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- inactive, on 04/09/2008, -20/+688Terrible news. Regardless of where you stand on the issue of illegal immigration, violence should not be the answer in this situation.
- innerpenguin, on 04/09/2008, -51/+645A citizen of the United States of America should not have to live in fear for supporting the laws of the United States of America.
- dan222555, on 04/09/2008, -27/+512Being opposed to people entering our country illegally makes you a "neocon racist"? Get a ***** clue.
- inactive, on 04/09/2008, -76/+544Why can't people just enter this country legally?
- inactive, on 04/09/2008, -32/+403School should a place to learn..not to fight. I think the aggressors should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
- inactive, on 04/09/2008, -21/+353Note to self: Apparently a having a desire to see people follow the laws of our country (especially entry to it) is now classified as racist.
- magoblygoo, on 04/09/2008, -45/+331Funny how when white people are attacked its usually the white persons fault somehow. when any other race is attacked by white people its called racism.
i still dont understand how this standard came about. - OBDriftwood, on 04/09/2008, -20/+296Clearly the problem here is with the teacher. The last thing we need in public education is children forming their own opinions.
- StusGhost, on 04/09/2008, -17/+289Wow, those latino students sure showed her. Slamming her face into a wall and threatening to rape and kill her. . . Who wouldn't be for immigration after that??!!
- meuse, on 04/09/2008, -58/+326It sounds like a hate crime to me. The Latino students beat her and threatened to rape and murder her because she's white.
- Austin7687, on 04/09/2008, -24/+257"Melanie said a group of boys also threatened to rape and kill her."
Such nice boys. - inactive, on 04/09/2008, -17/+227Free speech is only good when it's you calling people racists on the internet, right?
- selfobsessed, on 04/09/2008, -13/+192Because it's a lot easier said than done. I have an aunt who is financially solvent and holds a masters degree in engineering and all she pretty much does is go to work, raises her daughter and goes to church.
Yet the waiting list for her is 15 years?
I'm not advocating illegal immigration but the legal channels need a serious overhaul. - Idiggapony, on 04/09/2008, -21/+198So have the students who attacked her and threatened to rape her been expelled from school?
Has the school district that sent her back to class, refused to let her call her parents, kept both her and her attackers in school, and placed her in immediate physical danger been sued?
Has the ACLU offered to sue the school district and the students who attacked her? It would seem that, when a person is subjected to physical violence for expressing a political view, and an agent of the government (i.e. the school) fails to protect her, this would be just the sort of case that the ACLU should get involved with, if the ACLU were really interested in civil liberties. - carbonetc, on 04/09/2008, -10/+174And so Melanie finally saw the error of her ways and decided Latinos weren't so bad after all.
The end. - drz130, on 04/09/2008, -20/+179Can you imagine if this was a Latino who was attacked by a group of whites for an opinion they had. Duh ya think there would be an outcry?
- Armakillo, on 04/09/2008, -9/+159The racist one is the one who equates "illegal immigration" with another race. Stopping illegal immigration has nothing to do with the fact that most of them are Latino.
- theberlindoctor, on 04/09/2008, -8/+154Yes, lets debase this into a left/right issue instead of a non-partisan free speech issue, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS.
I'm not your buddy, guy. - meuse, on 04/09/2008, -18/+162neocon? Maybe if her sign had read, "Defend Israel, Bomb Iran".
- dumpyhumpy, on 04/09/2008, -7/+129sidenote: Channel 7 news has one ugly news-team.
- inactive, on 04/09/2008, -25/+133Didn't you know that ONLY Whites can be racist?
- romistrub, on 04/09/2008, -9/+116***** your *****. I'm a "lefty" and this ***** disgusts me. She was entirely in the right, even if the sign *wasn't* for a project. ***** those reactionary kids.
- socialismEVIL, on 04/09/2008, -36/+139It's not only ok to hate white people, it's expected. After all they're responsible for all social ills, poverty, inflation, depression, recession, sickness, STDs, discontent, joblessness, homelessness, especially slavery -- despite the fact that people with black skin, themselves actually african, are responsible for gathering-, selling-, and shipping other black skinned people, also actually african, into slavery in many many counties of which one was America. It doesn't matter that no white people now have had no hand in slavery for the sins of the father are visited upon the son, and daughters in a politically "correct" world
- Fafnir43, on 04/09/2008, -8/+110I'm a "leftie". I think the students should be expelled and possibly charges pressed, depending on their ages. This isn't a left/right issue, it's a pro-free speech/***** issue and if you try to cast it as anything else then I think you need to learn a little more about politics.
- drachemorder, on 04/09/2008, -9/+100I don't believe in the concept of "hate crime". The mere fact that they beat her and threatened to rape her is quite sufficient. Those things are already criminal.
- LuckyASN, on 04/09/2008, -35/+122 Dear immigrants, illegal or legal:
We have this thing called "Freedom of speech" and "Freedom to protest". As it turns out, people who have different views from yours have those very same freedoms too! And they too would like to express their differing views without fear of reprisal, much like yourself.
Don't like it, go back to that ***** of a country you fled from! - inactive, on 04/09/2008, -9/+91No one deserves a brutal punishment for their opinion
- inactive, on 04/09/2008, -4/+84Yes, but they would have raped her much more efficiently and for a lower cost than any legal citizen.
- inactive, on 04/09/2008, -17/+95You're forgetting: white people of all ages, including my 1 year old son, were responsible for slavery, the Japanese internment, and almost all other acts of culture and hate based racism throughout history.
- cocaclay, on 04/09/2008, -42/+117Because then you actually have to pay taxes for the benefits we get as citizens. When you're illegal you get all the good for free!
- JimmyTheClam, on 04/09/2008, -252/+325Uh oh!
The lefties are going into "minimization" and name calling mode when they don't like the news.
This most certainly have made news if a bunch of whites attacked that girl because she was a Mexican. - inactive, on 04/09/2008, -11/+79Many assume that this girl was being racist, but who here would NOT like to stop ILLEGAL immigration? I see great potential in legal immigration, both for us and the immigrants. However, illegal immigration should be something that we band together to extinguish, because illegal immigration is only the product of zenophobic hate and desperation.
- iatethecake, on 04/09/2008, -7/+73Wow their actions help justify her opinion...
- bgrah449, on 04/09/2008, -10/+75It wasn't because she was white, it's because she said something about illegal immigration. Because the vast majority of noticed illegal immigration comes from Central America, these statements can come off as against people from these regions - "You're unwanted & unwelcome in this country." It's hard for many people to separate these issues: policy from xenophobia, rule of law from misguided compassion.
The beating and threats were criminal, and deserve criminal prosecution. But they weren't because she was white.
P.S. Hate crimes are bogus, the law does not govern my beliefs - nominalgeek, on 04/09/2008, -9/+74Remember everyone, it's ok to be racist to white people! All white people are devils out to enslave everyone around them! < end sarcasm >
These dumb ***** that attacked her should get whats coming to them... notice how she was protesting illegal immigration not immigration. Whats wrong with education today? - Fafnir43, on 04/09/2008, -1/+65I will give you a hint: anyone who uses the term "politically correct" in their post and espouses views like that is being very very sarcastic.
- inactive, on 04/09/2008, -9/+71I am considered a liberal among those who know me and I am a registered Democrat and I believe Illegal Immigration should be stopped using all measures necessary and we should begin to harshly punish the corporations and small companies who employee them. This should include ceasing the companies operations until they can show all their workers are documented. As an American you would not be able to work in any other country without the proper documentation . Why should it be different here?
- Jexie, on 04/09/2008, -2/+62What the hell does an illegal immigration sign have to do with freedom of religion?
- chanop, on 04/09/2008, -11/+67and if a white guy attacked a latino girl on her stance on immigration....he'd be charged with a hate crime
- o0joshua0o, on 04/09/2008, -8/+63I can't believe that a poster telling people to stop an illegal activity is controversial. Imagine the girl made a poster saying "don't steal cars" and started getting threats from other students.
- inactive, on 04/09/2008, -11/+63This kind of thing happened at my old high school in Philadelphia. Back when they announced that OJ Simpson was innocent, a horde of black kids started rounding up and beating any random white kids they could find.
They'd take turns kicking, stomping and jumping on them until they were motionless. One kid had his face caved in and another actually had his spine severed. - inactive, on 04/09/2008, -18/+68you see the case where a man gave the finger to a protest march of thousands of people (probably mostly illegals) who were marching for illegal aliens.. they were blocking traffic, waving mexican flags, had reconquista and la raza shirts and some held boards showing california belonging to mexico.. this is basically a hostile anti-american force.. man gives them the finger
who do cops arrest? the cops pull this guy out of his running car smash his face into the ground and arrest him while mexicans cheer and trash his car... the angry hostile mob is left alone though - dizam, on 04/09/2008, -3/+51I am a south American immigrant, and I am ashamed of what these people did. Those who assaulted this girl are idiots, and they cause more damage to "their cause" than one thousand signs against illegal immigration. Hope the attacked girl will add to his sign "proved fact"
- iloveazngurlzs, on 04/09/2008, -7/+53if you want to be legal, you need to start the process 15-20 years ago. Our whole immigration process is completely *****. Its not as easy as 123 hey i can recite the bill of rights am i a citizen now?
- imitationflavor, on 04/09/2008, -6/+51Latino hoodlums aren't liberals.
- bgrah449, on 04/09/2008, -2/+46I'm sure you would, Internet Tough Guy™. I'm sure you would.
- inactive, on 04/09/2008, -11/+54Wow, thanks for revealing to me that I am against immigration of any kind. I didn't realize that until you made your sweeping generalization and pointed it out to me. To think that all along I thought that I was just against illegal immigration.
As for their choice, they do have one actually. They can pass through a border checkpoint and be documented or they can sneak their way in. I'm actually taken aback to think that this country is the one country in the world that gets ***** on for trying to curtail illegal immigration.
The only thing I don't disagree with you on, is the punishment of businesses. Although some people are fighting to stop that as well. - bladzalot, on 04/09/2008, -9/+51This is the exact kinda stupid comment I would expect from someone named "ISmokesDaPot420", keep up the good work...
- pintomp3, on 04/09/2008, -6/+47we shouldn't live in fear of denouncing unjust laws either. just because the patriot act is law doesn't mean that it is right and should be supported blindly.
- antlerboy, on 04/09/2008, -5/+46yeah yeah yeah the indians have been saying that for ages...
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