Santa Ana anti-soccer Klan of Usual Suspects rally tonight

Few folks today remember that the KKK was big in Santa Ana back in the late 1800’s.  But they were – in fact a fellow named Dr. Henry William Head lived in Santa Ana, where he served as the leader of the Santa Ana KKK, according to the OC Weekly.  But they didn’t wear the usual Klan clothing or even call themselves Klansmen because they were ordered to abandon those ways – so they wouldn’t get caught.

Years later the heritage of these haters lives on.  Today we call them Santa Ana’s Usual Suspects – and they gathered at a “rally” tonight, at 6 pm, at the home of XXXXX XXX, at XXX N. Heliotrope, to complain about the Chivas USA, a soccer team in Los Angeles that is very unlikely to move here to Santa Ana.

Why would the Chivas USA move here when they have a first-class arena in Carson?

That isn’t stopping the Usual Suspects however from ranting and raving.  Here is what they had to say on their latest flyer: the proposed Chivas soccer stadium will threaten “their way of life.”

 

Note the use of the phrase “way of life.”  That my friends is 100% Klan-speak! And they are advertising a “Rally!”  Again – 100% Klan-speak!  Click here for hundreds of examples of the phrase “Klan Rally.”

Check out these excerpts, with sources noted, of Klansmen of old referring to their “way of life:”

  • Because the Klan leaders wholeheartedly embraced the agenda touting political and social reasons for organizing, the underlying ethos motivating their movement in Cañon City was the preservation of their Protestant beliefs and way of life. (Canon City Public Library)
  • African-Americans were no longer the sole focus of the Klan’s message of hate on Long Island, because black citizens comprised only 2 percent of the population. Catholics and foreign-born Americans were a much more visible target. By 1920, foreign-born residents had grown to 20 percent of the population. In Nassau, the number had increased in two decades from 11,004 to 25,998. In Suffolk, the figure rose from 14,650 to 23,888. These new immigrants constituted “the greatest threat to the American way of life,” the Klan claimed. (Brookhaven Hamlets)
  • These sources make it clear that the “Southern way of life” that was being fought for was the way of slavery. (They Called Themselves the KKK)
  • [I]n the last thirty years Communism began to grow in America. It has set up fronts such as the N.A.A.C.P and other Jewish controlled organizations as peddlers to create hate and brainwash the minds of the American people [to]. . . just about destroy our Christian faith, our freedom of rights, and the American Way of Life.  (Alabama Dept. of Archives and History)

Let’s face it – these haters are bashing the Chivas USA because their real issue is Mexicans.  It always has been.  If anything these folks have become even more inflamed since Mexican Americans took over the Santa Ana City Council (with the exception that Council Member Vince Sarmiento is of South American heritage).

I hope the proposed Chivas USA stadium DOES get built at Willowick Golf Course.  It probably won’t, but if it did it would be a huge economic boon to our city and a source of immense civic pride – except for those who are carrying on the ways of Dr. Head and his good old boys…

UPDATE: The woman who hosted the anti-soccer Klan of Usual Suspects meeting called the FBI and the SAPD today to complain that we had posted her name and address – even though that information appeared on the flier for the event that was widely distributed.  The SAPD asked me to consider taking the info down and I did – although it is still up on the website of the haters in question, which you can read by clicking here.

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Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.
Art Pedroza

Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.

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  • NSA-

    Read the flier closely, As exposed on the VOC blog, this is as much about:

    "A Threat To Mater Dei Sports"

    So the city of Santa Ana, it's taxpayers and residents are suppossed to support a PRIVATE ATHLETIC PROGRAM, whose student body consists of a small portion of our kids?

    Nevermind, Mater Dei is part of a BILLION DOLLAR enterprise: The Catholic Church!

    The can afford to buy the Crystal Cathedral but are at risk of losing Eddie West Field TWO DAYS PER WEEK for ten weeks a year (hmm, my Catholic math makes that: 20 DAYS per year!).

    What would Fr. Chris Smith (formerly of St. Joseph, Fr. Sallot or Bishop Jaime Soto, all defenders of the immigrant population say?????

    I CALL BULLSH*T!

    Way of life????Where do these people live? Fantasyland?

  • LOL! Can you imagine what the folks at the rally look like? Someone please send us the pictures!

  • I know who this lady is! She's the one who wanted the Planning Department to approve her building a 10 foot wall around her house. I think she said she was a afraid of her neighbors.

    She probably wouldn't scare her neighbors if she wore a decent wig and foundation that actually matched her skin tone.

  • I live in No. SA, I am white, middle class and have a Master's degree. I LOVE SOCCER and I just can't see it being a really bad thing to have a soccer team here in SA! Hell, if Harrah can built a monstrous phallic symbol in homage to himself, why not have some soccer?

  • Tmare,

    According to Gus, working class/middle class (is there a difference anymore??) don't live in North Santa Ana.

    ----OK that's my bait, trying to get Arrellano into the debate; This fight needs all the help it can get. ON BOTH SIDES.

    If the majority of Santa Ana disagree, SCRAP THE PROJECT, but why should twenty two out of touch folks dictate to a half million people what is proper????

    Gustavo, this is SCREAMING elitism!

  • I defy anyone to take a census up and down Towner, from seventeeth to River. Except for a congresswoman and a Realtor, EVERYBODY has workingclass/middleclass jobs. Maybe not at Taco Bell as is portrayed but Piano teachers, truck drivers, school custodians and even a few public employees.

    The fact is, North Santa Ana, while whiter than the rest of the city, is more diverse than say edinger and grand.

    GO GET EM.

  • Mr. P, Looks like you and Kerr would make a cute couple. You are both propaganda ministers. Remember, you are my propaganda minister though! I have never seen that chick in my life. I bet you anything, she hangs out at Fascist Island more than anywhere in Santa Ana.

  • Admin,
    Instead of throwing stones and trying to slime the folks who put this rally together, why don't you try and persuade us with some facts?

    I couldn't attend this informational meeting, but I'd like to know some details of this Chivas deal;

    *Is it slated to be built at Willowick and by whom? (Oh, and being a golfer doesn't necessarily make one a racist, nor does living in Floral Park)

    *What will happen to Eddie West Field and why?

    * How is our mayor involved, and is he going to profit from this deal?

    *How will it benefit our city?

    The fact that you have gone out of your way to make crazy allegations and associations (KKK) just because someone is opposed to this deal makes me think that something stinks about it.

    If this is so good for Santa Ana, TELL US WHY.

    This post is a great example of YELLOW JOURNALISM, no substance, but lots of sensationalism and crap.

    • I already answered those questions in a previous post. Just search for "Chivas" and read my other posts.

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