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By Greg Moses

As we await Alex Jones’ promised sequels to his report from the Diez y
Seis rally, a review of links at Azteca net suggests that preliminary
reports from Mr. Jones appear to be based on a 2003 smear campaign
against California’s Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, whose college membership
in MEChA was turned against him during his campaign for Governor of
California. As argued
by Jorge Mariscal, the scare tactics used by familiar pundits against
MEChA have a legacy in Anti-Mexican hate groups. See also: Mecha
Facts and Myths by Ralph de Unamuno at azteca.net

Alex Jones is a Minuteman sympathizer who
sees the US-Mexico border in terms of a war zone. On the Alex
Jones radio show today (Sept. 22) he encouraged his audience to help
him get some Minutemen guests on his show, explaining that his direct
calls to the organization have not been very successful. He pleaded
with his audience to remind the Minutemen that Alex, "is having rallies
to defend you!" Apparently, some of the Minutemen treat Mr. Jones
as a lightweight. Meanwhile, standing among
the protesters who demonstrated with or merely alongside Mr. Jones
Saturday were people with signs demanding "Mexico Out of USA" and "One
Nation One Language". Whenever people who keep such company shout
loudly about "Mexican Supremacism" we have a right to wonder what
bothers them most: supremacism or Mexican?
In keeping with our general method of approach, to not
multiply disputes, I enjoyed hearing Mr. Jones today jealously guard
the liberties of USA citizens against powerful government
encroachments. What puzzles me is why Mr. Jones would support
efforts by citizens to extend the power of the state over the freedoms
of migrants. It seems the puzzle is solved so long as one draws a
very bright line around who does and who does not count as a person
with rights. And so long as Mr. Jones seeks to cultivate favor
with fellow demonstrators and organizations who prefer to draw bright
lines between Mexicans and the USA, we have a difficult time
understanding why he gets so miffed at the very idea that others might
appropriate his bright line schema, only to reverse the hierarchy of power.

A framework of human and civil rights is the better alternative, and
that’s why we won’t support one supremacist who stands in the favored
circle condemning the alleged existence of would-be supremacists who
would only reverse the
power dynamic between groups already separated by Mr. Jones’ bright
line. In this sort of sordid atmosphere, we wonder, why
Mr.
Jones, did you stand with or merely beside an obviously supremacist
outpouring on a day of Mexican-American celebration? You say it was to
expose extremist hate groups within the Mexican-American community. But
given the company you stood with–and the supremacist exclusions they
represent in their plain sign language–what gives you the right to
complain about supremacism of any sort?

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Note: "In parts two and three, I will detail the long trail of horrors that I
witnessed as well as posting a lengthy video report documenting our
claims. We have ten hours of footage from four cameras, which includes
people frothing and screaming racist comments and then calling us
racists for saying that we should all live together in peace."–Alex
Jones

Subject says she bought two rocks of crack from the guy who later leaped the fence.

I was walking on Pleasant Valley and had stopped near the fire hydrant
when I saw the police car stop in front of the stop sign. I saw
this guy run from the suburban and a white unmarked police car went
after him and brought him back after I had heard the shot. I
really didn’t get a good look at this guy but he had facial hair and
dark long hair pulled back like a pony tail. I think he was
Hispanic and may have been 22 years old.

I saw the female officer telling this other Hispanic guy to "get on the
ground." I think she told him once or twice. They were on
the passenger side of the suburban near tall grass. They were
actually between the sidewalk and the street curb. I hear the guy
say "weapon" but I didn’t see anything in his hands. I saw him
get on his hands and knees and saw the female officer with her left
hand trying to put him on the ground and she was kinda kneeling with
her left hand and knee. I saw her with a gun in her right
hand. I saw he was lying flat. I don’t know if the guy was
fighting with the officer or resisting because I did not see
that. I thought that the police were going to arrest him and put
him up. I walked off back to my house but then I heard a shot….

Signed and notarized June 10, 2005

"About 1,900 inmates currently sleep on the floor in the Harris County
Jail drawing the ire of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards," writes
Scott Henson, in his first report on the overcrowding problem.
"According to a recent consultant’s report (Word document), a major
reason is clear: A shift in bail policy over the last decade to require
cash bond in more cases instead of personal bond, or releasing
defendants on their promise to later appear in court. Half of all
inmates presently in the Harris County Jail are awaiting trial; a large
proportion couldn’t make bail."

Writes Henson: "Though other factors are also at play, much of the
Harris County Jail’s overincarceration crisis can be explained by this
shift in policy. In other words, Harris County’s jail overcrowding
crisis is a self-inflicted wound."

"In the last ten years, the number of misdemeanor defendants who were
ordered to pay bail instead of being released on "personal bond"
increased more than 30,000%! No, that’s not a typo: It increased more
than thirty thousand percent!"

For the rest, get your Grits for Breakfast here. This is what we call criminalization with civil rights implications,
since we feel like the problem wouldn’t grow so fast if it concerned
white kids in the suburbs, in other words, there is no evidence that
the refusal to grant personal bonds is tied to actual risks of
defendants not showing up.  So if there is no rational basis, we tender the hypothesis of racist bias.–gm