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Rohingya Update: Bangladesh has said, enough is enough

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The Rohingya Muslims who have been living in Burma (Myanmar) for, they claim, centuries continue to flow out of Burma into neighboring countries.   Bangladesh which has camps for them at places like Cox’s Bazaar has apparently had it and is returning them to Burma as soon as they come across the border according to this report today.

By Tun Kyaw, Coxs bazar: Within four days 178 Rohingya Muslims from Burma who entered Bangladesh illegally were arrested and pushed back across the border to Burma by Bangladesh authorities, a source reports.

The individuals were arrested by Bangladesh Rifles Battalion No. 17 in the area of Bangladesh’s Ukia Sub-division under Cox’s Bazar District on the border of Maungdaw Township in Arakan State as they attempted to enter Bangladesh illegally to seek refuge. 

[…..]

Rohingyas from Burma have been illegally entered Bangladesh in groups one after another over the last month. “The flow of Burmese Muslims into Bangladesh has been unabated,” said a border security officer on the condition of anonymity.

Local newspapers claim that Burmese entering Bangladesh are mixing into populations in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and causing crime and social unrest. 

Linked with this brief news story is a lengthy treatise claiming the Rohingya were never heard of before the 1950’s and have not lived in Burma’s Arakan State for the centuries they claim.

By the way, where is the outrage against Bangladesh?  You will recall that “human rights” groups went ballistic a few months ago when Thailand pushed Rohingya illegal alien boat MEN back out to sea and the story became international news, start here.   Better still, if you are new to the Rohingya refugee crisis campaign, check out our whole category, Rohingya Reports.

Why do we care?  We care because the public relations push is on to resettle Rohingya in America.

If anyone sees any news from Ms. Hillary at the State Department condemning Muslim Bangladesh, send it my way!   After Obama’s fawning Cairo speech I don’t expect to see too much wrist-slapping of Muslim countries by the Obama Administration.   And, heck we all know how kind and welcoming a Muslim country is to its fellow Muslims!

Volag pushes Amnesty for illegals

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Update June 6th:  A more detailed discussion of USCRI in response to a readers comment, here.

I received an action alert this week from one of the Top Ten (volag) government contractors paid to resettle refugees in American towns and cities.   For the life of me I cannot figure out how it benefits LEGAL refugees if we give amnesty to an estimated 12 million ILLEGAL aliens.  Would someone in the refugee community please tell me how so-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform helps refugees!

This is from an action alert sent out by USCRI (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants) head honcho Lavinia Limon*.  (Sorry I couldn’t find a link for the action alert on their website here).    I also wonder how groups like this, whose mission is a non-profit one to resettle refugees, can justify lobbying Congress.  I thought 501(c)3s were barred from lobbying.

This week, hundreds of allied organizations launched the campaign to Reform Immigration FOR America in cities all across the country — from Los Angeles to Maine, Miami to Seattle Yesterday, a broad coalition of allies from labor, business, and community groups officially kicked off the national campaign in Washington, DC. USCRI is a part of this exciting grassroots movement to reform immigration and I invite you to join us.

Tomorrow June 4, over 700 advocates are descending on Capitol Hill to tell Congress: “We cannot wait any longer. America needs to reform immigration now.”

Here’s our thinking: President Obama has said reforming the immigration system is a priority for him. But it’s going to take more than just having the President on our side to win. We need 279 votes to pass comprehensive immigration reform: 218 US Representatives + 60 Senators + the President’s signature. So over the coming months, we’re going to be asking you to help us flood Congress and the White House with faxes, calls, emails, and visits to say (each in our own way):

Our economy and thousands of families are suffering under the burden of a broken system. The time has come for just and humane immigration reform. We cannot wait any longer.

Go here and check out Reform Immigration for America.  I still don’t see how this SOROS-setup umbrella organization will help refugees except as cheap labor and a voter pool for their exploiters.

As for the so-called local grassroots organizations (“allied organizations”) we are learning in places like Tennessee that they are comprised of a handful of community organizers (ala Obama/Alinsky) who set up myriad faux grassroots groups to make the general public think there is a groundswell of support for their liberal-fascist-corporatist agenda as Judy described here a couple of days ago.

Ms. Limon even admits above that they are working hand in glove with big business and big labor, making my point again that this is all about supplying dues-paying members for the unions and cheap labor for big business.   Meanwhile they rope in all the humanitarian-minded do-gooders as their foils (fools?).

…..a broad coalition of allies from labor, business, and community groups

* We have written on many occasions about Ms. Limon who headed up the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement during the Clinton Administration.   Several of USCRI’s subcontractors have been either closed (see Waterbury, CT here) or reprimanded in recent years by the US State Department for not taking good care of the refugees in their charge.   Learn more about USCRI here and note they have changed their name a couple of times.   I wonder why.

Socialism, communism, or fascism and corporatism?

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In her important post earlier today, Nashville, TN: a frontline on immigration, community organizing and Islamic activity, Ann says:

Nashville is a microcosm of what is happening in cities across the country with political activists in the Obama/Alinsky mold working with pro-open borders groups and big business (yes, big business! like this Loews Vanderbilt Hotel) and using refugees and immigrants as political ammo as voters (not to mention as cheap labor for the business people) to push a socialist (communist?) agenda for America.

Good question — what should we call this agenda? As it happens, the paperback edition of Jonah Goldberg’s book, Liberal Fascism, is being released today.  National Review Online has an interview with Goldberg, which begins:

Following its release in January of 2008, Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism rose to the top of the New York Times bestseller list. Today the book hits shelves in its paperback version (with a new afterword on Barack Obama), which provides an excellent excuse to talk to the esteemed NRO editor-at-large, and to shine a spotlight on an important book, one more time.

I read the hardback edition when it came out and thought it very illuminating. It shows that fascism’s roots are in the left, not the right, and that modern society has many elements of fascism. A review on Amazon.com says:

This is an important work, tracing the intellectual development of the idea that the all-powerful people’s State should always trump the individual and be in firm control of all aspects of the population’s culture, education, defense or military expansion, information, health and economy, from its modern beginnings under Wilson to the currently epoused nanny state.

And a review in Publishers Weekly says:

Goldberg’s study of the conceptual overlap between fascism and ideas emanating from the environmental movement, Hollywood, the Democratic Party and what he calls other left-wing organs is shocking and hilarious.

The book was written and published just before the rise of Obama. What great timing! I look forward to reading the afterword on Obama. From the interview:

Here I wrote a book, working on the assumption that Hillary Clinton would be the nominee (hardly a harebrained assumption at the time), about how contemporary progressivism is a political religion with its roots in German state theory, sharing a close family resemblance to fascism. Among the anatomical and genetic similarities: cult of unity, sacralization of politics, philosophical pragmatism, corporatism, relativism, Romanticism, hero-worship, collectivism, and so on. And out of nowhere comes a guy who campaigns as a secular messiah, spouting deeply spiritualized political rhetoric, claims the Progressives as his inspiration, and proudly sees himself as carrying out FDR’s mission. I haven’t counted them, but I’d guess I’ve received a couple hundred e-mails from readers telling me how they thought the whole book was written with Obama in mind, even though I finished it before he was even ahead in the Democratic primaries.

Now here’s the part that relates to what Ann wrote. The part of fascism that relates to economics is called corporatism:

If you look at how most liberals think about economics, they want big corporations and big government working in tandem with labor, universities (think industrial policy), and progressive organizations to come up with “inclusive” policies set at the national or international level. That’s not necessarily socialism — it’s corporatism. When you listen to how Obama is making economic policy with “everyone at the table,” he’s describing corporatism, the economic philosophy of fascism. Government is the senior partner, but all of the other institutions are on board — so long as they agree with the government’s agenda. The people left out of this coordinated effort … are the small businessmen, the entrepreneurs, the ideological, social, or economic mavericks who don’t want to play along. When you listen to Obama demonize Chrysler’s bondholders simply because they want their contracts enforced and the rule of law sustained, you get a sense of what I’m talking about.

Yes, Obama’s America shares the other characteristics of fascism Goldberg lists: cult of unity, sacralization of politics, philosophical pragmatism, corporatism, relativism, Romanticism, hero-worship, collectivism. (“Sacralization of politics” means making politics a religion. Think of “The One” and the references to Obama as the Messiah. ) But let’s confine our label to corporatism. I don’t think most American big businesses are interested in hero-worship and the other stuff. But some of them sure do want the government to be their partner in making profits easier for them — bringing in immigrants to work cheaply, stifling competition through regulation, giving them subsidies or bailouts, and so on.

This corporatist tendency has been growing for decades — that’s one reason almost all large businesses  and business associations have big lobbying staffs in Washington. They’re either defending their businesses from government’s heavy hand or looking for a handout from government. But Obama is bringing it to new and ominous heights. We’re better off using the word “corporatism” because it doesn’t set off the crazed reaction that “fascism” does. But as far as I can see, except for the extreme nationalism that was typical of European fascism, the latter term describes much of Obama’s agenda.

Uighurs compare America to Hitler

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This isn’t going to help Americans become a welcoming community for the Uighurs. Fox News reports:

America is twice as bad as the Nazis — that was the harsh accusation by the Chinese Muslims, also known as the Uyghurs, held at Guantanamo Bay. 

The 17 men were picked up in the training camps in Afghanistan where they were preparing for Jihad against China. They were cleared for release, in part, because their supporters claim the United States is not their direct enemy.

Some journalists were given a tour of the Guantanamo Bay prison. The Uighurs are held in a separate section. As the Fox News cameraman approached, they held up a pad of paper with slogans on it, and Fox filmed them as the Uighurs turned the pages. Here are some of them:

“America is Double Hetler (Hitler) in unjustice,”

“we need to freedom. Do not oppress us”

“what is the difference between Democracy and Communist”

“America with Chinese Government are oppressing us”

Then, unsolicited, the two Uyghurs began speaking English. One asked, “Obama is a communist or a democrat? We have same operation in China.”

There appears little doubt the Uyghurs statements will complicate the administration’s efforts to find them a home.

You can say that again. That, along with the story of the Uighur who threw a TV to the ground because it pictured a woman with bare arms.  See our previous posts on the Uighurs here.

Nashville community organizers kick off Amnesty for Illegals campaign

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I rarely use internet slang, but this story coming minutes after my previous post on Nashville causes me to ROFL!    For other old foggies, that is, it caused me to Roll on the Floor Laughing!

A press conference was held yesterday in the very same hotel, the Loews Vanderbilt, that expelled the New English Review symposium over the weekend.  The purpose of the press conference was to kick off Nashville’s involvement in the so-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform battle—-that is really the Amnesty battle that our side won two summers ago (remember the Kennedy/McCain bill!).

So a gang of so-called grassroots groups met at the Loews Vanderbilt, according to the Tennessean:

One week before the Obama administration is set to begin talks about immigration policy reform, a Nashville coalition gathered Monday to announce plans to ignite what they call a “productive community conversation” about immigration here. 

“Our premise is that a more informed public is a more reasonable public,” said Avi Poster, president of The Coalition for Education about Immigration and participant in Nashville’s Reform Immigration for America Campaign.

The campaign is part of a national effort to lobby Congress to alter the nation’s immigration policy, limit any surge in anti-immigrant sentiment and generate public support for so-called comprehensive immigration policy reform.

The Nashville group released few details of its plans. Poster said the group will host a series of public forums to discuss immigration and related issues and share information about the impact of current policies.

The White House meeting that they are referring to is this one.  The Open Borders crowd needs to get Obama’s backbone strengthened because they are worried that he and Rahm Emanuel are getting squishy on immigration legislation this year due to the unemployment crisis.  Go ahead guys, push it this year, the firestorm will be so much fun!

The other purpose of the press conference is to set the tone in Nashville, a city transformed by immigration thanks in part to the US State Department and the volag government contractors making Nashville a “welcoming” city for refugees, including thousands of Muslims— mostly Somalis and Kurds.  

Yesterday, the ‘religious Left’ was represented by the Rev. Dixon whose role was to make it clear that anyone opposing “reform” in Nashville will be labeled a “xenophobe.”    At this point in my narrative the transparancy here should be causing you all to join me in rolling on the floor laughing!

In Nashville, a city that in the last 15 years has seen its population and social landscape dramatically altered by immigration, there is a critical need for these types of conversations, said the Rev. Sonnye Dixon, pastor of Hobson United Methodist Church and a member of the local campaign.

“There is what I would call an epidemic of xenophobia affecting America,” Dixon said.

As is so often the case these days for the “state run media” aka mainstream media, more information is forthcoming from a commenter.     ISKRA said:

“The Nashville group released few details” probably because there are no details yet. Something this important and they would not or could not answer simple questions from the audience like what conditions would accompany a grant of amnesty to an “illegal” or what changes might there be in the 287g program.

The conference organizer, Avi Poster, stated that they have a “partnership with NPT” in this effort. Then he really blundered by saying he wanted to thank the media for coming out in response to a “plea for help”. At this point he realized his mistake and tried to back track and say, instead, thanks for attending our “plea from [for] reform”. I am sure he is right to assume that private media and public media (NPT) are on his side. One panelist said they would deal with this issue like they dealt with “english only”, revealing what we always knew – all these pop-pop, letterhead “citizen” groups are related.

ROFL!

Endnote:  We told you about the “english only” campaign in Nashville in January here.  Watch for more news at RRW on how it was defeated with the help of big business in future posts.