I got this news from Ron Black (the former WKY talk radio host) by email today. If I get away from church stuff in time, I might have to show up and do a little counter-protest of their racist protest.
I’m also glad to see Ron Black tell the world that Denise Bode is a racist, because if she supports this crap she is a racist.
Now I know y’all might say I’m being too hard on these folks and shouldn’t call them racists, but I think they are, because they continue to refer to undocumented aliens as “illegals,” which is just one more step in the dehumanization process in which the populace is encouraged to see brown skinned people as less than human, and in the end worthy of persecution. (I don’t mean to be overly dramatic but it is the same thing Hitler did.)
I’m sorry but the law is jacked up and is a joke. Since the southwestern United States was stolen from Mexico to begin with, I have no respect for a law that says that Latinos have no right to live here unless they jump through all kinds of ridiculous hoops that keeps families seperated. It simply makes no sense and it is simply unchristian to break up families. (and worse yet, under the new federal legislation, to make it a crime to simply give folks water when they are thirsty — on a sidenote, if passed I think followers of Christ have a moral imperative to disobey this wicked law).
Anyway here’s the announcement of Sunday’s racist protest…
Greetings my friends on this April 1st.
I read the Newsok.com account of the pro-illegal immigration rally today at the methane gas filled dome and I remembered that it is April Fools Day – surely there weren’t REALLY 10,000 people at the rally! I scanned the article recounting the soft-on-crime rally and to my amazement, there was no April Fools Day mea culpa – it was all true. One of the quotes from the Newsok.com story read, “LULAC sponsored the rally to protest proposed federal and state immigration laws that it feels are unfair to illegal aliens.”
Think about that for a moment…”unfair to illegal aliens.”
Think about that statement in the proper context and it could just as easily have read, “unfair to car thieves.” Or “unfair to those guilty of breaking and entering.”Well, there is a pro-justice rally tomorrow at the south side of the State Capitol beginning at 3:00pm. Tom Roach is heading up the rally and it is brought about by a new organization called, the Coalition to End Taxpayer Subsidies for Illegal Aliens (CETSIA). Tom is an eloquent speaker and has some very startling facts for you to hear.
I’ll be speaking as well – not only on my own behalf, sharing some of my experiences – but on behalf of Corporation Commissioner Denise Bode who is running for the 5th Congressional District seat being vacated by Congressman Ernest Istook. Denise wanted to be there, but the late notification of the event her schedule was already packed. On the other hand, I happen to have a little more time on my hands.
You are not only invited to attend tomorrow at 3:00 at the State Capitol, but I would encourage you to bring a friend, tell your family about it and take some of your valuable time to be there. I know that on short notice it will be difficult because unlike the pro-illegal movement who has been working on this rally today for months (and has had massive Hispanic radio, television, and print coverage), CETSIA doesn’t have the ability to promote their event because much of the media is afraid to cover pro-American, pro-justice, pro-common sense ideologies such as SECURING OUR BORDERS!
Again, I encourage you to attend this bi-partisan effort to show the pro-criminal element in our community that we welcome legal immigration, but the time has come for you and I to stop footing the bill for illegals.
Please, stop by the State Capitol if you can at 3:00.
I didn’t make it to do a counter-protest (probably for the best, I was probably too angry to be effective), but I did talk to a KFOR reporter afterwards who said there were about 200 at the anti-hispanic protest.
Here’s some press coverage of it…
http://www.kfor.com/global/story.asp?s=4714450
KFOR.com: Coalition calls for tough immigration laws
Hey J. M., I was at the rally today and I’ve got some good pics of it here. I’m gonna have to start checking your blog more often.
Calling someone a racist used to be the kiss of death. The term is so overused that it has lost it’s meaning. When I see the word it’s a sure bet that the user can’t argue intelligently about damage that illegal aliens cause to our country. So go ahead, hide behind your ignorant argument. It doesn’t bother me in the least.
You probably aren’t offended that illegals are burning the American flag. You probably aren’t offended that illegals have displaced tens of thousands of American construction workers, truck drivers, and trades workers. You must also think it is funny that hospitals burdened with indigent workers are closing almost daily because they aren’t being paid by patients that also don’t pay taxes.
Are you the least bit insulted when the President implies that illegals are doing jobs that Americans won’t do? The issue could only be correctly stated as follows: Americans won’t work for the substandard wages many businesses are willing to pay. Yes, illegals have driven wages down below the point that TAXPAYING citizens can accept. Irony is that taxes paid by citizens are used in great part to pay costs of social services provided free to illegal aliens.
It is also ironic that while many complain about the low wages and benefits paid to WalMart employees, no one complains about the low wages paid to illegal aliens. I believe the reason for this is that big business has no incentive to pay their share of taxes that would be consistent with fully incorporating illegal immigrants into the American workforce. Better to let the taxpayers pick up their benefits!
If you think use of the term “illegal” implies racism, I can only refer you to immigration law and your dictionary. If you can’t see the error in your own logic, I can’t help you either.
Phil,
I agree that I misused the term “racist” (as I have already discussed in the first few paragraphs of this post: http://jmbzine.com/wordpress/?p=332 )
As to your other points, I believe that you are blaming immigrants for things that corporate oppressive class created. The rich are the ones who need to be dethroned from their positions of tyranny.
And as to the term “illegal”, I say no human being is illegal in God’s eyes.