Posted on 05/06/2008 10:01:33 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
I told you yesterday about John McCain’s plans to speak to the National Council of La Raza (The Race) in July. Here are the top 10 reasons he should repudiate the radical open borders, speech-squelching group that he has long embraced:
10. La Raza supports driver’s licenses for illegal aliens.
9. La Raza supports in-state tuition discounts for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding US citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants.
8. La Raza opposes cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state, and federal authorities.
7. La Raza sponsors militant ethnic nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars, including the “Aztlan Academy” in Tucson, AZ, the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, AZ, and Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn.
6. La Raza gives mainstream cover to a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), which the late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized as “a radical racist group…[and] one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West.”
5. La Raza opposes a secure fence on the southern border.
4. Former La Raza president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton’s Hispanic outreach advisor said this:
“US English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks.” He was referring to US English the nation’s oldest, largest citizens’ action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States.
La Raza also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding the terms “illegal” and “amnesty.”
3. La Raza is currently leading a smear campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called for TV and cable TV networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves–in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up their foes.
2. La Raza has consistently opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.
1. The National Council of La Raza means The National Council of “The Race,” for God’s sake.
Their signature slogan, chanted at pro-illegal alien rallies from coast to coast, is “La raza unida nunca sera vencida.”
“A united [Hispanic] race will never be defeated.”
What possible good will come out of a GOP presidential candidate giving legitimacy and credibility to a sovereignty-undermining, assimilation-rejecting, law-defying group that calls itself “The Race?”
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"I agree that John McCain should not attend any conference of a group called “National Council of the Race.” In a multiracial society, Rev. Wright’s “rich white folks,” Obama’s “typical white person”, and clingers comments, and the idea of “The Race” will eventually doom us all. And it’s time no one gets a pass any more."
Jonathan Martin cluelessly suggests that McCain is “trying to show that he’s not George W. Bush by going into the lion’s den and taking hostile, unscripted questions from adversarial groups.”
Hostile? Adversarial? Do your homework, MSM.
McCain was honored by The Race in 1999, keynoted The Race’s 2004 conference, and has championed their agenda for years.
Yup. J'onn snuffs it -- whatever that really means, ultimately, at DC and Marvel nowadays ;) -- and Barry Allen makes his triumphant, back-from-the-dead-and-Crisis-One-for-good return. (Although credible sources at DC have let it slip that it may be as a villain, iniitally...)
You think Baby Huey could take the Hulk, though? I mean, supposing they were both locked in the X-Men's Danger Room, and all... ;)
Antisemites always get around to justifying their beliefs because "the Jews make them do it".
Maybe it's best to let them lose big time and just get them washed out of the system.
If you're attempting to make the case that Racist Group "A," which only hates one race/creed, isn't really racist, comparatively speaking, because Racist Group "B" hates three or four races/creeds, after all -- and I'm only guessing here, mind; I'm not altogether certain what point it is you're getting at, in all honesty -- I'd have to say, quite frankly: HUH -- ?!?
Obama is opposed to handling wiretapping in a sane manner, and even voted against an amendment earlier this year that would have given immunity to telecoms who helped in anti-terror investigations.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Barack_Obama.htm#Homeland_Security
There are more national security issues than amnesty.
“he posted an apologia on behalf of an openly racist group.”
Hmmm. Where did I do that?
“Sorry... but: anyone characterizing Michelle Malkin as being prone to “frequent bouts of hysteria” simply isn’t familiar enough with the woman’s work...”
Sorry, as much as I like Michelle I find her jumping the shark more and more...ala Ann.
I have the highest regard for Michelle, but her columns have unfortunately become increasingly shrill - thereby lessening their message.
I do not have a Ph. D. on the lovely Michelle. I am expressing only my humble and, surely inadequate, impressions.
Her tendency has been to move at times from the understatement to the attention-grabbing exaggeration and half-story. Plus some doses of personal destruction without providing fair opporunity for response.
Again, this lessens the message - and her influence.
As for examples, I cited two from the article at hand.
Great point.
Nah, Hulk every time.
Thanks for the support MS, but I’d hate for you to get pulled into the hysteria that follows anyonw who opposes Big Brother groupthink...heheh.
If you have any trouble finding it: it's just a few postings above the one where you called everyone who disagrees with you on the issue of illegal immigration "thugs."
What the poster was saying is that actions have consequences and too many posters on FR reach for the pitchforks before analyzing the long term consequences of their efforts.
I happen to agree.
So don't vote for them. Leave the line blank.
But you can't vote against that new county tax, or the zoning ordinance, or vote for that good guy that's running for sheriff if you don't show up.
It's possible the La Raza people don't know beans about the KKK ~ and then how do you address that problem in Philadelphia where Hispanic gang members appear to be murdering young black people to "clear neighborhoods" so their friends can move in.
Just doesn't make any sense for La Raza to get that confused.
Maybe McCain could raise that issue ~ I can just see his "plain talk 'press" formatted speech "And, my friends, when we see that hispanic gangs are murdering African-American college students in Philadelphia, blah, blah, blah.
There, I think we've got the rhythm on this. McCain has to speak truth to power ~ lay it down to these guys that we know what they're up to.
He ain't got a hair, though.
Weird. I was posting the response of this group to the accusations of it’s detractors for discussion purposes and all of a sudden they are my words and I am defending them.
Groupthink—>Supress all information that doesn’t agree with mob—>Attack perceived enemies.
PERCEIVED being the functional word there.
Examples, please. Specific ones. If you can credibly make the accusations in the first place... then: you (patently) must have specific instances in mind.
As for examples, I cited two from the article at hand.
If you mean this statement, here:
Michelle, the fence is well along; and, no, Michelle, we are not going to issue drivers licenses to illegals - as Hillary and (former) NY governor, Spitzer belatedly got through their heads.
... then the score, quite rightly, reads: Michelle, 2, mtntop3, Zip. ;) Hillary and Spitzer both absolutely were intent upon gifting illegals with DLs; the fact that public pressure forced them both to hurriedly back down from such an idiotic notion doesn't render her initial reporting incorrect in even the slightest particular. That's one.
As for "the fence is well along"...? Pfft. If, by "well enough along," you actually mean Only JustBegun, And With Future Funding Being Held Hostage... possibly. Otherwise? Ummmmmmm... "Magic Eightball Says NO."
Besides, you posted a lot of stuff where a single URL would have sufficed. In any case, La Raza people tell so many lies it's difficult to figure out if anything they have on their website is truly meaningful to us.
I don't like to see Sp0+l|gjt or other neo-nazi or identity church stuff tossed into the middle of an FR thread either.
Not only do I not pretend to know the players, I really don’t care who they are or how long they have been here. If you don’t believe in free speech then just say so.
Weird. You plainly don't have the first @#$%ing clue what the word apologia means. ;)
An apologia is a justification, or a defense. It needn't be "one's own words," at all; that's not even remotely a part of the actual, accepted definition of the term.
What you posted was, in fact, an apologia. I'm genuinely sorry if the word displeases you, or brings you discomfort... but: It Is What It Is.
Attack perceived enemies
Such as, f'rinstance, repeatedly calling everyone who disagrees with you on a given issue "thugs." Gotcha.
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