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	<title>Comments on: Hate Groups Donate to Arizona Law’s Defense</title>
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		<title>By: Yolie</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-327215</link>
		<dc:creator>Yolie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-immigration laws? I don&#039;t think so!  They are nothing than RACIAL laws!  Authorities are not going to stop Caucasians and ask for immigration papers, are they?  Better yet, the police will not even bother to stop caucasians (unless they have committed a traffic violation or have &quot;probable cause&quot; for some other crime)and why do you think that is?  Because they&#039;re white!  Aren&#039;t there illegal aliens who are caucasian?  Sure there are!  Are all brown-skinned people illegal aliens? No!  In fact, many of them don&#039;t even speak any language other than English!  Oh...but wait....maybe only those who look Mexican will be stopped.  Well, Mexicans are a mixed race, just like many other ethnic groups.  They have them really white, tall, blond, and blue eyes and they have them tanned and green/hazel eyes, and then they also have them medium dark and really dark, some are even as black as Africans.  
The SB 1070 is just another &quot;legal&quot; excuse racists cooked up to carry out their unconstitutional racial profiling and unlawful discrimination against other non-white &quot;races&quot;.  

White supremacy is what this is all about.  Blacks (I know, most prefer to be called &quot;Afro-American&quot;, but to my defense for using black instead of that is because not all Africans are Black and not all Blacks in the US come directly from Africa) get stopped because &quot;they fit some profile&quot;, Middle-Eastern (and I&#039;m not just talking about Muslims) people get pulled over because they fit &quot;some other (terrorist) profile&quot; or just because they look like Hispanics, and brown-looking people will be stopped because they fit yet another profile...yeah, the &quot;Mexican illegal immigrant&quot; profile.  If that&#039;s not racial profiling and flat out discrimination against certain &quot;races&quot;, then what is?

Wait...this is for the welfare of society?  Oh...ok...prejudism, racial profiling, and discrimination is ok when trying to protect our citizens?...Then allow me to be racist as well....maybe caucasians should be stopped as much too...who knows maybe you&#039;ll find some child pornography, drugs,  or some other crazy stuff in their cars, PDA&#039;s, laptops, and any other fancy electronic toys!  Do it for the welfare of the children all over the world!  Who knows, you may even get lucky and catch a serial killer!

By the way...the color of my skin is white (though I&#039;m not Caucasian or European), but I&#039;m against racial profiling and discrimination.  I think all races have good and bad in them, even genetically speaking and one race is not better than the other.  We shouldn&#039;t be debating about one human race taking over another human race, we should be more concerned with other kind of aliens invading us, humans and taking over our planet...lol!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anti-immigration laws? I don&#8217;t think so!  They are nothing than RACIAL laws!  Authorities are not going to stop Caucasians and ask for immigration papers, are they?  Better yet, the police will not even bother to stop caucasians (unless they have committed a traffic violation or have &#8220;probable cause&#8221; for some other crime)and why do you think that is?  Because they&#8217;re white!  Aren&#8217;t there illegal aliens who are caucasian?  Sure there are!  Are all brown-skinned people illegal aliens? No!  In fact, many of them don&#8217;t even speak any language other than English!  Oh&#8230;but wait&#8230;.maybe only those who look Mexican will be stopped.  Well, Mexicans are a mixed race, just like many other ethnic groups.  They have them really white, tall, blond, and blue eyes and they have them tanned and green/hazel eyes, and then they also have them medium dark and really dark, some are even as black as Africans.<br />
The SB 1070 is just another &#8220;legal&#8221; excuse racists cooked up to carry out their unconstitutional racial profiling and unlawful discrimination against other non-white &#8220;races&#8221;.  </p>
<p>White supremacy is what this is all about.  Blacks (I know, most prefer to be called &#8220;Afro-American&#8221;, but to my defense for using black instead of that is because not all Africans are Black and not all Blacks in the US come directly from Africa) get stopped because &#8220;they fit some profile&#8221;, Middle-Eastern (and I&#8217;m not just talking about Muslims) people get pulled over because they fit &#8220;some other (terrorist) profile&#8221; or just because they look like Hispanics, and brown-looking people will be stopped because they fit yet another profile&#8230;yeah, the &#8220;Mexican illegal immigrant&#8221; profile.  If that&#8217;s not racial profiling and flat out discrimination against certain &#8220;races&#8221;, then what is?</p>
<p>Wait&#8230;this is for the welfare of society?  Oh&#8230;ok&#8230;prejudism, racial profiling, and discrimination is ok when trying to protect our citizens?&#8230;Then allow me to be racist as well&#8230;.maybe caucasians should be stopped as much too&#8230;who knows maybe you&#8217;ll find some child pornography, drugs,  or some other crazy stuff in their cars, PDA&#8217;s, laptops, and any other fancy electronic toys!  Do it for the welfare of the children all over the world!  Who knows, you may even get lucky and catch a serial killer!</p>
<p>By the way&#8230;the color of my skin is white (though I&#8217;m not Caucasian or European), but I&#8217;m against racial profiling and discrimination.  I think all races have good and bad in them, even genetically speaking and one race is not better than the other.  We shouldn&#8217;t be debating about one human race taking over another human race, we should be more concerned with other kind of aliens invading us, humans and taking over our planet&#8230;lol!</p>
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		<title>By: Kate De Braose</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-276803</link>
		<dc:creator>Kate De Braose</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not actually surprised at all these differing opinions about who was here first.  I am surprised that anyone would care to claim it means anything related to personal worthiness.

None of us is responsible for our own existence, and we cannot seriously believe it means anything important to the rest of the world.

Considering all the greed associated with the early explorers and our own continual wars on everything and everyone, we have a lot of crimes to justify in the here and now.  We can start first by criticising our own lack of concern toward neighbors.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am not actually surprised at all these differing opinions about who was here first.  I am surprised that anyone would care to claim it means anything related to personal worthiness.</p>
<p>None of us is responsible for our own existence, and we cannot seriously believe it means anything important to the rest of the world.</p>
<p>Considering all the greed associated with the early explorers and our own continual wars on everything and everyone, we have a lot of crimes to justify in the here and now.  We can start first by criticising our own lack of concern toward neighbors.</p>
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		<title>By: vicki</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-208263</link>
		<dc:creator>vicki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[shame on this paper for posting Arizona&#039;s defense of the
law!   You are the hate group and are trying to stir up more
hatred.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>shame on this paper for posting Arizona&#8217;s defense of the<br />
law!   You are the hate group and are trying to stir up more<br />
hatred.</p>
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		<title>By: Vashra</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-192202</link>
		<dc:creator>Vashra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only way to really be against racism is to be against race.

I was working on an archaeological dig in Washington state, using forensic anthropology to re-create the features on a skull we&#039;d removed (with permission) from a Native American burial ground in the Northern-most part of the state. These graves are some of the oldest native grave sites in North America.

To our shock, the computer software used developed a male face that was pretty clearly ... Caucasoid. The karyotype (which was then the best DNA test available) on the skull *confirmed* the software&#039;s findings.

WE (the scientists) were excited. Here was a possible tie between native peoples here and the ancient Siberian tribes, etc. Then our findings were reported to the tribal leaders on the reservation.

And we were politely asked to leave the site. Shortly afterward we were informed that our funding for the dig had been redacted.

The sick irony is that the only thing our finding proved was that the genetic makeup of *some* of those who first crossed in the north was a bit different than assumed. It did nothing to invalidate any claim of any native people, since we&#039;d karyotypes of other graves just as old that were clearly Mongoloid. It may have even granted support to the legends of some Native American groups who *do* state that there were other people here when their own groups arrived.

But it was stifled, proving to me that &quot;who is here first&quot; is a damn silly argument. Some think Adam and Eve were &quot;here first&quot; - let&#039;s quit fighting amongst ourselves and give the whole bloody planet &quot;back&quot; to Israel.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only way to really be against racism is to be against race.</p>
<p>I was working on an archaeological dig in Washington state, using forensic anthropology to re-create the features on a skull we&#8217;d removed (with permission) from a Native American burial ground in the Northern-most part of the state. These graves are some of the oldest native grave sites in North America.</p>
<p>To our shock, the computer software used developed a male face that was pretty clearly &#8230; Caucasoid. The karyotype (which was then the best DNA test available) on the skull *confirmed* the software&#8217;s findings.</p>
<p>WE (the scientists) were excited. Here was a possible tie between native peoples here and the ancient Siberian tribes, etc. Then our findings were reported to the tribal leaders on the reservation.</p>
<p>And we were politely asked to leave the site. Shortly afterward we were informed that our funding for the dig had been redacted.</p>
<p>The sick irony is that the only thing our finding proved was that the genetic makeup of *some* of those who first crossed in the north was a bit different than assumed. It did nothing to invalidate any claim of any native people, since we&#8217;d karyotypes of other graves just as old that were clearly Mongoloid. It may have even granted support to the legends of some Native American groups who *do* state that there were other people here when their own groups arrived.</p>
<p>But it was stifled, proving to me that &#8220;who is here first&#8221; is a damn silly argument. Some think Adam and Eve were &#8220;here first&#8221; &#8211; let&#8217;s quit fighting amongst ourselves and give the whole bloody planet &#8220;back&#8221; to Israel.</p>
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		<title>By: Jay</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-183820</link>
		<dc:creator>Jay</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always been against racism and bigotry. I do regret to say that people in this country need to wake up and realize the difference between illegal immigration and a foreign invasion. Twenty mexicans coming over every once in a while packed in a van.. illegal immigration. Coming across our boarders daily by the hundreds and by thousands. That is a foreign invasion.
 Americans need to stop worrying about who celebrities are boinking and look up at what is going on around them.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have always been against racism and bigotry. I do regret to say that people in this country need to wake up and realize the difference between illegal immigration and a foreign invasion. Twenty mexicans coming over every once in a while packed in a van.. illegal immigration. Coming across our boarders daily by the hundreds and by thousands. That is a foreign invasion.<br />
 Americans need to stop worrying about who celebrities are boinking and look up at what is going on around them.</p>
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		<title>By: Ruslan Amirkhanov</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-181689</link>
		<dc:creator>Ruslan Amirkhanov</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TJ, there is far more racism on the right.  The new Black Panthers are not a left-wing organization, nor are they influential.  La Raza doesn&#039;t mean what you think it means(good luck finding La Raza attacks and crimes on par with the KKK or other right-wing groups), and the NAACP is a benign organization.  The Nation of Islam has been criticized routinely by the SPLC and other organizations, but it has very little influence these days anyway. 

So you are flat out wrong, TJ.  Thanks for playing.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TJ, there is far more racism on the right.  The new Black Panthers are not a left-wing organization, nor are they influential.  La Raza doesn&#8217;t mean what you think it means(good luck finding La Raza attacks and crimes on par with the KKK or other right-wing groups), and the NAACP is a benign organization.  The Nation of Islam has been criticized routinely by the SPLC and other organizations, but it has very little influence these days anyway. </p>
<p>So you are flat out wrong, TJ.  Thanks for playing.</p>
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		<title>By: TJ</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-181537</link>
		<dc:creator>TJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just curious How many from Racist Nation of Islam give money to this website or Congress members of the &quot;Congressional Black caucus?&quot; I think racism is one of the worst things to be associated with outside of murder, so why do the Extreme Left trade in it as much as the right? I do notice many left blogs give them a pass. The name itself implies race first - NAACP. Nation of Islam , Black Panthers, La Raza, etc. there are several, yet your site says little about their outright racism, Why? The left are hypocrites just like most humans on the planet!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just curious How many from Racist Nation of Islam give money to this website or Congress members of the &#8220;Congressional Black caucus?&#8221; I think racism is one of the worst things to be associated with outside of murder, so why do the Extreme Left trade in it as much as the right? I do notice many left blogs give them a pass. The name itself implies race first &#8211; NAACP. Nation of Islam , Black Panthers, La Raza, etc. there are several, yet your site says little about their outright racism, Why? The left are hypocrites just like most humans on the planet!</p>
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		<title>By: Bella Tseyi</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-179919</link>
		<dc:creator>Bella Tseyi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;How smooth must be the language of the &quot;bigots&quot;, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;How smooth must be the language of the &#8220;bigots&#8221;, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Steve Reaves</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-179284</link>
		<dc:creator>Steve Reaves</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I live in Southern Arizona. I&#039;m Caucasian (Scots/Irish) and my friends here are from all races and walks of life. 
SB1070 is an embarrassment to our State. Racists are an embarrassment to our Country. I urge the Federal Government to end ALL funding to the State of Arizona until this unConstitutional law is repealed.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I live in Southern Arizona. I&#8217;m Caucasian (Scots/Irish) and my friends here are from all races and walks of life.<br />
SB1070 is an embarrassment to our State. Racists are an embarrassment to our Country. I urge the Federal Government to end ALL funding to the State of Arizona until this unConstitutional law is repealed.</p>
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		<title>By: SF</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178924</link>
		<dc:creator>SF</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what comes of giving in to right-wing fear and paranoia. And what comes of allowing fear-mongering and a blatant disregard for the facts to stand in the way of our Constitutional rights. 

I recently called out Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (AR-8) for criticizing the DOJ&#039;s lawsuit to block SB 1070 due to her bald-faced political opportunism in propagating the myth that crime has skyrocketed due to illegal immigration, appealing to white, conservative voters while ignoring the Constitutional rights of an entire segment of the population. 

Check out the post entitled &quot;Profiles In Bed-Wetting&quot; here:

http://bit.ly/cYNEky]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is what comes of giving in to right-wing fear and paranoia. And what comes of allowing fear-mongering and a blatant disregard for the facts to stand in the way of our Constitutional rights. </p>
<p>I recently called out Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (AR-8) for criticizing the DOJ&#8217;s lawsuit to block SB 1070 due to her bald-faced political opportunism in propagating the myth that crime has skyrocketed due to illegal immigration, appealing to white, conservative voters while ignoring the Constitutional rights of an entire segment of the population. </p>
<p>Check out the post entitled &#8220;Profiles In Bed-Wetting&#8221; here:</p>
<p><a href="http://bit.ly/cYNEky" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/cYNEky</a></p>
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		<title>By: Norman Autrey</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178780</link>
		<dc:creator>Norman Autrey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is funny. As a state, Arizona is pretty much bankrupt! So, I imagine that Brewer would accept funding from Al Quaeda or the Taliban along with the KKK and any other nut job group willing to donate.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is funny. As a state, Arizona is pretty much bankrupt! So, I imagine that Brewer would accept funding from Al Quaeda or the Taliban along with the KKK and any other nut job group willing to donate.</p>
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		<title>By: Arizona resident</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178608</link>
		<dc:creator>Arizona resident</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m from southern Arizona. I just want you to know that we Arizona residents are really embarrassed.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m from southern Arizona. I just want you to know that we Arizona residents are really embarrassed.</p>
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		<title>By: Ruslan Amirkhanov</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178575</link>
		<dc:creator>Ruslan Amirkhanov</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even if some aboriginal American inhabitants had Caucasiod type features(which does not necessarily mean they look like &quot;white people&quot; as most Americans think of the term), it proves absolutely nothing.  The idea that a modern day American of European descent has something in common with anyone over 10,000 years old in any meaningful sense is idiotic.  There are far more &quot;whiter&quot; looking people among the Arabs and of course there are the Aryan Tajiks and other Persians of Central Asia, as well as the Kurds- yet I don&#039;t think we&#039;ll see Lee talking about brotherhood with any of them.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even if some aboriginal American inhabitants had Caucasiod type features(which does not necessarily mean they look like &#8220;white people&#8221; as most Americans think of the term), it proves absolutely nothing.  The idea that a modern day American of European descent has something in common with anyone over 10,000 years old in any meaningful sense is idiotic.  There are far more &#8220;whiter&#8221; looking people among the Arabs and of course there are the Aryan Tajiks and other Persians of Central Asia, as well as the Kurds- yet I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll see Lee talking about brotherhood with any of them.</p>
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		<title>By: Kate De Braose</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178565</link>
		<dc:creator>Kate De Braose</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But,  Lee,   maybe the reverse is true.  Perhaps life arose in the Americas and then spread out to everywhere else?  We haven&#039;t proved the reverse until we have finished all research that is possible, in my opinion.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But,  Lee,   maybe the reverse is true.  Perhaps life arose in the Americas and then spread out to everywhere else?  We haven&#8217;t proved the reverse until we have finished all research that is possible, in my opinion.</p>
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		<title>By: Kate De Braose</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178563</link>
		<dc:creator>Kate De Braose</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why would Arizona leave the Union?  If they are wanting to function like a separate country, won&#039;t we need to build a fence completely around them and make them go through all the Customs hoops to leave or re enter the place?

Now that would be fun to watch though, wouldn&#039;t it?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why would Arizona leave the Union?  If they are wanting to function like a separate country, won&#8217;t we need to build a fence completely around them and make them go through all the Customs hoops to leave or re enter the place?</p>
<p>Now that would be fun to watch though, wouldn&#8217;t it?</p>
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		<title>By: Paen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lee the Indians came here at least 10,000 years ago when there was the Americas were uninhabited,unlike our ancestors who stole the land.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lee the Indians came here at least 10,000 years ago when there was the Americas were uninhabited,unlike our ancestors who stole the land.</p>
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		<title>By: Carter</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178509</link>
		<dc:creator>Carter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just off the top, I can think of almost half a dozen times Arizona has voted something into law, which went NO WHERE.
This is not surprising since most of those laws had Federal laws which superseded them. And Federal law generally always wins out where state law countermands.
Although the proposed legislation is divisive &amp; yet has some support, it will not stand.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just off the top, I can think of almost half a dozen times Arizona has voted something into law, which went NO WHERE.<br />
This is not surprising since most of those laws had Federal laws which superseded them. And Federal law generally always wins out where state law countermands.<br />
Although the proposed legislation is divisive &amp; yet has some support, it will not stand.</p>
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		<title>By: Ruslan Amirkhanov</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178406</link>
		<dc:creator>Ruslan Amirkhanov</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If only the morons at A3P realized that there was a time when the dominant Anglo-Saxon population spoke about Irish, Italians, and Slavs the same way people speak about Mexicans today.  Being &quot;white&quot; meant little back then. In fact the geniuses at A3P probably have no idea that the 1924 immigration laws they love so much also nearly halted all immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe as well.  

They are also most likely not aware of how difficult the current system is for legal immigration.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If only the morons at A3P realized that there was a time when the dominant Anglo-Saxon population spoke about Irish, Italians, and Slavs the same way people speak about Mexicans today.  Being &#8220;white&#8221; meant little back then. In fact the geniuses at A3P probably have no idea that the 1924 immigration laws they love so much also nearly halted all immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe as well.  </p>
<p>They are also most likely not aware of how difficult the current system is for legal immigration.</p>
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		<title>By: Edward Kenestrick</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178374</link>
		<dc:creator>Edward Kenestrick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have a look at the Johnson County war in Wyoming ca. 1892.

Small ranchers and immigrants warred on by wealthy ranchers and hired guns.

There was a death list.

After the fighting many of the hired guns were arrested, but no action was ever taken against the wealthy.

Today in Utah there is a list of 1300 supposedly illegal immigrants, some of whom have immediately provided documentation.

It&#039;s a short trip from an accusatory list to a death list.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have a look at the Johnson County war in Wyoming ca. 1892.</p>
<p>Small ranchers and immigrants warred on by wealthy ranchers and hired guns.</p>
<p>There was a death list.</p>
<p>After the fighting many of the hired guns were arrested, but no action was ever taken against the wealthy.</p>
<p>Today in Utah there is a list of 1300 supposedly illegal immigrants, some of whom have immediately provided documentation.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a short trip from an accusatory list to a death list.</p>
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		<title>By: Rebecca</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178295</link>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose Tanton doesn&#039;t see the irony in &quot;European-Americans&quot; being the oppressors?  Not long ago, European immigrants to this country were the oppressed.  Just look at the history of the Irish, Italians, Germans, etc.  People never learn.  Too bad he and others like him didn&#039;t take to heart the experiences of their own ancestors.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I suppose Tanton doesn&#8217;t see the irony in &#8220;European-Americans&#8221; being the oppressors?  Not long ago, European immigrants to this country were the oppressed.  Just look at the history of the Irish, Italians, Germans, etc.  People never learn.  Too bad he and others like him didn&#8217;t take to heart the experiences of their own ancestors.</p>
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		<title>By: beholder</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178254</link>
		<dc:creator>beholder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the Tea Party stance on immigration -- hopefully this is not too off topic.

But did anyone else see this? A billboard put out by the Tea Party showing Obama alongside Hitler and Lenin. Not that this kind of vandalism of our President&#039;s good name is particularly new, but it irks me to see the same ignorance about Hitler as a &quot;left wing&quot; socialist.

Take a peek:

http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/new-tea-party-billboard-of-obama-hitler-and-lenin-receives-complaints-from-other-tea-partiers/19553093]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Given the Tea Party stance on immigration &#8212; hopefully this is not too off topic.</p>
<p>But did anyone else see this? A billboard put out by the Tea Party showing Obama alongside Hitler and Lenin. Not that this kind of vandalism of our President&#8217;s good name is particularly new, but it irks me to see the same ignorance about Hitler as a &#8220;left wing&#8221; socialist.</p>
<p>Take a peek:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/new-tea-party-billboard-of-obama-hitler-and-lenin-receives-complaints-from-other-tea-partiers/19553093" rel="nofollow">http://www.aolnews.com/surge-d.....s/19553093</a></p>
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		<title>By: Ruslan Amirkhanov</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178237</link>
		<dc:creator>Ruslan Amirkhanov</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey Lee, another history lesson for you- Europeans migrated into Europe.  So I guess by your logic you can&#039;t whine about the &quot;Muslim&quot; hordes anymore(which makes sense seeing as how Muslims have been a part of European culture for centuries).]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Lee, another history lesson for you- Europeans migrated into Europe.  So I guess by your logic you can&#8217;t whine about the &#8220;Muslim&#8221; hordes anymore(which makes sense seeing as how Muslims have been a part of European culture for centuries).</p>
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		<title>By: Reverend Boony</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178196</link>
		<dc:creator>Reverend Boony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agree with you 100 % paen... 

If I were christian, I&#039;d be saying that the anti-christ was behind this evil...Since I aint, I just gotta chalk it up to dumbass humans.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with you 100 % paen&#8230; </p>
<p>If I were christian, I&#8217;d be saying that the anti-christ was behind this evil&#8230;Since I aint, I just gotta chalk it up to dumbass humans.</p>
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		<title>By: Lee</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178189</link>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah Paen, except for the fact that the so-called &quot;Native&quot; Americans did not evolve here but navigated to the Americas themselves as well.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah Paen, except for the fact that the so-called &#8220;Native&#8221; Americans did not evolve here but navigated to the Americas themselves as well.</p>
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		<title>By: Ruslan Amirkhanov</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178160</link>
		<dc:creator>Ruslan Amirkhanov</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tanton needs to realize that there is no such thing as &quot;European-American&quot; society.  Perhaps a trip to Europe would teach him that.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tanton needs to realize that there is no such thing as &#8220;European-American&#8221; society.  Perhaps a trip to Europe would teach him that.</p>
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		<title>By: Natalie Luczkowiak</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178158</link>
		<dc:creator>Natalie Luczkowiak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did Arizona accept this donation, racism is a crime, the FBI is, I&#039;m sure, as usual, keeping an eye on race groups. If Gov Brewer accepted this donation, she should be impeached.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did Arizona accept this donation, racism is a crime, the FBI is, I&#8217;m sure, as usual, keeping an eye on race groups. If Gov Brewer accepted this donation, she should be impeached.</p>
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		<title>By: hack</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178155</link>
		<dc:creator>hack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Europe would laugh them off the continent.]]></description>
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		<title>By: Difluoroethane</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178135</link>
		<dc:creator>Difluoroethane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The A3P party only made a _triple_-digit donation to Brewer&#039;s defense fund? Reading that made me chuckle a bit. In the world of politics, triple-digit sums are practically chicken feed these days; they&#039;re the kind of donation you&#039;d expect to get from a middle-class _individual_, not an entire party! Just goes to show you how marginal and weak this party is, despite the fact that it claims to represent a &quot;majority&quot;.

Wonder how many members, or how big a budget, that party actually has? Probably very small numbers, since I haven&#039;t seen _any_ radio or TV ads from them yet. Who do they think they&#039;re fooling?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The A3P party only made a _triple_-digit donation to Brewer&#8217;s defense fund? Reading that made me chuckle a bit. In the world of politics, triple-digit sums are practically chicken feed these days; they&#8217;re the kind of donation you&#8217;d expect to get from a middle-class _individual_, not an entire party! Just goes to show you how marginal and weak this party is, despite the fact that it claims to represent a &#8220;majority&#8221;.</p>
<p>Wonder how many members, or how big a budget, that party actually has? Probably very small numbers, since I haven&#8217;t seen _any_ radio or TV ads from them yet. Who do they think they&#8217;re fooling?</p>
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		<title>By: Paen</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/13/hate-groups-donate-to-arizona-laws-defense/comment-page-1/#comment-178062</link>
		<dc:creator>Paen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only real Americans are those descended from native Americans because they were here first.Therefore if any one should be deported it should be these bigots.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only real Americans are those descended from native Americans because they were here first.Therefore if any one should be deported it should be these bigots.</p>
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