yeah yeah .. whatever
Posted on 09/29/2003 6:42:41 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
Just returned from the Nashville “Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride” rally and definitely got an earful. Directly facing the brand new Country Music Hall of Fame on the grounds of the Hilton Hotel, about 1,000 illegal immigrants were preceded by the Perl-Cohn High School marching band on the newly-renovated Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge crossing the Cumberland River from the poorer Eastern side of town. While they were on their way I asked a Hilton employee if the hotel owned the grounds or if they were part of the Hall of Fame or the city park system. He proudly stated that Hilton owned it and the group could not meet there without their express permission. Campaign workers for Dennis Kucenich and a vender selling buttons and stickers calling for Bush’s impeachment (and other seditionist tripe) were anxiously waiting for the band to finish and the organizers to get organized. An old fellow opened with a rendition of “We Will Overcome”, which was entirely lost on the aliens but was carried by the black and liberal Caucasians in the crowd. It was only then that I noticed that those two groups were far and away the majority present, despite Nashville harboring tens of thousands of illegal immigrants. The only police presence there was to insure orderly traffic flow. I’ll save you the pain of hearing the usual lies and cliché’s from the variety of speakers with their translators. You can catch all that at tnimmigrant.org, maldef or Council of LaRaza websites. What was interesting was that this group is pushing for PC 158, the shameful law passed in 2001 that opened Tennessee Driver’s Licenses to illegal aliens. They were complaining that conservatives and “other forces of evil” are working to rescind this law (which is a national embarrassment to this state). Thick in the crowd and chumming with the organizers were many notable Tennessee Democrats doing their part to look as if they really cared. I was fortunate to stand next to a film crew from the Methodists who were interviewing the primary leader of the rally, Reverend Lawson. He espoused Christian tolerance, union representation and the right for the illegals to vote on the grounds that they pay their share of taxes and do the work we won’t do. With a straight face. I restrained myself and smiled. One man, just one man, was walking around with a sign that said “What is it about Illegal that you don’t Understand?” While I approached to speak with him two young men in their early 20’s started hassling him. I stepped in and pointed out that they were interfering with a CITIZEN’S right to protest. They didn’t like the two-on-two aspect and looked toward their friends for backup. When that didn’t occur these two tried to obstruct the man’s sign and ridiculed him behind his back. I one-upped them with a “he’s the man” gesture (Scott Hall of NWO, a wrestling thing) and they retreated. He decided that was enough (seeing how well supported we were) and called it a night. “Daniel” was one brave fellow who was unaware of Free Republic until I told him about it. I finished up the evening by passing out fliers to the illegal aliens that urged them in Spanish to go home, overthrow their corrupt governments and improve their lives in their home countries. The flier also told them that their supporters were Communists who were using them as tools for their own agenda. I exchanged one of these with a cheerful drone who informed me that the illegals provide 25 billion dollars in tax revenue for all of our benefit. That was MY cue to exit, Stage Right, even. The ranting was only getting louder as I left for home.
Here's a big BUMP!
yeah yeah .. whatever
Hopefully we can learn something. We just a started a referendum on our stupid new law (SB60) and have until Dec. 7th to collect the signatures. Once we do the law will be immediately STAYED until the regular election next March. If all goes well, the law will never see the light of day, and thus the licenses will never be issued.
Just returned from the Nashville “Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride” rally and definitely got an earful.
Directly facing the brand new Country Music Hall of Fame on the grounds of the Hilton Hotel, about 1,000 illegal immigrants were preceded by the Perl-Cohn High School marching band on the newly-renovated Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge crossing the Cumberland River from the poorer Eastern side of town.
While they were on their way I asked a Hilton employee if the hotel owned the grounds or if they were part of the Hall of Fame or the city park system. He proudly stated that Hilton owned it and the group could not meet there without their express permission. Campaign workers for Dennis Kucenich and a vender selling buttons and stickers calling for Bush’s impeachment (and other seditionist tripe) were anxiously waiting for the band to finish and the organizers to get organized.
An old fellow opened with a rendition of “We Will Overcome”, which was entirely lost on the aliens but was carried by the black and liberal Caucasians in the crowd. It was only then that I noticed that those two groups were far and away the majority present, despite Nashville harboring tens of thousands of illegal immigrants.
The only police presence there was to insure orderly traffic flow. I’ll save you the pain of hearing the usual lies and cliché’s from the variety of speakers with their translators. You can catch all that at tnimmigrant.org, maldef or Council of LaRaza websites. What was interesting was that this group is pushing for PC 158, the shameful law passed in 2001 that opened Tennessee Driver’s Licenses to illegal aliens.
They were complaining that conservatives and “other forces of evil” are working to rescind this law (which is a national embarrassment to this state). Thick in the crowd and chumming with the organizers were many notable Tennessee Democrats doing their part to look as if they really cared.
I was fortunate to stand next to a film crew from the Methodists who were interviewing the primary leader of the rally, Reverend Lawson. He espoused Christian tolerance, union representation and the right for the illegals to vote on the grounds that they pay their share of taxes and do the work we won’t do, with a straight face. I restrained myself and smiled.
One man, just one man, was walking around with a sign that said “What is it about Illegal that you don’t Understand?” While I approached to speak with him two young men in their early 20’s started hassling him. I stepped in and pointed out that they were interfering with a CITIZEN’S right to protest. They didn’t like the two-on-two aspect and looked toward their friends for backup. When that didn’t occur these two tried to obstruct the man’s sign and ridiculed him behind his back.
I one-upped them with a “he’s the man” gesture (Scott Hall of NWO, a wrestling thing) and they retreated. He decided that was enough (seeing how well supported we were) and called it a night. “Daniel” was one brave fellow who was unaware of Free Republic until I told him about it.
I finished up the evening by passing out fliers to the illegal aliens that urged them in Spanish to go home, overthrow their corrupt governments and improve their lives in their home countries. The flier also told them that their supporters were Communists who were using them as tools for their own agenda.
I exchanged one of these with a cheerful drone who informed me that the illegals provide 25 billion dollars in tax revenue for all of our benefit. That was MY cue to exit, Stage Right, even. The ranting was only getting louder as I left for home.
The operative word in that statement is YET. We're putting up with this s#it every day. I sincerely hope you never have to deal with the kind of crap we have to in California every day.
Viva Atzlan? I don't freakin' think so. Try "Molon Labe", m----r-f---er.
Very shameful of them to use these students to promote illegal activity.
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