Rep. Paulsen, Karl Rove the latest to get ‘glittered’

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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 6:26 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

Rep. Erik Paulsen and former Bush staffer Karl Rove were both showered with glitter at the Midwest Leadership Conference Friday.

Paulsen was “glittered” as he was accepting the Friend of the Family award from the Minnesota Faith and Freedom Coalition on Friday morning during that group’s strategy session on passing an anti-gay marriage amendment, and Rove was hit with glitter during a book signing at the conference following his speech.

Activist Ben Egerman shouted, “Feel the rainbow,” as he tossed a box of glitter on Rove while he was signing his book for conference goers.

 

Rove played a large part in using same-sex marriage bans across the country in order to bolster Republican chances at the ballot box. Minnesota has a proposed constitutional amendment banning marriage rights for same-sex coupleso n the ballot in 2012.

 

A few hours earlier, Michael Cahill shouted, “You’re no friend to my family!” as he threw glitter on Rep. Erik Paulsen as he was receiving an award as a “Friend of the Family” by the Minnesota Faith and Freedom Coalition. The group was founded by Ralph Reed as a 21st Century version of the Christian Coalition and much of its leadership is dedicated to convincing voters to pass a constitutional ban on gay marriage.

Paulsen, who generally stays mum on social issues, got the support of James Dobson in his first run for Congress. Earlier this year, he voted against repealing the military’s ban on gay and lesbian service members.

“Because of the hateful rhetoric of people like Erik Paulsen and Karl Rove, I was subjected to ‘reparative’ therapy as a teenager,” Cahill said in a statement following the events. “It’s this sort of twisted belief and hateful language that motivates families across the country to push loved ones into harmful treatment, endangering their vitality and emotional stability in the process.”

“Let me be clear, we are going to continue these glitter actions so long as people like Paulsen and Rove are doing everything they possibly can to make the lives of queer people worse,” Egerman added.

The glitterings are the brainchild of Nick Espinosa, who glittered Newt Gingrich at a book signing in May and held two actions at Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Christian counseling business. His actions inspired the glittering of Tim Pawlenty in San Francisco earlier this year and the Minnesota Family Council at the State Fair. The movement hit popular culture when, several weeks ago, the season premiere of Glee used glittering as part of the story line.

“We’ve seen this show before,” said Espinosa. “Republicans are using Minnesotans in a desperate attempt to boost turn-out in 2012, not caring what damage they do to Minnesotan families along the way. It’s sick, it’s twisted, and it shows the desperate lengths that this party will go to in order to further their quest for political power.”

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Anonymous
Comment posted July 21, 2011 @ 6:53 pm

Every single story done on a restaurant or other business that has been raided and had to fire alot of illegals; has said they have been inundated by applications from legal workers and citizens who want these jobs.  These people will survive but have to pay better wages which benefits the worker and the economy.

Enforce the law; no exceptions.


mona
Comment posted July 21, 2011 @ 6:59 pm

i ‘ve been looking for a cook position in northern virginia for 6 months with no luck.all restaurants and hotels are full with illegal aliens.


Estoban
Comment posted July 21, 2011 @ 8:20 pm

Maybe the restaurants should advertise publicly for positions instead of relying on the underground illegal alien network!


Acewarner
Comment posted July 21, 2011 @ 9:01 pm

No the effect of the law is being felt and not just in harvesting crops either. Maybe these “Americans” can now hire unemployed Americans to fill those positions. The only thing they are REALLY complaining about is the fact that they have to pay them legitimate money with benefits. That is the way it should have been all along.


Anonymous
Comment posted July 22, 2011 @ 2:14 am

MYTH: Immigrants take jobs from Americans.
FACT: Immigrants create new jobs, and complement the skills of the
U.S. native workforce.

MYTH: Immigrants drive down the wages of American workers.
FACT: Immigrants increase overall economic productivity and have no
significant effect on overall wages for American workers.

MYTH: Immigrants will cause massive, unnecessary population growth
in the United States.
FACT: As the baby boomer generation begins to retire and the U.S.
fertility rate declines, it will be necessary to replace our aging
workforce with immigrants to maintain economic growth.

MYTH: Undocumented immigrants do not pay taxes.
FACT: Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in taxes
each year, often for services they will never receive.

MYTH: Immigrants come to the United States for welfare benefits.
FACT: The law forbids immigrants from using welfare services.

MYTH: The Government should just enforce the law to solve our
immigration problems.
FACT: Enforcement alone will not solve our immigration problems. The
cost would be prohibitive, it would have a detrimental effect on
the U.S. economy, and it would simply push certain immigrants
further into the underground economy.

MYTH: Immigrants are not assimilating.
FACT: Immigrants are assimilating at much the same rate as past
waves of immigrants.

MYTH: Immigrants are more likely to commit crimes than
U.S. natives.
FACT: Immigrants have a much lower incarceration rate than
U.S. natives.

MYTH: Workers that come to the United States as temporary workers
will stay in the country once their visas expire.
FACT: Historically, migrants from Mexico worked in the United
States for a few months or years, but then returned home.
Border enforcement has made that pattern much more
difficult.


Clownbird
Comment posted July 22, 2011 @ 5:17 am

MYTH: All of those items that richardcruz presented as “FACT” are true. 
FACT: Labeling bits of info with no citations or sources to back them up doesn’t fool anyone.


Anonymous
Comment posted July 22, 2011 @ 6:11 am

These people will survive but have to pay better wages which benefits the worker and the economy.


Hacim Obmed
Comment posted July 22, 2011 @ 6:13 am

Hooray for the great state of Georgia. This article means that their law is having the intended effect. The Illegals are on the run! Now the criminal restaurant owners are squealing because they will have to hire legal workers or close their establishments. My little hart is breaking for them.  Hopefully they will find that the replacements for these illegals will demand higher wages and better working conditions. They will also have to pay social security and medicare payroll taxes (won’t that be an interesting new experience). By rights the owners of these restaurants are felons and belong in Jail but it will probably never happen. When the restaurants of Georgia start using legal labor it will probably mean an increase in the price of pizzas and hamburgers. But the result will be lower unemployment, less welfare, fewer destroyed families and fewer foreclosed homes. Now that we can see this new law working in Georgia the rest of the country should be motivated to follow suit. We will see if the politicians of this country care more about illegal aliens and the scumbag owners who exploit aliens, that they do about millions of working class families who have payed taxes and served in the military for generations! 


Gavin
Comment posted July 22, 2011 @ 10:16 am

Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.

The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.

Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.

What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?

How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?

And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?

But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.

They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.

Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.


Bob Gregan III
Comment posted July 22, 2011 @ 10:51 am

Why is massive immigration from the third world and forced
integration, Demanded of all white countries and only white countries?

In plain terms, a blended humanity in only white countries, means only white people will disappear – it is genocide.

Is anyone from the mainstream media, ever going to ask the so called “anti-racists” this question?


Mzinshteyn
Comment posted July 22, 2011 @ 12:02 pm

Hey Bob, bone up on your history. The Hans in Malaysia, the Tamils in Sri Lanka, the plight of the Kurds, the Sikhs in India (they got their own pogrom in 1984 in Delhi)…so in fact, blended humanities is demanded of any geo-political entity that’s multi-ethnic. And these episodes of ethnic tension have been covered rather extensively by mainstream media throughout the years. There’s also a rich history of white on white prejudice in Europe. Nationalism, Yugoslavia, anti-Slavism, 5 centuries of wars… Also, genocide requires a significant portion of a geo-political entity to systematically murder or relocate another group of people. That’s just not happening in the U.S. currently. Good talk, Bob. 


Larry
Comment posted July 22, 2011 @ 1:47 pm

1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as …any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life
calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Mass immigration and forced integration qualifies as genocide based on (c).Are you denying there is mass immigration and forced integration in the US?


Anonymous
Comment posted July 22, 2011 @ 2:24 pm

This article runs the risk of exposing white genocide.

In the 60s, and surrounding things s/a Vatican II, (forced on the largely white protestant population of the U.S.), as well as Hart-celler (jewish-catholic alliance act to open the south border)— public school kids were taught not to reproduce children as it would ruin the planet (ZERO POPULATION GROWTH).  Parochial schools and the jewish shuls, however, did not teach this, only the “public” schools, which at that time protestants had built (and into the best in the world) and used without having religious schools in place.   So, they were taught “never have babies” or you will deplete the worlds “shrinking resources.”  It worked—- and by using very little kids, it was as if they were sterilizing the kids, but since presented as a “choice” (when kids had no idea why they were being told this and trusted authority), no one is liable.

THEN there was a population explosion—- and PEOPLE HAD TO BE BROUGHT IN b/c there were “not enough people to fill jobs.”

—  So, otoh—– the population of the U.S. was degraded and told never to have children, and that they must “work” instead, as “career women” for taxes, and in the Welfare State they could not keep enough of their money to feed children, anyway.  

THEN MOSTLY S. American ex-slaves of catholics were harbored illegally and brought in—- 10,000 a day, incited by catholic “liberation theology” (to hate “anglos”)—-  and this hate that they were incited with obviously justifies any effects of ethnic cleansing that might be seen (“racist” anger from whites, for instance).

Since the Americans this was done to are still all under 50 years old, it seems odd they would keep pointing it out, pushing “immigration.”

Those they push “immigration” on—– WERE THE SAME PEOPLE TAUGHT THAT OVER-POPULATION was destroying the planet, and therefore, they could never follow their hearts, etc, and have families (that would be a sin!)    

It would be interesting to see THE REAL NUMBERS on abortion for WASPs in the U.S. versus all the other groups (again, like ZERO POPULATION GROWTH FOR wasps)— these abortions were supposed to be presented like “a choice.”    But very few really WANT to kill their own babies (unless this idea is pushed and pushed on vulnerable people, young and without resources and so on.)   Other groups HAVE RESOURCES provided by the state (and do not have to “give up” their babies).

All the policies begun in the 60s around Vatican II, Hart-Celler, etc.—- resulted in the wiping out of the most generational American wasp population, especially in the heartland.

But now they are told:    we need more people, non-whites from s. america!  

If they NEEDED MORE PEOPLE, then why not have let Americans have babies in their own country?

Now they are told, “it is not your country, it was never your country,’ and so on.

This is a playbook for genocide, it would seem.   

The real question:    Who is the main genocider.   The main group that produced this situation?    Is it foreign communists (who hate wasps, having perceieved them as a “power elite” to be rid of, OR catholics who have traditionally genocided protestants around the world, many times (as well as the Othodox christians as they did recently in Serbia?)  

Discuss?


Anonymous
Comment posted July 22, 2011 @ 4:04 pm

 
MYTH: Immigrants don’t take jobs from Americans.
Nice try Cruzie.
I correct your post to something more beleivable.
FACT: Immigrants  illegally and unfairly compete with American workers and American workers would be a lot better off without them
 MYTH Immigrants increase overall economic productivity and have nosignificant effect on overall wages for American workers.FACT:: Immigrants drive down the wages of American workers.
MYTH: Immigrant are responsible parents
FACT : Immigrants will cause massive, unnecessary population growth
in the United States.
MYTH: Immigrants pay business taxes and withhold labor taxes.
FACT: Undocumented immigrants do not pay taxes they don’t want to.MYTH: The law forbids immigrants from using welfare services.
FACT: Immigrants use United States welfare benefits.MYTH: Enforcement alone will not solve our immigration problems
FACT: Read this article and see that that enforcing the law works.
Immigrants support and are supported by an illegal underground economy.

MYTH: Immigrants are assimilating
FACT: Immigrants are assimilating into crime. at much great rate then any  past
waves of immigrants.

MYTH: Immigrants have a much lower incarceration rate thanU.S. natives.
 
FACT: Immigrants are more likely to commit crimes than U.S. natives.

MYTH: Workers that come to the United States as temporary workersgo home once their visas expire.
FACT: Historically, southern migrants don’t return home.


Anonymous
Comment posted July 22, 2011 @ 4:05 pm

 
MYTH: Immigrants don’t take jobs from Americans.
FACT: Immigrants  illegally and unfairly compete with American workers and American workers would be a lot better off without them
 MYTH Immigrants increase overall economic productivity and have nosignificant effect on overall wages for American workers.FACT:: Immigrants drive down the wages of American workers.
MYTH: Immigrant are responsible parents
FACT : Immigrants will cause massive, unnecessary population growth
in the United States.
MYTH: Immigrants pay business taxes and withhold labor taxes.
FACT: Undocumented immigrants do not pay taxes they don’t want to.MYTH: The law forbids immigrants from using welfare services.
FACT: Immigrants use United States welfare benefits.MYTH: Enforcement alone will not solve our immigration problems
FACT: Read this article and see that that enforcing the law works.
Immigrants support and are supported by an illegal underground economy.

MYTH: Immigrants are assimilating
FACT: Immigrants are assimilating into crime. at much great rate then any  past
waves of immigrants.

MYTH: Immigrants have a much lower incarceration rate thanU.S. natives.
 
FACT: Immigrants are more likely to commit crimes than U.S. natives.

MYTH: Workers that come to the United States as temporary workersgo home once their visas expire.
FACT: Historically, southern migrants don’t return.


Frank Denee
Comment posted July 22, 2011 @ 6:35 pm

Tell us,anti-whites, why is it “good” when white countries, are flooded with millions of non-whites until white people become minorities and then disappear entirely?

They are doing it to the Tibetans it is called GeNOcide.

They are doing it to the Palestinians it is called GeNOcide.

When they do it to white people, it is called “anti-racism” and  “Celebrating Diversity”.

Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.
 


Anonymous
Comment posted July 22, 2011 @ 7:29 pm

I am glad to hear that restaurants are losing illegal alien workers.
We have immigration laws that protect the American people against disease and crime being brought from abroad.  When a foreigner applies for a resident’s visa in the U.S., they must provide proof they are in good health and that they don’t have a criminal record. 
Illegal immigration brings poverty, ignorance, disease and crime to our communities.  Restaurants that  employ illegal aliens have absolutely no regard for the well being of their patrons.  
Whooping cough has made a comeback in the U.S.  I recently received the vaccine for whooping cough at the advice of my physician.  
Hiring illegal aliens is against Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution.  These employers should be fined and even serve a prison term for aiding and abetting illegal aliens.


Ben Johnson
Comment posted July 23, 2011 @ 3:42 pm

You need to get your facts straight bubba. Not only do illegals not pay taxes, the employer hiring them is not paying his share either. The employers should be in jail, and the illegals deported.


Karina1313
Comment posted July 26, 2011 @ 1:54 am

Illegal immigrants often use a valid social security number, although it doesn’t belong to them and constitutes identify theft. In any case, by using a valid social security number, the taxes are deducted from their paycheck by the employer and the employer must pay those taxes as well. Only contractors who pay in cash are usually the ones evading the taxes. In the case where the taxes are paid, these are taxes that the illegal immigrants don’t claim or get a refund most of the time because they are afraid of being “caught”. I just wonder where does all those millions maybe billions of dollars go to? I assume they go to the Social Security, so how is it that the Social Secuirty fund is still in deficit if all these illegal immigrants are paying the Social Security and FICA taxes? I have often thought that this is one of the reasons why the politicians don’t really enforce this because the government needs these illegal immigrants to keep paying into the social security piggy bank because they know they will never make a withdrawal. Just a thought.


Karina1313
Comment posted July 26, 2011 @ 2:09 am

I am also thinking about the comments made here in practical terms. I have a career in recruitment and I often make job offers to American born workers (race doesn’t matter) American born vs immigrant is how I view this. This is not a “white” vs non-white issue. There are millions of American Hispanics, American Asians, American Black, American White is how I see it. Anyone American born shares the same characteristics in terms of employment. It seems American born workers prefer to gather unemployment, get food stamps or even stand on a corner or commit a crime than to flip a burger. That may be an over generalization, but where I live I honestly can’t say that I have ever seen a Hispanic immigrant standing on a corner asking for money. I see them standing waiting for somebody to hire them or I see them cutting grass or even selling candy or ice cream bars on a bicycle but I don’t think I will ever see them just holding out their hand waiting for a hand out. Yet, American born workers, this includes Whites, Mexican Americans and the others I mentioned above will usually prefer to depend on the government.

All that being said, when the immigrants are not here to flip the burgers, to cut the yards, to build the houses, to pave the roads, seriously would you like to be the one to pave a road on a hot summer day? Immigrants do hazardous jobs, that neither you or me want to do, so let’s just be practical here, there is a demand for this labor, and as long as there is a demand there will be a supply.

I know I don’t want my kids to grow up to pick berries or apples or cut down sugar cane or cut open chickens in a poultry plant or walk 40 feet in the air without fall protection. It’s a shame that anybody’s kids have to grow up to do these jobs, but it has always been the classic American way. The alternative as you should know is to export these jobs to other countries and we all know that also is not the solution.

You may not mind paying a dollar more for your chicken sandwhich but I bet most of America would. We complain the minute the gas goes up by 10 cents, do you really think America is ready to pay more for their fruits and veggies? I think not.

I don’t have a solution sadly, if I did I would be a politician, but I think sometimes we need to be a little bit more practical in our thoughts and separate racial prejudice from our arguments.


Yattigirl
Comment posted August 4, 2011 @ 9:39 pm

hi Mona  my name is Kenyatta I’m in culinary school maybe I should move to Georgia after graduation and get a job lol.


Yattigirl
Comment posted August 4, 2011 @ 9:44 pm

The REAL issue is upper management padding their own pockets and paying “the help” next to nothing.  When a decent wage is offered there are may hard working UNEMPLOYED americans who will get the job done. I hope immigration laws get very strict everywhere, that way, more americans can get work. By the way I’m in culinary school and have a vested interest on this topic. Have a blessed day.


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