Remember a couple weeks ago when the U.S. Forest Service warned campers to watch out for people who drink Tecate, eat tortillas, and listen to Spanish music because they might be dangerous marijuana growers? Yeah, they're kinda backtracking on that one a little bit:
The Forest Service says they've "learned some valuable lessons from this experience," presumably including why you shouldn't try to scare the hell out of everyone with wildly racist public announcements. What they did was absolutely crazy. Apologies and regrets won't change the fact that they carelessly insulted millions of people in a deranged fit of drug war delirium.
Denver, Colo., September 14, 2009 – On Sept. 2, U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Regional Forester Rick Cables and members of his organization met with 17 Hispanic community leaders, representing a variety of Hispanic organizations in Colorado, to issue an apology for regrettable references used during an Aug. 26 briefing to news media concerning illegal marijuana cultivation activities on national forests in Colorado. [Dept. of Agriculture]
The Forest Service says they've "learned some valuable lessons from this experience," presumably including why you shouldn't try to scare the hell out of everyone with wildly racist public announcements. What they did was absolutely crazy. Apologies and regrets won't change the fact that they carelessly insulted millions of people in a deranged fit of drug war delirium.
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U.S. Forest Service apologizes:
Typical. Hopefully all involved in that racist racket are fired.
Racist??
Well, you, someone, refused to post my earlier remarks. COWARDS!! I'll reiterate and maybe you'll grow a sack and post this...
The USFS was not, is not, racist. They stated facts. Our forests were burned down, our people KILLED by MEXICANS!!!! ILLEGAL MEXICANS!!!!
That does not mean however
That does not mean however that your rights are any more important than the rights of someone who speaks spanish and eats tortillas to enjoy the national parks without harassment. You can't believe in your own rights and then turn around and tell other people they shouldn't have them because of their heritage.
The problem with what the national forest service said was that it provided guidelines which in no way would help prove that the people being identified were doing anything illegal. Instead of coming up with behaviors that only marijuana growers in the national forest may have been doing, they chose to target an entire ethnic group and asked the public to make sure that when members of that ethnic group come to the park they get harassed.
It's good that they apologized, and hopefully they'll learn more about the rules for setting guidelines for profiling people committing illegal activity.
what if the forest service
what if the forest service found hot dog buns and baked beans....would they say be on the lookout for white people listening to rock and roll.....or if they found watermelon and fried chicken....ok to say lookout for black people and rap music? it's racist stereotyping and it's a bunch of bull.
Illegal mexicans
You stole the land from the native indians, so you have as much claim on the land as mexicans do fucko
You are being fooled
Listen,
Federal Forest Service policy is to protect contractors who use undocumented workers. The Forest Service is the only FEDERAL agency that refuses to have contractors turn in certified payroll recorders on Federal Service Contracts. What that means is if you want a $15 per hour job working in the National Forest good luck, U will not get the job if you are a legal American for the Forest Service is protecting contractors who still use UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS WHO ARE BEING PAID IN CASH, NO PAYROLL RECORDS, NO W/C INSURANCE, NO OVERTIME ETC. So what if some of these people end up growing dope to pay off the smugglers who got them here? They are being protected by the Forest Service. this is a fact. The Forest Service refuses to check the legal status of the mexicans or Latinos working in the forest and well over 80% of the labor on tree planting and tree thinning jobs is Hispanic.
All other agencies REQUIRE PROOF THAT THE WORKERS ARE BEING PAID THE MANDATORY WAGE RATE STATED IN THE CONTRACT. The U.S. Forest Service refuses to require this. Is it any wonder why some undocumented guy who owes thousands of dollars to a smuggler who is has the deed to his house and who is taking interest payments out with his wife and or daughter, would U not grow dope if this was your life situation?
Washington will tell you that they are saving tax payer money. Yea right, who pays the hospital bill when one of the workers gets cut or hurt? WE The PEOPLE, while the contractor is laughing all the way to the bank.
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