Category: The Opposition

Tennessee ‘community organizers’ win a big prize

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This is such a joke but a very clear example of how all this works—by giving a prize to a community organizing group like the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), the big moneybags in the Open Borders crowd legitimize their agenda even if it isn’t working. 

Members of the public, who generally know no better, say ‘how nice’ that people are getting along in Tennessee where they are told that dropping third world cultures into a conservative southern state works great.   We know it works great because some big Leftwing foundations, like Kaplan, with secret sources of funding (their invested funds must be dropping like a stone) are giving large money prizes to make it LOOK like it’s working!

From the Shelbyville Times-Gazette this morning:

The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) has won a $50,000 award for its Welcoming Tennessee Initiative, which has been partially focused in Shelbyville over the past year. 

The prize, called the E Pluribus Unum national award for exceptional immigrant integration initiatives, was given to the TIRRC in Washington, D.C. Wednesday by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), which describes itself as an independent, non-partisan think tank “dedicated to analysis of the movement of people worldwide.”

TIRRC and three other groups were honored at the Library of Congress and the ceremony featured remarks by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and other national policy makers. [Edit:  Shouldn’t Ms. Solis be worried about AMERICAN workers losing jobs to immigrants in places like Tennessee?]

According to a press release from MPI, this is the first year the awards are being given and were established by the Institute’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy with support from the J.M. Kaplan Fund*.

The award “seeks to inspire others to take on this important work and encourage the adoption of effective integration practices,” MPI says.

TIRRC launched its Welcoming Tennessee Initiative (WTI) in 2006, and began to focus on Shelbyville in last year, beginning with a billboard campaign, followed by several events held by the organization in conjunction with local groups such as El Centro Latino.

Integration, my foot! 

How funny that just yesterday the Wall Street Journal informed us that it is going pretty badly in Shelbyville where American workers are rightfully angry about jobs going to refugees—refugees arriving from Nashville or as far away as Boise, ID.     By the way, I’m starting to wonder if the big moneybags behind awards like this are the big immigrant-exploiting businesses—-the meatpackers themselves!  Does Kaplan get money from Tysons Food?   (not that far-fetched when you consider we learned on Glenn Beck recently that Soros passes money through the Tides Foundation)

Then just yesterday also, I told you about the World Net Daily article which reports that federal authorities are keeping an eye on Somali communities.   Shelbyville is mentioned:

The suburbs of Shelbyville and Dover have also become Somali strongholds. Local newspapers have reported that police are hesitant to even patrol after dark at the apartment complexes where the Somalis live.

TIRRC projects cited in the Times-Gazette story.

Check out the patronizing billboard campaign they are lauding here.

And, then there is that infuriating “forum” where “Welcoming Tennessee” hauled Somali leaders to Shelbyville to give the ‘rednecks’ a lesson in Somali culture.  I suggested a forum for immigrants put on by local Tennesseans in American culture!     Come to think of it, I wonder if these events were just to add to the resume so TIRRC would get the “prize.”

*The final irony—go check out the Kaplan Fund at that link I posted above.  Note that they are huge funders of the major environmental groups in the US.  Having worked for one of those groups in my naive youth, I am constantly amazed that they don’t get the fact that OPEN BORDERS AND INCREASED IMMIGRATION POSE THE GREATEST THREATS TO THE US ENVIRONMENT.   Kaplan is working at cross purposes when it funds environmental activism and open borders.  Why?

Oh, and one more question for the wizards at the Kaplan Fund, do you think that one day the Somalis you are encouraging to “integrate” into rural Tennessee will wake up and have only two children so as to save the US from over-population and the inevitable degradation of our environment?   Not likely.

Note:  This post is filed in our “community destabilization” category.  For  new readers you might want to check out our whole community destabilization category to better understand the strategy used by “community organizers” to “change” America.

ACORN revelations and creating crisis

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Following up on Ann’s post earlier today, Bring us your poor and angry!, I’m posting  this article from World Net Daily, ACORN born in leftist revolution, by Jerome Corsi. It’s a good short summary of the Cloward-Piven strategy which seeks, to quote David Horowitz’s website Discover the Networks, “to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.”

It has four good links in it, and I’ll give them to you here in case you want to go directly to them for more information. 

The first is to the original article by Cloward and Piven in the Nation in 1966 (though registration is required).

Second, the Discover the Networks page is here, and in addition to a very good article on the strategy it has more links to related articles.

Third, Sol Stern had a long and detailed article on ACORN in the City Journal of Spring 2003 titled ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities.

And fourth, here’s Jim Simpson’s American Thinker piece from September 28, 2008, titled Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis. Ann discussed this article when it first came out.

One reason I’m writing this post is that we’re sure to write more on the subject and I like to have the links handy.  Over the 1-3/4 years we’ve been doing Refugee Resettlement Watch, we’ve discovered that there is much more to refugee matters than it first appeared. As with many social phenomena, the left finds refugees and refugee resettlement useful for various purposes. Now that we’re seeing revelations about how far-reaching and well-funded ACORN is, we want to know more about where our particular topic fits in and how it is possibly being used to help create chaos and revolution.

Addendum: Jim Simpson just sent me the links to the other two articles in his series on the Cloward-Piven strategy: Part I,  Manufactured Crisis and Part III, Conspiracy of the Lemmings. Part II is the link from the American Thinker, above. All very worthwhile reading for understanding what is going on.

Bring us your poor and angry!

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Do you watch Glenn Beck?   He jokes about having ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) so I hope this post won’t sound like I have it too!   He has been doing a series on ACORN recently.  Yesterday he examined the complex financial machinations (using our tax dollars!) of the organization and the many tentacles it has in other organizations all seeming to involve Wade Rathke (friend and fellow Weather Underground member with Bill Ayers).   I told you previously that Rathke is involved with the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) that is busily organizing Somalis.  I have no proof but I bet it’s the SEIU that is training the Muslims at Greeley, CO and Grand Island, NE (new readers, check out our whole category on that topic here) on how to demand religious accomodation at the Swift & Co. meatpackers there.

Anyway, see Glenn Beck’s information on ACORN and watch this clip of Matthew Vadum of the Capital Research Center on yesterday’s program.  The most interesting thing I got from Vadum (among many interesting revelations) is that Rathke and company are following the Cloward/Piven Strategy and attempting to flood the system with welfare recipients as a way of bringing chaos, change and ultimately an end to Capitalism.    From American Thinker in February:

The Cloward/Piven Strategy is named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.  Their goal is to overthrow capitalism by overwhelming the government bureaucracy with entitlement demands. The created crisis provides the impetus to bring about radical political change.

Golly, kind of interesting that George Rupp (IRC head honcho) was President of Columbia Univ. and isn’t that where Obama himself was trained?  But, I digress.

So, is that why these volags (supposedly non-profit groups) are advocating to continue to flood America with more impoverished immigrants?   Sorry to all of you who work in the refugee field who are in it to truly help the less fortunate.  But, I believe this is part of the strategy to “change” America.   And, damn!  The refugees are just pawns as I said yesterday here.    If they aren’t pawns then it makes no rational sense for the Top Ten volags to advocate bringing more and more refugees, and then depositing them on welfare in cities across this country.

I have maintained all along that as Americans generally prospered we were running out of poor people, and thus the immigrants became important fuel for the revolution—the poorer and the angrier the better!

Endnote:  To further understand the concept of the Lefts plans to destroy the American economy by flooding the US with angry poor people (the “have-nots”) see our entire category on Community Destabilization and Saul Alinsky here.

Senator Sessions smeared by America’s Voice and the Southern Poverty Law Center

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Ho hum!  So what else is new.   America’s Voice and the Southern Poverty Law Center both well known for their smear tactics—-you know that is how the radical left operates, they learned it from Alinsky (Rule 13 and SPLC here)—went after Senator Jeff Sessions yesterday as reported at the Huffington Post.    You can read the whole smear here, but I was more interested in this little line.

Interestingly enough, his work on conservation causes earlier in life was lauded by environmentalists.

Why is this “interesting?”     What is without a doubt the greatest threat to the environment of the United States?  No, not global warming, not coal-fired plants, not cows farting!   The greatest threat to American beauty, to open space, to resource depletion is the out of control population growth fueled by out of control  immigration, so if Senator Sessions wants to  protect the environment it is perfectly consistent with restricting  immigration.

Those “nativist” groups mentioned by America’s Voice:  FAIR, CIS, NumbersUSA etc. grew out of the environmental movement as the movement became a tool of the extreme political left wing—a left wing that wanted more immigrants to fuel the war of the “have-nots” against the “haves,”  a left wing that wants to bring about a Socialist form of government in the US.  The immigrants are pawns in that massive strategy, much closer to realization now with Obama in the White House.

So why aren’t American environmental groups up in arms about the immigration population explosion (see NumbersUSA demonstration of the impact on American population here), because many receive large amounts of funding from donors who are Socialists and want no restrictions on immigration.

A few years ago there was a huge battle within the Sierra Club on immigration and the open borders side won simply because a big funder threatened to withdraw support if the Club took a position for controlled immigration.  Many of those activists who saw open borders as the major destructive force of American land, resources and quality of life gravitated to the groups America’s Voice and the SPLC refer to as “nativist” —a word which for me holds no evil connotation.   Like racist, xenophobe, homophobe, islamophobe, all are just words used to silence good people.

Don’t send money to American environmental groups if you care about America

I have for some time been meaning to tell you that in the UK and Canada the environmentalists are beginning to join with those who want to slow immigration.  The American environmental establishment has missed the boat.   Don’t send your hard-earned money to the Sierra Club and others of the major groups.  Groups that Socialists call “nativist,”  like NumbersUSA, FAIR, and CIS, are doing more to fight for the future of America’s land and resources than the so-called establishment environmental movement.

CAIR orders Muslims: no more cooperation with FBI

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When I reported on Somalis in Minneapolis balking at cooperating with the FBI, I didn’t realize this is probably connected to the policy of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) not to cooperate with the FBI.  The Los Angeles Times reports Some influential Muslim groups question FBI’s actions. The subhead reads:

Revelations that the agency has been surveilling popular leaders and infiltrating mosques and schools has many organizations turning away from their post-9/11 cooperation.
The piece begins:
As they sipped tea and nibbled on dates, more than 100 men and women listened to a litany of speakers sounding the same message: The FBI is not your friend.

“We’re here today to say our mosques are off limits,” Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations for Greater Los Angeles, told the crowd last month at an Anaheim mosque.

“Our Koran is off limits,” Ayloush said. “Our youth, who they try to radicalize, are off limits. Now is the time to tell them, ‘We’re not going to let this happen anymore.’ “

Such strong words from a man who once was a vocal advocate of ties with federal law enforcement was yet one more signal that the fragile relationship between Muslim American groups and the FBI is being tested.

….On Sunday, a coalition of the nation’s largest Muslim organizations, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council and the Islamic Society of North America, issued a statement demanding that the Obama administration address FBI actions, including what they describe as the “infiltration of mosques,” the use of “agent provocateurs to trap unsuspecting Muslim youth” and the “deliberate vilification” of the council.

It appears from the article that the Muslims were cooperative until the FBI actually found terrorist activities among them, including in their mosques. So no more cooperation. And imagine, it surveilled “popular leaders.” I guess if a leader is popular he can’t be involved in terrorism. Or maybe it just doesn’t matter.
 
The Somalis must have gotten the word. They might be concerned about their missing youths, but not enough to cooperate with the FBI in finding out what’s going on.
 
Hat tip: Robert Spencer.