Morris Dees/SPLC: Lou Dobbs will one day be "depicted like George Wallace" (Don Walton)

Don Walton of Lincoln, Nebraska's Journal Star offers a gushing report of a stop by Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (link). We're informed that he's "increasingly focused now on Latino immigrant worker rights". Of course, what he really wants to do is give foreign citizens additional rights. His organization also has an indirect link to the Mexican government. After meaningless chatter he issued a far-left rationalization for illegal immigration, promoted profiting from an imported serf class, and then issued his smear:

...Latino workers, as well as other immigrants, come to the United States primarily for jobs, Dees said, sometimes migrating here because failed U.S. policies adversely affected conditions in their own countries.

If there was a 30-day work stoppage by every undocumented worker, he said, the effects on the U.S. economy could be staggering.

They are part of the fabric now.

"America is great because of its diversity and differences, not in spite of them," he said.

One day, Dees said, CNN's Lou Dobbs "will be depicted like George Wallace," the Alabama governor who preached segregation and fanned the flames of racial animosity and division...

The New York Times has already compared opponents of the Senate amnesty to Wallace, and I have little doubt that far-lefties like Dees would love to rewrite history so Dobbs is seen in the least favorable light possible. Our goal should be to get the truth out about Morris Dees and his organization.

Tue, 10/23/2007 - 08:28 · · Importance: 1

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