Category: The Opposition

Sunday march for Open-Borders update

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Just as I predicted, here, the Sunday Open-Borders marchers will be tapping participants from Saturday’s Marxist/Muslim/Labor Union anti-war rally.  This is from tonight’s International ANSWER alert:

We expect the composition of tomorrow’s action to be multi-generational but there will certainly be a very large presence of young activists from high schools and college campuses around the country.

Workers are coming. A bus of steel workers is coming from western Pennsylvania. Immigrant construction workers who will be demonstrating Sunday for comprehensive immigration reform will also be joining in the Saturday anti-war protest.

Veterans groups and military families are forming a large contingent.

The besieged Arab-American and Muslim community is also expected to have a large presence.

What did I tell you, it’s a twofer! 

Meanwhile Immigration Daily is reminding marchers to carry American flags, here.

See also “million criminals march” at the Washington Examiner, here.

Does taking money from Caesar violate the tenets of the Catholic Church?

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Or is it only a kind of smorgasbord of tenets that Catholics involved in immigration can pick and choose from?  Today I came across a post at Friends of Refugees about Catholic Charities in Washington, DC requiring employees to agree to adhere to the tenets of the church in order to participate in whatever quasi-charitable* programs they are operating.  By the way, I am assuming it is this Catholic Charities office that received a cool half million of your tax dollars in FY09 and that requires the oath. 

While you are at USA Spending.gov, go here and see all of the Catholic Charities offices your tax dollars are funding!

Taking from Caesar (and you)!

This is the question I’m hung up on lately (see Bishops lying to Catholics here)—where in the teaching of the Catholic Church does it say that Catholics have the right to take money from governments (isn’t it a form of stealing when taking money for political causes or for any charity from unwilling taxpayers!) or from organizations and funding sources that promote policies that are clearly against Catholic teaching.

Back to that March on America this coming Sunday! 

Here we have US Conference of Catholic Bishops lobbyist telling a conference in New Mexico that they are behind the march.  (I’ve already told you that 95% of the USCCB money for refugees comes from you, the federal taxpayer). 

Last night just cruising around I came upon this website where the statement is made that the USCCB is not “sponsoring” the march, just providing Cardinal Mahony to say Mass before the march.   See Mahony to say Mass, here.

The march, whose formal name is “March for America: Change Takes Courage and Faith,” is sponsored by 35 Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim organizations. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and its immigration reform campaign (Justice for Immigrants) are not among the sponsors, though Justice for Immigrants has organized Cardinal Mahony’s Mass and is clearly supportive of the march.  [Ha! Ha! someone probably told them its illegal to take all that federal money then sponsor demonstrations with it!]

The evil troika!

But, even more disgusting perhaps (if that is possible) then taking your money for their political causes, is that they, the USCCB, is working hand in glove with the George Soros/Drummond Pike/Wade Rathke atheists and one-worlders and uber-Leftists at the Tides Foundation.  (Search RRW for the Tides Foundation, I’ve written a lot about it).

Those Catholic sites send unsuspecting Catholics here, to find DC housing and bus transportation to the march.  Scroll down the page until you get to “Partners.”    Do you see the link for Reform Immigration for America, here.  This group is a front group for the Tides Advocacy Fund.  Tides launders money from secret sources and sets up phoney-baloney grassroots groups advocating far left (Marxist/socialist) causes.  From Reform Immigration for America’s “about” page:

The Campaign to Reform Immigration for America is a united national effort that brings together individuals and grassroots organizations with the mission to build support for workable comprehensive immigration reform. The Campaign to Reform Immigration for America is, in part, a project of the Tides Advocacy Fund.

It’s a very sad day for the Catholic Church (and for us Catholics).  What a joke!  They demand an oath to support the tenets of the church from some poor schlub who works in a DC Catholic Charities while the Bishops literally steal from taxpayers and work with international socialists to destroy America.

* I’m calling it quasi-charitable because they are taking other people’s money for their charity!  It is called the re-distribution of wealth!  Indeed, Christianity expects us to be charitable, but with our own money given freely!

Update:  I just heard that Glenn Beck said on his radio show today that everyone should look for the code words “social justice” or “economic justice” on their church’s website and if it’s there, they should run like hell from that church!

 

Center for Immigration Studies releases its investigation of the Southern Poverty Law Center

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The critical report entitled, “Immigration and the SPLC: How the Southern Poverty Law Center Invented a Smear, Served La Raza, Manipulated the Press, and Duped its Donors” can be found here.   Read the whole fascinating expose.  I mentioned it here last week.

Readers in Frederick, MD, Ft. Wayne, IN, Boise, ID, and Manchester, NH should know that the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence scheduled to visit your cities to demonstrate what a bunch of haters you are is affiliated with the Southern Poverty Law Center and uses similar tactics to silence those who seek a discussion about curtailing immigration.   I had to laugh just now, I went back to the CPHV site and learned that since I wrote my post on their plans, that they had removed their site (and changed their name)!   Here they report they are working on a new one.  Betcha a buck that any connection to the SPLC will not appear on the new site!

USCCB lobbyist tells New Mexico audience about their leadership of DC Amnesty march

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It seems that earlier in the month, Open Borders advocates converged on New Mexico State University to talk about “immigration reform.”  One of the speakers leading the discussion was the Washington, DC representative of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops who outlined the USCCB role in the upcoming DC protest I told you about here.

From Mexidata.Info:

Johnny Young, executive director of migration and refugee services for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington. D.C., joined other speakers in Las Cruces in calling for reform. The ordeal of Newby’s [an earlier speaker at the event] family, Young said, is a “vivid example” of a “broken” immigration system.

A former US ambassador to Sierra Leone, Togo, Bahrain and Slovenia, Young said the Roman Catholic leadership organization has an 80-year history of involvement in immigration issues, and has helped settle about one million new immigrants to the US since 1975.

“This is part of our religion, the Judeo-Christian tradition, welcoming the stranger,” Young said.

Currently, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops is mounting a campaign to send three million postcards to Congress in support of immigration law reforms that include a pathway to legalization for undocumented residents, a new guest worker program and the elimination of detention centers. The bishops also support a March 21 pro-immigrant rally in Washington that will include calls to pass an immigration reform bill sponsored by Democratic Congressman Luis Gutierrez of Illinois.

I wonder if the US Taxpayer paid for Mr. Young’s trip to New Mexico?

Now they are invoking the Tea Party boogeyman!  They must think this will resonate!

Although Young voiced confidence that momentum was building on the side of reform advocates, opponents of legalizing undocumented residents are also gearing up for action. For instance, members of the Tea Party movement and their allies plan numerous rallies across the United States on April 15.

“Despite the fake polls, bought and paid for by the Open Borders Lobby groups, the truth remains that 80 percent of Americans oppose Amnesty for illegal aliens and turning millions of illegals into voters would have a catastrophic effect on America,” said William Green of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC in a statement this week.

“We will be sending tens of thousands of people out to support Tea Party events on April 15 to properly present public opposition to illegal immigration and Amnesty for illegals,” Green said. To help organize opposition to the Gutierrez bill and related proposals, the Tea Party Against Amnesty has set up a website at www.AgainstAmnesty.com.

Broadening their reach, anti-amnesty groups are also utilizing Twitter and Facebook to mobilize.

Unfortunately I am out of time tonight to do more research on this, but I did just find this testimony by USCCB lobbyist Young to the State Department adovcating the controversial resettlement to the US of Rohingya Muslims from Bangladesh.

 State Department links Rohingya to terrorist group here.

Gates of Vienna: We are witnessing “Demonic Convergence”

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Baron Bodissey writing at Gates of Vienna yesterday discusses how Marxists and Muslims are working to collapse western governments by collapsing welfare states. (We’ve discussed this concept many times on these pages in our discussions of Alinsky and Cloward-Piven, see our “community destablization” category). 

He makes a provacative statement, something I wouldn’t have thought of.  He says, let them collapse it sooner than later so that we can move in quickly to salvage western civilization.  The implication being that in a generation there will be no one left who remembers the glories of western civilization.

This is what I have called the “Demonic Convergence”: the confluence of the Frankfurt School,* traditional Socialists, and Islam. It will bear evil fruit in the West within the next five to ten years, at the latest.

Inexorable economic forces would have brought the system crashing down eventually, within another generation or so. But the Marxists and the Muslims acting together are hastening the collapse, which is a good thing — the sooner it all falls down, the better chance we will have to preserve a substantial remnant of Western Civilization, and to craft something worthwhile out of the wreckage of the old order.

Coincidentally I was at a local meeting of hundreds yesterday who know intuitively that a crisis is coming.  I’m optimistic we are going to be ready.  I don’t know about Europe, but Americans are a different breed altogether.

Please read back through Judy’s posts and mine over the last couple of days—it really does seem that there is a convergence on-going—a convergence of understanding— that we didn’t plan.

* If you don’t know what the Frankfurt School is, see this post I wrote last year about it in our ‘community destabilization’ category.