Posted on 05/12/2006 4:32:36 AM PDT by 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."
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Hmmmm. I wonder how Gilchrist feels about the Fair Tax?
LOL.
Good Luck to the efforts of Gilchrist and the Minutemen. Whichever way this disaster goes they will always be honored and remembered and probably be mentioned in the history books.
They are doing a great thing for this Nation and that is why they have been so abused by so many.
The fear that their precious globalism multiculturism may not survive have made the open border socialist go bunkers against those that see the future and don't want it to happen in the way that the globalists and socialists and marxists are advocating it must go.
Think I am blowing smoke? Read this again and again till you ALL get it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/823368/posts
Socialists, marxists win when there is rampant extremism and importing of illegals to multiply it.
"The final rally is scheduled for 11 a.m. today at the park on the Senate side of the Capitol. "
It's not on the C-SPAN schedule but I received the following in their daily email:
* Minute Man Rally (11am) - LIVE
He's trying to stop illegal immigration, not tax it.
I doubt he'd favor a NRST because it is a tax that subsidizes free trade. Free trade is the reciprocal of open borders.
I bet Gilchrist would support tariffs, however because he's a patriot, not a globalist.
Hmmm will have to look into endorsing the idea of NRST, never thought of it that way.
Actually, it taxes retail sales and untaxes everything else- including foreign owned businesses that want to relocate to America and hire skilled citizens.
Just saw Kristinn in the crowd!
On cspan 1.
Ya know, I even posted on this thread earlier. Bad case of CRS this morning. I'll try to get the other thread pulled.
There is a requirement to have a demo permit if you have more than 25 people. I'll bet Kristinn is raising a little hell with the Capitol Hill Police about the counter demonstrators.
I really hope so.
Knowing Kristinn, he's probably on the list of speakers.
Jim Gilchrist - Talking about the corruption and dereliction of duty by present politicians, and he mentioned that the real racists are those people assembled behind the Minutemen. He told them to "Go to hell." (Loved it). He said the Minutement will survive despite the rascist scum! (Hee hee).
Hecklers yelling at him "you forgot your hood."
Gilchrist saying we don't have the resources to deal with every country's poverty.
Gilchrist saying that once the Senate ok's the bill essentially granting amnest to the 30 million illegasl already here, it will open the door to many more millions.
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