The Battle for Armory Park

“We have Met the Enemy and He is Us.”

(Walt Kelley 1972)
In Tucson Arizona, leaders of the National Council of La Raza
named the April 10, 2006 Armory Park event a ‘National Day of
Protest for Worker Rights and Immigration Reform.’
Worker’s Rights? Immigration Reform?
Roy Warden, a former sixties radical from Berkeley California,
knew better. He went to the park, burned a Mexican flag and
shouted at 15,000 demonstrators:
“Go back to Mexico and finish your revolution there. Za-
pata didn’t tell you to feed off the table scraps of Gringos!”
Warden defied what he termed “Open Border Policy,” and “Raza
Dirty Commie Rat Bastards” whom he knew, fronted for them,
the Arizona ‘good old boys.’ Ever since Reagan’s 1987 amnesty,
they had built the infrastructure of Arizona’s recreation and re-
tirement economy off the blood, sweat, tears and labor of Mexi-
can illegal Aliens, working for less than minimum wage, they
had invited in.
Raza rioted, so they arrested and prosecuted Warden, evicted
him, destroyed his business, stole his belongings and left him on
the streets wondering:
“Do We the People have Equal Rights Under Law or is the
government above the law?
Thus begins Warden’s decade and a half quest to find an answer
and to defy them: 15 years of “in-your-face” (but lawful) street
demonstrations challenging Tucson City Open Border Policy, in-
cluding 14 arrests, prosecutions, trials, appeals, etc. reaching
from the lowest Tucson City Court right up to the Arizona Su-
preme Court, the U.S. District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court
of Appeals, where Warden finally found the answer but not the
one he wanted; thus revealing the hidden practice and collusion
of the legal establishment—whom former Judge John Molloy
called “The Fraternity,” to protect the architects of Open Border
Policy and employers who make their livings from the blood,
sweat and tears of others, to violate the law protecting the First
Amendment, and to continue the border contentions which
someday may lead us to the Second Civil War.