With George Soros being apparently only too happy to
pick up the tab, it was a string of the usual suspects of local radical
leftists that were instrumental in organizing the anti-Trump rally protest in
Chicago on Friday. You see, the left is
never willing to debate the issues with those whose positions they
disagree. As we have witnessed coming
from Barry any number of times over the course of the last 7+ years, it’s his
way or the highway, end of discussion.
So it was then that the like-minded players involved in trying to silence
Trump would seem to include:
Chicago
ANSWER: ANSWER (Act
Now to Stop War and End Racism) Chicago is the Chicago franchise of an
international network started in the wake of 9/11 and among the first to
protest against a response in Afghanistan; since then the group is involved in
most of the radical left’s favorite causes: anti-capitalist, pro-union, open
borders, anti-war, anti-police causes. The day after the Trump rally the group
was holding a forum entitled “Taking Action to Support Palestine.”
“We will have a report back from the People’s
victory against Trump last night,” according to John Beacham, a coordinator
with the organization, in a message on the Facebook page promoting the
event. The group advertised the
anti-Trump protest about a day in advance on their website calling for a “Mass
Protest to Stop Donald Trump”.
“Stand with All Immigrants, Muslims and People of
Color! Shut Down White Supremacy! Spread
the word. Organize everyone you can and get them to this very important
protest. Everywhere Trump goes he and his racist mob must be shut down by the
people!” the group said on the page.
Illinois
Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICRR): This radical leftist group, specializing in
immigration, is a more extreme version of the far left version of National
Council on La Raza in Illinois.
The group was featured in an article profiling some
of the groups intending to protest Trump’s rally in the left-wing website,
Progress Illinois on March 8 entitled “New Americans Hit The Polls In Chicago
As Immigrant Advocates Gear Up For Anti-Trump Protest.”
“There’s a lot of really hateful rhetoric with
respect to immigrants being voiced by candidates out there, “ICIRR’s Senior
Policy Counsel Fred Tsao said in that article. “We want to show that immigrants
are patriotic, contributing and eager to participate in the political process
and to integrate into society.”
This group was not only instrumental in creating the
most radical local immigration ordinance but also championed the case which
inspired the DREAM Act.
In 2011, Cook County became the first locality to
stop cooperating with the federal government on detainers; detainers became
controversial among leftist groups when their use skyrocketed under the now
discarded Secure Communities program.
Detainers are holds that Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) places on state prisoners who they think also violated
immigration law and the hold normally gives the federal government up to two
extra days to get any prisoner who would otherwise be released.
Denny McCann was killed in June 2011 when an illegal
immigrant driving about three times the speed limit didn’t stop and dragged him
about two hundred feet when Denny was crossing the street. The illegal, Saul
Chavez, was released from prison in November 2011, rather than be held for ICE,
after this ordinance passed, and has escaped and is now presumed to be in
Mexico: the most high profile of numerous cases of murderers, rapists, and gang
members all let free rather than deported as a result of that policy. ICIRR led a coalition of groups which helped
to pass and to tamp down the resulting controversy.
ICIRR also championed the case of Rigo Padilla, an
illegal immigrant who was to be deported from an incident which started in a
traffic stop. That case sparked Illinois Democrat Senator ‘Little Dick’ Durbin
to call for the original iteration of the DREAM Act, now known as the Deferred
Action Childhood Arrivals (DACA) after he became a Padilla supporter shortly
after his case received media attention in 2009. ICIRR offers so-called DREAMer loans, home
loans to DACA recipients.
La
Raza Chicago: The Chicago branch of the notoriously
radical pro-illegal immigration group had people on site and detailing the
events in a post on its site.
“Donald Trump canceled its event Friday night at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, for safety reasons, including the thousands
of protesters who gathered inside and outside the venue,” read an English
translation of the post, “protesting his presence, which has already caused
confrontations with supporters of Trump and the authorities.”
So as the growing chorus of voices, from both sides,
continues to to blame Trump for what’s being described as the increasing level
of “violence” at his rallies, I would disagree that very much of the blame
rests with him. And again, I would
argue, and not so much as a supporter of Trump but simply as an advocate for
free speech, that if the same were occurring at Cruz rallies or Kasich rallies,
you wouldn’t now be hearing from Trump that the blame for such activity should
rest with either of the candidates but, instead, with those trying to do
nothing more than to silence them.
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