Where’s the Tea Party in Arizona?

Posted on 04/27/2010 at 11:55 am by Bob Cesca

Eugene Robinson totally eviscerates the new Republican immigration crackdown in Arizona, and asks a salient question about the teabaggery:

Activists for Latino and immigrant rights — and supporters of sane governance — held weekend rallies denouncing the new law and vowing to do everything they can to overturn it. But where was the Tea Party crowd? Isn’t the whole premise of the Tea Party movement that overreaching government poses a grave threat to individual freedom? It seems to me that a law allowing individuals to be detained and interrogated on a whim — and requiring legal residents to carry identification documents, as in a police state — would send the Tea Partyers into apoplexy. Or is there some kind of exception if the people whose freedoms are being taken away happen to have brown skin and might speak Spanish?

Of course the reason the teabaggers aren’t protesting this law is because the tea party is only concerned with white, upper-class, Christian freedoms. The same phenomenon happened with the Obama tax cuts — people who received the tax cuts are freeloaders and layabouts. In other words, the tea party is only anti-tax when it comes to white, upper-class, Christian taxes.

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  • indyinwc

    Hey, I just brought this up in your last post about Breitbart, and here you are with what I was talking about, whoa.

  • eljefejeff

    It’s the same reason they want racial profiling of Muslims. I guess it’s okay to infringe on brown people’s civil rights.

  • Daddy Dave

    I turn brown in the summer. Shall I avoid Arizona when I’m brown?

  • jmrunning3

    Eugene’s article brought up another very valid point: this law is going to make law enforcement’s job much harder. If the undocumented immigrants now have to avoid the police, criminal investigations will be much harder to pursue. So this law-and-order-party law will possibly make crime go up.

  • azphil

    “Where’s the Tea Party in Arizona?”They were told to make themselves scarce so the citizenry here would think that the repub lawmakers were credible, and not doing it for those t-bag votes. The repub lawmakers had an easy time with that request as they are all t-baggers themslves.

  • Polar Bear Square

    So so very true.Expect more of this if the GOP takes over the House in November.Which sadly, I think they might. If they Dems don’t get their $#!t together.Like Cesca said, we’ll have hearings up the wazoo. Birther hearings. Investigations into Michelle Obama and the size of her staff. Investigations into the islamofascits government signs. We’ll have National Review and Weekly Standard “experts” testifying again and again.God help us.

  • http://www.osborneink.com OsborneInk

    Robinson’s taking questions at WaPo right now:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/26/AR2010042602595.htmlQ: “Governor Brewer has emphasized that steps, such as training for police forces, will be taken to prevent racial profiling and other abuses of the law. Is this goal realistic?”A: “I have to admit that I laugh out loud whenever I hear Gov. Brewer say that. The whole POINT of the law is racial profiling — detaining and questioning people who look like illegals, which means people who look Mexican.”

  • http://tarackian.deviantart.com/ J M Ashby

    This spot on and sadly not the only issue where the Tea Party does not live up to the principles they claim to hold so dear.Reduce government spending? 1 trillion per year for the Pentagon is fine, dont touch itRestore the constitution? not for brown people whom we designate terroristsLower taxes? Hey, thats been done and they still complainQuit stealing our freedom? Sorry, whites only pies hereIts a joke and completely transparent.

  • http://www.osborneink.com OsborneInk

    Clinic ongoing:Q: “The Republicans may never get another minority vote. With the arc of our population being more diverse how soon will they change directions?”A: “It is breathtaking how short-sighted Republicans are being. It will be very hard for the party to win national elections if it insists on driving Latinos further into the arms of the Democrats. Just when some Latino leaders were getting frustrated with the Obama administration for not moving fast enough on immigration reform, here comes this Arizona law — and once again, the Dems, at a minimum, look like the lesser of two evils.”

  • jhw22

    I see this differently because I don’t see the Tea Party as a tax-based group. They may say they are but they really are a group of angry Americans who have gathered to bitch about a multitude of gripes — and one of the major gripes, aside from taxes, is big government. The problem for them is that they are Republicans and have been trying to leverage themselves as mad at Democrats. They have made Obama and Pelosi the enemy but Obama and Pelosi aren’t behind this bill.They face a battle of principles now: they either vocally oppose a huge infringement of personal liberties AND a gigantic endorsement of LAW SUITS (which they despise) OR they have to agree with Obama and the Democrats that the bill is bad. They are stuck. They can’t keep hating the Democrats AND agree with them.Immigration has historically torn the Republican party in two because it violates personal liberties, hinders small businesses (who employ illegals) and costs a ton of money and creates more government jobs. At the same time, they truly believe illegal immigrants take jobs from them, abuse social services and commit more crime. They have never, as a party, been able to agree on this issue.This is exactly why I think Obama and Congress should make it a high priority now. We need to divide the Republican party and stop their momentum. The fact that the Tea Party is stunned silent and that Tom Tancredo is upset with this bill says that they already face a conundrum. We should take advantage now, while at the same time putting an end to BS laws that violate civil rights.Jennifer

  • chris

    So… can we get back to debating whether the Tea Party movement is 90% racist or 100%?

  • eljefejeff

    Polar Bear, you can say SHIT on this blog, Bob’s cool like that!

  • www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=673482645

    A little late to this, but I found the Arizona Tea Party site was actually planning a rally in favor of SB1070:http://arizonateaparty.ning.com/events/az-capitol-sb1070-immigration