Video: Border Patrol just like the KKK, says liberal activist
posted at 8:48 am on June 25, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Verum Serum catches this memorable moment from the US Social Forum in Detroit, spoken by Elena Herrada on Wednesday. The US Social Forum is, as you might imagine, a far-Left forum that has attendees such as Bill Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn, and Danny Glover, according to Morgen at VS. And if you’ve never heard of Herrada, that doesn’t mean she’s simply some unknown who climbed on the stage to rant. Herrada is well known enough for the New York Times to ask her to contribute. Here she contributes by comparing the Border Patrol to the KKK:
The knock on the Tea Party from the Left is that it’s filled with anti-government hatred. Well, I’ve been to a lot of Tea Party events now, and while no one at them cares for the current Congress and would like to see the IRS abolished, I haven’t heard anyone compare them to the KKK. Accusing them of “terrorizing our communities” is not only ridiculously demagogic, it’s also completely inaccurate. The Border Patrol operates on the border, which is nowhere near Detroit (see update below). Herrada may be confusing the Border Patrol with ICE, another DHS agency that does conduct raids on employers and enforces immigration law … when it gets around to it, and when the federal government needs a photo op to argue that they’re trying to enforce existing law but just can’t hack it.
Give Herrada’s NYT article a read, too, only for her cluelessness about the decline of Detroit. My favorite part is the conclusion:
We are in a deep malaise here, but this is not new. It’s often said that in the private sector that Detroit is not the place to start a “service industry.” When you hear that the service is terrible in Detroit, imagine us raising our collective glass in cheer, because we did not come here to serve anyone.
And she wonders why the “deep malaise” is something new?
Update: Yes, I know that Detroit is near the Canadian border. Last I saw, the Border Patrol wasn’t rounding up Canadians in Detroit, and their patrols on the northern border are hardly controversial.
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Does anyone else think things are going to blow one of these days?
Oink on June 25, 2010 at 8:50 AM
Tell that to the service unions in Detroit.
She’s gotta be an academic.
mankai on June 25, 2010 at 8:52 AM
they never been to a tea party rally that is obvious, they get their information from chrissy and his ilk…
cmsinaz on June 25, 2010 at 8:53 AM
Actually, A border is near Detroit, just not THAT border.
CDeb on June 25, 2010 at 8:53 AM
Be sure and watch the video so that you can observe those sitting on the stage and moving around. ‘Nuff said.
texabama on June 25, 2010 at 8:53 AM
The more I see everyday, the more I think yes. There are no less than 3 stories on the front page that have been posted within the past 12 hours that make me want to either scream or just say forget it.
This is absolutely surreal.
MobileVideoEngineer on June 25, 2010 at 8:54 AM
Once again, there comes a point on the looney left when if one is just dumb enough, you are raised up to a more lofty status. I thought Joy Behar was the Queen of Dumb.
doufree on June 25, 2010 at 8:54 AM
SEIU = Service Employees International Union
mankai on June 25, 2010 at 8:54 AM
Yes, yes I do, and it ain’t gonna be pretty.
Tim Zank on June 25, 2010 at 8:55 AM
The US Social Forum in Detroit needs to cut back on the cheeseburgers.
Disturb the Universe on June 25, 2010 at 8:55 AM
Ed – Detroit does have a border with Canada so Border Patrol does operate in the city of Detroit.
unknown.rodent on June 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM
I wonder if they took part in the burger summit?
MobileVideoEngineer on June 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM
I hate hate hate hate HATE HATE HATE (!!!!) these people.
blatantblue on June 25, 2010 at 8:57 AM
Oink on June 25, 2010 at 8:50 AM
Sooner, rather than later.
artist on June 25, 2010 at 8:58 AM
I could understand if Michigan was near water like Wisconsin. But since MI is a state a ways removed from water and from any borders, I have to look twice at this statement.
/Dem
mankai on June 25, 2010 at 8:58 AM
I was going to say something similar, CDeb. I was always wondering where the Ambassador Bridge and the Windsor tunnel went to. :)
WV736 on June 25, 2010 at 8:59 AM
Well, actually Detroit is right on the border. When you go over (or under) the river you meet border patrol each way.
jaime on June 25, 2010 at 9:00 AM
Anti-American left wing elitist witch. (Please substitute the letter “B” with the letter “W” in Witch.)
afotia on June 25, 2010 at 9:01 AM
The dangers of lead paint poisoning on display.
Please, parents, if your home was constructed prior to the late 1970s, do the right thing for your children. Get tested for lead paint.
Red Cloud on June 25, 2010 at 9:01 AM
November looks to be further away with each passing day.
Skandia Recluse on June 25, 2010 at 9:04 AM
A fine example of the intellectual sewer Obama came from…
PatriotRider on June 25, 2010 at 9:05 AM
This is great stuff, serving to prove to clear-thinking Americans that at least some, if not many (if not all), on the left are completely deranged.
I hope she’s on O’Reilly soon.
Go Herrada!
mr.blacksheep on June 25, 2010 at 9:06 AM
Beat me to it! I remember a trivia question for years ago:
What country is the first one you’d find, heading due south from Detroit?
Answer: Canada
TugboatPhil on June 25, 2010 at 9:07 AM
She almost choked on her words having to be positive about police.
Marcus on June 25, 2010 at 9:07 AM
Hello???? Detroit is ON the US-Canada border.
ProfessorMiao on June 25, 2010 at 9:08 AM
Yeah, Detroit is close to Canada. But I don’t think that’s what she means.
These folks are much closer to being the KKK than the border patrol.
The KKK:
1. Racist
2. Democrat
3. Violent
zmdavid on June 25, 2010 at 9:09 AM
At times, I think it’s amazing we’ve lasted this long, with these types out there spouting their crap for the last several decades.
On the other hand, it would appear that “raaaaacist!” is all they’ve got left. You hear very little, virtually zero argument on any merits of anything being discussed, whether its AZs law, BarryO’s agenda, or Congressional pandering, if you don’t go lockstep with them, you are somehow automatically bigoted or something.
So maybe there is some hope after all?
JamesLee on June 25, 2010 at 9:10 AM
Was that Gilda Radner? ..couldn’t be.
Electrongod on June 25, 2010 at 9:13 AM
Border Patrol like KKK? Que? Yo no tengo Bing!?
Los Liiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnkkkkssss!
Rocks on June 25, 2010 at 9:15 AM
I hear this stuff on a regular basis.
Oh don’t worry, her views are not becoming the norm across America… I work at a large state university.
I know a few hundred who think just like she does.
mankai on June 25, 2010 at 9:16 AM
As usual, lefties are telling us where they think they’re most vulnerable. Americans have a long tradition of distrusting big tax-n-spend gubmints, and lefties are afraid the TPM will tap into it.
Plus it’s a setup to blame the TPM for any future violence.
petefrt on June 25, 2010 at 9:18 AM
Beck has played the audio and is talking about this.
kingsjester on June 25, 2010 at 9:18 AM
Elena’s probably getting harassed going to and from the gambling casinos in Windsor, or some inspection agent at the tunnel seized her stash of Cuban cigars.
jon1979 on June 25, 2010 at 9:18 AM
Nothing and no one is near Detroit nowadays. Did they send this vid out by courier?
Dusty on June 25, 2010 at 9:23 AM
But do you find many Canadians willing to die crossing the border to live in Detroit? Me thinks not.
txag92 on June 25, 2010 at 9:26 AM
I roll my eyes when I read from the left that Sarah Palin couldn’t POSSIBLY be a feminist because she wears tight suits and high heels.
Fine. If the left can’t give her the honors she has amassed on her own, then don’t call her a feminist. If Herrada is the left’s idea of an authentic feminist, I’ll stick with the right. (I loved the Gilda Radner comment from a reader)!
She is correct when she said this:
“We are in a deep malaise here, but this is not new. It’s often said that in the private sector that Detroit is not the place to start a “service industry.” When you hear that the service is terrible in Detroit, imagine us raising our collective glass in cheer, because we did not come here to serve anyone”.
These collectivists have come to BE served…by the taxpayer. It’s all about THEM.
manateespirit on June 25, 2010 at 9:27 AM
And they call us subversive.
abobo on June 25, 2010 at 9:27 AM
It seems to me that it is exactly what she means. I don’t think it would be uncommon to go to lunch in downtown Detroit and see border patrol agents having lunch there, since the Windsor Tunnel is right across the street.
I’m not from Detroit, and I’ve never lived there, but I had a client there and I had an apartment there, and I’ve been through that tunnel a number of times.
jaime on June 25, 2010 at 9:30 AM
Just speaking truth to power, ma’am!
ya2daup on June 25, 2010 at 9:31 AM
Another point. You also don’t see any armed Border Patrol agents floating around on Lake St. Clair either. Unlike the other “lake” on the southern border.
Johnnyreb on June 25, 2010 at 9:33 AM
The question of the day is: Who would sit at a lunch counter wearing a hood over his head? Seems awfully hard to eat that way.
This woman’s analogy is just plain stupid. I’m sure that Border Patrol agents are proud of the job that they do. It’s an important job. On the other hand, KKK members seem to be somewhat ashamed of who they are and what they do; thus, the desire for anonymity by wearing a bedsheet over their heads.
WV736 on June 25, 2010 at 9:33 AM
Roseanne Rosannadanna. Nevermind……
bloggless on June 25, 2010 at 9:35 AM
Not smart. She sounds stupid.
bloggless on June 25, 2010 at 9:36 AM
People in Detroit hate the Border Patrol because their seizures drive up the cost of weed coming down from Canada and they are forced to buy the cheap crap grown in the national forest. They are the Pot KKK.
Rocks on June 25, 2010 at 9:37 AM
Ed – Detroit does have a border with Canada so Border Patrol does operate in the city of Detroit.
unknown.rodent on June 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM
Yes they do, Border Patol pulled me over one day while riding my motorcycle on I-75 on the south side of Detroit and put me thru the paces when i lived in Windsor Ont.
heshtesh on June 25, 2010 at 9:39 AM
It seems to me that lib women do not care how they look.
ohiobabe on June 25, 2010 at 9:39 AM
Newsflash:
It may be deep, but it isn’t malaise.
Hell, I can smell that way down here in Indiana.
novaculus on June 25, 2010 at 9:39 AM
So let me get this straight, she thinks all border patrol agents are Democrats?
And I bet she thinks Lincoln formed the KKK as the Democrats terror wing, just to screw up the narrative.
If you are dumber than a box of rocks, probably don’t want to pick up a microphone.
tarpon on June 25, 2010 at 9:40 AM
Are you talking about Josh Marshall?
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
ss396 on June 25, 2010 at 9:42 AM
This appears to be a well fed crowd. Plenty of back. Of course, it could be that the camera does indeed add ten pounds.
bloggless on June 25, 2010 at 9:43 AM
This is just about as bad as the idiot woman in Milwaukee who said that she might reconsider the Arizona law if only it were somewhere near the border… morons
College Prof on June 25, 2010 at 9:45 AM
Did anyone see the movie Wall-E?
Liberals are starting to remind me of the future us in that movie. So fat they can’t walk around anymore so they have to float around on air chairs, sucking on slushies, with TVs in front of their faces, all provided by the gov’t of course.
ExcessivelyDiverted on June 25, 2010 at 9:48 AM
We came to work may be the reason the ancestors of those in the video came here, but judging by the reps in the vid, they are here to sit and eat, so I’m not surprised the her analogy is situated in a restaurant.
Dusty on June 25, 2010 at 9:50 AM
This appears to be a well fed crowd. Plenty of back. Of course, it could be that the camera does indeed add ten pounds.
bloggless on June 25, 2010 at 9:43 AM
//
I wonder if they realize ms. obama will be after their fat _____?:)
ohiobabe on June 25, 2010 at 9:52 AM
Heh. Despite their oppression and hatred of America, these minority activists seem pretty jovial and well-fed.
Jaibones on June 25, 2010 at 9:52 AM
“There is no good intentions of the Border Patrol, none…”
And that my friends are the supporters, the base, the foundation, the people who advise Obama.
Is there any doubt, any whatsoever how Obama and this administration feels about protecting the border?
I can hardly wait for this federal “lawsuit” against Nevada…
right2bright on June 25, 2010 at 9:53 AM
Elena is simply a solid, swirling around the cesspool that typify unions & government employees. So I was not surprised to learn that Elena Herrada is a PhD student/college instructor with a long history “in the struggle”, to include but not limited to a stint with SEIU. Of course she is an “activist”. One can hardly be considered human if you are not activated about some momentous cause that requires the labor and property of others.
We pay the freight while they get to bitch and moan that we’re not pulling hard enough. The fact that they want to help others onto the wagon while we push is simply a tribute to their generosity. The fact that it is our labor is beside the point. Stop being such a materialist and pull harder.
R Square on June 25, 2010 at 9:53 AM
Does the US Social Forum receive any Federal or State money?
journeyintothewhirlwind on June 25, 2010 at 9:53 AM
The only tactic they have left is to shame you into letting them destroy the nation. It’s supposed to hurt your feelings terribly to be called a nazi or kkk so you are supposed to do anything to make them stop. It’s obviously worked for them in the past.
Buddahpundit on June 25, 2010 at 9:54 AM
Just free food.
jaime on June 25, 2010 at 9:56 AM
2002: Senate committee hearing on border security chaired by Carl Levin of MI and co-chaired by Collins of ME, both Canadian border states.
BP managers said all was fine on the northern border.
BP working stiffs related a different story: – so many illegal border-crossers walked through the Detroit-Windsor rail tunnel each day that there was no room to detain them all. Solution? Schedule a court appearance! The form had a place for an address in the U.S. to mail the hearing date notice!!
With no address in the U.S., there was another form that was to be used to mail back to the court when they DID have a permanent address in the U.S.!!
Guess what the parking lot was full of?? That’s right, dozens of discarded forms for reporting your address.
DUH!!
fred5678 on June 25, 2010 at 9:57 AM
She must like being unemployed. I don’t want my tax dollars to serve her either.
Steve Z on June 25, 2010 at 10:03 AM
Fatuous, self-important poseurs.
Cicero43 on June 25, 2010 at 10:03 AM
Detroit is like the guy in the emergency raft who refuses to paddle but starts consuming all the emergency food and drink.
You either let them juggle knives in the middle of the raft or we push them off the raft and into the water and let them start swimming on their own.
Same with California, Chicago and everywhere else where these states and municipalities are simple dead weight for the rest of us.
R Square on June 25, 2010 at 10:04 AM
As Bugs Bunny would say……..
Eeeeeeeeeh….shaaaaaaaaaaaadup!
capejasmine on June 25, 2010 at 10:04 AM
BuckeyeSam on June 25, 2010 at 10:08 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/24/obama-administration-picks-critic-immigration-enforcement-key-role-ice/
Surprise!!!!!!
Cindy Munford on June 25, 2010 at 10:14 AM
These thugs are brave in a friendly audience, I would pay serious cabbage to see Herrada debate Levin, Rush or Steyn on these issues. They sit up on stage and rant, as if their tired schtick hasn’t been said a million times before by the communist blowhards who came before them.
And of course the human trash in the audience soaks it up, nodding and howling and ignoring their own sloth and laziness.
Bishop on June 25, 2010 at 10:17 AM
Border Patrol :: KKK?
Democrat Party :: Hamas
Deal with it.
jeff_from_mpls on June 25, 2010 at 10:19 AM
BB/Wile E. Coyote (super genius) – 2012
Daffy Duck – Press Secretary
Yosemite Sam – Secretary of defense
Pepé Le Pew – Director of EPA
Porky Pig – Department of Agriculture
Speedy Gonzales – Department of Energy
Electrongod on June 25, 2010 at 10:21 AM
Send in the clowns!
There ought to be clowns!
Don’t bother!
They’re at the US Social Forum in Detroit!
pilamaye on June 25, 2010 at 10:22 AM
Embarrassing fact of the day for Herrada:
52% of Border Patrol officers are Hispanic.
Bishop on June 25, 2010 at 10:27 AM
I hear ya, it bothers me too, but I have faith that it will happen. Maybe we’re too soft in the middle right now, I don’t know, but there’s a spark coming and then we shall see how things work out.
Bishop on June 25, 2010 at 10:29 AM
fred5678 on June 25, 2010 at 9:57 AM
Caught my attention when you mentioned the rail tunnel, used to play at the mouth of that tunnel 40 years ago.
heshtesh on June 25, 2010 at 10:37 AM
Exit Question:
1. Do liberals care what they eat? Don’t they listen to mile wide Michelle about eating healthy?
2.) think any of these old hippies have EVER held a real job in the private sector?
3.) Think anyone of these mindless degenerates has ever paid a dime in taxes?
SDarchitect on June 25, 2010 at 10:38 AM
We are witnessing one of two things.
The end of America as we know it.
or…
The end of the democratic party as we know it.
I believe it to be the latter.
booter on June 25, 2010 at 10:41 AM
Things can only improve if people like her are forced (by hunger) to get a real job. Then she’ll see reality. Next time lady, take the red pill not the blue one.
Mojave Mark on June 25, 2010 at 10:45 AM
Mr. Ed,
Allahpundit ran with this in one of his storie last night? Are you not reading the nightly updates?
Thanks,
Vincenzo
Vincenzo on June 25, 2010 at 10:47 AM
…Or we can resolve to have states to sesede and take their taxes and productivity with them! If the government boycotts Az then AZ SHOULD cut off power transmission to CA as was suggested. Let the Machurian candidate figure out how to turn the lights back on in LA.
PatriotPete on June 25, 2010 at 10:50 AM
Things blow right now. But one of these days, in the not too distant future, things are definitely going to BLOW! There’s no way to get around it.
Gang-of-One on June 25, 2010 at 10:53 AM
I meant TPM to stand for Tea Party Movement
petefrt on June 25, 2010 at 11:24 AM
Last I saw, the Border Patrol wasn’t rounding up Mexicans, either.
James on June 25, 2010 at 11:38 AM
The only reason liberals can talk like this is because there are conservatives watching their backs.
29Victor on June 25, 2010 at 11:41 AM
So exactly how many cameras were on them!?!?!?
Bubba Redneck on June 25, 2010 at 11:56 AM
And the Dims don’t like “scary” guns, so when it blows,which is soon I believe, they will start the violence, and we will finish it
Bobnormal on June 25, 2010 at 12:02 PM
Washed up middle aged hippies who have blown their minds, and their wallets, on dope their whole life and have come to realize that socialism and communism are false gods and now are left with nothing but fried brains and anger. Nothing infuriates them more than folks going about enjoying life and exercising their God-given rights.
Bubba Redneck on June 25, 2010 at 12:03 PM
Anybody who thinks that Detroit, a border city with large legal immigrant and naturalized populations, doesn’t have active ICE agents looking for people here illegally from Central America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, is deluding themselves.
rokemronnie on June 25, 2010 at 12:10 PM
She is a wise Latina woman.
Dhurka Dhurka on June 25, 2010 at 12:31 PM
Just look at this collection fat-ass dummies. Let them move to Mexico so they don’t have to put up with us any more. They should read Mexico’s laws first.
LarryG on June 25, 2010 at 12:48 PM
…and to think I just gave this baglady a dollar when I saw here on the street…
PatriotPete on June 25, 2010 at 12:52 PM
Just added to the monumental pile of evidence that liberalism is a mental illness.
TrickyDick on June 25, 2010 at 1:33 PM
Elena Herrada gets the “green” for speaking trash. w/out illegals she’d be short some “green”.
Maybe it’s time to send her to the border to camp out w/her girls, she’d be begging to see just one border agent.
christene on June 25, 2010 at 2:03 PM
It’s time to thin the herd…..
SDN on June 25, 2010 at 3:45 PM
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Lots of body language on stage for that part… Dare I say lol? I dare. lol!
RalphyBoy on June 25, 2010 at 4:01 PM
Have another pizza, Bertha. Perhaps we can use your back side as part of southern fence.
Or you could stand there and they would run away from you.
Cleveland Steamer on June 25, 2010 at 5:47 PM
I don’t mean to defend this clown but Morrissey must be corrected on one point. She is likely not confusing the Border Patrol with the ICE and is far from noncontroversial.
The Border Patrol is allowed to operate within a 100 mile limit of the international border which includes the sea coasts. This is a virtual constitution free zone as they are free to stop, search and detain at will and without probable cause.
Detroit is well within this zone as is Arizona where Border Patrol “check points” on Interstate 10 routinely stop and harass any one traveling on the highway, subjecting them to dog and personnel searches without the slightest cause or provocation. This is an enforcement agency that is largely out of control and virtually unconstrained by that pesky Bill of Rights.
That said, this idiot is clearly out of bounds with the KKK comparisons. They are equal opportunity harassers.
RC2 on June 25, 2010 at 6:38 PM