Of Teabaggers and being punked…
Courtesy of the Huffington Post:
Saturday, anti-immigration Tea Parties were held in cities across the country to protest the upcoming comprehensive immigration reform bill. In Minnesota, Tea Partiers were punked by one speaker who got the crowd cheering about evicting European immigrants who “stole” this country.
Robert Erickson (reportedly an alias) used language similar to that of nativists, starting his speech by saying:
In Minneapolis where I’m from, we have a huge immigrant population that has been causing a number of problems. With the economy in recession and so many people laid off and unable to find work, immigrants should not be competing for the few jobs that are open. It’s just not fair to the folks who have a claim to this country and have a right to be here.
The crowd cheered as Erickson went on to demand that America “protect the sovereignty” of this nation by “sending these European immigrants back where they came from,” saying several times in his speech that European immigrants “stole this land through genocide and ethnic cleansing.”
He ended his speech by chanting, “Columbus go home! Columbus go home!”
Do watch the clip to the end.
xD.
