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June 19, 2007
Protestors Warn Immigration Bill 'Diversion' for 'Fascist One World Order'
“If you continue to believe that the illegal alien invasion is the biggest threat to America, you will never understand that there is something far more dangerous to our country called the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,” said Daneen Peterson at a small rally in Washington, D.C. last Friday. Peterson explained that “the overwhelming human tsunami of illegal aliens and MS-13 gang members” will cause “complete anarchy,” which in turn will “allow the shadow government to step forward and visibly take over this country. They will use martial law to install a fascist One World Order, dictatorial government in plain sight instead of operating clandestinely as they do now."
Peterson’s warning is familiar to a significant faction of the anti-immigrant movement, who believe that President Bush, an obscure college professor, and the Council on Foreign Relations are secretly plotting to create a European Union-style government in North America. While the supposedly well-advanced march to a “North American Union,” featuring a new flag and a unified “Amero” currency, has not been taken seriously outside of far-right and nativist web sites and news sources, the theory has had major backing from “Swift Vet” co-author Jerome Corsi, CNN host Lou Dobbs, Phyllis Schlafly, Judicial Watch, Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid, right-wing news site WorldNetDaily.com, long-shot Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, and the grandfather of right-wing conspiracy-mongering, the John Birch Society.
And while Peterson called the immigration debate a “diversion” from the “North American Union” scheme, many activists see them as of a piece: Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Virginia), who has introduced a resolution to oppose the vaporous plot, has also stated that immigration reform is just the first step: “It will lead us on a path to likely have a North American currency, will further break down the borders between our countries, and it really undermines the concept of the United States of America in favor of something called North America.”
Tom Tancredo and Pat Buchanan have made similar testimonies. Warning that immigration reform would lead to “deep integration” involving “superhighways and railroads,” Buchanan said the legislation “is about the merger of nations into larger transnational entitles and, ultimately, global governance.”
Goode himself appeared at the rally alongside Daneen Peterson to warn that meetings between the leaders of the U.S., Mexico, and Canada “will send us on a glide path to the destruction of our sovereignty, and I always want the United States to be the best country in the world as it is today, and it won't be if we're part of a North American Union.”
Tomorrow, Judicial Watch is holding a panel on the subject, featuring Schlafly, Rosemary Jenks of the anti-immigrant group Numbers USA, and Robert Pastor, the obscure college professor universally cited as at the center of the mysterious scheming among the global elite.
As debate over comprehensive immigration reform continues and the anti-“North American Union” community simmers online, opponents of immigration reform are increasingly linking legalization of undocumented immigrants to an impending clandestine merger of the U.S. and its neighbors. When congressmen arguing against reform cite the “North American Union,” it goes a long way toward legitimizing the fringe operation currently organizing around the conspiracy, but it’s fair to predict that those politicians or more mainstream commentators “connecting the dots” to this conspiracy theory will only make their anti-immigrant cause less credible.
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February 9, 2007
Fairness Doctrine: AIM Warns of Conspiracy to 'Silence Conservatives'
In “report” on media reform, Soros, etc.
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January 5, 2007
Strangely, Right-Wing Media Watchdog Doesn't Blame Media for George Allen Loss
Instead, AIM’s Kincaid suggests “sabotage” by supposed gay staffers.
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October 17, 2006
Republican Gays are Closeted Dems! Oh, That Explains It.
Cliff Kincaid of right-wing financed Accuracy in Media is determined to push his Mark Foley-scandal “explanations” as far as they will go – as long as it is nowhere near the truth.
When the scandal first broke, Kincaid said Republicans had only themselves to blame for being so darn gullible for allowing gays into the GOP in the first place:
House leaders permitted homosexuals to infiltrate and manipulate the party apparatus while they publicly postured as friends of family values and traditional marriage.
But since then, Kincaid has advanced beyond that sort of rudimentary blame-game in favor of a much more elaborate conspiracy theory: gay Republicans are really undercover Democratic operatives!! Who knew?
The complex nature of the "dirty trick" against the Republicans over the Mark Foley scandal is beginning to emerge. It doesn't involve a George Soros-funded group or emails that had been in the possession of the media or shopped around by Democratic operatives. Instead, the GOP has played a trick on itself. The party brought so-called gay Republicans into positions of power in Congress only to realize that the confidential information they held about a secret gay network was political dynamite that could backfire.
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If you are getting the idea that gay Republicans may be closeted Democrats, then you are beginning to understand how the Mark Foley scandal could have been a Democratic Party dirty trick.
So if the gay Republicans are not really Republicans, what are they? One veteran observer of this network told AIM that the Foley scandal should make it crystal clear that the gay Republicans are in reality "liberal activists" who want to use the party to advance the same homosexual agenda embraced by the Democrats.
In Kincaid’s view, the GOP has been infiltrated by “liberal activists” posing as gay Republicans in an intricate and convoluted plan to advance the Democratic Party’s agenda which, thanks to the Foley scandal, Kincaid alone has now managed to uncover.
Should the November elections go the way more pollsters and pundits are predicting – resulting in previously unexpected losses for Republicans – no doubt Kincaid and his compadres will find it easier to continue blaming gays instead of dealing with the truth about the Grand Old Party.
They are losing voters the honest way. Voters are tired of 1) being manipulated with talk of “values” 2) Bush’s popularity is way down 3) public and even congressional support for the war in Iraq continues to slip and 4) influence buying scandals in Washington are all a lot more powerful than the “secret gay network” that exists only in the fertile imagination of a right-wing in denial.
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October 13, 2006
Kincaid Sees Vast Gay Conspiracy Behind Foley Scandal
Accuracy in Media head suggests GOP gays secretly working for Democrats.
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October 9, 2006
A Secret Network of Republican Homosexuals on Capitol Hill?
Cliff Kincaid, of the right-wing media watchdog organization Accuracy in Media, has joined the group of right-wing elites trying to blame the Mark Foley scandal on an imagined gay cabal within the Republican Party. The following is from a column Kincaid published today:
As I contended during an interview on the public television program NOW, the Republicans have only themselves to blame for this scandal. House leaders permitted homosexuals to infiltrate and manipulate the party apparatus while they publicly postured as friends of family values and traditional marriage. The facade is now in ruins. The press can’t be blamed for seizing on a real and legitimate story.
The Foley-Hastert scandal, according to Kincaid, is the result of the House Republican leadership’s subservience to a dedicated and crafty network of gay Republicans “working behind-the-scenes to sabotage a conservative pro-family agenda in the Congress.” Kincaid suggests that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert’s refusal to resign might be evidence that this alleged secret network of closeted Republicans reaches into the highest positions of leadership:
For the sake of honest and open government, not to mention protection of the children, the secret Capitol Hill homosexual network must be exposed and dismantled. But only Republican leaders can do that. Their failure to do so suggests that the network may go higher and deeper—and have more power—than even the New York Times article indicated.
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