Category: The Opposition

US Conference of Catholic Bishops push new refugee bill too

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Yesterday, I told you about Lutherans pushing a new refugee bill, today it’s the Catholics.  But, you see, if they don’t keep the refugees coming they will collapse financially—those lobby groups, the social justice gang, are nothing if they don’t have taxpayer funding.

From Catholic Culture:

The executive director of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services is urging lawmakers to the support the Refugee Protection Act, which was recently introduced in the Senate.

“Without US leadership, the situation for the world’s 15 million refugees would be much worse,” said Johnny Young, who served as US ambassador to Sierra Leone (1989-92), Togo (1994-97), Bahrain (1997-2001), and Slovenia (2001-04). “A large number of refugees rescued by our nation are themselves victims of terror and are in need of protection from such threats.

One commenter chastised the Bishops for blurring the distinction between illegal aliens and refugees.  But what the commenter doesn’t know is that the USCCB and its various affiliates are also supporting illegal immigration and open borders.  No sense making a distinction when there isn’t one!

From unum:

It would be helpful if Mr. Young and the bishops would distinguish between their positions on refugees, those fleeing persecution, and illegal immigrants, those merely seeking to cross national borders for other reasons. By blurring the distinction between refugees and illegal immigrants, the USCCB is undermining the efforts of civil authorities to protect national borders. These are the same civil authorities that are supported by Church teaching.

‘unum’ might want to check out a couple of links:  here on the USCCB behind the ‘amnesty’ march in DC,  here on the USCCB at my other blog, here (the Religious Left Exposed) and here is an interesting report on how “progressive Marxists” have infiltrated the Catholic Church.

It’s time for good Lutherans and good Catholics to begin questioning their so-called “leadership!”

Shelbyville, TN propaganda film to be screened at the State Department

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Only “credentialed” reporters will be permitted to attend!

This is your classic Washington elitist ruling class strategy — only preferred media who will be expected to tow the party line will be permitted in the inner sanctum of the Obama State Department, here.

For the other side of the story about the “Welcome to Shelbyville” film, go here.

By the way, the US State Department held a conference call where apparently they couldn’t screen those on the call and I gather they got an earful yesterday.  More on that later.

Shelbyville, TN and the truth behind the making of a propaganda film

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Reporter Brian Mosely:

I never imagined three and a half years ago that simply telling a story honestly could lead to being demonized on national television, in a film sponsored by our own government, no less.

[….]

It’s as if someone made a film about Japanese interment during World War II and left out the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Those comments are from reporter Mosely (whose words and deeds were twisted for the film) from the Shelbyville Times-Gazette yesterday in advance of this week’s debut of a Leftwing propaganda film (Welcome to Shelbyville) to be released widely throughout the US with the help of the US State Department.  The reporter and the newspaper are attempting to fight back against monstrous lies perpetrated by the federal government and George Soros sponsored film makers. 

RRW Editor:  We have followed the making of this propaganda film from the first arrival of the team in Tennessee (led by Kim Snyder) and have posted many times on it.  Please return for a moment to read this post in January with background information and links to earlier posts.


It is very important that after you learn the truth about the film that you send the Times-Gazette link to your local reporters and to everyone you know who might see the film.  I was told by a reader last night that it will be shown in Emporia, KS this week which long-time readers know was a town embroiled in the Tyson’s /Somali issue in 2007 as well (we have a whole category here at RRW about Emporia).  In that city, Tyson’s pulled the plug on the controversial meat packing plant and moved Somalis from the town clearly in response to the upheaval in that city.

It has been my contention from the early days of RRW that the US State Department and its federal refugee contractors are working to supply cheap immigrant labor to the meatpacking industry, as well as to import third worlders to change the political landscape of middle America.  They hide behind the cover of  a “humanitarian” agenda.

The film’s purpose is to smear Shelbyville as a racist town and shame any other town into silence that might have a problem with third worlders, especially Muslims, flooding their communities.

Know that the US State Department will be promoting this film in a conference call to reporters on Tuesday. 

It is so awful (and so scary) to see the lengths our own government will go to to promote lies, and a political/crony agenda.


Here is the opening to the Shelbyville Times-Gazette story yesterday:

As many of our readers are aware, in late 2007, I wrote a five part series about the impact that the introduction of Somali refugees were having on Bedford County. The stories focused on how the refugees got here, their traditions and beliefs, and took an honest look at the many cultural clashes that were taking place between the locals and the newcomers.

The series provoked a huge controversy, along with much discussion and debate from members of our community.

Then, in August 2008, the Times-Gazette reported that a new union contract at the Shelbyville Tyson Foods facility replaced Labor Day as a paid holiday with the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr.

That story put Shelbyville on the national stage, with the topic touching off coverage from the national news media, as well as massive attention on the issue from talk radio hosts, websites and blogs, some of which continues to this very day.

The controversy the stories created led a documentary crew to Shelbyville in late 2008 to shoot “Welcome to Shelbyville,” which will air nationwide, May 24 on PBS at 9 p.m.. The film received financing from progressive migration advocates, and has been sponsored by the state department as overseas propaganda. The “propaganda” label comes from no less an authority than the New York Times.

I viewed the film twice in October of last year during its local premiere, and found the filmmaker’s depiction of myself and the stories published by the T-G to be a monstrous distortion, with an incredible series of blatant omissions and dishonest misrepresentations that was obviously designed only to advance the political agenda of the filmmakers and the progressive organizations that funded and supported its production.

While the filmmakers certainly have a right to express their views, in the process, I feel they have engaged in a completely unfair character assassination of both myself, the Times-Gazette, not to mention how the entire city of Shelbyville is depicted.

They have told their story. Now, I shall tell mine.

Read it all!

I was planning to give readers more excerpts, but I want you to go to the original story and read the whole thing (with links)—it is so shocking!   And, as I said in January, someone should write a book about this—about the making of Marxist/Socialist propaganda in the modern day.

PLEASE FORWARD THE TIMES-GAZETTE STORY TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!  SEND IT TO YOUR LEGISLATORS AND TO EDITORS AND REPORTERS EVERYWHERE!

New readers, go here to learn how many Somali refugees have been admitted to the US  by the State Department over the last 20 years.  Guess they are now trying to cover their you-know-whats with this attack on a Bible-belt town.

***Update:  Fighting the smears on their town!  See the editorial today also in the Times-Gazette (casting a shadow on Shelbyville), here.

***Update # 2:  I missed this on Friday!  Jerry Gordon writing at New English Review exposed the power and funding behind the propaganda film, here.

***Update #3:  NYC blogger JB Spins, nails it,  here.

***Update #4:  Pamela Geller posts here at Atlas Shrugs—thanks for helping get the truth out!

***Update May 24th:    Brenda Walker writing at Limits to Growth has another good take on this (here) and reminds us of the female genital mutilation practiced by Somalis, including some in the US.

UNHCR: Europe! let them take advantage of their sudden liberty!

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As I mentioned in my previous post about human sacrifices at sea, Antonio Gutteres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees recently lectured Europe (via an op-ed in the New York Times) about welcoming the African refugees.

Among a bunch of other junk, he said in ‘Look who’s coming to Europe’:

Refugees fleeing conflict and persecution have so far been only a small proportion of the people crossing the Mediterranean to Europe, and to Italy and Malta in particular. The vast majority have been young Tunisian migrants. Overwhelmingly male, single and in their 20s, they have sought to take advantage of their sudden liberty to pursue brighter prospects in Europe.

And, besides, Europe you need cheap labor!

This is understandable. And it can be argued that Europeans’ self-interest is best served by allowing them to remain, given the need for migrant workers in Europe and migrants’ remittances to families bolstering the economies back home.

No fear or populism allowed!

But in the end, European states have the right to define migration policies and manage their borders in a responsible manner, provided they do so consistent with their international obligations, namely in regard to refugees. It is my hope that they will be guided by their enlightened self-interest and not by narrow, short-term interests driven by fear or populism.

Gutteres also attempts to make the connection between revolution in Portugal* when he was young and the “Arab Spring” and in a subsequent letter to the editor a reader argues that the big difference is that the democracy movement activists in Portugal stayed to change Portugal and did not take advantage of their “sudden liberty” to run to another country and ask for a handout.   Read the letter here.

*I have to admit, I wondered what the heck socialist Gutteres is talking about since Portugal today is an economic mess too—just less of a mess than North Africa!

I repeat: not all cultures are the same…..

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….hungering for freedom, democracy and a better life.

In March I reported on how the Egypt story quickly disappeared from the news—silence had settled on the mainstream media—when CBS reporter Lara Logan was beaten and sexually assaulted just as the poor downtrodden Egyptians had thrown off the oppressor’s yoke to gain their “freedom!”

Now, of course we know that the Muslim Brotherhood is calling the political shots (thanks to help from the American media, the US State Department (Obama!), and even American union bosses (Trumka!) who helped bring on the “revolution”).  And, I guarantee you Egypt will become a nation governed not by socialist dreamers but by Shariah Law as a result.

Meanwhile, I bet American NGO’s like Casa de Maryland and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights  are still planning their September “community organizing” trip to Egypt led by Wade Rathke and the boys at the Organizer’s Forum.   They are either naive or fools.  Oh, but there is one more possibility—that they are on the same team as the Muslim Brotherhood.

When I wrote about the reason why the silence was deafening after the rape heard round the world, critics said it wasn’t so, Lara Logan wasn’t raped (see comments here, just a little “unwanted touching”).  Speaking out now, it sure sounds like she was violated and came near to dying at the hands of the liberators of Egypt.

Logan:  …what really struck me was how merciless they were.

From the Huffington Post*:

In interviews with “60 Minutes” and the New York Times which were released on Thursday, Logan described what happened when the mob surrounded her.

“Our camera battery went down, and we had to stop for a moment, and suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, ‘we’ve got to get out of here,'” she told CBS’ Scott Pelley. “I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it’s going to be just a torturous death that’s going to go on forever and ever and ever.”

Logan told the Times that the attack lasted for 40 minutes and involved 200 to 300 men.

“For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands,” she said. “My clothes were torn to pieces…what really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.”

* Typical media, they still can’t say it. They have this story spun to send the message that this just shows how hard it is for women to cover conflicts around the world.  These ‘boys’ weren’t out to rape a reporter, they were brutalizing a western woman.   Wouldn’t it be wonderful for a change to see the Huffington Post, just once, show how hard it is for any woman (Muslim or non-Muslim, journalist or not) to live in an Islamic supremacist society and thus help send the message that we don’t want one here!