March for America - report from DC June 16th

June 16th, 2007

I was able to drive down to the DC event for the day - I wasn’t sure if I could until the last minute. The weather was really ideal in DC - the sun a little bit hot though. I didn’t arrive till 2:30 to the Washington Monument park site of the rally. There were 2-300 people gathered there listening to some very passionate speakers. I spoke with some of the participants who told me that the event that day had begun at the Capitol Building and the group walked all the way to the Washington Monument Park - about 20 blocks they said! That was quite a feat and I did hear mention of a “march” down Constitution Avenue on traffic reports I tuned into while driving down - so it was enough of a commotion to have mentioned on the traffic reports.

I give a lot of credit to the women who put this event together. It was MONTHS of planning - maybe even an entire year if I search for the very beginnings of it. There had to be THIRTY port-a-potties lined up ready to go.. and of course not nearly enough people to really use them, sadly Most of them were named for some traitor or another in our government. I am proud to say that I contributed to one which bore the name “Johnny Sutton”. I will add pictures to this post once I get them off the various devices.

This post would be remiss without mentioning a couple of large national groups .. who did not support this march and I think frankly that is SHAMEFUL of them. I will not name them - they know who they are. Their experience could have been very helpful to these women. Instead of helping them, they turned their backs on them and in the end, it only hurt the ENTIRE MOVEMENT so I don’t know what they expected to gain from doing so. At a time in this fight against the amnesty bill, to have divisiveness instead of unity in our ranks will only weaken our position in fighting this thing. It’s time for everyone to come together and put down their egos and put their energies into fighting the real enemy - our traitorous government.

The people who were in DC were many familiar faces who have tirelessly attended many events on the East Coast - spending their own money to travel to and stay in DC. Michele from MAIA came all the way from Arizona. A representative from Outraged Patriots came all the way from Oklahoma. There was another woman from North Carolina and I believe a few from California as well.

I was pleased to meet David Marlett of US Patriot Companies - a somewhat new face on the scene who has launched uspatriotcompanies.com to allow US citizens to choose companies which pledge not to hire illegal aliens. I was an early supporter of his efforts and I urge any citizens who have a business to come into the fold and allow people to choose businesses who refuse to hire illegal aliens.

Unfortunately I missed many of the speakers but I did get to hear a few - Carmen Morales being one of them. Carmen is a NJ member of You Don’t Speak for Me and she brings a special perspective to this battle that prevents the opposition from making it a race issue because she is Hispanic and a legal immigrant from Puerto Rico I believe. There was another speaker who is also a legal immigrant. I didn’t hear her name - she gave an excellent perspective on how illegal immigration hurts LEGAL immigrants and makes her feel like all the work and money she put into becoming a citizen was a waste since she sees George Bush ready to wave his magic amnesty wand and award the same to people who came here in defiance of our immigration laws.

I heard that the Arizona capital March for America drew several hundred people and am looking forward to hearing from the other coordinated rallies around the nation for today.

We can’t give up and we MUST wake up more fellow citizens to the plight facing our nation - or we are goners.

Some of the pictures - I mostly got video which I will put together by tomorrow