The civil rights groups supporting illegal immigration are like most unions. They have long out lived their usefulness and are now just using their organizations to extort income. Who's surprised?
Frances Semler says she felt betrayed by her mayor.
It's worse than that, Frances. Your country appears to have left you out on a limb.
Ever since Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Mark Funkhouser appointed Semler to that city's volunteer park board, the city had been the target of boycotts by Hispanic and black groups. Why? Because she dared to be a member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a grass-roots group of volunteers who want the U.S. border secured, and who are patrolling it themselves in the absence of a competent federal government.
For this high crime, the National Council of La Raza and the national Southern Christian Leadership Conference both pulled their conferences out of Kansas City. The NAACP was considering doing the same.
Funkhouser refused to buckle under the considerable pressure. But ultimately, Semler resigned, citing less-than-stellar support from the mayor and his wife.
This is absolutely insane. And it goes to show you how badly Americans are losing the battle for their border.
Most Americans, polls show, want the border secured. A porous border isn't just letting in workers illegally; it's also allowing in potential terrorists (known in border patrol parlance as OTMs -- "other than Mexicans"), criminals and unknown amounts of illegal drugs.
Moreover, expressing support for border security should be a civil right of Frances Semler's. You would think minority organizations would be the first to stand up for civil rights. Sadly, they worked tirelessly to rob this woman of hers. And, by extension, yours.
What's interesting, too, is that constant influxes of cheap illegal labor can't help but depress wages for legal citizens, including but not limited to blacks and Hispanics.
These organizations got their way. And now, the bar is set: If you belong to the "wrong" organization today, you can't even hold a volunteer position in the community.
We've never understood the ignorance and hysteria surrounding the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. There have been no breaches of the peace, no violence, no incidents of racism and no vigilantism coming from the Minutemen, despite months of sometimes harrowing monitoring of a border that has become a superhighway of drug and human smuggling. Instead, authorities report that the Minutemen have been civil, law-abiding, respectful and helpful.
And since the Minutemen's namesakes left their homes and families to take up arms against the British, it's been deep in the American soul to defend hearth and home, even -- or perhaps mostly -- in lieu of an out-to-lunch government.
At the end of the day, this is our country. Not Washington's. And certainly not Mexico City's.
How sad that some groups that used to stand up for one's right to believe, speak and associate how one sees fit are now demanding people's heads for doing the same thing.
The Minutemen are holding their own long-planned national convention at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City Feb. 1-2. Semler had been told by the mayor not to attend it. She is now free to do so.
And so is every American who wants this nation's borders respected and secure, and who is courageous enough to stand with Frances Semler and say so.
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The civil rights groups supporting illegal immigration are like most unions. They have long out lived their usefulness and are now just using their organizations to extort income. Who's surprised?
PT, that is the problem, you must have misunderstood, this organization is AGAINST letting people come over the border. They are making sure no more illegal immigrants come because your government won't finish building that nice long fence to keep illegal immigration OUT. In case you haven't noticed, they are trying to PROTECT YOU by not letting these people find ways into the US so that our dear beloved enemies can't get through either. Not to mention, if you haven't noticed, we are in MARSHAL LAW not a constitutional one due to the war. It was that way when people went to war with British.
DeborahElliott2, did you think I was writing about the minutemen? Did you read the entire article? The National Council of LaRaza, SCLC, and the NAACP are fighting the enforcement of the law. THEY are the organizations I was referring to. Sorry for the confusion. By the bye, it's your government too.(coffee may help)
I don't get it. Isn't this a forum for people to express their opinions and debate the articles. Why is that Deborah, like so many others here, allow their envy and or contempt for pat thomas cause them to rush to find fault with what pt writes rather than discuss the facts of the author?
I don't get it. Isn't this a forum for people to express their opinions and debate the articles. Why is that Deborah, like so many others here, allow their envy and or contempt for pat thomas cause them to rush to find fault with what pt writes rather than discuss the facts of the author?
excuse my confusion but, who is laraza? why would the sclc, one of those organizations that profess to love this country so much,the naacp who professes to attack anyone who dare question anything said or done against a minority be pulling their meetings out? the minutmen should be rewarded if nothing else.why would any honest american want the border open and unprotected?
charlie for once I agree with you!!
Sorry PT, you are right, I do need the coffee, but not Bush's administration.
Charlie, you should go over to the other board on this topic. All your fellow democrats want open borders. Be prepared to be call a racist.
President Bush has just a few months left in office and the left just can't let go. What will they do after he's gone? Who will receive all the hate and bile that is spewed.
La Raza is an organization that promotes "hispanic issues." Like most organizations based on a stereotype, they generally go for the extreme, the bizarre, the most-likely-to-get-us-in-the-paper-and produce-big-contributions-to-our-cause issues. Oh, and they lie.
Bush quit building that fence to protect our borders, and I am not ashamed to see his butt out of office.
Deborah on this last post I agree with you!
South Carolina has survived a NAACP boycott quite nicely. I would think that Kansas City could have weathered a La Raza boycott as well. Shakedown is still being used today.
DANI did you ask that same question when President Clinton was leaving office?
Hypo, so that makes it allright? Some name you have.
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