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 Editorials | April 2006 
Illegal Alien Protests: Trading Mexican Flags for American Flags
 Josh Hart - nationalledger.com
| | New gimmick for illegal alien protests: carry American flags (Drudge) |
The first protests by illegal aliens and their supporters were met with quite a bit of anger from the American voter. Besides the obvious reasons of border security and law breakers demanding amnesty, the vast majority of the marchers carried Mexican flags.
Few carried American flags and many that did turned the American flag upside down. That did not play well, so organizers will try a new gimmick for Monday's march.
Protest organizers have now demanded that the marchers leave their Mexican flags at home and now carry the American flag. Fox News is reporting that in Phoenix one woman showed up with a Mexican flag - but she was forced to put that away due to the new tactic by the protest organizers to sanitize the event.
Is this nothing more than a PR ruse? Probably.
The marchers from weeks earlier were adamant that their allegiance was first to Mexico. The message from those marchers was clear - we are in America to make money - use American services and perks - but the allegiance would first be Mexico.
That hasn'tchanged in two weeks.
Now organizers reportedly are telling their Mexican flag toting protesters to use American flags as a prop to gain some sort of support from the tens of millions of American TV viewers that were turning on the movement with each Mexican flag and pro Mexican sign that was shown on their screens and in photos on the Internet.
Is it a wise move - absolutely. Is it genuine - doubtful. |
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