{"article":{"id":144155,"heading":"Costa Mesa Mayor Mansoor Enforces Immigration Law But Trashes First Amendment","author":"John Earl","created":"2006-01-12 22:24:30","modified":"2013-11-11 00:37:30","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:37:30","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Analysis by John Earl <br><br> (Note: Some direct video links follow the article. Photos shown are taken from video clips.) <br><br> Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor believes that America is &ldquo;a nation of laws.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s why, he says, the city&rsquo;s police should be first in the nation to directly help deport &ldquo;illegal aliens.&rdquo; But conduct by Monsoor at two recent Costa Mesa city council meetings&ndash;-revealed  <br>  <br> on video logs from two separate sources&ndash;-raises questions about his ability to correctly and impartially uphold the law, including respecting basic First Amendment rights. Recent incidents also demand an examination of the constitutionality of Costa Mesa Municipal Codes related to public speech.  <br><br> Mansoor sparked chaos during the public comments session of the January 6th Costa Mesa city council where about 80 immigrant rights supporters and 40 supporters of the recent closure of the city&rsquo;s immigrant labor center and its new immigration law enforcement policy had converged for debate. Mansoor abruptly told immigrant rights activist Coyotly Tezcalipoca that his speaking time was up and adjourned the meeting. Tezcalipoca was pushed out of the council chambers by police officers and later charged with resisting a peace officer and violating city codes by unlawfully addressing the city council and disorderliness. <br><br> Please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocorganizer.com\/html\/monsoor.html\">http:\/\/www.ocorganizer.com\/html\/monsoor.html<\/a> for the remainder of the article, including additional photos and video clips. <br><br> Sincerely, <br>  <br> John Earl <br>  <br> Orange County Organizer<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"admin@ocorganizer.com","link":"http:\/\/www.ocorganizer.com\/html\/monsoor.html","address":"Orange County","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor believes that America is \u201ca nation of laws.\u201d That\u2019s why, he says, the city\u2019s police should be first in the nation to directly help deport \u201cillegal aliens.\u201d But conduct by Monsoor at two recent Costa Mesa city council meetings\u2013-revealed \r\non video logs from two separate sources\u2013-raises questions about his ability to correctly and impartially uphold the law, including respecting basic First Amendment rights. Recent incidents also demand an examination of the constitutionality of Costa Mesa Municipal Codes related to public speech.","numcomment":10,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2006\/01\/hpim0129.jpg","filesize":"762.2 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2006\/01\/144155.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2006\/01\/hpim0129.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2006\/01\/hpim0129.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2006\/01\/hpim0129.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[{"id":144156,"heading":"Que Queremos\/What do we want?","article":"Musicians in the photo sang protest songs during the January 6th rally at Costa Mesa City Hall to support immigrant rights. ","author":"John Earl","parent_id":144155,"mime_type":"audio\/x-wav","created":"2006-01-12 22:24:30","modified":"2006-01-12 22:24:30","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2006\/01\/que_queremos.wav"}],"comments":[{"id":144157,"heading":"date correction","article":"The date in the article should be January 3, not 6. Sorry for the error.\r\n\r\nJE","author":"John Earl","parent_id":144155,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-01-12 22:26:38","modified":"2006-01-12 22:26:38","fileurl":""},{"id":144166,"heading":"Give it a rest","article":"Just because the mayor limited the time that someone could speak doesn't mean he 'trashed the First Amendment'.   If he wasn't interested in the First Amendment he wouldn't have let a trash talking communist punk mouth off at all.  \r\n\r\nIf you want to see the trashing of the First Amendment start right here at IMC, where censorship and banned language is alive and well.","author":"Scorpio","parent_id":144155,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-01-13 00:57:53","modified":"2006-01-13 00:57:53","fileurl":""},{"id":144180,"heading":"Illegals break Federal Law","article":"Listen ugly crazy man, GET A LIFE!!!!!\r\nIllegal is illegal!!!!!!!!\r\nGo Mayor, go Minutemen, go SOS and............\r\nViva la Migra and FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAWS!!!!!!!!!!!","author":"by coming into this Country Illegaly!!","parent_id":144155,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-01-13 03:45:11","modified":"2006-01-13 03:45:11","fileurl":""},{"id":144187,"heading":"Improved Picture of Beautiful Woman with Guitar","article":"The woman with the guitar is too beautiful to leave the picture with the flash reflected in her eyes, so I fixed the photo.  Now I can move onto other articles feeling like I made the world a better place.\r\n","author":"@","parent_id":144155,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2006-01-13 04:37:14","modified":"2006-01-13 04:37:14","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2006\/01\/costamesabeautifulwoman.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2006\/01\/costamesabeautifulwoman.jpg"}},{"id":144209,"heading":"Read the whole article","article":"Try reading the entire article.","author":"John Earl","parent_id":144155,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-01-13 06:56:09","modified":"2006-01-13 06:56:09","fileurl":""},{"id":144210,"heading":"Thank you for fixing the photo","article":"Thanks for fixing the photo.","author":"John Earl","parent_id":144155,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-01-13 06:58:58","modified":"2006-01-13 06:58:58","fileurl":""}]}