Comments on: The Unlimited Sun http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/08/13/the-unlimited-sun/ Where Manifest Destiny Goes to Die Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:58:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: nezua http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/08/13/the-unlimited-sun/comment-page-1/#comment-567 nezua Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:29:15 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=443#comment-567 la lucha continua, nomi. gracias, and i am happy to see you. :) la lucha continua, nomi. gracias, and i am happy to see you. :)

]]> By: Nomi http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/08/13/the-unlimited-sun/comment-page-1/#comment-489 Nomi Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:29:08 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=443#comment-489 Estimado Nezua, In Rhode Island we will NOT let Mr. Ng's death go without questions and protest. I missed the press conference this past Friday, but the local ACLU and a wonderful group, Olneyville Neighbors in Action (ONA) and others were present... Thank you for all that you do...and I am so happy to see my ( Sandinista Sistah) quote on your site! La lucha continua. Estimado Nezua,

In Rhode Island we will NOT let Mr. Ng’s death go without questions and protest.

I missed the press conference this past Friday, but the local ACLU and a wonderful group, Olneyville Neighbors in Action (ONA) and others were present…

Thank you for all that you do…and I am so happy to see my ( Sandinista Sistah) quote on your site!

La lucha continua.

]]> By: RC http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/08/13/the-unlimited-sun/comment-page-1/#comment-455 RC Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:56:31 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=443#comment-455 Over at The Sanctuary is there any plan to push for a nationally recognized Ombudsman to have the right to enter any detention facility at any time and ask questions about any person there? Waiting for a judge did not do Ng any good. Given the long drawn out legislative circuses we are going to be facing for a long time, some other measure is needed in the interim. Over at The Sanctuary is there any plan to push for a nationally recognized Ombudsman to have the right to enter any detention facility at any time and ask questions about any person there? Waiting for a judge did not do Ng any good. Given the long drawn out legislative circuses we are going to be facing for a long time, some other measure is needed in the interim.

]]> By: nezua http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/08/13/the-unlimited-sun/comment-page-1/#comment-453 nezua Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:50:14 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=443#comment-453 yeah i'm full of those Naive-Yet-Rhetorical questions myself... Good to see ya. :) yeah i’m full of those Naive-Yet-Rhetorical questions myself…

Good to see ya. :)

]]> By: Lisa Harney http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/08/13/the-unlimited-sun/comment-page-1/#comment-451 Lisa Harney Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:16:47 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=443#comment-451 This hit home for me recently, when BFP pointed out that there were actually real conversations going on about whether Angie Zapata even had a right to be in the US <em>just because she was a latina</em> when she was murdered. I was aware of and against it all before, but to see people trying to excuse a young woman's murder on that basis (as well as being trans) made it much more personal to me. That's not to say it didn't also hit hard when women were being deported and separated from their (sometimes nursing) children. Or when I heard about latin@s being stopped on suspicion of being illegally in the country. Or any of the other inhumanities and indignities heaped upon people. My naive-yet-rhetorical question is "Since when is it okay to treat human beings like this?" This hit home for me recently, when BFP pointed out that there were actually real conversations going on about whether Angie Zapata even had a right to be in the US just because she was a latina when she was murdered.

I was aware of and against it all before, but to see people trying to excuse a young woman’s murder on that basis (as well as being trans) made it much more personal to me.

That’s not to say it didn’t also hit hard when women were being deported and separated from their (sometimes nursing) children. Or when I heard about latin@s being stopped on suspicion of being illegally in the country. Or any of the other inhumanities and indignities heaped upon people.

My naive-yet-rhetorical question is “Since when is it okay to treat human beings like this?”

]]> By: Donna http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/08/13/the-unlimited-sun/comment-page-1/#comment-447 Donna Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:03:41 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=443#comment-447 LOL my icon is too true! I thought the least I could do is warn people. LOL my icon is too true! I thought the least I could do is warn people.

]]> By: nezua http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/08/13/the-unlimited-sun/comment-page-1/#comment-445 nezua Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:18:22 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=443#comment-445 OH and i love your icon, donna. OH and i love your icon, donna.

]]> By: nezua http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/08/13/the-unlimited-sun/comment-page-1/#comment-444 nezua Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:14:58 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=443#comment-444 yes...i am like you. it just baffles my understanding. yes…i am like you. it just baffles my understanding.

]]> By: Donna http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/2008/08/13/the-unlimited-sun/comment-page-1/#comment-443 Donna Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:32:52 +0000 http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/?p=443#comment-443 And yet, it seems it is so much easier to get people to fear and hoard than it is to convince them that they are safer when giving, sharing, taking care of others. That part should be bolded and repeated, and bolded and repeated again! I told my son that I would like to think that people care about each other and that we try to make sure that everyone has shelter, food, health care, and other necessities; but it's not true. Too many have completely bought into the capitalist way of thinking that is all about- I got mine and too bad for you. I said to him, even if all he cared about was his own self interest and didn't give a damn for other people, that desperate people are angry and dangerous. This is the place where revolution, riots, and other uprisings comes from. Therefore it is self-interest that says that we should provide the basics of life for everyone, or we should not be surprised when the world explodes. I feel sick about Hui Liu Ng. The prison guards who came into contact with him daily must have had some inkling of the horrendous pain he was in, how could they walk away from that? How could they watch him suffer and not do anything? And yet, it seems it is so much easier to get people to fear and hoard than it is to convince them that they are safer when giving, sharing, taking care of others.

That part should be bolded and repeated, and bolded and repeated again!

I told my son that I would like to think that people care about each other and that we try to make sure that everyone has shelter, food, health care, and other necessities; but it’s not true. Too many have completely bought into the capitalist way of thinking that is all about- I got mine and too bad for you. I said to him, even if all he cared about was his own self interest and didn’t give a damn for other people, that desperate people are angry and dangerous. This is the place where revolution, riots, and other uprisings comes from. Therefore it is self-interest that says that we should provide the basics of life for everyone, or we should not be surprised when the world explodes.

I feel sick about Hui Liu Ng. The prison guards who came into contact with him daily must have had some inkling of the horrendous pain he was in, how could they walk away from that? How could they watch him suffer and not do anything?

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