Open Borders advocates use racist smear tool - Commentary by Jim Dean, Heritage TV

Jim Dean, Heritage TV producer/host

Jim Dean is the producer of Heritage TV and Vice-Chairman of the Georgia Heritage Council.

Open Borders advocates use racist smear tool – Commentary by Jim Dean

Dear legal Americans,

The racist smear tool seems to be the weapon of choice for the illegal immigration lobby. The main reason they use it is because it works, especially with business targets.

You will read below how Chris Simcox of the Minuteman was censored out of an established public forum immigration platform. The sponsor ran like hell when the racist smear slime gun was used on them.

The silver lining here is that it shows how scared they are of citizens standing up for immigration reform. They know they have both party leaderships and the biz crowd neutralized. The public they just want to keep sleeping, distracted, or scared of being slimed. The trend is the public is waking up. We shall see if they can wise up.

The poll referred to at the bottom seems bogus to me as it runs contrary to everything else we have seen on the trend here. It was put at the end in what is a strategic spot for journalism as the last article item gets remembered more. That shows the writer was wanting to leave the reader with the impression that the public was generally against activist groups like the Minutemen.

This whole article was written with an under current that 'the public is standing up to these racists.' This is a good example of media manipulation here.

You will notice that your typical race hustler speakers do this the same, leaving one final racist smear charge at the end of their talks...'we're not going to let these Klan people take over'. This is virulently racist manipulation, but the media rolls the red carpet out for them.

What is being taught to kids in school is even worse. We have to teach our kids how to spot when they are being conned. Save articles like this to do family reads with your kids. No, I am not kidding. It is one of your most important parental duties to make sure your kids are not our future enemies.

The other side is certain they will turn the majority of them against us, ensuring our defeat. They are putting a lot of effort into doing this. If we do not match or exceed theirs---we will lose. And maybe that will show that we deserved to lose, that our way of life lost out in the Darwinian world of only the fittest survive.

Jim Dean is the producer of Heritage TV and Vice-Chairman of the Georgia Heritage Council.

Forum Cancelled on Border Project

By Jessie Mangaliman
The San Jose Mercury News (CA), September 8, 2005

A public forum scheduled next week at the Mexican Heritage Plaza in San Jose on the controversial Minuteman Project was canceled Wednesday, after angry Latino community leaders and immigrant advocates objected to the planned appearance of Chris Simcox, Minuteman's organizer.

Calling the self-appointed, citizen border patrol a ``racist hate group,'' valley Mexican-American leaders said they took offense to Minuteman in the community's cultural home, on Sept. 16, Mexican Independence Day.

The event, sponsored by the Commonwealth Club, was to feature Simcox and a Minuteman volunteer; Art Torres, chairman of the California Democratic Party; and Hans Johnson, a research analyst at the Public Policy Institute of California.

It was billed as a public forum on an important issue of the day -- immigration and the growing number of armed U.S. citizens patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. The Minuteman Project, based in Tombstone, is recruiting volunteers for border patrols in New Mexico, Texas and California. The Commonwealth Club said the forum will be rescheduled and held in San Francisco.

``This vigilante group is openly racist particularly to Latinos,'' said Lucy Hernandez, a member of Comite de Cesar Chavez, a San Jose civil rights group, and one of 14 people who met last week with Marcela Davison Aviles, the plaza's executive director.

Said Hernandez, ``Knowing the background of this group and have them come to our community home, especially on our day of celebration, was offensive and hurtful.''

But Aviles said the event was canceled at the plaza because of ``strong safety concerns'' raised by the group she met with last Thursday. Aviles said she received at least a dozen anonymous phone calls since then that threatened disruption to the plaza.

During her meeting with Hernandez and others, Aviles said, ``They indicated that if the plaza proceeded with the event, it was highly likely -- I'm paraphrasing here -- there would be a large crowd and they wouldn't be able to guarantee the consequences of their behavior.''

Aviles said she worried about the safety of people participating in the forum.

Alberto Carillo, a long-time community activist and an official of the League of United Latin American Citizens, a national civil-rights group, said emotions ran high during the meeting.

Carillo said he disagrees with Aviles' characterization. ``We were not hostile,'' he said. ``We were angry. We felt insulted.''

``I said we would picket the event and I'd get close to 100 people,'' Carillo said. ``Threaten? Nobody said that.''

Martha Campos, a program director at Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network, a San Jose non-profit group, said the forum's panel failed to include immigrants and advocates, and legal experts who can talk about the implications of the Minuteman Project on U.S. civil rights.

Simcox, who has appeared in debates with Latino leaders and immigrant advocates in Arizona, did not reply to an e-mail request for an interview. A spokeswoman for Minuteman, Connie Hair, also did not respond to an e-mail.

``Perhaps we were misunderstood as endorsing Mr. Simcox,'' said Gloria Duffy, president and CEO of the Commonwealth Club of California, which sponsors 500 public forums a year.

Said Duffy, ``We see this as a service to the community.''

Aviles said she shared Duffy's view that a public dialogue on Minuteman would be a good way to engage the community in a discussion of a subject that, although it draws strong emotions, affects many people's lives.

``That's really where we were coming from,'' she said. ``By no stretch of the imagination was the plaza supporting or advocating the position of the Minuteman.''

In a Field Poll released today, a majority of California voters rejected the use of citizen patrol.