Hi everyone,

I'm a new member here. This is a great site! A brief introduction - I'm just an ordinary citizen who got fed up with the illegal invasion in my area. About 5 years ago, I got angry at the local news media for its bias and spin, so I began creating flyers trying to get the TRUTH out about what was taking place in the community. I don't think it did much, but it made me feel that I was at least taking some action instead of just complaning about it all the time!

While I am all for the protests and the faxing and phone calls to our elected officials, I can't help but feel that we are missing just one other ingredient in our fight to save our country- informing our fellow citizens!

I cannot begin to tell you how many people I've come across who have absolutely no clue what is really going on! I have friends who actually felt that Bush's immigration speech sounded fair and reasonable! They are not as informed as those of us who have been following this issue for quite some time now. Plus, they are being mislead by our wonderful news media.

With that in mind, I had an idea that was actually inspired by something I read in the book "Fighting Immigration Anarchy." Early on in the movement, one activist took out an ad in a major newspaper to get the word out about illegal immigration. I think it was the LA Times and they refused to run the ad! (surprise, surprise!) But they can't all refuse if all of us got together to do it!

I think we are at a very critical crossroad. The last straw for me, was this recent sellout by the senate for passing this "comprehensive" immigration (amnesty) bill. To the uniformed, no one knows the details of the more outrageous admendments, or how their elected officials voted on it.

I feel if each state with grassroots groups could combine their resources ($$) with other groups, maybe we can pay for a one page ad (in each of our respective local papers). It would be a standard letter, informing citizens of the kind of bill that was just passed, listing the more outrageous details of the bill, along with the names of those traitors who voted for it. I'm new here so perhaps this idea was already brought up. But the few people I spoke to about it, seemed to like the idea and would be willing to donate.

The open borders crowd have the media on their side because they also have big money backing them. I think in some small way, we need to wrestle some of that power back by combining our resources. We keep saying that Americans need to wake up. Well, maybe if we educate the masses, more people will become involved and vote out those who refused to heed the will of the people. Thanks for hearing me out. I look forward to your feedback.

Peace.