Nativist Leader Recasts Immigration Fight as Religious Crusade
After at the end of 2011 due to financial difficulties, William Gheen鈥檚 Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) re-launched earlier this month, announcing plans to 鈥渄eploy鈥� exciting new strategies against 鈥渋llegal alien supporters鈥� and their evil co-conspirators in government.
In keeping with the grandiose tone of his fancy new website (which many users apparently find harder to use than the old one), Gheen has recast his 鈥渂attle鈥� as a religious crusade. In a post this week that defies both modesty and the basic laws of grammar, he wrote, 鈥淚t is my strongest personal belief that this is not just a political battle, but a spiritual war between good and evil, between those who are defending their homes and trying to conserve what is good about America Vs. aggressive invaders who have overthrown our Republic and taken control of the Executive Branch to further their goals. If my spiritual beliefs offend anyone, then I have no regrets.鈥�
Apparently addressing the legion of atheists he believes hang on his every word, he continued, 鈥淚 have done my best not to offend anyone and while I want to unify us and organize us, I must be open and honest about my belief that we are not getting out of this mess without God's intervention. Our fate is in His hands, and I believe seeking to do His will is essential to finding the motivation and inspiration needed to save America, God willing.鈥�
Elsewhere, he hinted that violence might be the only solution. 鈥淢any patriotic and peaceful Americans are giving up on the politicians all together, he wrote. 鈥淧eople have had enough and their confidence in political solutions is fading fast.鈥�
Though he has not previously cast himself as a warrior for God, this is not the first time Gheen has alluded to violence. In August, he made national headlines after on Janet Mefferd鈥檚 syndicated radio show that 鈥渋llegal and violent鈥� 鈥渆xtra-political activities鈥� might be the only way to save 鈥渨hite America鈥� from a government that had betrayed its people.
Speaking of the urgent need to remove from office 鈥淒ictator Barack Obama,鈥� as he insists on referring to the president, Gheen suggested in August that if impeachment were for some reason off the table, a coup might do the trick. 鈥淸S]ome people are also leaning to the words 鈥榯reason鈥� and talking about the military coming in or somebody just coming in taking this guy into some form of arrest if we鈥檙e doing this,鈥� he told Mefferd. 鈥淲hat does a nation do when this happens? We may have to try to gather in the streets and demand that Obama step down.鈥�
