Category: The Opposition

ACORN changes its name

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Why do we care?    For two reasons.  First, the ACORN leadership is linked to the refugee issue as I reported here  and here recently; and the SEIU, a direct offshoot of ACORN, is organizing refugees and immigrants.  They need refugees and immigrants as dues-paying members and to supply the poor and angry  (voters too!) to destabilize America.  As a matter of fact, I believe that ACORN/SEIU bigwig, Wade Rathke is behind the strategy to organize Somalis (to be disruptive) at various workplaces in the US.

The other reason is that the issue of organizational name change is a strategy to dump a bad image, not just for PR reasons, but for reasons of  dipping into the federal treasury less conspicuously.   I told you that the Somali Community Center of Nashville, which had gotten entangled in alleged grant fraud, changed its name here.

And, if anyone can tell me why the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) has changed its name a couple of times, here, I would really appreciate it.

This is from the Washington Examiner on ACORN yesterday.  Note that ACORN is attempting to silence critics with lawsuits.

Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) leaders are using the threat of a law suit to silence and intimidate critics, according to current and former members of the liberal activist group.

In a letter dated June 11 an attorney for ACORN advised top whistleblowers that their unauthorized use of the organization’s name could make them liable for monetary damages and injunctive relief.

ACORN executives have also changed their organization’s name, which was tarnished by investigations in at least 14 states of allegations of voter registration fraud during the 2008 presidential campaign, and charges by current and former members of financial mismanagement and misrepresentation.

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In fact, the process has already begun, she noted. Wade Rathke, who founded the organization, announced on his blog that ACORN International has officially changed its name to “Community Organizations International.”

When you visit Rathke’s blog you will see how important immigrants are to their strategy to “change” America.

Environmentalism and Immigration, what do they have in common?

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The logical first response is one that jumps right out at you—too many immigrants will degrade the environment because there will be a need for more houses, more roads, more schools, more water, and the list goes on.  Groups, like the Center for Immigration Studies, have one report after another showing that nexus.

Then why aren’t the major environmental groups (Sierra Club, etc.) taking on the issue of population growth coming now in the US almost exclusively from immigration?  

I have said previously, I was an environmentalist in my naive youth (a lobbyists no less!)  However, I woke up very quickly to what environmentalism was all about when the preservationists working with the National Park Service tried to take my family’s farm—mine and my neighbors.   I couldn’t understand why the government needed our well-cared-for land and why we would be the villains for owning property.

After helping people, small farmers and landowners, across the country fight back against government (preservationist-backed) takings, the full import of what it all meant has only recently sunk in.   Reading Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” was an eye-opener and I suspect that when I read Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism” more will become clear.   The elitist environmentalists/preservationists backed by big foundation money  just want to control us, to take our liberty.    They don’t care if I’m taking good care of my bit of the land, only that more private land come under government control (really their elitist control).   Those people behind the environmental groups today, the big funders, want control and understand that environmental regulation is a way to get it.

So how does my mind then link open borders and more refugees and immigrants to that?   The very same big players behind the environmental movement are behind the open borders movement as well, contrary to what one would think is the logic in my opening paragraph above.  They are following Alinsky’s playbook.  To bring about “change” one needs to produce “crisis” and “chaos” by fueling the war of the “have-nots” against the “haves.”    In America our “have-nots” were becoming fewer and fewer as they attained the middle class and became complacent.   No change and no revolution will occur if people are basically content with their lives.

So, as I said before, we now import the poor and angry.   The same big players behind the environmental movement are encouraging the creation of ethnic groups demanding their piece of the American pie and keeping people in constant turmoil.  Chaos (crisis) brings about change!   Change, as Obama and the big players mean it, is to take this country toward Socialism.  Although I need to throw in this caveat, Alinsky, an atheist, seemed to promote the idea that “change” was creativity itself, that it had intrinsic value to the “community organizer” even if it didn’t have a specific goal.

Enter the Tides Foundation.

Remember I told you about the Tides Foundation.  Glenn Beck has been unraveling their involvement with ACORN and the SEIU which I have written about on several previous occasions and how they are organizing immigrants.   Well, the Tides Foundation has been a huge funder of the environmentalists as well as pro-open borders and refugee groups, along with most other Leftwing causes.   Just go to their Form 990 I linked in the post above if you don’t believe me.

Someone the other day sent me the IRC report—the one we have been writing about—that says the Iraqi refugees are in crisis and the government needs to shell out more of our money for the refugees and the agencies that resettle them.  No one ever suggests slowing the flow of refugees.  The goal is to keep them poor and angry and in crisis.

On the opening page of that IRC report, I saw the connection.  There, among those on the IRC’s elite Iraqi crisis committee, was Drummond Pike— the king of the Liberal fascist funders, the money-launderer-in-chief.

So what puzzled me 20 years ago—why small private landowners were not encouraged and praised for their stewardship of land, or today why these refugee agencies and open borders groups are bringing so many people to America only to live in poverty—is clear.  It isn’t about care of the environment or the plight of the downtrodden, both are just pawns in the bigger game of changing our form of government and bringing us all under control of a few elitists who think only they have the brains to manage the rest of us—–the riff-raff!  It is aptly called liberal fascism.

Later clarification:  When I talk about environmentalism, I’m talking about radical top-down-control political and corporate environmentalism.   I am not referring to the average American who might consider him or herself an environmentalist cleaning up a local stream, enjoying feeding backyard birds, or otherwise wanting to protect their local environment.  The Tides Foundation is funding corporate/political environmentalism.

More fluff and puff from the Tennessean…

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….and from openly pro-Open Borders reporter Janell Ross.   I can’t stand it.  I read so much biased reporting it makes me sick and the Tennessean is one of the most biased of the biased papers in the nation on immigration.   Here is the title for this blatantly promotional piece for the Tennessee Immigration and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC):

Tennessee group seeks straight talk on immigrants

‘Welcoming’ effort addresses residents’ fears and perceptions

This deceptive article may as well have had the word “advertisement” across the top!  Makes you wonder if the community organizers even bring in their own reporters.

Ms. Ross sets the stage by suggesting that regular Tennessee folks standing around coffee shops are a bunch of redneck boobs filled with irrational fear for the unknown and the outsider.

Then she goes on to say:

The people inside those coffee shops are the kind Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition workers want to reach. The group recently received a $50,000 grant to expand its Welcoming Tennessee program, money to fund thought-provoking billboards or gather people to air fears and complaints.

Other groups are joining in — starting conversations about the estimated 4 percent of Tennessee’s population born in other countries. The topics are as simple as why various groups settled here and as complex as immigration and tax laws.

“We’re not so much trying to change the public’s concept of who is American … but to get people to think, to use reason instead of reacting to immigrants from a place of frustration and fear,” said Stephen Fotopulos, the coalition’s executive director.

I previously told you about the so-called $50,000 grant prize here.  Please go read it and then come back. 

Ms. Ross then tells us about the “grassroots” campaign that made sure the English Only ballot initiative failed earlier this year.   She doesn’t tell you that the “grassroots” were major big Nashville players and huge companies funding the campaign to kill it!   The TIRRC was on the side of BIG BUSINESS against the average “coffee-shop” Nashville citizen.   Big funders against the little guy were Caterpillar, HRC (mega giant hospital company) and even Vanderbilt University.  All told the “Nashville for all of Us” coalition—the opposition to English Only— raked in a cool $286,000.   See Judy’s post entitled, “Communism, Socialism or Fascism and Corporatism here to understand why Leftwing groups are in bed with big business.

I don’t want to overwhelm readers but here in a nutshell is what is going on in Nashville.   Community organizers from Chicago arrived in Nashville a few years ago and proceeded to set up a whole host of phoney-baloney “grassroots” groups (Soros strategy) with a few people involved in most of them (interlocking boards etc.).   That gives the general public the impression that there is a groundswell of support for anything having to do with immigrants.  There is even one called Tennesseans against Genocide that did virtually nothing that I can tell except take in money.

We saw a demonstration of how the few key players gathered together their myriad faux groups to give the public the idea that they represented hoards  of people in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens at this recent press conference at Nashville’s Loew’s Vanderbilt hotel.  And, what do you know, this politically correct story was written by Janell Ross.

Human nature is such that people don’t want to be outside the group, outside of what they perceive most of their peers are thinking and doing.  Judy told me the other day that that is part of the strategy that Obama used to win election, but I can’t remember if Judy posted on it!   That is what today’s Tennessean article is about—it is meant to tell the “coffee-shop” people that they are out of the mainstream.

In addition to making people feel that the smart people are all for more immigration, the mission of the TIRRC and its elitist community organizers is to continue to keep the community of Nashville in turmoil —- angry poor immigrants are ideal for that.  If you are thinking that can’t make sense, I didn’t think so either when I first learned about Saul Alinsky’s method of destabilizing communities by creating chaos.  The “have-nots” have to be continually fighting the “haves” to bring “change.”    By the way, tonight Glenn Beck opened his show with a discussion of the method.

And, of course one of the most galling aspects of all this is that in addition to corporate funding of these groups, ethnic organizations such as the Somali Community Center of Nashville,* get federal and state grants and contracts.  Their mission to destabilize communities is funded by the taxpayer which surely gives the organizers hearty laughs about pulling the wool over the eyes of those redneck “coffee-shop” citizens.

The jig is up!

Ms. Ross, how about a little real reporting for a change.

* For new readers, the US State Department has admitted over 80,000 Somali refugees to the US in the last 25 years and then last year had to suspend family reunification because widespread immigration fraud was revealed through DNA testing.

“Outside-the-box idea” explains a lot

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I told you just last week, at the time of the national pro-amnesty campaign kick-off by the Open Borders crowd, that I couldn’t understand why groups like USCRI (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants) which must find jobs for deserving refugees could support the legalization of 12 million presently illegal aliens living in the US who would then be in direct competition with refugees for few jobs.

Here is a possible explanation in Christianity Today.   Bear in mind that the Top Ten (volag) Government Contractors and their 300 plus subcontractors are largely compensated by you, the tax payer, to act as  agents to find employment and plug clients into our welfare system.   They basically teach immigrants—up until now refugees and asylees—the ropes of our system so that they can get the most out of it.  You know, putting it crassly, they teach how to  milk the system.

Here is the “outside-the-box idea” (trial balloon? leak of insider discussions?) from an unidentified author (presumably the editor) at Christianity Today.

Refugee resettlement is one of the most successful church-state partnerships in the U.S. [Edit:  I beg to differ]. Using mostly volunteers [not enough true volunteers], faith-based groups have decades of operational experience resettling on average 50,000–60,000 refugees annually.

One outside-the-box idea would be for refugee-resettlement groups to work with the federal government to identify, screen, and process undocumented workers. The same services given to refugees—housing, education, health care, and employment—could be provided. Teaching respect for the law should be one necessary part of the integration process. The idea is not for a 1980s-style amnesty, but it is a way for willing churches to help assimilate undocumented workers and their families. (During the late 1980s, some immigrant-friendly congregations undertook such services successfully.)

I should have known there was a financial motive.  Since volags (supposedly voluntary refugee agencies) are paid by the number of refugees they resettle, increasing the CLIENT base would assure they stay in the money (your money)!

Liar, Liar pants on fire!  Then this next line really ticked me off.

It’s time to face the political reality: There is still no consensus for spending millions of taxpayer dollars on hunting down 11.9 million people and transporting them to their home nations.

This is the straw man argument.   No reasonable person is suggesting “hunting down” anyone.  If our present laws were enforced, many here illegally would leave on their own.   I thought Christians were not supposed to lie.

“CAIR OUT!” shouted Somalis in Minneapolis protest today

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Update July 9th:  Video here of the demonstration, hat tip Patrick.

I never thought I would see the day!  Somali residents of Minneapolis are accusing the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) of blocking the investigation into the missing Somali youths in that city.  Hat tip:  Jerry Gordon from the Iconoclast, here.

Just two days ago I noted that CAIR seemed to be impeding the investigation in Minnesota.

From the Minneapolis Star Tribune today:

Relatives, friends and neighbors of a Minneapolis teen killed in Somalia pressed their argument Thursday that a Muslim civil rights group is hampering a federal investigation into the disappearances of dozens of Twin Cities Somali men.

At a protest outside the Brian Coyle Community Center in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, Abdirizak Bihi, the uncle of Burhan Hassan, who relatives say was killed last week in Mogadishu by a terrorist group, accused the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Minnesota chapter of discouraging local Somalis from cooperating with the FBI.

“We don’t want anyone to come into our community and tell us to shut up,” Bihi said. “Law enforcement will not be able to do anything without information from the community.”

About 50 people attended the rally, waving signs and hollering, “CAIR out! Doublespeak out!”

I am speechless.