Posted on 07/01/2010 8:39:13 PM PDT by pissant
LOVELAND Northern Colorado residents gathered in support of Arizona's new immigration law at a 9-12 Movement rally Saturday afternoon.
Iowa Congressman Steve King and former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado headlined the "United We Stand Behind Arizona" event, which drew more than 100 people despite only two days' notice.
King decided to come to Colorado after being uninvited to two speaking engagements.
King had planned to headline a fundraiser for congressional candidate Cory Gardner in Hudson and a Tea Party rally in Loveland.
However, after a radio interview in which King said President Barack Obama "favors the black person" and that "It looks like (Attorney General) Eric Holder said that white people in America are cowards when it comes to race," sparking a controversy, Gardner canceled his event and the Northern Colorado Tea Party uninvited King.
Tancredo then arranged for King to speak at the 9-12 Movement rally.
King said he felt it was important to come to Colorado.
"I've been through all kinds of controversy, and I always have to ask myself, 'Did I say something that wasn't founded in truth?' No. 'Did I say something that hurt someone's feelings?' I don't think so."
King said Obama has misinformed the public about Arizona's law.
King said that under only one circumstance does he support amnesty for illegal immigrants: "Every time we give amnesty for an illegal alien, we deport a liberal."
(Excerpt) Read more at denverpost.com ...
FINALLY, an amnesty plan I can support!
I could support that.
He said that? lol Good for him. 100% support here.
They’re reporting in today’s paper about an event that took place last Sat?
Kinda slow
I support Steve King 100%. Those who dis-invited him should be shunned in turn. Does anyone not believe Obama and his ilk are far more concerned with identity politics (race, gender, sexual orientation) than anything else? Rep King spoke the truth. It is time to stop being intimidated on the issue of race, gender, and deviant sexual behavior. Pigs squeal when they are stuck. What we have are a lot of piggies ala animal farm rooting around the biggest hog of them all Obama.
Ping!
She is tired of the stress and being in fear of dodging the stray bullets coming from across the border. She is also afraid of the day that it spills over into Laredo proper.
If we are to have a woman as President, it needs to be the Governor of Arizona. All of us need to remember that we are a REPUBLIC of self determining united States, we need to stop trading off our security and freedom for federal funds.
An oldie, but STILL relevant!
Representative Steve King
5th Congressional District of Iowa
Biting the Hand That Feeds You
May 5, 2006
On May 1st, the activists who brought you thousands of Mexican flags flying in marches down the streets of our cities are now bringing you Nothing Gringo Day. With help from the Mexican government, Mexican unions, Mexican political groups, and through the Spanish language radio and newspapers, the call has gone out to make America experience a total boycott, both here and in Mexico. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
Just the word boycott sparks the image of noble dissent in the face of economic or social oppression. I think of American colonials bucking British economic interests in retaliation to the Stamp Act. Or perhaps the ostracizing of Irish landlord Charles Boycott, the namesake of the verb for all tyrannized people. If not tyrannized, at least disgruntled. If not disgruntled, maybe just bored.
Yet, isnt the key to a successful boycott an economic or social upper-hand? The cost must be felt if the offending party be forced to reform. For example, how does boycotting a movie you had no intention of going to affect the box office? More people probably see a boycotted movie due to the attention than if it had simply been ignored.
President Carter thought he was on to something when he kept American athletes out of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. That showed em. That particular boycott neither got the USSR out of Afghanistan nor brought down the Berlin Wall. It just caused our own athletes to suffer.
The May 1st anti-Gringo-fest is also being billed as A Day Without Immigrants which is a misnomer on a couple of counts. First, the threatened boycott fails to conjure the image of a Norwegian refusing to buy his May 1 lutefisk at the corner Fareway. Second, the pro-amnesty groups are insistent on confusing legal and illegal immigration. Lets not start mixing our apples and oranges. The issue before Congress is illegal immigration. Perhaps the May 1st boycott should give America a glimpse into A Day Without ILLEGAL Immigration.
**********What would that May 1st look like without illegal immigration? There would be no one to smuggle across our southern border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines that plague the United States, reducing the U.S. supply of meth that day by 80%. The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day. Another 13 Americans would survive who are otherwise killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals. Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded with everything from gunshot wounds, to anchor babies, to imported diseases to hangnails, giving American citizens the day off from standing in line behind illegals. Eight American children would not suffer the horror as a victim of a sex crime.*********
On the negative side, the price of a pound of tomatoes might go up from $0.79 to $0.80. That is unless you have a garden. But Im guessing that the Mexican drug lords are not taking May 1st off. Neither will the 11,000 illegal invaders that pour over our border every other day of the year. It is a safe bet that the U.S. Border Patrol will have a very busy Nothing Gringo Day.
Since September 11th, it remains true that OBL is the greatest threat to America. I will leave it to the reader to decide if the greatest threat is Osama bin Laden or the Open Borders Lobby. The emerging cheap labor ruling class in America is the strongest supporter of amnesty for illegals. Their anti-American new servant class has chosen to boycott them; the very definition of irony. On May 1st, Primero de Mayo, Americans will observe, as illegal immigrants celebrate, Bite the Hand That Feeds You Day.
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/ia05_king/col_20060505_bite.html
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