May-1-07: Marches for Immigration Reform

I realize that just several posts ago I promised not to post any more video, but I fear I'm going to have to break that promise now. The footage in both of these videos is some of the most disturbing and troubling I've ever seen, so much so that even the Fox (FOX!) newscaster in the first video appears disgusted and indignant. I don't think I need to waste time and computer space trying to convince anyone of the blatant racism, chauvinism, and imperialistic behavior demonstrated by the police at these marches. I also don't think I need to elaborate on how profoundly troubling a precedent has been set by the fact that the police, in addition to targeting the peaceful protesters, also targeted the press reporting on the event, to the point of even using violent and physical crowd control tactics on journalists (this is also seen in Video 1).

And something that is even more troubling (and, in fact, infuriating) is the reaction of many of the countless people who have seen this footage and read these news stories. Ironically, much of the anger over these events seems to be targeted at the peaceful (predominately Hispanic) protesters, rather than at the police. Copied and pasted straight from the YouTube message board of this video:

"The cops can't beat you enough. The white folks don't understand anything ( bullshit). Poor minorities.Cry for yourself. You get everything handed to you, try and earn it,you pussies" (mark03063)

Maybe it's time to put strychnine or arsenic in all the imported Mexican pot and get rid of a few million problems here? (It5lee)

This next video (yeah, I know, two in one post) is a CNN prospective on this debacle. It has been added so that there are two mainstream news sources available, just for the sake of validation.