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May Day Riots Stampede Cinco de Mayo Festivities
By KAREN KRAFT | May 5, 2006 9:30 PM PDT
What started out as a general boycott and a day of peaceful protest last Monday (May 1) has dragged greater Los Angeles into its fifth day of looting and rioting, dampening the city’s usually festive Cinco de Mayo spirits today. Four days and three nights of arson and looting has made Los Angeles look like a war zone.
Los Angeles’ new Mexican mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, publicly applauded Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) for her efforts to block California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s attempts to send National Guard troops to Southern California. “We don’t need no stinking soldiers!” Villaraigosa quipped at his mid-day press conference outside the Governor’s Southern California guard gated mansion in Mandeville Canyon. When questioned about the widespread looting and destruction of property, the mayor replied, “When you take back something that someone else stole from you, it’s not called “stealing,” it’s called “justice! The question isn’t about telling the rightful owners of this land to go back down South, it’s about telling the Yanqui Squatters to get the hell out! We’ve washed your dishes and dug your ditches long enough!”
Taking advantage of the photo opportunity, Boxer told reporters that her efforts to get (U.S. District Court) Judge Jose Luis Castillo de la Madrid to block the Governor’s troop activation was “a sign that solidarity with both the Chicanada and the undocumented voters of California has finally taken root.”
When rioting broke out on May 1, a spokesperson for Grupo Modelo, S.A. de C.V., the owners of the traditional Cinco de Mayo beer, Corona, said that the beer company was planning to suspend its customary practice of providing millions of free bottles of Corona Beer on Friday. However, early this afternoon, under pressure from the National Council of La Raza, Grupo Modelo backed down and let the beer trucks roll into the city’s parks as usual, the spokesperson said, but added, “But hey, I’m on the next flight out of here anyway, right?”
“LAPD was out-manned and out-gunned by El Pueblo from the start,” police commissioner Eduardo “Chico” Maricón told this reporter yesterday, “Mostly because our courageous Latino officers respected the (May 1) huelga and stood down. You know, sometimes the blue flu is actually red, white and green!”
Mexican President Vicente Fox, once again calling for “open borders,” said the Mexican takeover of California should not be viewed as a violent revolution, but a legal assertion of long-vested property rights. He vowed to “make good” on the debts incurred to secure Judge de la Madrid’s landmark decision adding, “"We are not looking for an amnesty [for] Mexico. It's not that we're looking for these Mexicans working productively in the United States to become U.S. citizens. They are already Mexican citizens, and todo de California es Mexico! They like tacos, they like their families, they like their community, they like Mexico. Unfortunately, they don't have the opportunities that they would like to have as persons, so long as the Squatters are in the way."
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By KAREN KRAFT | May 5, 2006 9:30 PM PDT
What started out as a general boycott and a day of peaceful protest last Monday (May 1) has dragged greater Los Angeles into its fifth day of looting and rioting, dampening the city’s usually festive Cinco de Mayo spirits today. Four days and three nights of arson and looting has made Los Angeles look like a war zone.
Los Angeles’ new Mexican mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, publicly applauded Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) for her efforts to block California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s attempts to send National Guard troops to Southern California. “We don’t need no stinking soldiers!” Villaraigosa quipped at his mid-day press conference outside the Governor’s Southern California guard gated mansion in Mandeville Canyon. When questioned about the widespread looting and destruction of property, the mayor replied, “When you take back something that someone else stole from you, it’s not called “stealing,” it’s called “justice! The question isn’t about telling the rightful owners of this land to go back down South, it’s about telling the Yanqui Squatters to get the hell out! We’ve washed your dishes and dug your ditches long enough!”
Taking advantage of the photo opportunity, Boxer told reporters that her efforts to get (U.S. District Court) Judge Jose Luis Castillo de la Madrid to block the Governor’s troop activation was “a sign that solidarity with both the Chicanada and the undocumented voters of California has finally taken root.”
When rioting broke out on May 1, a spokesperson for Grupo Modelo, S.A. de C.V., the owners of the traditional Cinco de Mayo beer, Corona, said that the beer company was planning to suspend its customary practice of providing millions of free bottles of Corona Beer on Friday. However, early this afternoon, under pressure from the National Council of La Raza, Grupo Modelo backed down and let the beer trucks roll into the city’s parks as usual, the spokesperson said, but added, “But hey, I’m on the next flight out of here anyway, right?”
“LAPD was out-manned and out-gunned by El Pueblo from the start,” police commissioner Eduardo “Chico” Maricón told this reporter yesterday, “Mostly because our courageous Latino officers respected the (May 1) huelga and stood down. You know, sometimes the blue flu is actually red, white and green!”
Mexican President Vicente Fox, once again calling for “open borders,” said the Mexican takeover of California should not be viewed as a violent revolution, but a legal assertion of long-vested property rights. He vowed to “make good” on the debts incurred to secure Judge de la Madrid’s landmark decision adding, “"We are not looking for an amnesty [for] Mexico. It's not that we're looking for these Mexicans working productively in the United States to become U.S. citizens. They are already Mexican citizens, and todo de California es Mexico! They like tacos, they like their families, they like their community, they like Mexico. Unfortunately, they don't have the opportunities that they would like to have as persons, so long as the Squatters are in the way."
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