Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Not a Ma’am) Gushes Over Navy Decision to Name Ship After Leftist Icon Cesar Chavez…
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(DC) — While the idea of naming a U.S. Naval ship after labor leader Cesar Chavez has roiled some, California Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer is thrilled that the activist will be receiving the honor.
Boxer called Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus Tuesday night to thank him for the decision.
“I applaud Secretary Mabus for continuing the Navy’s rich tradition of naming these supply ships after pioneers, explorers and visionaries by honoring César Chávez, who worked tirelessly to promote fair working conditions and equal rights for all Americans,” Boxer said in a statement. “This is a fitting tribute to Chávez, who served in the Navy, and follows the Navy’s recent decisions to name other supply ships after American visionaries from Medgar Evers to Amelia Earhart to Lewis and Clark.”
Republican California Rep. Duncan Hunter, a Marine veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, had a very different opinion. He said that it was indicative of the Navy’s politicization.
“This decision shows the direction the Navy is heading. Naming a ship after Cesar Chavez goes right along with other recent decisions by the Navy that appear to be more about making a political statement than upholding the Navy’s history and tradition,” he said.
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Well good. They can carve an image of her to nail to the front of it.
That’ll scare the shit out of anybody that sees it coming at them.
“who worked tirelessly to promote fair working conditions and equal rights for all Americans”
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Labor unions don’t have any power to change the law of the land. They are not elected officials of state or federal government.
Unions ONLY create different working conditions FOR UNION MEMBERS. They elevate the status of union members ABOVE that of all other Americans.
Labor unions are a special interest group who works to gain privilege ONLY for members of their own group. They in fact create a situation of ‘Different Rules, For Different People’. The Ku Klux Klan is another who works to gain privilege for only the members of their own group.
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She’s probably the one who forced the Navy to name the ship that. I find it highly offensive that the Navy spent decades fighting the Cold War only to have a ship named after a Communist. They should have named the ship after Seal Team 6 or any other hero who gave their life in the service of this country.
But no, we named it after a Marxist icon. Figures.
The first navy ship with no toilets
Good, you can sail it along side the USS BARNEY FRANK, USS FIDEL CASTRO, USS CHAIRMAN MOA, USS AHMADINEJAD, USS WILLIAM AYERS, USS CLOWARD & PIVEN, USS CHAVEZ, USS PRISSYPANTS, USS WHISTLEBRITCHES, USS BULLDYKE, USS MICHAEL MOORE, USS JESSE JACKSON, USS AL SHARPTON…..get the idea?
President Candyass seen nodding with approval.
Holy shit you guys are insane.
I thought maybe the right-wing would appreciate Caesar Chavez for being opposed to illegal immigration. I guess wanting decent wages makes you an anti-American communist now?
While Republicans want to reduce the rights of all workers, unionized and un-unionized.
The solution is to enact worker protections that encompass all workers and not just union members.
anyone else thinking she is melting into a living version of Skeletor?
Another ADEX list member working in our govt.
Ever since Richard Nixon said we needed to normalize relations with Communist China because they were going to become an economic power, we have been feeding the “dragon”. Look at this crap… http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/gamers-target-u-s-troops-in-chinese-military-shooter/
Arnold Barbara Nancy the list is long for California.
I guess they named it after Cesar Chavez in honor of all the boy-cots on which the crew will sleep…
Isn’t there supposed to be some connection between the Navy and the person the vessel is being named for?
Did the Navy haul lettuce and grapes that I am unaware of?
Chavez was a union thug, not a supporter of Hispanics..
‘When Coloradoans went to the polls on November 5th,2002 they were asked to vote yes on Referendum E. “Shall the thirty- first day of March be designated a legal holiday for observing the birthday of Cesar Estrada Chavez as “Cesar Chavez day”?
Approximately 80% of Coloradoans voted NO. This included counties such as Conejos and Costilla Counties in which hispanics are in the majority
Well, I suppose that’s a better way to memorialize Chavez than letting the kids hang out at the mall. But we can be confident that the propaganda fed the students will portray him the way the Chicano verbalist elite prefers: as the patron saint of the reconquista of Alta California by La Raza
” The truth about Chavez is much more interesting. A third-generation American citizen from Yuma, Arizona, he was first and foremost a labor leader, as crafty and sometimes ruthless as any effective union boss must be. Today, Mexican-American educators and politicians have one simple priority: more immigration. Every warm body with a brown skin increases their clout. But, then and now, union leaders have the opposite need. ”
By Chavez’s heyday in the early Seventies, there were only 200,000 migrant farm workers left. Which made his triumphs feasible.In his prime, Chavez fought constantly against illegal immigration. He frequently complained that the Immigration & Naturalization Service wasn’t tough enough. When Chavez would lead a strike, the grower would send trucks across the Mexican border, load them up with scabs, and race back to the Central Valley in the dead of night. Chavez even offered his UFW staffers to the INS to serve as volunteer border guards to keep Mexicans from sneaking into California.
As Ruben Navarrette Jr. reported in the Arizona Republic: (8/31/97) “Cesar Chavez, a labor leader intent on protecting union membership, was as effective a surrogate for the INS as ever existed. Indeed, Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union he headed routinely reported, to the INS, for deportation, suspected illegal immigrants who served as strikebreakers or refused to unionize.”‘
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/790304/posts
>Naming a ship after Cesar Chavez goes right along with other recent decisions by the Navy that appear to be more about making a political statement than upholding the Navy’s history and tradition,” he said.
WHAT THE FOCK!????????????????
What does this man have to do with the United States Military? What did he do to protect this nation? It’s absolutely disgusting. They’re denigrating our Military. Why do the military hierarchy go along with this nonsense. For all of their supposed courage they are becoming lap dogs of the marxists.
AJB,
I asked this question above. The Navy is the Military. What is the hell did this guy have to do with the United States Military? He wasn’t even in our Military. For heavens sake, enough of this crap. This guy is not a hero to Americans. The military has nothing to do with what this guy was about. I’m sick of the left gushing over everyone who isn’t American and trashing anyone who is. I’ll be glad when these generation zero bunch starts dying. Boxer included, the old hippie, marxist.
We need a petition now that would go directly to the moron in the Navy that did authorize this travesty. I stand with those that want to only see ships named after a military heros. Many presidents didn’t deserve it either. – Carter and Murtha come to mind.
Why Would Obama Name a Navy Ship After a Communist Who Hated the Navy??
“In the early 1940s the Chavez family settled in Delano, a small farm town in the California’s San Joaquin valley, where Cesar would spend his teenage years. In 1946, 17 year-old Cesar Chavez enlisted in the Navy, spending what he would later describe as “the two worst years of my life.”
http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/05/why-would-obama-name-a-navy-ship-after-a-communist-who-hated-the-navy/
Whats next… The USS Karl Marx???
Not to worry, it will be packed full of crewman seeking a quick route to citizenship under the Dream Act from our Southern neighbor, they will all be stewards, oilers, wipers and cooks.
BULLSHIT! PURE UNADULERATED BULLSHIT!
It’s a damn wonder anyone can breathe anymore we’re so far up to our necks in it!
Cesar Chavez served in the US Navy for two years during WWII. That should be Okay.
If they were to name a Navy Tugboat USS Barbara Boxer – it might be suitable , but thoroughly inappropriate.
OMG…she’s beginning to look as dead as Arlen Specter.
I say this is unadulterated BULLSHIT! This is not the Navy I served in.
There was a time that I trusted our military to stand between the goobermint and the people when the goobermint tried to enslave us. Now, I don’t feel that way. This shit is getting out of hand, and the military is going right along with it.
There are Hispanic Medal of Honor recipients, why not name the vessel after 1 of them?
Annie says:
There are Hispanic Medal of Honor recipients, why not name the vessel after 1 of them?
The USS Roy Benavides has a nice ring to it.
I hear it’s designed to never make a right turn.
Chavez ….Mentor and Friends were Bert Corona..Communist Frank Marshall Davis…Communist Harry Bridges,Saul Alinsky…Communist My Mom always told me the People you hang around with are a reflection of You!
We should just make it generic. USS undocumented alien. It can patrol the Rio Grande for “future americans”. It makes me wanna spew. How does a f*ckwhit like senator boxhead get elected? I’m sure Cesar Chavez hated his 2 years in the navy because they actually held him responsible for something and made his dumb ass work.