On Friday, April 24, if you have nothing better to do and you’d like a free lunch courtesy of Kansas City taxpayers, the place to be is the Sheraton Hotel at Crown Center…
The official theme of the symposium is “The New Face of Protest.”
I don’t know what the “old” face was and am almost afraid to ask what the post-surgical face will look like.
Although the event runs less than six hours–lunch tout compris–participants can sort through a whole grab bag of potential problems to protest.
The one that caught my eye was “The current culture for Hispanics & Hispanic Immigrants.”
To attempt to summarize in a few hours a “current culture” for a language group that spans multiple ethnicities–Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Honduran, Argentinian, Spanish etc.–would make Sisyphus appreciate his rock.
No, La Raza, “Hispanic” is no more a race than “Italian” is.
I am hoping this “current culture” thing is actually a subtle way for organizers to enlist volunteers for the presidential campaigns of Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, but I am not about to put money on that bet.
“Hispanic immigrants,” of course, is a euphemism for “illegal immigrants.”
I suspect this session will show those here illegally how best to protest the laws of the country whose laws they broke to get here–all on your dime.
Only in America.
The keynote speaker is a lawyer named Pamela Meanes, the president of the National Bar Association (NBA). Despite its unprovocative name, the NBA is self-described as “the nation’s oldest and largest national association of predominantly African-American lawyers, judges educators and law students.”
The word “predominantly,” I would guess, is a way to fend off charges that the NBA is not “inclusive.” If the NBA has affirmatively reached out to its Hispanic brethren, it is not obvious. I could not find an Hispanic name or face anywhere on the NBA web site.
Here’s hoping no one protests the lunch.
Rich Steele is a citizen journalist and head of the NSAAS (Non-Smokers Against Anti-Smoking).
Thanks for the shout out, it will be fun for the whole family.
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Stay away from the Potato Salad, it is left over from the big “Occupy” blow out last year.
BYOB you will need it.
Then again, maybe everyone should stay home, this could be a tough crowd.
Washington Times:
“The data, released by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte at the beginning of a hearing with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldana, also showed that the 30,558 criminal aliens ICE knowingly released back into the community in 2014 had amassed nearly 80,000 convictions, including 250 homicides, 186 kidnappings and 373 sexual assaults.
“The nonsensical actions of this administration demonstrate its lack of desire to enforce the law even against unlawful aliens convicted of serious crimes,” Mr. Goodlatte said.
Ms. Saldana said she’s required under the laws passed by Congress to grant due process to everyone, and said both court decisions and federal law require her to make judgments about whom to hold.
“Even the Congress contemplated some people would be released,” Ms. Saldana said.”
This free lunch is happening the same week that low skill workers are protesting that their wages have not risen. Maybe a cause-and-effect thing going on here?
It is said that to be young and not be liberal means you have no heart. To be old and not conservative, you have no brain. There is little that changes with protest, sit ins, blocked streets, civil disobedience, except that today we have U-tube, Facebook, Snap chat, and other media, where we can almost annonimously declare guilt without having to face the accused. It is heartening that we are offerring a free lunch, but sad that ICE, being totally inept, can’t fill a quota by attending the conference. I think they used to call it soup kitchens. Most of us have work to do, earning the income to pay the taxes that will be delivering the free lunch. Noting the time of year, I wonder if it is a tax deduction. Perhaps enforcement of the law represents the best protest. For those that don’t remember, it was enforcement that changed liquor laws in Kansas and Blue Laws in Kansas City. Perhaps that needs to be taught.
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