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LulzSec Posts First Secret Document Dump
Dangerous_Minds writes "LulzSec has been vowing to expose government secrets for the last few days. Now they have delivered. According to ZeroPaid, LulzSec has posted secret documents about Arizona Law Enforcement. The release has been posted to file-sharing website ThePirateBay. LulzSec says the release is because they are 'against SB1070 and the racial profiling anti-immigrant police state that is Arizona.'"
What's your point?
I'm all for enforcing immigration laws (though I do believe it should be done at the federal level), but that does not mean stopping people for driving while dark-skinned and asking for their papers is anything less than inherent and frankly disgusting racism, codified into law.
That much I will never support, and I really could not care less if you happen to know a Mexican who does.
The parent isn't stupid. AZ is doing everything they can to make life unpleasant for anyone who even speaks spanish, never mind is an immigrant from south america. Your response is essentially the "but I have a black friend" defense. Oh so you have a supervisor who is Mexican and he supports it? Even if that is true, why should we care? Would it justify prop 8 if a gay guy supported it?
The bill is racist and furthers the police state mentality that is seeing our basic rights abandoned in a race to the bottom.
Why not?
If there's no slaves anymore, where's the slavery problem?
This is like a law saying it's illegal to own a slave. So what do you do when you find a slave? Set them free - in the country they were from where they have rights.
"E. A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, WITHOUT A WARRANT, MAY ARREST A PERSON
38 IF THE OFFICER HAS PROBABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THE PERSON HAS COMMITTED
39 ANY PUBLIC OFFENSE THAT MAKES THE PERSON REMOVABLE FROM THE UNITED STATES."
Is generally subject to the fear that "Probable cause" == Brown Skin.
Can you provide a reference to the part of the constitution that says the U.S. has a duty to protect non-citizens who are here illegally? And please, feel free to pay for the education and medical bills for these non-citizens.
The AC who posted that it's a constitutional duty is an idiot. The constitution is flawed, look at the "status" of negros after! (no change).
The unalienable rights of which the AC speaks are guaranteed by the US participation in the UN, and adherence to the charter of rights and freedoms.
Now, I know from 2000-2008, you americans got used to ignoring rights and freedoms, but that has changed. You've got to stop abusing people and play nice, or big brother china is going to call your debts due and make you his woman.
I don't know, do you figure the pasty white Scandinavian grandmother will be asked for documentation proving her status as a legal resident?
I am pretty sure she won't, no.
But a Tohono O'odham grandmother who doesn't need papers because she belongs to a different nation within Arizona will now run the risk of being arrested for breaking a law she's not subject to.