Jim Gilchrist
Posted on 05/02/2006 2:23:34 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
Hoping to "wake up" Americans to the crisis of illegal immigration, opponents of President Bush's reform plan will gather in Crawford, Texas, Saturday in an event dubbed "Rumble at the Ranch."
Bush's ranch, the location of many anti-war protests, is located outside Crawford.
The event is being sponsored by the Texas Minutemen and Latino Americans for Immigration Reform, according to the website A Reckoning.
Lou Ann Anderson, executive producer of the Lynn Woolley radio show, is helping to organize the rally and hopes other talk-radio hosts will join in.
"We want hosts all over the country, from local radio stations to the biggest stars of syndication to the faces we see each night on cable TV to come and be a part of the Rumble," said Anderson in a statement. "Talk radio and TV has been heroic on this issue. Without the daily updates from talk show hosts, the American public would be getting only one side of this issue."
Added Anderson: "Many hosts who support Bush administration policies openly question the president's handling of immigration. Terry Anderson is a host on KRLA in Los Angeles who covers immigration on a regular basis. Terry will bring his message to the Rumble: 'If you're not mad, you're not paying attention.'"
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Also scheduled to speak in Crawford is Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minutemen border patrol group who is considering a run for president in 2008 representing the Constitution Party.
The organizers' site states the rally, scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday next to the Crawford Community Service Center, is seen "as a means of waking the American people, Congress and the media to the willful disregard for immigration law by this president and his Cabinet."
Besides hearing from leaders in the immigration-reform movement, attendees will listen to speeches from political candidates who are in favor of tougher border enforcement and opposed to Bush's guest-worker program and proposal to give illegal aliens the chance to become citizens.
Hope this thread stays up for a while, it has been known to be pulled.
I had one pulled yesterday...another freeper posted it again...and said it was yanked....what gives???
Gilchrist for President 2008
Only if Tanc doesn't run.
> Take the time to read this; It ought to scare the pants off you!
> We know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an immigration overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of American's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor by the name of Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest book, "Mexifornia," explaining how immigration - both legal and illegal was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.
> Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D.Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America. We used to call him "Lick Damn" but somewhere along the way "Lick Damn" wised up. The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the United States. He said, "If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let's destroy America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that 'An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.'"
> Here is how they do it," Lamm said:
>"First, to destroy America, turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country." History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way: "The histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy." Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, and Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans.
> Lamm went on: "Second, to destroy America, invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal, that there are no cultural differences. I would make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due solely to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds."
"Third, we could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity." As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: "The apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentricity and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together." Lamm said, "I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have various cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities."
> "Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school."
> "My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology.' I would get all minorities to think that their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population."
> "My sixth plan for America's downfall would include dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece fell. "E. Pluribus Unum" -- From many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'Pluribus' instead of the 'Unum,' we will balkanize America as surely as Kosovo."
>"Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits; make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a word similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'xenophobe' halt discussion and debate. Having made America a bilingual/bi-cultural country, having established multiculturalism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of 'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: that because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them."
> In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound silence followed. Finally he said, "Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson Davis's book Mexifornia. His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel America deserves to be destroyed, don't read that book."
> There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous cloud above every attendee at the conference. Every American in that room knew that everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet pervasively across the United States today. Discussion is being suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our educational system and national cohesiveness. Even barbaric cultures that practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate 'diversity.' American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as corporations create a Third World in America. Take note of California and other states - to date, ten million illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell's book "1984." In that story, three slogans are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building:
"War is peace,"
"Freedom is Slavery," and,
"Ignorance is Strength."
> Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference that our nation and the future of this
great democracy is deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we don't get this immigration monster stopped within three years, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in its path, especially The American Dream.
bttt
I don't know. Let's rumble ;)
22 minutes later.... it's still here....;-)
Maybe everyone is at lunch...;)
Why is it being pulled?...Maybe it's this prejudice right here..."opponents of President Bush's reform plan". The Congress is coming up with a the plan...duh.
I wonder what's on the menu...?
Tacos al carbon?
Does Lamm still believe that elderly folks ought to find some gracious way to bow out in order to make room for the younger folk?
LOL no doubt
We don't need no steenkin' plan.
Let loose the ICE agents, add to the Border Patrol, build the fence, etc., etc.....
Bush's plan is more of nada.
Instead ... we have company...
Build the fence yes but get off Bush. Coulter and her ilk already made him a lame duck...this is stupid.
"Coulter and her ilk already made him a lame duck...this is stupid."
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He is a second term prez...he made himself lame duck...LOL!
He's done it to himself, dear.
It gets pulled because the media-savvy people around here know this is going to be turned into a "look at the rabid conservatives at Bush's ranch copying Cindy Sheehan! Har! Har!" story by the MSM. They'll make the anti-illegal immigration folks look like loons, while enjoying another excuse to make Cindy look like a saint.
Our side sure does need good media consultants. Badly.
I do have mixed feelings about them being at the ranch.
I don't think it will work well for PR, but that's just my view.
I'll wait to see how it plays out.
Why pulled??
Yes..pick another local.
I see mass arrests coming...for the legal American citizens who dare to protest the illegal policies of its own government. Bush's policies.
Right..hahaha! They don't arrest people for peacefully protesting in this country.
What country are you from?
I see millions of illegals in this country who are breaking the law and absolutely nothing being done about it. In fact, our leader's plan is to not only let them stay, but to bring in their extended families.
What country are YOU from?
Our government does what it pleases, laws and Constitutional rights be damned.
The illegals and their enablers will not win by marching around trying to defend rights they don't have.
I appreciate the sentiment, but this post would have more credibility if the author's name were spelled correctly--his name is Victor Davis Hanson.
"the people will win in the end".
By "the People" I take it you mean La Raza.
Looks to me like they have already won.
See any mass roundups and deportations going on?
The deportations will probably happen one illegal at a time.
Sorry..there will not be any scenes of truck loads of Mexicans in chains being carted off while their legal children are crying in the streets.
Won't happen in America. This will take years.
On the other hand..building a fence may take much less time.
Tancredo/Gilcrest '08.
I like the sound of that better.
The illegals panicked when a few were rounded up about a week ago.
If they saw that our government was going to enforce the law against them, take away their jobs and their welfare and their free medical care and free college and schooling, then they would leave on their own.
But our government wants them to stay. So we get to pay.
I will remember in November the ones who were in charge who let this train wreck happen.
Will you?
I'm glad they can't vote, and we can.
Yep. I'll start voting 3rd party if I have to.
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From November, 1992 until January 20, 1993,when the Sinkmeister slithered in, Bush 41 was a lame duck in the true sense of the word.
Bush 43 is not really a lame duck - he won the election, and has another nearly three years left in his term. However, everyone, even some of the very few friendly media, refer to him as such.
Nationally, if there was one party that their whole platform was defending our country and that was it, I'd vote for them.
All I care about federally is that our nation is defended well, and that includes defending us against illegal immigrants.
Get the feds out of education, welfare, abortion, etc. Let the states do what they want on those issues.
The Dems are just completely out to lunch.
The third parties only split the country into thirds. Can you imagine? No more bipartisan politics but tri-partisan politics? Good grief.
Do you prefer the current status quo?
I don't.
I agree with you, where exactly do we turn? Obviously the "R" side has sold us out too. To continue to vote for them is to get more of the same. We know what we will get with the "D" vote.
We are screwed either way. It is like the choice between taking slow-acting poison or taking fast-acting poison.
What is your solution? More slow-acting poison?
If the CP had taken a strong stance on the WOT, the two party system in America would be headed for extinction.
It's still all about the WOT.
If there would be a terrorist attack in our country, such as a nuclear bomb exploded in a ship in New York harbor or on the Potomac River as close to our center of government as the terrorists could get it, even the 'rats would wake up.
But that still wouldn't address the gasoline prices that the Republicans have done nothing about since the gas shortages in 1972 or the illegal alien problem that the Republicans have had since Bush II got in office to address.
I agree that things would be even worse with the 'rats in charge but they are plenty bad enough with the Republicans in charge.
Its not dark yet but its getting there.
As for people waking up, they never went to sleep really. The MSM ignores the WOT..the people don't. That's fine with me because the terrorists think we are tiring.
They once again underestimate the American people.
Ummm...no. Trust me on this. No. Really. He's OK at founding and organizing the MMP, may have been OK if he'd been elected to Congress, but President - No way. I know enough about his politics to say that even I, a Minuteman, would never vote for him. Really.
Yes, the terrorists underestimate the American people as the Republican party underestimates its base.
Yes, the terrorists underestimate the American people as the Republican party underestimates its base.
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