Minutemen hit D.C.

WorldNetDaily ^ | May 12,2006

[Man50D]

Members of the Minuteman Project will stage a rally at the U.S. Capitol today to celebrate the end of a cross-country caravan meant to protest the flow of illegal aliens across the border.

"This is a Trojan horse – a covert invasion," Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, said of illegal immigration.

The caravan began in Los Angeles May 3, and participants have been holding rallies in several states along the way. The caravan's "official pace car" is a 1970 Mercury Cougar dubbed "The Spirit Of Allegiance."

The final rally is scheduled for 11 a.m. today at the park on the Senate side of the Capitol.

Prominent national speakers at the kick-off rally in L.A. included WND columnist Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, the founder and president of BOND – the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, and social activist Ted Hayes.

Addressing the rally, Peterson commented, "Illegal immigration is having a devastating effect on the black community. African Americans are being put out of jobs and out of homes."

A rally also occurred May 6 in Crawford, Texas, home to President Bush's ranch.

"We are doing what the original Minutemen would have wanted us to do," Gilchrist told WND. "We are bringing the message to Washington."

According to its website, the Minuteman Project hopes to "bring national awareness to the decades-long careless disregard of effective U.S. immigration law enforcement."

A recent poll indicates concern about illegal immigration is now the No. 2 issue among Americans, next to the war in Iraq.

Gilchrist, who is being talked about as a 2008 presidential candidate, believes that by Election Day in November, "voters will show conclusively that illegal entry by foreigners on U.S. soil and the issue of 'guest worker amnesty' is at least as important to the American people as the war in Iraq."

[TLI]

From a related post.

Just a little heads up for all you WH lurkers... :-)

That means provisions to strengthen border security, coupled with a guest worker program that — while the president doesn't say so in public — provides a chance at citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.

"the president doesn't say so in public..."

Yea, imagine that. Kinda wants to just "breeze over that."

Here is a little something to "skim over" as well. Might even tack it in one of those morning briefings. Emphasis added, with extreme prejudice.

That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to ABOLISH it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Seems to me that the Founding Fathers were pretty clever in putting that instruction in The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united* States of America (Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776). By placing that instruction there it is not subject to amendments or change. It is there forever.

[Man50D]

I posted this thread merely as a heads up. I had no idea it would be used to provide updates to the rally. I've enjoyed reading the posts as to what's happening since I can't be there (little thing called work). Thanks!

[joanie-f]

Thanks for re-posting my post on this thread, B4R.

Going to be off-line for several weeks, so didn’t want to start up any debates or conversations on the original thread, but do want to thank you for your kind words there. I won’t be here for a while to do my part in helping you all get the word out, but will look forward to returning to the fray in a few weeks. :)

Let's hope the President is about to announce something significant regarding our southern border in his speech on Monday night. It's about time the White House began listening to the American citizens. Government of the people, by the people, and for the people has been reduced to a meaningless cliché over the past seventeen years.

Back soon ...

~ joanie ....

[La Enchiladita]

I thought I saw Kristinn in the crowd too.

We've been keeping a day by day account of the Caravan progress. Here is today's "live" thread:

Day 10: Minuteman Caravan to Washington, D.C.

[La Enchiladita]

Nice graphic!

[mcar]

Thanks
Minutemen are an inspiration

[Das Outsider]

Who gets to decide how we will deal with illegal immigration -- the people or the ruling elites?

Prop 187--enough said.

The minuteman phenomenon has the makings of a political movement with Gilchrist as its leader.

Some would argue that it already is a movement--we just haven't realized it yet.

Perhaps this fight over illegal immigrations will cause as profound a political realignment.

In spite of what some on FR will say, I think you're on to something. Parties change. Some disappear and are replaced by others. When I hear Republicans employing the same tactics and arguments that liberal Democrats were using a decade or two earlier, it seems time for a little "realignment."

[Nephi]

Actually, a NRST taxes products produced and imported into the US by France, Germany and China at the same rate as "Made in the USA" products. A NRST subsidizes socialism/communism. Get it?

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

The problem is ICE doesn't know what the real count is.