You may have your own reality, but not your own set of laws
From the Rocky Mountain News:
The American Indian Movement and other activist groups plan to camp at Denver's Civic Center without permits this weekend to protest Saturday's Columbus Day parade.They say they don't need a permit from "an occupying power" to use their own land.
"Aw jeesh" as Archie Bunker used to say. The law is the law is the law. Even if you do not like it, nor the circumstances under which it arose. Why is it that it seems to be the conservative that will obey the law and leftists who dream them up on their own, picking what they want and throwing the others away like a bad recipe?
State and Denver police said Monday they see things otherwise.
If the protesters choose to occupy Veterans Park next to the Capitol as planned, State Patrol officers will remove them, said Department of Public Safety spokesman Lance Clem.
Denver police said they will enforce an 11 p.m. curfew for any nearby property that falls under their jurisdiction.
Good for them for not bowing to Political Correctness or political pressure from politicians wishing to make points.
"We hope that there's not a confrontation," said Glenn Spagnuolo, a member of the Transform Columbus Day Alliance, one of the protest organizers. "We hope that our assurances to the police that we will not harm the parade marchers will (let) us have this camp."
Oh, by NOT threatening those in a parade you don't like means you should get your own way?
Are these folks adults, or children. Or has the Muslim extremist policies shown that thinly veiled threats do work?
But the group will not ask permission to set up camp, Spagnuolo said.
"Asking an illegal colonizer for permission to be on land that doesn't belong to them doesn't work for us," he said.
So the government is illegal? Does this mean that any protections given by an illegal government are also null and void? So that if such government were to behave badly, you have no recourse (hey, your stance makes the court system invalid as well, right)?
Denver's Columbus Day parade, first held a century ago, is the nation's oldest. In recent years, however, it has become a lightning rod for protesters who consider Columbus a genocidal conqueror.
Hey, anyone is entitled to an opinion. Just don't act like that invalidates everything else.
What some see as a possible warm-up for this weekend's annual showdown between Italian Americans and Indian activists took place Monday at a news conference in north Denver called by parade organizers.
Three American Indian activists, who slipped in to watch the event, eventually were invited to join the discussion. Suddenly, though, the two sides began exchanging insults.
In this corner we have the identity politics group #1, the Italians! And in this other corner, identity politics group #2. Are you ready to ruuuummmmmbbbblllllleeeeee? (copyrighted by that boxing announcer whose name I cannot remember.....)
Pro-parade forces had brought in an American Indian, David Yeagley, of Oklahoma City, a classical-music composer with a Ph.D. in history, to explain why Columbus should not be considered a racist icon. But before the event was over, Yeagley, who identifies himself as a Comanche, called one of the activists a "commie."
Each side accused the other of racism.
Can we establish now that using "racist" is the same as using "Nazi" first - you lose?
But Spagnuolo assured parade organizer George Vendegnia that his group planned no violence during Saturday's parade.
Whew, what a relief - we're not PLANNING any!
"We've always said we were going to be nonviolent," he said. But he added, "I'm not saying it will be a lovefest," either.
Many of the organizers said they hoped protesters would give them a break this year. They insisted they have a right to their own celebration.
Frankly, this is a good point. If the anti-Columbus crowd wants to protest, let them organize their own legally (oops, that's kinda out the window already huh - see above) permitted parade and (sorry, gotta do this) rain on some one else's.
"Just don't stop my parade," Vendegnia said.
He said protesters have disrupted the parade in the past, and he pledged, "I ain't going to let that happen again."
The protesters plan to march from four directions and descend on Veterans Park at 6 p.m. Friday. Once there, they say, they intend to set up tents and stay overnight.
Spagnuolo said he has his fingers crossed that authorities will not overreact.
Still, he said, "We made a decision that we are no longer respecting the authority of the city of Denver. And we have requested permits from the original tribes."
Does anyone else see the dichotomy in this guy's thinking? If you will not respect the law, why should the law respect you? You've all but already laid down the gauntlet to law enforcement and I bet you'll be the quickest to call them all racist.
Three tribes have given the protesters the right to camp in central Denver, he said.
This is not a reservation - the is downtown Denver!!!!
