Posted on 10/07/2006 10:13:05 AM PDT by Stoat
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(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Too bad, though, that the Post describes the Minutemen as an "anti-immigration" organization as opposed to the anti ILLEGAL immagration organization that they are.
Left-Wing(nut) Lee Bolinger (formerly of the PC, U 0f Michigan Law School) strikes again.
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Minutemen suffer defeat at Columbia University
Jim Gilchrist terminates speech in face of angry opposition
A major demonstration tonight resulted in a serious setback for the Minutemen organization. Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minutemen, an organization which dispatches armed vigilantes at the U.S.-Mexican border, was invited by the Columbia University Republicans to speak at the Roone Arledge auditorium on campus.
Many hundreds of protesters filled up the blocks outside the auditorium, in a demonstration initiated by the Chicano Caucus of Columbia University and supported by the ANSWER Coalition. Inside the hall, the overwhelming number of attendees were clearly opposed to the racist message of the Minutemen. When Gilchrist began to speak, the students inside exercised their Free Speech rights by loudly protesting the presence of this fascist on their campus. More than 20 students - including several ANSWER activists - occupied the stage where they were violently attacked by thugs working with the Minutemen. In spite of the violent attacks against them, they held their ground, and Gilchrist terminated his speech.
Minutemen thugs tear at ANSWER banner
"Progressive students of all backgrounds -- immigrant and non-immigrant, Black, Latino, Asian, Arab and white -- mobilized to meet this racist provocation. Jim Gilchrist was hoping to sell his message of hate but the people were not buying. Let tonight be a model for others around the country. And let it be a lesson to the Minutemen: wherever they go, they will be confronted. We have an obligation to the millions of immigrants in this country who are being demonized and targeted by the Minutemen, KKK and other racists," said Karina Garcia, Political Chair of Chicano Caucus.
WHINE email sent out today after a public outcry about their behavior
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Take action to defend Columbia University protesters!
Write to Columbia University, demand: no reprisals!
Dear XXXXXX,
On Wednesday night, October 4, progressive students at Columbia University protested the racist Minuteman Project inside and outside the auditorium where they were speaking. Although the students were subject to vicious and violent attacks by Minutemen stormtroopers, they held their ground and Jim Gilchrist, the Minutemen founder, terminated his speech. Now the university is threatening to punish the anti-racist students. It is urgent that you take action now to show your support.
The ANSWER Coalition has set up an easy-to-use mechanism to send a letter to Columbia University President Lee Bollinger in support of student protesters who are being threatened with reprisals following their protest against Jim Gilchrist, founder of the racist anti-immigrant vigilante organization, the Minuteman Project. The protesters went on stage with banners that said, "No One is Illegal" and "Say No to Racism." The protesters were physically assaulted by Minutemen and their supporters. When they spoke out against fascism and racism, they spoke for all of us. Yet, there has been a coordinated campaign seeking reprisals against the students, initiated by FoxNews, the Minutemen, New York City's Republican Mayor Mike Bloomberg, the New York Times, and other media.
It is important to understand that the Minuteman Project is at its core, the same as the Nazis and the KKK. This fact has been confused by the legitimacy granted to the Minutemen by Lou Dobbs on CNN, FoxNews, and other so-called mainstream media, including NPR. David Duke, the white supremacist leader of the KKK, achieved some of the same "legitimacy" from the mainstream media when he ran for Governor in Louisiana. Taking the hood off a Klansman, or the swastika off the arm of a Nazi, doesn't change their fascist essence.
Click here to send a letter to Bollinger expressing your support for the protesters, and to demand that the students suffer no reprisals.
For the initial report from the protest, click here. To see the statement of the protesters, explaining their decision to go on stage, see below. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Racist and fascist groups are not welcome!
Statement of Columbia anti-Minutemen protesters who took the stage against Jim Gilchrist on October 4
October 6, 2006
In the aftermath of the protest on the night of October 4 against Jim Gilchrist and the racist Minutemen at Roone Arledge auditorium, we want to state clearly: We are proud to send the message to the country that racist and fascist groups are not welcome at Columbia or in New York City.
As Chicanos and Latinos, alongside African Americans and progressive people of other nationalities, we took it as our responsibility to give voice to the undocumented immigrant families who live in fear at terrorist vigilante groups like the Minutemen. Armed patrols by these groups force more and more people desperate for work to find even more hazardous ways into the United States. Over 3,000 people—including hundreds of children—have died in the desert. Their blood is on the hands of Gilchrist and his thugs.
Fascist scapegoating is not up for academic discussion. Like Hitler in pre-Nazi Germany, Gilchrist and the Minutemen attempt to demonize foreign-born poor people, blaming “illegals” for society’s problems. His group doesn’t present reasoned debate. It spouts racism and hatred, aiming to divide people against one another.
Regardless of how Gilchrist tries to sanitize his message for national audiences, more candid moments tell the real story. Gilchrist is a member of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, which is now notorious for referring to Mexicans as “savages.” Speaking about Mexicans and Central American immigrants, Minuteman co-founder Chris Simcox once said, "They have no problem slitting your throat and taking your money or selling drugs to your kids or raping your daughter and they are evil people."
This vile racism translates directly into violence on the ground. “It should be legal to kill illegals,” said one Minutemen volunteer. “Just shoot 'em on sight. That's my immigration policy recommendation.” It is no wonder that neo-Nazi organizations like the National Alliance praise the Minuteman Project in their publications, and have members signing up for Minutemen militias.
We are sure that if the Nazi party held a public meeting on campus, Jewish groups would be there to challenge them—so would we. We are sure that if the Ku Klux Klan held a public meeting on campus, African American groups would be there to challenge them—so would we. The Minutemen are no different.
We are pleased that an overwhelming number of people answered our call to demonstrate against the racist, fascist Minutemen the night of October 4. The hundreds of people outside Roone Arledge chanting, “Minutemen, Nazis, KKK, racists, fascists, go away!” represented students and community people from all walks of life. Inside the auditorium, perhaps as much as 80 percent of the crowd was repelled by the Minutemen’s message of hate.
When we walked on stage on the night of October 4, with anti-racist banners for immigrant rights, we were met with violent attack by Gilchrist’s goons. We were the ones who were punched and kicked. We are proud that despite these attacks, we held our ground. When Gilchrist walked off stage, it was because he and his Minutemen outfit were isolated.
This is not an issue of free speech. The Minutemen were able to reserve a hall at our university and had the protection of campus security and the NYPD—all to espouse their hate speech. We along with hundreds of others expressed our right to speak and protest.
Over the last 50 years, throughout the Civil Rights movement and the women’s rights movement, ultra-right wing groups have routinely used violence, lynchings, armed assaults and bombings against oppressed people. Yet when we organize to oppose them to express our contempt for their violence, we are criticized for inhibiting the free speech of the ones who perpetrate violence.
We thank everyone who joined our protest inside and outside of the auditorium.
Shame on the Columbia University administration for launching an investigation of peaceful protesters, and failing to condemn the perpetrators of violence. Shame on the College Republicans for inviting this fascist thug and provoking such outrage on our campus. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
Act Now to Stop War & End Racism
The act at Columbia was EXACTLY what the Nazi SD and SS brown-shirts did to opposition groups during the 1920s and 1930s in Germany. And they call the Minutemen Nazis?
Thanks for posting. I.E.D.'s (Internal Enemies Devices) at work. Thanks for the reminder about Lee Bollinger.
Anti-freedom operatives BUMP!
From what I saw of this particular communist mob at Columbia U. ..via Hannity and Colmes, and O'Rielly...they were only a hair's breath from becoming an assault force. Gilchrist and the other Minutemen there demonstrated extraordinary self restraint, for if they had thrown one punch, then all hell would have broken loose.
So if what the left wants is war...count me in....I have had it with these bastards.
I doubt it. But if Orwell did say it, I'd sure like to have the quote. It'd be a great one to taunt the lefties with.
Ditto.
Another illustration of the Nazis (National Socialists) as being a party of the Left, not the Right. Brutal Nazi tactics and language come as second nature to the Left. Modern Leftists are all too well aware of this kinship and are quite self-conscious about it, which explains their hair-trigger kneejerk slanderings of anyone who is at all to the Right of Marx as being "a Nazi"..They will go to any length in an effort to verbally disassociate themselves from their Brownshirt brethren, while acting out Nazi tactics in a manner so true and authentic that they would have made Goebbels and Himmler swell with pride.
Let's not forget that the modern Left also supports wholesale, State-sponsored murder of 'undesirables'. They have merely updated the language from "The Final Solution" to "Our Abortion Rights".
There was a time before he was President of the US that Eisenhower was president of Columbia. My or my, how times have changed. Look what they have now, a communist.
Leftists, War ?
That's a joke. Leftists are cowards. They scatter like
roaches when challenged.
The ANSWER people are fascists. They want a communist North America with themselves as members of the politburo. They believe they and only they should have the power to determine which speech should be heard. They are communists with strong fascist tendencies.
When alone or in small gaggles, absolutely. But when they are in positions of power and authority, they will instantly do whatever it takes, legal or otherwise, to crush any opposition.
I love the Second Amendment. It applies.
Huey Long
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Closing words at a tribute to Sam Marcy by Brian Beckersee under B. Becker
A revolutionary party can only be ready to make the revolution by surviving reaction with its combat readiness intact. Sam Marcy did not live to see the revolution in his lifetime. But his life and legacy will be an indispensable link in the revolutionary process.
That's a joke. Leftists are cowards. They scatter like roaches when challenged.
Yeah, like the freedom protestors in Checkoslavakia, the students in Tian-Mian Square, The Khmer Rouge... The list goes on and on... If history shows us anything it's that the left has the ability to justify their actions, since they're doing "good" and what they do is for the good of the people. They have no problem justifying horrendous acts of violence and murder.
Sure, most leftists are cowards, but the "true believers" are some of the most savage, ruthless, and dangerous people in history.
Mark
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