{"id":641,"date":"2007-04-05T23:40:10","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T03:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2007-04-06T07:29:34","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T11:29:34","slug":"on-jerry-gonzalez-zamarripa-coconuts-racism-and-american-heroes-a-repost-from-november-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/05\/on-jerry-gonzalez-zamarripa-coconuts-racism-and-american-heroes-a-repost-from-november-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"On GALEO, Jerry Gonzalez, Teodoro Maus, Zamarripa, coconuts, racism and American heroes: A repost from November 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From November 6, 2005<br \/>\n<strong>Zamarripa, coconuts, racism and American heroes<\/strong><br \/>\nPosted by D.A. King <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While enduring a \u201cTown Hall Meeting\u201d Friday night that was staged &#8211; and I do mean staged &#8211; here in Cobb County by Georgia state senator Sam Zamarripa\u2019s propaganda machine \u2013 the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials [GALEO] &#8211; I couldn\u2019t help but think about a friend of ours in Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>I listened to a former Atlanta Mexican Consul General who continues to find ways to profit from the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens in Georgia tell the audience \u201cmost undocumented immigrants in the United States come from Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That explains why we see the Canadian flag so much on Buford Highway.<\/p>\n<p>Like many in the worlds oldest profession, that Teodoro Maus fellow can be pretty entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>Another recurring theme was that illegal aliens were really just \u201cimmigrants\u201d<br \/>\n\u2026and that illegally entering, residing and working in the U.S. was not really a crime if the illegals paid rent and sales taxes\u2026I cannot make stuff like this up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=32\">the original post here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From November 6, 2005 Zamarripa, coconuts, racism and American heroes Posted by D.A. King While enduring a \u201cTown Hall Meeting\u201d Friday night that was staged &#8211; and I do mean staged &#8211; here in Cobb County by Georgia state senator Sam Zamarripa\u2019s propaganda machine \u2013 the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials [GALEO] &#8211; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}