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April 18, 2006

The Subject Line in a SPAM Email

...seen as I sent it to SPAMMY hell, set me to Googling, and lo and behold ~ it's true.

Voter registration and citizenship education initiatives are set to begin in several states after a "Day Without An Immigrant" campaign planned for May 1, an event which asks immigrants nationwide to stay home from work and school, and refrain from buying American products.

"Marches will only get you so far," said Armando Navarro, coordinator of the National Alliance for Human Rights, an umbrella organization for Hispanic activist groups in Southern California. "There has to be an electoral component to get the Republicans out of the majority."


Does 'refrain from buying American products' cover the tortillas and sauces made by Mexicans in American factories? Or strawberries picked in California fields by immigrants? If you buy Danish cheese, for instance, you're still supporting the American long shoremen who unloaded at a U.S.port and the truck drivers who delivered it to the American grocery store warehouse and then the American grocery store you bought it at. The second you put your quarters on the counter, you're buying American. I mean, what are they not going to buy? It's hard to boycott a certain country's products when you live in that certain country...isn't it?

UPDATE: OMG, it wasn't SPAM ~ well, not in the biblical sense. Michelle Malkin got one, too!

Posted by tree hugging sister at April 18, 2006 03:08 PM

Comments

To make it effective, let's send whoever takes part home for a day.

We'll let them back.

Really.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 18, 2006 03:48 PM

Just get a few groups of INS to check IDs. if only.....

Posted by: Crusader at April 18, 2006 05:18 PM

Unfortunately, we are going to turn into Mexico. This sounds like every third day down there.

Posted by: azbballfan at April 18, 2006 11:36 PM