Radical separatist Armando Navarro is once again yapping his gums at anyone who will listen in San Bernardino.  The Daily Roundup from Wednesday lists an article detailing how the City of San Bernardino sent Navarro and his National Alliance for Human Rights a bill for over $17,000 related to costs incurred by the city to police a march through the streets en route to City Hall.

Navarro trots out the race card, almost as often as McCain's drunken sailor joke, as a reason for this "unjust" act on the part of the City of San Bernardino.  No surprise, as Navarro sees a racist bogeyman behind every grassy knoll.

What I find incredibly frustrating is how the media refuses to call him out on his associations with racists and anti-Semites.  As an anti-illegal immigration activist, one of the first questions the media will ask me is something akin to the following: "Your opponents say you are a racist. How do you respond to that?"

Never mind the fact that I freely associate with Americans of all different colors and backgrounds at our events, I am repeatedly questioned as to whether or not I am a racist.  Contrast that to the open border zealots like Armando Navarro who are allowed to operate with impunity when it comes to racism, the race card and racialist politics.

Armando Navarro and others repeatedly associate with documented racists and anti-Semites and are never called to task for these associations.

Why the double standard?

Take two specific individuals:  Hector Carreon, the publisher of La Voz de Aztlan and Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez (pictured at right).

Hector Carreon and his outfit is listed as being anti-Semitic by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center.  The SPLC also lists Carreon as the leader of a hate group (last entry on page based out of Whittier, CA).

Carreon has suggested that the Jews were behind the 9/11 and anthrax attacks and rails against supposed plans by the Jews to takeover the world.  His website published the following:

"It is incredible that some Jews are now doing worse things to the Palestinians than the Nazis ever did to them. If there are any good Jews left in the world, they should speak out loudly against these atrocities."

On his website, Osama bin Laden is praised and compared to Poncho Villa, a revered revolutionary to many Mexicans.

Carreon’s comments are extensive and signify deep hatred toward the Jewish people.  However, on January 12, 2006 at Feldheym library in San Bernardino, Navarro shared hugs with and provided a platform for Carreon; one he also shared with Congressman Joe Baca and his son Joe Baca, Jr., a California Assemblyman. (I have the video to prove they were all there, but am unable to post it at this time.)

Carreon is a "reconquista" who believes that the Southwest United States, or Aztlan, needs to be reclaimed by Hispanics through the use of genocide, if necessary.

In January of 1995, following the passage of Proposition 187, Armando Navarro organized a summit at UCR and brought together several Hispanic leaders, including Jose Angel Gutierrez.

Jose Angel Gutierrez is a radical who believes in retaking the Southwest United States, by killing the white man, if necessary.  In the 60s, he was quoted as saying:

“We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him.”

Some apologists have suggested that the above quote was not accurate.  However, his subsequent comments suggest that they are in fact what he truly believes. On April 11, 1969, in an interview with San Antonio Evening News Reporter Kemper Diehl, the following exchange occurred:

Reporter: What was meant by the phrase eliminate the gringos in the MAYO statement?
Gutierrez: You can eliminate an individual in various ways. You can certainly kill him, but that is not our intent at the moment. You can remove the basis of support that he operates from, be it economic, political, or social. That is what we intend to do.
Reporter: If nothing else works you are going to kill all the gringos.
Gutierrez: We will have to find out if nothing else will work.
Reporter: And then you are going to kill us all?
Gutierrez: If it doesn’t work. I would like to add to you that if you label yourself a gringo then you are one of the enemy.

The interview continues:

Reporter: If worse comes to worst, will you kill gringos?
Gutierrez: If worse comes to worst, and we have to resort to that means, it would be self defense.
Reporter: Do you hate gringos?
Gutierrez: Yes I do.

He is also quoted in a Wall Street Journal article dated June 11, 1970 called “An Angry Chicano” as saying: “It is too late for the Gringo to make amends. Violence has to come.”

However, Armando Navarro is never held accountable for these associations. Why is it that this blatant double standard is allowed to persist?