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Jul 7, 2008

LULAC seeks assurances from McCain, Obama

A leading Hispanic organization is demanding assurances from the two major presidential candidates that they’ll push for comprehensive immigration revisions and dramatically increase Hispanic representation in the federal government.

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Hey McCain, let Obama back these terrorist looneys. It will be the best thing you could do to show some us you're still sane about border issues.

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How arrogant of this racist organization! They need to get out of this country! Extortionists...or better yet..."EXTORTIONISTAS! "

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Change? It's past time to end the sleazy game democRats play during every election: Race.
Let's see, it's black, white, red, yellow, brown. If the race baiting media mentions Hispanics that's the brown group in need of some specialized government medicine to heal a problem unique to brown skin. The same holds true for whatever color skin you're stuck in...This game has no winners except for those seated safely in the elite position to stir up trouble.
In the United States Of America we have a melting pot called Americans...It's time for Americans to end the joy ride for the democRat instigators who for political gain pit one group against another. Whenever the media singles out a color or race simply ignore them by thinking of those Americans patrolling and fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan where one’s skin color, race is a non-issue; you’re on a much higher level bonded together as Americans.
The choice is yours, you can be Americans or you can be whiners.
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Latinos using their "gang mentality" tactics as usual, I see......they are NEVER satisfied.....the more they get, the more they want.
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Isn't Rosa Rosales the one I find amusing when she's on TV with the outrageous hats "all decked out" and apparently paid quite well? If this is the largest and oldest Hispanic group of 115,000 members, do they really think they can "demand" anything? I'm so glad such pertinent information is in the article. Rosa Rosales-good luck. The way you babble about how much influence you have in my country, I'd like to know where! Your membership is what percent of the American population?
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"LULAC, the nation’s oldest and largest Hispanic organization, with 115,000 members, insists that the next president urge Congress to pass comprehensive immigration legislation that would create a guest-worker program and put millions of illegal immigrants on the path to citizenship"

Does anyone even know if illegal aliens even want to be citizens? I've read lots of stories about how they want jobs, but none saying that they came here to be Americans. So we should give it away?

Would illegals forsake their home country and swear allegiance to the United State?

Wouldn't that devalue US citizenship? And what about all those people that are immigrating here legally? Doesn't that send a mixed message?
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Roy wrote:
"LULAC, the nation’s oldest and largest Hispanic organization, with 115,000 members, insists that the next president urge Congress to pass comprehensive immigration legislation that would create a guest-worker program and put millions of illegal immigrants on the path to citizenship"
Does anyone even know if illegal aliens even want to be citizens? I've read lots of stories about how they want jobs, but none saying that they came here to be Americans. So we should give it away?
Would illegals forsake their home country and swear allegiance to the United State?
Wouldn't that devalue US citizenship? And what about all those people that are immigrating here legally? Doesn't that send a mixed message?
From what I understand Roy, no most of them don't. It would put them on the tax rolls. Unfortunately Lulac's 115,000 members aren't enought to outweight the millions of us on the other side of "this aisle."
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Roy wrote:
"LULAC, the nation’s oldest and largest Hispanic organization, with 115,000 members,
With the continuing illegal invasion motivating more people to join the KKK, I think they will soon have at least 115,000 members. Are Obama and McCain going to pander to the KKK also?
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Leaving the racists to stew in their own juices for a minute, let's take a look at LULA:

About LULAC

LULAC is the largest and oldest Hispanic Organization in the United States. LULAC advances the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health and civil rights of Hispanic Americans through community-based programs operating at more than 700 LULAC councils nationwide. The organization involves and serves all Hispanic nationality groups.

Historically, LULAC has focused heavily on education, civil rights, and employment for Hispanics. LULAC councils provide more than a million dollars in scholarships to Hispanic students each year, conduct citizenship and voter registration drives, develop low income housing units, conduct youth leadership training programs, and seek to empower the Hispanic community at the local, state and national level.

In addition, the LULAC National Educational Service Centers, LULAC’s educational arm, provides counseling services to more than 18,000 Hispanic students per year at sixteen regional centers. SER Jobs for Progress, LULAC’s employment arm, provides job skills and literacy training to the Hispanic community through more than forty-eight employment training centers located throughout the United States.

And then:

The LULAC Corporate Alliance, an advisory board of Fortune 500 companies, fosters stronger partnerships between Corporate America and the Hispanic community.
http://www.lulac.org/about.html

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So who are these Anti American racist corporate fortune 500 companies supporting these radicals?

Why there's Anhouser Busch! Proctor and Gamble! Coors and Comcast! Exxon, Ford, GM and Burger King!
Sears and JC Penney!
http://www.lulac.org/links.html


Those damn racist radicals are supported by terrorist money! Call the FBI! Call NSA!

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The posters above are hallucinating. We really need to get health care reform so they can get help.
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And what kind of vile actions will they take to enslave the white man and take over our country?

Lulac Code:

LULAC Code

Respect your Citizenship and preserve it; honor your country, maintain its tradition in the spirit of its citizens and embody yourself into its culture and civilization.

Be proud of your origin and maintain it immaculate, respect your glorious past and help to defend the rights of all the people.

Learn how to discharge your duties before you learn how to assert your rights; educate and make yourself worthy, and stand high in the light of your own deed; you must always be loyal and courageous.

Filled with optimism, make yourself sociable, upright, judicious, and above all things be sober and collected in your habits, cautious in your actions and sparing in your speech.

Believe in God, love Humanity and rely upon the framework of human progress, slow and sound, unequivocal and firm.

Always be honorable and high-minded; learn how to be self-reliant upon your qualifications and resources.

In war serve your country, in peace your convictions; discern, investigate, meditate, think, study, and at all times be honest and generous. Let your firmest purpose be that of helping to see that each new generation shall be of a youth more efficient and capable and in this let your own children be included.

Damn racists!

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Summer Rain wrote:
Leaving the racists to stew in their own juices for a minute, let's take a look at LULA:
About LULAC
LULAC is the largest and oldest Hispanic Organization in the United States. LULAC advances the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health and civil rights of Hispanic Americans through community-based programs operating at more than 700 LULAC councils nationwide. The organization involves and serves all Hispanic nationality groups.
Historically, LULAC has focused heavily on education, civil rights, and employment for Hispanics. LULAC councils provide more than a million dollars in scholarships to Hispanic students each year, conduct citizenship and voter registration drives, develop low income housing units, conduct youth leadership training programs, and seek to empower the Hispanic community at the local, state and national level.
In addition, the LULAC National Educational Service Centers, LULAC’s educational arm, provides counseling services to more than 18,000 Hispanic students per year at sixteen regional centers. SER Jobs for Progress, LULAC’s employment arm, provides job skills and literacy training to the Hispanic community through more than forty-eight employment training centers located throughout the United States.
And then:
The LULAC Corporate Alliance, an advisory board of Fortune 500 companies, fosters stronger partnerships between Corporate America and the Hispanic community.
http://www.lulac.org/about.html
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So who are these Anti American racist corporate fortune 500 companies supporting these radicals?
Why there's Anhouser Busch! Proctor and Gamble! Coors and Comcast! Exxon, Ford, GM and Burger King!
Sears and JC Penney!
http://www.lulac.org/links.html
Those damn racist radicals are supported by terrorist money! Call the FBI! Call NSA!
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The posters above are hallucinating. We really need to get health care reform so they can get help.
And how many millions of taxpayer dollars pays for these "wonderful things?" LMAO
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Philosophy

We believe in the democratic principle of individual political and religious freedom, the right of equality of social and economic opportunity, and in the cooperative endeavor toward the development of an American Society wherein the cultural resources, integrity and dignity of every individual and group constitute basic assets of the American way of Life.

We believe that as American Citizens we must assume our duties and responsibilities and assert our rights and privileges in pursuit of a fuller and richer civilization for our country.

We believe that education is the foundation for the cultural growth and development of this nation and that we are obligated to promote, protect and assure the right of our people to an education that is in accordance with the best American educational principles and standards; that we must deplore any infringement of this right wherever it may occur and regardless of whom it may affect.

We accept that it is not only the privilege but the obligation of every member of this organization to uphold and defend the rights and duties vested in every American Citizen by the letter and spirit of the Law of the Land.

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Yeah, lock 'em up and deport them!

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I forgot to include the link in the post above. Its all on one page, so here it is:
http://www.lulac.org/about/code.html
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Summer Rain wrote:
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And what kind of vile actions will they take to enslave the white man and take over our country?
Lulac Code:
LULAC Code
Respect your Citizenship and preserve it; honor your country, maintain its tradition in the spirit of its citizens and embody yourself into its culture and civilization.
Be proud of your origin and maintain it immaculate, respect your glorious past and help to defend the rights of all the people.
Learn how to discharge your duties before you learn how to assert your rights; educate and make yourself worthy, and stand high in the light of your own deed; you must always be loyal and courageous.
Filled with optimism, make yourself sociable, upright, judicious, and above all things be sober and collected in your habits, cautious in your actions and sparing in your speech.
Believe in God, love Humanity and rely upon the framework of human progress, slow and sound, unequivocal and firm.
Always be honorable and high-minded; learn how to be self-reliant upon your qualifications and resources.
In war serve your country, in peace your convictions; discern, investigate, meditate, think, study, and at all times be honest and generous. Let your firmest purpose be that of helping to see that each new generation shall be of a youth more efficient and capable and in this let your own children be included.
Damn racists!
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You need to recruit somewhere else. So hurry, check back with "the base" and see what other total B.S. you can come up with!
Summer Rain

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And what is LULAC demanding?

Aims and Purposes

Based on the spirit of the philosophy of our League and having unequivocal faith in its righteousness, we propose:

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To use all constitutional means at our disposal to implement with social action the principles set forth in our philosophy;
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To foster the learning and fluent use of the English language that we may thereby equip ourselves and our families for the fullest enjoyment of our rights and privileges and the efficient discharge of our duties and responsibilities to our country, but at the same time, exerting equal effort to foster the fluent mastery of the Spanish language which is part of our heritage and a means of extending the cultural horizons of our nation;
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To constitute the League into a service organization to actively promote and foster suitable measures for the attainment of the highest of our American society, and to establish cooperative relations with civic and governmental institutions and agencies in the field of public service;
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To exert our united efforts to uphold the rights guaranteed to every individual by our state and national laws and to assure justice and equal treatment under these laws;
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To combat with every means at our command all un- American tendencies and actions that deprive American citizens of their rights in educational institutions, in economic pursuits and in social, civic and political activities;
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To maintain the League free of all involvement in partisan politics as an organization; however, we shall oppose any infringement upon the constitutional political rights of an individual to vote and/or be voted upon at local, state and national levels;
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To oppose any violent demonstrations or other acts that defy constituted law and authority, desecrate the symbols of our nation, and threaten the physical and spiritual welfare of individuals or institutions;
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To promote and encourage the education of youth and adults through scholarships, the constant vigilance of administrative and instructional practices in schools which deprive persons of educational opportunities, the sponsorship of classes in citizenship and other areas, and through the dissemination of information about available training opportunities;
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To make use of every medium of communication at our disposal and to exert our combined efforts to promulgate and propagate the principles of the League, and augment its influence and numerical growth;
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To under gird the efforts postulated in our Aims and Purposes with the overall objective of creating among our fellow citizens, through example and a mutual exchange of concepts, an understanding and recognition of and an appreciation for the dignity, worth and potential of the individual.
http://www.lulac.org/about/code.html
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Hey Juan McSHAME, Here is an organization that is older than LULAC and has 2,000,000+ members.
What makes you think that Americans with alegiance to only America are not worth listening to?
http://www.legion.org/documents/pdf/illegalim...
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Of course, none of this will matter to the America hating racist radicals. They only seek to exacerbate racial tensions, recruit other racists and start a race war. Some of them believe that an Obama Presidency will be the catalyst for this race war, enabling them to execute or drive out anyone who is not white.

These people are mentally ill. They hate. Therefore, they are racists. I hope to provide them with reality therapy.

Now this will be marked as spam and I will be reviled in the grossest possible terms. OK. But the reality will not change.

They hate America.
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Summer Rain wrote:
And what is LULAC demanding?
Aims and Purposes
Based on the spirit of the philosophy of our League and having unequivocal faith in its righteousness, we propose:
1.
To use all constitutional means at our disposal to implement with social action the principles set forth in our philosophy;
2.
To foster the learning and fluent use of the English language that we may thereby equip ourselves and our families for the fullest enjoyment of our rights and privileges and the efficient discharge of our duties and responsibilities to our country, but at the same time, exerting equal effort to foster the fluent mastery of the Spanish language which is part of our heritage and a means of extending the cultural horizons of our nation;
3.
To constitute the League into a service organization to actively promote and foster suitable measures for the attainment of the highest of our American society, and to establish cooperative relations with civic and governmental institutions and agencies in the field of public service;
4.
To exert our united efforts to uphold the rights guaranteed to every individual by our state and national laws and to assure justice and equal treatment under these laws;
5.
To combat with every means at our command all un- American tendencies and actions that deprive American citizens of their rights in educational institutions, in economic pursuits and in social, civic and political activities;
6.
To maintain the League free of all involvement in partisan politics as an organization; however, we shall oppose any infringement upon the constitutional political rights of an individual to vote and/or be voted upon at local, state and national levels;
7.
To oppose any violent demonstrations or other acts that defy constituted law and authority, desecrate the symbols of our nation, and threaten the physical and spiritual welfare of individuals or institutions;
8.
To promote and encourage the education of youth and adults through scholarships, the constant vigilance of administrative and instructional practices in schools which deprive persons of educational opportunities, the sponsorship of classes in citizenship and other areas, and through the dissemination of information about available training opportunities;
9.
To make use of every medium of communication at our disposal and to exert our combined efforts to promulgate and propagate the principles of the League, and augment its influence and numerical growth;
10.
To under gird the efforts postulated in our Aims and Purposes with the overall objective of creating among our fellow citizens, through example and a mutual exchange of concepts, an understanding and recognition of and an appreciation for the dignity, worth and potential of the individual.
http://www.lulac.org/about/code.html
Do you think we don't know the website? Get real, get legal and get off the internet! LMAO you're another brain-washed illegal!

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NE Red wrote:
<quoted text> You need to recruit somewhere else. So hurry, check back with "the base" and see what other total B.S. you can come up with!
LMAO good one NE Red. I can see it now

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URGENT they are not falling for it waaa waaa waaa
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Well informed wrote:
Latinos using their "gang mentality" tactics as usual, I see......they are NEVER satisfied.....the more they get, the more they want.
True !
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<quoted text>LMAO good one NE Red. I can see it now
memo to base:
Subject: Rhetoric change request
URGENT they are not falling for it waaa waaa waaa
Rosa Rosales' hat probably fell off!
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