It is never as good the second time

Today there is no joy in Mudville. The New York Times reports:

LOS ANGELES, May 1—Tens of thousands of people pressing for immigrants’ rights demonstrated on Tuesday in dozens of cities. But with advocates splintered over tactics, the crowds paled in comparison with the turnout last year.

Sounds like good news to me.

Talking over the din of drums and chanting at the Chicago march, Esmeralda Marin, 30, a Mexican-American, said she was demonstrating to denounce the government raids, which have led to an increase in deportations in the last year.

Sounds even better.

“The political climate last year was passionate, energetic, dramatic,” said Armando Navarro, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside, who helped organize marches here last year. “This year, it is one of uncertainty, doubt, fear, things that are not encouraging of participation and impede in many ways people from participating.”

Ditto!

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Stephen T. writes:

Think you’re getting the straight story from the mainstream media re today’s “Immigrant Rights” marches? Wonder why all the shots seem to show cute, doe-eyed babies swaddled in American flags and not fist-brandishing reconquistas carrying signs pledging to drive Anglos out of the southwest? Take a look at this cameraman from Houston’s NBC affiliate, which was responsible for feeding video to the entire NBC network. Notice that he’s obviously a Mestizo Mexican, and that he openly, proudly and arrogantly displays the flag of Mexico on his camera.

This demonstrates that a Mestizo’s first loyalty is to “his people”, not to his profession and not to the truth. Does anyone seriously believe that this guy would put anything on the NBC network that was unfavorable to the cause of La Raza? You can forget about anything other than an adoring, romantic view of illegal Mexicans from NBC … and now you know why.

Eric E. writes:

Why are we tolerating tens of thousands of illegal aliens to demonstrate in our streets while American men and women are fighting and dying overseas? This is mind boggling to me. Yet I have not heard one pundit on TV or the web say it. Is it not madness to conceive of it?

What of the men fighting? What can they be thinking when they see such a thing?

And this “President” stands by mute, waiting patiently for the cameras to shut off, so that he can reward these aliens. Not the troops fighting and dying. Not the people who’s taxes and labor support his grandiose ventures. Not the citizens who voted for him believing he would uphold their laws (he swore to, right?)

Nope. He dreams of rewarding the rabble from another country, another culture, another world.

How in God’s name did we end up in this Lewis Carroll outtake?

Paul Nachman writes to the Los Angeles Times:

Editor:

Gustavo Arellano extols students ditching school to participate in this year’s illegal alien marches: “[A]t least Latino youths are tackling something bigger than algebra.” That’s the kind of passion for achievement the country needs. Or maybe not.

Paul Nachman

LA replies:

Oh, so that’s Hispanics’ problem. They’ve been paying too much attention to algebra.

Mark P. writes:

I watched the local WGN news covering the immigration rally. Three elements popped up briefly:

1) One of the anchors actually used illegal immigrant in her speech.

2) They showed a riot break out at the LA rally, where officers had to beat back a crowd for surrounding a police car. Rubber bullets were fired. This is a bad sign and probably indicates LA will burn (again) one day.

3) A UIC professor was given some air time to explain how illegal immigrants take jobs away from poor native-born Americans.

Baby steps…baby steps….and all from the mainstream media.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 01, 2007 10:39 PM | Send