A Closer Look at Left-Wing Thuggery

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A Closer Look at Left-Wing Thuggery
By Michelle Malkin
CNSNews.com Commentary
March 31, 2004

There is a guerrilla group on the loose in this country. But you wouldn't
know it from the liberal media, which portrays the group's members as
harmless activists with good hearts.

The group is called "National People's Action." The Washington Post
described NPA this week as a "coalition of neighborhood advocacy groups
based in Chicago." A more accurate description is left-wing goon squad.

This nationwide organization is made up of professional grievance-mongers
from the Bronx, N.Y, to Santa Monica, Calif. They warn: "We are black, we
are white, we are Latino, we are Asian. We are old, we are young, and we are
in your neighborhood!!!!!"

NPA members are funded by the usual suspects-"progressive" charities such as
the Tides Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation, and the MacArthur, Ford and
Rockefeller foundations. But they are also funded by your tax dollars.

My research shows that the Department of Housing and Urban Development,
Environmental Protection Agency and Massachusetts Department of Education
have given tens of thousands of dollars in grants to NPA members.

Their agenda is the usual big government, race card-playing, entitlement
mentality claptrap: "homeowner security" (more government minority home
loans), "workplace rights and training" (more government job programs),
"good policing" (a ban on racial profiling), and "promoting security and
opportunity for immigrants" (more benefits for illegal aliens).

But what distinguishes NPA from other liberal advocacy groups is its
tactics. The group engages in what it calls "direct action"-publicizing the
home addresses of business and government leaders it wants to shake down and
then busing in protesters and schoolchildren (using public school buses) to
invade the private property of their victims and intimidate their families.
The NPA song explains:

Who's on your hit list, NPA?
Who's on your hit list for today?
Take no prisoner, take no names.
Kick 'em in the (a--) when they play their games.

After meeting in Washington for its annual convention this weekend, NPA
members descended on the Washington, D.C., homes of Labor Secretary Elaine
Chao and White House adviser Karl Rove. NPA targeted Chao after the
Department of Labor refused to meet with the group and acquiesce to its
demand to "form a partnership" to "improve opportunities for low-wage
workers."

In other words, the gang didn't get a government contract through legal
channels. So it's going to bully its way into the public coffers.

An estimated mob of 800 protesters trampled on Rove's lawn to demand passage
of Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch's abominable "DREAM" Act granting
amnesty to illegal alien college students and allowing them to receive
in-state tuition discounts.

The Washington Post reported that after chanting and knocking on Rove's
door, the "crowd then grew more aggressive, fanning around the three
accessible sides of Rove's house, tracking him through the many windows,
waving signs that read 'Say Yes to DREAM' and pounding on the glass." An
angry Rove called the authorities and berated the protest leaders for
driving the children inside his home to tears.

As a vocal critic of Rove's idiotic pro-illegal alien policies, I am not all
that sad to see Rove come face to face with the consequences of his
politically expedient ideas. (Rove is the one who declared that Rep. Tom
Tancredo, R-Colo., the nation's leading advocate for secure borders and
immigration enforcement, would "never darken the White House door.")

Now Rove knows how millions of ordinary Americans-who don't have Secret
Service protection-feel when illegal invaders overrun their homes and darken
their doors.

That said, NPA's militant tactics cross the bounds of decent political
debate. (Aren't liberals always the ones moaning about the need for
civility?) Grievance-mongering belongs on the Capitol steps, not private
doorsteps.

If NPA's agenda were the protection of unborn life or Second Amendment
rights, the New York Times would be calling for the arrest of its leaders.
Sen. Hillary Clinton would be barking again about the vast right-wing
conspiracy. Civil rights leaders would be demanding that President Bush
condemn NPA's extremist tactics. And crusading lawyers would be lining up to
find clever ways to use federal anti-racketeering laws to shut NPA down.

Instead, the left-wing thugs get away with their lawlessness. And we are,
literally, paying for it.


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Atheism teaches that there is no God, hence no God-given rights. That
ideology coupled with a system that believed in the superiority of the state
at the expense of the individual was murderously synergistic.