{"id":912,"date":"2008-10-20T19:15:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T23:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=912"},"modified":"2008-10-20T19:15:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T23:15:55","slug":"papers-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"Papers, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"
Byron York has a fascinating account of a weekend rally for Senator John McCain <\/a>and the outrage that has been directed at the media thanks to their sliming of Joe the Plumber. But the most striking moment was an encounter with one of those working-class Americans and what it says about the future of our country:<\/div>\n
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In the audience Saturday, there were plenty of people who were mad about it. There was real anger at this rally, but it wasn\u2019t, as some erroneous press reports from other McCain rallies have suggested, aimed at Obama. It was aimed at the press. And that\u2019s where Tito Munoz came in.
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\nAfter McCain left, as the crowd filed out, Munoz made his way to an area near some loudspeakers. He attracted a few reporters when he started talking loudly, in heavily-accented English, about media mistreatment of Wurzelbacher. (It was clear that Spanish was Munoz\u2019s native language, and he later told me he was born in Colombia.) When I first made my way over to him, Munoz thought I was there to give him the third degree.
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\n\u201cAre you going to check my license, too?\u201d he asked me. \u201cAre you going to check my immigration status? I\u2019m ready, I have everything here. Whatever you want, I have it. I have my green card, I have my passport \u2014 \u201c<\/p>\n

I was a little surprised. Did Munoz really bring his papers with him to a McCain rally? I asked.
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\n\u201cYeah, I have my papers right here,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m an American citizen. Right here, right here.\u201d With that, he produced a U.S. passport, turned it to the page with his picture on it, and thrust it about an inch from my nose. \u201cRight here,\u201d he said. \u201cIn your face.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

This is what it has come to in this country. The fact that Mr. Munoz found it necessary to bring along his papers to prove his citizenship shows there are real reasons to worry about what an Obama administration will look like. Will the change it promises to bring be positive or more like other countries that hungered for the type of “change” that is big on promises but lacks specifics?<\/a><\/div>\n
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Americans have every right to be afraid of what will happen to their rights to free speech should Senator Obama win the election. If the Obama administration doesn’t use their power to suppress dissenting speech<\/a>\u00a0then they will just sic their media lapdogs on citizens to destroy them. Just ask Joe Wurzelbacher.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Byron York has a fascinating account of a weekend rally for Senator John McCain and the outrage that has been directed at the media thanks to their sliming of Joe the Plumber. But the most striking moment was an encounter with one of those working-class Americans and what it says about the future of our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22,26,12],"tags":[94,1063,142],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-media","category-politics","category-tom","tag-barack-obama","tag-free-speech","tag-joe-wurzebacher"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}