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Title: Oceanside High erupts in protest as smaller rally begins in Vista
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North County Times
URL Source: http://www.nctimes.com/articles/200 ... s/top_stories/3_1906125114.prt
Published: Mar 30, 2006
Author: North County Times
Post Date: 2006-03-30 00:18:56 by Zipporah
Keywords: None
Views: 119
Comments: 21
A mob scene unfolded at Oceanside High School on Mission Avenue this morning when about 400 students tried to leave campus, only to be blocked by police officers toting pepper-spray pellet guns and wearing riot gear. Tensions arose at the school just before noon, when several hundred students tried to leave campus in protest of proposed immigration policies.
Oceanside High School students try to force their way through the school`s west gate onto Horne Street as Oceanside police in riot gear who fired paint ball guns at the ground to force the crowd to back away.
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Oceanside High erupts in protest as smaller rally begins in Vista
The scene at the campus subsided as school let out this afternoon and protesting students headed for the Oceanside Bandshell at the beach. Three boys have arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly throwing chunks of concrete at officers during the incident at the school.
Officers shot pepper-spray-filled pellets at the ground as students shook a locked fence surrounding the school. The students were chanting, "One people united will never be divided."
After about an hour of tense standoffs, about 100 students were allowed to walk to the Oceanside Pier in protest while others were locked down in classrooms.
As school let out around 2 p.m., officials released students from the campus in small groups. Many appeared to be headed to the Bandshell at the beach.
Mission Avenue west of I-5 and Center Street near the campus were blocked by police.
Another protest appeared to be brewing in Vista, where about 100 Latino students from Lincoln and Washington middle schools were congregating at 1:30 p.m. in a shopping center across from Vista High School to mark the third day of protests in the city.
The students ---- some carrying posters and Mexican flags ---- said that when Vista High released its students for the day around 2 p.m., they hoped to convince some of the teen-agers to march with them to Vista City Hall.
Students in Vista organized similar --- though much larger --- marches on Monday and Tuesday to protest proposed federal legislation that could toughen penalties for illegal immigrants.
Earlier, in Oceanside, a school official on a bullhorn told students they should step away from the school's gate if they did not want to be pepper-sprayed.
Students calling the newspaper from inside the gates said they were trying to leave in protest.
"Our point is that we want to show how we feel. If they're going to put our parents in jail because they are illegal, we are going to protest."
Officers considered locking down City Hall but as of 1:50 p.m. decided not to do so. The students will not be allowed in city hall, police Sgt. Leonard Mata said.
Mata said when students start leaving the campus this afternoon police will monitor them to be sure they're safe.
He said police requested help from the Sheriff's Department and the California Highway Patrol, and they had provided 20 deputies and officers.
Oceanside police had heard in advance that a large group of students might leave Oceanside High School at 11:45 a.m., so a command post was set up at 7 a.m. at the school, Mata said.
"We thought we were going to have an issue at the high school, so we prepared," he said.
A group of students from Jefferson Middle School has also joined the protesters, according to students calling from their cell phones.
"The police are escorting us all, and we're walking toward the pier," said 15-year-old Ivan Leal from his phone. "They're trying to keep us from getting away and they're trying to keep things from getting violent."
Elsewhere in North County, protests were more mild.
Escondido and Carlsbad authorities said there had been no protest activity so far today in the city.
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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)
I guess the one question I would ask these "kids" is: Are you an American or a Mexican? It would be interesting to hear the responses.
"I woke up in the CRAZY HOUSE."
I think we already know the answer to that one.. their loyalities lie not with the US..
I know, but I'd like America to hear thos answers. I think it's important that we strip away this nonsense about how they come here to work and want to become Americans. They want money, sure - but they don't consider themselves as Americans and I don't think most of them have any real desire to be citizens. They're Mexicans. Nothing wrong with that, but they need to go back there.
"I woke up in the CRAZY HOUSE."
I have nothing against nationalism either IF it's in their own darned country!! I would like to know who started this Aztlan idea.. it's total nonsense.. but these people absolutely believe it.. It might be really interesting to see who was involved with that and where and when it started.. The reason this all started was due to NAFTA.. the corporate farms sell to Mexico at a price that put local farmers off their farms and so theyre looking for work.. They need to deal with their own country's ills and OUR country needs to expel these people.. but will never happen.. this is all orchestrated.
I do. Mexico is a failed nation, always has been, always will be. They will always be a huge thorn in the foot of America. It would be better for everyone involved, Mexicans and Americans, if Mexico ceased to exist.
"I aim to misbehave" -- Mal Reynolds, Firefly
A good time to remember Clinton signed this into law.
take your sub-intelligent racist rhetoric back to FR where they love you and your kind.
I live in arizona. I have several friends who are very fine people who are of mexican heritage. some of them even came here illegally. they are fine members of the community today. your ideology is racist. I am amused that you feel that mexico is a fallen nation, but are so arrogant apparently about white people and believe that whites are not fallen. we are all fallen. none of the nations prosper unless divine providence shines on them. we should be humble over this. yet you are not. you are out-of-step with historical american thinking in this regard.
Is "Mexican" a race?
-- Nick Griffin, British National Party Wow! FR doesn't pull articles from VDare or Sam Francis anymore?
-- Nick Griffin, British National Party Good strawman! Not likely to work here though.
-- Nick Griffin, British National Party My eldest children attended Vista High. We lived in the area for several years. It was a very good school at one time. They had such a great experience and so did I actually. But even then, certain parks were beginning to be run over by hispanics. However, it is still a great place to live, and so is Oceanside. If you have school age children, Carlsbad and Encinitas are better. One of my sons and his friends were chased by illegals a few times. They would run into the greenhouses and yell "Immigration!". They thought it was funny.
”We have room but for one flag... We have room but for one language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty, and that is the loyality to the American people.” - Theodore Roosevelt
Really? If they're nationalists in Mexico..then maybe they would do something about their own screwed up country.. but then again it does take a certain amount of intelligence to do so..
He sure did and it reveals .. they're all in bed together..
Lived in San Marcos for about 7 years when it was still kinda "country". Moved (back) to WA in 1995.
Red.. Mexico is a failed state..
San Marcos is going through similar changes. That's about when I left San Diego. I worked in La Jolla a couple years ago for 6 months, the traffic is far worse. My sister still lives in San Diego but has no real commute, so she still loves it.
”We have room but for one flag... We have room but for one language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty, and that is the loyality to the American people.” - Theodore Roosevelt
Hand them one of these. They can find a racist using this simple detector. Once they look into it, the racist reveals him/herself.
I usually freely admit to the charge myself, since it's usually a waste of time trying to explain to a hysteric the distinction between observations of racial differences which are at least partly genetic and a claim of supremacy.
-- Nick Griffin, British National Party I think it was Reagan who began pushing it, though, and G.H.W. Bush's flunkies negotiated it. All I remember is they wanted to make sure there were no labor and environmental standards in it. The whole point was to drive OUR standards down, not raise Mexico's. But yeah, yeah, yeah. If it makes you feel better, it was really Clinton's fault. Everything is and always will be, I think, among a certain mindset of Americans. The GOPers are finding out it sucks to control all branches of government, then have everything go to hell on them and look up to find that the Americans have the audacity to blame those in charge and not Clinton! I like the current saying going around "Will someone please give the President a blowjob so we can impeach him!"
Fair enough. There are a signficant number of bozons out there who just want to hurl insults and cannot deal with truth or reality. Personally, my preference is to turn the tables on them and let them paint themselves out to be 'that which they have beheld' - it usually works and is quite satisfying to watch the target implode. The funniest one I've seen was some crazy lib in Cali accusing a friend of mine of being a 'white supremacist racist' -- she is Chinese and she and some Taiwanese friends were complaining about "Asian drivers"....that twit was roasted and shredded. "RAAAAACIST!" is so over-used it is now simply a watch-word that detects small minds nowadays.
#2. To: mehitable (#1)
I guess the one question I would ask these "kids" is: Are you an American or a Mexican? It would be interesting to hear the responses.
#3. To: Zipporah (#2)
#4. To: mehitable (#3)
I know, but I'd like America to hear thos answers. I think it's important that we strip away this nonsense about how they come here to work and want to become Americans. They want money, sure - but they don't consider themselves as Americans and I don't think most of them have any real desire to be citizens. They're Mexicans. Nothing wrong with that, but they need to go back there.
#5. To: Zipporah (#4)
I have nothing against nationalism either IF it's in their own darned country!!
#6. To: Zipporah (#4)
NAFTA
#7. To: YertleTurtle (#5)
if Mexico ceased to exist
#8. To: YertleTurtle (#5)
#9. To: Red Jones (#8)
your ideology is racist.
Siding with Islam against the neocons is no more a viable tactic than volunteering to infect yourself with the Ebola virus instead of AIDS.
#10. To: angle (#7)
take your sub-intelligent racist rhetoric back to FR where they love you and your kind.
Siding with Islam against the neocons is no more a viable tactic than volunteering to infect yourself with the Ebola virus instead of AIDS.
#11. To: Red Jones (#8)
so arrogant apparently about white people and believe that whites are not fallen.
Siding with Islam against the neocons is no more a viable tactic than volunteering to infect yourself with the Ebola virus instead of AIDS.
#12. To: Zipporah (#0)
#13. To: YertleTurtle (#5)
I do. Mexico is a failed nation, always has been, always will be. They will always be a huge thorn in the foot of America. It would be better for everyone involved, Mexicans and Americans, if Mexico ceased to exist.
#14. To: angle (#6)
A good time to remember Clinton signed this into law.
#15. To: robin (#12)
#16. To: Red Jones (#8)
I am amused that you feel that mexico is a fallen nation, but are so arrogant apparently about white people and believe that whites are not fallen.
#17. To: Phaedrus (#15)
1995
#18. To: Tauzero (#9)
when someone screams "RAAAAAACIST!" when race was never mentioned...
#19. To: mirage (#18)
Siding with Islam against the neocons is no more a viable tactic than volunteering to infect yourself with the Ebola virus instead of AIDS.
#20. To: angle (#6)
#21. To: Tauzero (#19)
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