Category: The Opposition

VDARE author tells us how open borders crowd blundered in Nashville

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Thomas Allen writing at VDARE has published an article this week that humorously demontrates that rather than being a powerful group of smart operatives and savvy Chicago-style community organizers the open borders crowd in Nashville is just a bunch of blunderers.    We were there and we told you about the events as they unfolded in May when the swanky Loew’s Vanderbilt Hotel (that hires immigrant labor to keep wages low) cancelled an educational conference about Jihad days before it was to begin. 

But, I don’t want to retell the story, Allen, who spoke at the conference, tells it so much better than I can.

Here are a couple of paragraphs I especially liked.  Negri, the hotel manager, had cancelled the Jihad conference fearing (he said) for the safety of guests and employees, but knew that on Monday he was having a press conference in which he was a principle participant.   Allen hypothesizes about what would make Negri do something so rash as renege on a contract and thus draw attention to the Jihad conference.

But, that brings up a third and, to me, completely plausible explanation for the abrupt cancellation. The Monday after the symposium there was to be a “press conference” held by the local Treason Lobby to kick off the national campaign for “immigration reform”, aka amnesty. The accidently publicized Jihad symposium would have been an embarrassment to Mr. Negri, who was publicly allied with the amnesty campaign.

Or maybe the cognitive dissonance required by having a symposium about Jihadists in America followed by a press conference announcing a strategy to let them all in was just too much.

Read the whole article and laugh.

Incidentally, as I watch the firestorm over health care reform (one of the questions always asked by participants, aka, the Mob, is about illegal aliens getting health care), I realize that efforts to drum up support for amnesty, like this one in Nashville have pretty much fizzled. 

A few minutes later:   I see that Obama says he is pushing immigration reform to the House and Senate floors in early 2010.  I guess he better hope the public fire of August is out because throwing amnesty into the mix right now is akin to throwing gasoline on an inferno.

“You magnificent bastard, I read your book.”

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What a fabulous line from George C. Scott in Patton and used to illustrate so appropriately the points David Stokes makes in his piece at Townhall today.    Hat tip:  Paul

Stokes, writing about the shock the extreme leftwing is experiencing when real grassroots America does some community organizing of its own, begins in “Rules for Witnesses:”

There is a scene early on in the movie Patton, where the feisty general watches the forces under his command do battle with those led by the legendary German Panzer leader, Erwin Rommel. To prepare for this particular skirmish, “Old Blood and Guts” studied the writings of his adversary, prompting the memorable line uttered in a gravely voice by actor George C. Scott: “Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your book!”

Stokes goes on to describe Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s sputtering and muttering about Nazis and how she relates Nazism and vile people to middle Americans who have had it with the Obama Administration and Congress’ attempt to seize the health care system of the entire country, and are organizing opposition.

Stokes says, we have read your book!   He is talking about Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” and the seminal writing that all community organizers , including Obama, study when they sign up to “change” America.  All I can say is it’s about time everyone reads it.  I myself should have read it 40 years ago, but then in 1969, that tumultuous year for college students, I sadly would not have understood the significance.  [Historical note:  The earlier version of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” was published in hardcover in 1969 by Random House under the title “Reveille for Radicals”]

What Nancy Pelosi is seeing is her side being on the receiving end of some of the kind of methodological medicine the left has been forcing down the country’s throat for quite a long time. I recently got around to reading Saul Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals. Yes, I know I should have done so long ago, but I thought I had a good enough grasp on what the man said back in 1971 via the thorough treatment his musings have received from the conservative punditry.

I was wrong. My bad. Every American should read it. It’s chilling.

I believe what we are now witnessing is a case of people being, as the saying goes (and as is actually used in Alinsky’s book) “hoisted with their own petard.” Fire is being fought with fire. The reflexive dismissal of angry citizens showing up at town hall meetings these days to give Washington insiders a piece of their mind as somehow orchestrated, notwithstanding.

This is not a top-down campaign with a few sinister puppeteers pulling the strings. The opposition to liberal health care machinations and other stuff is very real. What they see as orchestration is actually mobilization.

I have been laughing all week watching the radical Left twist themselves inside out as they watch conservatives do real community organizing!  Now, it seems the strategy is not so cool, right President Obama!  Right Mr. Axelrod!  Right Nancy!

What about immigration?

Now that conservatives are understanding community organizing and reading Alinsky, I look forward to the day when we begin to understand the connection of the Alinsky model (create chaos to bring about change) and how it relates to immigration.

Alinsky began his work in ethnic neighborhoods in Chicago.  In order for the entire Alinsky strategy to work organizers need angry, poor people (with a little racial tension thrown in for good measure) to continually demand more of the government.    The original minorities Alinsky agitated gradually became middle class citizens basically content with their lives and often very patriotic.  Darn, there went the army of the revolution—right into decent jobs, their own homes in the suburbs, sending kids to college or proudly to the military.

For all of us wondering where the  common sense is of the open borders leaders who continually demand that we import millions of poor immigrants who won’t have jobs and will thusly depend on government support, they are building  (or re-building) an Alinsky army.  The poor immigrants are just cannon fodder and the humanitarian do-gooders are their cover.

We have been talking about Alinsky in our Community Destabilization category since Obama was elected, here.

Obama sends out the SEIU thugs

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Remember Saul Alinsky’s mantra,  The ends justify the means, as you read the news last night from Atlas Shrugs—the Obama Administration has unleashed its thugs (via an e-mail command two days ago) from the likes of SEIU (Service Employees International Union) to disrupt town hall meetings on health care and some have turned violent. 

If you are wondering how that topic is at all related to RRW, it is.  We’ve written extensively on ‘community destabilization’ —the basic tenet of community organizing.  I’ve told you that I believe, for instance, that the SEIU is behind training and organizing Somalis who disrupt workplaces.  The SEIU’s drive to bring in ever-increasing numbers of immigrants is to import poor and angry people who will demand more welfare, create chaos and in turn bring about “change,” not to mention join the union and vote Democratic.

The Leftwing-driven Open Borders crowd controls the immigration issue, the volag leaders are in on it and the true humanitarians concerned with the plight of the world’s poor are their dupes.

Back to the health care violence instigated by Leftist agitators:  Obama, SEIU, ACORN, Wade Rathke, George Soros are thrilled by this turn of events.  The more chaos the better!  Next thing you know Obama will send in the troops!

Please read through our ‘community destabilization’ category and the strategy will become clear, or search our site for SEIU, the Tides Foundation, George Soros, Saul Alinsky, Cloward and Piven, and Wade Rathke to start your research.

Further information from Judy:   If you don’t believe me, see this heavily linked (head spinning) article at Frontpage magazine today by Ben Johnson about the extensive Soros- funded network the average American has to contend with at townhall meetings on health care this month.  Mr. Johnson ends with this:

“….as common men and women are proving at Congressional townhall meetings, on radio talk shows, and in diners across the country, those not on George Soros’s payroll are distinctly unhappy with this proposal.”

I think Obama’s march to socialism has met the resistance!

NumbersUSA expose’: it is all about cheap labor and votes for the Democratic party

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Note to humanitarians:   I can’t help it, I gotta say it!  We told you so!!!  

NumbersUSA has an incredible scoop on a secret meeting in DC last month where big business lobbyists and open borders activists plotted strategy on how to get more immigrants into the US.   As Glenn Beck would say, “blood was shooting from my eyes” as I read the revealing report on how to trick the public and shaft American workers.   Called “Storming the Hill National Summit,”  you must read the account of the meeting at NumbersUSA website, here.   The cynical discussion by the assembled elitists and powerbrokers will blow your mind.   Hat tip:  Blue Ridge Forum.

The setting? The Marriott convention hotel in the fashionable Dupont Circle district of Washington, D.C. Date? June 15, 2009. Participants? A coalition of big-business oriented, pro-Open Borders dedicated groups, corporations, and lobbyists. Organizer? Tamar Jacoby and her newly-formed ImmigrationWorksUSA lobbying group.

The doors were closed. Reporters and members of the public barred. Confidence that their words were private and their plans secret loosened the tongues of most speakers. Embarrassing admissions were made. Several preposterous claims were forwarded. Numerous shameful methods and motivations admitted to.

The “Storming the Hill National Summit” was predictable in its “backstab the workers” sentiment. Nonetheless, the following makes for some fascinating reading. One of the attorneys present took copious notes and turned up with a conscience. We got the notes.

Read on.

Tamar Jacoby (Pres. of Immigration Works USA) had this to say at the outset:

We are having the conference because we failed last time [to pass amnesty in 2007] and we must change. We did none of the things the opposition did. Opponents sent over a million faxes. We need to learn to leverage grass roots power. The basic goal is to promote the free flow of labor into the USA.

Republican traitors.

Near the end of the story, NumbersUSA VP Jim Robb asks this question:

Why are Republican activists Tamar Jacoby, Grover Norquist, and several other long-time GOP hacks at this meeting so excited about building a permanent Democratic Party majority by “locking in” Hispanic votes?

Why indeed?  We don’t know who Tamar Jacoby is, but we have written on many occasions about Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform, lobbying for more Muslim immigrants.   We first learned about him when he promoted the resettlement of thousands of Iraqis to the US.   Start with this post and follow links to other posts on Norquist working against the best interests of taxpayers and average American citizens. 

Fascism and Corporatism

Please go revisit Judy’s post in early June where she discusses Jonah Goldberg’s hypothesis about ‘fascism and corporatism’ to better understand how and why the Left has gotten into bed with big business.

CIS: US Illegal immigrant population declining, but legal still on the rise

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The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) has a new report out yesterday that indicates that illegal immigrant numbers in the US are down this year most likely due to enhanced enforcement of immigration laws and the declining economy.   Yet, they note that legal immigration numbers continue to rise.

Here is the opening paragraph of the report (A Shifting Tide: Recent Trends in the Illegal Immigrant Population):

Monthly Census Bureau data show that the number of less-educated young Hispanic immigrants in the country has declined significantly. The evidence indicates that the illegal population declined after July 2007 and then rebounded somewhat in the summer of 2008 before resuming its decline in the fall of 2008 and into the first quarter of 2009. Both increased immigration enforcement and the recession seem to explain this decline. There is evidence that the decline was caused by both fewer illegal immigrants coming and an increase in the number returning home. However, this pattern does not apply to the legal immigrant population, which has not fallen significantly.

And here is what they say about the increasing number of legal immigrants.   I can tell you from the standpoint of refugee numbers coming into the US, that there has been no let-up due to the lack of jobs for refugees—-the State Department is keeping the spigot wide open and I guess they assume the refugees will just need more welfare.

In contrast to the likely illegal immigrant population, the top line in Figure 1 for the likely legal immigrant population does not show a decline. It shows a continual and relatively steady increase in size until the last few months, when the population fell slightly. Between the first quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2008 the population of likely legal adult immigrants grew 2.9 percent and over the same period in 2008 and 2009 it grew almost 1 percent. Whatever factors affect the likely illegal population, they do not seem to be impacting legal immigrants in the same way. While the economic downturn must have some impact on legal immigrants, there is no indication that their numbers have fallen in the way that that those for illegal immigrants have declined. Since only illegal immigrants face enforcement, this tends to support the idea that enforcement accounts for some share of the decline in illegal immigration.

As I have said before this idea of flooding the welfare system with angry poor people is the strategy first outlined by Saul Alinsky and then Cloward and Piven at Columbia University and carried on by Obama and his friends like Wade Rathke at the SEIU.  One must create chaos to bring about change in our form of government.  They must have the immigrants to do that!   I predict as illegal immigration declines, legal immigration will be stepped up.  And, I also predict, the Obama Administration will lighten up on enforcement (they already are!).

So for all of you having anxiety attacks over why they don’t follow common sense and slow all immigration until there are an adequate number of jobs for the newcomers, they don’t want to!  The agitators must agitate! 

There is an extra added bonus!  The big business supporters of the Obama Administration get to keep labor costs low—-a win-win for Obama!

To new readers:  We have 66 previous posts in our “community destabilization” category if you would like to better understand community organizers!