August 26, 2007
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A California Reader Reports That
La Raza Goons Disrupt Ceremony Honoring Pete
Wilson
From: Marcellus Armiger: (e-mail
him)
In
San Diego ,
a ceremony honoring former mayor Pete Wilson was
held on Saturday.
Wilson served as San Diego’s mayor
before becoming a U.S. Senator and governor of
California. [Wilson
Statue Is Unveiled As Latinos, Gays Protest, By
Jeanette Steele, San Diego Union-Tribune, August 26,
2007]
To commemorate his leadership in the revitalization
of the downtown area, a bronze statue of his likeness
was unveiled before a gathering of supporters and local
big shots.
Unfortunately, the festivities were almost totally
drowned out.
A large contingent from the
La Raza,
along with sundry other radicals and malcontents, packed
a designated protest area across a narrow street from
the protected V.I.P. area. They had come to excoriate
Wilson for his support of
Proposition 187 during the 1994 gubernatorial
election.
Despite the large presence of
San Diego Police Department officers who were
augmented by hired private security, the agitators tried
to ruin the ceremony.
I was standing on an elevated platform just outside
the secure area. Those of us there could hear nothing.
The master of ceremonies, former mayor and current radio
talk show host
Roger Hedgecock, as well as the other speakers, were
overwhelmed by the din of drums, sirens, chanting and
yelling coming from the hostile crowd.
Wilson and his wife Gayle remained gracious and
steadfast in spite of it all.
Asked Wilson of the crowd:
“Isn't this a great
country that anyone can make a perfect horse's ass of
himself at any time?”
This kind of obnoxious behavior is
the norm here in occupied California. At nearly
every rally or ceremony featuring someone associated
with immigration control, the speakers are inaudible to
the audience because of the blaring cacophony from the
enemy.
Armiger is on the
staff of a Southern California college. Read his
previous letters
here.