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January 30, 2006
Candle Power FAIR Was There - Update 1/31: Video Available!
Friday night in Nashville is like a Friday night in any other city in the country. People sit in traffic trying to get home to They lit a candle of hope. Watch the video (Windows Media) The crowd of 500-600 people came together in a peaceful candlelight vigil to Save the American Worker at Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's modest Nashville office. The crowd asked Sen. Frist (who was not in attendance) to take a leadership role in stopping the proposed guest worker amnesty in the Senate before it has the opportunity to further destroy America's middle class. Comments
Its odd how we can gather in a uniformed law abiding fashion. The criminal alien crowd, liberals, communist and aliens either get arrested or some kind of sh*t always happens when they gather. This is what the fight is about and Im thankful to be able to say, we are going to win this. Im hardly ever wrong and I have a gut feeling we will come out on top. It may get worse before it gets better, but the out come will be enforcing the law. Thank God people are starting to figure out who wants to destroy this country. The government cant ignore us anymore and they know it. Just dont let them try and feed you anymore crap. Regardless of the laws being enforced, we still need to get rid of the traitors when time comes. They have caused to much stress already. Lets give congress HELL! Posted by: Shane on January 30, 2006 11:47 AM Good for FAIR and the participants of the candle ceremony. We all need to say something. Posted by: Born American on January 30, 2006 12:05 PM My sincerest gratitude to those that took time out of their busy lives to attend. Sounds like it was a success. The protests grow larger at every event. One of the local talk shows here this AM had the Mexican General Consule on the radio. He was a peice of work. I was glad I only caught the end of it as my blood pressure was off the charts. He called us (americans in general) racists over and over again for building a wall and wanting to stop the invsion by hispanic nationalities. I still wonder what is wrong with a desire to maintain the historic ethnic majority and culture of a nation (mexico would not tolerate it). No other country in the world, outside of caucasion majority countries, would give a second thought to stopping an invasion by another country/ethnicity. Once again, hypocracy reigns. Some of his comments were amazing. He talked about the number of people who protest the death penalty but nobody protests the deaths of mexican nationals crossing illegally. He made references to less people being put to death versus the number of mexicans dying in the desert. He said it was the american gov'ts responsibility to stop the deaths and it was the walls and past attempts to stop ilelgal immigration that pushed the illegals into dangerous places. When asked if he felt the american people are to blame for the deaths, he gave a smug remark and chuckle and remarked about the walls, and said it was our repsonsibility to stop the illegals by letting them in legally. It was an amazing piece of propoganda and PC aimed at the american people. Of course he also brought up that migrants have been coming here for centuries. That may be true of a few mexicans in the northern territories, BUT there have been more "migrants" in the last 20 years than in the preceding 180 years put together. And it is from people all over the world now. There are just too damn many now and it must stop. I don't care if the mexican people feel they have the right, they don't. I also don't care if they are offended by Americans desire to retain its culture, language, and ethnic composition. If we can not even fight to save our own culture and majority, then we have lost the will to defend ourselves and future generations against any would be attacker. Survival and wanting to be amongst one's own kind is the strongest instinct we have. It is a primal instinct that once lost, most likely dooms us to loss of power and benefits of power (at a minimum). He made many more outrageous comments as well. Posted by: Weary Citizen on January 30, 2006 12:51 PM CONGRATULATIONS ON A JOB WELL DONE! I heard on the Phil Valentine show last week that they were going to provide up to 500 candles and I am glad there were more people there than they had candles for - but many brought their own! What is the NEXT city? Who is the nex politician to be "blinded by the light" of hope? Posted by: Sick 'n Tired on January 30, 2006 01:12 PM Peaceful protests, the true sign of the Real America! This movement is met with violence at every turn, dengrating commentary against pro-reform advocates, but I am so glad that we continue to maintain the decorum that eventually will prevail...By not stooping to the tactics of pro-immigrant factions, we can further our cause of truth and justice for America! Posted by: takn on January 30, 2006 02:07 PM The next Senator who needs to be blinded by the "light of hope" as in this peaceful vigil is most certainly Sen. Arlen Specter - Head of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the biggest pro-illegal immigrant, anti-American worker, pro-big business advocate of them all. He will spearhead the AMNESTY/GUESTWORKER proposal in Feb/MARCH. Let's get this one organized. Posted by: contessa on January 30, 2006 02:34 PM Bring a Candlelight Vigil to Phoenix please! Posted by: D on January 30, 2006 02:38 PM To Weary Citizen: Why is it our responsibility when these people die in the desert when we are trying to keep them on their side of the river? We DO NOT WANT THEM HERE!!!!!! By my way of thinking it is the responsibility of the Mexican Government to ship all their oil to the United States at $5.00 a barrel - what do you think of that! Same kind of reasoning. Posted by: Sick 'n Tired on January 30, 2006 03:24 PM When I read the post about the people in Nashville...I almost started to cry. Thank God for these wonderful people. We MUST encourage this type of gathering through the rest of the country. Way to go Nashville!! Posted by: Carolyn on January 30, 2006 04:09 PM I would just like to thank those who stood firm for Americans. We are the land of opportunity by it is imperative to preserve our way of life but requiring everyone to enter legally. In Texas, it is ridiculous. I am in favor of the Minute Men and can't wait for the fence to be built. Vincente Fox, if he was a man of integrity, would work to revamp his country's financial situation to help his poor instead of giving them maps and letting someone else take care of his people. I hope that our government remembers that American citizens should come first and stop this madness. Congratulations, Nashville, for taking a stand. Posted by: Lib on January 30, 2006 05:58 PM How is building a wall going to cause more deaths of illegal aliens if it keeps them out of the U.S.? They die because they WILLFULLY with full knowledge CHOSE of their own free will to enter this country after being told countless times not to do it and that it was a crime and that entering this country illegally could cause their deaths or serious injury but they ignored the warnings and chose to risk death after knowing they could die or risk serious injury and after knowing it is a crime but they went ahead anyway. Then they have the sheer gall to complain about it if they get caught and deported or otherwise suffer the consequences of their crimes. They also viciously attack our brave heroic Border Patrol Agents and then complain when a brave, heroic Border Patrol Agent fights back. They complain when one of these criminals gets shot after trying to murder one of our brave, heroic Border Patrol Agents who is defending himself and trying to protect his own life from being taken by an illegal-alien Mexican criminal. Does this make sense? Doesn't the U.S. have the same right to protect its borders and citizens as Mexico does or not? Posted by: Jean Brown Harrell, formerly Garcia on January 30, 2006 06:51 PM Halliburton just posted a gain of over one billion dollars for the last quarter! Guess it pays doing business with the government. Posted by: Deborah T on January 30, 2006 07:25 PM The local TN group that was in on this: Anyway..I sent my thanks to this group...along with a small contribution. And thanks to FAIR (you're already on my $list) This is exactly the kind of expressions of our 1st Amendment rights we need to support. Thanks again FAIR and TnRIP!
Posted by: Sue on January 30, 2006 07:36 PM Correction, it was over 3 billion dollars. Now our government will further enrich Hallibuton by millions. We can't seem to come up with money to build a wall to secure America or deport illegal aliens but we can spend millions for the possibility of what exactly? We need to confront our government once and for all. Posted by: Deborah T on January 30, 2006 07:45 PM Expect all your favorite Republican talk show hosts and spokeholes (Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingraham, Snow, Hewitt, Coulter, Hume, Medved, etc.) to once again defend Bush, Cheney and Halliburton. These people are like Radio Pravda, cheering this administration's sellout of America!!! Posted by: obey the law on January 30, 2006 07:59 PM I've lived long enough to know the US is being sold down the river. Posted by: Californie Granny on January 30, 2006 08:20 PM BEAUTIFUL !! Posted by: Dr.John on January 30, 2006 08:58 PM The next Candlelight Vigil should be held in front of each and every one of the seditious Mexican Consular offices in the U.S. They have actively overstepped their Diplomatic boundaries in aiding/abetting illegal immigrants. Enough, they need to all go home. Posted by: contessa on January 31, 2006 11:07 AM How convenient! President Bush allows illegal immigration to flourish in the United States (few deportations, no military on the border) Posted by: Diane on January 31, 2006 11:21 AM Ok. New tactic. I need noggins less dense than my own to sort through it though; Instead of showing up at day labor sites with just signs and bullhorns, howsabout we show up with serialized IRS forms for each hiring contractor and their illegal workers? Assign a serial number to each appropriate form and document each form given to the employer/illegal employee by license number/company name/picture. Invite the local media to record how many contractors and illegal workers voluntarily accept the U.S. tax forms to report their income then give the list to the local IRS office that claims not to be able to track illegal hiring activity. As I stated in my email to the Minutemen; waving a mexican flag in an American parking lot does not give illegal foreign criminals the right to circumvent our U.S. tax laws. Also, why is there not a state IRS representative present at these open air employment agencies? Are there no rules for this type of employer activity? Whaddayathink? Posted by: cicerores on January 31, 2006 03:04 PM The United States has an economy problem and it is called "illegal immigration". Middle income and lower income CITZENS know this. Why does our elected officials ignore what the majority of their citzen's demand, which is border protection and economic protection of their working rights? It is time for a change! Posted by: Dianna Davis-Doud on January 31, 2006 05:27 PM The thing that I find so very discouraging and wearying in spirit is that our government deliberately ignores the needs of its own middle class--it cares nothing for us. This is the thing that I have found it so very hard to come to grips with emotionally. This is betrayal and treachery being enacted right in front of our faces. We are being traded away to meet the needs of globalists and big corporations. Their steady march onward despite our pleas, our needs, our issues, and our concerns shows a coldness and heartlessness that sucks your breath away. I no longer trust anything they say--on either side. In my opinion, they play "good cop"/ "bad cop"--with the same ultimate goal in mind. Without the House of Representatives (and I am not sure who of them to trust--after all many are just wanting to get re-elected in the upcoming election!), we would have no one to respond to our needs and our will as the people who are supposed to be in control. We now have a government "in spite of" the people. Posted by: J on January 31, 2006 07:40 PM Some people seem to think this issue of amnesty for illegal immigrants is something Republican lawmakers support, because Pres. Bush is for it. This is not true and has caused a split in the Republican Party. The Democratic lawmakers mostly favor more illegals. Check the voting records and you can see for yourself how these lawmakers vote. Don't listen to what they say. See what they do. My next project will be Term Limits. Posted by: Patrick on February 8, 2006 08:22 PM I supoort all the efforts of FAIR in controlling illegal immigration. I would like to remind Vicente Fox and all of his cronies, that will inevitably be very rich when they leave office, that all the rhetoric in the world won't cure the woes of Mexico. Instead of saying that the U.S. could legalize all the illegal imigrants and therefore make them legal, Fox and his corrupt cabinet should find ways to create jobs in Mexico. Mexican nationals are not the U.S's responsibility, U.S. citizens are the responsibility of of the U.S. government. Let's get our priorities straight. Posted by: Gabriela on February 9, 2006 09:38 PM Dear Friends: I live in California, one of the most negatively impacted states from our lax immigration policies. Living in this "blue state," I am painfully aware of the irrational attitudes and controversy surrounding this issue. I am writing because I sincerely want to strengthen our cause. -I noticed a few postings on this site that mention the preservation of our ethnic composition/identity. I am not here to argue against anyone's right to feel this way. But, I do think that such arguments end up weakening our position by making it a lot easier for us to be dismissed as rabid racists. There are plenty of logical, basic, standard-of-living arguments that can be made in promoting border protections and immigration reform, many of which could be used to convince those who tend to be to the left of center about the validity of our position. Of course, we are probably already aware of the impact that a large pool of cheap labor has on our wages, no matter what our profession. Just recently, workers at a fruit-packing plant in WA won a lawsuit showing that their wages were diminished by an average of $2 an hour due to their company's use of cheap foreign labor. What may be less obvious is how illegal immigration impacts issues that are dear to more liberal-minded segments of society, such as the environment, species endangerment, and over-use of natural resources. Here, in California, there is a big push toward conserving "open spaces;" and it always amazes me how people who want to keep land open and free of development, who want to stem urban sprawl have absolutely nothing to say about absorbing huge foreign populations every year. It doesn't make sense. In California, we already had problems trying to supply L.A. with water back when the population was considerably smaller in the early 1990s. Now, parts of L.A. are having to consider toilet-to-tap recycling measures. -That's already the case in parts of San Diego. -Our public schools are outrageously over-crowded; our freeways are insane; and real estate prices are the highest in the nation due to population pressure on both rentals and home purchases. There are also many parts of the county where zoning laws seem to be no-existent: Three and four families live in a home designated as a single family residence (with only one family actually purchasing the property and the others paying the mortgage). More importantly, people need to stop focusing on us as the villains, as having no compassion or of being racist, and begin realizing that the real villains are the businesses that have no qualms reducing our standard of living if they can make a profit from cheap labor. We also need to de-bunk the myth that somehow we reap the benefits of cheaper labor by paying a few cents less for goods and services. I'll take the pay increase any day! Posted by: betty on February 15, 2006 01:04 PM I would like to know why our Federal, State and Local employees can break laws by "aiding and abetting" illegals coming into our country, signing them up for welfare, food stamps, free education, medical cards, social security, subsidized rent, free downpayment money to buy a house, subsidized house payments and lower interest rates, etc. Doing this is against Federal and State laws, yet they continue doing it, at the expense of the taxpayer. Oregon's Governor "Sleepy Ted Kulongowski" aka Tax-n-gouge-me, just announced on 3-11 -06 that he ordered the Oregon Department of Human Resources to stop following the Mexican Consulate around our state, where they hand out matricula consular cards to illegal aliens. Once the alien receives his card, he goes from table to table, talking to our State employees and learning how he can sign up to receive the giant "goody bag" of free services. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! WE ARE WATCHING WHAT YOU DO, AND WILL LISTEN TO NO MORE EXCUSES! ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL!! A STATE OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL OR EMPLOYEE WHO PROVIDES ANY BENEFIT OR SERVICE TO ANYONE WHO PRESENTS A MATRICULA CONSULAR CARD POSSESSES THE CRIMINAL INTENT (mens rea) NECESSARY FOR A FELONY INDICTMENT UNDER 8 U.S.C. 1324 (Immigration and Nationality Act, subsection 274). If you have evidence of someone being here illegally, report it at the following number: In Oregon: 503-326-7475 Don't be girly-men!! Get on the Phone!! Posted by: Andi on March 11, 2006 05:04 PM I work in the construction industry in Houston Texas. Over half of the high paying job are held by Mexican illegals. I know a lot of these people, they are my coworkers. They are all good people and I will say most are hard workers. These people are also taking jobs from us tax payers and using our schools using our hospitals all for free. There are signs in our tool room that advertise free citizenship classes that our taxes pay for, so we are paying to make them legal as well, what a slap in the face. I know that most of these people own houses here in the US and in Mexico. I know all of these people send some of there money that they make back to Mexico to other family so they too can come to the land of the FREE. I heard from the amnesty bunch that these people pay taxes…. Well if you call claiming 10 allowances and using a fake SS number paying taxes. Posted by: blpattillo on March 12, 2006 08:52 PM A lot of illegals are good people but there is a lot who aren't. They bring in drugs, they rape our schools, welfare, hospitals, etc. They have no allegiance to our country. Our representatives should not be listening to the protest by illegals because they don't pay their wages. The only voices they should hear is the voices of citizens and no one elses. Posted by: grammy on March 24, 2006 07:59 PM I'M SO DAMN TIRED OF IMMIGRANTS...LEGAL AND ILLEGAL...WE SHOULD START A WAR AGAINST THEM!!! OUR STUPID ASS GOVERNMENT IS TO BLAME FOR ALL THIS BULLSH_T!!! THEY DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OR THEIR FAMILIES AND FUTURES EXCEPT HOW THEY ARE GOING TO STAY IN POWER AND KEEP LINING THEIR GREEDY ASS POCKETS BY USING THOSE MAMMALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY IN THE HELL IS THIS COUNTRY WAISTING ALL OUR TIME AND MONEY AND GOING THROUGH ALL THIS FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T BELONG HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! WHY IN THE HELL ARE THEY MAKING LAWS FOR THEM AND IGNORING THE PLEADS OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE?????????????? THEY ARE NOT ENFORCING ANY POSITIVE LAWS FOR US AND OUR FUTURES BUT THEY HAVE ALL THIS TIME AND ENERGY TO PUT TOWARD ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO ARE NOT AND NEVER WILL BE AN INTRICATE PART OF OUR COUNTRY!!! TO HELL WITH MAKING THEM CITIZENS AND WORRYING ABOUT THEM WORKING IN THIS COUNTRY!!! ALL JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY ARE OURS...PERIOD!!!!!!!! BUSH AND THE REST OF THOSE DUMBASSES NEED TO BE FOCUSING ON SECURING THE LIVES, JOBS AND FUTURE OF AMERICA AND ITS' PEOPLE AND NOT SPENDING THEIR TIME SECURING THE LIVES, JOBS AND FUTURE OF THOSE STUPID ILLITERATE ASS IMMIGRANTS. THEY ARE OVER- FLOWING OUR COUNTRY WITH THEIR DESEASES, AMERICANS ARE TIRED AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO STAND FOR THIS SH__ ANY LONGER!!!!! ALL AMERICANS NEED TO COME TOGETHER AND GIVE BUSH ETC. AND THESE IMMIGRANTS HELL AND TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY!!!!! COME ELECTION TIME WE WILL VOTE OUT ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF HELPING IMMIGRANT INTEAD OF HELPING THEIR OWN AMERICAN PEOPLE. Posted by: LINDA PATTON on April 12, 2006 10:45 PM |
family so they may unwind from the hectic work week, or make their way along the crowded streets to meet friends at bars and restaurants to wash away the work week with a drink or a glass of wine. But, last Friday night things were different in Music City, USA. Instead of thinking of their own comfort, or their desire to put their feet up after a hard week, hundreds gathered in a small parking lot on Nashville's south side to do something for their nation.