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Michelle Malkin: A closer look at left-wing thuggery
Creators Syndicate, Inc. ^ | March 31, 2004 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 03/31/2004 11:07:49 AM PST by alloysteel

There is a guerrilla group on the loose in this country. But you wouldn't know it from the liberal media, which portrays the group's members as harmless activists with good hearts.

The group is called "National People's Action." The Washington Post described NPA this week as a "coalition of neighborhood advocacy groups based in Chicago." A more accurate description is left-wing goon squad. This nationwide organization is made up of professional grievance-mongers from the Bronx, N.Y, to Santa Monica, Calif. They warn: "We are black, we are white, we are Latino, we are Asian. We are old, we are young, and we are in your neighborhood!!!!!"

NPA members are funded by the usual suspects -- "progressive" charities such as the Tides Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation, and the MacArthur, Ford and Rockefeller foundations. But they are also funded by your tax dollars. My research shows that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency and Massachusetts Department of Education have given tens of thousands of dollars in grants to NPA members. Their agenda is the usual big government, race card-playing, entitlement mentality claptrap: "homeowner security" (more government minority home loans), "workplace rights and training" (more government job programs), "good policing" (a ban on racial profiling), and "promoting security and opportunity for immigrants" (more benefits for illegal aliens).

But what distinguishes NPA from other liberal advocacy groups is its tactics. The group engages in what it calls "direct action" -- publicizing the home addresses of business and government leaders it wants to shake down and then busing in protesters and schoolchildren (using public school buses) to invade the private property of their victims and intimidate their families. The NPA song explains:

Who's on your hit list, NPA?

Who's on your hit list for today?

Take no prisoner, take no names.

Kick 'em in the (a--) when they play their games.

After meeting in Washington for its annual convention this weekend, NPA members descended on the Washington, D.C., homes of Labor Secretary Elaine Chao and White House adviser Karl Rove. NPA targeted Chao after the Department of Labor refused to meet with the group and acquiesce to its demand to "form a partnership" to "improve opportunities for low-wage workers." In other words, the gang didn't get a government contract through legal channels. So it's going to bully its way into the public coffers.

An estimated mob of 800 protesters trampled on Rove's lawn to demand passage of Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch's abominable "DREAM" Act granting amnesty to illegal alien college students and allowing them to receive in-state tuition discounts. The Washington Post reported that after chanting and knocking on Rove's door, the "crowd then grew more aggressive, fanning around the three accessible sides of Rove's house, tracking him through the many windows, waving signs that read 'Say Yes to DREAM' and pounding on the glass." An angry Rove called the authorities and berated the protest leaders for driving the children inside his home to tears.

As a vocal critic of Rove's idiotic pro-illegal alien policies, I am not all that sad to see Rove come face to face with the consequences of his politically expedient ideas. (Rove is the one who declared that Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., the nation's leading advocate for secure borders and immigration enforcement, would "never darken the White House door.") Now Rove knows how millions of ordinary Americans -- who don't have Secret Service protection -- feel when illegal invaders overrun their homes and darken their doors.

That said, NPA's militant tactics cross the bounds of decent political debate. (Aren't liberals always the ones moaning about the need for civility?) Grievance-mongering belongs on the Capitol steps, not private doorsteps.

If NPA's agenda were the protection of unborn life or Second Amendment rights, the New York Times would be calling for the arrest of its leaders. Sen. Hillary Clinton would be barking again about the vast right-wing conspiracy. Civil rights leaders would be demanding that President Bush condemn NPA's extremist tactics. And crusading lawyers would be lining up to find clever ways to use federal anti-racketeering laws to shut NPA down.

Instead, the left-wing thugs get away with their lawlessness. And we are, literally, paying for it.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: aliens; karlrove; michellemalkin; npa; tomtancredo
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The rent-a-mob has put on some slightly changed uniforms and is on the march again, apparently this time in favor of amnesty for "non-traditional" immigration by those who "just can't wait" for all that bureaucracy. Their error was, to hit Karl Rove's house directly. Up to now, Tom Tancredo had pretty much been persona non grata at the White House, but likely not much longer. If they wanted to change hearts and minds in the White House by marching on Karl Rove's home, they will probably be successful.
1 posted on 03/31/2004 11:07:49 AM PST by alloysteel
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2 posted on 03/31/2004 11:12:28 AM PST by HEY4QDEMS
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To: alloysteel; abbi_normal_2; Ace2U; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; alphadog; amom; AndreaZingg; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
3 posted on 03/31/2004 11:13:30 AM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: alloysteel
They were well photographed and documented outside of Rove's house.
5 posted on 03/31/2004 11:24:49 AM PST by 3AngelaD
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To: Rummyfan
Choose your battleground carefully on this one. We don't to make martyrs of them, we want to discredit them. They are about to move into some excess from which they cannot draw back from.

It is rather like flooding rabbits out of their warren.
6 posted on 03/31/2004 11:25:40 AM PST by alloysteel
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bump
7 posted on 03/31/2004 11:32:25 AM PST by Bigg Red (Never again trust Democrats with national security!)
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To: HEY4QDEMS
Thanks for the picture.
8 posted on 03/31/2004 11:32:38 AM PST by Dante3
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To: farmfriend
BTTT!!!!!!
9 posted on 03/31/2004 11:35:38 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: alloysteel
Lol...I wondered how long it would take Malkin, who is a Pinay, to make the NPA connection.

point of information:

NPA was/is also the nom de guere of the New Peoples Army. A Pilipine group who replaced the Hukbalahaps as terrorist soldiers. AKA as the 'Huks'.

Pinay = female Pilipino.
Pinoy = male Pilipino.

This use of NPA must have bit her hard when she saw it.

10 posted on 03/31/2004 11:35:44 AM PST by Khurkris (Ranger On...)
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"My research shows that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency and Massachusetts Department of Education have given tens of thousands of dollars in grants to NPA members"

Another great conservative beauty strikes again. But I meander. It is not surprising that the usual private foundations fund these leftist goons, so I wonder if their tax exampt status can be challenged. But even more outrageous is the use of tax dollars to fund these people. Now, THAT, should be criminally chargeable!

11 posted on 03/31/2004 11:39:28 AM PST by Enterprise ("Do you know who I am?")
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The group engages in what it calls "direct action" -- publicizing the home addresses of business and government leaders it wants to shake down and then busing in protesters and schoolchildren (using public school buses) to invade the private property of their victims and intimidate their families.

Weren't some anti-abortion protesters correctly criticized for doing this?

12 posted on 03/31/2004 11:48:48 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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...My Fellow Americans, we ain't seen nothin' yet...

...as HILLARY herself says that this year's Presidential Election will be very tight and that the victor will win because of "something unforeseen."

http://www.Newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/30/123728.shtml



'HILLARY plans to regain the White House'

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1022571/posts

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13 posted on 03/31/2004 11:53:03 AM PST by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.LZXRAY.com)
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To: alloysteel
read later
14 posted on 03/31/2004 12:03:43 PM PST by LiteKeeper
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To: farmfriend; alloysteel
Let me see if I can locate related info...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1107127/posts
Tax-Funded Attacks Against White House Employees?! [Call for Action!]
Tasty Manatees ^ | 3/29/04 | Ryan
 
 
Demonstrators Swarm Around Rove's Home
Washington Post ^ | March 29, 2004 | Steven Ginsberg
I'd chip in for bus fair if we could convince several million to make D.C. the next province of Aztlan.
 
 
Demonstrators Swarm Around Rove's Home
Washington Post ^ | March 29, 2004 | Steven Ginsberg
Karl should chill. They are just doing the tresspassing that Americans won't do.
One can read about these charming people at:

http://www.npa-us.org/leadership.htm
There's nothing like giving the elite a taste of their own policies.
 
 
DC.
 
 
 
It also has LULAC and the National Council of La Raza written all over it.

15 posted on 03/31/2004 12:10:49 PM PST by backhoe
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16 posted on 03/31/2004 12:15:48 PM PST by petercooper (It's obvious, common sense is not prerequisite to voting rights.)
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17 posted on 03/31/2004 12:41:07 PM PST by RippleFire
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To: Missouri; 4.1O dana super trac pak; Bikers4Bush; FITZ; SandRat; cyncooper; Joe Hadenuf; ...
Michelle Malkin gets on to National People's Action after the Rove home brewhaha (ha ha).
18 posted on 03/31/2004 1:23:02 PM PST by NewRomeTacitus
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To: alloysteel
This is called "fascism" - one set of rules for the liberals and their darlings, and another set for everyone else.
19 posted on 03/31/2004 2:15:43 PM PST by thoughtomator (Voting Bush because there is no reasonable alternative)
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To: alloysteel
the "crowd then grew more aggressive, fanning around the three accessible sides of Rove's house, tracking him through the many windows, waving signs that read 'Say Yes to DREAM' and pounding on the glass."

Were all the protestors arrested? Clearly this is trespassing.

20 posted on 03/31/2004 2:20:17 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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