But who wants to be the first that they make an example of.
I just came across this thread and being one of the PA4ICE speakers for the minority at the City Council hearing that day I am posting the testimony from which the Inquirer chose to reconstruct, in the last paragraph of their story, the placement of my words that lead readers to believe something different than what I said, which follows:
The recent history of Western Civilization shows that usurpers of a peaceable, existing State almost always apply the same methods when they attempt to take control by using the law for their own advantage.
These methods, attributed to Marxist-socialist Antonio Gramsci, target Judeo-Christian values, the family, schools, unions, politics and popular trust in the existing government.
Carl Boggs, author of Gramsci’s Marxism, outlined ten steps to achieve a progressive Socialist Marxist civil society in America:
Change the popular consensus; destroy Christianity, the traditional family and existing social mores; transform the culture; install a radical Left mind-control; attain political power; impose strict control of the military and law enforcement; restrict freedom; socialize the economy; erase American sovereignty; and embrace a world without borders.
It appears we are well on the way to fulfilling Gramsci’s dream. Fortunately, we still have laws on the books we can use to resist this hidden effort to transform us into a Marxist-socialist state. We do concede the point those laws are useless if our elected officials continue to pretend they do not exist.
Illegal aliens and those who support and profit from their presence should be reminded that Federal law Title 8 Section 1324 U.S. Code still exists and it stipulates that aiding, abetting, encouraging, harboring, transporting, and hiring illegal aliens is a felony.
When our elected representatives at any level yield to requests for more and more concessions by Leftist based human rights groups, they are aiding and abetting the transformation of our Nation into a clone of the lawless and corrupt countries many illegal aliens left behind.
When our elected representatives, at any level, yield to demands that weaken the laws in place to protect the citizens who elected them, those elected representatives have turned their backs on their constituents.
Accommodating those who violate our laws only encourages more lawlessness; it also marks those charged with defending the Rule of Law, but who have chosen to abandon their duty, even incrementally, with the same stain of treachery as those conspiring against it.