I couldn't take it

I went. It was supposed to start at 2:30pm but it started after 3PM. As I sat there waiting for people to trickle in, I noticed that I barely recognized anyone. Not that I'm a mover or a shaker, but most people didn't look familiar at all. Anyway they got the thing started off by doing one of those prayer to the four winds jobbies. I don't know. I don't speak Mayan so who knows what they were doing. But when they started the rally portion it got way too loud for me, it was indoors, which tells you how much power this lobby has, that they were able to quickly organize getting an indoor venue that can seat a few hundred because of the weather. I stayed long enough for them to do the thing where they say a city's name so all the people from that city will stand up and cheer. This was where I learned everything I needed to know. The biggest delegation was from Boston, but there were also groups from Central Falls, Providence and Pawtucket. (That's all Rhode Island in case you don't know.) And when the group from New Bedford stood up it was about 30 people, 40 tops. There was a rally in New Bedford, about a raid in New Bedford, and the vast majority of people were not from New Bedford. What does that tell you? I even saw that Ali dude who was on O'Reilly last night. The next thing on the agenda was to hold hands and pray. I shit you not. We always joke about people holding hands and singing Kumbaya but that's basically what was about to happen so I split before I blew a tube. I'll be damned if I was going that far undercover.

But I had heard enough. The interpreter girl said something about "pushing the system" to get justice for the illegal aliens. And that they had the solidarity of the whole world. Honestly why do people think they are entitled to everything that everyone else has. And why do they insist on throwing God into everything? That pisses me off more than anything. And the whole world does not back you. Who is lying to these people?

They handed out all these little flyers. One for a rally coming up later, which I thought about scanning but I don't want to advertise for them. Anyway this is what part of it said:
"On March 6th, 361 leather workers, mostly from Guatemala and El Salvador, were taken away in a military style raid on the Michael Bianco Inc. factory in New Bedford. In a terrifying scene hundreds of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents surrounded the building, burst in and blocked the exits." Exsqueeze me? What were they supposed to do? Jazz walk into the from door while criminals ran out the back? Notice how they use words like "terrifying" and "military style" to try to make it seem so tragic. We've all watched TV shows and movies where there was a raid of some kind. It's not supposed to be festive. They bust in and say 'don't move'. At which point I would suggest you don't move. If you do they're gonna chase you, and at that point, you're just scaring yourself.

"Families have been torn apart. About 100 children were stuck with baby sitters, caretakers and others creating a humanitarian crisis." What kind of babysitters were these? I mean you left the kids with them, so it must have been a humanitarian crisis that they were in everyday when you went to work. If children with babysitters is a humanitarian crisis maybe we should tell those people in Darfur that we can't be bothered with them because there are kids in Massachusetts watching SpongeBob and snacking on fruitloops in houses that *GASP!* aren't their own. OH THE HUMANITY!!!

"They are not guaranteed a lawyer and have none of the protections afforded by the criminal justice system." Uh, yeah, because it's not their justice system. But somehow I think they'll be getting lawyers. There is a whole page that I was also given that had a list of lawyers, covering both sides, who are sympathetic to their cause.

"We call on working people" Of course not the unemployed people you stole jobs from. You know better than to even ask for their help. "of good will to mobilize and express our outrage" You want people to express your outrage. Cute. "and demand that the detainees be released and reunified with their families." I'm supposed to demand from my government? Why don't you go home and demand from your government whatever conditions you need to stay there. Did that thought ever occur to any of you?

Further down the page it says "Full legalization for ALL NOW! Immediate, permanent, non-revocable legal residence for ALL who live here." Okay now I hate you people. "Immediate" is bad enough. "Permanent" is disgusting. "Non-revocable" is vomitous. How dare you? Who the hell do you think you are? "for ALL who live here." You mean freakin' Al Qaeda cells? Are you insane? There is a level of stupidity going on in this that I can't begin to fathom.