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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-27-10 02:49 PM
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Profiling Arizona legislator Russell Pearce: Author of immigration law is pals with noted neo-Nazi
Profiling Arizona legislator Russell Pearce: Author of immigration law is pals with noted neo-Nazi

There are some things about state Sen. Russell Pearce, the author of Arizona's new police-state immigration law, that Greta Van Susteren and all the other Fox anchors who've had him on this past week aren't telling you.

Indeed, they let him just come on and spew misleading nonsense, as he did last night on On the Record, telling Van Susteren that the law only "takes the handcuffs off" for law enforcement officers and "allows" them to arrest suspected illegal immigrants. Actually, it requires them to.

Well, we mentioned previously that Pearce has a colorful background involving the white-supremacist far right, including dalliances -- like his close pal Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- with neo-Nazis.

Rachel Maddow discussed some of this in her segment last night, but it's worth discussing some more so that people can fully appreciate the nature of the police state just signed into law in Arizona. Byron York has proclaimed it "a very carefully crafted law" -- and he is quite correct about that. Crafted to what end, however, is quite another story.

Y'see, back in 2006, Pearce caught a lot of people's attention by forwarding to a bunch of his friends and associates an article on immigration from a neo-Nazi news source -- namely, the National Alliance, the folks who brought you The Turner Diaries. The article was about Jewish control of the media and how it supposedly creates a bias against whites and favors minorities and Israel. Pearce apologized, but never could explain why he was reading material from the National Alliance in the first place.

But then he was seen working arm in arm with this fellow:



More:
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/profiling-arizona-legislator-russell

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ShamelessHussy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-27-10 02:51 PM
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1. Papers, please...
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mrfocus Donating Member (151 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-27-10 02:54 PM
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2. From "We the People" to "Papers, please"
Arizona leading the way...can the Rational United States just build a wall or fence around these people?
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-27-10 03:06 PM
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3. And no outcry from the public
Too many reality shows for anyone to notice ... you know ... real reality.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-27-10 03:08 PM
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4. lolwut?
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RobertPlant Donating Member (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-27-10 03:43 PM
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5. isn't this Pearce guy from Mesa?
Mesa has been notorious for years of being a haven of people with Mormon and/or neo-nazi values. I like to call it Baja Idaho.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-27-10 06:46 PM
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6. Lawyer 4 White Nationalist Group Brags That He 'Helped' Russell Pearce Write Arizona Immigration Law
Lawyer 4 White Nationalist Group Brags That He 'Helped' Russell Pearce Write Arizona Immigration Law
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8228259&mesg_id=8228259


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