2010 June 18 | The Freedom Minute

More Hypocrisy from the LA City Council

Unless you’ve been off living in a cave somewhere in Afghanistan, you’ll remember that last month the L.A. City Council voted to boycott Arizona in protest of their crackdown on illegal immigration. The members of the council were so outraged at the behavior of Arizona’s elected officials that they enacted a ban on doing business with any company based in Arizona and suspended all city-related travel to the state.

Council Member Paul Koretz said that the passage of the Arizona laws was comparable to “the beginning of what went on in Nazi Germany” and that he believed that Arizona “needs to be stung in every possible way until they stop this behavior”.

Richard Alarcon was brought to tears and exclaimed that, “We’re fighting to preserve American democracy”.

Jose Huizar felt that, “We have to act strongly and quickly to put out this disease. This boycott will send that strong message. We must deal swiftly and strongly with this ill conceived law before it spreads anywhere else”.

Tony Cardenas declared, “We are standing here for what is right. We got elected to do what is right”. And then went on to say that Arizona was “acting un-American”.

Ed Reyes claimed that if he went to Arizona and met a police officer that was having a bad day, that he could be deported (totally untrue) and that it was “crucial for our great city to take a stand and …manage our assets in a way that upholds the principles of this great country”.

Janice Hahn implored the Council to “stand up today and say yes to what we all believe America should look like and behave like”. She then went on to paraphrase Edmund Burke: “there are few times in our lives when we have the opportunity to stand up and be counted… and we know bad things happen when good people do not stand up and say something.

Eric Garcetti and the rest of the City Hall crew also declared that they, too, wanted to “take a stand”.
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