← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Sertorius
Thread ID: 18702 | Posts: 8 | Started: 2005-06-17
2005-06-17 21:00 | User Profile
Racist Groups Exploit Immigration Issues in Effort to Promote Anti-Hispanic Agenda
New York, NY, June 15, 2005 ââ¬Â¦ With mounting public awareness and concern over illegal immigration in America, the issue is being co-opted and exploited by anti-immigration activists, some of whom are reaching out to racist and anti-Semitic hate groups, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The rhetoric of these activists is largely aimed at Mexicans, not other illegal aliens, and frequently does not distinguish between Mexicans and Mexican-Americans.
In the most recent effort by radical anti-immigration organizations and individuals to exploit mainstream immigration concerns, a three-day summit to "Unite to Fight Against Illegal Immigration" was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 27 ââ¬â 29. More than 400 people gathered to hear speakers describe illegal immigrants as "the enemy within" and "illegal barbarians," while suggesting that America was "at war" with illegal immigrants and calling for the need to "take America back."
"These groups are hiding behind the mask of illegal immigration when their real concern is the growing Mexican-American population," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "While there are legitimate concerns for America regarding illegal immigration, the fact that border vigilantes, and in some instances racist and anti-Semitic hate groups, are exploiting these concerns to promote an anti-Hispanic agenda is very troubling."
Organized by Mark Edwards, a local talk radio host and his "Wake Up America Foundation," a new anti-immigrant group, and promoted by Team America, an anti-immigration PAC founded by Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, the Las Vegas rally was held as a follow-up on the perceived success of the so-called "Minuteman Project," which organized vigilante patrols of the U.S.-Arizona border in April. The project attracted a number of white supremacists. At the rally, Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist claimed his group wasn't racist, but referred to immigrants as the "Mexican Klan" and "Mexican Nazis."
In the weeks leading up to the event, the virulently anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi National Alliance circulated fliers throughout southern Arizona describing illegal immigration as an "invasion" that would cause whites to become a minority.
National Alliance spokesman Shaun Walker endorsed the project and a number of National Alliance members took part. Another white supremacist group, Aryan Nations, called the Minuteman Project, "a call for action on the part of ALL ARYAN SOLDIERS."
Meanwhile, some anti-immigration activists have been reaching out to unambiguous white supremacists. The recent "Protect Arizona Now" (PAN) initiative, an anti-immigration ballot initiative that recently passed in Arizona, was spearheaded by a group led by Virginia Abernethy, an unabashed "white supremacist" associated with the racist publication, "The Occidental Quarterly."
As part of a nationwide effort to replicate PAN, Arkansas anti-immigration activists have created Protect Arkansas Now, led by Joe McCutchen, another person with strong ties to hate groups. In both instances, despite their ties to white supremacy having been exposed, Abernathy and McCutchen remained in their positions. [url]http://www.adl.org/PresRele/Extremism_72/4731_72.htm[/url]
Vigilantes Gather in Arizona
Posted: April 7, 2005
The Minuteman Project, a month-long series of events, including armed vigilante border patrols, designed by anti-immigration extremists to draw attention to the issue of illegal immigration, began April 1 along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona.
Organized by Arizonan Chris Simcox, founder of the Civil Homeland Defense border vigilante group, and Jim Gilchrist of Orange County, California, the Minuteman Project claims that over 1,000 volunteers will gather in Arizona to watch for illegal border crossers.
During the Project's first weekend, several hundred volunteers showed up, many armed, to engage in the volunteer "border patrols." Some volunteers unintentionally set off sensors that alert Border Patrol agents to intruders, according to a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman.
Highly publicized among right-wing extremists ranging from militia groups to white supremacist organizations, the Minuteman Project has attracted a variety of extremists and anti-immigration activists of all types. A number of neo-Nazi National Alliance members showed up for the first weekend of events.
Shawn Walker, spokesman for neo-Nazi National Alliance, earlier indicated that members of his group would take part in the project. "We're not going to show up as a group and say, 'Hi, we're the National Allianceââ¬Â¦.But we have members of ours that will participate," Walker said.
Before the project began, National Alliance fliers, describing illegal immigration as an "invasion" that will cause white people to be "a minority within the next 50 years," were circulated in several communities along the Arizona border, including Douglas, Nogales, Bisbee, Tucson, Tombstone, and Yuma. Similar fliers have also been distributed in Phoenix and Mesa.
National Alliance chairman Erich Gliebe said that local members distributed the fliers to help the Minuteman Project. "We have found that a lot of people in the area are sympathetic to our message, but won't admit it," Gliebe said.
The Minuteman Project has been advertised on various extremist Web sites. For example, an Aryan Nation Web site links to the Minuteman Project, proclaiming "a call for action on part of ALL ARYAN SOLDIERS."
Over the past few years, armed vigilantism and anti-immigrant intimidation along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona have created an atmosphere of fear. [url]http://www.adl.org/learn/extremism_in_the_news/White_Supremacy/arizona_vigilantes_40705.htm[/url] ================== Foxman and his gang truly deserve a train ride in a boxcar for this lying.
2005-06-17 21:08 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]The recent "Protect Arizona Now" (PAN) initiative, an anti-immigration ballot initiative that recently passed in Arizona, was spearheaded by a group led by Virginia Abernethy, an unabashed "white supremacist" associated with the racist publication, "The Occidental Quarterly."[/QUOTE]
See what I'm talking about?
These people are ridiculous with their labels and accusations and should be laughed at and ridiculed right out of the public arena completely. The best way to do that is to take away their power, which is still largely name-calling at this point.
2005-06-17 21:13 | User Profile
T.D.,
These are not just lies, but stupid lies. If it wasn't for the sheer gutlessness of our so-called "leaders" and a sizable number of the general public, these idiots would be toothless.
2005-06-17 22:52 | User Profile
TD - your humor is appreciated to the extent that's what motivated the change. But you're making another point that I agree with as well. We can't control what the bad guys do and say, and they can call us anything they want. But that can't change the fact that we're the good guys.
Team America, an anti-immigration PAC....
That's news to me. Thanks for the heads-up, Abe!
Link here:
[url]http://www.teamamericapac.org/index.shtml[/url]
T-shirts & stuff:
[url]http://www.teamamericapac.org/getTAgear.htm[/url]
2005-06-19 17:42 | User Profile
We SHOULD create an "atmosphere of fear" along our borders. Our message to those who try to break into our country should be, "You will NOT go unpunished."
"If you want peace, prepare for war." - Vegetius :gunsmilie
2005-06-19 18:58 | User Profile
[QUOTE]The rhetoric of these activists is largely aimed at Mexicans, not other illegal aliens, and frequently does not distinguish between Mexicans and Mexican-Americans.
Why should it distinguish when so many fifth column Mexican-hyphen-Americans consider themselves to be Mexicans living on land "under occupation" by the Yanqis and seeking reunification through demographics with Mexico?
2005-06-19 19:33 | User Profile
Centinel,
I think this is another case of Jewish stupidity when it comes to divide and conquer. Foxman also seems to think he can do a guilt trip on them the way they have done to too many Americans.
2005-06-20 02:45 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Michael76]We SHOULD create an "atmosphere of fear" along our borders. Our message to those who try to break into our country should be, "You will NOT go unpunished."
"If you want peace, prepare for war." - Vegetius :gunsmilie[/QUOTE] Exactly, they've chosen to invade and we're just sitting here looking the other way.:boxing: