by Joseph A. Lypowy 2/23/07

   It is a sad day in America when American citizens can not exercise their First Amendment right to peaceably assemble without illegal alien lawbreakers and their pandering promoters preventing them from doing so. It was this past week when the Holmdel Chapter of the John Birch Society scheduled an informational meeting concerning illegal immigration at a Marlboro office building. It was the office of the member sponsoring the meeting and they were to use a meeting room in the office. The meeting was blocked when activists from the Latino Alliance called the landlord and threatened to have a mob of illegal aliens show up at the property and conduct a protest rally. The sponsor of the meeting had to move the meeting to his home after the landlord was intimidated. Fortunately, the intimidation by these illegal immigration activists had a positive result when guests of the meeting became so infuriated by the intimidation that they wanted to join the society right away.
   I am an American of Spanish, Ukrainian and Polish descent. As an American citizen born abroad in Colombia, SA, I am also an immigrant, my mother was a legal immigrant , and my grand parents where legal immigrants from Europe. As the chapter leader of the JBS Toms River Area Chapter, I can say that our organization supports regulated legal immigration but believe that illegal immigration is having a negative effect on our country besides other underlying dangers. As a Hispanic American, I also feel that illegal aliens take away opportunities from legal and native born American Hispanics.
   In addition to infringing on our Constitutional right to meet, these activists from the Latino Alliance made unfounded inflammatory comments about our organization in a scandalous article written by Asbury Park Press writer Alesha Williams. Frank Argote-Freyre, the director of the Monmouth County chapter of the Alliance referred to our organization as “a bunch of quacks”, but the fact of the matter is, that after doing some research into their organization, I would consider them to be more like quacks. Their organization, seems to be lead mostly by left-leaning attorneys who rely mostly on politically motivated grants. Most of their funding comes from institutions like the Ford, Carnegie and MacArthur Foundations which promote internationalist “One world government” and globalization. Creating open borders and stepping stones to world government are the true underlying motive behind such organizations.