Jerry Gonzalez went to Dalton to try to sell an agenda of open borders and immigration enforcement opposition this month. Dalton College, which hosted the little ( and I do mean little – see this video) likely won’t be hosting a pro-American event anytime soon.

I post ths because a local citizen wrote a great letter about Jerry’s ranting to the editor that was published . I post that letter below.

I am told that Jerry began hysterically waving for security when an attendee began to present a pro-enforcement observation. Much of Jerry’s job is find a way to silence the3 majority of Americans.

Dalton CitizenDecember 23, 2010

Letter: Speaker lost credibility

Friday evening, Dalton State College hosted an informational session entitled “Georgia is not Arizona.” After listening to the speaker, as he mumbled and grumbled in fear that Georgia may pass legislation regarding immigration similar to that of Arizona, one can only conclude that Dalton State College’s speaker procurement department seriously needs waste management training.

Key talking points included quoting Sen. Saxby Chambliss to the effect that Georgia’s agricultural industry will suffer if half of its work force flees or is deported. The speaker then emphasized all Georgia politicians are dishonest. Why utilize an authority one thinks is dishonest?

Some thought the speaker was seeking common ground with his audience on the subject of political honesty, but then he mentioned picking, instead of pulling up, Vidalia onions. At about this point, several attendees concluded the speaker seriously lacked knowledge about agriculture, and probably a lot of other subjects.

The speaker pulled every emotional string, and some Christmas season strings, to support his claim that Arizona’s efforts to enforce America’s immigration laws hurt all levels of education, cause family hardships and damage America’s economy, but his attempts to persuade dissolved into a simple assertion that “It’s all America’s fault.” This summary was voiced in a firm, but respectful manner by a member of the audience. Waving to campus security while whimpering that the summarizer was disruptive and should leave the session only served to dim the speaker’s abilities even more.

Neither diversity, fairness nor agendas of factions are acceptable replacements for the rule of law given us through the wisdom of America’s founding fathers in our Constitution. When the rule of law is replaced by the nature of man, America will cease to exist.

Dalton State College can do better.

Frank Barnes

Dalton

Tampa Tribune

La Reconquista — the politics of ethnic conflict

Many Mexican immigrants, legal or otherwise, see themselves as part of a process of retaking the United States that once was a part of Mexico. Recent Mexican law permits dual citizenship which tacitly supports this notion.

This objective is aptly described by Jose Ramos, anchorman since 1986 on Noticieros, a Miami news program on Univision cable network, also seen in Mexico and 13 other Latin-American countries.

This guy is the real deal, having the stature of Walter Cronkite, although not a U.S. citizen and one of the 10 most admired Latinos in the U.S. — a graduate of the University of Miami — my alma mater. Ramos accurately observes, “Latinos have achieved the feat of integration economically to the U.S. without losing their culture.”

While all other immigrants have assimilated, he says, “The idea of a melting pot is a myth.” He makes no bones about supporting La Reconquista, saying … “the United States is undergoing a true demographic revolution. Some call it La Reconquista. The same territories that Mexico lost to the United States in 1848 — Arizona, Texas, California … others … such as Florida and Illinois — are experiencing a genuine cultural invasion …”

“Reconquista” means the reconquest and refers to the centuries-long struggle by Spaniards to reclaim Spain from Moorish Muslims. But now it refers to the Mexican-American War of 1846-48. The irony is many of today’s overseas Muslims believe that because of their fertility, Europe will also undergo a slow but steady demographic Islamic revolution.

And then there’s “La Raza Unida,” meaning literally, “The United Race,” which, like so many radical movements, started in the ’60s with activist Chicanos who believed they were victimized by a racist power structure that has oppressed Mexican-Americans since the Mexican-American War.

This is now a moribund third-party movement subsumed by the Democrats who tap into ethnic passion with identity politics. Yet it remains a strong social protest movement. Its founder, Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas professor, supports open borders, amnesty; and in the late ’60s said, “We have got to eliminate the gringo … if worst comes to worst, we have got to kill him.” On a lighter note, in 1999, he observed less stridently, “We have the critical mass … We have the means now to take government and to lead.”…

HERE

La Estrella de Panama (Panama City, Panama) 9/22/10

Illegal aliens nabbed in Panama

An official source reported that Panamanian police detained a total of 16 aliens from Africa and Asia who had entered Panama from Colombia illegally. The aliens were traveling together and had reached an area near the capital when they were arrested. They are from Bangladesh (7), Eritrea (6), Somalia (2) and Nigeria (1). Panamanian officials have detected at least two groups of smugglers of aliens from Africa and Asia since 2008; they use Central America as an access route to the United States and Canada, (the stated destination of these 16) and charge around $7,500 dollars to the illegal immigrants who reach the area from Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil and Venezuela.

http://www.laestrella.com.pa/mensual/2010/09/22/contenido/15091986.asp

OBAMA vs Arizona and the majority of America

Press Statement from angry Jerry Gonzalez who runs $am Zamarripa’s anti-enforcement GALEO

July 7, 2010 – ATLANTA, GA –

Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director of GALEO, issued the following statement after learning of the U.S. DOJ lawsuit against the Arizona law SB1070 today:

“We applaud federal action against the discriminatory Arizona law SB1070. Immigration policy and enforcement falls squarely upon the federal government and the lawsuit will ensure to reassert federal authority. We echo the concerns and support for a preliminary injunction of the law in order to prevent its implementation.

Our nation should have one federal immigration policy. It does not make sense to have 50 different immigration laws across the states. While the U.S. Congress continues to abdicate its responsibility of enacting a uniform, coherent, enforceable and workable immigration policy, states should not step into that void as Arizona has.

The lawsuit filed today should give pause to the Gubernatorial candidates talking about enacting or pushing for such a law in Georgia. Clearly, Georgia would not want to bear the financial costs associated with the lawsuit, nor deal with the economic impact due to the loss of conventions and tourism. In addition, businesses based in Arizona are now being targeted for a national boycott. I am certain that the business community would eventually start to raise concerns about the Arizona law with some of our Georgia political leaders.

The real solution is for our U.S. Congress and President Obama to truly lead on this issue and develop a workable immigration reform policy that is just, humane, workable and will move our nation forward. In fact, there is growing support by the American public for a comprehensive immigration reform policy.

Now, we need action, not excuses, from our U.S. Congress on this pressing issue. The status quo perpetuates a broken immigration system. We need comprehensive immigration reform now.”

HERE

Atlanta Journal Constitution

Group aims to register 100,000 Latino voters

The Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials on Monday launched a campaign to register 100,000 new Latino voters for the upcoming general election.

A driving force behind the voter registration drive, GALEO said, is support expressed by a number of gubernatorial candidates for illegal immigration legislation similar to Arizona’s law that authorizes local police to arrest immigrants without documentation. Polling indicates strong opposition to the Arizona law within the Latino community, GALEO said. The deadline for residents to register to vote for the November general election is Oct. 4.

GALEO is encouraging each of its members and supporters to register 10 new voters, volunteer at least 10 hours of service to accomplish that goal and donate at least $10.

“The Latino vote can impact the outcome of the 2010 elections and we will work hard to have an educated electorate on the positions of candidates as well,” Jerry Gonzalez, GALEO’s executive director, said in a statement.

HERE

Tampa Bay Tribune

La Reconquista — the politics of ethnic conflict

…Ever mindful of the Mexican vote, the Obama Administration appointed Cecilia Munoz, an open-borders advocate, who was a senior vice president for the National Council of La Raza to the executive office of the president; and nominated Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a member of La Raza, to the Supreme Court. Cruz Bustamante …and Antonio Villaraigosa, mayor of Los Angeles, were both Mechistas — under the Raza umbrella — an anti-American separatist group.

HERE

Jessica Colotl: The open borders/illegal alien lobby finds a new victim of geography.For those who have not been following the case of the latest victim of borders and immigration laws here in Georgia, see HERE for background.

Illegal KSU student: ‘messed-up system’ (Note from D.A.- she means becasue we have borders and immigration laws)
by Kathryn Dobies and Jon Gillooly
May 15, 2010

ATLANTA – Following her second arrest and release from jail, Kennesaw State University student and illegal immigrant Jessica Colotl said Friday that she wasn’t a criminal and was surprised to be caught up in an immigration battle that she said she perceives to be the result of a “messed-up system.” “I’m just hoping for the best and I really believe that something positive should come out of this, probably an immigration reform or at least the Dream Act, which would help this sentence,” Colotl said. Before a lively crowd of supporters at …

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KSU still sidesteps questions
by Kim Isaza

KENNESAW – Kennesaw State University officials issued a new position statement Friday on the Jessica Colotl case, sidestepping written questions the Journal submitted to President Dr. Dan Papp.

The president has had several media requests for interviews this week regarding Colotl, an illegal immigrant attending KSU, and is unable to grant them, said Arlethia Perry-Johnson, special assistant to the president.

“The immigration debate is volatile and center stage in our nation. However, KSU’s administration will not become embroiled in that debate. Our focus has been and remains on ensuring that we are in full compliance with all Board of Regents’ policies that address the classification of undocumented students,” according to the unsigned position statement sent by Perry-Johnson.

The statement also reiterated the school’s actions on Colotl’s behalf.

“The university attorney attempted to ascertain Ms. Colotl’s legal status and contacted her country’s consular officials and her attorney; she NEVER offered legal advice of any sort; The university’s chief student affairs officer contacted Ms. Colotl’s sorority sisters – who were speaking to the media on her behalf – to ascertain her status, and to inquire as to what assistance could be provided regarding her matriculation, etc.; and KSU’s president wrote a letter to the judge, asking that ‘WITHIN THE LETTER OF THE LAW,’ Ms. Colotl be permitted to complete her studies at KSU,” according to the statement.

“Since learning of Ms. Colotl’s immigration status, KSU’s administration has determined that she must be, and will be, charged out-of-state tuition rates for any future courses in which she enrolls at the university. There also has been conjecture regarding whether or not undocumented students at KSU receive either federal or state financial aid. For the record, neither form of aid is afforded to undocumented students at KSU,” according to the statement.

Among the questions the Journal had asked Papp is why public employees expended any time or effort assisting an illegal immigrant, and whether Colotl would be allowed to finish her spring-semester classes.

Federal law says post-secondary education is a public benefit, and illegal immigrants are not eligible for public benefits. But the statement issued Friday by KSU references Regents policy rather than federal law, and D.A. King, an anti-illegal immigrant activist says that is wrong.

The Board of Regents sets policy for the 35 public colleges in the University System of Georgia.

“The Board of Regents allowing an illegal alien into our publicly funded post-secondary education system is a violation of both federal and state law,” said King, who is considering initiating lawsuits in both federal and state courts against the Board of Regents, including seeking a temporary restraining order to stop all admissions until the Regents comes into compliance. HERE
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Activists go after Cobb sheriff, say actions politically motivated
by By Kathryn Dobies and Jon Gillooly
May 15, 2010 12:00 AM

ATLANTA – Immigration activists at Jessica Colotl’s Friday press conference called for Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren’s resignation and went after several local and state politicians.

Activists and members of human rights groups joined Colotl – an illegal immigrant and Kennesaw State University student – and denounced Warren’s recent actions, calling them politically motivated.

“It’s really unfortunate that her family has been used by ‘Wild West Warren’ for a political ploy to score political points,” said Jerry Gonzalez, executive director for the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials. “It’s shameful that a law enforcement official would use the rule of law and the authority given to him by Cobb County voters to abuse that power and to create a massive manhunt for a college student, a non criminal.”

Warren maintains that he was enforcing the law, as is his duty under oath, and was not encouraged by anyone to pursue the situation.

Colotl, 21, was stopped on KSU campus March 29 for a traffic violation and later arrested for driving without a valid license. After Colotl was booked into Cobb Jail, she was turned over to immigration authorities. She was taken to the Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden, Ala., on April 1, but was released May 5. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities agreed to defer any action against her for one year so she could return to her studies at the university.

On Wednesday evening, however, the Cobb Sheriff’s Office obtained a warrant for Colotl on a felony charge of lying to law-enforcement officials, based on a reportedly false address she provided upon her book-in at the Cobb County Jail in March. On Friday morning, Colotl turned herself into Cobb authorities and was released on a $2,500 bond.

Rich Pellegrino, of Cobb Immigrant Alliance, said his group would soon be asking for Warren’s resignation.

“Next week we will be releasing information we have documented proof that Sheriff Neil Warren has been selectively enforcing the law, looking to the side when other people have identity issues, other people who are friends of his have identity documents, false documents, we will be releasing that next week and calling for the resignation and removal of Sheriff Neil Warren,” Pellegrino said.

Gonzalez even called for President Barack Obama to step in, asking him to take away an agreement, known as 287(g), which Cobb County has with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency to check the immigration status of everyone booked into the county jail. The Cobb County Sheriff’s Office was the first agency in Georgia to participate in 287(g). Since July 2007, Warren’s office has identified more than 6,600 inmates who were in the United States illegally. Warren signed a new 287(g) agreement in October 2009.

In defense of his latest actions, Warren said Friday that his staff went to the Duluth address that Colotl provided to his department during her first book-in and met with the manager of Century Park Apartments, only to find that Colotl did not live there.

“I have all the confidence in the world that my investigators did a thorough investigation,” Warren said. “And they presented a case to the magistrate, and the magistrate judge felt there was probable cause to issue the warrant. So it’s time for us to let the courts and the judge decide … We started getting calls and I felt obligated to look into it. I did not have any encouragement to do anything.”

Warren said he has no intentions of resigning.

Regarding Colotl’s late March booking in Cobb Jail and the tools used to determine the status of an inmate, Warren said, “some may think it is unfortunate that minor offenders are caught in the 287(g) net; but I value any tool that helps me enforce the law and remove violators from our community. Georgia law establishes legal criteria for every potential offender, from traffic violations thru capital felony murder. Often individuals have different perceptions or personal definitions of criminal activity. I follow the Georgia Code and enforce those statutes. That is my oath of office and duty to the citizens of Cobb County.”

Following Friday’s press conference, Christopher Taylor, Colotl’s attorney, was critical of the Journal for its reporting, saying the Journal was responsible for Colotl’s second arrest.

“I believe the Marietta Daily Journal and the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office misreported this issue,” Taylor said. “I’ve got a problem with the Marietta Daily Journal … Reporting that she gave a false address caused a fire storm.”

However, the Journal brought Colotl’s story to light on May 1 because her friends and sorority sisters from Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority reached out to the newspaper, asking for coverage of a march for Colotl at the state Capitol.

In an attempt to contact Colotl, the Journal called her previous attorney, Kazuma Sonoda, of the Sonoda Law Firm, sent her a message via Facebook and finally went to the Duluth address she provided to authorities on May 7. At the address, a woman answered and said she still receives mail for Colotl, but has never met the KSU student.

Taking jabs at politicians Friday, Gonzalez said, “(Former) state Rep. Nathan Deal has said he wants to bring Arizona along to Georgia as governor. (Former) state Sen. Eric Johnson wants to ban access to college education to deserving students like Jessica. They want to kick them out of school. Is that the kind of Georgia that we want?”

Johnson, a Republican candidate for governor, on Friday challenged a statement from the chancellor of the University System of Georgia that it would be too costly to require verifying citizenship when a student goes through the admissions process.

“This is a typical bureaucratic response. First and foremost, we cannot afford to simply ignore the law, and it is unacceptable to brazenly dismiss the responsibility of enforcement,” Johnson said. “… It does not cost a dime to ask for a valid driver’s license, valid passport, or valid student visa.”

KSU officials have said that Colotl was receiving in-state tuition since she graduated from a Georgia high school.

Gonzalez went on to say that Georgia has “no leadership from both of our U.S. senators.”

“Where is Saxby Chambliss and where is Johnny Isakson? Instead of saying no on immigration reform, why are they not working to move forward with a workable solution that moves us together as a nation to uphold our values as a nation? (Isakson) You are up for re-election sir. There are a 160,000 Latinos registered to vote. We are paying attention to this issue,” he said.

In response, Isakson told the Journal, “I have always drawn a clear distinction between legal and illegal immigration, and anyone who comes to our country legally should be welcomed to share in the pursuit of the American dream. At the same time, the defense of our nation begins with securing our borders and ending the opportunity for illegal entry. Our immigration laws must be followed and they must be enforced, and I stand in full support of those who do both.” HERE

National Review Online

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Spreading the Smear [Mark Krikorian]

Just typing “Southern Poverty Law Center” makes me want to scrape off my shoes, but there’s a facet of their underhandedness that struck me recently.

As dishonest and politically motivated as some of their “hate group” listings are, there is a limit to how many of their mainstream political opponents they can label this way. If they’re too promiscuous with the “hate group” label, they would lose what little credibility they have left with reporters and even with their donors, the collection of whose money is the SPLC’s very reason for existence. So long as they reserve the designation mainly for groups that at least sound scary — Aryan Nations, Supreme Ferret of the Ku Klux Klan, whatever — even if they’re just P.O. boxes with no members, they can get away with it. But labeling AEI, for instance, or the Bradley Foundation as “hate groups” would strain the credulity of even a lot of gullible lefties.

So instead, the SPLC includes such targets (including, I’m proud to say, the Center for Immigration Studies) in lists of those “spreading bigotry,” or whatever, along with others they have decided to label “hate groups,” secure in the knowledge that the SPLC’s allies further down the leftist food chain will apply the label for them, serving the SPLC’s purposes without the SPLC having to take responsibility.

This happens all the time, but one example that came to my attention was the Dustin Inman Society, a mainstream (and quite effective) anti-illegal-immigration group in Georgia headed by D.A. King, a former Marine whom I know. King’s nemesis is the director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO), Jerry Gonzalez, who repeatedly writes that the SPLC has designated King’s outfit a “hate group” (see here and here, for instance). The point is not whether D.A. is a hater (he’s not — I’m not even sure he’s a restrictionist, since he limits himself to illegal immigration, and I’ve never heard so much as an epithet from him, even in private, let alone any Zionist conspiracies or Trilateral Commissions or even longing for the Lost Cause). Instead, the point is that Gonzalez, like many other activists in comparable situations, is simply lying, and he knows he’s lying, and the SPLC knows he’s lying — but that’s okay, because it’s part of a strategy of spreading the taint of racism to all those who disagree with the SPLC’s politics.

04/22 04:39 PMShare HERE

“Furthermore, U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson is open towards a solution and is up for re-election in November 2010. During a recent keynote address at a Leadership Georgia event, I asked him a question of what he thought about the Schumer-Graham blueprint, which was released earlier that day. Again, he promised to keep an open mind and that he would discuss the specifics with his U.S. Senator colleagues before he makes a decision. “

From GALEO and angry Jerry Gonzalez HERE

Note from D.A. – At a late 2009 Madison Forum meeting in Cobb County, Georgia, with about 40 other Americans listening quite intently, with a MDJ editor and a MDJ reporter in the room, Senator Isakson replied to a question from me with a nearly firm answer. I asked: “would you ever vote for or support any legislation that would legalize any illegal aliens who live in our nation…” Isakson relied “NO”…not with unemployment as high as it is now…” He also told the me – and audience – that we periodically need additional labor to “do the jobs Americans cannot do.”

Senator Isakson did not go on to provide a list of jobs his fellow Americans “cannot do.”

You may want to call Senator Isakson’s office to ask which is the official position… I am. CONTACT INFO HERE.

We wish the Senator a full and speedy recovery from his recent illness.

http://www.galeo.org/story.php?story_id=0000007160

Last year, the GALEO gang filed a comnplaint against me with the Georgia ethics commission on my lobbying at the Georgia Capitol and in Washington: it was dismissed last week. Posted below is a short news stoy from Insider advantage Georgia on the hearing. We are grateful to Mr. Dick Pettys for permission to re post. Insider Advantage is a subscription Website. HERE

Ethics Commission Postpones Decision On Whether Oxendine Received Illegal Contributions

(10/16/09) The State Ethics Commission has postponed a decision on whether Insurance Commissioner (and Republican gubernatorial candidate) John Oxendine’s campagn received illegal contributions.

On a 3-0 vote Thursday, the panel tabled the complaint until it receives responses from two west Georgia insurance companies and 10 Alabama-based political action committees.

The PACs contributed $120,000 to Oxendine’s gubernatorial campaign that came from the two insurers, which otherwise would have been proibited from contributing to elected officials who regulate their industry.

Oxendine returned the contributions last summer after the complaint was filed.

The commission dismissed a second complaint against Oxendine over the campaign’s purchase and use of a $37,000 campaign vehicle.

Tim Echols, the campaign manager, said the campaign was pleased with the dismissal of that charge and was confident the other would be dismissed “once the commission gets the information it seeks from other parties.”

He added, “Georgians are sick and tired of the negative attacks on John Oxendine. Every week one of John Oxendine’s opponents attempts a negative attack.”

In some other key decisions, the commission:

“…In some other key decisions, the commission:

* Dismissed a complaint against Derrick Dickey contending that the former Perdue staffer should have registered as a lobbyist when he was hired as a communications specialist to help promote so-called private cities legislation. Dickey since has registered as a lobbyist.

* Dismissed a complaint filed against anti-illegal immigration activist D.A. King by former state Sen. Sam Zamarripa. The complaint alleged that King had lobbied without registering during the 2006 and 2007 session.

King acknowledged that he did not register as a lobbyist until 2008, but added he had been speaking out earlier as a private citizen on the immigration issue. He also contended he had spent mostly his own money on his lobbying efforts. ( Note from D.A.- more on the dismissal and Sam and Jerry’s resulting unhappiness from the Spanish language “newspaper” translated from Babelfish HERE )

* Dismissed a complaint King filed against an attorney for the Mexican-American Legal and Education Fund for lobbying, allegedly without publicly displaying her lobbyist badge.

* Levied fines against Sen. Lester Jackson and former Sen. Regina Thomas for failing to file complete details on their finances. Both settled the complaints with plea agreements.

Thomas, a former Democratic senator, agreed to pay a $2,500 civil penalty from her personal funds, not unspent campaign funds. She admitted she failed to file a statement of her personal finances within the deadline after qualifying for re-election in 2005 and for not filing one at all the next year, even though it was required.

Jackson succeeded Thomas when she retired from the Senate to mount an unsuccessful run for Congress against John Barrow. Jackson admitted that he failed to file reports in June and December of last year related to his campaign as a member of the state House, which were required even though he was running for the state Senate.

He paid the $475 in late fees in February, but another $150 in late fees has accumulated since.

In the agreement the commission accepted Thursday, Jackson agrees to pay the new late fees and a $250 civil penalty from personal funds, not from his campaign.”

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