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Friday, April 25
Anti-Catholic Minuteman Expose (Video)
by
SJ Reidhead
on Fri 25 Apr 2008 12:25 PM MDT
THESE ARE THE
MINUTEMEN
NOTE: I was
planning to a piece on the FLDS (I have some new information) but was
side-tracked by this story. I think this is something that
needs to be told. I know I am telling it one-sided, against
the Minutemen in California. But what I have found is so
repulsive and so vile it needs to be exposed to the light of
day. It is obvious someone is going to cross the line one of
these days and shots are going to be fired. I have a feeling
it will be a Minuteman or one of their supporter who will do the
shooting. When this happens and a defense is made, naturally
the Hispanic is going to be the evil one.
I think these videos are terribly
important. They show how abjectly evil these people
are.
Do you
have the courage to watch these
videos? There are a number of them at
Minutemen Unvarnished – and take nearly an hour to watch.
Watch the video “Do You
Believe in Jesus” as the San Diego Minutemen harass
parishioners at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in
Fallbrook. This is in Fallbrook,
CA.
Now see how it
is portrayed in the local media.
If this is
what Sheriff Joe is allowing in Maricopa
County, then he is as vile as are these
individuals. I don’t care what side of the immigration
argument you are on. If you think this is good, decent, and
patriotic, then you are seriously disturbed and as evil as are these
individuals. When you start harassing people attending
church, and mace people as they are going into church as this video
shows you are as bad as they are.
ANTI CATHOLIC A
TREND?
After watching these videos, it appears
to me that there is an anti-Catholic. I’ve
been covering the anti-immigration crowd’s
anti-Catholic bigotry for several days. Yesterday mentioned
that Harold Hutchinson at Called
As Seen had picked up on the anti-Catholic
bigotry of Tom Tancredo and Lou Dobbs. Harold references a WSJ
piece about how they “insulted the Pope”.
l The
Opinionated Catholic has
more. JJ mentions an editorial at Modern
Commentaries about Michelle Malkin and her
anti-Catholic rants. It is
obvious there is a strong anti-Catholic bias in the whole
anti-immigration movement, promoted by John Tanton and his dislike of
anyone who is not lily white. Why?
LA
Times
“…t's not too surprising that one of
the pontiff's most vocal critics was the poor man's Howard Beale, CNN
personality Lou Dobbs. He's made something of a specialty of bashing
the Catholic hierarchy in recent years, as part of his pseudo-populist
campaign for ratings. Dobbs charged Benedict with "mixing religion and
politics ... in many ways insulting our country, talking about the need
to be welcoming. ... I really don't appreciate the bad manners of a
guest telling me in this country and my fellow citizens what to
do." Well, there you go,
though the pope got off easy compared with L.A. civic leaders, whom
Dobbs blasted after an earlier -- and totally misleading -- report on
Special Order 40 and the case of Jamiel Shaw II, a young man allegedly
shot to death by an illegal immigrant who is a gang member. Dobbs
called city officials "liars" and singled out Police Chief Bill
Bratton, whose defense of Special Order 40 -- which puts certain
restrictions on when police can inquire about a suspect's immigration
status -- the broadcaster called "irresponsible" and "disgusting
politics." "And I think every
one of you in the city of Los Angeles, running that city, supporting a
sanctuary city and trying to excuse what happened to that family, I
think it is contemptible," said
Dobbs….”
THE
VIDEOS
(WARNING: These videos
feature profanity and obscene gestures)
(MigraMatters) If this is an
example of those who are anti-illegal and are “Minutemen” in San Diego,
then I’d rather be castigated for being against them. These
people are filthy, vile, nasty trash. This is
a link to a video. I am not doing an
inbed, because of the filthy language. From Minutemen Unvarnished comes a ‘best
of’ collection of videos about the Minutemen. Maybe you might
want to ask for your money back (if they can account for it).
You might want to watch “I’m
Allowed to Threaten People”. The jerk is wearing
a minuteman cap. Look at the people who are with the
Minutemen. I wouldn’t let them in my driveway, let alone
associate with them. The one “Keep Your Hands to Yourselves”
features San Diego Minuteman Founder Jeff Schwilk. Try
watching the one “Are You
Legal?”
How
about this Minuteman waving his flag?
He’s nothing but a thug. Watch “Remember after the Alamo” to see what
these people look like. They are scary. Watch
“No Talking
Chickens”. “Hello Witches” features the leader of
the San Diego Minutemen harassing two activists. Watch as the
Minutemen follow the women, attempting to terrorize them. Do you really
think these are nice people? If I were those women, I would
have been terrified. The San Diego Minutemen were
founded by Jim Gilchrist.
In “If You Love Mexicans” Jeff Schwilk accosts
a Home Depot customer. A minuteman
then spits at the camera person.
“Get out of
here” Jeff Schwilk goes after a Home Depot
customer. “Morning Wetbacks” shows how gentile the
Minutemen are.
In
“Vermin of
Vista” Jeff
Schwilk harasses and intimidates another
activist. This man is seriously disturbed. I can’t
believe people actually believe the you know what these people
spout. In “Bring It On” he tries to mace someone
who
disagrees with
him. In “He’s Trying to Scare
Her” our boy Jeff finally gets picked up by a cop for
harassing women.
Can
you watch these videos and not call them evil? Do you really
want to have sympathy for them and for their
cause? These
people think nothing of interrupting a church
service because the people inside are Hispanic.
“Can I Get Your
Name” is the video. Then in “The Church is Nothing but
Pimps” just shows how vile they are, using a loud speaker
to blast a church service. Obviously Sheriff Joe isn’t the
only one who doesn’t give a rip about disrupting church services. They
call the Catholic Church nothing but pimps. Too bad these
people can’t be arrested for disturbing a worship service.
Why
don’t decent people realize how nasty these individuals are? “I gotta be Freakin’
Rank” shows this same bunch disrupting a funeral so they
can harass people near-by. Obviously they have no morality or
decency. In this one, a Minuteman did not wear deodorant, and
then fans his nasty body in front of Hispanics. A woman is speaking
Spanish. They keep yelling at her to shut up.
You
will also want to read Minutemen Uncensored which features
their email.
Saturday, December 9
What Is Going on with Conservatives in the GOP? Part I
by
SJ Reidhead
on Sat 09 Dec 2006 08:31 PM MST
For quite some time I have been concerned about the nasty attacks that are being made by "Republicans" against Republicans who do not meet their ideological requirements, thereby violating one of Ronald Reagan’s most important commandments, “Thou shalt not speak ill of your fellow Republicans.” This past week a series of posts over at GOP Progress and conservative attacks on Liz Mair have only illustrated the problem. Until recently, I’ve never known Republicans of any ilk (liberal, moderate, or conservative) to be attacked so viciously by others who claim to be Republican. Until recently there was never a cult-like ideology where anyone who claimed to be a Republican must pass a litmus test.
You can’t run a political party or entice voters that way. It reeks of the foul stench of a cult. In a cult people are brainwashed, harassed, and sometimes tortured until they agree with the views of the self-proclaimed leader. Unfortunately this is what appears to be happening with various and sundry ideologically RIGHT conservatives who have decided they are the true Republicans and anyone who disagrees with them needs to be excommunicated from the party.
This is a recipe for electoral disaster. We saw it in November when we lost the House and the Senate. If we are not careful and if all factions of the GOP do not grow up and behave like adults, we’re going to be losing elections for a very long time.
The Republican Party is a “Big Tent Party” where many views are allowed and based on party principles, people are allowed freedom of thought, assembly, and speech. To constantly harass and threaten those who do not 100% agree with an ideology is not what the Republican Party stands for at all. The very act of doing so makes one wonder if the party doing the harassing even knows what it is to be a Republican.
The Republican Party stands for freedom. To disallow that very practice within the party is disaster, abject disaster. It is time for those individuals and groups who feel we are not RIGHT enough for them to sit back, take a deep breath, and get a grip on life. If you do not begin using your head to think things through in a logical intelligent manner, you are doing nothing but helping Howard Dean liberals. Maybe that is what you want. I don’t know. I do know we have a serious problem and it isn’t coming from GOP members who are liberal, moderate, or Reagan Conservatives. It is coming from people who have usurped the party and turned it into something Ronald Reagan would never allow.
“…And just to set the record straight, let me say this about our friends who are now Republicans but who do not identify themselves as conservatives: I want the record to show that I do not view the new revitalized Republican Party as one based on a principle of exclusion. After all, you do not get to be a majority party by searching for groups you won’t associate or work with. If we truly believe in our principles, we should sit down and talk. Talk with anyone, anywhere, at any time if it means talking about the principles for the Republican Party. Conservatism is not a narrow ideology, nor is it the exclusive property of conservative activists….”
Last Sunday I began the Pink Flamingo posting with this quote and ended with the following comment: Okay, what idiot would be so brazen as to say something like that? Would you believe Ronald W. Reagan on Feb. 6, 1977?
Unfortunately during the past few months a battle seems to be growing within the Republican Party. It is between the ranks of those who feel they are the heirs of the message of Reagan and the keeper of the flame and everyone else. The perfect illustration of the problems we are now experiencing is a comment that was posted over on The Pink Flamingo the other day. I am not revealing the name of the woman who posted it.
“Lindsey Graham is a big moderate. He wants media adulation, like McCain, on fact his main goal seems to be to impress McCain: he says whatever Mcain (sic) does. There are many instances of Graham RINO'ing it up: Gang of 14, the torture bill, this summer on military tribunals, etc. He's pretty spineless on most things- not a true conservative. Rush does the same thing to McCain, because you can't respect them as conservatives.”
Kristin’s comment proves my oft stated point that today’s RIGHT conservatives who claim to be Republican have no earthly idea just who or what Ronald Reagan was and what he actually believed. In the same Feb. 6, 1977 (The Shining City on the Hill speech) it is though Reagan knew his version of Conservativism would be perverted into some sort of a cult.
“…One thing that must be made clear in post-Watergate is this: The American new conservative majority we represent is not based on abstract theorizing of the kind that turns off the American people, but on common sense, intelligence, reason, hard work, faith in God, and the guts to say: "Yes, there are things we do strongly believe in, that we are willing to live for, and yes, if necessary, to die for." That is not "ideological purity." It is simply what built this country and kept it great.
Let us lay to rest, once and for all, the myth of a small group of ideological purists trying to capture a majority. Replace it with the reality of a majority trying to assert its rights against the tyranny of powerful academics, fashionable left-revolutionaries, some economic illiterates who happen to hold elective office and the social engineers who dominate the dialogue and set the format in political and social affairs. If there is any ideological fanaticism in American political life, it is to be found among the enemies of freedom on the left or right -- those who would sacrifice principle to theory, those who worship only the god of political, social and economic abstractions, ignoring the realities of everyday life. They are not conservatives.
Our first job is to get this message across to those who share most of our principles. If we allow ourselves to be portrayed as ideological shock troops without correcting this error we are doing ourselves and our cause a disservice. Wherever and whenever we can, we should gently but firmly correct our political and media friends who have been perpetuating the myth of conservatism as a narrow ideology. Whatever the word may have meant in the past, today conservatism means principles evolving from experience and a belief in change when necessary, but not just for the sake of change…”
Now, do you understand the words of Ronald Reagan… “If there is any ideological fanaticism in American political life, it is to be found among the enemies of freedom on the left or right -- those who would sacrifice principle to theory, those who worship only the god of political, social and economic abstractions, ignoring the realities of everyday life. They are not conservatives…”
Reagan understood that ideological conservatives from the far right were just as dangerous to the freedom of this nation as the ideological liberals from the far left. They are on in the same. The only difference in their cult-like adherence to an ideology is the fact that one is left and the other is right.
I'm a Republican Because...
I BELIEVE the strength of our nation lies with the individual and that each person’s dignity, freedom, ability and responsibility must be honored.
I BELIEVE in equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, sex, age or disability.
I BELIEVE free enterprise and encouraging individual initiative have brought this nation opportunity, economic growth and prosperity.
I BELIEVE government must practice fiscal responsibility and allow individuals to keep more of the money they earn.
I BELIEVE the proper role of government is to provide for the people only those critical functions that cannot be performed by individuals or private organizations, and that the best government is that which governs least.
I BELIEVE the most effective, responsible and responsive government is government closest to the people.
I BELIEVE Americans must retain the principles that have made us strong while developing new and innovative ideas to meet the challenges of changing times.
I BELIEVE Americans value and should preserve our national strength and pride while working to extend peace, freedom and human rights throughout the world.
FINALLY, I believe the Republican Party is the best vehicle for translating these ideals into positive and successful principles of government.
I think one of the problems we are facing within the Republican Party is the fact that people have lost sight of just what/who is a “real” Republican. Maybe we need a primer on just who Republicans are and what we stand for.
Let’s start with the History of the GOP.
What Is Going on with Conservatives in the GOP? Part II
by
SJ Reidhead
on Sat 09 Dec 2006 08:27 PM MST
Currently
“The Republican Party is comprised of many informal factions, which often overlap but do not necessarily agree. For example, there are Fiscal Conservatives, Evangelicals, Social Conservatives, Neoconservatives, Paleoconservatives, Libertarians, Moderates (sometimes derided as Republican In Name Only, or RINOs, by more conservative Republicans), and Log Cabin Republicans.The Republican Party is the more socially conservative and economically libertarian of the two major parties, and has closer ties to both Wall Street (large corporations) and Main Street (locally owned businesses) but has little support among labor unions. The party supports lower taxes, limited government on economic issues, and favors business; it supports government intervention in some social issues such as abortion.[1] In his 1981 inaugural address, Republican President Ronald Reagan summed up his belief in limited government when he said, "In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."[2] Since 1980, the GOP has contained what George Will calls "unresolved tensions between, two flavors of conservatism -- Western and Southern." The Western brand, says Will, "is largely libertarian, holding that pruning big government will allow civil society -- and virtues nourished by it and by the responsibilities of freedom -- to flourish." The Southern variety, however, reflects a religiosity based in evangelical and fundamentalist churches that is less concerned with economics and more with moralistic issues, such as opposition to abortion and homosexuality.[3] There is of course a strong Christian evangelical Republican movement in the Western United States; and in no way should these two movements—economic libertarianism and social conservatism—be considered mutually exclusive, since, especially within the Republican Party, they often overlap.”
Today, many of the most vocal supporters of the RIGHT wing of the GOP have associations or are talking talking points from the CofCC. I am truly concerned that today’s RIGHT conservatives have been hoodwinked and led astray by organizations such as the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC) and endorsing their ‘principles’. The CofCC (as this ADL link shows) evolved out of the old White Citizen’s Council. There have been accusations of racism for years. The SPLC has an excellent profile of Gordon Baum, the leader of the CofCC.
Kirstin, mentioned above, is parroting the words of the SC chapter of the CofCC as they attempt to have Senator Lindsey Graham removed from office because he does not meet with their standards of ‘conservative purity. Strangely enough, many of the RIGHT attacks of John McCain also parrot the language the CofCC uses. Is the CofCC calling the shots and the truly RIGHT branch of the GOP is being sucked into their on special version of racism and hate? I truly hope not, but there are signs this is indeed happening.
“…The Council's state chapter president, Kyle Rogers, said the rally's purpose was to convince state congressmen to vote against guest-worker programs and amnesty. "We got to put pressure on the House Republicans," Rogers said. "President George W. Bush is pressuring them to accept amnesty. But the whole state of South Carolina will turn against you (senators). "The state is already furious at Lindsey Graham. His career is shot." Citizens speak out Protest participants lined the entranceway of the Channel 4 news station with flags and signs that read: "Lendsey (sic) Graham is a traitor," and "Stop the Invasion."Passing motorists honked their horns and shouted out "America!" as they drove past the rally. The location of the protest was ideal for Greenville city traffic visibility, and it also blocked the entrance to the news station. "WYFF said that we had dozens of people at the last protest," Rogers said. According to Rogers, there were at least a 1,000 people in attendance. So standing in front of the news station was "symbolic." "Most conservative events don't draw the numbers the left wing does because of the media," Rogers said. "But we're going to keep going despite of them." The small numbers didn't fetter the enthusiasm participants had for their cause…”
This is also important for yet another reason. Kyle Rogers was active in arranging the infamous appearance of Colorado’s Tom Tancredo at a CofCC and League of the South event in Columbia last summer. Or as the Denver Post peged it, Tancredo Sings with Bigots.
Baum's associates include former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr.
"A personal injury lawyer specializing in auto accidents and workmen's compensation claims in St. Louis, Baum formed the organization in 1985 based on the mailing lists of the segregationistWhite Citizens Councils for whom he had been the Midwest field organizer. It grew to include some 15,000 members, mostly in the deep South, and to have genuine political power — power that could be glimpsed when the group's links to Lott and then-U.S. Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) were exposed...."
There is a spider's web of dots to connect including the fact that the CofCC meets with Stormfront when they have national conferences.
Or try this piece about Stormfront and the CofCC. I hope you are getting this. Jeffrey Feldman has discovered the following:
"...Members of the IKA including an Imperial Officer attended the June 16-17 Council of Conservative Citizens conference in Louisville, Kentucky. There were many exemplary speakers at this event (Don Black, Paul Fromm, Sam Dickson, Col. Robt. Slimp, Dr. Ed Fields, James Edwards, Dr. Brent Nelson, Kevin Lamb, and others) and there was music to enjoy as well. Don't let the word "Conservative" or the formal attire give you the wrong idea – these gentlemen aren't your typical conservative buffoons. The speeches given were absolutely revolutionary and quite informative. The IKA made many important contacts networking at the conference which will prove beneficial to future endeavors. The conference was a fine experience and we would like to extend our thanks to the organizers and attendees of this event for their warm welcoming and hospitality.
WHITE UNITY!
–Imperial Godi, Imperial Klans of America..."
Have you ever smelled a rat? Try misogonist Carey Rogers and his anti-feminist life’s work. Evidently he doesn’t like women, unless they are silent, barefoot, and pregnant. He especially doesn’t approve of them in conservative politics, and feels the presence of women such as myself have corrupted the Republican Party. More power to him! (Oh, FYI, he also believes more women commit violence against men that men commit violence against women. Bet he also doesn’t believe men rape women, either. Guess the little ladys just askin’ for it.) I just love the way RIGHT conservatives twist and misuse facts then say only liberals do it.
“…Thankfully, some in the conservative ranks have bravely spoken out against the rad-fem jihad, including Phyllis Schlafly, Ann Coulter, Laura Schlessinger, Catherine Seipp, Kathryn Jean Lopez, and Myrna Blyth. But why are there only six, not 600 conservative women on the list? And what about conservative men? Are the conservative no-shows intimidated or merely complacent? Why haven’t the mainstream conservative organizations come out four-square against radical feminism? To be sure, one reason is that the conservative movement has become beholden to the electoral imperatives of the Republican party, fearing that any criticism of feminism might stir a backlash on election day. This fear is misplaced, however, as only a quarter of American women call themselves feminist, and 22% of women say that being called a feminist would be an “insult.” Another reason is that many conservative men – especially politicians and newspaper editors—confuse ladies-first chivalry with becoming water-carriers for the latest feminist myth-de-jour. It’s time that these guys wise-up to the feminist bait-and-switch. These gals claim to be the complete equals to men. But voice any doubts about their ideology, and they lapse into a pathetic cocoon of hurt feelings. And then there are those ladies who claim to be straight-laced conservatives, but bristle with an anti-male hostility or spread poisonous gender myths….”
Why do I digress? It is quite simple. For months I’ve been trying to unearth the roots of this very nasty strain of RIGHT minded conservatives who think they own the Republican Party. I keep finding some interesting little tidbits here and there. You need to connect the dots.
Carey Roberts writes his wonderfully enlightened material for a number of good conservative RIGHT publications. One of them is Aeonweb that is run by Move Off.com.MoveOff. Com is a part of the New Media Alliance. The New Media Alliance is owned by Heritage Media Partnerships. Heritage Media Partnerships is part of Reality Check. org. There are a number of umbrella organizations all spewing the same bait and switch. Gary Schneider is the front name for the IRS reports. The New Media Alliance works in conjunction with Townhall.
Part of the New Media Alliance web includes the American Daily. One of the top contributors to the American Daily is Daneen G. Peterson, Ph.D. Peterson has, in my humble opinion, penned some of the most bigoted, hate filled, misrepresentations about the Hispanic people I've ever seen. Then there is Timely Topics. Another publication is the UsaSentinel. I have no idea what RTPX is. North America Views is another part of the spider web. Then there is Moveoff Us. You should note that this site links to the Constitution Party. I keep saying we're not dealing with actual Republicans here, but people who are conservative who pretend to be Republican. Then there is the Conservative Press. MoveOffWs is also part of the problem. Then there is News by Us. Truth in Conviction The View from 1776Conservative Crusader
Now we come to Republican Voices by Emil Levitin, who is a member of GOP Bloggers. And there is the New Media Journal that claims to be Republican. The PubliusForum is part of the group. And then we have Frosty Woodbridge, who defies description. I would love to call him the Cindy Sheehan of the whacked out right. There is Time to Vote. And they have the Capital Hill Coffeehouse. The most fun is the only Republican political figure you see any of these organizations linking to is Tancredo. Great Minds Think Right How about Mad as Hell.
The Roberts article that started all of this is from News With Views that is ultra conservative and terribly unGOP.
Saturday, October 14
The KKK and Immigration with Links to the Minutemen
by
SJ Reidhead
on Sat 14 Oct 2006 05:18 PM MDT
The Minuteman (et. al) Project- Jim Gilchrist's site)
The KKK were the first to have a border patrol.
There is enough material here for any thinking person with an open mind to realize there are tenuous links at the very least, and the strong possibility of much strong links between the minutemen, et. al and the KKK.
Fair and balanced - the KKK's view.
The entire anti-immigration movement has its roots in the post WWI KKK. This poster is fascinating, published in 1924. 
In a recent NPR piece by Adam Burke, the residents of Olathe, CO expressed outrage at the KKK anti-immigration activities there.
From a recent SPLC report on anti-immigration factions:
"...[TX] Protesters arrested at KKK immigration rally
Odessa American / June 18, 2006
Several people were arrested while protesting a KKK anti-illegal immigration rally Saturday afternoon at the Midland County Courthouse. Before the Klan even arrived, police and portions of the crowd physically collided ... About 25 members or supporters of a San Angelo-based KKK group stood in front of the courthouse and were met with a vocal crowd of more than 300. [...] Steven Edwards, the leader of the Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Texas, said he is racist, but that racism means a love of one's own race, not hatred for another. The Klan chose Midland as the location for their rally, Edwards said, because it's the home of President George W. Bush. He said he hopes Bush hears about the event. "A wall or a fence should be put up around the country," he said. Big Spring's Mike Peterson, founder of Ameriskins, was one of the Klan's supporters standing by their side. "America needs to take care of Americans first. This country was made by white Europeans for white Europeans..."
Thanks to the ADL we know the fall schedule for some of these groups.
To understand the role the KKK has played in the whole anti-immigration scene, one must delve through their 'interesting' history. We also need to face that fact that the first real, restrictive anti-immigration laws were passed after being promoted by the KKK in the 1920's. Up until that time, some 2.5 million people from Mexico freely moved across our borders for seasonal work. One could even make the case that these restrictions helped to increase the poverty level in Mexico, just as they will, again.
I know our dear RINOconservative pundits and celebs refuse to believe the KKK is involved in the whole anti-immigration thing, but check this out and you may find it isn't an isolated case. And The Nation version of the Alabama rally. And some NC problems. Hispanic Vista has a page of links connecting the KKK to various states, organizations, an rallys.
AZ GOP Congressional candidate Randy Graf endorsed by David Duke. Read about it in Migra Matters. The sidebar to the right of the web page has excellent, documented information about immigration and illegal immigration.
David Newirt's Oricus can fill you in on the back story.
Why is it the only people who don't believe there are serious problems within the anti-immigration organizations and their ties to unsavory characters are our RINOconservatives? From the Dem Blog for Arizona...
"...There is a certain irony in the fact that extreme right wing movements tend to end up victimizing the very people they claim to fight for. In the heyday of the KKK, for example, when it was at the appogee of its influence and membership, Stetson Kennedy documented how KKK leaders used the organization to bilk rank and file members, and enrich themselves. That behavior and its exposure, along with the large degree of bunkum at the core of the organization's mystique, arguably led to the fatal decline of the Klan; the story is compellingly told in the popular book Freakonomics.
It may well be the latest populist expression of nativist/racist sentiment may burn out in a similar fashion due to the greed, duplicity, and in-fighting of the movement's leadership. Chris Simcox is being accused from within the Minuteman movement of financial improprieties which may end up discrediting the movement and imploding civil border partol ..."
Too bad our conservative friends don't realize that the SPLC can be trusted. If so, they would have their eyes opened. Or this would offer some insight into the background of the people promoting anti-immigration.
Are they minutemen, et. al or KKK?
Saturday, October 7
MINUTEMAN VIOLENT PROTESTS: Why Does Violence Follow Gilchrist but Not Simcox? Is There A Reason?
by
SJ Reidhead
on Sat 07 Oct 2006 08:00 PM MDT
The burning question of the day is why do the 'protests' against minutemen, et. al Jim Gilchrist becomeviolent but those against Chris Simcox don't? Is there a reason? Is Gilchrist up to something. As I have shown repeatedly here and over at The Pink Flamingo, Gilchrist is not the most truthful person in the world. The truth is not in him. It is that plain and simple. He panders to the RINOconservative right, but yet his roots are with the Green Party. Why? He believes in redistribution of wealth and a social state. Why doesn't he tell this to Hannity and his RINOconservative supporters? Why won't they bother looking |
