BARBARA COE:And now, ladies and gentlemen, the moment we've waited for. The opportunity to hear from one of the most courageous ladies you'll ever meet. We're here to see her tonight.
Born in Philadelphia to Filipino parents - who came to the U.S. legally, I might add - she lived in New Jersey and attended Oberlin College in Ohio, planning to become a concert pianist. However, finding herself in intense conflict with the extremely liberal political scene there, she instead majored in government and English.
However, it was after she and her college sweetheart, who is now her husband, Jesse, published an article for the student paper criticizing the college affirmative action policy, that changed her goals. It was the violence of the response from the self-appointed minority leaders who presume that they speak for every non-white person, spewing their contempt for our immigration laws and refusing to speak for legal immigrants, that set the course for her career in journalism. Added to the fact that her parents constantly stressed showing gratitude for the freedoms we have here in America, it was then that she decided that "these people don't speak for me", which has been the driving force behind her career and her life.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, she felt that writing the book Invasion was a patriotic duty, or as she put it, "just a way to give back to the country." Well, her book is much more than that. Praised by Representative Tom Tancredo, given a glowing review by Peter Brimelow, author of Alien Nation, called a "must read" by Rush Limbaugh, and "a stunning indictment" by Sean Hannity, it is the most shocking documented expose' on our own corrupt government support of terrorism that you will ever read. Ladies and gentlemen, there is much more I could tell you about this lady, but you didn't come here to hear me. So on that note, it is my honor and my pleasure to introduce a great American and patriot. Folks, let's give a warm hand to Michelle Malkin.
MICHELLE MALKIN:
Thank you so much. There's so much to be grateful for on this Thanksgiving Eve. So many people to thank and it's so wonderful to be here personally to do it. I've made so many friends now over the course of researching, both in publishing and going out and talking with people across the country, and I'd like to give a personal thanks to you, Barbara Coe, for all you've done for so many years, being a whistleblower and organizer on this issue, and weathering so much demonization by the press. Also among the heroes that you introduced that has been so wonderful to me and come to know them - Terry Anderson, who I'm just absolutely addicted to now. And I have to say I've just become more inspired and optimistic about the situation. I'm hearing from naturalized Americans and their families across the country who are incensed and disgusted and outraged by the continued abdication of responsibility of our Federal Government. And so many people have handed me a card with Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution. [microphone feedback] It is a liberal plot, somebody doesn't want me to say it!
"The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government and shall protect each of them against invasion."
It's been interesting as I go around to different cities and meeting with editorial boards of various papers. A lot of them aren't even aware of this section in the Constitution. Do they not know what invasion is? A violation, an infringement, a trespass. You here in this part of the country, in this part of the state, know full well probably more than any other region in the country that this invasion has been taking place a lot longer than September 11, 2001. It's not as if your eyes were opened for the first time when those planes hit the buildings that killed thousands of Americans on American soil. Illegal invaders have been doing that for a long, long time.
I'm wearing this pin. It's got a badge number on it - 57 - and underneath it is says, "In remembrance of Deputy Dave March." I met his sister yesterday at a signing in Westwood, at the Westwood Borders. Dave March, as I'm sure many of you know, is the deputy who was gunned down by an illegal invader who had been previously deported in 1992 and 1994 and 2001, who has been convicted of two felonies in this country. He had been guilty of drug violations and weapons violations, and he was able to escape the federal law already on the books for a long time, requiring criminal prosecution for illegal re-entry, illegal invasion, in this country.
There are so many stories like that. And what I did was to set out to tell those stories, those flesh and blood stories, because the mainstream media wouldn't. And it's interesting, when I talk about these stories, you know how people react on the open borders side of this debate? "Well, but, well you know, that's emotional, that's an anecdote, that's un-American."
Life that has been taken! And they shrug their shoulders, it doesn't matter to them. It's an anecdote. Well, as journalists, that's what we're supposed to do, we're supposed to collect facts and work sources and tell stories. And yet these stories are ignored. The open borders mafia doesn't want to hear these stories, they don't want to tell these stories.
And this huge double-standard for somebody who works in journalism, because of course, if you read the Washington Post and the New York Times, they're all too happy to tell the stories of ...well, what kind of poor, emotional "anecdotes" do you get from the L.A. Times? About, oh, you know, the "visa overstayer" or the "border crosser" or the "undocumented" - not illegal, of course - who simply evaded deportation orders, but really, they haven't committed any other crimes. They're harmless, they're great for our society, good for our economy. We get plenty of those stories, don't we? Not emotional, but anecdotal. Now how come those are on the front page? And how come the reporters who write those stories get Pulitzer Prizes? For tugging at the heartstrings?
Well, I think we need to hear from the other side, and that's what I'm going to continue to do. That's the message I'm going to continue to send. And when I met David March's sister, it just really smacked me in the face, but those people, those victims, continue to be voiceless and as many stories as I compiled in the book, they continue to pile up every day. And of course you have to sort of decode the stories when they do finally report them, because they'll never identify these illegal invaders as illegal. It's a guessing game!
And that's what was the case with Lee Malvo. On the day that Lee Malvo, the sniper suspect, was arrested with John Muhammad, we got from the media that he was a "Jamaican National".
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Thanks to some brave whistleblowers in the Border Patrol and who worked with the INS, they were able to find out his story. Once again, it's so typical, that typical story of catch and release, where border patrol agents who had him in custody had recommended that he be detained and kept in detention until he was deported because he and his mother were "likely to abscond". That warning was ignored and the consequences were bloody, bloody. There's so much blood spattered on the walls of the INS and the federal immigration court system. And nobody's cleaning it up.
And renaming the INS and splitting it up and pouring 37 billion dollars into a new Homeland Security Department that isn't going to do a whit about it. If September 11 doesn't serve as a wake-up call to many people who haven't been paying attention...but I think there still is the stubborn unwillingness to make the connection between controlling mass illegal immigration from all over the world, not just the Middle East, but from the south as well - making that connection between controlling massive illegal immigration and winning a war on terror. You can't do one and fail in the other.
As I illustrate in the book, I don't know how many times I can repeat the connection which was illustrated on September 11, of illegal alien day laborers who are able to hang out at the nearby 7-11, a stone's throw from the Pentagon, who traffic in fake documents, and that is exactly where the September 11 hijackers knew to go! They knew exactly where to go. They waited around with a couple of twenty dollars bills, and this illegal alien from El Salvador was quite happy and willing to give them the documents that they needed to board the planes that they flew into buildings that killed those thousands of Americans.
The local cops, who I interviewed, admit that those people who were hanging around there are there illegally, but they're not going to do anything about it. And they're not doing anything about it now. I visited that same 7-11 a year after the September 11 attacks, and they're all still there. And nobody's doing anything about it.
And to add insult to injury, the Pentagon has been rebuilt. Did you know who the federal government paid to help rebuild the Pentagon? They admitted that illegal aliens helped rebuild the Pentagon, at the sacred, hallowed ground where thousands of Americans died, not just there of course at Ground Zero as well. As a result of lax immigration enforcement. I couldn't think of anything more slanderous and defamatory. What a desecration that is. But hey, it was cheap. We paid for it.
A couple of weeks ago, I met with the parents of Kris Eggle, Bob and Bonnie Eggle. And many of you are probably familiar with the story. I wrote about it earlier this summer. He was a park ranger who was gunned down by a Mexican drug dealer, toting an AK-47 and using our federal monument lands as their playground. And this story touches me so much because Kris was just a few years younger than I was. He was a cross-country runner, like my husband. In fact, they almost look alike, they resemble each other, and it was probably because of his running prowess that he died. He was chasing these drug dealers along with the Border Patrol agents. He was able to run ahead of the other Border Patrol agents and that's why he was ambushed, because the drug dealers were hiding in the brush. And while Kris was still alive, his father, who is a Vietnam veteran, would go down to the border and help his son fix the broken fences between the U.S. and Mexico border. He'd actually bring his pliers down and repair the holes in the fences.
Bob Eggle had lost an eye in the Vietnam War, and when he met me, when he and his wife met me, he looked me in the eye with his one eye and he said, "I gave this for my country in one war, and now I gave this - " he pointed to a picture of his son - "in another war." And President Bush will not meet with Bob and Bonnie Eggle. They got a courtesy visit from the Department of the Interior which promised to look into the situation.
I get so mad. I mean, it's not something you can fake. When you think about these good Americans who've been cheaply ignored by the government, and of course as I make clear in the book, it's both Democrats and Republicans, and I think the Republicans are worse. Here we have a party that's supposed to stand for respect for the rule of law. Here this party is running away from brave people like Tom Tancredo, who simply stands up when he reads about an illegal alien whining on the front page of the local paper that can't get subsidized for college discount rates, and Tom Tancredo says, "Umm, shouldn't we be enforcing the law?" And look what happened to Tom Tancredo. Strung up on a tree limb by his toes practically, demonized, demonized like many of you in this room have been, for simply standing up and saying, "Shouldn't government enforce the law? Isn't there this Article 4, Section 4 in the Constitution about protecting each state against invasion?"
Respect for the law. Now Republicans are on another amnesty crusade. I can't make this stuff up. I mean, you would think after September 11, you would think after the sniping attack, you would think after the murder of good people like Kris Eggle and David March and Tina Kerbrat, an LAPD rookie that I wrote about who was gunned down by illegal alien day laborers, drinking on the streets, who had already been ordered deported and who had committed so many crimes in this country. And the thing about it is that not only of course the ruination of us culturally and economically, and as a matter of national security, but what an affront this is, to all of the naturalized Americans and their families in this country who waited for so long to get here, and I know there are several of you in this room who filed the fee, waited in line, underwent the criminal background checks and the medical screening, who know what a privilege it is to be in this country. Not some sort of unfettered right, not some sort of unfettered entitlement, and those of you who raised your right hand and took that oath of citizenship, swore also to "uphold the laws of the Constitution of the United States of America against those enemies foreign and domestic, so help me God".
And the last time I checked that oath, still written in English, there wasn't an exemption for immigration laws. You swear to uphold all the laws. Somebody needs to remind all those officeholders who took that oath that that exemption is not in there. I mean, that's something you would expect the liberal Supreme Court Justices to interpret, to read into it, but it's not there, not the last time I checked.
I had a prayer that Mohammed Atta had in his luggage that was abandoned. I just want to end with that:
"Crave death," this said in his neat little handwriting. "Make sure that nobody is following you. Bring knives, your will, IDs, your passport. Pray, o God, you who open all doors, please open all doors for me, open all venues for me, open all avenues for me."
Our federal government continues to answer Mohammed Atta's prayer. And every doorway, every venue, every avenue, every passageway is open, not only to the Mohammed Attas and Hani Hanjours of the world whose main goal is not to embrace the American dream, but to destroy it. Those doors are open to anybody who wants to flood in here, who don't care a whit about respect for the rule of law, the institutions, the greatness of our country. If this invasion is not going to be won by all those brave warriors in the halls of Congress or the White House, it's you and me. And I stand with you.
When I told people I was coming here, there were some people in the mainstream media elite who said, "You know, you shouldn't go there. Barbara Coe and CCIR - you know, those people, they're just way out there." And I said, "I'm way out there with them." We may not agree on 100% of everything, in fact my own husband doesn't agree with me 100%, but we do agree on this: That this is OUR country, that we are all Americans, and we are not ashamed to say that we should have an America that has as discriminating an immigration policy as possible. The "D Word" is not a bad word.
The other thing that people told me when they cautioned me not to come here: "You know, they may have some good points, but they're just so mad!" And now I know how to answer them, thanks to Terry Anderson. I just tell them, "If you're not mad, you're not paying attention!"
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