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NC TIMES: Caltrans, Minutemen dispute finally over
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REGION: Caltrans, Minutemen dispute finally over Agency pays up, installs new sign and publicly apologizes
The new freeway signs are up, the money's been paid, and the apology has been publicly made. It appears that almost two years after it started, the battle between the San Diego Minutemen and the California Department of Transportation is over.
"It does appear that the agency met all of its obligations," Jeff Schwilk, founder of the local Minutemen group, said Wednesday. "We feel vindicated. ... Let's hope we learned lessons from this and let free speech be free speech."
The tug of war over free speech issues started in January 2008 when the state agency yanked its OK for the anti-illegal-immigration activist group to post its name on freeway cleanup signs near a busy U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in North County. It ended in a court settlement.
But turning agreements into action took a little prodding from a federal judge, who two weeks ago ordered the agency to make good on settlement promises with the controversial group.
Caltrans on Monday installed a second Adopt-A-Highway cleanup sign along Interstate 5 bearing the Minutemen's new logo. And last week, the agency made good on an agreement to issue a specifically worded public apology.
Caltrans has also turned over a $157,000 check it cut as part of a settlement with the group.
"We have complied with the court order," Caltrans spokesman Edward Cartegena said Wednesday.
The Minutemen sued Caltrans in federal court last year after the agency reneged on giving the group an Adopt-a-Highway cleanup sign near the busy San Onofre immigration checkpoint.
The group argued its constitutional rights to free speech, free expression, equal protection and due process were violated when Caltrans stripped away the signs.
The agency said it feared confrontations along the busy roadway and offered to move the Minutemen's sponsorship to a remote location near Santee. The Minutemen said Caltrans was bowing to political pressure: The state Latino Legislative Caucus and immigrants-rights activists had urged that the permit be revoked.
When the case was settled during talks mediated by a federal judge three months ago, Caltrans agreed to pay up, apologize and get the activist group a second sign advertising its volunteer trash pickup efforts along the freeway.
But when it didn't happen fast enough, the Minutemen complained to the federal court.
So on Oct. 27, U.S. District Judge William Q. Hayes told Caltrans it had 14 days to act on what it had already agreed to do.
In issuing the order, Hayes also rejected a request to give some of the $157,000 settlement money to a woman who had successfully sued Schwilk personally for defamation-related allegations. The woman, Joanne Yoon, had unsuccessfully argued that Schwilk and the San Diego Minutemen were one and the same.
Yoon has now taken her request to get a cut of the money to the state court judge who oversaw the trial that Yoon won this summer.
Schwilk said that his activist group should net about $97,000 of the settlement, with the balance going to pay the remaining fees to the attorneys who represented the Minutemen in the battle with Caltrans.
By TERI FIGUEROA - tfigueroa@nctimes.com
SD Examiner: Vista Migrant Camps - Sex, Drugs, and Illegal Fires by Kim Dvorak
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Posted by sandiegobrigade
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Kim Dvorak writes the stories that the Main Stream Media refuse to write. While the MSM panders to their special interests, Kim digs right into the truth and puts it out for all to see. Thank you Kim!!
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Posted by sandiegobrigade
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MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR THE PUBLIC -
SAT.8/1 6 PM, CAMPO BP STATION
Tribute to border Agent Robert Rosas, killed in the line of duty on July 23, 2009.
Where:
Campo Border Patrol Station (where Robert was stationed.)
32355 Old Highway 80
Pine Valley, CA
(I-8, exit Kitchen Creek Rd. - map link below)
When: 6 - 9 pm. Formal Ceremony at 7pm.
Who: All members of the public and off-duty BP and LE officers are invited to attend.
Bring: Candles, flowers, small flags, cards, etc.
Many of our civilian border watch friends knew Robert. It was common to see him on the front lines at the Campo area border. He always had a smile and a big "thank you" when he greeted Minutemen and border volunteers. He will be deeply missed by his friends, fellow agents, and a grateful public.
July 28
Patrol Agent Robert Rosas was brutally murdered on duty the night of July 23 near the border by Mexican criminals who easily fled south back to Mexico after executing Rosas with mutliple gunshots to his body and head. The citizens of San Diego County are deeply saddened and outraged by this latest violence in America by Mexican thugs. Ernesto Parra Valenzuela is in custody in Mexico for the murder. Other suspects are also in custody. A vigil for the public is being planned for Saturday evening, 6-9pm at the Campo Border Patrol Station. More details soon.
Donations for family of Robert Rosas:
The Campo Station Welfare & Recreation has set up an account to receive
donations in memory of Agent Rosas and in support of his surviving family members:
Cabrillo Credit Union
358 East H Street, Ste. 603
Chula Vista, CA 91910
BPA Robert W. Rosas
Bank Account # 186716-02
Address for cards, letters, flowers, etc.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol
ATTN: Rosas C/O Public Affairs
2411 Boswell Rd
Chula Vista, CA 91914
*information from sdmm.com
OBAMA'S SUPREME COURT CHOICE/ GREAT ARTICLE
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Posted by sandiegobrigade
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'Empathy' in action'
Thomas Sowell - Syndicated Columnist - 5/27/2009 10:05:00 AM
It is one of the signs of our times that so many in the media are focusing on the life story of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States.
You might think that this was some kind of popularity contest, instead of a weighty decision about someone whose impact on the fundamental law of the nation will extend for decades after Barack Obama has come and gone.
Much is being made of the fact that Sonia Sotomayor had to struggle to rise in the world. But stop and think.
If you were going to have open heart surgery, would you want to be operated on by a surgeon who was chosen because he had to struggle to get where he is or by the best surgeon you could find -- even if he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and had every advantage that money and social position could offer?
If it were you who was going to be lying on that operating table with his heart cut open, you wouldn't give a plug nickel about somebody's struggle or somebody else's privileges.
The Supreme Court of the United States is in effect operating on the heart of our nation -- the Constitution and the statutes and government policies that all of us must live under.
Barack Obama's repeated claim that a Supreme Court justice should have "empathy" with various groups has raised red flags that we ignore at our peril -- and at the peril of our children and grandchildren.
"Empathy" for particular groups can be reconciled with "equal justice under law"-- the motto over the entrance to the Supreme Court-- only with smooth words. But not in reality. President Obama used those smooth words in introducing Judge Sotomayor but words do not change realities.
Nothing demonstrates the fatal dangers from judicial "empathy" more than Judge Sotomayor's decision in a 2008 case involving firemen who took an exam for promotion. After the racial mix of those who passed that test turned out to be predominantly white, with only a few blacks and Hispanics, the results were thrown out.
When this action by the local civil service authorities was taken to court and eventually reached the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Sotomayor did not give the case even the courtesy of a spelling out of the issues. She backed those who threw out the test results. Apparently she didn't have "empathy" with those predominantly white males who had been cheated out of promotions they had earned.
Fellow 2nd Circuit Court judge Jose Cabranes commented on the short shrift given to the serious issues in this case. It so happens that he too is Hispanic, but apparently he does not decide legal issues on the basis of "empathy" or lack thereof.
This was not an isolated matter for Judge Sotomayor. Speaking at the University of California at Berkeley in 2001, she said that the ethnicity and sex of a judge "may and will make a difference in our judging."
Moreover, this was not something she lamented. On the contrary, she added, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
No doubt the political spinmasters will try to spin this to mean something innocent. But the cold fact is that this is a poisonous doctrine for any judge, much less a justice of the Supreme Court.
That kind of empathy would for all practical purposes repeal the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which guarantees "equal protection of the laws" to all Americans.
What would the political spinmasters say if some white man said that a white male would more often reach a better conclusion than a Hispanic female?
For those who believe in the rule of law, Barack Obama used the words "rule of law" in introducing his nominee. For those who take his words as gospel, even when his own actions are directly the opposite of his words, that may be enough to let him put this dangerous woman on the Supreme Court.
Even if her confirmation cannot be stopped, it is important for Senators to warn of the dangers, which will only get worse if such nominations sail through the Senate smoothly.
COPYRIGHT 2009 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
CALL YOUR GOV. OFFICIALS AND TELL THEM
NO THANK YOU, WE WANT JUSTICE, NOT EMPATHY!!
NEW PATRIOT COALITION FORMS
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FROM SAN DIEGO MINUTEMEN.COM::
NEW SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PATRIOT COALITION FORMS !!
Oceanside, CA. - A large coalition of 24 Patriotic and Constitutional American grass-roots groups throughout Southern California has formed to fight the growing threats to our region and to taxpaying American citizens. Our motto is 'Secure Borders, Constitution, and Rule of Law'. This new coalition is non-partisan, multi-ethnic and based on common American principles. We invite all law-abiding citizens and legal residents from all walks of life to get active with our coalition partners and our political activism.
"Many of our state, federal, and local politicians, from both parties, have lost touch with the American people and the Constitution they took an oath to defend and obey. Grassroots groups throughout Southern California are working together to hold our politicians accountable and to keep California and America secure and free", said Chelene Nightingale, Managing Director for Save our State.
More American Patriot groups are expected to be added to our coalition in the coming weeks and months.
SoCal Patriot Coalition
SECURE BORDERS – CONSTITUTION – RULE OF LAW
California Coalition of Immigration Reform (CCIR)
Save Our State
San Diego Minutemen
Border Patrol Auxiliary
Minuteman Corps of California
Latino Americans for Immigration Reform (LAIR)
Tecate Border Volunteers
Central Coast Minutemen (MCDC)
Stop Taxing Us
Taxpayer Revolution Committee
Stop SPP (Security & Prosperity Partnership with Canada & Mexico)
San Diego Christians for Secure Borders
FIRE Coalition
Antelope Valley Minutemen
Los Angeles Minutemen
Desert Cities Minutemen
Ted Hayes' Group
San Diego Citizens Brigade
You Don’t Speak for Me, San Diego (Hispanics against illegal immigration)
Gun Rights Committee, San Diego
Oceanside Watch League (OWL)
Escondido Minuteman Brigade
Carlsbad Citizens Brigade
Encinitas Citizens Brigade
The Radical Extremist Hate Group, Southern Poverty Law (Lie) Center is already attacking our large and powerful American coalition! SPLC has been exposed in recent years as an open borders front group for Mexico and La Raza, and a Propaganda organization for the Socialist Movement in America.
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/04/16/new-nativist-%E2%80%98patriot%E2%80%99-coalition-formed/
IMPORTANT READING!
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REPORT FROM THE CAMPO MINUTEMEN
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Posted by sandiegobrigade
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http://www.campominutemen.com/reports/reports.aspx
Yesterday, while removing litter at East Willow Road. & I-8 (South side of I-8), I came across two day packs with hooded sweatshirts inside and made in Mexico Gatorade, along with another third sweatshirt outside day packs in the brush.
I took pictures. of the find (and viewed damage to the CalTrans fence) prior to bagging and disposing the day packs. I removed 55 pounds of litter from public lands for the day. So far for the past five days, I have averaged 50 pounds of litter removal each day(up from a normal 25 -30 pounds per day).
It never ends! Dan.
SAN DIEGO MAYOR DECLARES LA RAZA DAY!
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| San Diego Mayor declares 'La Raza Day'! |
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Illegals loitering in the Vons parking lot in Vista, CA I say out of spite that we start a white oriented non-profit, tax exempt charity to further the lives and rights of white people in America! African-American people have one, the NAACP. Hispanics have one, the National Council of La Raza. What charity looks after white people? Oh, am I not supposed to talk about topics like this?! Why is it a double standard? Because you think that African-Americans and Hispanics are the minority and thus they are oppressed by the majority, or whites? Is that it? If you believe that, you are a Marxist. The National Council of La Raza, or in english, 'The National Council of The Race', is the largest Hispanic activist group in the United States. Here is a little about what they believe: (From Michelle Malkin) 10. La Raza supports driver?s licenses for illegal aliens. 9. La Raza supports in-state tuition discounts for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding US citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants. 8. La Raza opposes cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state, and federal authorities. 7. La Raza sponsors militant ethnic nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars, including the ?Aztlan Academy? in Tucson, AZ, the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, AZ, and Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn. 6. La Raza gives mainstream cover to a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), which the late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized as ?a radical racist group?[and] one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West.? 5. La Raza opposes a secure fence on the southern border. 4. Former La Raza president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton?s Hispanic outreach advisor said this: ?US English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks.? He was referring to US English the nation?s oldest, largest citizens? action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States. La Raza also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding the terms ?illegal? and ?amnesty.? 3. La Raza is currently leading a smear campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called for TV and cable TV networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves?in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up their foes. 2. La Raza has consistently opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every turn. 1. The National Council of La Raza means The National Council of ?The Race,? for God?s sake. Their signature slogan, chanted at pro-illegal alien rallies from coast to coast, is ?La raza unida nunca sera vencida.? ?A united [Hispanic] race will never be defeated.? | |
MINUTEMEN, OTHERS MARCH IN L.A. TO PROTEST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
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Posted by sandiegobrigade
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CALL AND WRITE YOUR OFFICIALS TELL THEM WE SAY NO TO SANCTUARY CITIES! TELL THEM TO ENFORCE OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS AND TO SECURE OUR BORDERS! PUNISH EMPLOYERS OF ILLEGALS AND STOP ALL THE BENEFITS TO ILLEGALS! LET'S TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY! WAKE UP AMERICA!
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-protest22-2008jun22,0,6118988.story
Minutemen, others march in L.A. to protest illegal immigration
Benjamin Reed / Los Angeles Times
Dozens of protesters, including anti-illegal-immigration Minutemen and community activists, march along Broadway in downtown L.A. to decry violence by illegal immigrants and to demand that the Los Angeles Police Department change its controversial policy limiting when someone can be questioned about their immigration status.
The marchers, including anti-illegal-immigration Minutemen and local community activists, also called for justice for Jamiel Shaw II, 17, a black athlete who was shot and killed in March by an alleged gang member who was in the country illegally.
A few dozen counter-protesters walked alongside the crowd, shouting, "racists" and accusing the marchers of being Ku Klux Klan members. They held a large Mexican flag and chanted, "No human being is illegal."
A line of uniformed officers separated the groups, which remained peaceful despite heated verbal confrontations.
The march and rally at City Hall comes days after a judge ruled that Pedro Espinoza, 19, will stand trial in Shaw's slaying.
Shaw's father, Jamiel Shaw, walked at the front of the protest, wearing a shirt with a photo of his son and the words, "An illegal gang banger killed me."
"This guy just happened to be in the neighborhood and wanted to kill black people," Shaw said.
A few steps behind, protester and local attorney Sam Zislman said the slaying showed that the LAPD needs to reform its long-standing policy, Special Order 40, that prohibits officers from initiating contact with people simply to determine whether they are illegal immigrants.
Zislman and others are pushing a change called "Jamiel's Law" that would allow LAPD officers to routinely check the immigration status of known gang members who are suspected of committing a crime.
Zislman said police should be using "every possible tool" to detain illegal immigrants, especially known criminals and gang members.
But counter-protesters, including Najee Ali, argue that the slaying had nothing to do with race, but instead was gang-related. Evidence in last week's preliminary hearing showed that Jamiel Shaw II may have been associated with a gang at war with a rival group.
During the march, Ali held up a photo of Shaw flashing gang signs and said the family is trying to use the slaying to push their own anti-illegal immigrant political agenda.
"This was not a hate crime," said Ali, founder of Project Islamic Hope. "They are allowing their son's death to racially divide the city even more."
The case is part of a larger debate over the role of race in homicides in the area. Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has said that race is at the heart of the gang problem. On the other side, LAPD Chief William J. Bratton has said that gangs are battling over turf and drugs and that race-driven violence is rare.
anna.gorman@latimes.com
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http://www.activistsandiego.org/wwwboard/viewtopic.php?t=18318
HATE CRIMES SUMMIT
Thursday, June 12, 2008
United for a Hate Free San Diego is a coalition of 52 faith and community leaders and organizations who have been meeting regularly since November of 2007 in response to a growing trend of hate motivated behavior in San Diego communities. The goal of the coalition is to reduce the number of hate crimes that negatively impact so many people in our communities.
UNITED FOR A HATE FREE SAN DIEGO
A coalition of faith and community leaders
invites you to the first
HATE CRIMES SUMMIT
http://www.icwj.org/downloads/ICWJ_20080612_summitreg.pdf
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice
5998 ALCALA PARK, SAN DIEGO
with keynote speaker:
Heidi Beirich, Ph. D. from Southern Poverty Law Center
A COMMUNITY INVITATION
United for a Hate Free San Diego is a coalition of 52 faith and community leaders and organizations who have been meeting regularly since November of 2007 in response to a growing trend of hate motivated behavior in San Diego communities. The goal of the coalition is to reduce the number of hate crimes that negatively impact so many people in our communities.
UNITED FOR A HATE FREE SAN DIEGO
A coalition of faith and community leaders
invites you to the first
HATE CRIMES SUMMIT
Thursday, June 12, 2008
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice
5998 ALCALA PARK, SAN DIEGO
with keynote speaker:
Heidi Beirich, Ph. D. from Southern Poverty Law Center
CLICK HERE FOR A COMMUNITY INVITATION
http://www.icwj.org/downloads/ICWJ_20080612_summitinvite.pdf
CLICK HERE FOR A REGISTRATION FORM
http://www.icwj.org/downloads/ICWJ_20080612_summitreg.pdf
For more information or to RSVP, please contact Connie Hernandez, City of San Diego, Human Relations Commission, at telephone number (619) 236-6420 or by email
chernandez@sandiego.gov
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