From the “why do you think I call it Georgiafornia” file - Atlanta Latino, the area’s bilingual [unless they don't want us to read the report] newspaper that is consistently almost accurate:

“Georgia TeVe the new channel for Hispanic viewers isn’t just a dream come true, but a smart investment intended to draw the general community and advertisers to Georgia’s first local TV station for Latinos.[ New Spanish TV station to launch in GeorgiaBy Por/By Carolina Donetch ]

If your image of my home state does not include TV en Espanol or seeing the flag of Mexico waving in Georgia sunshine, your image is out-dated.

I have watched it change myself.

It took about 15 years.

If you can’t imagine that the regional and thoroughly enjoyable accent of native Atlantans is rapidly being replaced by the sounds of Mexican Spanish and if you are surprised to learn that it is necessary to “press one for English” on phone calls to many Georgia businesses and utilities, Georgia -The Peach State- will not be at all what you imagine.

More from Raphael Ortiz-Guzman, the CEO of the all Spanish TV enterprise:

“We want to reach out to all Latinos, whether they’re from Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, or elsewhere,” said Ortiz-Guzman. “We hope that they can identify with our programming because we don’t want to leave anybody out.”

Like most of his ilk…Guzman never utters the word “American” in his excitement.

The colonization goes on …and Georgia takes another step towards being a suburb of Mexico.

Who is busy making a buck or two investing in this Balkanizing enterprise?

“According to Democratic State Sen. Sam Zamarripa , who is the managing director of Heritage Capital Advisors, the Buckhead-based firm investing in the project, Heritage has a long history of investment in media companies, including radio and television stations.”

If State Senator Sam Zamarripa’s name sounds familiar to the VDARE.com reader, maybe it is from the SPLC hit-piece on me in which he was the designated ethnic hustler …a position that he plays so well and profitably.

More on Zamarripa soon.

These are interesting times here in Lodi.

With the town still buzzing about the arrest of two suspects on terrorism related charges and three more suspects behind bars for immigration violations, controversial Sacramento talk radio host Mark Williams is leaning on Lodi to help organize a July march of Muslims to renounce terrorism.(”A ‘Million Muslim March’ for Lodi?” by M.S. Enkoji, Sacramento Bee, June 22, 2005)

The tentative plan is to have Muslims march on the city streets between the mosque and City Hall.

Lodi Mayor John Beckman has turned responsibility for organizing the event to the “Breakthrough Project,” a coalition of Christian, Muslim and Jewish congregations dedicated to “breaking through walls of hate and prejudice.”

On his show and weblog, Williams has repeatedly exhorted Muslims to stand with Americans against terrorism….something that the nation has been hoping to see since 2001.

Local Muslims are not warm to the idea. They claim that they have been strongly anti-terrorism since 9/11 but have never been able to convince Williams.

Basim ElKarra, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Sacramento Valley, claims his organization has an online petition signed by 688,560 people who have denounced terrorism.

Ironically, Williams and the Breakthrough Project board members may know the same thing: that Muslims are unlikely to participate in a march for a variety of reasons.

A poorly attended “Million Muslim March” would generate fodder for Williams’ show–perhaps his objective–and embarrass Lodi’s Muslim community.

But at the same time, it would partially answer the question of the hour in Lodi: what side is the majority of our Islamic community on regarding the war on terrorism?

The guess from this corner: look for the Million Muslim March concept to never leave the ground.

Via Clayton Cramer, I learn that the American Civil Liberties Union has shut down the Las Cruces, N.M. chapter, after finding that one of its members was actually willing to fight for American liberties.

Operations have been suspended for the Las Cruces chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union after state ACLU officials learned that one of its board members, Clifford N. Alford of Organ, also is a leader of a Minutemen group in New Mexico.

“The suspension of the chapter was a technical move to make certain that the Minuteman claiming to be an ACLU chapter board member no longer had authority to act or speak on behalf of the ACLU,” said Gary Mitchell, president of the New Mexico ACLU board of directors. [Send them mail.]“We will not tolerate racism and vigilantism in the leadership structure of our organization. They (the Minuteman Project) are repugnant to the principles of civil liberties and the mission of the ACLU.”

Cramer says:

When even ACLU chapter board members are part of this movement, it really shows how widespread support for enforcing our immigration laws really is.

Why would an ACLU member be protecting the border from an invasion of illegal immigrants?

Maybe because it’s the American Civil Liberties Union, not the Mexican-American Legal Defense And Education fund.
Or maybe it’s because the rights of people on the border are trampled on by illegal border crossers every day.

If the police did the kind of things that the illegals do, the ACLU would be all over them.