Fans Escorted From Phoenix Suns Game For Wearing "Viva Los 1070" Shirts
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 5:51 AM
Two fans were asked to leave the Phoenix Suns game last week after they wore “Viva Los 1070″ shirts to the game.
Alex Pappas at The Daily Caller reported:
Two fans at a Phoenix Suns basketball game were ejected from their first row seats and removed from the arena last week after refusing orders from security guards to take off their shirts in support of Arizona’s recently passed law against illegal immigration.
One of the fans, businessman Jim Clark, said he and a friend, who were wearing orange shirts that read “Viva Los 1070,” eventually were allowed to return to their seats during last Wednesday’s game against the San Antonio Spurs after speaking with a security director.
This is not the first occurrence of politics creeping into the Suns basketball games: On Cinco de Mayo, team owner Robert Sarver came up with the idea for the team to wear “Los Suns” on their jerseys in protest of the immigration law. That’s what drove Clark to don his own shirt.
“If they’re going to shove their politics down my throat, I’m going make a message of my own,” Clark told The Daily Caller.
The phrase “Viva Los 1070” is in reference to the recently passed Arizona immigration law, Senate Bill 1070.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 87 Comments
Neoavatara commented:
Ridiculous. If they didn’t want politics in the stadium, they should have banned THEIR OWN PLAYERS first. Once that was o.k., everything is fair game.
I hope these guys complain.
http://www.neoavatara.com/blog
Illinois Patriot commented:
At the risk of sound melodramatic, the country is being divided along racial and class lines as in Nazi Germany and the USSR. Thanks, O’Bummer for encouraging and supporting disunity and division. Race riots? Civil war? A house divided cannot stand.
Militant Conservative commented:
VIVA Jim Clark,
This is Militant Conservatism!!!!
Political Corectness is to shut you up and take away your 1st amendment rights via (whiney feel good crap). Polite but in your face is where WE need to be.
I have had it for a long time, no more Mr. Niceguy.
No prisoners, no quarter asked nor given. My country, assimulate or go home. Resistance is futile. powder is dry.
Saint commented:
Its fine, I don’t watch basket ball. If others don’t either, then they can spend ALL of their time being political.
ProLifer commented:
“Viva Los 1070”
On shirts, signs, bumper stickers… everywhere in the USA!!!
Mark1957 commented:
Hooray for Jim Clark and his friend !!! Time to show the left that they are not the only ones who can play the ” In Your Face” politics game.
John commented:
Honestly, a group of illegals could have played better than Los Suns did in the second half against the Lakers Monday night…
mark commented:
Well at least he wasn’t wearing a US Flag on his shirt! That would have been really offensive, hurtful, and insensitive.
rider commented:
time to boycott the phoenix suns…
VIVA Arizona 1070 !!!!
let’s all take our vacation $$$$ to Arizona!!!
Neo commented:
Given the final take by the Suns, it was obvious that Clark threaten to sue their asses into next season.
timothyJ commented:
So, let me see here. The boycots against Arizona will cost them about $90M thereabouts. Arizona will save about $2.5B in costs associated with illegal aliens in the state. Hummmm. What should they do? It’s such a hard decision, isn’t it. Glad it’s not me. I’d pick the $2.5B in savings!!! But then I’m probably racist and homophobic and anti Obama.
gus commented:
The LIBTARDS can no longer create the NARRATIVE. We have been sh!t on far too many times. Now Conservatives are fighting back.
1070 merely enforces the LAW.
Are the Phoenix Suns pro LAW BREAKER??
Of course they are.
bg commented:
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gah!! i dare someone to tell me “we the people”
have NOT been losing our “freedom of speech”
via the Obama “Transitional” Administration..
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Subadar Lal Kukhri commented:
Free speech for me not, but not for thee.
Some animals are more equal than others.
I smell lawsuit.
Bad kharma.
burt commented:
Sent the illegals to LA
They love them there.
waterman3 commented:
i know how to solve the immigration problem…just adopt the same exact laws gentle kind liberal canada has, and enforce them the same way…..no mas problemo.
Buffalobob commented:
After the trouncing the Los Sundoes took from the Lakers last night, maybe it is time they took up soccer.
Mil-tech bard commented:
Move the Suns to Ciudad Juarez where they can all be kidnapped, and their security guards murdered by narcos.
jonyjoe101 commented:
security was probably confused and thought it was a anti-1070 shirt. It was in spanglish afterall.
Greg commented:
American’s better wake up! We are seeing tactics like this all over on a daily basis. Face it, as a life long Democrat until this last election, what passes for the Democrat Party now is a type and shadow of something far more sinister. Their overt tyranny has to be stopped at the ballot box this year or America is doomed. Find conservatives candidates in your area and go to work for them by volunteering as much of your time as you can!
John Gargano commented:
We are beginning to turn the tide. Look at the polling results and look at the comments in all the blogs. We need to keep this effort going and never relent!
By the way – has anyone received the email that explains how Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower all acted to deport millions of illegals to help those looking for jobs in the USA during times of high unemployment?
Google: Operation Wetback
The wishes of the people are being ignored! In a free society we get the type of government we tolerate.
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
If the Left had their way, they’d have their minions remove such ‘wing-nut instigators’ and take them out back and shoot them. After all, that’s what their heroes throughout history have done.
Evelyn Patrick commented:
If Jim Clark is supporting 1070 he should have accepted the fact that his rights to wear the shirt (freedom of expression) were being violated and left peacefully.
How can he support a law that will violate the rights of thousands of US citizens who happen to look and be Hispanics yet want his rights protected. Hypocrit!
Chip Bennett commented:
Why did he leave in the first place? Under what authority did the security guard eject them?
The only way they would have gotten me out of my seat, in that circumstance, would have been in handcuffs, accompanied by uniformed police – and followed up quickly with a hefty lawsuit.
Chisum commented:
“If Jim Clark is supporting 1070 he should have accepted the fact that his rights to wear the shirt (freedom of expression) were being violated and left peacefully.
How can he support a law that will violate the rights of thousands of US citizens who happen to look and be Hispanics yet want his rights protected. Hypocrit!”
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Another deep thinker.
Chip Bennett commented:
@Evelyn Patrick:
What “rights” of citizens are violated by this law?
Name specifics, please.
curth commented:
More from the Daily Caller article:
But after speaking with a security manager, they were allowed to return to their seats wearing their shirts. Fans were cheering and high-fiving them, he said. There was some snickering too.
Suns president Rick Welts later called to apologize, something Clark said he accepts. They spoke for more than 30 minutes. “They handled it in a very proper manner. But I don’t support their politics.”
A spokeswoman for the Spurs did not immediately return a request for comment, but a TNT spokesman said the company had nothing to do with the incident. “We covered the events in Phoenix that night as they unfolded and forwarded the story throughout the night. No one from Turner’s staff made such a request,” said spokesman Jeff Pomeroy.
Clark says he has since printed 500 “Viva Los 1070” shirts that he plans to sell to fans on a soon-to-be launched website. “I’m not gonna let it drop, and I have no obligation to do so,” he said.
Clark said he will wear the shirt again to other games, and it looks like he will have plenty of opportunities to do so. After apologizing, Welts promised him four tickets to the next 10 games, plus some autographed basketballs from the team.
Blacksmith8 commented:
I say all you Kalifornians, (and us ex residents) are just a big bunch of hypocrite racists.
California Penal Code 831b
aka living while latino. CA state law says racial profiling is fine and dandy.
How’s that for a serving of irony?
MommyPatriot1 commented:
Viva Los 1070 shirt=NOT ALLOWED
Che Guevara shirt=WELCOME
LT in TX commented:
Democrats were pro-slavery in the 1800s and they’re still pro-slavery today. The only reason Democrats object to the Arizona law is because it prevents Liberals from exploiting criminal immigrants and seeing as how Obama’s ancestors were exploited by Democrats, he should be ashamed of himself. It is truly disgraceful that Democrats are using the plight of impoverished Mexicans for political gain, while turning a blind eye to the plantation corporations in the farming and hospitality industries that use Mexican slave labor.
Also, since Nancy Pelosi was kind enough to start telling churches to get involved in the immigration problem, I realized she is right and have a serious suggestion about what Christians need to be doing about the criminal immigrant problem. Churches around America need to start sending Christian missionaries to the Southern border to spread the gospel to Mexicans as they break into our country. Once they accept Christ, the missionaries need to talk the criminal immigrants into doing the right thing and turning themselves over to the border patrol. Then, we need to encourage them to fix their own broken government in Mexico as we bid them farewell and keep them in our prayers. I’m dead serious about this suggestion and hope any Christians reading this will present the idea to your pastors and other Christians.
Neena commented:
Where can I get a “Viva Jim Clark” shirt??
MarsBar commented:
Viva Jim Clark! Viva!! Cause what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
I’m sick of this nation’s double standard, first on Capitol Hill where most are Anti-American and have the audacity to give Calderon a standing ovation for speaking against AZ while his own back yard is being demolished. But then again… I believe the standing O was to encourage him to continue to read what THEY prepared for him to read since it was identical to what Obama was provided to read. Poor puppets!