The Pink Flamingo :: Is Malkin Anti-Catholic & Tancredo Steps in It!

I think by now any thinking person knows the Puppetmaster, John Tanton, is very anti-Catholic. Somehow I don’t think he is very happy with the visit of the Holy Father. So, he has sent his little minions of darkness out to try and ratchet up anti-immigration sentiment based on anti-Catholic bias. The man uses bias and ‘hate’ as his tools of the trade. His minions adopt his values and his tone. The result – well, you be the judge. I think we now know Tom Tancredo and Michelle Malkin are two of his little flunkies. I think you may see that Chuck Baldwin is one, also.

This may be what started it. The Church offering to pay for a shelter for Central American migrants heading to the US (illegally). Evidently Christian values and practices only refer to people who are legal. The project is being protected by Our Blessed Lady of Guadeloupe. I won’t want to cross her.

“…By funding the refuge, the Vatican is "undertaking policies that had the effect of facilitating illegal immigration to this country," said Jack Martin, special-projects director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform. "There is definitely a particular interest on the part of the Catholic Church that derives from the fact that the majority of illegal immigration into the country is from Catholic countries," Martin said. "It helps fill the pews, it helps fill the coffers, it helps fill the recruits to the priesthood."

It was unclear whether the pope was directly involved in the Brothers on the Path donation. Battista's office in the Vatican did not provide details about the donation or say whether the Vatican had funded other migrant shelters. Other Roman Catholic officials defended the donation as a humanitarian gesture. "Any good deed of the Holy Father is deserving of praise," Monsignor Luis Flores, director of Mexico's branch of Caritas Internacionalis, an umbrella group for Catholic charities, said in a prepared statement. "The church's mission is to provide assistance to people in need. We're not a law-enforcement agency," said Kevin Appleby, director of migration and refugee policy for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. "There's no broader intention to promote illegal immigration. We're just responding to the needs of someone who might be in distress."…” The usual anti-immigration sources began to gather like buzzards circling a dying animal. We are led to think the Vatican and the Pope are evil because they are interested in helping those nasty illegal migrants. Just listen to this piece from O’Reilly when E. D. Hill filled in for him. (Hill is a blond version of Malkin and just as racist).

Is John Tanton, the Puppetmaster, anti-Catholic?

“…Along with a few other FAIR board members, in the early 1980s Tanton founded a nationalist organization called WITAN-short for the Old English term "witenagemot," meaning "council of wise men." In 1986, Tanton signed a memo that went to WITAN members that highlighted the supremacist bent of Tanton and FAIR. (7)(8) The memo charged that Latin American immigrants brought a culture of political corruption with them to the United States and that they were unlikely to involve themselves in civil life. He raised the alarm that they could become the majority group in U.S. society. What's more, he asked: "Can homo contraceptivus compete with homo progenitiva?" Answering his own rhetorical question, Tanton wrote that "perhaps this is the first instance in which those with their pants up are going to get caught by those with their pants down!" According to Tanton, "In California 2030, the non-Hispanic Whites and Asians will own the property, have the good jobs and education, speak one language and be mostly Protestant and 'other.' The Blacks and Hispanics will have the poor jobs, will lack education, own little property, speak another language and will be mainly Catholic." Furthermore, Tanton raised concerns about the "educability" of Hispanics. (10) In 1988 the media published the Tanton memo, causing a number of former supporters of U.S. English to cut ties with Tanton, including Walter Cronkite. (7)(8)…”

In December, Heidi Beirich wrote

“…As long ago as 1988, when a series of internal 1986 documents known as the WITAN memos were leaked to the press, Tanton's bigoted attitudes have been known. In the memos, written to colleagues on the staff of FAIR, Tanton warned of a coming "Latin onslaught" and worried that high Latino birth rates would lead "the present majority to hand over its political power to a group that is simply more fertile." Tanton repeatedly demeaned Latinos in the memos, asking whether they would "bring with them the tradition of the mordida [bribe], the lack of involvement in public affairs" and also questioning Latinos' "educability." Echoing his 19th-century nativist forebears who feared Catholic immigrants from Italy and Ireland, Tanton has often attacked Catholics in terms not so different from those used by the Klan and the Know-Nothing Party of the 1840s. In the WITAN memos, for instance, he worried that Latino immigrants would endanger the separation of church and state and undermine support for public schooling. Never one to miss a threatening and fertile Catholic, Tanton even reminded his colleagues, "Keep in mind that many of the Vietnamese coming in are also Catholic."

Tom Tancredo has outdone himself. Yesterday he issued a statement basically panning the pope. I find the arrogance rather amusing in a going to hell in a handbasket sort of way.

“…Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) today criticized the Pope’s comments regarding U.S. immigration policy. According to reports, Pope Benedict XVI said the United States must do “everything possible to fight ... all forms of violence so that immigrants may lead dignified lives.” “I would like to know what part of our lax immigration policy is considered violent,” Tancredo said. “I fail to see how accepting more refugees than any other nation –and providing free health care, education, housing and social service benefits to millions of illegal aliens is in any way ‘violent’ or ‘degrading.’” Pope Benedict XVI has made amnesty a key issue in his papacy. He met with President Bush, reportedly adding his voice to the open-border lobby by encouraging Bush to provide blanket amnesty to all illegal immigrants in the United States. At the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the Pope said, “I want to encourage you and your communities to continue to welcome the immigrants who join your ranks today, to share their joys and hopes, to support them in their sorrows and trials and to help them flourish in their new home.” “I am not taking issue with the Pope’s moral authority and respect his views on the threat of radical Islam,” Tancredo said. “However, it is not in his job description to engage in American politics.” Tancredo also cited a recent report indicating that the “Catholic Church…has been losing members rapidly -- as much as a third of the native-born Catholic population. Meanwhile, it has gained members among foreign-born (mostly Hispanic) residents.”

Evidently Tom Tancredo is now taking the same path Henry VIII took when he decided to ditch the Catholic Church so he could get a divorce and marry Ann Boleyn. Maybe he might want to meditate on the fate of Henry VIII. I know, that's how the Episcopal church had its start, but then again...

“I suspect the Pope’s immigration comments may have less to do with spreading the gospel than they do about recruiting new members of the church," said Tancredo. "This isn’t preaching it is ‘faith-based’ marketing.”…”

IS MALKIN ANTI CATHOLIC?
Today the remarkable MM is railing against the “Catholic Elite” who are supporting illegal immigration. As a good Episcopalian who is quite proud that our Episcopalian Elite is doing the same thing, I can only applaud their actions. Malkin wrote the following, yet she claims to be a Christian.

“…Catholic elites can afford to harangue us about our perceived lack of “humanity.” Fact is, we remain the most generous and welcoming nation in the world to those who line up and play by the rules. It is not heretical to challenge the unholy alliance between the open borders lobby and the church establishment. If the Vatican had its way, we’d be paying for every last organ transplant for every last illegal alien patient in the world....”

She then had the nerve to ask the following:

“…Question: Have you heard a single Catholic leader express compassion or outrage about the murder of young Jamiel Shaw in Roger Mahoney’s sanctuary of Los Angeles by an illegal alien gang member?

Commenter Granite asks: “What would His Holiness have to say if, hordes of Muslims who happened to have entered Italy illegally and were descending upon the Vatican; who, while acting upon last Friday’s sermon by the Muslim cleric in Ramallah, to conquer Rome, “the Crusader capital”, were in the meantime in need of food, water, and shelter? Would he want to keep them out of the Vatican?”

In fact, at least one Catholic leader has voiced concern about uncontrolled mass immigration of Muslims to Italy and the threat it poses:…”

What the H - E - DOUBLE TOOTHPICK is going on here?

I have long suspected Michelle Malkin picks and chooses her facts to fit her rather interesting view of Christian values, freedom, and human rights, but I think the above quote from her blog today proves it. Malkin likes to quote Daniel Pipes, so I’ll just use him.

If there is any doubt about the anti-Catholic leaning of Malkin and company, check out this piece by AllahPundit:

“…Seal the borders and you may seal the fate of the Catholic Church in America. Which makes this year’s election mighty fortuitous for them: No matter who wins, the Church wins, too….”

FIGHTING BACK AGAINST ANTI-IMMIGRATION IGNORANCE
I am glad to see that people are starting to fight back against all this so called “conservative” anti-immigration posturing that is anything but posturing. In Pursuing Holiness today there is this absurd posting about agriculture, the price of lettuce, and what a producer must go through now, so that CONSERVATIVES who are anything but, can have their nasty little way. Julie Murphree of the Arizona Farm Bureau delivered one of the best take downs I’ve seen lately.

“…First, farmers do not rely on illegal aliens to pick their crops. Even your day laborers from across the border come across with appropriate work authorizations to work in the fields. Any business operating with records can’t afford to because even before the new Arizona employer sanctions law they can be penalized by the federal government. What can (and does happen) is that the documents presented to a potential employer (farming business, construction or hospitality) might be handed false papers that they cannot determine are legal or not. Why? You should know that an employer does not have the legal right to ask the potential employee, “Are you legal?” The employer could get sued. So, the employer must trust that the potential employee handed them legal documents with proper identification.

All this due diligence does not guarantee that they’ve hired someone legal. There is an entire underground market of fraudulent documents. In the meantime, state and the federal government (though states like Arizona are trying harder) are attempting to try to rectify the flow of illegal immigrants that do exist and possess have false papers. And sure, ask the employer to help police the process; but give them the proper tools to do it correctly, for example, with the use of biometric identification methods. Eventually I believe they’ll get this worked out despite all the current bumps in the road. Check out our website at http://www.azfb.org and take note of all the information we provide to help farmers and ranchers obtain the latest information about our current and changing laws and to ensure proper business processes.

What you see and probably gives you the confidence to make a blanket accusation of all businesses hiring legal immigrants (remember there are plenty of legal immigrants eligible to work with the correct papers), are some small businesses that don’t operate their enterprises under the normal system and hire off the street asking for no documents and pay cash for the day labor. But please, don’t wrap the typically farmer and rancher into this package because they just are not in there. In fact, the Arizona Farm Bureau is moving toward supporting a ballot imitative that would stop illegal immigrant work.

Regarding food prices and wages: As stated before, most farm labor harvesting produce is getting paid $10 to $19 per hour already, well above the state’s minimum wage and well above the cost-of-living in Mexico and one of the reasons you have so many crossing the border, legal and illegal. But if you don’t believe me, let me cite some statistics from the 2006 Arizona Agricultural Statistics Bulletin put out by the United States Department of Agriculture. The farm employment and wage rate estimates that USDA puts out annually covers hired workers of family members and other workers who are paid by the farm or ranch operator for working on agricultural jobs for one hour or more during the week. The average is $9.28. Again, well above Arizona’s minimum wage….Even if farmers paid $20 to $30 an hour, they couldn’t get the local population to work in the fields. They’ve tried. It’s hot, sweaty and hard work. And regarding food prices, though you indicate you’d pay more, I’m not so sure. Stay a while in Japan where a hefty percentage of their food supply is imported. A friend of mine paid $40 for one cantaloupe while he was in that country for six months during a work-study program. Farmers and ranchers don’t hire immigrants from Mexico to keep wages cheap, they hire immigrants from Mexico because they can’t get you and I to work in the fields. I’ll keep my office job thank you….”

CONSERVATIVES, CHRISTIANS, IMMIGRATION AND REALITY
I think today has provided us with the most flagrant illustrative commentary on the abject STUPIDITY of staunch, hard-line, anti-immigration

Chuck Baldwin “Pastor” is the perfect example of a “Christian” who is on the Jeremiah Wright path.

“…I will say it straight out: any Christian or conservative who supports John McCain has no principles left worth defending!
Can anyone remember when George W. Bush ran for the White House in 2000, promising the American people that he would pursue a non-interventionist foreign policy? So much for that promise. George W. Bush has orchestrated the most meddlesome, interventionist, and nation-building foreign policy of any President in modern memory. And Christians became his most vocal supporters. Now, John McCain gets in front of international television and jokes about bombing Iran, and once again, Christians stand up and cheer.

Christians have swallowed the Bush/McCain Kool-Aid as surely as did the followers of Jim Jones. They are drunk with denial and deception.…So, how can we ask God to bless America when God's children have set up the groves of idolatry in their hearts? How can we expect God to heal our land when Christian pastors, Sunday School teachers, deacons, ushers, and faithful church members place more loyalty and allegiance in a political party than they do in the very Word and principles of God?

As surely as the pagans of the Old Testament worshipped before the gods of Baal and Ashtoreth, many Christians worship before the GOP. They are willing to sacrifice their children to the policies and practices of unscrupulous, evil politicians--as long as they have an "R" behind their names. They will turn their back on their pastors, their churches, their friends, and their commitments before they will turn their backs on the Republican Party.To many Christians, God cannot work in America outside the Republican Party. God cannot bless America, except through the Republican Party. There is no success, no help, no assistance, and no redemption except through the Republican Party. If this is not idolatry, I do not know what is! If Christians will support John McCain, they will support anyone. Support for John McCain means no principle is sacred; no conviction is secure….”

DOES ANYONE SEE THE PROBLEM
For months I’ve been pointing out that there is this strange disconnect between those who advocate very strict immigration reform and their conservative “Christian” values. I think this post basically proves my point. Not content to ‘take out’ anyone who disagrees with them politically, the far anti-immigration right is now going to take out the Pope. I don’t like the word “Karma” but I think this is a place to use it. To me, if you are claiming to be a “Christian” and go after the Pope for doing what Christ taught us to do, you are ‘asking for some bad karma’. It is also so apparent that what these so-called “conservatives” are advocating has nothing to do with conservative. Use an open mind and start reading this. It is ‘unreal’ that’s for sure.

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