Direct Action for Open Borders

[YeahItsMeJP]

Sit-in at Senator Sununu's Office
for INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
and IMMIGRATION REFORM
14 JUNE 2007
NOON
1589 Elm Street
Manchester, NH

Sit-in at Senator Gregg's Office
for BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS
and IMMIGRATION REFORM
15 JUNE 2007
NOON
41 Hooksett Road
Manchester, NH

[d_goddard]

Wonderful. A sit-in.
The perfect way to alienate anyone who might have had even the remotest chance of agreeing with you.

Given that Sununu is probably the most Libertarian Senator in Washington, and given that many Libertarians (like myself) used to be Republicans until the libertarian position on immigration was clearly explained, he might just come around to our way of thinking, if you cared enough to really engage him on a respectful, intellectual level.

Or, you can make pests of yourselves and take over his office.
Not the way to start a productive exchange of philosophies, JP.

[KBCraig]

+1 to Denis.

[YeahItsMeJP]

We all have our methods.

[Dreepa]

What about including Shea and Hodes?

[KBCraig]

We all have our methods.

Agreed. And some of those methods are counter-productive.

Welcome (back) to NH (again), JP. While you're here (this time), please take note of the people who have some years of experience, and who uniformly advise against threatening elected officials' jobs. At least, if you want a positive result, that is.

Kevin

[Kat Kanning]

Sununu?  You mean that guy who voted for torture?

[YeahItsMeJP]

I never left.

As for advice - I take everyone's ideas into consideration when I participate in different causes. One of my State Representatives and some friends of mine from the American Friends Service Committee as well as some folks who are active in the Hillsboro County LP encouraged us to move forward with some ideas for direct action since the talks we've been involved in have led us nowhere.

This is the next step in our mind. For others, a different route would be taken. But for us, this is just the next step in a many moons old process. We welcome any help we can get, whether it be direct action involving civil disobedience (which is what this particular post is about and why it was posted in the forum entitled "Civil Disobedience") or through petition, meeting or what have you. We've been through the meetings. We've delivered our petitions. Then had more meetings. So we're taking what we believe to be the obvious next step.

As for why we chose our senators. Since the immigration reform bill has been in the senate and is a senate bill at the moment, we have been working with Gregg and Sununu on their positions. So the process has just involved them so far, so we wouldn't include Hodes and Shea-Porter in on a sit-in when we haven't even begun the diplomatic approach with them yet.

[YeahItsMeJP]

Sununu?  You mean that guy who voted for torture?

And the Patriot Act. And the War. And the Real ID Act.

[Kat Kanning]

Oh yeah, THAT guy.  Very libertarian. 

[David]

Oh yeah, THAT guy.  Very libertarian. 

Yeah, politicians do a fine job of trading human rights kinda like a kid trading baseball cards. 
I'm job searching right now J.P., so I cannot help you do a sit in, but I may be able to join in a protest.  I just cannot promise you.     Thanks for the update though. 

[forsytjr]

I'm with Dennis on this one.  Who are you going to replace Sunnunu with?  On RealID, the vote was 100-0 - everyone was for it, but Sunnunu has turned around to try to fight against RealID.  Have you looked at his liberty caucus ratings?  Do you really think you will replace him with someone better?  This tactic is not geared to convince him, it's geared to get him booted out of office.  If that's what you want, fine, I guess it's time for me to join his campaign so I can oppose you guys.  I've already been asked to join, and told him that I would only consider it if he changed his stance on the war. 

[CNHT]

The New Socialist Magazine loves the idea:

http://www.newsocialist.org/magazine/37/article02.html

http://www.newsocialist.org/

So does the Communist Party USA:

http://www.cpusa.org/article/archive/132/

And as do every other socialist organization in the USA or worldwide:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/may2006/immi-m16.shtml

[YeahItsMeJP]

And Libertarians too!

2004 Immigration Plank

The Issue: We welcome all refugees to our country and condemn the efforts of U.S. officials to create a new "Berlin Wall" which would keep them captive. We condemn the U.S. government's policy of barring those refugees from our country and preventing Americans from assisting their passage to help them escape tyranny or improve their economic prospects.

The Principle: We hold that human rights should not be denied or abridged on the basis of nationality. Undocumented non-citizens should not be denied the fundamental freedom to labor and to move about unmolested. Furthermore, immigration must not be restricted for reasons of race, religion, political creed, age or sexual preference. We oppose government welfare and resettlement payments to non-citizens just as we oppose government welfare payments to all other persons.

Solutions: We condemn massive roundups of Hispanic Americans and others by the federal government in its hunt for individuals not possessing required government documents. We strongly oppose all measures that punish employers who hire undocumented workers. Such measures repress free enterprise, harass workers, and systematically discourage employers from hiring Hispanics.

Transitional Action: We call for the elimination of all restrictions on immigration, the abolition of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol, and a declaration of full amnesty for all people who have entered the country illegally.

[CNHT]

As I said, many other socialist organizations...

Why would we want to merge our government with those who don't have a Constitiutional Republic or the provisions for one?

Because that is the goal of the UN, world-wide socialism across the globe, so they can 'tax' everyone 'fairly' and control it all.

People can still emigrate here in numbers from everywhere without our having to merge whole governments, which is basically what you will have when you 'open the borders'.