Minuteman vs. San Francisco – The Rematch

The defenders of American sovereignty returned
September 25 to one of the nation`s toughest
challenges—the

loony lefty enclave by the Bay that celebrates its
extreme
liberalism like no other.

Organized by the

Golden Gate Minutemen, the rally took place in Civic
Center Plaza across from San Francisco City Hall. I was
there carrying several

posters remembering crime victims of illegal aliens.
The purpose of the protest: to condemn San Francisco`s

criminal-coddling sanctuary policy for

illegal aliens and demand it be revoked.

The Minutemen had appeared on the steps of City Hall
with a similar mission on July 30. The welcoming
committee was a

squawking assemblage of

leftist open-border anarchists. I call them
anarchists because they were so disorganized that
subgroups had dueling bullhorns that drowned out each
other`s "message"
in total

cacophony.

I attended that earlier event also. While I stood on
the steps with the Minutemen holding my little

sign showing victims of illegal aliens, I snapped
some pictures of the howlers below. My favorite: the
doofus holding a sign reading,

"SF is a city for all! Minutemen, you are not welcome
here!"

Unclear on logic, wouldn`t you say?

The September 25 event took place in a more spacious

position on the lawn across from the steps. The spot
was also a little easier for police to defend, with
porta-fences, against the noisy commies with their well
worn
Che
signs proclaiming


"The workers struggle has no borders."

The

indymedia website announced the Minuteman event and
urged resistance using the same old rhetoric:

"Hi all – below
is the info about the minutemen who are again planning a
rally at SF city hall`s steps. PLEASE ATTEND and show
these racists that SF is a sanctuary city, and continue
to push demands to abolish penalties that hurt and
criminalize the immigrant community, and
scrap
those freakin borders. OK!!! See ya`ll there."

The Open Borders gaggle trooped
around the perimeter and were generally loud and
obnoxious. The police mercifully made them stop
bullhorning, presumably since they had no permit. The
commies did bring a

mariachi band with tuba and drums. One charmer had a
hand-made sign reading
"Racist motherf**ers
out of SF." She didn`t bother to notice that the
Minuteman speakers and audience were
"diverse" by
any measure.

A major theme of the Minuteman rally was the crime
victims of illegal aliens, because the city`s sanctuary
policy remains in place. There was a
large sign with photos and names of victims of
foreign lawbreakers. Some participants carried photos in
remembrance.

Several of the speakers who appeared before the crowd
of 70 or so were people who had lost loved ones to
illegal alien criminals. Army Sergeant Anita Shaw, the
mother of

Jamiel Shaw, spoke. He was murdered March 2 by
illegal alien Pedro Espinoza, a

documented member of the 18th Street gang just one
day after the criminal had been released from jail.

Sergeant Shaw described in detail the horror of being
told by her commanding officer that her son was dead
while she

served in Iraq. She had to come home to

bury her boy because the streets of Los Angeles were
not safe for a

promising high-school youngster because murderous
foreign gangsters were allowed to run rampant. One
possible motive is race—that Jamiel was killed because
he was black.

Hispanic gangsters gain

"stripes"
for killing African-Americans.

Angie Morfin of Salinas told the story of how her

13-year-old son Ruben was killed by a

Mexican gang member in 1990 as he walked with some
friends to his grandmother`s house. (Read her

1999 testimony before the House Immigration
Committee about her loss.) Angie`s sister Lupe Moreno
spoke also about the need to bring the full force of the
law against illegal aliens.

Rick Oltman from the
Californians for
Population Stabilization presented pertinent
information about what state law requires.

Article 5 of the California Constitution is quite
clear that the state`s
Attorney General should oversee fair law enforcement
and must step in when local leadership fails.

"SEC. 13. Subject
to the powers and duties of the Governor, the Attorney
General shall be the chief law officer of the State. It
shall be the duty of the Attorney General to see that

the laws of the State are uniformly and adequately
enforced. … Whenever in the opinion of the
Attorney General any law of the State is not being
adequately enforced in any county, it shall be the duty
of the Attorney General to prosecute any violations of
law of which the superior court shall have jurisdiction,
and in such cases the Attorney General shall have all
the powers of a district attorney. "

Furthermore, Oltman pointed out,
the

state penal code does not allow any wiggle room for
legal fictions like
"sanctuary":

"834b. (a) Every
law enforcement agency in California shall fully
cooperate with the United States Immigration and
Naturalization Service regarding any person who is
arrested if he or she is suspected of being present in
the United States in violation of federal immigration
laws. "

Other patriotic speakers included
Ray Herrera and Al Rodriguez.

Sadly, this beautiful city has become an emblem of
left-wing extremism. The expression
"San Francisco
values" epitomizes the city`s

smugly arrogant cultural beliefs, from

hating the

military to worshipping

diversity of the worst sort and protecting illegal
alien criminals.

But there have been some recent bumps on the road to
San Francisco`s kumbaya borderless socialism.

First there was a series of revelations in the
San Francisco Chronicle about how the

city had spent substantial taxpayer money to shelter
Honduran crack dealers from the feds.

Then came the news that the shocking

triple murder of the Bologna family were committed
by an illegal alien earlier protected by the city.

Patriotic Americans might think that San Francisco is
hopeless, and

in some ways it is. The city is corrupt in

the same way Chicago is, from decades of one-party
crony government. But even ultra-liberal San Franciscans
want police and jails to protect them from

foreign gangsters: a CBS survey taken after the
Honduran crack dealer stories appeared showed that

79 percent of those polled wanted convicted criminal
illegal aliens turned over to federal authorities.

The CBS poll shows

that a strong majority draw the line at protecting
criminals from justice – and that survey was done before
the details of the Bologna murder came out, which
further increased local anger.

The accused Salvadoran murderer of Tony, Michael and
Matthew Bologna was freed from custody and

not deported after violent felony convictions.

The San
Francisco Chronicle`s

online forums following articles about the crime
were filled with sentiments of

anger against city policies and the people who put
them in place.

But how would people know what`s going on in City
Hall given the non-existent news coverage from the
Chronicle and
local television? Aside from the outstanding alien crime
articles by

Jaxon Van Derbeken, the
Chronicle has
been more interested in producing puff pieces about the

Mayor Gavin Newsom`s crusade for gay marriage.
Coverage about the

deteriorating state of civility and safety on the
city`s streets has gotten short shrift for years – until
the recent awakening about crime.

One sign of changing winds: On September 3, Mayor
Newsom put San Francisco`s long-planned city

identification card plan on indefinite hold. Last
April, he was starring in an

advertising spot urging illegals to utilize
taxpayer-provided services as well as

bashing legal immigration enforcement.
"We are a
sanctuary city, make no mistake about it,"

he declared at the time.

But since then, San Francisco has had to respond to a

lawsuit against the identity cards from the
Immigration Reform Law Institute and

a suit brought by the Bologna family arguing the
city`s extreme

sanctuary policy was partially responsible for the
triple murder. Mayor Newsom has been trying to

walk back from his extreme position, although with
obvious reluctance.

The door to sanity has been pried open a tiny bit in
San Francisco. The upcoming court activity may force
more change at the policy level.

But responsible residents need to get involved and do
a lot more to drag their city out of the gutter.

Minutemen can
push the rock up the hill only so far…

Brenda Walker (email
her) lives in Northern California and publishes
two websites,
LimitsToGrowth.org and


ImmigrationsHumanCost.org.
She misses the old San Francisco values of Herb Caen
columns and less militant diversity.