E-Mail from Roy Beck on Anarchist Bus Brigade

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FROM: Roy Beck, executive director, http://www.NumbersUSA.com
DATE: 10:30 p.m. Friday 26sep03
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If you are being driven a little crazy by the daily barrage of news of illegal aliens publicly rallying across the country on their "Freedom Rides," and by constant attention paid to various congressional proposals for amnesties and gigantic guest worker programs while 18 million American can't find a full-time job ...........

Maybe this is a good time to be soothed by a former 4th grade school teacher from California. Maggie Art through an email campaign is gathering a growing group of groups and email lists and imploring them to take a deep breath, not panic and do a daily exercise that will reassure the soul and do a whole lot of good at the same time.

If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, maybe Maggie's plan of a phone call a day (to Congress) will keep the anarchist, open-borders crowd at bay.

At the same time that Members of Congress are hearing and seeing the same apalling images of anarchy as we are, wouldn't it be great if their offices are filled with the sounds of staffers talking to people on the phone asking for a unified set of ultimate goals?

Maggie thinks so. And I think she may be on to something here.

All of our groups have our own acute activism needs and messages. We will continue to push them until Congress leaves town.

But how about considering adding this exercise:

1. Once a day, Monday through Friday, until Congress leaves town later in October or early November, make ONE PHONE CALL to Congress. Rotate among Members of your own choosing.

2. THE MESSAGE: Maggie suggests we focus this one phone call a day on what we ultimately want rather than what we have to settle for in the real politics of the moment. In these one-a-day phone calls, tell the staffers that you want immigration cut by three-quarters or 80% (you choose the proportion) back to around the average during the first 200 years of this country (from 1776-1976, the average was around 250,000).

Maggie likes using Rep. Tancredo's H.R. 946 (Mass Immigration Reduction Act of 2003) as a focal point. If enacted, it would slash legal numbers to around 300,000 and then cause them to steadily fall after that.

So, the message might sound something like:

"Hi, I'm [name], and I just want you to know that I agree with the majority of Americans who want our borders defended, immigration laws enforced and legal immigration numbers reduced in order to [deal with the outrage that you most want to correct]. I personally want to see legal immigration cut by XX% back toward our traditional American level. Please support H.R. 946, the Mass Immigration Reduction Act of 2003."

3. Maggie is saying that these toll free numbers into the Capitol are currently available:

1-800-648-3516 or 1-877-762-8762

4. I suggest that you also call local offices. We have all the DC and local phone numbers for every Member of Congress at:

http://www.numbersusa.com/congressinfo/

5. Maggie suggest that you look at the immigration records of a Member before you call the office. You can click to see the grades and the entire list of immigration actions by using links on the right side of our Home page at www.NumbersUSA.com.

6. You also will want to know that these Members are co-sponsoring the Mass Immigration Reduction bill:

Rep. Tancredo, Tom (CO)
Rep Bilirakis, Michael
Rep Cubin, Barbara[WY]
Rep Davis, Jo Ann [VA-1]
Rep Deal, Nathan [GA-10]
Rep Duncan, John J., Jr. [TN-2]
Rep Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [VA-5]
Rep Johnson, Sam [TX-3]
Rep King, Steve [IA-5]
Rep Norwood, Charlie [GA-9]

Is this exercise too demanding?

Thousands of illegal aliens and their supporters are taking a couple weeks off work and riding buses to hold public rallies and call attention to their desires to basically do away with the concept of borders in our countries.

Maggie's call to arms to us is simply to make ONE PHONE CALL A DAY to attempt to drown out some of the noise from the anarchists. If most of you and thousands of other folks on other lists will do the same, we may just get the most ears of Congress -- without having to take a single breath of diesel fumes!

Send us some emails about your experiences that we can share to keep the momentum and enthusiasm.

Below, I have copied part of Maggie's email.

As always, check to see if there are any free faxes for you to send to Congress from:

http://www.NumbersUSA.com/fax

Thanks.

ROY BECK

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Excerpts from Maggie Art:

This idea came from Senator Lieberman on C-SPAN a few years back when he spoke of public indifference. Altho the issue was campaign finance, the message was that he heard little from constituents...a few hundred contacts on a subject would be unusual and a thousand might have him rethinking an issue. Let's give it to them.

The plan is simple I know, and I feel a bit humble proposing it. Please know I only taught 4th grade --- and yet students' letters to our state assemblyman caused him to drop into our classroom! Dramatic effects could come from our uniting in action. This only takes a couple of minutes a day and lets Congress know we're watching. If you believe working together is an idea whose time has come, please spread the word to your e-mail contacts and other groups. Or at least, make the personal effort to join in. Every voice counts.

Many thanks,
Maggie Art