Tea Party protesters fooled into anti-European chants on immigration

[Ichingcarpenter]

Interloper tricks Tea Party audience into an anti-European immigrant chant of ‘Columbus go home!’




On Saturday, a few dozen anti-immigration activists gathered on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol for a Tea Party, part of the nationwide effort by Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC). But somehow, one of the counter-protesters, a “concerned citizen from Minneapolis” named “Robert Erickson,” manged to get on the speaking list. His address started with the standard anti-immigrant rhetoric, but then revealed that he was talking about European immigrants. By this time, however, the crowd was in a frenzy and joined him in his chants of “Columbus go home!” and “Europeans out!”:

Let’s send these European immigrants back where they came from! I don’t care if they are Polish, Irish, English, Italian, or Norwegian! European immigrants are responsible for the most violent and heinous crimes in the history of the world, including genocide and slavery! Its time to restore the sovereignty of people native to this land! I want more workplace raids, starting with the big banks downtown.


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/16/columbus-go-home/

Even has the video

[Joe the Liberal]

1. That is the the GOP of today.....

mindless, hopeless, ignorant sheep who can't figure things out for themselves. I would have thought that a few of them would have been able to figure it out and start booing but that's giving them far to much credit.

[adamuu]

2. "it’s kinda like picking on retards isn’t it?"

Comment on ThinkProgress page.

[formercia]

3. He should be charged under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

:rofl: