Posted on 05/01/2010 3:00:14 PM PDT by NoLibZone
A group organizing a May 1 "May Day" rally in favor of "immigrant rights" in Lafayette Park in front of the White House is financially supported by the Catholic Church, Big Business, the federal government, and various Maryland governmental entities.
It is anticipated that the demonstration will take the form of opposition to Arizona's new law that is designed to discourage illegal immigration.
The buses will leave for Lafayette Park from CASA de Maryland centers starting at 12:30, with the rally scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.
So-called "May Day actions" are being planned in dozens of cities around the U.S.CASA de Maryland, an illegal alien support group, is sponsoring the buses that will take hundreds of protesters to the event in the nation's capital. CASA is considered the biggest promoter and facilitator of illegal aliens in Maryland.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and its Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), which got caught funding the radical group ACORN, are listed on the CASA website as being among its many financial donors and supporters.
Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Migration, issued a statement April 27 "in solidarity with the Catholic bishops of Arizona" opposing the enactment and implementation of the Arizona law.
Wester said, "The U.S. Catholic bishops stand in solidarity with the bishops of Arizona in opposing this draconian law. We call upon the Administration to review its impact on civil rights and liberties. We renew our call for the Administration and Congress to work in a bipartisan manner to enact comprehensive immigration reform as soon as possible."
The Bishops have made it clear that such "comprehensive" reform must include amnesty for illegal aliens as its central component. Many of these aliens are Catholics from Latin America.
CASA de Maryland's Facebook page denounces the new Arizona immigration law and highlights opposition to the measure by Meghan McCain, daughter of Arizona Republican Senator John McCain.
CASA de Maryland created a major controversy by distributing an eight-page book telling illegal aliens how to avoid law enforcement authorities. The CASA book, Know Your Rights (PDF) tells illegal aliens not to carry "any documents from your country of origin" and that "providing your name" to a police officer "has risks" because "your name can be used to start a deportation process." It flatly says, "Don't provide government officials information about your immigration status."
"Only in America can groups like CASA and their illegal alien criminal clientele use tax dollars to lobby for amnesty and equal rights, all to the detriment of the American people and our way of life," commented Brad Botwin of Help Save Maryland.
Help Save Maryland is a multi-ethnic, grass-roots, non-partisan organization with thousands of members across the state. "We are opposed to the use of tax dollars on programs that attract and sustain illegal aliens to Maryland," Botwin explained.
Under the category of "Government," CASA lists the following entities as financial donors:
The event in D.C. is being supported by United for Peace and Justice, a far-left organization which argues that "peace activists" must "join hand-in-hand and march with immigrants to fight for their rights and an end to the militarization of our communities."
The group explains that, "With the recent passage of Arizona's anti-immigrant SB 1070 bill, many immigrants and activists are comparing this to the rebirth of Jim Crow and racial profiling. We have also seen an increase in the militarization of local police forces and of our borders in another racist effort to divide our country."
It's not just the taxpayer-funded entities supporting CASA that have earned Botwin's ire. He drew attention to the financial support given to CASA by the Catholic Church. In addition to the Catholic Bishops and the CCHD, the CASA web site identifies its donors as including the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., and St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
The CCHD reports $30,000 in 2007 and $10,000 in 2006 given to CASA for "workers' rights." More recent data is not available.
Other churches and religious organizations supporting CASA include the Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, the Foundry United Methodist Church, and Quaker groups.
In the area of Big Business, foundations, and organizations, financial supporters include the George Soros-funded Open Society Institute, the American Petroleum Institute, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Council of La Raza, the Bank of America Foundation, the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, the Bechtel Foundation, and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
In the past, Accuracy in Media has protested support given to CASA from the Philip L. Graham Fund, which is staffed by current and former officials of the Washington Post and includes Donald E. Graham, who also serves as CEO and Chairman of the Board of The Washington Post Company, as a trustee.
The Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation, which is named after the former owner and publisher of The Washington Post, is currently listed as a financial sponsor of CASA. The Foundation reports that it provided $405,000 to the group.
The Herb Block Foundation, named after the long-time Washington Post editorial cartoonist, is also a CASA sponsor. This foundation provided funds for one of several controversial "Day Laborer Centers" operated by CASA.
Help Save Maryland reports that Day Laborer Centers are "hiring sites supposedly created to deal with the problems caused by unskilled workers (largely illegal aliens) who congregate on street corners waiting for persons seeking laborers to drive by. In communities like Gaithersburg and Wheaton [Maryland], these informal hiring sites have caused traffic disturbances, and the lack of sanitary facilities has often led to public urination. Other common complaints include public drunkenness and sexual harassment of female pedestrians."
Brad Botwin of Help Save Maryland says, "These same illegal alien day laborers, their families, gang members and others dependent on CASA for support will be a major portion of the crowd on May 1."
He says CASA is usually portrayed by liberal newspapers such as the Washington Post as an "immigrants rights group," while opponents of illegal immigration are typically described as "hate groups and nativists."
Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of Accuracy in Media, and can be contacted at cliff.kincaid@aim.org.
I still believe in a higher power just not the one that supports Communism/Marxism.
Biggest problem Jewish voters have in my area is their voiced support for Israel and then they vote for the left. The two don’t mix and they know it.
I thought the pope was in charge of the Catholic Church worldwide. Doesn’t he have a say,a final say, in these matters, like in Arizona?
See? That’s how I feel. I was born Catholic, rasided Catholic and will die Catholic. However the church is political and split and it is not traditional as it was and how I was raised within.
There is NO WAY I don’t believe in God and all He is. That is inside me and that is what I go with. I believe in everything except what is happening within the church and it’s hierarchy. I KNOW who I am and what I was taught and how I was raised. Today’s church doesn’t even come CLOSE.
We didn’t let them drive us from the church either. We just stood and watched as the church drove themselves away from us and millions of others.
They are politically correct. They have their noses in things that they should not. They should be taking care of their own business and not politics. They can say what they want but they are the same as the politicians in DC and...you are right...it is ALL about money!!!
We know what we do and we know how we pray and other things we won’t go into. But...I’m tired of churches looking like auditoriums and singing songs that are foreign to me and changing how we behave at Mass into ways that look like once again foreign to me. Kids acting up, eating, bringing their toys and playing in the pews, adults dressing inappropriately and some wedding photos we have seen where Bride’s dresses are totally inappropriate to stand before a Priest and Congration in God’s own home. So, anyone can talk until they are blue in the face to us and it won’t matter. We have made peace with within and we know in our hearts the church is not what it is supposed to be and we refused to just “go along” for the sake of going to church. It’s awful and hopefully one day will return to what it should be but...until then??? No way.
Yeah I gotcha, agreed.
A question which keeps bothering me about the modern church is are we a religious body united for worship or are we a weekly gathering of amateur social workers? If there is a difference, what is the difference?
There IS no difference. I’m tired of people (I don’t care if they are Priests or who they are) telling me how much I should give to people and how much I should LOVE everyone and how I should be TOLERANT of others.
Fist off: No one needs to tell me about ANY of that stuff. I learned that along with my brother and sisters from our PARENTS who taught us what we should know.
Secondly: My mother gave to charities all the time. We learned by example and so I don’t need some politican or priest telling me what I should do with my money.
Thirdly: I AM tolerant. Tolerant of those who think they know everything and put their noses into everyone else’s lives thinking they know better what is good for me than I do myself. I AM tolerant of them. The trouble is...they don’t want to be tolerant of me or anyone else. Therein lies the trouble. Therein lies their mistake. Therein lies the reason the American public are rising to take back our country in first 2010 and then in 2012. We will vote in new leadership ...leadership who DOES care about the American public and not the enemy!!!
Just keep praying and beliveing in your God as you should knowing what YOU are doing is the right thing. There is no sense going to church listening to a bunch of claptrap. I cannot allow myself to sit and listen to things I know are not true just because I should be going to church. That enables the Priests to continue on with their high and mighty sermons and their political agenda. That to me is not what church is all about. I know the difference. They think they can fool us but...we cannot be fooled.
The pope is the head of a church with over 1 billion adherents. Most of the Mexicans are members of the church. Why would he do anything to harm them?
The US government has allowed illegal immigration to continue unabated for the past 30-40 years. Don't blame the church for defending its members, even if some cardinals, bishops, priests, etc. use inflammatory language when doing so. These people have been welcomed by many people/businesses and now may be forcibly repatriated leaving behind family and friends. It is not a pretty situation.
It would appear that The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and its Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) are ignorant of both government policies, Catholic teaching concerning government laws, and original Catholic practices governing legal and illegal populations. It appears that the lead sheep have strayed and become lost.
“In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town.
And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.”
Luke 2, 1-5
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