Well Cain is out. We knew it was coming. Simply put, Herman Cain isn’t presidential material. We know it has nothing to do with the color of his skin, given that we have a black president. No, Cain’s problem was, amongst many, the fact that he wasn’t up to speed on the “issues.” Put aside the womanizing and the lying, which in the past, have actually been qualifiers for the presidency, simply put, Cain is a political dunce.

I couldn’t help but visualize Cain with 3×5 index cards in his hands as he struggled with the Libya issue in a recent interview with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel editorial board. He was also visualizing those index cards, and unfortunately for him, his brain couldn’t access his memory banks quick enough, causing him to have what many call a Jan Brewer or Rick Perry moment.

As Cain drew upon his memory he muttered:

“Okay, Libya,” said Cain, glancing up. “President Obama supported the uprising, correct? President Obama called for the removal of [Muammar] Gaddafi. Just wanted to make sure we’re talking about the same thing before I say, ‘Yes, I agreed. No, I didn’t agree,’” said Cain.

“I do not agree with the way he handled it for the following reason,” Cain started, before cutting himself off. “Nope, that’s a different one.” Cain shifted in his chair, adjusted his jacket and looked up again.

“I got all this stuff twirling around in my head,” he added.

It was a painful moment even for me. I think most of us were aware that this was the start of his demise. As I previously stated, Cain’s womanizing didn’t seem to be a problem for the GOP or the faithful Tea Baggers that yearned to see a black man give the other black man occupying the white house a run for his money. It was amazing to watch these hypocrites, men and women alike, paint the women who reported Cain’s extracurricular activities as promiscuous vixens.

Keep in mind that when someone runs for the presidency, their entire family is subject to scrutiny, and even if they themselves are squeaky clean, as in Gloria Cain’s case, they have to deal with the candidates misdeeds, missteps and misconduct.

I Imagine the pressure for Gloria Cain was just too much to bear. I don’t doubt one bit that Gloria was aware of Herman’s sexual promiscuity, many women in long marriages are well aware of their husbands infidelity and choose to ignore it for the sake of preserving their marriage. For God’s sake, if you’re married to a man for 43 years you know his every whim, desire and faults.

Eventually Cain’s sexual appetite proved to be his demise. One too many accusations. Ginger White and his alleged 13 year affair proved to be the final nail in his political coffin.

Cain eventually decided that he would allow Gloria to decide whether or not he would leave the race for the GOP nomination. Why does the song I’m Leaving It All Up To You” come to mind?

Gloria’s decision was loud and clear. Gloria said no more, and the Cainster hung up his political apron, much dirtier than the one he wore while running Godfather pizza.

Remember, I said Cain was a political dunce, I never said he isn’t a greedy S.O.B. that has lied and cheated his way to the top. Cain suspended his campaign. He didn’t dissolve his campaign! The difference is, that when you suspend your campaign you can continue to raise and receive funds to pay off any outstanding debts, and of course, the clincher, Cain get’s matching federal funds next year. In layman’s terms, matching federal funds means you and I will be handing Cain some of our hard earned bucks, also referred to as taxpayer money.

During Cain’s long drawn out and often babbling campaign suspension speech in which his wife was acknowledged by the mostly Tea Party supporters by chanting “Gloria, Gloria Gloria”, Cain announced the launch of a new project, a website.He plugged the site www.thecainsolutions.com as if he were plugging his infamous and flawed 9-9-9 plan.

Cain doesn’t want to have to return the millions received as he rose in the polls touting his 9-9-9 plan, I suspect he’ll turn his campaign into a PAC, which is of course allowed under FEC rules. That allows Cain to stay in the political manipulation game by using his political action committee.

So the Herman will go back to being Herman! Womanizing, lobbying, and rubbing shoulders with those who buy politicians like him.

His relationship with the Koch brothers I suspect will get better. After all, he followed orders well and did exactly what he was told. The Koch brothers ties to his campaign were obvious. Mark Block, “the smoker” from the Cain campaign youtube video also worked alongside Cain lobbying for Americans For Prosperity, one of the Koch brothers advocacy organizations from 2005 to 2011. Block was Cain’s campaign manager and served as overseer for the Koch brothers.

Cain has always known his place around rich white men. He learned it from his father who was a chauffeur for Coca Cola’s president Robert Woodruff.

Herman Cain is living proof that the good old “boy” system is alive and well, and the masters of that system are the major players in the Grand Old Party.

Nein, Nein, Nein I did not have sex with these women

Carlos E. Galindo is a radio talk show host & political analyst conducting radio shows in both English and Spanish on four radio stations in Arizona. Mr. Galindo is a weekly contributor to KPFK 98.7 FM Los Angeles and W60 AM Radio, Los Angeles, San Diego and has appeared on CNN, Univision and Telemundo as a political analyst. Mr. Galindo is also an Op-Ed columnist on Prensa Hispana and the Tucson Citizen in Arizona.

Listen to our live radio broadcast every Friday from 5-7 PM on The JOLT Tucson 1330 AM or via the web on http://www.carlosgalindo.com

Straight Talk with Carlos Galindo airs every Friday night on The JOLT 1330. Progressive talk with a kick!

We will share the link to each show as we podcast it.

In this episode I start off with talking about my passion and why I yell and why progressive talk has failed time & time again! LACK OF PASSION!!!

We move on to cover Arpaio’s most recent workplace raid. Interviews with Arpaio and some pro Arpaio goons outside the Old Spaghetti Factory in Phoenix where the raid occurred.

We also extensively cover Andrew “The ACORN killer” Breitbart’s attempt to blackmail Anthony Weiner and subsequently his violation of a contractual agreement. (Audios are included)

We finish the show with a chat about David Abie Morales of the Three Sonoran’s support for the Tequila Party and attack on the Democratic party. We also praise Senator Steve Gallardo for not having sold out to the right by having refused to go to speak at the Tequila Party event that was launched in Tucson. In reference to David Abie Morales, it’s been very disappointing. I’m still in shock. I have coined it, the story of two activists, one stayed left, the other went right.

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The Activist that stayed left is on the left, the "other" is on the right and the middle one is Sen. Steve Gallardo, who refused to go speak at the Tequila Party fiasco.

Recently I wrote regarding what I felt was clearly criminal behavior on behalf of Andrew “the ACORN killer” Breitbart. Many of you justified his behavior by alleging that Anthony Weiner exposed himself, no pun intended, to blackmail. Tell me, just how the hell do you justify criminal behavior by stating that the victim exposed themselves to being blackmailed? It’s like stating a bank robber is not guilty because the bank had the money sitting there in tills, readily available to be taken by anyone with a gun. “They should have better secured the money,” you might say.

In any event it’s obvious that the right wing cronies practice the, “Do as I say, not as I do, concept.” It’s amazing to see the right wing nuts scream bloody murder about Weiner when you have some outrageous behavior from the likes of Mark Sanford and his Argentine mistress and John Ensign the “Christian” Senator who couldn’t keep it in his pants and carried on with his behavior from a “Christian” congressional type dormitory, for a lack of other more descriptive words.

However in this case it’s clearly a matter of a breach of contract on behalf of Breitbart. What occurred at the podium was at once criminal in extorting an apology from Weiner in return for not releasing a revealing picture of the congressman, but what has now occurred is a breach of contract. Breitbart stood at the podium and tendered an offer, Weiner entertained the offer, accepted the offer, and tendered payment in the form of an apology as Breitbart had requested.

The three basic components of a contract are the offer, the consideration and the acceptance. Clearly Breitbart offered to withhold a picture that would further compromise Anthony Weiner’s already precarious situation. As Weiner stood there in the wings, ready to take hold of the podium after Breitbart’s hijacking, Weiner considered the offered tendered by Breitbart, Weiner then accepted the offer and shortly after taking possession of the podium, Weiner tendered the apology subject of the agreement, therefore consummating the contract with Breitbart.

However, Breitbart behaved in his typical sleazy manner and not only did he not keep his word as a gentleman, of which he certainly isn’t, but Breitbart clearly breached the parties agreement by making an appearance on trash radio and “exposing” Weiner’s picture which he had promised not to reveal.

It’s obvious that Breitbart followed the right wing SOP, that is, promise something to get what you want, once you get it, make excuses for not having kept your promise, and then repeat the process. This hypocritical, two time, double talking, double standard way of doing business repeats itself every day and throughout this great country, all courtesy of the greatest hypocrites that nowadays call themselves Republicans and conservatives.

So the way I see it, in the last couple of days Breitbart has not only committed a crime, he breached an agreement. This guy is a criminal and a deadbeat. Hey, I have an idea, maybe he can seize the GOP nomination for president since he meets all the criteria to run on behalf of the Republicans.

Breitbart Lying

Carlos E. Galindo is a radio talk show host & political analyst conducting radio shows in both English and Spanish on four radio stations in Arizona. Mr. Galindo is a weekly contributor to KPFK 98.7 FM Los Angeles and has appeared on CNN, Univision and Telemundo as a political analyst. Mr. Galindo is also an Op-Ed columnist on Prensa Hispana Arizona. www.nospinonair.com/http://www.carlosgalindo.com
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In the first hour of this Straight Talk Show your host Carlos Galindo covers Jack Kevorkian and assisted suicides. Jack Kevorkian just died and although Kevorkian had to have been in pain, he didn’t choose to commit suicide. Did he have a change of heart? Some Christians say he will go to hell for helping people commit suicide. Listen to the calls that came in on Tucson’s number one progressive talk show.

On the second hour we interview Belinda “Dee Dee” Blase Garcia the president of the newly founded Tequila Party. Blase Garcia is a staunch Republican who just this week announced that she has gone Independent. I was shocked to see that Blase Garcia has already been successful in recruiting some staunch progressives to assist her in promoting the sale of her snake oil, or should I say “Tequila” Party?

Listen to a very controversial program from Friday June 03 2011 with guests David Abie Morales of the Three Sonorans and Belinda “Dee Dee” Blase Garcia Tequila Party President.

Link is available below:

First Hour Kevorkian, Second Hour The Tequila Party

Somehow The Tequila Party & Toilet Do Seem To Go Hand In Hand

The Tea Baggers held a protest at the Arizona State Capitol. The majority of the signs had nothing to do with protesting taxes. The signs attacked the undocumented Immigrants. There were several assaults resulting in arrests of those offenders from the Tea Party who assaulted Immigrant women.

Meanwhile the Female Tea Baggers danced the chicken in an attempt to ridicule the Immigrant women. Based on the following video, I think it’s evident who ridiculed who.

More pictures and video to follow with a more extensive blog.

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When I went to the state capitol to protest Kyrsten Sinema’s SB1225, I had no idea I would be charged criminally and that I would witness the arrest of three of my friends and community members. Thank God all of us are U.S. Citizens or by now we would have been placed in Joe’s gulag and we would have subsequently ended up in CCA’s profit machine of a concentration camp commonly known as a private Federal Detention Center by those naive white folk who can’t possibly understand what it feels like to be caged like an animal after being offered employment under the current hypocritical U.S. labor system I call modernized slavery.

Of all people, I certainly thought that Senator Sinema understood what activism was all about. I mean, I remember seeing her at marches and protests at the State Capitol. She stood on a stage and riled the masses up. Telling them how much she supported them and how unfair this treatment was. As a member of the LGBT community Senator Sinema claimed to understand what discrimination felt like and how important it was to stand up and demand change from government.

Senator Sinema could have stopped Tuesday’s mayhem by shutting down her press conference. In fact, she was in the process of doing so, when the Capitol Police arrived. Instead she became more empowered by my removal from the press conference and in turn the crowd got more vocal, which lead to the arrest of a Latino businessman, a Latino Mother and a Latino 17 year old girl scheduled to check in for the military that week. As I previously mentioned, all of us are American Citizen’s exercising our rights under first amendment provisions.

I didn’t see Sinema bat an eye when she watched a frail young girl and her mom handcuffed and led away like common criminals, I didn’t see her twitch an eye as Genaro Alcantara an Arizona businessman and constituent of hers pleaded with her, “I voted for you”. And in fact, she even looked smug and fulfilled when she watched a member of the media, Latino Activist and Leader, yours truly, being led out of the hearing room.

When did Sinema decide that Latinos should be examining her backside? Why did Sinema decide that she didn’t have to address Latino’s answers on her offensive and hypocritical bill SB1225? Perhaps it’s always been that way, but her spin machine has always been so polished that a few key appearances on a stage provided by a popular Mexican radio station was sufficient to woo the Latino community. A little rah rah here and a rah rah there and voila, we have an enchanted Latino community ready to believe anything Sinema has to sell.

Why does the image of the guy from the “got milk?” billboard, with a ring of milk around his lips come to mind? However in this case I think “got atole” would be more appropriate. There’s a saying in Spanish that says “Nos dio atole con el dedo”, translated it means, “She gave us atole with her finger”. In other words, she doesn’t let us have the whole cup of atole to drink, she gives us a taste as a teaser every now and then to quell our desires and needs, with a promise of more to come.

Frankly, the Latino community is sick of being teased, sick of being lied to, and sick of being the sole of the opportunist politician’s shoe. One wants to use us for cheap labor (R) and the other obviously uses us for cheap votes (D). Tell me, what’s the difference? They are all cut from the same piece of cloth.

Because of Sinema barking orders for removal of those opposing her bill, and according to Russell Pearce’s allegations that Sinema feared for her safety, I and the rest of those arrested that day were banned from the Senate building.

I never thought I would see the day that Kyrsten Sinema would have 10 Republican co-sponsors on one of her proposed bills, much less the day in which her and Senate Tea Party President Russell Pearce would do a tag team against Latino activists.

So every day I go to the state capitol and protest my ban from the senate building. I sit there with signs and a group of about 20-30 people join me daily in solidarity.

As I sit there, I watch the lobbyists in their monkey suits come and go. State legislators stare at me and mumble as they look at me and read my signs. Frankly I don’t understand what the problem is. I’m exercising my 1st amendment rights. If it was a member of the Tea Party they would be smiling and throwing a thumbs up, but since it’s a Latino trying to exercise his rights, all I get is an index finger straight up.

While walking through the courtyard today I ran into State Senator Ron Gould, he frowned and walked towards me in a threatening manner as I asked him why he was focused on an anti-Immigrant agenda rather than fixing Arizona’s woes. Gould didn’t answer my questions. By the way Ron Gould (R) Lake Havasu City, Arizona, conducts his meetings with a yellow don’t tread on me sticker prominently displayed on his laptop and facing the audience. If Gould believes so much in the Tea Party “motto”, “don’t tread on me”, then I wonder, why is Ron Gould trying to tread on me?

It seems like the nightmare doesn’t end. Everyday there’s a new twist at the Arizona State Capitol. I ran into Paul Babeu yesterday and he didn’t want to answer questions as to why he receives so many border security funds yet he isn’t a border county. I bantered with gun lobbyists and chatted with Senator Steve Gallardo. No, no, no, I didn’t go inside the senate building! I’m banned remember! Senator Gallardo came out to where I sit outside the Senate building to have a cup of coffee with me.

I tried once again to ask Senator Sinema some questions regarding SB1225 and she called capitol police and asked for an escort. Lord have mercy! You would think I’m a Latino terrorist armed with provocative questions.

So I’m sitting here writing this blog and the words to to Alice Coopers song, “welcome to my nightmare” keep popping into my head.

By the way, today I celebrated my one week anniversary of being banned from the Senate building and my sit in at the Arizona State Capitol, or should I say, sit out. It seems that everyday brings a different twist.

Channel 10 interviewed me today and said Russell Pearce denies there’s a blacklist, I’m inclined to agree with the Tea Party Senate President, it’s not a blacklist, it’s a brown list! All of those banned to date from Russell Pearce’s kingdom called the Senate building are Latinos.

Welcome to my nightmare! The life of a Latino living in 2011 Arizona.

Carlos E. Galindo is a radio talk show host & political analyst conducting radio shows in both English and Spanish on four radio stations in Arizona. Mr. Galindo is a weekly contributor to KPFK 98.7 FM Los Angeles and has appeared on CNN, Univision and Telemundo as a political analyst. Mr. Galindo is also an Op-Ed columnist on Prensa Hispana Arizona. www.nospinonair.com/http://www.carlosgalindo.com

So in Arizona you can hold someone against their will, threaten them at gunpoint and sic your dog on them and when it’s all done and over with and charges are brought against you, when the Court rules against you, no problem, Arizona’s anti-Immigrant legislature will create a law specifically crafted to get you out of your misdeed.

At least that’s the case with rancher Roger Barnett who was accused of holding Immigrants at gunpoint and assaulting them, all the while commanding his dog to attack the defenseless Immigrants.

I was interviewed by a reporter from the Christian Science Monitor today via telephone. It was focused on the Brisenia Flores murder in Arivaca Arizona. Our conversation swayed in and out, at times dipping into several high profiles cases here in Arizona in which Latinos were victims of murder. The reporter kept asking me if in fact the case regarding Brisenia Flores was perhaps just a fringe group that had run amok. Well as far as I am concerned Arizona has run amok.

No it wasn’t just Brisenia Flores that was killed by anti-Immigrants. You and I know that this anti-Immigrant sentiment has reached a pitch fever. It has been building for a long time. If you were able to speak to Dr. Rodolfo Acuña he would cite instances back to the 1800′s where Mexicans were scalped and hunted like animals. There has always been a disregard for a Mexican life, especially amongst the ranchers in Southeastern Arizona.

Fast forward to the late 1970′s and you find a young Carlos Galindo attentively sitting in a Court room listening to the case of the Hannigan brothers who according to the Mexican Immigrants that were victims of the Hannigan’s treachery they were severely abused by George Hannigan and his two sons Patrick and Thomas. According to citations from a book written about the incident, “the Immigrants were stripped, and tortured with hot pokers, burning cigarettes, knives and a shotgun filled with bird seed.” George Hannigan died before the trial and the brothers were acquitted by an all white jury. The Feds eventually brought charges against the two and just one brother was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison.

Let’s fast forward once again to 2011 Arizona as we reflect on the murders of Brisenia Flores shot in the face by members of a Minutemen group and Juan Varela killed by a white neighbor yelling “go back to Mexico wetback”, “you’re going to die today.”

You see the pattern? The life of a Mexican has no value. The rhetoric has escalated and the vitriol has saturated the very fabric of Arizonan’s lives. Anglos have been effectively desensitized when it comes to violent acts towards Mexicans and Immigrants in general. And that is exactly why the Arizona State Legislature is willing to write a law that will be retroactive 7 years. It’s all about protecting the Anglo and excusing their violence. The particular law has been crafted to protect Roger Barnett and quash the existing judgment against him. After all, it was just Immigrants he abused.

In a story written in the High Country News on October 9, 2000 by the way the sites slogan is:For People Who Care About The West, the story quotes some disturbing comments from one of the Barnett brothers.

Don Barnett, who is 56, and his brother Roger, 58, grew up right here in Bisbee. Don worked as a deputy sheriff in the 1970s and 1980s. Like many border natives, he remembers when citizens of both countries casually crossed la lÆnea[sic], to drink or shop or work. The Mexicans were different in those days, Barnett says. “They acted like human beings. I guess they had respect then,” he tells me. “Now they’re trespassing. They’re animals.”

These are the guys who Arizona’s legislature plans on saving from having to pay their just dues. Like I said, Immigrants and particularly Mexicans rate pretty low on the totem pole of humanity here in Arizona. So according to ex deputy Sheriff Barnett who is part of the Mexican hunting duo, they are just animals. I mean, we shoot animals for their hide and their meat and sometimes for sport right?

Well according to district 10 Republican Jim Weiers this guy should be let off the hook and he tends to see that justice is done Arizona legislature style. According to Weiers the bill will prohibit any “illegal Immigrant” from being awarded punitive damages. Oh, one more twist, the bill will be retroactive to January of 2004 which will take it back to the date before Barnett’s abuse of the Immigrants and will effectively nullify the appellate Courts decision and alleviate Barnett of the judgment currently owed and awarded to the Immigrants for the abuse they suffered while in his custody.

By the way, Arizona State Rep. James Weiers decided to tack this on as an amendment to HB2191 a cosmetology bill. Talk about burying the truth!

Arizona’s 50th legislative session is clearly out of control. What’s next I ask you? Will we being seeing a bill requiring those of Mexican descent to be tattooed with an M and a number? Let’s see where have I seen that before?

When I saw Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s tweet the other night I wasn’t surprised that I didn’t see a lot of reaction from the pro-Immigrant Latino leaders. Perhaps it wasn’t sanctioned by their head honchos. It seems that what little the Latino pseudo leaders do nowadays, takes forever, because they have to approve “the action” first. Sounds ridiculous to me! Especially when you see a tweet from Joe Arpaio that reads like this one. “We signed up a total of 137 inmates including 15 illegal aliens who wanted to donate their organs.”

So Joe has been hell bent on nabbing “illegals” in his racial profile raids for processing and ultimate deportation. He loves to crunch numbers. As he’s conducting his operations he’s reporting play by play action. Of course he isn’t as damaging as the Phoenix Police is with their constant harassment of brown drivers which in many cases leads not only to a confiscation of their vehicle for not having a driver’s license but in most cases leads to an arrest and a ride to Joe’s jail where with his 287g certification he is authorized to check their legal status which ultimately leads to deportation, of course, not without a lengthy stop at the private prison operated by Corrections Corporation of America for some billable incarceration time to the Feds.

Arpaio get’s hot under the collar when someone tries to lessen his operations as being less damning than that of other police agencies. He outright defends his notoriety as the world’s toughest Sheriff, and he wants the world to know he’s responsible for the most amount of deportations in Arizona.

Well it appears now Sheriff Joe wants to apply a different philosophy to the deportation process. Get out, but leave your organs behind. When you start truly analyzing the hypocrisy of these anti-Immigrant politicians it’s just downright amazing. Imagine how ludicrous that is. To focus solely on the deportation of these unwanted “illegals”, yet to crave their innards for use by U.S. Citizens. It’s truly outrageous!

If, an when, Jan Brewer stops denying dying Arizonans a transplant, these “illegal” innards could very well go to an Immigrant hating U.S. citizen. Hell he could even be a Tea Bagger for all we know.

We shouldn’t be surprised at the hypocrisy from Arizona’s Rethuglicans. While Jan Brewer denied transplants to Arizonans on their deathbed, she transplanted rose bushes from the front of the capitol building to the back lawn where she held her swearing in ceremony, and while Sheriff Joe Arpaio arrests and detains Arizona’s dishwashers and landscapers for ultimate deportation he asks them to leave their illegal internal organs behind. What’s next Arizona?

One thing is for sure Sheriff Joe has got to go!

Carlos E. Galindo is a radio talk show host & political analyst conducting radio shows in both English and Spanish on four radio stations in Arizona. Mr. Galindo is a weekly contributor to KPFK 98.7 FM Los Angeles and has appeared on CNN, Univision and Telemundo as a political analyst. Mr. Galindo is also an Op-Ed columnist on Prensa Hispana Arizona. www.nospinonair.com/www.carlosgalindo.com

When Esther called my “Straight Talk Tucson” show this past Friday, I quickly understood that her and I didn’t see eye to eye on the subject of the 14th amendment and Arizona’s attempt to create legislation that will ultimately be challenged all the bloody way to the the U.S. Supreme Court. I’m okay with people not agreeing with me, honest! I know, I know, as a radio talk show host I tend to be loudmouthed and opinionated, but that in no way demerits my arguments. I have always told my radio listeners and my critics, you may not like my delivery method, but you can’t argue with reason.

Let’s get something straight here, I don’t jump on board an issue defined solely by its left or right slant. I take up an issue based on whether it’s the right thing to do, in other words, whether it’s morally correct and whether it’s good for my state and for my country. Arizona’s attempt to supersede our Federal laws has been evident for a long time. You and I know that. It has increased exponentially since a merry band of misfits took office. It appears the Republicans in Arizona were not happy with just operating as a dictatorship for the last 43 years here in our great state. At one point they became so cocky that whether by design or just following each others lead, they started a concerted effort to repudiate Federal laws and the nation’s civil rights provisions. It didn’t matter if the law said you couldn’t do that, as far as Arizona was and is concerned, they are the law. That was evident when Russell Pearce was interviewed regarding the posted A.R.S. statute that prohibits weapons in the senate chambers at our state capitol. He quickly invoked his right to supersede Arizona’s criminal code while sitting as the Supreme leader of Arizona’s senate. Russell Pearce stated, “The Senate President, just like the Speaker of the House, by constitution, controls, through rule, this chamber,” “and, uh, so uh, again, and I recognize that. It supersedes the law.” If you don’t find that attitude scary and disturbing, then perhaps you might consider moving to North Korea they have a guy a lot like Pearce.

So Pearce, Brewer, Montenegro, Kavanagh, Harper, Gould, and every other Republican that wants to jump on the anti-Immigrant bandwagon throw out words like anchor baby, and illegals and talk about an invasion. It’s no wonder Esther my caller gets hyped up and finds the use of offensive terminology like “anchor baby” acceptable. I would like to know at what time in history it become okay to call Immigrants “wetbacks”, “cockroaches, “illegals” and their U.S. born children “anchor babies”. If you can’t use the “N” word for blacks, the “K” word for Jews, the “S” word for Italians. Well you get the drift. Why would it be acceptable to demean Immigrants, primarily Mexicans in 2011 Arizona? Has Arizona sunk so low that Esther and Arizonans like her, toss offensive words around as part of their normal dialog? I can just imagine what kind of word bantering occurs behind the closed doors of these like minded terror induced brainwashed Arizonans. I would love to be a fly on their wall, with a tiny recorder of course.

One can only wonder what type of violence all this hateful language could invoke. I mean you could end up with a white neighbor coming over to a Latino neighbor’s front yard and start an argument over one of Arizona’s laws like SB1070 and it could escalate to the point where the white neighbor could start using foul words like “wetback” and “go back to Mexico” and eventually he could pull out a gun and kill the Latino neighbor. After all, the use of these type of words desensitizes people. These type of words make you hate and want to kill. Oh wait, that already happened on May 6, 2010 when Gary Thomas Kelley killed Juan Varela. How many more arguments leading to violence can we expect because of irresponsible rhetoric and panic inducing misinformation coupled with misdirected legislation that targets a certain sector of Arizona? The Latinos!

This hateful rhetoric has got to stop and it’s got to stop now! As far as I’m concerned anytime I hear someone use this type of language I’m going to call them out on it, or in the case of Esther the “anchor baby” lady, I’m going to dump the call and flush it. What will you do the next time you hear that kind of rhetoric?

Carlos E. Galindo is a radio talk show host & political analyst conducting radio shows in both English and Spanish on four radio stations in Arizona. Mr. Galindo is a weekly contributor to KPFK 98.7 FM Los Angeles and has appeared on CNN, Univision and Telemundo as a political analyst. Mr. Galindo is also an Op-Ed columnist on Prensa Hispana Arizona. www.nospinonair.com/www.carlosgalindo.com