{"id":23765,"date":"2020-10-21T10:51:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T14:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=23765"},"modified":"2020-10-21T12:51:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:51:53","slug":"pete-wilson-statue-comes-down-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/10\/21\/pete-wilson-statue-comes-down-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cWoke Taliban\u201d Come for Gov. Pete Wilson\u2019s Statue in California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The radical left-wing iconoclasts in North America and Western Europe demanding that historic statues be taken down (or pulling them down themselves) have been dubbed<\/a> the \u201cwoke Taliban,\u201d after the radical Islamist fanatics notorious for smashing statues<\/a> \u2013 and anything else associated with an \u201cimpure\u201d past \u2013 during their tyrannical rule over Afghanistan. Recently, the San Diego statue of former California Governor Pete Wilson<\/a> (R) also fell victim to pressure by the \u201cwoke\u201d mob, in large part as a result of Wilson\u2019s no-nonsense stance on illegal immigration in the 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilson was the mayor of San Diego for more than a decade, from 1971 to 1983, after which he represented the Golden State in the U.S. Senate from 1983 to 1991. During his tenure as governor (1991 \u2013 1999) Wilson became famous \u2013 and on the left, infamous \u2013 for supporting Proposition 187<\/a>. The ballot initiative passed with 59 percent support in November 1994 (the proposition won a majority in all parts of California, except for the ultra-liberal San Francisco Bay area). The intent of the legislation was to discourage illegal migration to California by ensuring that only U.S. citizens and legal immigrants have access to public benefits and services, including taxpayer-funded non-emergency healthcare and education. Following lawsuits by the ACLU and ethnic, pro-illegal-alien advocacy groups, the law was blocked in federal district court. Wilson\u2019s successor, Gray Davis (D), withdrew the state\u2019s appeal of the ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, according to long-time ethnic and pro-illegal-alien activist Enrique Morones<\/a>, who led the charge to remove Pete Wilson\u2019s statue, the former governor\u2019s initiative was \u201cracist\u201d and \u201cunified the Latino community and supporters of human rights, against him\u201d (the implication  being that taxpayer-funded public services for people in the country unlawfully are somehow  \u201chuman rights\u201d). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under such pressure, the statue \u2013 which had been\nstanding since 2007 near Horton Plaza Park in San Diego \u2013 was removed by Horton\nWalk, the nonprofit that owns the property on which the offending statue was\nlocated. The company\u2019s president, Steve Williams, stated that \u201call property \u2026\nwhether statues or real property \u2026 must be protected,\u201d and the statue was\ntherefore moved to another location for \u201csafekeeping.\u201d No decision had been\nmade on when, or if, it will ever return. Given Williams\u2019 language, it is\nlikely that the company feared that the statue would be vandalized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The notion that the statue faced the threat of\nvandalism or destruction is further bolstered by the comments of Wilson\u2019s law\npartner and former chief of staff, Sean Walsh, who said that it is \u201cregrettable\nthat intimidation tactics similar to those used in Seattle, Portland, Oakland\nand other cities across the country are causing individuals and businesses to\nprotect themselves.\u201d He added that \u201cour country, our society cannot be ruled by\nthe threat of intimidation and violence.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, the \u201cwoke\u201d mob \u2013 including radical\npro-illegal-alien activists \u2013 arrogantly believes that such threats are fair\ngame in its self-righteous, Taliban-like quest to erase any history it does not\nlike, be it America\u2019s Founding Fathers or a governor who attempted to stem and\ndiscourage mass illegal migration into his state. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The radical left-wing iconoclasts in North America and Western Europe demanding that historic statues be taken down (or pulling them down themselves) have been dubbed the \u201cwoke Taliban,\u201d after the radical Islamist fanatics notorious for smashing statues \u2013 and anything else associated with an \u201cimpure\u201d past \u2013 during their tyrannical rule over Afghanistan. Recently, the<\/p>\n

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