THE SMEAR CAMPAIGN HEATS UP (MMP by Malkin)
THE SMEAR CAMPAIGN HEATS UP
By malkin · March 30, 2005 11:51 AM
Res Ipsa Loquitur publishes a copy of a flyer describing the Minuteman project as a "terrorist organization" and its founder, Jim Gilchrist, as a "racist vigilante":
http://michellemalkin.com/immigration/postersmall.jpg
Read Res Ipsa Loquitur's full post for more information. http://resipsaloquitur.blogspot.com/200 ... triot.html
WHO ARE THE REAL VIGILANTES?
By malkin · March 30, 2005 11:01 AM
Here's my latest column on the ACLU's campaign against the Minuteman Project. http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michel ... 33005.php3
An excerpt:
On April Fool's Day, the American Civil Liberties Union will show us what a joke its commitment to American civil liberties really is.
April 1st, in case you haven't heard, is the launch of the Minuteman Project, an all-volunteer effort by law-abiding American citizens to call attention to the nation's wide open southern border. Hundreds of Americans from New York to Michigan to California will travel down to the U.S.-Mexico border for a month to monitor illegal aliens and alert immigration enforcement officials if they witness law-breaking.
Call it the mother of all neighborhood watch programs.
In doing so, the Minutemen will be exercising their constitutionally-protected freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Those would be fundamental civil liberties found in something called the, uh, First Amendment, of which the ACLU is supposed to be the foremost expert and champion. Or so the group and its celebrity supporters say. In sanctimonious new fund-raising ad campaigns, the organization features the likes of liberal actress Holly Hunter, who asks:
"Do you want to be heard without fear? I am not an American who believes that questioning or criticizing my government is unpatriotic."
Uh-huh. "Dissent is patriotic," the Left likes to preach. Except, apparently, if the questioning and criticizing deals with the government's abject failure to enforce immigration laws. Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist has been harassed by open-borders activists at his home. The group is reportedly being targeted by savage illegal alien gangsters from Mara Salvatrucha (a.k.a. MS-13). Mexican government officials are lobbying American law enforcement officials to suppress the Minutemen's rights to speak and assemble.
But instead of coming to the defense of the Minutemen who are challenging our government, the ACLU has warned the 1,000 volunteers that it will send monitors to document the Americans' activities. Moreover, the ACLU has already threatened lawsuits against the American dissenters for exercising their rights.
As I note, this bullying campaign is no surprise given the ACLU's concerted efforts to sabotage our immigration system and elevate illegal alien rights over law-abiding Americans' civil liberties.
So, who are the real vigilantes?
UNSOLVED MYSTERY AT THE BORDER
By malkin · March 30, 2005 07:43 AM
The San Diego Union Tribune reports that someone dug a tunnel beneath the U.S.-Mexico border. Apparently our best and brightest immigration authorities are not sure exactly what the tunnel was being used for, but they have some interesting theories:
TIJUANA – Mexican authorities tipped off their U.S. counterparts this week to a potential tunnel being dug underneath the border fence near the Otay Mesa port of entry.
It was incomplete," said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "It would have been big enough for a person to just scoot through."
A task force that includes the U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement followed up on the tip, concluding that it may have been meant for people trying to enter the United States illegally.
No, you think?
