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You
Can’t Make This Up: James J. Lee, Crazy Asian
Environmentalist Alien Smuggler, Spun
Against…Progressive Immigration Patriots!
By
Washington Watcher
Despite hysteria from the
Department of Homeland Security and left wing
groups, inconveniently
few right-wing terrorists or anti-immigrant hate
criminals have ever materialized—especially when
compared to the
constant
outbreaks of
Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome.
Which is no doubt why these groups
and their MSM allies
seized on
James Jay Lee, the crazed loner who on September 1
held the Silver Spring, MD Discovery Channel building
hostage for four hours before being killed by the
police. (Fortunately, no hostages were harmed.)
Spinning the Lee incident against
patriotic immigration reform is implausible on its face,
of course, because that Lee surname comes
not
from the
First Family of Virginia but from
Korea. (I have not found anything definitive on the
Lee family’s immigration history, but Lee did have his
own history with immigrants. The
San Diego Union Tribune has just reported:
“Records in U.S. District Court in San Diego show that a James Jae Lee
was sentenced in August 2003 to 18 months in federal
prison for trying to smuggle an illegal immigrant in a
hidden compartment in a car through the San Ysidro Port
of Entry.”
[Discovery
Channel gunman prosecuted here for alien smuggling,
By Kristina Davis, September 2, 2010])
Lee was unquestionably a rabid
environmentalist, who was apparently influenced by Al Gore’s
An
Inconvenient Truth.
He tried to organize protests outside the Discovery Channel
building over a number of years, including throwing money
into the street to garner attention resulting in a
disorderly conduct arrest.
So how was this spun into an attack on immigration
patriots?
Shortly before his death, Lee released a manifesto of
demands that he wanted the Discovery Channel to air. He
listed a number of demands related to the environment, the
economy, and war. Plank # 5 (unedited here) dealt with the
environmental cost of immigration:
“Immigration: Programs must be
developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration
pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find
solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to
develop solutions to stop it completely and permanently.
Find solutions FOR these countries so they stop sending
their breeding populations to the US and the world to seek
jobs and therefore breed more unwanted pollution babies.
FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM TO STOP THEIR HUMAN GROWTH AND THE
EXPORTATION OF THAT DISGUSTING FILTH! (The first world is
feeding the population growth of the Third World and those
human families are going to where the food is! They must
stop procreating new humans looking for nonexistant jobs!)”
Lee was not
“demonizing
immigrants”. He used this language to describe
everyone,
regardless of national origin.
He wrote: “Humans
are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures”
And he demanded
“stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting
human babies.”
[Save
the Planet Protest]
Let’s put it this way: Lee was a
misanthrope.
But
Lee’s fleeting mention of immigration was perfect for the
Open Borders Left, which has recently
launched a major assault against patriotic
environmentalists opposed to mass immigration.
Earlier in the summer, July 20, The Southern Poverty Law
Center
($PLC to VDARE.COM) released a report
“Greenwash:
Nativists, Environmentalism and the Hypocrisy of Hate”.
By
an amazing coincidence,
the very next day
the Center for a New Community released its report
Apply the Brakes: Anti-immigrant Co-optation of
the Environmental Movement, [PDF]a
special issue of its magazine Imagine 2050 on
"Race, Migration, & The Environment". It is currently promoting a
pledge to “stop the
greening of bigotry” by saying
“NO to the
greening of hate and a resounding YES to the building of
a democratic and diverse environmental movement.” [Stop
the Greening of Bigotry, Center for New Community]
Even more amazing,
The Nation magazine
simultaneously (July 29) ran a piece entitled
Greenwashing Nativism by Andrew Ross—who, oddly, did
not mention either report.
You can imagine the content: all
environmentalists opposed to immigration are really the
puppets of the racist eugenicist
John Tanton, blah blah. Yawn.
But beyond this tired guilt-by-association rhetoric,
there was a systematic effort to suppress patriotic
environmentalists. Imagine 2050 demanded that
“The National Council for Science and the Environment Should
Dump Roy Beck” of NumbersUSA for the sin of allowing
him to speak at their conference. It provided the phone
number and e-mail for the NCSE’s leadership so their readers
could harass them and demand that Beck be permanently
purged. Its article was accompanied with a picture of Beck
and a protester with a balloon summarizing their
totalitarian tactics
“Don’t Debate Hate.” [Race,
Migration, and the Environment, Imagine 2050, July
2010 (pdf)]
Days after this coordinated campaign
began,
Progressives for Immigration Reform’s Leah Durant was
purged as a blogger for the Huffington Post.
As soon as the Discovery Channel incident
began, before Lee was
even killed, Southern Poverty Law Center
hitman Mark Potok blogged:
“But unlike earlier eco-terrorists like Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Lee
zeroed in on immigrants as a primary evil. He spoke of
‘anchor baby filth,’ a reference to babies born in the
United States to undocumented immigrants…
“The argument that immigration fuels environmental
degradation has become increasingly popular in nativist
circles. In late July, in fact, the Southern Poverty Law
Center released a special report — ‘Greenwash:
Nativists, Environmentalism & the Hypocrisy of Hate’ —
that detailed how right-wing immigration restrictionists
were attempting to appeal to environmentalists to join their
battle. The report suggested that most of those making such
appeals were disingenuous about their interest in the
environment, and were merely cynically seeking allies.”
Potok did concede
“That doesn’t seem to
be the case with Lee, who seems to have started out as an
environmentalist, but one who became more and more extreme.”
But apparently he just
knows that’s not true
for those evil “right-wing
immigration restrictionists”.) [Apparent
Eco-Terrorist Holding Hostages at TV Building, by
Mark Potok, Hate Watch, September 1, 2010]
Actually, the SPLC’s
Potok showed relative restraint in comparison to other
left wing groups. Imagine 2050’s
Jill
Garvey said Lee’s attack indicates
“an alarming
re-emergence of
racially-tinged population control arguments.”
Garvey could not conceal her glee in using the incident to
promote its propaganda, actually writing there was a
“silver lining”
to the attack because it happened to coincide with Imagine
2050’s “pledge that
acknowledges that immigrants and refugees are also
spearheading movements for ecological and economic renewal,
and are allies rather than adversaries in the fight for
environmental sustainability.” [Population
Control Alarmist Attacks Discovery Channel Headquarters,
Jill Garvey, Imagine 2050, September 1, 2010]
And
Colorlines’ Julianne Hing made no qualifications: she
putting the blame solely on immigration patriots who turned
Lee’s “activism into
hate”. She portrayed Lee as a thoughtful
environmentalist who
“wanted the best for the ailing planet” but was tricked into hatred.
After gushing over the rest of his manifesto, Hing lamented:
“Lee’s legitimate fears about the environment had been clouded in part
by xenophobia. And not on accident, either. The gunman’s
deranged demands brought to the fore tenets of a growing
sector of the environmental movement that’s been co-opted by
white nationalists and immigration restrictionists with
extensive ties to anti-immigrant networks like the American
Immigration Control Foundation, Californians for Population
Stabilization, the Federation for American Immigration
Reform (also known as FAIR) and its various offshoots like
NumbersUSA and the Center for Immigration Studies…Lee seemed
to have bought their lies.” [How
the Discovery Channel Gunman’s Green Activism Turned to Hate,
Julianne Hing, Color Lines, September 2, 2010]
Think Progress, a blog
for the
left-wing think tank the Center for American Progress,
weighed in on eerily similar lines:
“Lee’s immigration screed bears a troubling resemblance to views and
policies espoused by anti-immigrant groups such as Numbers
USA, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS),
the Federation for American Immigration
Reform (FAIR), Progressives for Immigration Reform,
and others. Just this past month, FAIR released ‘The
Environmentalist’s Guide to a Sensible Immigration Policy.’
The report connects immigration to ‘pollution, sprawl,
congestion, and ecological degradation,’ complaining that
‘so-called environmentalists pretend as if this connection
does not exist.’ As usual, FAIR prescribes an overall
reduction in immigration as the solution to the country’s
environmental woes (in slightly more diplomatic terms).
“It’s not a coincidence that many of these are amongst the same
groups that have always supported changing the 14th
amendment to deny ‘anchor babies,’ or the American-born
children of undocumented immigrants, citizenship — long
before the debate entered the political mainstream this
summer.” [Purported
Eco-Terrorist Angered Over ‘Immigration Pollution And Anchor
Baby Filth’, Andrea Nill, Think Progress, September
1, 2010]
No matter how hard they try to spin it,
trying to portray an
Al
Gore-loving,
illegal alien-smuggling
Korean as a
nativist hate criminal will be a tough sell. I don’t
anticipate this meme really harming patriotic immigration
reform.
But these attacks should not be
dismissed. After all, the MSM recently
span black mass murderer Omar Thornton into a victim of
“racism” apparently quite spontaneously. And the organizations are
well funded
and closely tied to the federal government.
The
Washington Post’s
Who Runs Gov blog called the Center for American Progress
“perhaps Washington’s
most influential idea factory in the age of Obama.” [Center
For American Progress Launching Big War Room To Drive Obama
Agenda, The Plum Line, Greg Sargent, April 10, 2010]
Its Chief executive, John Podesta, co-chaired Obama’s
transition team and is considered Obama’s most influential
advisor outside of the administration. Former Center for
American Progress VP Melody Barnes
serves as director of Obama’s Domestic Policy Center
The SPLC is recommended by
FBI
to local law enforcement as a resource for
“hate crimes”
training. According to the FBI’s website, Civil Rights
division has
forged a partnership with the SPLC “to
establish rapport, share information, address concerns,
and cooperate in solving problems.” [Hate
Crime-Overview, FBI Civil Rights Division]
These left wing non-profits are enforcers for the
Obama administration—without any of the oversight and
regulation required for government agencies.
The fact that these groups will go to
such lengths to try to smear and suppress even the most
Politically Correct patriotic immigration reformers,
like the
herbivorous Roy Beck and Progressives for
Immigration Reform’s Leah Durant who is actually black,
reveals the intensity of their totalitarian agenda.
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