posted May 02, 2006 08:57 AM            

A leftist anti-war group has seized control of the immigrant movement that staged mass protests across the U.S. on Monday, says CNN's Lou Dobbs.

Praising the Washington Post for being the only newspaper that has reported that the radical leftist group ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) was an active promoter of Monday's national boycott, Dobbs noted that the movement chose May 1, the traditional International Worker's day sanctified by the Soviet Union and Marxist movements throughout the year to stage their protest.

Speaking on his CNN show Monday, Dobbs said that "Some illegal immigration and open borders activists in the Hispanic community are deeply concerned about the involvement of the left-wing radical group [ANSWER]. But others, like Juan Jose Gutierrez, whom I've interviewed a number of times over the past several months, manages to be both director of Latino Movement USA and a representative of ANSWER.

"As Gutierrez told us on my show, 'The time has come ... where we need to stand up and make a statement. We need to do what the American people did when they pulled away from the British crown. And I am sure that back in those days many people were concerned that was radical action.'

"Just how significant is the impact of leftists within the illegal immigration movement?" Dobbs asked, explaining that "It is no accident that they chose May 1 as their day of demonstration and boycott. It is the worldwide day of commemorative demonstrations by various socialist, communist and even anarchic organizations."

Radicalism, Dobbs continued "is not confined to Gutierrez and Latino Movement USA, explaining that Ernesto Nevarez of the L.A. Port Collective is promising to shut down the Port of Los Angeles today: '[Transportation and commerce] will come to a grinding halt. ...They are going to put a wall along the border with Mexico. We're going to put a wall between us and the ocean. And those containers ain't going to move.'"

Dobbs is not alone in citing ANSWER's involvement in today's protest. On their web site, the Los Angeles ANSWER group spelled out their backing, proclaiming "On May 1, stand up for immigrant rights. Join immigrants and supporters to make May 1 a national 'day without an immigrant.' We will settle for nothing less than full amnesty and legalization for the millions of undocumented workers presently in the United States. Let’s show the government, corporations and politicians that a powerful, united peoples’ movement has the power to win Civil Rights, workers’ rights and make history. No Work! No School! No Business as usual!

"The ANSWER Coalition, along with other pro-immigrant organizations, has been working hard to build May 1 and the overall immigrant right struggle. We've passed out over 150,000 flyers for May 1, gathered thousands of petition signatures demanding amnesty for all immigrants and held public street meetings all over Los Angeles to promote the movement. Join the struggle for full equality and justice today!"

Said Dobbs: "No matter which flag demonstrators and protesters carry today, their leadership is showing its true colors to all who will see."
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/1/211302.shtml?s=ic

posted May 02, 2006 10:40 AM              

Anything that followed after that could only have gotten more asinine.

I thought McCarthyism went out in the 50's but I guess I was wrong. At least as far as NewMax and you are concerned. Happy Commie Day?

posted May 02, 2006 12:04 PM              

I love America would never spew hatred for my country. Would rather do laundry instead.

posted May 02, 2006 01:17 PM            

The terrorists think if they can just hold on and not get blown away by US and coalition military forces, you and the leftist cut and run, surrender artists in the Congress will win the war for them....as they did in Vietnam.

That is giving aid and comfort to the enemy, it is causing more casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan among US military forces and Iraqi civilians.

Leftist demonstrations and rants are seditious at best and mostly cross over into outright treason. I can see why you admire John Traitor Kerry.

Congratulations on your patriotism. It is not America you love when you say you love your country and it never was. If it were, you would love a country which never existed except in your mind.

posted May 02, 2006 04:36 PM            

Real patriots defend their country against enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC.

quote:

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Real patriots get behind the Administration and Congress when the people have decided by election who is going to represent them and show a united front to enemies of America....whatever they may think privately.

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Have you seen the esteem our elected officials are held in these days? Yeah, it's not good. You're being delusional.

posted May 02, 2006 08:51 PM              

Well, I guess you have to have to put the blame for all the casualties on someone other than the Commander in Chief's handling of the war, Jwhop so it might as well be blamed on the leftist like everything else is.

See, we leftist serve the right well. Without us Bush and his supporters would have no scapegoats.

posted May 03, 2006 12:12 AM            

Upping those casualties by giving hope to terrorists they can prevail if they just hold on is giving aid and comfort to the enemy and that is treason Mirandee.

I thank my lucky stars you and the other America haters are not defending the United States in a military uniform acoustic.

No positive results acoustic. Again, you show you total ignorance.

More than 50 million people are free who were subjugated under murderous dictatorships.

Free elections have been held and new governments chosen..which are representative governments.

Libya has given up it's WMD programs and the US has removed their enriched Uranium.

Syria is out of Lebanon.

All that acoustic in only 3 years.

I guess you just can't find your ears acoustic. If you could, you'd be able to reach down, grab your ears and pull your head out of your ...

posted May 03, 2006 09:19 AM            

Radical organizations, including active communist and revolutionary socialist organizations, were the driving force organizing the immigration boycott rally at Union Square in New York City on Monday. WND attended the event and took over 350 photographs documenting the effort by the radical political left to deliver an anti-American, anti-imperialist message under the guise of an "immigration rights" rally.

The "Immigrant Boycott Day" was intentionally scheduled for May 1, worldwide known as the communist and socialist "May Day" holiday celebrating the struggle of "exploited workers" internationally. This scheduling decision was downplayed by the mainstream media. Documenting how carefully the radical political left staged and managed this May 1 protest, we found clear evidence that the message of the event was intended to be a communist and socialist anti-U.S. message.

Beginning at noon, radical leftists groups – including the communist Workers World Party and the International Socialist Organization – brought printed placards and signs to Union Square. Members of the groups handed out copies of the Workers World and Socialist Worker newspapers, in both Spanish and English, along with the professionally printed placards with their radical message. Tables were set up to distribute socialist literature.

The Workers World Party was responsible for the ubiquitous Che Guevara printed signs which were waved prominently throughout the event. At one point, a black-shirted radical climbed the George Washington Statue in Union Square to wave a Che Guevara sign before the crowd, a Mexican flag hung on the statue, flowing over his left shoulder as he shouted out defiantly. Che Guevara, the worldwide symbol for revolutionary socialism and communism, was easily grafted by the Workers World Party onto the amnesty message of this pro-illegal immigration protest.

Comfortably, the Hispanic immigration boycotters mixed Che Guevara's image and the Mexican flag to deliver the radical message: "Imperialism NO! THE PEOPLE UNITED will never be defeated." The Che Guevara poster printed by the Workers World Party called for solidarity with Iraq, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Palestine, Haiti, New Orleans, Asia and Africa.

The point of the radical left was that the "struggle for immigrant rights" was just part of an international struggle for the oppressed underclass. To underscore the point, protesters carried placards with the applicable Workers World Party slogan: "Workers' Struggles Have No Borders!" ("Las Luchas Obreras No Tienen Fronteras") In other words, we should eliminate the border with Mexico, because nation-states are not relevant for the radical revolutionaries. What is relevant for the radicals is the transnational worker struggle they see exemplified by the oppression of Mexican illegal-alien workers. What the radical revolutionaries want was expressed in red banners that carried displaying their message, "Down with U.S. Imperialism."

posted May 03, 2006 09:22 AM            

The communist theme to the protest event was clearly stated in the lead "May Day" front-page article in the Workers World Party's May Day issue of the Workers World newspaper:

A giant has awakened in the heart of imperialism.

The "invisible" workers who for decades have been vilified and exploited in quasi-slavery conditions, who get up at dawn to pick the vegetables and fruits we all eat, who work in the crowded and many times unsafe areas of restaurants, shops and food processing plants, who clean and tidy hotels and homes, who take care of children and toil in so many areas for a meager wage with no benefits – they have awakened to take their rightful place in the history of the working class struggle in the United States.

They are spearheading a revival of working class struggle with a call for a boycott and strike on May Day.

Clearly, for communist and socialist radicals, the Hispanic "immigration-rights" protest events were a chance to advance their revolutionary agenda by hijacking, or otherwise appropriating, the message of amnesty for Hispanic illegal aliens.

A group called the "May 1 Coalition" published on the Internet the plans for the protest event, calling for a 4 p.m. rally in Union Square, to be followed by a march south on Broadway, to end in a 7 p.m. rally at Foley Square. The May 1 Coalition handed out green printed signs with "Solidarity with Immigrant Workers" printed in black type. The May 1 Coalition's website documents the behind-the-scenes organizing effort these radical revolutionary groups put into calling for and coordinating the May 1 protest activity.

The event was a magnet for radical organizations. F.I.S.T. (Fight Imperialism Stand Together) was present to hand out signs with their leftist symbol, a raised fist as the top point on a red socialist star. F.I.S.T. can be counted on to be there at any leftist protest, ranging from protesting for Katrina survivors to supporting radical environmental causes.

A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition distributed yellow and black printed signs calling for amnesty: "Amnestia. Full Rights for All Immigrants!" The Answer Coalition supports a wide range of radical leftist causes, including opposing the Iraq War and supporting the Palestinians in their continuing conflict with Israel.

Even SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) marched behind a banner – reviving the spirit of the anti-war protest they had championed in the late 1960s and 1970s – in their radically violent opposition to the Vietnam War.

Camp Casey was established in Union Park, providing a symbolic presence for Cindy Sheehan and her protest against the war in Iraq.

Even Stop the War on Iran sported a banner at Union Square, stressing the underlying anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. theme that was the unifying, underlying message here to capture and exploit the "immigration rights" message the protest was supposedly organized to communicate.

posted May 03, 2006 09:30 AM            

The Revolutionary Communist Party of the U.S. handed out Spanish language copies of their radical newspaper, Revolución. Voz del Partido Communista Revolucionario. The communists marched behind a large red banner carrying the party's slogan: "Somos seres humanos. Exigimos un mundo major. No acceptaremos niguna forma de esclavitud." ("We are human beings. We demand a better world. We do not accept any form of slavery.") The communists carried the red flag of the 1871 Paris Commune. The Communist Party's May Day message was that a communist world was yet possible and this May Day immigrant protest in the United States was the vanguard of the May Day revolutionary holiday worldwide.

The Catholic Church was clearly present in the protest crowd. WND photographed a Catholic priest giving a speech on a bullhorn, surrounded by Mexican flags and F.I.S.T. red star signs. Other Catholic priests were present in the rally, one even photographed holding up a protest sign.

The Break the Chains Alliance, a group of community organizations supporting illegal aliens, marched behind their banner asking for the repeal of IRCA. The Break the Chains Alliance not only wants a full amnesty, the group calls for the complete elimination of the IRCA "employer sanctions" which place penalties on employers who hire illegal aliens. The group carried a poster ridiculing President Bush at the end of a neck-wrist-ankle chain binding together "guest workers," "undocumented migrants," and "U.S. citizens" in symbolic slavery.

The Union Square May Day protest was a magnet for TV crews and on-the-scene interviews. Television remote satellite trucks lined the east side of Union Square, emphasizing the media event "photo op" nature of the event. The TV crews tended to focus on Hispanic protestors and their "amnesty" message, not the leftist radicals who were using the occasion to advance their revolutionary agenda.

Although the protest event was billed as a "boycott," WND noticed that New York City appeared open for business, much as usual. The subways, taxicabs and buses continued on normally scheduled routes. Businesses, even at Union Square and along the Broadway march route, were open and functioning.

WND, on the scene, estimated the Union Square protest rally to have drawn around 20,000 people at the height of the event. New York police were visibly present in force. Except for the streets immediately around Union Square, traffic continued to flow, even though police had to re-route motorists around the Union Square protest site.

If the goal of the May 1 immigration boycott protest was to close down New York City, the event was a complete failure. A strong police presence kept traffic flowing and businesses open, even in the immediate protest area. If anything, the influx of people into New York City simply created a market for protest vendors selling flags and for street vendors selling hot dogs, soft drinks and bottled water.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50030

posted May 03, 2006 10:51 AM              

AKA

An organization who doesn't agree with war and death.

Funny how people change words around to take their true meaning away.

*Rolls eyes.

posted May 03, 2006 10:54 AM              

I'm pretty sure you know your ancestors weren't born here right?

Exactly. No one has the right to claim.

Unless you're a Native American.

Then you need to shut the f&*^ up.

P.S - Maybe we should give half the west coast back to Mexico.

posted May 03, 2006 12:31 PM            

We have no idea who was here first, other than early ancestors that were also killed by invading tribes from the North (Canada) and South (Mexico). That is why we no longer have the Anasazi.

posted May 04, 2006 02:53 PM            

Pid is right. No one knows who was here first. In fact, 9,000 year old remains were found recently which have definite Caucasian skull indicators. That's about 3000 years older than indications of native American Indian cultures.