Targeting the "elites"
The Salt Lake City Weekly is profiling Utah Minuteman Project commander Eli Cawley this week. If you think the group doesn't like illegal immigrants, you are missing the point, Cawley tells City Weekly:Our trouble isn’t with the people, it’s with the elites in our state. Those [companies] who just think about their economic advantage or the churches that are just trying to put more butts in their pews—I don’t have any desire to come together with them, as far as I’m concerned they’re the enemy.Cawley, who is married to an Asia woman who legally immigrated, says his epiphany came when his son was attending a diversity assembly and was given a North Vietnamese flag to w
ave. "That’s when I decided there was something wrong in Zion.”Cawley says that the dozen proposals on immigration working their way through the Legislature is proof the movement's goals have been widely embraced in Utah. “We’ve just had an amazing outpouring of support on this issue. It warms my heart.”
Update: A colleague points out that the flag of North Vietnam is now the flag of modern Vietnam (a U.S. trading partner), which includes the former U.S. ally South Vietnam.
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What does it say on the Statue of Liberty again? "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." Oh wait, nothing of that sort.
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