Our patriot friends in California came out in force to show John McCain he is NOT WANTED by a lot of Americans. We know he is a turncoat and he will NOT be getting a lot of votes from Americans who are in the know about who he is.
PROTEST SENATOR McCAIN
Island Hotel
Newport Beach, CA March 25, 2008
Report by Robin Hvidston of Minuteman Project
Minuteman Project, anti-illegal immigration coalitions and concerned citizens staged a protest in front of the Newport Beach Island Hotel where presidential candidate John McCain held a fundraiser
There was a heavy law enforcement presence. If we stepped on the hotel lawn, the police immediately arrived and told us to get on the sidewalk.
We protested McCain at this same hotel a year ago when he was the losing candidate and the hotel let us roam all over the lawn, even put up signs, and there was no police presence.
Coverage of the event here in the OC Register (make sure you stop by and comment)
Dan from Digger’s Realm and I traveled to Wilkes Barre Monday night to protest ex-Presidente Vicente Fox, who was scheduled to be a guest of Wilkes University as a speaker as part of their Outstanding Leaders Forum - sponsored by the Jay S. Sidhu School of Business at Wilkes. It’s ironic that Wilkes chose Vicente Fox as an example of exemplary leadership, when just recently stories have recently surfaced about corruption probes into his administration and a statue erected to Vicente Fox was torn down and destroyed by “his people” just recently as well.
So is Wilkes going to invite President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad next in their forum on excellent leaders? Or maybe Fidel Castro?
Back to the protest Monday night. The group estimates range from 40-100. Without a real head count it’s hard to know for sure. It was viewed as a very good turnout for a Monday evening.
Many of the attendees drove for close to 2 hours to be there. Our thanks to Voice of the People USA for organizing the rally and to 9/11 Families for a Secure America for paying for the ballroom where we met at the Ramada Inn prior to the Fox protest.
There were just two speakers at the Ramada Inn before the protest, Frank Scavo and Dan Smeriglio of Voice of the People USA. The intent was to have speakers after the protest, but after we got rained on and it was so late, there were a lot fewer people on hand after the protest, which is not a surprise… So, many of the speakers did not get to speak, even though they traveled for hours to do so. I attribute that to the learning curve of a new group made up of young inexperienced people. They have 100% of their heart in this and they are learning the ins and outs of holding rallies and protests as they go. So I don’t fault them for their inexperience. We are very happy to have their generation stand with us in this fight - because we mostly fight for THEIR future, not our own.
From left John Hagerty, Ruth and Maggie manning the bullhorn
At 7pm we all filed over to the park in front of the FM Kirby Center, where Vicente Fox would be speaking from 8 to 10pm. We had two bullhorns at our disposal and we used them a lot. There were lots of signs and large American flags, as we stood behind an orange “border fence” at the edge of the little park. Across the street the Fox worshipers filed into the theater in the hour prior to his appearance.
A small group of white suburbanite thugs approached our group in a threatening way from across the street and they ended up mingling inside our “area” to cause trouble. The police presence was good but response was slow when trouble started. Several times we had to use the bullhorns to alert police that the thugs were mingling in our group. Several shouting matches ensued from their breach into our area. I estimate that the average age of these “thugs” dressed like skinheads were late teens. Ironic that is is for THEIR future that we fight. They shouted things like “I hate America” at us and of course, the usual “racists” accusations. They even called a dark skinned protestor with a mixed heritage from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, a racist.. laughable! Racist against who? Others like himself? Against white illegal aliens? The race thing is so.. passe…
At one point a limo pulled up to the theater which garnered lots of loud shouts against Fox. Later an SUV drove by waving a Mexican flag and they deposited a teenager who stood in front of our group waving his Mexican flag at us in defiance. Then the rest of his family, mostly Mexican moms with anchor babies on their hips, pulled up to the theater and stood our front waving Mexican flags at us. The police kept them on the theater side of things even though several times they wanted to cross the street.Around 8:30 and before the Mexican flag wavers showed up, it began to rain. At times it was downright nasty with wind blowing the rain in sheets.
Here is the first video from the protest - a collaboration between my shooting the video and Dan editing it for your YouTube viewing pleasure:
I was happy to stand shoulder to shoulder with many patriotic Americans who took several hours out of their Monday to show Vicente Fox he is NOT welcome in this country by everyone.
His propaganda is anti-American and we aren’t going to stand for his rhetoric that ultimately will lead to the dissolving of our borders, elimination of the “middle class” that this country was created by and the end of our sovereignty as a nation. He says we shouldn’t be building walls but instead we should be building “bridges of love”.
How can we love our southern neighbor when they send millions of their poor people here to take American jobs and send the tax-free money they make back to the Mexican economy?Meanwhile, the American taxpayer foots the bill for expanding their schools to accomodate the flood of illegal alien children, while the media parades the illegal alien children in front of news cameras to try to evoke some kind of sympathy from us.
We are TIRED of footing the bill for the poor Mexican slaves that YOU Vicente Fox and YOU Felipe Calderon and YOU President Bush - want to import here for your own personal monetary gain. It does not benefit American citizens AT ALL to have Mexicans doing the menial jobs - the jobs that American teenagers used to do - that our lower class needy people used to do. Now they must compete with Mexicans for those same jobs and that is WRONG.
We do not buy your line of HORSE SHIT Vicente Fox. We will build that wall and you know why? Because YOU and the government of Mexico encourage your own people to risk their lives to come here illegally. You are complicit in the illegal behavior and even give them comic books to tell them how to evade the Border Patrol. You stick your Mexican noses into our politics by pushing for our own Border Patrol agents to be prosecuted using the testimony of a Mexican drug smuggler. How many of you scumbags are on the Mexican drug cartel payrolls eh Senor? You all make me SICK.
Be sure to go and visit Dan’s coverage of the event at Digger’s Realm here
(from right Kathleen Appel, Dr Gayle Kesselman, Carmen Morales and her husband, Diane Reaves(seated) and opening singer (getting her name shortly)
The weather smiled on Diane Reaves and the Lakewood rally in New Jersey on Saturday. It is estimated that between 85 and 100 people attended the Lakewood rally, held in the Amphitheater on Lake Carasaljo. After all the threats leading up to this rally, it was amusing to see that only one Hispanic woman with her family turned up to cause trouble at the rally with a young Hispanic male waving both the Mexican and American flags over his head. At one point, one of her children waved the Mexican flag in defiance. Some of the rally attendees approached her and engaged her in some back and forth discussions that at times were very heated, while police stood behind the group to keep the peace. The police presence was impressive and we have NJ Senator Singer to thank for that I have heard.
I sincerely believe had Diane not been forced to reschedule this rally and move the location of the rally at the last minute, the turnout would have been much higher. We had people driving to Lakewood from as far away as Reading, PA and Hazleton, PA. It was surprising that there weren’t more patriots from New Jersey in attendance considering that it was close to home for them.
Diane adorned the stage with American flags and the stage area was protected by a police barrier that was SO difficult to traverse that one needed a badge or a press pass to be allowed in. The amphitheater is a nice venue and I hope that more rallies will be held there in the future. I estimate it can accomodate at least 500 people.
LAKEWOOD — Five years ago, Mark Jenkins saw a marked change in the landscape along his route to work as he drove through Freehold each morning.
“I noticed more and more guys congregating along the side of the road looking for work,” said Jenkins, 42, of Jackson.
Flash forward to Saturday afternoon on the banks of Lake Carasaljo, where Jenkins stood with 60 others who have similarly noticed spikes in day laborer numbers, overcrowded housing units and other circumstances they say are indicators of an illegal alien population boom.
They gathered here for an anti-illegal immigration rally to draw attention to an issue many in attendence say has been ignored by too many for too long.
“This is about laws. We have immigration laws in this country and we have no problem with people coming legally,” said township resident Diane Reaves, who organized the rally. “The problem is they are not following the law and they are using the system.”
Reaves contends the local illegal population in Lakewood has swelled to as much as 25,000 in recent years. She organized the rally with hopes of bringing more attention to the issue on a local level.
“They’re here and they’re not going anywhere,” she said.
During two hours of speeches, anti-illegal immigration activists from across the region spoke about what they said are the negative economic and social impacts of illegal immigrants, as well as the ineffectiveness of government in dealing with the problem.
“They are using our social services and it’s costing us,” said Ruth Miller, of Norristown, Pa., a speaker at the rally who runs the anti-illegalimmigration Web site, www.illegalprotest.com.
He goes on to say:
Reaves had made plans to hold a similar demonstration in the Lakewood town square in August. That was called off amid security concerns for speakers and attendees. Two subsequent plans were also squashed after members of both the local Elks Lodge and American Legion declined offers to host to the event.
Security on Saturday at the lakeside amphitheater was noticeably heightened, though aside from a brief argument over an attendee displaying both the Mexican and American flags, the event was peaceful.
“If you look at other rallies like this in the past, there have been some serious problems that necessitated a strong police presence,” said Police Chief Robert Lawson.
Though the township initially balked at providing security for the rally, 15 police officers were posted in and around the site, and surrounding portions of North Lake Drive were blocked off as a precaution.
Rally attendees were *very* appreciative of the heightened police presence. Many of us were concerned prior to the event that we would have to endure threats to our safety simply for attending this rally. In my opinion, the way the rally played out, it shows how silly the American Legion was as well as the Elks Lodge in their squandering of an opportunity to host a Pro America rally. Both of these organizations express a committment to American patriotism, yet when push came to shove they showed little backbone against threats to patriotism.
We will not be defeated by those who seek to suppress our right to free speech and our right to assemble to protest the destruction of our country by illegal immigration. We are not racists, we are not the KKK (although they also have the right to assemble and the right to free speech) we are not white supremacists - in fact there will be patriots there from all races. And why are we gathering in Lakewood, NJ? Because apparently it has become the hotbed of illegal immigration and sanctuary policies and apparently there are businesses in Lakewood who enjoy profiting from their illegal alien slaves.
Read the history of this rally and how it had to be rescheduled several times due to THREATS by the people who like to call US the haters.
We will come to Lakewood to say - that is NOT OK with Americans to hire illegal aliens, to aid and abet or to give them sanctuary in a church or city.
Location: Lake Carasaljo Amphitheater, Lakewood NJ Google Map Link
Directions: If you mapquest St. Mary’s of the Lake Church - the entrance to N. Lake Drive is directly across the street from the church on the Route 9S side. There’s a traffic light there at the corner of Route 9S (Madison Avenue) and N. Lake Drive. You will take that road and follow it down to the amphitheater area, which is also next to a playground. Its a pretty curving road, very pretty. I’ll have American flags set up as a marker for you.See you there folks - brings your flags and chairs!!!!
Time: 11am to 2pm
Date: Saturday October 20th
Our enemies will be saying this is a gathering of racists, white supremacists or KKK and nothing could be farther from the truth. Do not believe the LIES and PROPAGANDA put out by people who think it is just fine to allow millions of illegal aliens to come here for “a better life”. If white supremacists are in the group they will not be there because Diane Reaves invited them. This is a public location so she cannot prevent others from coming to this rally, although the obvious enemies will be kept out by security and Lakewood Police.
This rally is in support of the United States of America defending its sovereignty, its borders from invasion and its people from having to spend more and more of their tax money helping illegal aliens invade our country.
We will NOT be threatened in our own country by invaders who hate us. We will NOT be denied OUR GOD GIVEN RIGHT to express our opinion and our PROTEST of the illegal immigration INVASION.
WE SHALL OVERCOME!
Keep trying to stop us - it just makes us MORE committed to our cause.
And just for you American Humanity turd - this is not MY rally so it is not MY responsibility to “call out” white supremacists who may attend. Sorry but I’m not falling for that silly baiting. We have a rally to enjoy and the only people we will run out of the rally will be those who are disruptive or hateful to US.
