A recent article in the Wall Street Journal shows how utterly ignorant, and often hateful, wealthy elites can be of average people in the heartland, or “flyover country,” as they like to call it. 

The title of the article, “Anti-Immigration Activists Roil the Heartland,” says it all.  To the big-money, open-borders folks at WSJ, the problem isn’t the flood of Third World migrants (and Third World crime, disease, overcrowding, and poverty) into the American heartland–it’s resistance against these things.  Even an elderly lady from Kansas City who wants to help promote better parks can be a target.  As the Journal puts it:

An elderly woman’s appointment to a local parks board doesn’t normally generate controversy. But in Kansas City, Mo., Frances Semler’s new position on the city’s Parks and Recreation board has unexpectedly fanned the flames of the debate over illegal immigration.

The 73-year-old Mrs. Semler is an activist in the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a controversial volunteer civilian patrol formed two years ago to secure U.S. borders and crack down on illegal immigrants. While President Bush has denounced the Minutemen as “vigilantes,” and human-rights organizations express concern that a group they consider extremist and bent on taking the law into its own hands is winning over ordinary Americans, the group itself is legal — and growing. And as the stir over Mrs. Semler’s appointment shows, the Minutemen’s influence has spread deep into Middle America, far from the U.S.-Mexico borders where the anti-illegal-immigrant group originated.

Mrs. Semler was duly appointed with little fanfare, but when her “ties” to American resistance against illegal aliens were uncovered, well-funded interest groups scrambled like fighter jets to attack and neutralize her.

[H]er connection to the local Minutemen chapter was made public by the daily Kansas City Star. The city’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Coalition of Hispanic Organizations, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Jewish Community Relations Bureau held a news conference on June 14 to condemn the appointment. Later that day, the city council, voting 9 to 3, adopted a resolution calling for Mrs. Semler’s removal from the parks board.

So far, Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser is bravely standing by Mrs. Semler, as are most of the citizens of Kansas City.  But the big-money boys, from the Wall Street Journal on down, are calling for her head.  

Our homeland, the Midwest, it seems, is just like the rest of America.

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