatal shots, are Latino.
What followed? Two days of riots.
Labeling the shooting an “assassination,” thugs set fires and threw rocks and bottles at police. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck blamed the riots not on the lawbreakers, but on national “anti-immigrant sentiment” that makes Westlake residents feel “disconnected.” “(The) community,” said the chief, “feels disconnected from the city. They feel like they don’t have a voice. I think they feel a lot of pressure because of the anti-immigrant sentiment that runs through a very common conversation in America right now.”
To help them feel connected, the chief held a town hall meeting. Some attendees called him “a murderer.” Protest marches and rallies followed, where the police were called “killers.”
“Advocacy” groups included the Revolutionary Communist Party and something called the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, which claimed that five witnesses say the police shot an unarmed man.
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The nerve and arrogance of these criminal illegal aliens has totally gotten out of hand. They must be repatriated to their homelands. Politicians who choose to ignore immigration laws such as the Muslim fool in the WH should be considered traitors. There has never been a President who clearly desires to destroy this country until the totally incompetent Muslim fool set foot in the WH.
In England the Labor party deliberately opened the floodgates to immigrants. One member confessed to this policy afterwards. I can't find the details, but its true. The left is simply destructive.
There was an illegal alien who had been previously arrested but not deported, and he later killed a teenage American girl in a car accident while driving drunk. In discussing this case on O'Reilly, Geraldo Rivera had the gall to insist this tragedy was a drunk driving issue, not an immigration issue.
I only wish the parents of the dead girl could have asked Geraldo a simple question: Had the illegal been deported after his prior arrest, would their daughter be alive today? The answer is obvious.
I can assure you that GERALDO (who by the way, is not a saint of my devotion) will answer you that it was most probably her destiny to be killed by a drunken driver…
I've watched his rethoric on immigration issues and some others as well and if able to, I would spit in his face…
Unfortunately, not many Americans know how these matters are handled in Latin American countries, like in MEXICO…
Do you know that you can't have a business in Mexico without a Mexican partner and that the law abot legal immigrants, (let alone illegal immigrants) is as harsh as it comes..???
And moreover, are people here aware that the Mexican authorities STIMULATE illegal
migration to the USA, as the money they send home alleviates the chronic economic
crisis of Mexico ???
Then, left or no left, how about if only for a 'CHANGE" (but not OBAMA's, GOD forbid)
calling an ace an ace and a spade a spade and handle these matters the way they are handled in their countries and tell the lefties, fellow travelers and bleedeing hearts, to put their money where their mouths are ???
The vast number of illegals in America clearly show the decline of America in which several Administrations failed to deal with the problem. We have a disastrous lack of leadership talent these days and the only hope I see will have to come from the people, a grass roots movement like the Tea Part which, sadly, hasn't produced any leaders or effective organization. God help our children and grandchildren because America's future looks very bad.
Obama's Auntie Zeituni Onyango has become the face of illegal aliens who flaut the rules and regulations of immigration in a sovereign republic. She is arrogant, demanding, abrasive, and holds the U.S. in contempt. Her hatred of America and Americans is palpable — this may be a genetic trait — check out the YouTube clip of her interview, and you will find she also is a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Perhaps in her delusion she thought, "Hey, my nephew is an illegal alien, yet he was selected and installed to occupy the Oval Office. Let me also take advantage of the benevolence, largesse and gullibility of the taxpayers in the U.S., and I will become a citizen of the nation I despise."
Here is a link to the video to which I refer in my post above:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APFmDIyDQOs
We are no longer a unified nation with different languages, different tv shows, different values. We have come full circle to one of the most absurd conditions, making our own Tower of Babel. To top it off, visually, we have a heretic who feels he can claim citizenship, religion, and nobility with his mouth. He will use that mouth to embarass our country and never speak of our nation as it should be spoken of–an experiment that is worthy of support. Unfortunately, that experiment requires an INFORMED ELECTORATE who would make balanced decisions–not isolated fools making decisions based on tribal customers or whims unrelated to the big picture. Impeach the usurper as a start and bring back American pride.
"The community feels disconnected from the city?" Maybe if they came here legally, they'd feel more connected with the city. Maybe if they didn't live among other illegal immigrants and tried to live in other areas of the city where there's more diversity, they'd have a sense of connection. Maybe if they didn't riot on behalf of people who commit clear-cut crimes, they'd feel more of a connection with the community. Maybe if they made an attempt to speak English, a sense of connection would follow. Maybe if they didn't go downtown carrying placards that talk about "restoring" "Aztlan" the connection would become more apparent to them.
Not to turn this community into alien haters, as I am not. I feel very bad that Italy which used to not allow heavy immigration and has some economic problems because of that declining total population count, but perhaps better problems than having discord throughout… Anyway, I was at a public library and foreigners were insulting and nasty that they would need a library card to take out books. They may be naive, they may be innocent, or they may be guilty as all heck, but they need to adopt our ways.
As long as we have idiot liberals supporting sanctuary cities and the "rights" of illegal immigrant border crashers, some of whom are gang members, heroin smugglers and killers….we are finished as anation. There is nothing but anarchy along the southern border but our Nanny State liberal politicians ignore it. Our nation is in deep trouble….trillion dollar deficits, millions of home foreclosures, soaring unemployment, outsourced jobs and manufacturing, immense debts to China, Korea, India and Japan….Los Angeles is the poster child for all that is wrong in the US….but be confident our moronic Congress will do nothing to correct the situation.
SmuckObama approved immigrating thousands of Gaza Palestinians (Hamas supporters) to the U.S. with assistance in housing, education, food, etc. Your tax dollars at work. All we need is another mosque sprouting anti-American sermons and home grown terrorists. This idiot thinks kiss-assing to Arabs will score brownie points. Forget snopes.com, they are a bunch of liberals distorting the facts.
Check on: TruthorFiction.org or FactCheck.org.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2010/apr/police…
] Fri, 04/30/2010
In an apparent effort to encourage illegal aliens to join this weekend’s demonstration—expected to draw up to 100,000 people to the downtown area—Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck has publicly guaranteed illegal immigrants that they are safe from deportation in his city.
The chief actually went out of his way, according to a local news report, to reassure illegal aliens that a decades-old policy (Special Order 40) preventing officers from asking suspects about immigration status is strictly enforced. The new Arizona law, which allows local police to verify legal status, will not affect the City of Angels, the chief confirmed.
“Because of the ongoing issues in Arizona, I wanted to make something perfectly clear,” Beck said at a press conference this week. “Special Order 40 is the mandate of this department. …That is how I will police this city as long as I am the chief of police.” The chief and his mayor, Chicano activist Antonio Villaraigosa, have denounced Arizona’s measure as “unpatriotic” and “unconstitutional.”