Category: The Opposition

Comment worth noting: Readers, it is obvious, the radical Left and Obama are getting us closer to a borderless world

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I got up this morning thinking about what I heard on Glenn Beck’s radio program yesterday.   A caller told Beck that he had worked for the SEIU (Service Employees International Union)  and that part of his employment training was to read Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.”   I am going to again implore all of you who can’t wrap your head around what is going on, with immigration and the Obama Administration’s drive to create economic chaos, to please read it.

The caller said the immigrants were needed as voters for the Democratic party, pure and simple.   Except I will add they are also needed to create chaos by being poor and angry.  The underlying driving force for the Alinsky strategy to work is to create chaos.  Chaos brings change.  If people are content they don’t demand change.   As I have said on many previous occasions, our own poor were moving into the middle class and becoming complacent—enter the immigrants to continue the battle of the “have-nots” against the “haves.”

I have written previously about the SEIU “organizing” Somalis.  Please use our search function for all of my posts on the SEIU.  Wade Rathke, the founder of ACORN, is head of the SEIU.   Rathke (friend of Obama and former SDS with Bill Ayers) is also on the board of the Tides Foundation.  Oh, and by the way, George Soros involvement with Tides and refugee resettlement (see recent post on RI) should say it all for readers knowledgeable about Soros’ goals.

Now to the comment we received from the other side of the world overnight.  It is from reader BL in response to my post yesterday about the UN Badgering Japan to diversify.  Here is what BL said (I’ve posted his whole comment, but it’s the first paragraph that further makes the point I have been trying to make).

ARGH!!! Just the mention of the UN is enough to get me worked up…DAMN! Can’t the frickin world see that the clowns at the circus known as the United Nations are dictatorial half wits? They’re puppets for the one world movement and people, the powers that be are making progress and now they have another big piece in place, Obama.

So far Japan has been typically Japan, firm in their beliefs and unrelenting. They are one of the few nations left in this “devolving” world that still has a somewhat genuinely pure culture that they have proudly and perseveringly preserved. I certainly hope this doesn’t change. Let the UN do their song and dance as they always do. I think Japan’s reaction to the recent pressure from the UN by accepting ONLY 30 Myanmar refugees per year for three years starting 2010 on a trial basis is just their tactic to convey the impress that, okay we’re taking on board your requests (or more like demands) and this is what we’re intending to do, happy? What they’ve done is effectively portrayed the perception that they are honorable and receptive to the UN (if only for show) and to have hopefully shut up the UN for at least 3 years by introducing this 3 year trial basis. Smart. Although, I think no nation should have to do what they don’t want to. I really despise the damn UN. I wonder what the UN’s approval rating is right now? Last I checked it was very low, especially in the US…and rightly so.

The Radical Left must destroy each Nation’s sovereignty—each Nation’s pride in its own culture.   The immigrants and refugees being moved around the world are only the poor pawns in the relentless drive to bring about a one world order.  

Frankly, for those of us wondering why the refugees are not well-cared-for in the US by some of their resettlement agencies there is only one plausible explanation—it’s because they (the immigrants) don’t matter, they are just pawns who need to be kept poor and angry and dependent on the government (on the Democrats! on Obama!).

Note to do-gooders:  I have no fear of being labeled “tinfoil hat,” because keep in mind, I was a Leftwinger at one time just like you.  I understand the Left’s demonizing methods; Alinsky taught you well.  You are either supportive of the goal of  the one world movement or while making yourself feel good, you are being used and complicit in using immigrants as pawns.

Immigration Daily shows its true colors

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Although I disagree with most of what they write in opinion pieces, I had the impression that Immigration Daily (ILW) was a publication for professional pro-open borders lawyers and such for straight news and information about their issues.  But, whew, when I saw this editorial just now I realize they are just one more leftist rag inflaming racial tensions, and it seems inflaming racial tensions is the only arrow in their quiver.  Look at this plea for signatures on a petition for America’s Voice.

Joe Arpaio, the anti-immigrant Sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona, says that he believes in the Rule of the Law, and that that is his reason for hounding the undocumented, whose presence in the US offends the law, in his view. He believes that the 287(g) agreement that his law enforcement agency currently has with ICE permits him to use any excuse to stop anyone and demand that they prove that their presence here is authorized under our laws.

Of course, all this is pure poppycock. Mr. Arpaio’s real problem is no doubt the fact that those whom his deputies stop have brown skin. We do not believe that Mr. Arpaio’s people believe in harassing the undocumented from Europe. As many pro-immigrant bodies have long claimed, Mr. Arpaio does not believe in the Rule of the Law, rather he believes in the Rule of the Law only when it is convenient to him.

Besides the fact that very few European illegal immigrants would enter the US from Mexico, how the hell do you know if Arpaio’s deputies wouldn’t stop them as well?  What!  You truly believe that Arpaio’s guys ask someone who is breaking the law if they are perhaps illegal Albanians, and then say,”Oh go on your way, you are a white guy! ”  You people are nuts!  Where are your facts?

Here is what Dan Stein, writing at the Federation for American Immigration Reform website, had to say about America’s Voice last month. 

America’s Voice Struggles to Find a Voice

By Dan Stein, President of FAIR

America’s Voice, one of Washington’s newest “instant” organizations created by a handful of big foundations virtually overnight, is helmed by the legendary Frank Sharry – widely regarded as one of the most unsuccessful legislative prognosticators in the nation’s Capitol. Judging from its website traffic report, America’s Voice must be pretty soft. No one is listening.

Sharry created America’s Voice after he again miscalculated in a failed strategy to pass the mass amnesty bill in 2007. Now, Sharry and his allies have decided it is time to jettison their corporate allies who’d proven impossible to work with because of on-going disagreements over guest worker programs.

Under Sharry’s leadership, America’s Voice is basically a well-funded far-left smear blog designed to look like a clever “hit machine.” Working closely with the discredited Southern Poverty Law Center, Sharry’s group has been trying to smear America’s true immigration reformers on a daily basis.

Problem is, no one seems to be listening. Internet traffic surveys suggest America’s Voice isn’t generating much interest from the general public. It struggles to attract less than 10,000 unique users a month, and most of those are probably professional people on the same big foundation dole that Sharry rides. Just proves that all the money in the world won’t help if your ideas are bankrupt.

I guess that petition Immigration Daily is promoting is an attempt to drum up some traffic for a sluggish America’s Voice!

Blogger questions Farooq Kathwari’s business ethics

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Just now I came across this blogger and blog Financial Skeptic writing about Ethan Allen furniture and its CEO Farooq Kathwari.  Now, I grant you, I know nothing about financial management, and can’t make any judgement on Kathwari’s action, but it seems this blogger is questioning a recent announcement by Kathwari.

Revenues for Q4 are positioned as pretty good but overall revenues for the year dropped some 31%

Then Farooq Kathwari, Chairman and CEO lets you know that the real earnings results will be coming out Aug 12 which is three weeks in the future. Farooq you need a remedial class in disclosure. Coming out three weeks early and singing sunny sky’s has pretty well signalled to the market what you expect the final results to be. Hopefully now that everyone is warm and fuzzy you will not release a little bit of bad news when the market is no longer looking.

But seriously Farooq there may be a few lawyers who want to talk to you.

Then here is a straight news story about the Ethan Allen announcement.

So why do we care?    Farooq Kathwari is the Kashmiri-born Chairman of the Board of Refugees International and it’s always a good idea to follow the activities of those in the refugee industry.  Don’t the Democratic Alinskyites call that opposition research?  Ha, ha, ha!  I just noticed the name of a former director of RI—George Soros!  That says it all!

Here is my most recent post on Farooq Kathwari in which investigators Rabinowitz and Mayor say that Kathwari is connected to Islamist groups.   In that post I noted that Refugees International was lobbying to help Iraqi Palestinians resettle in the West, but was silent on the much larger number of Christian Iraqis.  But, I can happily report that RI is no longer silent on Christian Iraqis, here.

Hispanics vs. Somalis: Greeley getting ready for Round 2

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Update June 30th:   The Denver Post says civil rights complaints have been filed against Swift & Co. alleging Somalis have been mistreated by Hispanic supervisors.  I realize I miss-titled this post.  It should be Somalis vs. Hispanics!

 

Oh boy, I predict we are going to be seeing the second round of the battle of the Hispanic workers vs. the East African workers at the Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Greeley, CO (maybe Grand Island, NE too) as Ramadan approaches later this summer.

Isn’t diversity wonderful, doesn’t it bring such richness to communities? (sigh)  Just feel the love as multicultural workers wielding knives cut up meat side by side, or enjoy each others company in their leisure time at the local bars.  (deep sigh)

Here is an article from the Greeley Tribune today so chock full of interesting stuff I’m going to write at least two posts about it.   And, for new readers, the often violent protests and conflicts over Muslim prayer breaks gave us so much grist for our mill last year that we have an entire category on Greeley/Grand Island here.

From the Greeley Tribune today:

Since last September, JBS officials have met repeatedly with Muslim workers and union representatives to hash out issues. A company official said JBS has made progress and is making religious accommodations where possible.

Meanwhile, the Muslim employees say not much has changed inside the plant. They steadfastly place God before work and will be looking for a quiet place to pay sunset homage when the hot August sun sets this Ramadan.

It remains a heated conundrum of cultures, languages, and labor and safety issues with no easy answers. It’s anyone’s guess whether the religious observance will be a flashpoint of worker unrest again this summer.

My guess is that we are in for a hot one!   Community organizers will be sure of that—see tomorrow’s post!   June 29th:  here is the first of my follow-up posts.

I have no sympathy for the meatpacking companies who got themselves into this mess by wanting to find the cheapest labor they could find!    And, I laugh to see that the Progressives (radical leftwingers) can’t get the workers united against those evil Capitalist (Brazilian in this case) fat cats because the multicultural masses aren’t cooperating.

More clear is that fissures run through the growing polyethnic mix at the meatplants. Raul Garcia, a veteran of the Grand Island plant, said a few fights have broken out between Latinos and Somalis.

In Greeley, Alberto Trujillo, who came here 20 years ago from Chihuahua, Mexico, and put in a stint at the meatpacking plant, calls the East African workers “whiny.” He’s resentful that Mexican immigrants face a costly and time-consuming process to become legal workers, while the Africans — it can take a couple of years to get refugee status — arrive eligible to work.

Trujillo spoke while playing pool with a few friends at a downtown Latino bar.

“They can take their own time to pray, but you have to follow the rules,” he said. “And why give (Muslim workers) special preferences? As soon as they get here they don’t have to worry about their papers, right?”

Gerardo Hernandez Marquez, another Chihuahua native and former meatplant worker, carried that point further: “The Cubans barely get into the water and put one foot on this country and they’re good.”

A couple pool tables away, a group of refugees from Eritrea, another East African nation, complained that the plant is a difficult place for African workers because they aren’t hired into supervisor positions. Those jobs are held primarily by Latinos, they said.

One of the Eritreans, Azmera Gebregirgs, 26, said he got beat up by a couple of Latinos when he left the bar late at night a few months earlier. He only comes to bar now with a group of African friends.

Latinos greatly outnumber the Africans in the bar on this afternoon. The groups stick to themselves.

Marquez cast a wary eye toward the Eritreans and said, “As long as they don’t mess with us, we don’t mess with them.”

And here is the Progressive (radical leftwinger) schoolmarm:

“We’d hope that JBS as an employer would make the accommodations as necessary,” said Nicole Hurt, director of the Colorado Progressive Coalition’s northern Colorado office. “I feel it’s important for every culture in a workplace to be respected.”

Of course the great fun is going to be watching to see just how one does that—make all the diverse cultures happy at the same time!

You know what’s kind of cool about this story, you can’t blame any American white men (or women, except maybe Ms. Hurt) for this mess.    Oh well, except maybe also the do-gooder State Department types and the volags pushing refugee resettlement.

Last year I was critical of some of reporter Chris Casey’s stories, but this one is superb.

Follow up of sorts on June 30th:  For some reason lots of readers today are coming to this post from last September about ethnic violence going on in Grand Island, NE between the Somali and Sudanese Swift & Co. workers, here,