I had a letter to the editor published in the Gainesville [Georgia] Times today and wanted to share it with the readers here to illustrate how important it is to send letters to editors of your local newspapers.

On September 17, the Gainesville Times ran a very long [yawn] guest column written by a Gainesville area immigration lawyer – David Kennedy – in which he goes through the all too usual motions of trying to smear anyone who stands up against illegal immigration as somehow un-American…or worse.

Kennedy’s effort at continued income and clients can be read here.

In reply, a week later I wrote a guest column which the Gainesville Times was kind enough to publish addressing Kennedy’s mindless smearing – which can be read here.

On October 25, 2006, the Gainesville Times published a letter from a Gainesville rocket scientist named Dave Anderson, who continued the immigration lawyer’s attempts to silence anyone – myself included – who opposes illegal immigration and employment as being involved in a “hate group”.

Anderson’s letter can be read here.

Anderson used that all American luminary…Morris Dees as a reference and authority. Dees runs the SPLC, a far left money machine in Alabama disguised as a law center. See here. He also noted that state Senator Sam Zamarippa is not running for re-election.

Happy dance here.

We do make the observation that Zamarripa is still a founding partner of United Americas Bank , aka “BANCO UNIDO”, which is making mortgage loans to illegals and that he marched to the Georgia Capitol recently along with about 2000 illegals demanding that existing law not be enforced.

Looks like Zamarripa has picked a side…ehh?

I want it very clear here: I go to www.AmericanPatrol.com several times a day to read news and opinion on the crisis created by the fact that President Bush refuses to secure our borders or enforce our immigration and employment laws. I recommend that you do as well.

No one can “contribute” columns to American Patrol, as it is nothing more than a daily roundup and compilation of news items on the illegal immigration issue. The horror!

It is not known yet if lawyer Kennedy helped letter writer Dave Anderson with his letter, but I will debate both of these characters at their convienence. Anytime guys.

Anyway, the editors at the Gainesville Times were professional enough to allow to me to reply to Comrade Anderson in their paper today…the complete letter is below, and can be found here. We thank the editors at the Gainesville Times for the space.

From here, I truly hope that Anderson and lawyer Kennedy donate their money to Morris Dees…they deserve it.

Illegal immigration foes are not necessarily ‘hate groups’

LETTER

The Southern Poverty Law Center, run by Morris Dees in Montgomery, Ala., lists many Web sites that are successful in drawing attention to the crime of illegal immigration and employment as “hate sites.” Dees has personally made millions in donations doing so from the far, far left.

A telling quote from Millard Farmer, a renowned anti-death penalty attorney and former partner of Dees, in the November 2000 issue of Harper’s Magazine: “He is the Jim and Tammy Faye Baker of the civil rights movement.”

Farmer went on to apologize to Jim and Tammy Faye.

The letter writer attempting to marginalize my efforts to stop illegal immigration and employment, and Times readers, may want to read a federal commission report and the Charlotte Observer’s conclusion that in 1996 the SPLC had “misinformed the media” and fabricated stories. USA Today verified the Charlotte Observer story, commenting further that the SPLC purposefully hid facts that did not support its position. Stephen Bright of the “Southern Center for Human Rights” declared that Dees “is a fraud who has milked a lot of very wonderful well-intentioned people. If it’s got headlines, Morris is there.”

Many of us anxiously await Dees and SPLC to label the entire U.S. Border Patrol as a “hate group” as a result of its enforcement actions and removal of illegal aliens. The 11,000 brave Border Patrol agents who risk their lives to secure our borders are 60 percent Latino. Likely a bunch of “haters,” right?

The Mexican government uses troops to secure its borders and deports more people annually than does the United States. “Racists” and “white supremacists,” right?

I will pass on Dave Anderson’s mindless accusations to the Latino and black Americans who sit on the advisory board of the Dustin Inman Society, a coalition of Americans opposed to illegal immigration here in Georgia.

I am president and founder of the society. The fact is that he, like most who defend illegal immigration, really can’t justify it. So they must resort to name-calling. That is what I wrote in the column to which he replies.

I thank him for making my point.

I am proud to have paid 14 homeless American day laborers to hold signs at the Capitol; they were hungry and, like most Georgians, angry about illegal immigration. Likely racists, too, eh?

D.A. King

Marietta
Originally published Tuesday, October 31, 2006

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