A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN IRONY:My Experiences At A May Day Rally

Irony is the word of the day.

Tuesday, here in The Sanctuary City of Angels, thousands of lawbreakers flooded the streets and demanded things which they feel they are entitled to, simply for being lucky enough to have made it across the southern border.

As if to laugh in the face of real Americans, who watched helplessly as the protesters yelled in Spanish, held up signs belittling our President and waved the flag of the nation responsible for this whole mess in the first place. (For all of you Liberals out there I’m referring to the Mexican flag.)

These lawbreakers flooded the streets and listened to speeches of support from radical groups like The Nation of Islam, who patrolled the streets in their pinstriped suits, giving aid to their “oppressed brothers.”

Insane, cop punching, former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, used her speech to rail against Republicans, not a word on illegal immigration.

Communist and Socialist groups waved pictures of Hugo Chavez, and handed out propaganda, seemingly unaware of the rank hypocrisy of calling for open borders in the U.S, while simultaneously supporting regimes such as Cuba, which forbids its citizens from leaving the country.

Speeches were given in English and then translated into Spanish. Only after the translation did the vast majority of the crowd burst in supportive cheers, as if they had no clue what the English speaking orator had originally said.

The media here in L.A. loves the lawbreakers, and after the rally they saved their vitriol, which should have been cast on those here illegally, upon those whose job it is to uphold the law.

How screwed up of a world to we live in when the lawbreakers garner sympathy and those attempting to keep the peace are treated like criminals?

In one of L.A’s worst neighborhoods, cops attempted to disperse a rowdy group of protesters. In keeping with third-world tradition, the protesters began hurling bottles and rocks at the police. The police were finally able to disperse the crowd using rubber bullets and batons when necessary.


But someone caught the cops hitting people with a baton on tape. Oh my!

It must be police brutality.

Forget that there are no tapes of what occurred before force was used against the mob. The media wouldn’t want to make the protesters look bad, now would they?

Yes, media types did get in the middle of the fracas, and at times needed to be prodded out of the way. Sorry. It’s a dangerous job.

Politicians all over the city took the side of the protesters, not wanting to upset a minority and have the city burn down again. Even when the alternative is tantamount to spitting in the face of L.A’s best and brightest, and giving the already morally confused protesters and the poor and uneducated across the country more reasons to hate cops.


Demanding “workers rights” is a dangerous business. Especially when, those making the demands shouldn’t even be here in the first place.

In fact, we do these protesters a favor by allowing them to borrow our constitutional rights for a day and bestowing upon them freedom of speech and the ability to peaceably assemble. Then when the assembly is no longer “peaceful” we give them a pass and then pass harsh judgment on those who enable real Americans to practice these rights.


It’s not that I don’t like illegal immigrants. Mexico sucks. We all know this and we don’t expect you to put up with it.

You are great for our economy. You do jobs that we don’t want.

But don’t come here, take advantage of our resources and then march in the streets and yell at us, making demands and accusing us of treating you unfairly.


That makes Americans who want you to succeed, and who want Mexico to become part of the developed world, far less sympathetic to your cause.

All day protesters chanted, “Yes we can!”(in Spanish of course). What does that mean? You “can” do what? Flood the streets, wave signs, hold up traffic, make the American people who are already irked about the situation at the border even more upset?

The bubble in which most Americans live is more or less confined to themselves and those around them. It rarely goes beyond the city in which they live.

That’s why these rallies are so counter-productive for illegals.

While they revel in the celebration and surround themselves with thousands who support their cause, they have no idea that the rest of America is watching them on TV and becoming less and less sympathetic towards their behavior.

I arrived at the L.A. rally as one who wanted America to compromise with undocumented workers and find a way for them to stay her legally, and eventually become citizens.

I left as one who still believed that these were the proper steps to take, but who was far less enthusiastic about helping illegal workers than I was at the start of the day.

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