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.'"
Jim Gilchrist |
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.
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.
A Reagan conservative. |
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.
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