You're spending a nice Saturday at home with the family when buses of National People's Action protestors arrive on your lawn, chanting and demanding you meet with them. You open the door long enough to ask them to get off your property.
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. At one point, Rove rushed to a window, pointed a finger and yelled something inaudible.
It was the home of Karl Rove. The DREAM act they want passed would allow illegal immigrants who have been in the U.S. at least five years to apply for legal resident status when they graduate from high school, which would qualify them for lower in state tuition rates when applying to college.
Naturally they they are not referred to in the article as "illegal immigrants." In another attempt at political correctness, the new preferred term is "undocumented". Maybe they want the terminology changed because Americans object to people who choose to live here illegally and then demand the government, (funded by my paycheck), subsidize their new lifestyle?
NPA is a coalition of neighborhood groups who meet in Washington annually.
The coalition's leaders, who converge on Washington each year to advocate for various issues, said they targeted Rove because they could not get as close to the White House as they could to his house. Rove also is one of Bush's main advisers, and he did not reply to their requests for a meeting, leaders said.
The group finds personal intimidation of govenment officials and their families to be an effective tool according to their founder.
"They say we are not nice when we protest and demonstrate at people's homes and offices. But bad housing isn't nice, redlining isn't nice, high oil prices aren't nice, crime on our streets isn't nice," said Gale Cincotta, former NPA chairperson in 1982 during NPA's "Reclaim America."
Next on the list is a rally at JP Morgan today at 11 Am eastern. Funny I don't find these scare tactics on the meeting agenda, unless they call them "lobbying visits." Though they do allude to their methods in their song:
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.
Somehow I'm guessing Karl Rove will not be in their corner when it comes to pushing their legislation. If they'd shown up at my house with busloads pounding on my windows, I know I wouldn't take kindly to helping them out.
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