The Pink Flamingo :: Russell Pearce Wants Only American Citizens to Be Allowed to Wed in AZ

Republican Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce is working on his new legislation that would deny citizenship to "anchor babies" and anyone who is born in this country and their parents are not American Citizens (like baby Neil who is first generation American). Thank Heavens for the Feathered Bastard! He also wants to deny anyone who cannot provide proof of American Citizenship the right to legally marry in the state of Arizona. In other words, if I wanted to marry someone who had a Green Card I could not do so. My next question, when do Russell Pearce and his Republican (I am so ashamed of that) friends decide to pass a law saying that Hispanics are no long allowed to get married in Arizona. Or maybe they don't want people in Arizona who are Jewish marrying anyone who isn't Jewish. This is the same type of law that was passed in Germany in the 1930's. I've been telling you where all of this anti-immigration bigotry was heading, but evidently many of you never believed me.

"...State Rep. Russell Pearce is all excuses when he forwards neo-Nazi National Alliance e-mails to his supporters, or is seen smiling and arm-in-arm with local neo-Nazis like J.T. Ready. It's either, "I didn't read the e-mail closely," or "I didn't know he was a neo-Nazi." But the proof, as they say, is in the puddin' head. And though in person, Pearce strikes you as having the I.Q. of a horse's hoof, he has been extremely effective in instituting his one-note-Johnny anti-brown plan for Arizona. Last year, it was employer sanctions, the law that's now driving businesses under, full steam ahead. This year, the evil gets a little more bold, a little more twisted.

For instance, Pearce has made known his intention to put a referendum on the November ballot that would prohibit hospitals from issuing birth certificates to children born of illegal parents. Never mind that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution clearly states, that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside," and that, "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."..."

I did not know that Russell Pearce sponsored legislation (HB 2631) that would require people who wish to be married provide a birth certificate and PROOF OF US CITIZENSHIP in order to be married. He only wants Americans to marry Americans. Now I don't know about you, but this reeks of something very, very nasty.

"...You'd have to be tone-deaf to history not to note a faint echo of the Nuremburg laws of Nazi Germany. Of course, in the case of the Nuremburg laws, there was no masquerading the nefarious intent of the regime, which was proactively and unabashedly racist. Take this excerpt from those laws dealing with marriage:

Marriages between Jews and citizens of German or kindred blood are forbidden. Marriages concluded in defiance of this law are void, even if, for the purpose of evading this law, they were concluded abroad.

Agreed, we're dealing with entirely different contexts, and the Nuremburg laws were more directly focused on the Jewish people. But the similarity is near enough on the surface to send chills down one's spine...."

Even the most rabid anti-immigration supporter surely cannot agree with the proposed Arizona Marriage Laws. If they do, then you know what side they are actually one. This is disgusting and deplorable.

So, dear conservatives, don't you dare legitimize this one to me. I don't see how you can. Further, there are additional Republicans, Trish Groe, John Kavanagh, John Nelson and Jack Harper who have co-sponsored the bill. Then there is the white supremacist connection to Pearce.

Pearce has a long history of racism. I know there are some who would disagree with semantics, but you can't dress up a sow's ear. Trust me, I'm trying to figure out how to rework the sow's ear of my parent's house.

"...The Russell Pearce Scandal Spills into CD-5
For those that don't already know, State Representative Russell Pearce of District in Mesa recently sent out an e-mail to supporters citing an article from the racist group, the National Alliance. Plugged In covers the whole crazy thing here, along with Pearce's apology.

Pearce is in hot water. First, it was supporting a revival of "Operation Wetback," and now it is forwarding racist, Neo-Nazi trash to his supporters. From what others have told me his district has a sizable Latino population. Sure Mesa is conservative, but this isn't shaping up to be a good year for any conservative. I have met his opponent, Tammie Pursley, and I think it's a race she can win.

The scandal has spilled into CD-5. On Tuesday, J.D. Hayworth rescinded his endorsement of Russell Pearce.

"Given the regrettable and disturbing nature of the email Russell Pearce circulated earlier this week, I cannot in good conscience lend my endorsement to his candidacy for State Representative. While Russell has issued an apology for his emails, I nonetheless will not be associated with any communication that contains anti-Semetic remarks."..."

Russell Pearce's friend J. T. Ready and his little friends.

"...But when the National Socialist Movement held an anti-immigration rally in Omaha, Neb., on Sept. 1, the leader of the Americans First nativist extremist group was making his public debut as a full-blown neo-Nazi. Photographs (above) captured a grinning Ready, clad in a grey business suit, standing side-by-side with NSM members who wore brown-shirt uniforms with swastika armbands. Any doubt that Ready was an open white supremacist, as well as a hard-line nativist, evaporated at that point.

“I was a guest speaker in Omaha,” Ready said. “If I am a guest speaker at a Black Panther event, will you report that I am a black supremacist, too? I would be more than happy to speak at one of their [Black Panther] events. We have the very same enemy after all.”

Ready, who ran unsuccessfully for Mesa City Council, is a twice court-martialed ex-marine who received a bad conduct discharge. He fudged the biography he provided as a political candidate to a local newspaper. He was arrested for aggravated assault with a weapon and damage to property in Florida in 1992 and made headlines in March 2006 when he fired a gun at a Latino man.

A past president of Mesa Community College Republican Club, Ready appears in a video produced by former militia member and convicted felon Russ Dove in which he offers his own final solution to illegal immigration. Clad in a turtleneck and a skull-adorned do-rag, Ready says: “I may be the first one to advocate this but I firmly believe in having a mine field across the border. This is 100% effective.”

For more on Ready’s political connections, including his chummy relationship with Arizona State Rep. Russell Pearce, click here...."

From The Feathered Bastard

"...The Ernst Roehm of East Valley, former Mesa City Council candidate J.T. Ready has been lying low for a while, at least since I saw him arm-in-arm with AZ state Rep. Russell Pearce, after his rabble-rousing speech at the big anti-immigrant hoedown at the State Capitol back in June. But it seems J.T. made it up to Omaha, Nebraska for a September 1 neo-Nazi demonstration outside the Mexican consulate there. According to a statement by NSM Commander Jeff Schoep made on the National Socialist Movement Web site, "special guest speakers" at the event included "JT Ready/Arizona Republican activist." And indeed, if you look carefully at the gaggle of brownshirts herded behind fences to help keep 'em separated from counterdemonstrators, you can spy the blubber-bound fascist in a gray suit hobnobbing with those in full S.A. regalia. Apparently, he wasn't alone, "Notable mentions go out to the new NSM Arizona unit or was it NSM Kansas for having the most guys in attendance from a single NSM chapter (that might have been a tie)...."

I keep trying to figure out how "conservatives" can legitimize their ability to give these people a pass. LoneWacko has an older post that lets Russell & Ready slide.