Entitlements for the Rich, Entitlements for the Poor

Written by Rev. David L. Ostendorf

Tom Daschle withdrew. Millard Fulller died. Only the bankers know what happened with our money.

Daschle was elected to the Senate in the “prairie populist” era of the mid-1980s with others swept into the chamber on the waves of organized farm movement anger that spread across the heartland and turned red seats blue. He served humbly and honestly and seldom seemed to lose touch with his roots. In 2004 he unexpectedly lost his Senate seat and, apparently, his grounding. K Street and the allure of millions apparently beguiled him, and for a lousy car and driver and unpaid taxes it’s likely that health care reform will not move forward in the near future.

Politics

Stop Arizona. Stop Arpaio. Stop the Circus.

Written by Rev. David L. Ostendorf

At 1:00 p.m. today Joe Arpaio, the infamous sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, will chain up some 200 immigrant prisoners and force march them to his nearby tent city for incarceration. Media are welcome and encouraged to view the march, another sick stunt in the Gestapo Sheriff’s widening repertoire of humiliations. With some 10,000 prisoners currently jailed in the County, the tent city will, the sheriff asserts, serves “as a management tool for potential jail overcrowding.”

*Video by America’s Voice

Sheriff Arpaio Chains Together Immigrants and Forces March

Written by Guest Blogger

By Dan Weiss

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Phoenix, AZ will chain together hundreds of detained immigrants today and force them to march out of a detention facility and into a “Tent City”.

Arpaio’s Maricopa County office released a media advisory titled, Arpaio Orders Move of Hundreds of Illegal Aliens to Their Own Tent City, that can be described as eerily familiar to the first phase of Nazi Germany’s anti-Semitic propaganda. The statement describes detainees being housed in an outdoor city of tents surrounded by an electric fence, with misbehavior punishable by forced labor on a chain gang.

Report Proves Anti-Immigrant Network Tied to Racist Extremism

Written by Jill Garvey

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a report today exhaustively exploring the links between FAIR, Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and NumbersUSA.

And not just their relationships with one another, either, but their associations with racist hardliners and political extremists.

The evidence is damning.

These so-called “rational experts” on immigration are unequivocally promoting a sneakily codified racist ideology. The more we learn, the more disturbing these anti-immigrant associations become.

For years the real truth about these groups has been floating near the surface of public consciousness. All the while the founder of these groups, John Tanton, has been steering them deeper into mainstream acceptance. It looks as if the… Read more

International

Homeland Security Welcomes Racist Political Party to America

Written by Eric Ward

Want to know something you won’t see on ABC’s reality show Homeland Security U.S.A.? Next week the Department of Homeland Security welcomes a leader of an organization whose members have been involved in bombings, assassination plots, arson, and racist violence.

According to the Center for New Community, Pat Richardson, a leader with the British National Party (BNP), will present at the “Preserving Western Civilization Conference” from February 6-8, 2009. The BNP is an extremist organization based in the United Kingdom whose leader, Nick Griffin, in 1997 produced an anti-Semitic brochure accusing Jews of controlling British media to brainwash whites into accepting immigration.

Squat for Your Livelihood!

Written by Jill Garvey

Squatting used to be a dirty word; now it’s a real way to prevent losing everything you have. One can’t talk about the economic recession/depression, without talking about the housing crisis. Many of us know firsthand or have heard the horror stories of families being forced out of the American dream through foreclosure. The effect is widespread, but that does not mean it is proportionate.