{"article":{"id":130152,"heading":"James Chase and Joe Turner","author":"Pachuco","created":"2005-06-22 20:16:59","modified":"2006-04-26 00:58:09","last_modified":"Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:58:09","article":"

By: WILLIAM FINN BENNETT - Staff Writer

Oceanside resident and anti-illegal-immigration advocate James Chase said this week that he will be a featured speaker at a rally in Baldwin Park on June 25, as the organizing group protests a monument inscribed with language group leader Joseph Turner calls \"seditious and anti-American.\"

Turner is calling for city officials to remove by July 1 wording from the arch ---- erected 12 years ago ---- that says: \"This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is and will be again.\"

City spokesman Adan Ortega said Wednesday that Turner and his group have failed to understand that the monument, which carries many other inscriptions, \"celebrates the very freedoms that we have in this country and chronicles that over time, attitudes change.\"

The director of UCSD's Center for Comparative Immigration Studies said Wednesday that Turner is being \"consummately irresponsible\" by holding a protest where there was violence before.

Turner said that he knows the potential for violence exists, but any acts of violence will not be committed by him or members of his group. But regardless of the risks, he feels he has to stand up for his First Amendment rights, Turner said.

And he won't do it quietly, he added.

\"I have a street fighter mentality,\" the 28-year-old man said. \"We are very aggressive about going into the streets and confronting the opposition.\"

Contact staff writer William Finn Bennett at (760) 740-5426, or wbennett@nctimes.com<\/a>.

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