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Vigilante Minutemen patrol border near Campo
(cont.) They articulate these images based not on their origins in freedom for all, but on freedoms for SOME. If the figure of the American (armed) patriot is meant to reinforce and celebrate foundational freedoms, and the protection of one's birthright of citizenship (as well as warn away those without such birthright as they define it), what happened to that other very important foundational concept and practice of open border immigration, and a commitment to earn one's rights by sincere oath and demonstration of those promises, rather than on blind birth and a visual identity politics of skin color? What happened to the values of a diverse citizenry based on a will to commit to citizenship through hard work and the all-important desire and right to pursue happiness? Mmmmhmmm...— March 30, 2010 12:53 p.m.
Vigilante Minutemen patrol border near Campo
re: #2 and #3: Can we please raise the bar on this discussion at least in regards to accuracy, Visduh? First of all, this part of the piece is not describing "the author's" experience--it is from the p.o.v. of Brandon Stockwell, a student filmmaker. And why argue pointlessly that it was not necessarily a minuteman? Who was it, then? Santa? Should we perhaps conclude, then, that you do not approve of this kind of behavior? "A motorbike appears in a plume of dust on the American side, and the helmeted driver yells, “What’s your citizenship?” Before Stockwell can answer, a Border Patrol truck that’s following behind skids to a stop, and the half-amused agent says, “Oh, never mind. You’re definitely a gringo.” The men vanish in a haze of dirt, and it occurs to Stockwell that he has just had his first encounter with a Minuteman." Yep, sounds pretty vigilante-ish to me, too. And why so defensively quick to jump on the term 'vigilante,' when this was actually such a mildly phrased, and even evasive, article? With some exceptions, such as refriedgringo points out, minutemen seem to be in this piece, at least in the figure of Craig, characterized more as people who wait and watch, i.e., who are "vigilant." Clearly, Chad's focus was not on the goings on of the summer of 2005, when tempers flared and some ugly standoffs took place between anti-border demonstrators and self-style minutemen. A lot of loosely belted holsters were stroked, and a lot of ugly, racist braggadocio was also loosely belted, as illegal lines were drawn in the sand by --yes--armed vigilantes with no legal business taking up the business of "protection." I regret that an intelligent but misguided young cousin of mine joined this group, otherwise known to be comprised of bored retired vets and their wives, who would otherwise be watching reruns of Gunsmoke and sipping iced tea, and young, hormonally challenged bucks, who would otherwise be sitting in a circle jerk playing fantasy wargames from their laptops. I do believe that these people come together not only out of boredom, and complex wishes to play out aggressive fantasies, but out of foundational racist, ethnocentric values. It isn't coincidence that tea-partiers and proto-terrorist religious groups (seen recently in the news) all use imagery of the 18th century new American patriot.— March 30, 2010 12:53 p.m.
Bicyclists’ Demise
Woopsy: @2 should read: Let's dedicate more spaces for the two who receive the least, and let's try to grow into a bigger city a little more gracefully, by rewarding the two modes of transportation causing the least amount of pollution.— March 30, 2010 9:21 a.m.
Bicyclists’ Demise
"My rule of thumb is this- stay on the sidewalk..." I understand why you would do this, because it is so dangerous on the road for the cyclist, but riding on the sidewalk poses just as great a danger to pedestrians as cars do to bicycles, and as a cyclist your blind spots at corners cause accidents just as surely. We all know that the three--pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers-- don't mix well except in high traffic areas that are also areas of high concentration and skill--boardwalks. Let's dedicate more spaces for the two who receive the least (Let's try to grow into a bigger city a little more gracefully, yet are the two modes of transportation causing the least amount of pollution...— March 30, 2010 9:18 a.m.
For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry
Yeah, surfp, you really stuck yer paw in yer maw on that one!— March 30, 2010 3:10 a.m.
26 at work, almost time to go
If you teach math, cool. If you teach English, lord help us.— March 30, 2010 1:49 a.m.
Letters
To Jordan and all who commented on "Filipino Rules"(Cover Story, March 4): Jordan's are pretty fair last words for this piece, as they stated what everyone may have considered, but only a few communicated: The piece would have best been published as part of a pastiche of experiences of Filipino culture, perhaps as the one demonstrating a single young woman's struggles growing up and attempting to articulate herself as bicultural. From the comments, one must conclude that in a case like this one, because so few views of Fil-Am life are readily available in our local print culture, acknowledgement of a larger social responsibility should trump any argument about artistic license. It is difficult for me to say this, and only in such a case would I: in the final analysis, it was irresponsible to allow this piece to stand alone. In the interests of fairness, I would urge the editors to consider in future: when publishing a perspective of an underrepresented culture that might be taken as largely negative or slanderous by the majority of its readers of the community in question, do so only as part of a panel or series of multiple perspectives--of more diverse opinion. In this way, the larger community may benefit from a more balanced choice of views of a subsection of its neighbors, who may in turn feel better represented and understood where they live and work--that is, by the larger community of San Diegans to which we all belong.— March 30, 2010 1:40 a.m.
Trying to find love...
"There's a button for "Upgrade" in the upper right." Maybe this is how love actually works on this site, too! ;)— March 29, 2010 2:11 a.m.
the seven days of creation
re: #13 & 14: Right on! re: #17: God, I haven't seen that Larson in AGES! Tempting to fill in the bubble, isn't it? ...;)— March 29, 2010 2:01 a.m.
the seven days of creation
"Didn't know nanners needed redeeming ..." "SDaniels...use takin' life far to seriously lovebug" Looks like Cuddles and Nan need a refresher course in my particular brand of tongue in cheek ;)...— March 29, 2010 1:58 a.m.