It's Time to Boycott Arizona
 

First they pass the Birther legislation. Now, Governor Brewer just signed SB 1070, the "Papers Please" law. Now any brown person in AZ can be stopped at any time by any cop and forced to prove that they are in the country legally. State officials claim that they won't profile, but I'm seriously doubting that the police are going to go around asking white folks to produce papers.

Polls show that 70% of residents support SB1070.

please, a little more specific.
 

70% of the people polled.

0% of the people i know approve of SB1070 nor the people that those people know--or the kids demonstrating, and college students demonstrating and getting arrested.

to be clear, there is a hate-mongering and fearful racist, moneyed minority in this state.

boycott what you like, but i didn't know that this was a mecca for anyone except rich, white golfer-retirees. (not a lot of queer dollars in that demographic.)

Yeah,

That's TRUELY ashame...racial profiling was already running a muck before...I HATE to think what it will be like NOW.

i'm guessing... MORE racial profiling, more arrests, more mistreatment of human beings, more disregard for human life, more empowered 'minutemen' freaks.

and what they weren't planning on is the UNITY that i'm seeing. there's a HUGE latino population here and an obvious imbalance of power. i remain (hugely pissed) and hopeful.

I looked closer. The poll was done by Rasmussen, which is notoriously right-wing biased in it's results, and it polled "likely voters". It's quite possible that Rasmussen only considers likely voters to be white republicans.

Thanks for making me look more closely. I'm sorry that the non-racists in AZ will be stuck with the bill for the lawsuits that are sure to come rolling in.

This is a sad thing indeed, to be brown, pulled over, with a law backing up the cops..

I would be terrified..:|

It's sickening

This is just wrong .. it's disgraceful ..

this is really upsetting. :( I hope this gets stricken down somehow. How can 70% of Arizonans be okay with that?

Also, according to wikipedia, "non-Hispanic whites" make up only 59% of the population. I think that poll is bs.

ps. I just read above - thanks Msdemeanor for clarifying more about the poll. Kinda went off half-cocked. :)

it'll be interesting when the po-po pull over one of those million dollar brown baseball players during spring training....and he doesn't have his green card and only has a driver's license from another state......that'll be way fun.....

there is hope....many police officers are against this bill including former Mesa AZ police chief and now current SF police chief http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/152962

and also:

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepu...ce-impact.html
The Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police opposes SB 1070 because the group says the law would hobble law enforcement's ability to "fulfill their many responsibilities in a timely manner." But it said its chiefs will enforce the measure if it becomes law.

Besides immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility not a state one........

so here is a summary of the bill:
http://www.azleg.gov/FormatDocument....passed.doc.htm

Rachel Maddow with her usual wit on the subject:

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4nQvLDbjyU"]YouTube- WANSM-Latest Arizona's Immigration Law, April 23, 2010[/nomedia]

:wtf:

I'm totally speechless... This is so wrong!

the face of the enemy
 

i hope she overdoses on her boniva.

http://images.thetruthaboutcars.com/...jan-brewer.jpg

Sometimes I wonder and I try not to do it often , Where do these people come from and how do they get in the position of power that they are in ....:angry:

our friendship ended months ago, she unfriended me on facebook. *real sad face* for questioning her on her lack of college degree, on declaring an official 'day of prayer' to fix the economy, and because i dared ask if the citizens pay for her health care (she wants to sue the feds to exempt az from having health care reform because she's crying poor...).

we're no longer bffs, can't imagine why.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6-IIXAF5HO...R-Arizona).jpg

*she also (well, to be fair i'm sure it's her assistant) erases opposing comments on her FB and unfriends anyone that speak the truth.

IRONY: the night before she signed the racist bill she spoke at a Chicana function. (no one was aware of this bill when she was asked to speak, but come on! does she look like someone you'd ask to speak at your Chicana function?)

lovingly, my friends refer to her as the 'crypt keeper'.

she's only in office because president obama appointed our then-governor, napolitano (a democrat and female, twice elected) as secretary of homeland security. that gave the then-secretary of state jan brewer the office. so basically, bad luck.